Comedy Drama

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Fantasy · Based on Literature · Pre-Code

Alice’s fantastic adventures lead her straight to some of the most memorable characters ever imagined including the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Angel

Angel

Romance · Comedy Drama

Romantic comedy starring the great Marlene Dietrich as the unfaithful wife of a foreign diplomat.

Broken Lullaby

Broken Lullaby

Pre-Code · Drama

French violinist Paul Renard has returned from World War I triumphant, but is haunted by the death of a German soldier at his hands.

By Candlelight

By Candlelight

Romance · Comedy · Music

Josef  is the ultra-dutiful butler to a Casanova-like prince. Falling in love with Marie, whom he assumes to be a countess, Josef masquerades as his rakish master. The catch: Marie is herself a poseur, a mere maidservant of nobility.

Carole Lombard Collection I [Fast and Loose / Man of the World / No Man of Her Own]

Carole Lombard Collection I [Fast and Loose / Man of the World / No Man of Her Own]

Romance · Drama · Comedy

This collection includes three 1930s Pre-Code classics starring screen legend Carole Lombard.

The Cheat (1931)

The Cheat (1931)

Pre-Code · Drama

Elsa Carlyle is an impulsive and charismatic gambler who has fallen on hard times and owes a large sum of money. A wealthy playboy promises to help her but his price may be more than Elsa is prepared to give.

Counsellor at Law

Counsellor at Law

Pre-Code · Comedy · Drama

After allowing one of his former clients to commit perjury to win a case, a successful attorney from a Jewish ghetto realizes he could be disbarred.

The Crime of the Century

The Crime of the Century

Mystery · Pre-Code · Thriller

A hypnotist bursts into a police station and confesses to a murder that hasn’t happened yet. A wisecracking reporter tries to unravel the mystery by staying one step ahead of the cops.

Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday

Fantasy · Romance · Pre-Code

Intent on entering the human world for a three-day holiday, the Grim Reaper takes the form of a visiting prince, and assumes all the pleasures and pains that go with flesh and blood existence.

Deluge

Deluge

Pre-Code · Drama · Action & Adventure

Triggered by a series of earthquakes on the West Coast of the United States, a massive tidal wave circles the globe and-in a prolonged and spectacular special effects sequence-wipes out New York City. Sidney Blackmer stars as a man who, separated from his family, must begin to rebuild civilization i…

Devil and the Deep

Devil and the Deep

Pre-Code · Drama

This sultry Pre-Code melodrama serves up a deadly love triangle with a thrilling climax set aboard a submarine that is trapped at the bottom of the sea.

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk

Pre-Code · Drama · War

The Eagle and the Hawk is a powerful anti-war drama in which Cary Grant and Fredric March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor.

Four Frightened People

Four Frightened People

Pre-Code · Adventure · Drama

When a deadly bubonic plague breaks out on a coastal steamer ship, four passengers steal a lifeboat and set sail on a mission of survival.

Hot Saturday

Hot Saturday

Pre-Code · Drama

Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll and Randolph Scott star in the Pre-Code scorcher about small-town gossip that leads to enormous damage.

I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · Pre-Code

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

Romantic Comedy · Comedy Drama · Pre-Code

To prevent his inheritance from going to his greedy family, a dying steel tycoon chooses eight random strangers and gives them each one million bucks.

Little Man, What Now?

Little Man, What Now?

Pre-Code · Drama

Fired for marrying his sweetheart Emma instead of his boss’s daughter, Hans  moves his pregnant wife to Berlin where he gets a job as a salesman.

Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker

Comedy Drama · Pre-Code

In one of her earliest and most popular roles, the adorable Shirley Temple single-handedly melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gamblers when she is left as an IOU or “marker” for a debt.

Love Me Tonight (Special Edition)

Love Me Tonight (Special Edition)

Romance · Comedy · National Film Registry

A carefree tailor leaves Paris to collect on a past-due bill at a recalcitrant aristocratic client’s family chateau. Mistaken for a Baron, he falls love with an aloof young princess.

Murder at the Vanities

Murder at the Vanities

Romance · Music · Mystery

An opening night of a new musical leads to real behind-the-scenes drama when the play’s leading lady is the target of a brutal murder plot. Producer Jack Ellery hires detective Bill Murdock to solve the crime and chase down a killer while staying out of the spotlight.

Night After Night

Night After Night

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · Pre-Code

An ex-thug intent on losing his street-smart manner, hires a proper spinster to accompany him and a formerly rich society girl to dinner at his swanky establishment. Complicating matters, his flamboyant ex-girlfriend breezes over to their table and innocently begins to expose his past.    

Pre-Code Classics [Confessions of a Coed | Ladies of the Big House]

Pre-Code Classics [Confessions of a Coed | Ladies of the Big House]

Romance · Drama · Mystery

Early in her legendary Hollywood career, the luminous Sylvia Sidney starred in these 2 passion-packed, Pre-Code melodramas.

Rich and Strange (Special Edition) aka East of Shanghai

Rich and Strange (Special Edition) aka East of Shanghai

Comedy · Romance · Comedy Drama

Fred Hill and his wife Emily lead a boring existence in the London suburbs. When the Hills come into an inheritance from a wealthy uncle, Fred quits his mundane job and they embark on a world cruise to get a taste of the high life.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty

Crime · Comedy · Romance

Two amorous Olympic athletes brought in to run a health-and-beauty magazine are completely unaware that the owners of the magazine are con artists who have different plans for the publication’s future as a salacious “skin” rag.

The Secret of the Blue Room

The Secret of the Blue Room

Romance · Drama · Mystery

A deadly secret from the past returns to haunt a young woman and her loved ones in The Secret of the Blue Room.

She Done Him Wrong (Special Edition)

She Done Him Wrong (Special Edition)

Romantic Comedy · Comedy · Pre-Code

In the 1890s, a bawdy nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome young man who works at the local mission.

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross

Pre-Code · History · Drama

In the year 64 A.D., the corrupt and maniacal Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar torches the city so he can blame the ensuing destruction on the unsuspecting Christians. Meanwhile, Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus falls for an innocent and beautiful Christian maiden, Mercia. When the seductive and wicked Emp…

Supernatural

Supernatural

Mystery · Pre-Code · Horror

Carole Lombard co-stars with western icon Randolph Scott in this chilling tale of a woman possessed by a murderer’s dark soul.

The Kiss Before the Mirror

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Pre-Code · Mystery · Drama

When Walter Bernsdorf kills his wife for having an affair, lawyer Paul Held takes on the case. 

Torch Singer

Torch Singer

Pre-Code · Romance · Musical

When Sally Trent can no longer support her illegitimate child, she puts her daughter up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. She soon climbs to fame as a sexy nightclub singer and attempts to find her daughter through a children’s radio show.

White Woman

White Woman

Pre-Code · Romance · Drama

The world of a widowed nightclub performer changes drastically when she agrees to marry a wealthy plantation owner. As the two begin their domestic life together on his remote Malaysian estate, she realizes the extent of his cruel and jealous nature.

You and Me

You and Me

Romance · Crime · Film Noir

Sylvia Sidney and George Raft star as two former convicts who find honest work in a department store and love in one another—until a dark secret from the past threatens to drive them apart.

You're Telling Me

You're Telling Me

Comedy · Pre-Code

Comedy legend W.C. Fields plays an inventor with a taste for drink in You’re Telling Me!, a rough-and-tumble Pre-Code.