Pre Code Movies

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally...

An ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding...

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues...

An able nurse clashes with a new doctor at her hospital.

According to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The...

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.

In the superstitious European village of Kleinschloss, a wave of mysterious deaths take place where victims are found with neck wounds that elders...

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan....

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to...

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

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 she...

A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.

A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

Romantic biography of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind and her famous affairs.

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...