Pre Code Movies

A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is kill...

Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds hi...

When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition....

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's se...

Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meet...

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who...

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

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even bla...

Margaret Holt and her brother Victor set out to smash a narcotics ring responsible for their father's death. Young reporter John Howell and eccentric...

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave t...