Subgenre Sampler
Romance: 1505 Films to Buy & Rent
Red Dust (1932)
- Dir. Victor Fleming
Feat. Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mary Astor…
- Steamy pre–code drama that captures Jean Harlow at her tough, raunchy best, playing a Saigon hooker who's competing with Mary Astor for the…
Smilin' Through (1932)
- Dir. Sidney Franklin
Feat. Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard
- Winning tear–jerker with Norma Shearer and Fredric March in dual roles as two sets of unrequited lovers caught in a blood feud.
Le Million (1931)
- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Annabella, Rene Lefevre, Louis Allibert
- An early French musical, so delightful it was to inspire the likes of the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin and even the American Musical as a…
Red Headed Woman / Waterloo Bridge (1931-1932)
- Dir. Jack Conway, James Whale
Feat. Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone…
- RED HEADED WOMAN: A snappy comedy from the pre–code Hollywood era with Jean Harlow playing a woman from Ohio who manipulates men in order to…
Eternal Love (1929)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. John Barrymore, Camilla Horn
- Made during the last days of the silent era, the legendary Ernst Lubitsch directs John Barrymore and Camilla Horn as two lovers living in the Swiss…
Show People (1928)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson…
- A satire of Hollywood life in the last of the silent years, this rom–com from director King Vidor (THE FOUNTAINHEAD) has Marion Davies playing…
Street Angel (1928)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
- Janet Gaynor radiates as a streetwalker whose love for an Italian painter is jeopardized by her past brushes with the law. As with 7th HEAVEN, dir.…
7th Heaven (Seventh Heaven) (1927)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
- Eternal lovers Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell endure spiritual turmoil and the ravages of war in this beautiful silent era classic, remarkable for…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)
- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon
- A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
Merry Widow, The (1925)
- Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall…
- Silent romantic comedy about a prince who falls in love with a dancer and commoner (Mae Murray) but after the marriage is forbidden she goes on to…