Pre Code Movies

After her brother's death, Roma Courtney becomes the heiress to his fortune. When a fake psychic claims to have a message from her dead brother, he...

A singing Frenchman meets an American heiress and gets a job at her father's chewing-gum factory.

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping...

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her...

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery...

Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

A young woman goes to the police looking for her missing husband. When it turns out her husband is both a murder victim and a bachelor - and that she...

Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into...

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his...

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons...