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  • Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby (1938)

    1. Bringing Up Baby

    19381h 42mApproved91Metascore
    7.8 (69K)
    While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
    DirectorHoward HawksStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantCharles Ruggles
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)

    2. Alexander Nevsky

    19381h 52mNot Rated
    7.5 (13K)
    The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
    DirectorsSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei Abrikosov
  • Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and Eugene Pallette in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

    3. The Adventures of Robin Hood

    19381h 42mPG97Metascore
    7.9 (57K)
    When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
    DirectorsMichael CurtizWilliam KeighleyStarsErrol FlynnOlivia de HavillandBasil Rathbone
  • 4. Return to Life

    193850m
    6.4 (21)
    Health care during the Spanish Civil War is portrayed in this French made documentary: the progress under the new Republican government in setting up child care centers, the extent to which hospital care is provided at the battlefront or via trains to nearby facilities, the provision of convalescence care for wounded soldiers so that they can promptly return as needed to combat. The film concludes as a plea for help, with the Republicans still struggling.
    DirectorsHenri Cartier-BressonHerbert KlineStarsRichard BlainePierre Unik
  • Michèle Morgan and Jean Gabin in Port of Shadows (1938)

    5. Port of Shadows

    19381h 31mNot Rated
    7.7 (10K)
    A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
    DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsJean GabinMichel SimonMichèle Morgan
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont and Annabella in Hotel du Nord (1938)

    6. Hotel du Nord

    19381h 23m
    7.5 (3.4K)
    On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
    DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsAnnabellaJean-Pierre AumontLouis Jouvet
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

    7. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    19381h 31mApproved
    7.0 (2.4K)
    Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
    DirectorNorman TaurogStarsTommy KellyJackie MoranAnn Gillis
  • Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, and Alice Faye in Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)

    8. Alexander's Ragtime Band

    19381h 46mApproved
    6.8 (2.4K)
    This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
    DirectorHenry KingStarsTyrone PowerAlice FayeDon Ameche
  • Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

    9. Angels with Dirty Faces

    19381h 37mApproved
    7.9 (24K)
    A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsJames CagneyPat O'BrienHumphrey Bogart
  • Valerie Hobson, Roger Livesey, and Sabu in The Drum (1938)

    10. The Drum

    19381h 44mApproved
    6.3 (981)
    During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works undercover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless North West Frontier of India. He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To forestall this, the British governor signs a treaty with the friendly, peace-loving ruler of Tokot, a key kingdom in the region, which is described as four days' march northward from Peshawar. Meanwhile, the king's son, Prince Azim, befriends Carruthers and a British drummer boy, Bill Holder, who teaches him how to play the instrument.
    DirectorZoltan KordaStarsSabuRaymond MasseyRoger Livesey
  • Bette Davis in Jezebel (1938)

    11. Jezebel

    19381h 44mApproved82Metascore
    7.4 (16K)
    In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsBette DavisHenry FondaGeorge Brent
  • Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Amanda Duff, Charles Farrell, Bert Lahr, and Bill Robinson in Just Around the Corner (1938)

    12. Just Around the Corner

    19381h 10mG
    6.4 (730)
    Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
    DirectorIrving CummingsStarsShirley TempleJoan DavisCharles Farrell
  • Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    13. The Lady Vanishes

    19381h 36mApproved98Metascore
    7.7 (60K)
    While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMargaret LockwoodMichael RedgravePaul Lukas
  • Karl Hein in Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations (1938)

    14. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations

    19381h 51mNot Rated
    7.7 (5.6K)
    The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.
    DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsDavid AlbrittonArvo AskolaJack Beresford
  • Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938)

    15. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty

    19381h 30mNot Rated
    7.6 (4.6K)
    The document of the 1936 Olympics at Berlin, orchestrated as Nazi propaganda.
    DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsShigeo AraiJack BeresfordRalf Berzsenyi
  • Pygmalion (1938)

    16. Pygmalion

    19381h 29mApproved
    7.7 (10K)
    A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
    DirectorsAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid Lawson
  • James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, and Edward Arnold in You Can't Take It with You (1938)

    17. You Can't Take It with You

    19382h 6mApproved
    7.8 (29K)
    The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsJean ArthurJames StewartLionel Barrymore
  • George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, and Our Gang in Practical Jokers (1938)

    18. Practical Jokers

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.2 (117)
    Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
    DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsOur GangMarie BlakeBecky Bohanon
  • Football Romeo (1938)

    19. Football Romeo

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.8 (100)
    Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.
    DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarland
  • Men in Fright (1938)

    20. Men in Fright

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.6 (140)
    The gang goes to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Their plans go quickly awry after Alfalfa switches clothes with a boy avoiding his own surgery, and the gang find themselves patients in the hospital.
    DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarland
  • George 'Spanky' McFarland, Billy Mindy, and Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer in Aladdin's Lantern (1938)

    21. Aladdin's Lantern

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.2 (129)
    Spanky and Alfalfa do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn't want to participate.
    DirectorGordon DouglasStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarland
  • Darla Hood in Party Fever (1938)

    22. Party Fever

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.2 (206)
    Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor for a Day. Whoever becomes mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.
    DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeCarl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
  • Sidney Kibrick in The Little Ranger (1938)

    23. The Little Ranger

    193810mApprovedShort
    6.9 (106)
    Alfalfa daydreams he is the hero of a western movie he's watching in the theater with some of his fellow rascals.
    DirectorGordon DouglasStarsOur GangEugene 'Porky' LeeDarla Hood
  • Block-Heads (1938)

    24. Block-Heads

    193857mApproved
    7.5 (4.8K)
    Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.
    DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyPatricia Ellis

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