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1. Singin' in the Rain (1952)

G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

Votes: 261,521 | Gross: $8.82M

2. 1900 (1976)

Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini

Votes: 27,343

3. Leatherheads (2008)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America's too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, David de Vries

Votes: 33,476 | Gross: $31.20M

4. The Betsy (1978)

R | 125 min | Drama

The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones

Votes: 1,657 | Gross: $17.69M

5. The Cat's Meow (2001)

PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard

Votes: 8,988 | Gross: $3.21M

6. The Cocoanuts (1929)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 8,221 | Gross: $3.92M

7. Alex & Emma (2003)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

A writer must turn out a novel in thirty days or face the wrath of loan sharks.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, David Paymer, Sophie Marceau

Votes: 13,920 | Gross: $14.21M

8. Three on a Match (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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 and drugs.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William

Votes: 4,410

9. Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical

An aging heir-less millionaire wants to leave his fortune to the unsuspecting family of his first love but not before testing his prospective heirs by living with them under the guise of a poor boarder.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau

Votes: 1,828

10. Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".

Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 802

11. Love in Thoughts (2004)

89 min | Drama, Romance

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

Director: Achim von Borries | Stars: Daniel Brühl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Mühe, Jana Pallaske

Votes: 4,289

12. Brown of Harvard (1926)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 1,532

13. The Wild Party (1929)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara

Votes: 560

14. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans

Votes: 871

15. Margie (1946)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari, Alan Young

Votes: 870

16. Lights of New York (1928)

Passed | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.

Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman

Votes: 950 | Gross: $1.20M

17. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy

In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivety and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish

Votes: 181

18. Alibi (1929)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Romance

Chick 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith

Votes: 954

19. The Duke Steps Out (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of ... See full summary »

Director: James Cruze | Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, Karl Dane, Tenen Holtz

Votes: 220

20. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)

PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.

Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng | Stars: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Lauren Bacall

Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $1.00M

21. King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors

Votes: 297

22. Free and Easy (1930)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical

A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, Robert Montgomery

Votes: 1,028

23. Bix (1991)

100 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Bryant Weeks, Emile B. Levisetti, Julia Ewing, Mark Collver

Votes: 167

24. Broadway (1942)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Music

George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 133

25. The Blot (1921)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the ... See full summary »

Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Philip Hubbard, Margaret McWade, Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern

Votes: 702

26. Naughty Baby (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

A cloakroom girl falls for a rich boy who might not actually be rich.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Jack Mulhall, Thelma Todd, Doris Dawson

Votes: 40

27. The Bund: Part II (1983)

TV-14 | 103 min | Adventure, Drama

After losing everything, a young man rebuilds his life and finds love in 1920s Shanghai -- all while rising to power in an organized crime syndicate.

Director: Chun Keung Chiu | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Ray Lui, Angie Chiu, Pui-San Auyeung

Votes: 135

28. Gang War (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A saxophone player Clyde, who busks on the San Francisco Bay waterfront. One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack", the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her.

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Olive Borden, Jack Pickford, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Long

Votes: 25

29. Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a bootlegger whom they've met by chance. Much of the humor derives from pre-Roaring Twenties naivity.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Brian Donlevy, Billy De Wolfe

Votes: 90

30. Illusion (1929)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.

Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis

Votes: 42

31. Dance Hall (1929)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Olive Borden, Arthur Lake, Ralph Emerson, Margaret Seddon

Votes: 117

32. Fancy Baggage (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In order to get back some very important papers from her father's business rival, a young woman pretends to be the rival's new secretary. Complications ensue.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy, George Fawcett, Hallam Cooley

Votes: 17

33. Ann Vickers (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 662

34. Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A pretty young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, James Hall, Robert Homans, Claude Gillingwater

Votes: 57

35. The Smart Set (1928)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

An American polo player, arrogant and full of himself, must vindicate his actions to win the heart of a girl, Polly, after getting himself booted off the U.S. polo team.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Holt, Alice Day, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 1,074

36. Syncopation (1929)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter

Votes: 95

37. Her Wedding Night (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 69

38. The Dancers (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Leave London, Tony goes Canada, is owner of dance hall. Dancer Maxine falls in love. Tony becomes heir to fortune, returns London, gets engaged to Diana. Diana tells of wild life. Tony forgives, but she takes poison. Tony marries Maxine.

Director: Chandler Sprague | Stars: Lois Moran, Phillips Holmes, Walter Byron, Mae Clarke

Votes: 23

39. Jazz Heaven (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Johnny Mack Brown, Clyde Cook, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 178

40. The Little Wildcat (1928)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A pair of elderly Civil War veterans, Judge Holt and his friend Joel Ketchum, spent most of their time reminiscing about their wartime experiences. In the meantime, Holt's granddaughter ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Audrey Ferris, James Murray, Robert Edeson, George Fawcett

41. Temptation (1923)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Frederick Arnold, a wealthy stockbroker in New York City, sets out to prove that most women are corrupted by wealth. Will he succeed?

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Bryant Washburn, Eva Novak, June Elvidge, Phillips Smalley

42. Half Marriage (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance

A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying ... See full summary »

Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Olive Borden, Morgan Farley, Ken Murray, Ann Greenway

Votes: 174

43. Polly of the Follies (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

Country girl goes to New York and becomes stage star.

Director: John Emerson | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Horace Knight, Thomas Carr, Harry Fisher

Votes: 18

44. She Couldn't Say No (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Music

A night club entertainer loves a gangster.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Johnny Arthur

Votes: 31

45. The Bachelor Girl (1929)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance

Joyce (Jacqueline Logan), a beautiful and efficient secretary, does her best to take in hand and reform shiftless stock clerk Jimmy (William Colllier, Jr.), with whom she is in love. ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Collier Jr., Jacqueline Logan, Edward Hearn, Thelma Todd

46. Beware of Married Men (1927)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

Womanizer Leonard Gilbert (Richard Tucker) lures a variety of ladies to his apartment, complete with cocktail shakers, plush pillows and a Japanese manservant as symbols of sophistication. ... See full summary »

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Irene Rich, Clyde Cook, Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy

Votes: 21

47. Why Leave Home? (1929)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music

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Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: Sue Carol, Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee, Ilka Chase

48. Hit the Deck (1929)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Looloo (Polly Walker), owner of a seaside coffee shop, falls in love with sailor Bilge Smith, who is on shore leave, but her sudden wealth sabotages the romance.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Jack Oakie, Polly Walker, Roger Gray, Franker Woods

Votes: 29

49. The Quarterback (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still ... See full summary »

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Harry Beresford, David Butler

Votes: 28 | Gross: $0.27M

50. Padlocked (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Edith Gilbert, the daughter of Henry Gilbert--a wealthy but bigoted and puritanical reformer--leaves home following her mother's death to seek her fortune on Broadway. Through her ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Lois Moran, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Helen Jerome Eddy

Votes: 34