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Your #1 was Modern Times (#1).
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Dir. Charlie Chaplin · Charlie Chaplin · Paulette Goddard · Henry Bergman · Tiny Sandford
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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Dir. Gregory La Cava · William Powell · Carole Lombard · Alice Brady · Gail Patrick
Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.
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Dir. Frank Capra · Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
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Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · William Powell · Myrna Loy · James Stewart · Elissa Landi
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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Dir. Jack Conway · Jean Harlow · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
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Dir. Archie Mayo · Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Dir. William Wyler · Walter Huston · Ruth Chatterton · Paul Lukas · Mary Astor
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Dir. George Stevens · Fred Astaire · Ginger Rogers · Victor Moore · Helen Broderick
Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
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Dir. Yasujirō Ozu · Chōko Iida · Shinichi Himori · Masao Hayama · Yoshiko Tsubouchi
A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
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Dir. George Cukor · Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.
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Dir. Jack Conway · Ronald Colman · Elizabeth Allan · Edna May Oliver · Reginald Owen
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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Dir. Jean Renoir · Jean Gabin · Suzy Prim · Louis Jouvet · Jany Holt
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Sylvia Sidney · Oskar Homolka · Desmond Tester · John Loder
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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Dir. William Dieterle · Paul Muni · Josephine Hutchinson · Anita Louise · Donald Woods
A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be cured by vaccinations.
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Dir. W.S. Van Dyke · Clark Gable · Jeanette MacDonald · Spencer Tracy · Jack Holt
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
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Dir. James Whale · Irene Dunne · Allan Jones · Charles Winninger · Paul Robeson
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
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Dir. Robert Z. Leonard · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Luise Rainer · Frank Morgan
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girlfriend. This pattern repeats throughout their lives, as Ziegfeld makes and loses many fortunes putting on ever-bigger, more spectacular shows
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Dir. Henry Koster · Deanna Durbin · Barbara Read · Nan Grey · Charles Winninger
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and reunite him with their mother.
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Dir. George Cukor · Norma Shearer · Leslie Howard · John Barrymore · Edna May Oliver
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.
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Dir. Mervyn LeRoy · Fredric March · Olivia de Havilland · Donald Woods · Anita Louise
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent by his heartless nobleman father, Don Luis, Anthony is later mentored by his kind grandfather, John Bonnyfeather, and falls for the beautiful Angela Giuseppe. When circumstances separate Anthony and Angela and he embarks on a long journey, he must find his way back to her, no matter what the cost.
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