Best of 30s

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

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.

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

The wealthy Rothschild family undergoes prejudice from the anti-Semitic society they live within.

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.

In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.

The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.

A married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.

A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

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.

Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.

An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.