Movies from the 1930s

42nd Street
42nd Street
Movies

42nd Street is a 1933 Warner Bros. musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon with choreography by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , and the script was...

A Canção de Lisboa
A Canção de Lisboa
Movies

A Canção de Lisboa (lit. Lisbon Song) is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana...

A Damsel in Distress
A Damsel in Distress
Movies

A Damsel in Distress (RKO) is a 1937 English-themed Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, and Gracie Allen. With a screenplay by P. G. Wodehouse...

A Day At The Races
A Day At The Races
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A Day at the Races is the seventh movie starring the three Marx Brothers, with Margaret Dumont, Allan Jones and Maureen O'Sullivan. Like their previous MGM feature A Night at the Opera...

A Free Soul
A Free Soul
Movies

A Free Soul (1931) is a Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started...

A Night at the Opera
A Night at the Opera
Movies

A Night at the Opera is a 1935 comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Siegfried Rumann, and Walter Woolf...

À nous la liberté
À nous la liberté
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À nous la liberté (English: "Freedom for Us") is a 1931 French film, directed by René Clair. With a memorable score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early...

A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder
Movies

A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. The film is based on a play by Damon Runyon and Harold Lindsay. The offbeat comedy stars Edward G. Robinson spoofing...

A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born
Movies

A Star Is Born is a romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It...

A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Movies

A Tale of Two Cities is a 1935 film directed by Jack Conway and Robert Z. Leonard , adapted by W.P. Lipscomb and S.N. Behrman from Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities. The film...

Aerograd
Aerograd
Movies

Aerograd (Russian: Аэроград, also referred to as Air City or Frontier), is a 1935 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, Mosfilm-VUFKU coproduction. It is a futuristic...

Águila o sol
Águila o sol
Movies

Águila o sol is a 1937 film of the cinema of Mexico. This was Cantinflas's third film and the second in a row with Manuel Medel. After this film Cantinflas decided to pursue a...

Ahí está el detalle
Ahí está el detalle
Movies

Ahí está el detalle is a 1940 film of the golden...

Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky
Movies

Alexander Nevsky is a 1938 historical drama film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitry Vasiliev and produced by Mosfilm, based on the life of Alexander Nevsky. With Nikolai...

Algiers
Algiers
Movies

Algiers is a 1938 film directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, and Hedy Lamarr. The Walter Wanger production was a remake of the successful 1937 French film Pépé...

Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces
Movies

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan...

Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers
Movies

Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. The film...

Another Fine Mess
Another Fine Mess
Movies

Another Fine Mess is a 1930 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on a 1908 play by Arthur J. Jefferson, Stan Laurel's father, and is a remake of the 1927 film Duck...

Anthony Adverse
Anthony Adverse
Movies

Anthony Adverse is a 1936 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Sheridan Gibney was based on the sprawling 1,224-page novel of the same title by Hervey Allen...

As You Like It
As You Like It
Movies

As You Like It is a 1936 film, directed by Paul Czinner and starring Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. It is based on William Shakespeare's play of the same...

Assassin of Youth
Assassin of Youth
Movies

Assassin of Youth is an exploitation film directed by Elmer Clifton, which is a pre-WWII movie about the ill effects of cannabis. The movie is often considered a clone of the much more...

At the Circus
At the Circus
Movies

At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film in which they save a circus from bankruptcy. It is notable for Groucho Marx's classic rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." and co-stars...

Babes in Toyland
Babes in Toyland
Movies

Babes in Toyland , Wooden Soldiers...

Baby Face
Baby Face
Movies

Baby Face is a sexually-charged, pre-Code feature film first released in 1933. The film was based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck , written by Gene Markey and Kathryn...

Beau Hunks
Beau Hunks
Movies

Beau Hunks is a 1931 movie starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by James W. Horne. Beau Hunks is both a reference to Beau Geste and a pun on the mild ethnic slur Bohunk (a portmanteau of...

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