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- DirectorEdward LudwigStarsJean ArthurJoel McCreaReginald OwenA reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyJames StewartPrivate detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsEvalyn KnappJames MurrayArthur PiersonIn World War I, pilot Bob King is shot and killed in France. His friends Ted "Lucky" Hunter (James Murray) and Pa Kearns (J.M. Kerrigan) pledge to look after his daughter Kitty (Evalyn Knapp).[Note 3] Years later, after the war, Kearns is now blind and works at an airport as an engine expert and Kitty is a TWA stewardess. Her father's friends still look after her as meddling chaperones. A grandstanding Ted flies over the airport, meeting Kitty who is enamored with him. After a night on the town, he flies her back to the airport, but is met by angry mechanics and pilot Dick Miller (Arthur Pierson), who is in love with Kitty, and ends up in a fight. Ted soon announces his marriage to Kitty and forces her to quit her job, which Dick gets back for her when Ted is unable to make a living. Rich, thrice-divorced Sylvia Carleton (Thelma Todd) offers Ted a chance to build a radical new aircraft that can fly across the Pacific. A tête-à-tête between Ted and Sylvia in Albuquerque turns into a fiasco when Kitty and Dick arrive to find them both drunk. Kitty leaves angrily for home, boarding a train that Ted and Dick learn is headed for a collapsing bridge. Both men try to save Kitty by flying to warn the engineer. Ted crash-lands on the tracks and wrecks his aircraft, but stops the train in time. Dick flies him back to the hospital with Kitty, and the couple reunites.
- DirectorRoland WestStarsChester MorrisHarry StubbsMae BuschChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsKay FrancisErrol FlynnIan HunterColonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWilliam PowellMyrna LoyVirginia GreyAn explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRalph BellamyA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsBarbara StanwyckGeorge BrentDonald CookA young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsLowell ShermanIrene DunneMae MurrayA New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinSuzy PrimLouis JouvetA charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsConstance BennettJoel McCreaJohn HallidayDetermined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsWarner BaxterLois MoranGilbert EmeryEve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.
- DirectorTenny WrightStarsJohn WayneNoah BeeryPaul HurstDeputy Sheriff John Steele recruits bandit Sonora Joe to help him find out who's been bumping off all the local lawmen and rustling the cattle.
- DirectorTod BrowningStarsLon ChaneyOwen MooreRenée AdoréeTwo thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
- DirectorLowell ShermanJack ConwayStarsLoretta YoungCary GrantJackie KelkAn immoral mother blackmails a wealthy businessman after he accidentally hits her delinquent son with his truck.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMichel SimonMarcelle HainiaSévérine LerczinskaA bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsBen LyonBarbara WeeksKenneth ThomsonA man (Nat Pendleton) tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsDonald WoodsAnn DvorakAnne NagelAn improbable stuttering bishop from Australia asks for Perry's help in proving the identity of the legitimate heir to a millionaire.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWarren WilliamMargaret LindsayDonald WoodsPerry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsWarren WilliamMary AstorAllen JenkinsAn agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor's howling dog and act as executor of his will.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsWarren WilliamGenevieve TobinPatricia EllisA con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.
- DirectorWilliam ClemensStarsWarren WilliamClaire DoddWini ShawPerry marries Della but a beautiful woman interrupts their honeymoon night and demands Perry take her case at gunpoint.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsGinger RogersJoel McCreaMarian NixonAn ambitious mechanic is tempted to desert his wonderful girlfriend when a silly but rich debutante falls for him.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner OlandKeye LukeJoan MarshReturning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsWarner OlandKeye LukeGeorge BrasnoWhile visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsSidney TolerPhyllis BrooksVictor Sen YungWhile Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
- DirectorHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandSally EilersBela LugosiThe unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
- DirectorHerbert I. LeedsStarsSidney TolerLynn BariRichard ClarkeWhile in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of a hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsWarner OlandPat PatersonThomas BeckWhile investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation, Charlie discovers the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner OlandKeye LukeVirginia FieldAlthough Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsWarner OlandDrue LeytonRay MillandCharlie visits a wealthy country home in England. Suspects in the murder range from a housekeeper, to a stableman, to a lawyer.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsSidney TolerMarjorie WeaverLionel AtwillCharlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsWarner OlandKatherine DeMillePauline MooreWhen a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsWarner OlandBoris KarloffKeye LukeA dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
- DirectorLewis SeilerHamilton MacFaddenStarsWarner OlandMary BrianThomas BeckHired to investigate forged bonds, Charlie is thwarted by the murder of his undercover agent, but the arrival of son Lee helps him uncover the true culprits.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsSidney TolerRicardo CortezPhyllis BrooksMary Whitman, an old friend of Charlie's in Reno for a divorce, finds herself accused of murdering the woman her husband planned to marry after the decree became final.
- DirectorGordon WilesStarsWarner OlandRosina LawrenceCharles QuigleyThe heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsSidney TolerCesar RomeroPauline MooreCharlie's investigation of a phony psychic during the 1939 World Exposition on San Francisco's Treasure Island leads him to expose a suicide as murder.
- DirectorLynn ShoresStarsSidney TolerVictor Sen YungC. Henry GordonAn escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsClaude RainsFay WrayMary ClareA fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
- DirectorKing VidorStarsRonald ColmanKay FrancisPhyllis BarryLondon barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback.
- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsAnn HardingWilliam PowellLucile BrowneA woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.
- DirectorTod BrowningKarl FreundStarsBela LugosiHelen ChandlerDavid MannersTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsLoretta YoungRichard GreeneGeorge SandersThe sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsBarbara StanwyckJoel McCreaPat O'BrienLady Lee, gambler's daughter, plies her trade while pondering the proposal of a social-register suitor.
- DirectorYonggang WuStarsLingyu RuanTian JianZhizhi ZhangStreet walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellAdolphe MenjouGloria StuartRomantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAline MacMahonAnn DvorakPreston FosterA lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsWilliam PowellEvelyn BrentGeorge SidneyGar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to invest. He believes that the process to produce artificial rubber exists, but does it?
- DirectorBusby BerkeleyStarsDick PowellRosemary LaneLola LaneRonny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But she doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use a double for her: Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as a singing waiter in a drive-in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for a leading actor in a musical. After the first screening Louella Parsons invites him to sing on her program, "Hollywood Hotel". He accepts, not knowing that Ronny Bowers does not want to lend him his voice again. So everybody starts to play his little game to solve his own problems.
- DirectorLeo McCareyStarsGloria SwansonBen LyonMonroe OwsleyA young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
- DirectorA. Edward SutherlandStarsW.C. FieldsPeggy Hopkins JoyceRudy ValleeAssorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam PowellKay FrancisHelen VinsonA gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsJean HarlowWilliam PowellMyrna LoyWhen a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsRod La RocqueBarbara StanwyckWilliam 'Stage' BoydOn her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.
- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsJohn WayneDukeRuth HallA cavalry officer helps save a family's ranch from land grabbers.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsKay FrancisDavid MannersUna MerkelA female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsClark GableMyrna LoyJean HersholtAn idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
- DirectorJames TinlingStarsPeter LorreKeye LukeDick BaldwinWhen the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsPeter LorreRicardo CortezVirginia FieldMoto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsCarl BrissonVictor McLaglenJack OakieA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies, investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities, allows the music revue to continue during the investigation.
- DirectorTim WhelanStarsSpencer TracyJames StewartVirginia BruceWhen a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
- DirectorJoseph HenaberyStarsDonald MeekJohn HamiltonLeo DonnellyIrma is a woman who doesn't mind people knowing she's expensive. Nick Valentine, a nightclub owner in Chicago, has fallen hard for her and proposes marriage. She accepts, but needs to give the air to another boyfriend, Mack Graham, an assistant D.A. She does, and he doesn't take it well. Meanwhile, she's playing Nick, because she still has her real boyfriend, Vincent Lynch, stashed out of sight. The next night, all of them are on the train to New York when someone is murdered. Unfortunately for the criminal, two others are also on board: NYPD Inspector Carr, and Dr. Crabtree, a criminologist. Will someone get away with murder?
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsPeter LorreMary MaguireHenry WilcoxonMr. Moto has himself imprisoned on Devil's Island so he can help his cellmate escape and thereby get the goods on a gang of international killers.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsGeorge O'BrienCecilia ParkerCharles MiddletonAn undercover ranger investigates a deranged rancher who acts as a law unto himself, finding a girl held as a prisoner until she agrees to marry the madman.
- DirectorLew LandersStarsMargot GrahameGordon JonesVinton HayworthHelen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffMelvyn DouglasCharles LaughtonSeeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsMarion DaviesGary CooperJean ParkerUnion spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsJean ArthurVictor JoryHelen LowellStory of a small-town girl victimized by her gossiping neighbors.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeStarsWarner BaxterMyrna LoyCharles ButterworthA lawyer's fiancée leaves him after he defends a racketeer accused of murder, but she needs his help when her new beau is accused of killing an old flame.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJames CagneyJean HarlowEdward WoodsAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsRonald ColmanKay FrancisDavid TorrenceA distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- DirectorFred AllenStarsJohn WayneDukeRuth HallJohn Drury arrives in town and is taken on as a hero by the townspeople after he saves a horse's life. They ask him to lead them in their fight against the mysterious Hawk who has been plaguing them for years with theft, arson and murder.
- DirectorArmand SchaeferStarsJohn WayneNancy ShubertLane ChandlerA man framed for murder escapes prison and goes west, where he joins a gang with the real killer involved.
- DirectorErle C. KentonStarsBuster CrabbeIda LupinoRobert ArmstrongThree con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsGeorge O'BrienMarion LessingMona MarisAt the end of WWI the US Navy camouflages a battleship as a harmless schooner and sails for the Canary Islands to confront a notoriously effective German U-boat. No one sees the US submarine secretly escorting the schooner.
- DirectorNick GrindeStarsBarbara StanwyckRegis ToomeyZasu PittsA poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
- DirectorAlbert RayStarsGinger RogersLyle TalbotHarvey ClarkPat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsArthur WontnerIan FlemingMinnie RaynerA card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.
- DirectorMack V. WrightStarsJohn WayneDukeHenry B. WalthallJohn Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyStarsBette DavisGeorge BrentRicardo CortezNewspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Alexander Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsJoel McCreaMarian MarshWilliam GarganSpoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsWilliam PowellGinger RogersPaul KellyWhen a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
- DirectorRobert N. BradburyStarsJohn WayneVerna HillieGeorge 'Gabby' HayesA gang working for The Shadow is terrorizing the town. John Travers decides to take on the job of sheriff and do something about it.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsRicardo CortezIrene DunneAnna AppelBoy grows up to become a successful doctor at the expense of family relationships.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsTim McCoyShirley GreyWheeler OakmanPecos Grant rides into a strange town only to find that everyone recognizes him, not as Pecos Grant, but as a presumed-dead man named Rawlins. Even Rawlins' wife thinks her husband has come back. Pecos sets out to solve the mystery.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsPeter LorreThomas BeckPauline FrederickSeven maps, when found and put together, reveal the location of the treasures of Genghis Khan.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsPeter LorreVirginia FieldThomas BeckOn a freighter going from San Francisco to Shanghai Mr. Moto solves mysteries caused by a gang of smugglers.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsLoretta YoungFranchot ToneLewis StoneAn ambitious barrister and his wife are targeted by blackmailers. In trying to save her husband, the wife becomes involved in a murder case her husband is trying. For his part, the husband's actions make him a suspect in a related murder.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsGeorgie PriceBryan FoyHarold LeveyGeorgie Price tells Bryan Foy, who is to direct his short film, that he is nervous about performing to a camera and microphone instead of an audience. He then sings a couple songs, in an Al Jolson/Eddie Cantor style.
- DirectorMurray RothStarsTrixie FriganzaA vaudeville act. Trixie Friganza performs first a story and then a song. For the story, she wears a wide-brimmed had and a matching diaphanous shawl. She tells of a visit to a friend who has a five-year old son. The mother tells Trixie a tale of stepping out on her husband, and to conceal the story from the boy, spells out key words. By the story's end, mom is in for a surprise and Trixie has a moral for us. Then, the hat and shawl come off, a base fiddle comes out, and Trixie sings us a comic song about her first two husbands.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsWilliam DemarestJoyzelle JoynerDottie LewisA police raid on a night club results in the entire cast of the club's floor show being hauled into court, where they must perform their routines for the judge.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauAlain CunyJean-Marc BorySaddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger.
- DirectorJerry HopperStarsGene BarryLydia ClarkeMichael MooreAn atomic scientist's son is kidnapped by enemy agents.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsPeter GravesPeggie CastleMorris AnkrumEnterprising journalist Audrey Ames (Peggie Castle) is determined to get the scoop on enormous grasshoppers that were accidentally created at the Illinois State experimental farm, and she endeavors to save Chicago despite a military cover-up.
- DirectorRichard QuineStarsJames StewartKim NovakJack LemmonA modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead.
- DirectorJoseph H. LewisStarsCornel WildeRichard ConteJean WallaceA police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsDan DuryeaJune VincentPeter LorreWhen Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.