Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics: 3554 Films to Rent
Scarface (1932)
- Dir. Howard Hawks
Feat. Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
- The most potent ganster flick of the '30s caused great controversy over its violent content when first released, still makes an impact today.…
Shanghai Express (1932)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland
- Hollywood's version of pre–revolutionary Shanghai is a lavish parallel universe of sin and oriental treachery with Marlene Dietrich (as…
Sign of the Cross, The (1932)
- Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton…
- Pre–Code Hollywood epic from director Cecil B. DeMille, based on the Wilson Barrett play of the same name.
Forms a biblical trilogy with…
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.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan…
- If you're looking for the classic chest beatin', vine swingin' versions of Edgar Rice Burrough's much–abused creation, this is where you start.…
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis
- Perhaps dir. Lubitsch's most celebrated comedy, this concerns a pair of endearing swindlers (Marshall and Hopkins) whose partnership in romance and…
Vampyr (1932)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Julian West, Henriette Gerard
- Seminal psychological horror film makes up for in atmosphere what it lacks in technical sophistication. Dream–like plot concerns a young man…
White Zombie (1932)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
- Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…
A Nous la Liberte (1931)
- Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy
- Pre–dating – and disputedly influencing – Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES by some years, this is both more lyrical and whimsical in its…
Cimarron (1931)
- Dir. Wesley Ruggles
Feat. Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor
- Set during the Oklahoma Land Rush of the 1880's, a charismatic newspaper editor claims a plot of land and resettles himself, along with his rather…