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Your #1 was City Lights (#1).
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Dir. Charlie Chaplin · Charlie Chaplin · Virginia Cherrill · Florence Lee · Harry Myers
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Peter Lorre · Ellen Widmann · Inge Landgut · Otto Wernicke
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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Dir. James Whale · Colin Clive · Mae Clarke · John Boles · Boris Karloff
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
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Dir. Tod Browning · Bela Lugosi · Helen Chandler · David Manners · Dwight Frye
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
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Dir. William A. Wellman · James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
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Dir. Rouben Mamoulian · Fredric March · Miriam Hopkins · Rose Hobart · Holmes Herbert
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.
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Dir. Norman Z. McLeod · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx · Zeppo Marx
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
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Dir. Jean Renoir · Michel Simon · Janie Marèse · Georges Flamant · Magdeleine Bérubet
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.
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Dir. Alexander Korda · Raimu · Pierre Fresnay · Orane Demazis · Fernand Charpin
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Edward G. Robinson · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Glenda Farrell · William Collier Jr.
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Dir. F. W. Murnau · Matahi · Anne Chevalier · Bill Bambridge · Hitu
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
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Dir. Leontine Sagan · Emilia Unda · Dorothea Wieck · Hedwig Schlichter · Hertha Thiele
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
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Dir. King Vidor · Wallace Beery · Jackie Cooper · Irene Rich · Roscoe Ates
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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Dir. René Clair · Henri Marchand · Raymond Cordy · Rolla France · Paul Ollivier
In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
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Dir. René Clair · René Lefèvre · Annabella · Jean-Louis Allibert · Paul Ollivier
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
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Dir. George Melford · Carlos Villarías · Lupita Tovar · Barry Norton · Pablo Álvarez Rubio
A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Maurice Chevalier · Claudette Colbert · Miriam Hopkins · Charles Ruggles
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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Dir. Lewis Milestone · Adolphe Menjou · Pat O'Brien · Mary Brian · Edward Everett Horton
Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Edward G. Robinson · Marian Marsh · H.B. Warner · Anthony Bushell
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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Dir. Frank Borzage · James Dunn · Sally Eilers · Minna Gombell · Frank Darien
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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Dir. Norman Taurog · Jackie Cooper · Robert Coogan · Mitzi Green · Jackie Searl
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
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Dir. John Ford · Ronald Colman · Helen Hayes · Richard Bennett · A.E. Anson
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
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Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · Harry Carey · Edwina Booth · Duncan Renaldo · Mutia Omoolu
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost daughter Nina. They find her as the queen of a particularly savage tribe, and try to bring her back to civilization.
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Dir. Frank Lloyd · Ann Harding · Clive Brook · Conrad Nagel · Cecilia Loftus
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Dir. Wesley Ruggles · Richard Dix · Irene Dunne · Estelle Taylor · Nance O'Neil
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 family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.
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