1930 Movies on Amazon

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all The Little Rascals at their hilarious best.

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

Having helped his father escape the law, Jim Curtis heads north with the Marshal chasing him. He and his pal Snicker elude the Marshall by changing clothes with two actors. Now forced to do vaudeville skits, Jim finds the man responsible for his and his father's problem working in the same saloon.

"The Ghost That Never Returns" is an outstanding Soviet film by Abram Room, the director of Bed and Sofa (1927). Released to little notice in 1930, it joins other very late silents to show the screen still developing high eloquence after the first talkies stopped silent cinema dead in its tracks. This is the original silent version with new English titles and a new musical setting by Rodney Sauer.

An ex-convict comes home to a collegiate son who wants nothing to do with him.

When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.

Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time, he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.

A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.

Angela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.

Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.

Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.

A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.

Jimmy Farnsworth (Allen Kearns) bets his friend $5,000 that he can get any two people, under the proper environment, to fall in love and become engaged within a month.

During a raid, a cop falls for a speakeasy employee. He lets her go, and they marry. But she misses her old thrills, returns to the speakeasy against his wishes, and leaves him for her former boss with unexpected consequences.

A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances, he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only.

As assistant window-dresser, Willie is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult to injury, he is also the store's designated "Fired Man": when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired once the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a 4-year-old orphan at a cost of $10-a-week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make $10-a-week. But with help from beautiful young nurse Mary, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life--with some skids along the way.

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the rich. Their advertising succeeds too well, and many complications soon arise.

The stage stars Wheeler and Woolsey play two soldiers who go absent without leave in Paris, during World War I.

In this version of the Billy the Kid legend, Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat Garrett. He escapes and is on his way to Mexico when Garrett, recapturing him, must decide whether to bring him in or to let him go.

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their rescue.