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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Comedy Drama • Comedy • Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
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James Whale • Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
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Tod Browning • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Gothic Film
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William A. Wellman • Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Action • Crime Drama • Crime
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Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
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Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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George Melford • Starring: Barry Norton, Lupita Tovar, Eduardo Arozamena
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Docudrama
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René Clair • Starring: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France
Comedy • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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René Clair • Starring: René Lefèvre, Paul Ollivier, Annabella
Chase Movie • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
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Jean Renoir • Starring: Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant
Drama • Foreign Language Film
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King Vidor • Starring: Jackie Cooper, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy
Drama • Melodrama • Sports Drama
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Joan Blondell
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
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Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • Starring: Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda
Based-on-Theatre • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Lewis Milestone • Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Media Satire
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Warner Oland
Action • Drama • Romance
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Frank Capra • Starring: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Tatsuo Saito, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo
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Alexander Korda • Starring: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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James Whale • Starring: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Dave Fleischer • Starring: Mae Questel
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner
Drama • Media Satire • Melodrama
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George Fitzmaurice • Starring: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Wilfred Jackson • Starring: Florence Gill
Animation • Coming-of-Age • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Clarence Brown • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
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Clarence Brown • Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
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Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Drama • Religious Drama
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Wesley Ruggles • Starring: William Collier, Jr., Irene Dunne, Richard Dix
Drama • Ensemble Film • Epic
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Mario Peixoto • Starring: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
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Archie Mayo • Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
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King Vidor • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Walter Miller
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Alfred E. Green • Starring: Noel Francis, Evalyn Knapp, Edward G. Robinson
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John Ford • Starring: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett
Drama • Medical Drama • Melodrama
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James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Short Film • Slapstick
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Sidney Franklin • Starring: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Romance
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Drama
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Huston, Boris Karloff, Phillips Holmes
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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Edgar Selwyn • Starring: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton
Drama • Melodrama
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Jean Vigo • Starring: Jean Taris
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Short Film
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Burt Gillett
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William Dieterle • Starring: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Frank Borzage • Starring: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
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Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
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James Parrott • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin
Comedy • Odd Couple Film • Short Film
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Lionel Barrymore • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee
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Mikio Naruse • Starring: Shizue Akiyama, Seiichi Kato, Tomoko Naniwa
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
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James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr
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Dave Fleischer
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Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
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Edward Sedgwick • Starring: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
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Jay Leyda
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film • Silent Film
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Rudolf Ising
Animated Musical • Animation • Cartoon
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James Parrott • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Long
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Elsie Randolph, Percy Marmont, Henry Kendall
Adventure • Comedy • Romance
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Phil Jutzi • Starring: Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel
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Abel Gance • Starring: Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
Apocalyptic Film • Disaster Film • Foreign Language Film
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George Cukor • Starring: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
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Comedy • Farce • Short Film
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Chôko Iida
Foreign Language Film • Romance • Silent Film
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Dorothy Arzner • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Romance
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Harry Beaumont • Starring: Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth
Drama • Horror • Romance
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
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David Butler • Starring: Will Rogers, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Fantasy
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Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt
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Hal Roach • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Thelma Todd, John Loder
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James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
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Leslie S. Hiscott • Starring: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film
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John G. Adolfi • Starring: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, David Manners
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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James. W Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Short Film
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond
Drama • Social Problem Film
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George W. Hill • Starring: Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel, Marie Prevost
Action • Adventure • War
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Wilfred Jackson
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Arnold Fanck • Starring: Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Rudi Matt
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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Marie-Louise Iribe • Starring: Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
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Richard Wallace • Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
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Jack Conway • Starring: Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Paul Sloane • Starring: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday
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Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising • Starring: Johnny Murray, Rochelle Hudson
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George B. Seitz • Starring: Laura La Plante, John Wayne, June Clyde
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
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