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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

War · Historic Drama

Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth President in this moving drama starring Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre).

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

Pre-Code · Fantasy · Based on Literature

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.

The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World

Romance · Drama

Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven).

Father Brown, Detective

Father Brown, Detective

Mystery

A notorious jewel thief intends to steal precious diamonds from a cross in Father Brown’s church. The crime-busting clergyman fights to retain the cross, and also to reform and redeem the soul of the elusive troublemaker.

I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel

Romantic Comedy · Pre-Code · Comedy

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.

It's A Gift

It's A Gift

Comedy

Harold Bissonette, an inept grocer who is constantly badgered by his family, dreams of escaping to the California sunshine. A small inheritance from his Uncle Bean tempts Bissonette to sell everything and buy his dream orange ranch—sight unseen.

The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema

The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema

Drama · Religion · Horror

Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manhattan, Yidishe Kino endure not only as precious documents of a vanishing culture, but a fascinating …

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Comedy

Comedy legend W.C. Fields is Ambrose Wolfinger, a henpecked husband who wants the afternoon off (his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling match, so he tells his boss he must attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.

Murder at the Vanities

Murder at the Vanities

Mystery · Romance · Pre-Code

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.

The Old Fashioned Way

The Old Fashioned Way

Comedy

Staying one step ahead of the law, The Great McGonigle and his impoverished theatrical troupe arrive in a small town to perform The Drunkard, a Victorian temperance play.

Search for Beauty

Search for Beauty

Romance · Pre-Code · Comedy

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.

Tabu (1931)

Tabu (1931)

Silent · World Cinema

Filmed entirely in Tahiti, Tabu represented an unusual collaboration between legendary directors F. W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North). Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is "tabu" to all men. While the lovers' flight from judgement and the ultimate po…

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Comedy

In one of his most immortal roles, comedy legend W.C. Fields plays Larson E. Whipsnade, raconteur and ringmaster of the Circus Giganticus.

You're Telling Me

You're Telling Me

Pre-Code · Comedy

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