Drama Movies

An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.

A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

The Ring is a movie starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, and Ian Hunter. Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.

The Jazz Singer is a movie starring Al Jolson, May McAvoy, and Warner Oland. The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Downhill is a movie starring Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, and Norman McKinnel. Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend's charge and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.

Dramatic reconstruction of two 1914 naval battles off Coronel and the Falkland Islands.The first a defeat of the British by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the second a retaliation by the British under vice Admiral Sturdee.

A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.

Konets Sankt-Peterburga is a movie starring Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, and Ivan Chuvelyov. A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader....

The Last Command is a movie starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, and William Powell. A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The Farmer's Wife is a movie starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, and Gordon Harker. After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry, but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic...

Parysia is the rage of Paris. She has a daughter, secretly engaged to Andre, and the boy's aristocratic father objects to the alliance because of Margaret's mother being a revue artist. Director Ewald Andre Dupont took almost a year

The Man Who Laughs is a movie starring Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, and Julius Molnar. When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

Lonesome is a movie starring Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, and Fay Holderness. Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together....

Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.

Potomok Chingis-Khana is a movie starring I. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, and Valéry Inkijinoff. After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.

A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.

Die Büchse der Pandora is a movie starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.

After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.

Untamed is a movie starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Ernest Torrence. When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to...

Glorifying the American Girl is a movie starring Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, and Helen Morgan. The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".

Havana bar girl with tough "protector" falls for young sailor.

Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.

Montana Moon is a movie starring Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, and Dorothy Sebastian. A vacuous and flirtatious daughter of a wealthy rancher falls in love and marries a Texas cowboy and rancher, who calls her 'Montana', and...

Der blaue Engel is a movie starring Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, and Kurt Gerron. An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

The Divorcee is a movie starring Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, and Chester Morris. When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.

Holiday is a movie starring Ann Harding, Mary Astor, and Robert Ames. Holiday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of...

For the Defense is a movie starring William Powell, Kay Francis, and Scott Kolk. William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept...

Up the River is a movie starring Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, and Warren Hymer. When paroled trustee Steve and former inmate Judy who try to put their criminal lives behind them are blackmailed, two career criminals come to their...

The Silver Horde is a movie starring Evelyn Brent, Joel McCrea, and Louis Wolheim. A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

Hell's Angels is a movie starring Ben Lyon, James Hall, and Jean Harlow. Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over...

The Criminal Code is a movie starring Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, and Constance Cummings. After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he...

A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

Dracula is a movie starring Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, and David Manners. After a naive real estate agent succumbs to the will of Count Dracula, the two head to London where the vampire sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for...

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

The Skin Game is a movie starring Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, and C.V. France. An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.

Man of the World is a movie starring William Powell, Carole Lombard, and Wynne Gibson. A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what...

Dishonored is a movie starring Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, and Gustav von Seyffertitz. The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.