TOP 250 Films of the 30s

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides. The plot also features references to the Mines on the Italian Front (World War I).

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

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

When the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.

A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.

An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. He is enlisted to help Ann Manders find her jeweler grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of crooks who want him to copy a valuable necklace they want to steal. Their plan backfires in the British Museum and the film climaxes in an exciting chase on a runaway train in the London Underground.

Friedrich Mitterer is the eccentric and basically socio-phobic star of the Viennese Burg Theater. His prompter takes care of his social interactions. When Mitterer meets the young Leni he relies on the prompter to establish contact.

An English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.

A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.

A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.