Drama Movies
State Fair (1933)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Cavalcade (1933)
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are…
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Parachute Jumper (1933)
An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.
Whistling in the Dark (1933)
A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.
Ecstasy (1933)
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn’t have much room for passion. She becomes despondent…
Air Hostess (1933)
A plucky stewardess risks her life marrying a daredevil pilot.
Frisco Jenny (1933)
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the custody of…
Verdict: Not Guilty (1933)
Part religious allegory and part church pageant, it presents the heavenly trial of a woman who has died giving childbirth out of wedlock. The jailer wears a mask death’s head…
The Match King (1932)
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on…
Strange Interlude (1932)
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband’s family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
No Man of Her Own (1932)
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he’s a businessman.
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is…
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
Lawyer Man (1932)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York City political party boss named Gilmurry. Adam’s sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle…
20000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Silver Dollar (1932)
A farmer strikes it rich out West, then leaves his wife for a young beauty.
The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works…
Flesh (1932)
Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
A Farewell to Arms (1932)
A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic’s transfer, tremendous…
Me and My Gal (1932)
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Too Busy to Work (1932)
A hobo searches the countryside for the daughter he lost when his wife left him…
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Rockabye (1932)
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Men Of America (1932)
Bank robbers and killers cause mayhem in a small western town.
No More Orchids (1932)
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Call Her Savage (1932)
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the…
The Conquerors (1932)
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
If I Had a Million (1932)
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime…
They Call It Sin (1932)
A young, innocent small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the…
Madison Square Garden (1932)
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is…
Night After Night (1932)
A former boxer purchases a classy speakeasy and falls in love with a wealthy society girl.
Hot Saturday (1932)
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Virtue (1932)
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a…
Red Dust (1932)
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis…
The Old Dark House (1932)
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
Faithless (1932)
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.