Pre Code Movies

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who...

In 19th Century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail...

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfie...

An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York'...

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force so...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s false...

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst even...

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping l...

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa...