Movies: Pre code

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor....

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos....

A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot....

When the boyfriend of a rich, bored socialite dies from a weak heart, she finds herself attracted to the doctor who treated him, a hard-working idealist decidedly different from the usual spoiled society rich kids she is used to....

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity....

The south sea island Tonga is full of plantations and scoundrels. Ellen Bradford arrives expecting marriage to respectable and successful plantation owner only to find he is a drunk and gambler. Being the only white woman she is the desire of scoundr...

A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man....

In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists...

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west....

A once-promising doctor begins a downward spiral, finding himself in opium dens, a carnival freak show, and drugs parties....

An aspiring singer, who has fallen on hard times and is now living as a hobo, returns to his wealthy southern family....

The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating him so they can get their hands on what remains of his wealth....

Corrupt alcoholic attorney Tom Cardigan is one of the best lawyers around, commanding the courtroom like a stage and often winning his cases. Mobster Valentine Powers, who employs Cardigan and put him through school, asks him to represent a woman, Ju...

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets....

A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone....

A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion....

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island....

A middle-aged houseguest causes romantic turmoil when he falls in love with his host's teenage daughter....

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer....

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