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Subgenre Sampler
Born to be Bad (1934)- Dir. Lowell Sherman
Feat. Loretta Young, Cary Grant - A worthy though now–obscure melodrama from pre–Hays Code Hollywood, in which street–tramp Young tries to successively rob, extort…
L'Atalante (1934)- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Michel Simon, Jean Daste - A recently restored master work from the French film archive combines lyrical romance with inspired touches of fantasy.
Of Human Bondage (1934)- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard - The film which propelled Bette Davis to stardom, with her vivid personification of a coy, but slutty Cockney waitress who becomes the object of…
Our Daily Bread (1934)- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper… - Another fascinating sociological drama from director King Vidor about a struggling couple during the Great Depression who move to the country and…
Baby Face (1933)- Dir. Alfred E. Green
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent - Pre–code Hollywood–era revenge drama that ruffled a few feathers in it's day, with Barbara Stanwyk playing a woman who decides to turn…
Ecstasy (1933)- Dir. Gustav Machety
Feat. Hedy Lamarr - Hedy Lamarr came to world attention in this 1932 film, playing a sexually–frustrated bride who goes on a fifteen minute nude romp in an alpine…
Liebelei (1933)- Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. Arthur Schnitzler - An early work from the German maestro of the tracking shot, whose tale of doomed romance between a young soldier and fraulein (taken from a play by…
Queen Christina (1933)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert - Historical costume drama with Greta Garbo appropriately cast as the Swedish Queen.
American Madness (1932)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Walter Huston - Vivid parable in which Walter Huston portrays a bank president facing the threat of commercial failure during the Great Depression.
Bill of Divorcement, A (1932)- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke… - Shell–shocked war veteran John Barrymore returns to the world after 15 years in an asylum, to find that wife Katharine Hepburn (in her screen…
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