Pre Code Movies

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,...

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

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

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

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

In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.

Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is...

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the...

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

A ne'er-do-well husband, after years of abusing his wife, disappears with their son, and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the...

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations to New Orleans and becomes exceedingly popular with the local men.

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

A surgeon and an ambulance driver fight racketeers who take over their hospital.