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Zero for Conduct
Zero for Conduct (French: Zéro de conduite) is a 1933 French featurette directed by Jean Vigo. It was first shown on 7 April 1933 and was subsequently banned in France until 15 February 1946.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9ro_de_conduite
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You Made Me Love You (film)
You Made Me Love You is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Stanley Lupino, Thelma Todd and John Loder. The plot is a modern reworking of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Made_Me_Love_You_(film)
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The Working Man
The Working Man is a 1933 Pre-Code American comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi. The screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Maude T. Howell is based on the story The Adopted Father by Edgar Franklin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Working_Man
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Wild Boys of the Road
Wild Boys of the Road is a 1933 Pre-Code Depression-era American film telling the story of several teens forced into becoming hobos. The film was directed by William Wellman from a screenplay by Earl Baldwin based on the story Desperate Youth by Daniel Ahern. The film stars Frankie Darro. In 2013 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Boys_of_the_Road
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The World Changes
The World Changes is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Paul Muni as an ambitious farm boy who becomes rich, but does not handle success well. Aline MacMahon and Mary Astor play his mother and wife respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Changes
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When Ladies Meet (1933 film)
When Ladies Meet is a 1933 Pre-Code film starring Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, Robert Montgomery, and Alice Brady. The film is the first adaptation of the 1932 Rachel Crothers play of the same name. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Ladies_Meet_(1933_film)
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Voltaire (film)
Voltaire is a 1933 American Pre-Code biographical film starring George Arliss as the renowned 18th century French writer and philosopher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire_(film)
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Victor and Victoria
Viktor and Viktoria (German: Viktor und Viktoria) is a 1933 German musical comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel, starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator. At the same time Schünzel shot the film in a French-language version as George and Georgette starring Meg Lemonnier and a French cast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_und_Viktoria
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The Vampire Bat
The Vampire Bat (1933) is an American Pre-Code horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Bat
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Turn Back the Clock (film)
Turn Back the Clock is a 1933 American Pre-Code MGM comedy-drama film directed by Edgar Selwyn, written by Edgar Selwyn and Ben Hecht, and starring Mae Clarke and Lee Tracy (while under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The film also stars Mae Clarke. The Three Stooges featuring Curly Howard appear in an uncredited straight role as wedding singers. There is a small gag wherein Lee Tracy asks the Stooges to sing Tony's Wife, a song the Stooges have not heard of; Moe Howard then asks "Tony's wife? Who is she?" Although they are not credited as the Three Stooges (indeed, they receive no screen credit at all), this marks the first time the trio appeared as a group on film without their former leader, Ted Healy. They would launch their long-running film-shorts career a few months later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_Back_the_Clock_(film)
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Tugboat Annie
Tugboat Annie is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat. Dressler and Beery were MGM's most popular screen team at that time, having recently made the bittersweet Min and Bill (1930) together, for which Dressler won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugboat_Annie
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Torch Singer
Torch Singer is a 1933 American Pre-Code Paramount Pictures film, directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes, and starring Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners and Lyda Roberti. The screenplay was written by Lenore J. Coffee and Lynn Starling, based on the short story Mike by Grace Perkins, which was published in Liberty magazine (May 20–27, 1933). It was released on DVD (as part of a six disc set entitled "Pre-Code Hollywood Collection") on April 7, 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Singer
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Topaze (1933 American film)
Topaze is a 1933 American Pre-Code film based on the French play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol. Another film version of Topaze, this one made in the original French, and directed by Pagnol himself, was also made that year, starring Louis Jouvet in the title role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaze_(1933_American_film)
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Tonight Is Ours
Tonight Is Ours is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Stuart Walker, and starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March and Alison Skipworth. It is based on the play The Queen Was in the Parlour by Noël Coward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_Is_Ours
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Today We Live
Today We Live is a 1933 American Pre-Code romance drama film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today_We_Live
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Tillie and Gus
Tillie and Gus is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Francis Martin and writen by Francis Martin and Walter DeLeon. It is based on a short story by Rupert Hughes entitled Don't Call Me Madame. The film stars W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop, Phillip Trent and Clarence Wilson. The film was released on October 13, 1933, by Paramount Pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_and_Gus
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The Three Little Pigs (film)
The Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on a fairy tale of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The short cost $22,000 and grossed $250,000. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, The Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Little_Pigs_(film)
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Three-Cornered Moon
Three-Cornered Moon is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Elliot Nugent, and written by Ray Harris and S.K. Lauren, based on play by Gertrude Tonkonogy Friedberg. The film reached No. 9 in the National Board of Review Awards Top 10 films in 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Cornered_Moon
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This Week of Grace
This Week of Grace is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gracie Fields, Henry Kendall and John Stuart. A poor, unemployed woman is made housekeeper at the estate of a wealthy duchess. It was promoted with the tagline "Cinderella in modern dress". It is notable for its songs written by Harry Parr-Davies, including "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Week_of_Grace
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This Day and Age (film)
This Day and Age is a 1933 American Pre-Code film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is one of his rarest films and has been released on home video through the Universal Pictures Vault Series DVD collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Day_and_Age_(film)
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (German: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse) is a 1933 German crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous films. The film features Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse who is in an insane asylum where he is found frantically writing his crime plans. When Mabuse's criminal plans begin to be implemented, Inspector Lohmann (played by Otto Wernicke) tries to find the solution with clues from gangster Thomas Kent (Gustav Diessl), the institutionalized Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) and Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi Sr.) who becomes obsessed with Dr. Mabuse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Testament_of_Dr._Mabuse
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Supernatural (film)
Supernatural is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Victor Halperin. The film is about Roma Courtenay (Carole Lombard) who attends a staged seance but finds herself suddenly possessed by the spirit of an executed murderess, Ruth Roge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(film)
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A Study in Scarlet (1933 film)
A Study in Scarlet (1933) is an American Pre-Code drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong as Mrs. Pyke. The title comes from Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, the first in the Holmes series, but the screenplay by Robert Florey was original.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet_(1933_film)
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The Stranger's Return
The Stranger's Return is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film released by MGM and starring Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore and Franchot Tone. Miriam Hopkins was loaned out to MGM for this picture while under contract to Paramount.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger%27s_Return
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The Story of Temple Drake
The Story of Temple Drake is a 1933 Pre-Code drama film adapted from the highly controversial novel Sanctuary by William Faulkner. Though watered down, the movie was still so scandalous, it was one of the reasons for the introduction of the Hays Code. It starred Miriam Hopkins as a wild Southern woman who falls into the hands of a gang led by the brutal Trigger, played by Jack La Rue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Temple_Drake
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State Fair (1933 film)
State Fair (1933) is an American Pre-Code musical film directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres. The film was based on a novel by Phil Stong, was the first of three film versions of the Phillip Stong bestseller, others being musicals State Fair (1945) starring Jeanne Crain and Dana Andrews; and the State Fair (1962) starring Ann-Margret and Pat Boone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Fair_(1933_film)
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List of Chinese films of the 1930s
This is a list of films produced in the Republican period of China ordered by year of release in the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_films_of_the_1930s
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A Southern Maid (film)
A Southern Maid is a 1933 British musical film directed by Harry Hughes and starring Bebe Daniels, Clifford Mollison and Hal Gordon. It is based on the operetta A Southern Maid by Harold Fraser-Simson. A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure. It was part of the cycle of operetta films popular in Britain in the mid-1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Southern_Maid_(film)
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Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring Laurel and Hardy, and directed by William A. Seiter. It was first released in the United States on December 29, 1933 and is regarded as one of Laurel and Hardy's greatest films. In the United Kingdom, the film was originally released under the title Fraternally Yours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_the_Desert
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Son of Kong
The Son of Kong is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure film/monster movie produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Buzz Gibson and Willis O'Brien, the film starred Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank Reicher. This film is the lesser known sequel to King Kong, and was released just nine months after its predecessor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_Kong
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She Had to Say Yes
She Had to Say Yes is a 1933 American Pre-Code film directed by George Amy and Busby Berkley. It was Berkley's directorial debut. Loretta Young stars as a secretary who receives unwanted sexual advances when she is sent out on dates with her employer's clients. The film was promoted with the teaser, "We apologize to the men for the many frank revelations made by this picture, but we just had to show it as it was filmed. The true story of the working girl."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Had_to_Say_Yes
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She Done Him Wrong
She Done Him Wrong is a 1933 American Pre-Code Paramount Pictures crime comedy film, starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Its plot includes melodramatic and musical elements. The supporting cast features Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., Rochelle Hudson and Louise Beavers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Done_Him_Wrong
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Secrets (1933 film)
Secrets is a 1933 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Mary Pickford in her last film role. The film is a remake of Secrets (1924), a silent film starring Norma Talmadge, which was based on a 1922 play of the same name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrets_(1933_film)
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Secret of the Blue Room
Secret of the Blue Room is a 1933 American Pre-Code murder-mystery film starring Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas and Edward Arnold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_the_Blue_Room
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S.O.S. Eisberg
S.O.S. Eisberg (S.O.S. Iceberg) is a 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Roque, and Ernst Udet. Written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck, the film is about an Arctic expedition that goes in search of a party that was lost the previous year. S.O.S. Eisberg was filmed on location in Umanak, on the west coast of Greenland, in Iceland, and in the Bernina Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It was filmed simultaneously in German and English, and released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the United States. The film premiered on 30 August 1933 in Berlin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Eisberg
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Roman Scandals
Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white Pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley. The song "Keep Young and Beautiful" is from this film. In addition to the starring actors in the picture, the elaborate dance numbers are performed by the "Goldwyn Girls" (who in this film include future stars such as Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard and Jane Wyman).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Scandals
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Queen Christina (film)
Queen Christina is a pre-Code Hollywood biographical film, produced in 1933 and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It starred Swedish-born actress Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Christina_(film)
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Professional Sweetheart
Professional Sweetheart is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy directed by William A. Seiter from a screenplay by Maurine Watkins. It starred Ginger Rogers in her first film with RKO Radio Pictures, along with Norman Foster, ZaSu Pitts, and Frank McHugh. The film is a comedic satire of the radio industry, a competitor to the film industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Sweetheart
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 Pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romance film starring Myrna Loy and famous professional boxers Max Baer, Primo Carnera, and Jack Dempsey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prizefighter_and_the_Lady
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 United Kingdom film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester. The film focuses on the marriages of King Henry VIII of England. It was written by Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis for London Film Productions, Korda's production company. The film was a major international success, establishing Korda as a leading filmmaker and Laughton as a box office star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Life_of_Henry_VIII
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The Power and the Glory (1933 film)
The Power and the Glory is a 1933 Pre-Code film starring Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore, written by Preston Sturges, and directed by William K. Howard. The picture's screenplay was Sturges' first script, which he delivered complete in the form of a finished shooting script, for which he received $17,500 and a percentage of the profits. Profit-sharing arrangements, now a common practice in Hollywood, were then unusual and gained Sturges much attention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_and_the_Glory_(1933_film)
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Pilgrimage (1933 film)
Pilgrimage is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Ford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_(1933_film)
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Picture Snatcher
Picture Snatcher is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring James Cagney as a gangster who decides to quit to pursue his dream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Snatcher
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Pick-Up (1933 film)
Pick-Up is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. The movie was directed by Marion Gering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-Up_(1933_film)
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Perfect Understanding
Perfect Understanding is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Cyril Gardner and starring Laurence Olivier, Gloria Swanson and John Halliday. The film was an independent production made at Ealing Studios, conceived as an attempt to revive Swanson's career which had suffered following the conversion to sound films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Understanding
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Penthouse (film)
Penthouse is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime film starring Warner Baxter as a lawyer and Myrna Loy, as a call girl who helps him with a murder case. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on a novel by Arthur Somers Roche. The film was later remade as the more sanitized Society Lawyer in 1939, without the risqué pre-Code dialogue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthouse_(film)
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Peg o' My Heart (1933 film)
Peg o' My Heart is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the play of the same name by J. Hartley Manners. It starred Marion Davies as a poor Irish girl who stands to inherit a fortune if she satisfies certain conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peg_o%27_My_Heart_(1933_film)
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Passing Fancy
Passing Fancy (出来ごころ, Dekigokoro?) is a 1933 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata and Chouko Iida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_Fancy
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Parachute Jumper
Parachute Jumper is a 1933 Pre-Code black-and-white drama film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. It was based on a story by Rian James entitled "Some Call It Love".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Jumper
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Our Betters
Our Betters is a 1933 American Pre-Code satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble is based on the 1923 play of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Betters
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Only Yesterday (1933 film)
Only Yesterday is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film about a young woman who becomes pregnant by her boyfriend before he rushes off to fight in World War I. It stars Margaret Sullavan (in her film debut) and John Boles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yesterday_(1933_film)
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One Sunday Afternoon
One Sunday Afternoon is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Stephen R. Roberts and starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray. Based on the 1933 Broadway play by James Hagan, the film is about a middle-aged dentist who reminisces about his unrequited love for a beautiful woman and his former friend who betrayed him and married her. This pre-Code film was released by Paramount Pictures on September 1, 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Sunday_Afternoon
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Outskirts (1933 film)
Outskirts (Russian: Окраина, meaning Outskirts), also known in English as The Patriots or by the transliterated Russian title Okraina, is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Boris Barnet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okraina_(1933_film)
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
Mystery of the Wax Museum is a 1933 American Pre-Code mystery-horror film released by Warner Bros. in two-color Technicolor and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film stars Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_of_the_Wax_Museum_(film)
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Morning Glory (1933 film)
Morning Glory is a 1933 Pre-Code American drama film which tells the story of an eager would-be actress and her journey to stardom, and what she loses as a result. The picture stars Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Adolphe Menjou, was adapted by Howard J. Green from a then not yet stage produced play with the same name by Zoë Akins, and was directed by Lowell Sherman. Hepburn won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this movie. Morning Glory was remade in 1958 under the title Stage Struck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_(1933_film)
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The Monkey's Paw (1933 film)
The Monkey's Paw is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, based on the story, "The Monkey's Paw" (1902) by W.W. Jacobs. It is now considered a lost film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw_(1933_film)
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Money for Speed
Money for Speed is a 1933 British sports drama film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring John Loder, Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen and Moore Marriott. It is centered on the sport of speedway racing, which was at its peak of popularity at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_for_Speed
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The Midnight Patrol
For the television cartoon, see Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Patrol
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Midnight Mary
Midnight Mary is a 1933 American Pre-Code film that reveals in flashbacks the hard life of a woman on trial for murder. The film stars Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, and Franchot Tone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Mary
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Midnight Club (film)
Midnight Club is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama about a gang of London jewel thieves infiltrated by an undercover agent (George Raft). The movie was directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Club_(film)
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Men Must Fight
Men Must Fight is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Diana Wynyard, Lewis Stone and Phillips Holmes. It is based on the 1932 Broadway play of the same name by Reginald Lawrence and S. K. Lauren. When her lover is killed in World War I, a woman raises their son as a pacifist. However, when a second world war looms "between the United States and a country referred to as the Eurasian States in 1940", that belief is put to the test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Must_Fight
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The Mayor of Hell
The Mayor of Hell is a 1933 American Pre-Code Warner Brothers film starring James Cagney. The film was remade in 1938 as Crime School with Humphrey Bogart taking over James Cagney's role and Hell's Kitchen with Ronald Reagan in 1939.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayor_of_Hell
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Man's Castle
Man's Castle is a 1933 Pre-Code film directed by Frank Borzage, and starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Castle
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Loyalties (1933 film)
Loyalties is a 1933 British drama film directed by Basil Dean and starring Basil Rathbone, Heather Thatcher and Miles Mander. It is based on the John Galsworthy play Loyalties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalties_(1933_film)
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Lot in Sodom
Lot in Sodom (1933) is a short silent experimental film, based on the Biblical tale of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah. It was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot_in_Sodom
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Looking Forward (film)
Looking Forward is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film starring Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone. Based on the Dodie Smith play Service, it depicts the desperate struggle of a London department store owner to save his business during the Great Depression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_Forward_(film)
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Little Women (1933 film)
Little Women is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film, directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, and Jean Parker. The screenplay, by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, is based on the 1868 novel of the same name, by Louisa May Alcott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_(1933_film)
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Little Toys
Little Toys (Chinese: 小玩意; pinyin: Xiáo wǎnyì) is a 1933 silent film directed by filmmaker Sun Yu. It is one of two films Sun Yu directed in 1933 (the other being Daybreak). The film stars popular Chinese actress Ruan Lingyu and was produced by the leftist film production company Lianhua Film Company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Toys
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Life Is a Dog
Life Is a Dog (Czech: Život je pes) is a 1933 Czech comedy film written and directed by Martin Frič.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_a_Dog
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Liebelei (film)
Liebelei (1933) is a German film directed by Max Ophüls. The film, based on a play of the same name (Liebelei (de)) by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebelei_(film)
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Lady Killer (1933 film)
Lady Killer is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring James Cagney, Mae Clarke, and Margaret Lindsay, based on the story "The Finger Man" by Rosalind Keating Shaffer. The picture was directed by Roy Del Ruth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Killer_(1933_film)
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Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story Madame La Gimp by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_for_a_Day
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Ladies They Talk About
Ladies They Talk About is a 1933 Pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. Based on the play Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles, the film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a bank-robbery gang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_They_Talk_About
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King Kong (1933 film)
King Kong is a 1933 American Pre-Code fantasy monster/adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933 to rave reviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong_(1933_film)
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Każdemu wolno kochać
Każdemu wolno kochać (Anybody Can Love) is a 1933 Polish romantic comedy film directed by Mieczysław Krawicz and produced by the Rex-Film studio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazdemu_wolno_kochac
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It's Great to Be Alive (film)
It's Great to Be Alive (1933) is an American Pre-Code science fiction musical comedy film produced by Fox Film Corporation, is a remake of The Last Man on Earth (1924), and later influenced the novel Mr. Adam (1946) by Pat Frank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Great_to_Be_Alive_(film)
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The Invisible Man (film)
The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel The Invisible Man, published in 1897, as adapted by R.C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, whose work was considered unsatisfactory and who was taken off the project. Produced by Universal Studios, the film was directed by James Whale and stars Claude Rains, in his first American screen appearance, and Gloria Stuart. It spawned a number of sequels, plus many spinoffs using the idea of an "invisible man" that were largely unrelated to Wells' original story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Man_(1933_film)
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International House (1933 film)
International House is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring W.C. Fields. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film was based on a story by Neil Brant and Louis E. Heifetz and was adapted for the screen by Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_House_(1933_film)
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In the Wake of the Bounty
In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) is an Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn, playing Fletcher Christian. The film preceded MGM's more famous Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, by two years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Wake_of_the_Bounty
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I'm No Angel
I'm No Angel (1933) is Mae West's third motion picture. West received sole story and screenplay credit. A young Cary Grant plays her leading man for the second time. Being Pre-Code, this was one of the few Mae West movies that was not subjected to heavy censorship. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_No_Angel
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The House of Dora Green
The House of Dora Green (German:Salon Dora Green) is a 1933 German thriller film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Mady Christians, Paul Hartmann and Leonard Steckel. It was based on the novel Diplomatische Unterwelt by Hans Rudolf Berndorff. It was the final German film made by Galeen, before being forced into exile following the Nazi Party's takeover of power. In 1937 it was released in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Dora_Green
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The House on 56th Street
The House on 56th Street is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film, starring Kay Francis as a woman sent to prison for twenty years for a murder she did not commit. When she is released, her husband is dead and her daughter (played by Margaret Lindsay) has been told Peggy is also dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_56th_Street
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Hold Your Man
Hold Your Man is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together. The screenplay by Anita Loos and Howard Emmett Rogers was based on a story by Loos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_Your_Man
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Heroes for Sale (film)
Heroes for Sale (1933) is an American Depression-era Pre-Code film directed by William Wellman, starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, and Loretta Young, and released by Warner Bros. and First National Pictures. Original 76 minute considered lost, current 71 minutes from Turner Entertainment print.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_for_Sale_(film)
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Hard to Handle (film)
Hard to Handle (1933) is a Pre-Code comedy film starring James Cagney as a breezily clowning con artist who organizes a Depression-era dance marathon. His character remarks at one point, "The mass is a cow. It must be milked". The movie was produced at Warner Bros. and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Handle_(film)
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah,_I%27m_a_Bum_(film)
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Goodbye Again (1933 film)
Goodbye Again is a 1933 Pre-Code comedy film made by First National Pictures/Warner Bros.. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Henry Blanke from a screenplay by Ben Markson, based on the play by George Haight and Allan Scott. Cinematography was by George Barnes and costume design by Orry-Kelly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Again_(1933_film)
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The Good Companions (1933 film)
The Good Companions is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville starring Jessie Matthews and John Gielgud. It was based on the novel of the same name by J.B. Priestley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Companions_(1933_film)
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Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 is a Pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Diggers_of_1933
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Going Hollywood
Going Hollywood is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Marion Davies and Bing Crosby. It was written by Donald Ogden Stewart and based on a story by Frances Marion. Going Hollywood was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 22, 1933.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Hollywood
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The Ghost Camera
The Ghost Camera is a 1933 British mystery film directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino and John Mills, and based on "A Mystery Narrative", a short story by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Camera
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The Ghoul (1933 film)
The Ghoul (1933) is a British horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, and Ralph Richardson, making his film debut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghoul_(1933_film)
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Ganga Bruta
Ganga Bruta (literally translated as "Brutal Gang"; also known as Rough Diamond) is a 1933 Brazilian drama film directed by Humberto Mauro. Starring Durval Bellini and Déa Selva, it follows a man who, after killing his wife on their wedding night, moves to a city where he becomes part of a love triangle. It was produced between 1931 and 1932 for Adhemar Gonzaga at his studio Cinédia. On its initial release, the film was highly criticized and its poor viewing figures resulted in financial losses for the distribution company, but later critics and film directors expressed praise for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Bruta
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Gabriel Over the White House
Gabriel Over the White House is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring Walter Huston that has been variously described as a "bizarre political fantasy" or a "comedy drama" that "is surprisingly socialist in tone (albeit veering toward National Socialism)" and which "posits a favorable view of fascism."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Over_the_White_House
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Friday the Thirteenth (1933 film)
Friday the Thirteenth is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked. The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_Thirteenth_(1933_film)
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Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The movie was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour from a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film's songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) and Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics), and include "By a Waterfall", "Honeymoon Hotel", and "Shanghai Lil".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade
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Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio is a 1933 American Pre-Code RKO musical film noted for being the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, although Dolores del Río and Gene Raymond received top billing and the leading roles. Among the featured players Franklin Pangborn and Eric Blore are notable. The songs in the film were written by Vincent Youmans (music) and Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu (lyrics), with musical direction and additional music by Max Steiner. This is the only film in which screen veteran Rogers was billed above famed Broadway dancer Astaire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Down_to_Rio
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Flüchtlinge
Flüchtlinge (Refugees) is a 1933 German film depicting Volga German refugees persecuted by the Bolsheviks on the Sino-Russian border in Manchuria in 1928.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%BCchtlinge
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The Flower of Hawaii (1933 film)
The Flower of Hawaii (German:Die Blume von Hawaii) is a 1933 German musical film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Mártha Eggerth and Iván Petrovich. It is an adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. The operetta was later adapted again for a 1953 film. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flower_of_Hawaii_(1933_film)
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Fast Workers
Fast Workers, also known as Rivets, is a 1933 Pre-Code drama film starring John Gilbert and Robert Armstrong as construction workers and romantic rivals for the character played by Mae Clarke. The film was based on the unproduced play Rivets by John W. McDermott and directed by an uncredited Tod Browning. The supporting cast features Virginia Cherrill and Sterling Holloway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Workers
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Ex-Lady
Ex-Lady is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Robert Florey. The screenplay by David Boehm is based on an unproduced play by Edith Fitzgerald and Robert Riskin. It is a lightweight and modern version of a drawing room comedy. The film was made before the Motion Picture Production Code was in force, and it is risqué: in subject matter (people having affairs without shame), in staging (double beds) and in the fairly revealing negligees that Bette Davis's character wears.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-Lady
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Ever in My Heart
Ever in My Heart is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, and Ralph Bellamy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_in_My_Heart
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Employees' Entrance
Employees' Entrance is a 1933 Pre-Code film about the manager of a New York department store (Warren William) and an employee (Loretta Young).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employees%27_Entrance
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The Emperor Jones (1933 film)
The Emperor Jones is a 1933 American Pre-Code film adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play of the same title, was made outside of the Hollywood studio system, financed with private money from neophyte wealthy producers, and directed by iconoclast Dudley Murphy, who had sought O'Neill's permission to film the play since its 1924 production in New York. He cast Paul Robeson in his first film role, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, and Fredi Washington. The screenplay was written by DuBose Heyward and filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios with the beach scene shot at Jones beach Long Beach, New York. Robeson starred in the O'Neill play on stage, both in the United States and England, a role that had helped launch his career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Jones_(1933_film)
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Ecstasy (film)
Ecstasy (Czech: Extase, German: Ekstase) is a 1933 Czech romantic drama film directed by Gustav Machatý and starring Hedy Lamarr (then Hedy Kiesler), Aribert Mog, and Zvonimir Rogoz. Written by František Horký, Gustav Machatý, Jacques A. Koerpel, and Robert Horký, the film is about a young woman who marries a wealthy but much older man. After abandoning her brief passionless marriage, she meets a young virile engineer who becomes her lover. Ecstasy was filmed in three language versions—German, Czech, and French.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_(film)
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1933 film)
The Eagle and the Hawk is a 1933 American Pre-Code aerial war film directed by Stuart Walker and based on an original story by John Monk Saunders. The film stars Fredric March and Cary Grant as World War I Royal Air Force fighter pilots. The supporting cast includes Carole Lombard and Jack Oakie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_and_the_Hawk_(1933_film)
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Duck Soup (1933 film)
Duck Soup is a 1933 Pre-Code Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17, 1933, it starred what were then billed as the "Four Marx Brothers" (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo) and also featured Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern and Edgar Kennedy. It was the last Marx Brothers film to feature Zeppo, and the last of five Marx Brothers movies released by Paramount.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Soup_(1933_film)
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Dragnet Girl
Dragnet Girl (非常線の女, Hijōsen no Onna?) is a 1933 Japanese gangster film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Written by Tadao Ikeda, the film tells the story of a gangster and his girlfriend finding redemption through the actions of an innocent girl and her not-so-innocent brother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_Girl
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts is a 1933 American short subject directed by Harry Edwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora%27s_Dunking_Doughnuts
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Doctor Bull
Doctor Bull is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, based on the James Gould Cozzens novel The Last Adam. Will Rogers portrays a small town doctor who must deal with a typhoid outbreak in the community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Bull
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Dinner at Eight (film)
Dinner at Eight is a 1933 American Pre-Code dramedy film directed by George Cukor. Adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play of the same name, it features an ensemble cast of Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, and Billie Burke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_at_Eight_(film)
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The Devil's Brother
The Devil's Brother or Bogus Bandits or Fra Diavolo is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy. It is based on Daniel Auber's operetta Fra Diavolo about the Italian bandit Fra Diavolo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Brother
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Design for Living (film)
Design for Living is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins. Based on the 1932 play Design for Living by Noël Coward, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, the film is about a woman who cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_Living_(film)
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The Deserter (1933 film)
The Deserter (Russian: Дезертир, Dyezyertir) is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deserter_(1933_film)
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Deluge (film)
Deluge is a 1933 American Pre-Code apocalyptic, science fiction film released by RKO Radio Pictures, and directed by Felix E. Feist. The film depicts a group of worldwide natural disasters which lead to the destruction of the earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(1933_film)
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Daybreak (1933 film)
Daybreak (Chinese: 天明; pinyin: Tiānmíng) is a 1933 Chinese silent film directed by Sun Yu for the Lianhua Film Company. It follows a young girl from a rural fishing village, Ling Ling (played by Li Lili) as she moves to the glittering city of Shanghai. There she is first raped and then forced into prostitution before eventually becoming a martyr for the coming revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(1933_film)
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Dancing Lady
Dancing Lady is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical film, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and featuring Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley and the Three Stooges. The picture was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, produced by John W. Considine Jr. and David O. Selznick, and was based on the novel of the same name by James Warner Bellah, published the previous year. The movie had a hit song in "Everything I Have Is Yours", by Burton Lane and Harold Adamson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Lady
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Counsellor at Law
Counsellor at Law is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Elmer Rice is based on his 1931 Broadway play of the same title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counsellor_at_Law
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Der Choral von Leuthen
Der Choral von Leuthen (The Hymn of Leuthen) was a 1933 German film depicting Frederick the Great, directed by Carl Froelich. The screenplay was written by Johannes Brandt and Ilse Spath-Baron. The film starred Otto Gebühr, Olga Tschechowa and Elga Brink. It was part of the cycle of nostalgic Prussian films popular during the Weimar and Nazi eras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Choral_von_Leuthen
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Cavalcade (1933 film)
Cavalcade is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Reginald Berkeley and Sonya Levien is based on the 1931 play of the same title by Noël Coward. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalcade_(1933_film)
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Cash (1933 film)
Cash is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Edmund Gwenn, Wendy Barrie and Robert Donat. It was made by Alexander Korda's London Film Productions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_(1933_film)
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By Candlelight
By Candlelight is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by James Whale. The film is based on the Austrian play Candle Light by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Farkas. The film stars Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, and Dorothy Revier. A musical version adapted by Rowland Leigh, Cole Porter, Robert Katscher, and Edwin Gilbert premiered in 1938 under the title You Never Know, but was a critical and box office flop that closed after only 78 performances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Candlelight
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Bureau of Missing Persons
Bureau of Missing Persons is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film with comic overtones directed by Roy Del Ruth. The screenplay by Robert Presnell is based on a story by Carol Bird adapted from the book Missing Men by former New York City police captain John H. Ayers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Missing_Persons
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The Bowery (film)
The Bowery is a 1933 American Pre-Code historical film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan around the start of the 20th century directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Wallace Beery and George Raft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bowery_(1933_film)
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Bombshell (film)
Bombshell is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. The film is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell_(film)
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Blood Money (1933 film)
Blood Money is a 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama about a crooked bail bondsman named Bill Bailey, played by George Bancroft, with Chick Chandler as crime boss Drury Darling, Judith Anderson as Drury's sister and Bailey's lover, and Frances Dee as a thrill-seeking, larcenous beauty who fatefully catches Bailey's eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Money_(1933_film)
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
The Bitter Tea of General Yen is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and featurung Nils Asther and Walter Connolly. Based on the 1930 novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Zaring Stone, the film is about an American missionary in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War who gets caught in a battle while trying to save a group of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive young woman, she fights her attraction to the powerful general and resists his flirtation, yet remains at his side when his fortune turns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bitter_Tea_of_General_Yen
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Bitter Sweet (1933 film)
Bitter Sweet is a British musical romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and released by United Artists in 1933. It was the first film adaptation of Noël Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. It starred Anna Neagle and Fernand Gravey, with Ivy St. Helier reviving her stage role as Manon. It was made at Elstree Studios and was part of a boom in operetta films during the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Sweet_(1933_film)
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A Bedtime Story
A Bedtime Story is a 1933 Franco-American Pre-Code romantic comedy film starring Maurice Chevalier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bedtime_Story
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Bed of Roses (1933 film)
Bed of Roses (1933) is a Pre-Code comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Constance Bennett. The picture was released by RKO Radio Pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_of_Roses_(1933_film)
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Beauty for Sale
Beauty for Sale is a 1933 American Pre-Code film about the romantic entanglements of three beauty salon employees. It stars Madge Evans, Alice Brady, and Otto Kruger. It was based on the novel Beauty by Faith Baldwin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_for_Sale
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Baby Face (film)
Baby Face is a 1933 American Pre-Code dramatic film directed by Alfred E. Green, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Based on a story by Darryl F. Zanuck (under the pseudonym Mark Canfield), this sexually charged, Pre-Code Hollywood film is about an attractive young woman who uses sex to advance her social and financial status.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Face_(film)
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Alice in Wonderland (1933 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 1933 American Pre-Code film version of the famous Alice novels of Lewis Carroll. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, featuring an all-star cast. It is all live-action, except for the Walrus and The Carpenter sequence, which was animated by Harman-Ising Studio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1933_film)
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After Tonight
After Tonight is a 1933 American Pre-Code World War I spy film starring Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland, and directed by George Archainbaud. The studio considered firing Bennett after the film lost $100,000 at the box office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Tonight
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Don Quixote (1933 film)
Template:Infobox f Don Quixote (1933) is the English title of a film adaptation of the classic Miguel de Cervantes novel, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, starring the famous operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin. Although the film stars Chaliapin, it is not an opera. However, he does sing four songs in it. It is the first sound film version of the Spanish classic. The supporting cast in the English version includes George Robey, René Donnio, Miles Mander, Lydia Sherwood, Renée Valliers, and Emily Fitzroy. The film was made in three versions—French, English, and German—with Chaliapin starring in all three versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_(1933_film)
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Adorable (film)
Adorable is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical comedy film starring Janet Gaynor as a princess who disguises herself to go out and have fun, falling in love with a "commoner" in the process. The film is a remake of the 1931 German romantic comedy Her Grace Commands. The movie was written by Billy Wilder, Robert Leibmann, Paul Frank, George Marion, Jr., and Jane Storm, and directed by William Dieterle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adorable_(film)
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42nd Street (film)
42nd Street is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical film, directed by Lloyd Bacon. The choreography was staged by Busby Berkeley. The songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The script was written by Rian James and James Seymour, with Whitney Bolton, who was not credited, from the 1932 novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Street_(film)