Movies

Unholy Love 1932

1932

Madame Bovary story updated to a 'modern' 1932 style

Shanghai Express

1932

An intoxicating mix of adventure, romance, and pre-Code salaciousness, Shanghai Express marks the commercial peak of an iconic collaboration. Marlene Dietrich is at her wicked best as Shanghai Lily, a courtesan whose reputation brings a hint of scandal to a three-day train ride through war-torn Chin

The Monster Walks

1932

Family and servants gather to hear the reading of a will in a spooky old house on a stormy night. Afterward, the household retires for the night, and a plot against the sole heir is hatched. Stars: Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Sheldon Lewis, Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Sidney Bracey, and Willie Best IM

The Thirteenth Guest

1932

A young woman visits her childhood home, shuttered some 13 years after the fateful night her father died at the dinner table while they waited for a 13th guest. While reminiscing, she hears a noise. Frightened, she begins to explore. She screams. A shot is fired. On arrival, the police find the stif

Two Fisted Law with Tim McCoy and John Wayne

1932

Two-Fisted Law (1932) Tim McCoy ... Tim Clark John Wayne ... Duke Walter Brennen - Sheriffâs Deputy Bendix Story by William Colt MacDonald (Creator of The Three Mesqueteers stories) Made by Columbia Studios Written by pulp writer William Colt MacDonald, this Tim McCoy Columbia Studios Western may ha

The Criminal Code

1931

After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the ev

A Honeymoon Adventure

1931

An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.

Frankenstein ( Colorized, 1931)

1931

Frankenstein (1931) colorized with HAVC

Corsair

1931

http://imdb.com/title/tt0021764/ Chester Morris, college football hero, gets a job on Wall Street for Thelma Todd's father. Fed up with the cons and piracy of Wall Street, he goes into business for himself, highjacking rumrunners' ships bound to Prohibition America. Delightful film with lots of plot

The Bad Sister ́ 931

1931

The First movie the Humphrey Bogart

The Viking

1931

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Frankenstein (restored, colorized)

1931

Frankenstein (restored, colorized) — 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemm: Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

DRÁCULA 1931

1931

Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role. In the film, a British solicitor named Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing

Rin Tin Tin THE LIGHTNING WARRIOR

1931

1931 Serial featuring Rin Tin Tin. Variable video quality from a video master. Also stars Frankie Darro. Chapter Titles: Drums of Doom, The Wolf Man, Empty Saddles, Flaming Ar: The Invisible Enemy, The Fatal Name, The Ordeal of Fire, The Man Who Knew Traitor's Hour, Secret of the Cave, Red Shadows,

The Speckled Band

1931

Rare Sherlock Holmes film starring Raymond Massey as Sherlock Holmes. Lyn Harding who plays Dr Rylot later appeared as Moriarty in "Silver Blaze"/"Murder at the Baskervilles."

Frankenstein

1931

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The Front Page 1931 colorized (Pat O'Brien)

1931

Chicago's top newspaper reporter (Pat O'Brien) plans to move to New York to take a higher paying advertising job and marry his sweetheart (Mary Brian). But he can't resist going after the story when a high-profile prisoner (George E. Stone) escapes a scheduled hanging. The newspaper's editor (Adolph

M with commentary by Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler

1931

Recorded in 2004, this commentary features University of California at Berkeley professor Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Harvard University professor of German Eric Rentschler, author of “The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife.”

Daughter Of The Dragon ★★★1⁄2 CC: pre-Code Crime/Mystery [1:10:18] Warner Oland

1931

Somewhat of a dark print in spots, but still very watchable. Daughter of the Dragon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime mystery film directed by Lloyd Corrigan, and starring Anna May Wong as Princess Ling Moy, Sessue Hayakawa as Ah Kee, and Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu (for his third and final featur

Pagan Lady

1931

https://web.archive.org/web/20230326155500/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pagan_Lady "Steel is what they fall in love with." - Juvenal

Corsair 1931 Colorized

1931

Entertaining comedy-drama about a bored young stockbroker who decides to give it up and become a pirate. Stars a great cast for those who love early movies: Chester Morris ('Boston Blackie'), Thelma Todd (billed as 'Alison Loyd' here), Mayo Methot (ex-wife of Humphrey Bogart), delightfully grouchy N

A Connecticut Yankee 1931 colorized (Will Rogers)

1931

A Connecticut Yankee (1931) Fox Film Corporation (Twentieth Century Fox) Hank Morgan (Will Rogers) takes a trip back in time to King Arthur's Court. Based on the novel by Mark Twain. mildly colorized Will Rogers as Hank Martin William Farnum as King Arthur Frank Albertson as Emile le Poulet / Claren

East Of Borneo

1931

1931 jungle picture - a woman searches the jungles for her husband, who has gone somewhat Kurtzy.

Platinum Blonde

1931

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Dishonored

1931

In Josef von Sternberg’s atmospheric spin on the espionage thriller, Marlene Dietrich further develops her shrewd star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwalker who is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I. Adopting the codename X-27, Dietrich’s wily heroine devotes her gifts for

M – A City Searches for a Murderer (restored)

1931

M ( German : M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder , lit . M – A City Searches for a Murderer) is a 1931 German thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre in his breakthrough role as Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children. An early example of a procedural drama , the film centers o

Frankenstein 1931 colorized (Colin Clive, Boris Karloff)

1931

Dr. Frankenstein is obsessed with re-animating the dead. He succeeds in assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses, creating a confused monster. Directed by James Whale Based on the book by Mary Shelley (in which Dr. Frankenstein is named Victor) Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstei

Street Scene

1931

Street Scene (1931) 80m. Sylvia Sidney in film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice. Director: King Vidor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Street Scene is a 1931 black-and-white drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice

The Range Feud - Buck Jones and John Wayne

1931

Range Feud (1931) - Buck Jones and John Wayne Ranchers Walton and Turner are losing cattle to rustlers and they each blame the other. After Walton and Clint Turner (John Wayne) argue, Walton is found shot and Sheriff Buck Gordon (Buck Jones) has to arrest his friend Clint. With Clint scheduled to be

Dracula 1931 colorized (Bela Lugosi)

1931

Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends naive real estate agent Renfield to his will so that he can move to London. He takes up residence at an estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. After turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns

Frankenstein (restored)

1931

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale , produced by Carl Laemmle Jr. , and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling , which in turn was based on Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus . The Webling play was adapted b

Svengali

1931

http://imdb.com/title/tt0022454/ Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautifu

Escape!

1930

A study of punitive justice: the fate of a man who has been shut up in Dartmoor Prison and socially ruined. What treatment awaits him when he turns fugitive?

Birds Of Prey

1930

A former police commissioner becomes the target of a revenge plot by two men he had helped convict years before.

Raffles 1930 colorized (Ronald Coleman)

1930

A distinguished English gentleman has led a secret life as the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". But when he meets a woman and falls in love, he decides to retire from that life. Then an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last

Abraham Lincoln restored version

1930

The 16th U.S. president (Walter Huston) is portrayed as a lawyer, orator, husband and Civil War commander.

Box Car Blues

1930

Box Car Blues, released in 1930, is the fifth title in the Looney Tunes series. It features Bosko and a pig traveling as hobos in a boxcar. Watch on RetroFlix.org: https://retroflix.org/box-car-blues-1930/

Rin Tin Tin THE LONE DEFENDER

1930

1930 Serial featuring Rin Tin Tin. Variable video quality from a video master. Directed by Richard Thorpe. Episode Titles: 1. The Mystery of the Desert 2. The Fugitive 3. Jaws of Peril 4. Trapped 5. Circle of Death 6. Surrounded by Law 7. The Ghost Speaks 8. The Brink of Destruction 9. The Avalanche

Dixiana

1930

Dixiana, a circus performer is wooed by two men, a plantation owner's son and a crooked gambler. Mystic Nights Videos

Paradise Island 1930

1930

When a young girl visits a South Seas island to reunite with her fiancé, she discovers that he is a no-good drunk and she is the object of everyone else's attention.

Abraham Lincoln Walter Huston RESTORED

1930

Abraham Lincoln by D.W. Griffith A biography of the beloved United: United States president by D. W. Griffith. Stars: Walter Huston , Una Merkel , William L. Thorne This film has been RESTORED. Published 1930 Usage Public Domain Run time 1:24:39 Producer D.W. Griffith Production Company Feature Prod

Morocco

1930

The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto’s cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously i

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque.It follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists in World War I after being inspired by his teacher's patriotic speeches. The film

Animal Crackers

1930

Rain or Shine

1930

Abraham Lincoln

1930

A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .

The Big House

1930

The Big House is a significant American pre-Code prison drama film directed by George W. Hill and features a notable cast including Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, and Robert Montgomery. The story revolves around Kent Marlowe (Robert Montgomery), a young man sentenced to ten years for ma

Madam Satan

1930