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1. Chicago (2002)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs
Votes: 243,831 | Gross: $170.69M
2. The Great Gatsby (1974)
PG | 144 min | Drama, Romance
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black
Votes: 26,924 | Gross: $6.74M
3. Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)
TV-14 | 27 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.
Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, Kristine Nielsen, David Strathairn
Votes: 4,763
4. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,114 | Gross: $7.63M
5. The Newton Boys (1998)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 12,415 | Gross: $10.30M
6. The Great Gatsby (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan
Votes: 1,974
7. The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Approved | 130 min | Drama
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920s France and Spain.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 2,648
8. The Cocoanuts (1929)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Votes: 8,220 | Gross: $3.92M
9. The Great Gatsby (1949)
91 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A Jazz Age bootlegger learns the hard way about the wages of sin.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 893
10. 'Round Midnight (1986)
R | 133 min | Drama, Music
A troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Votes: 5,878 | Gross: $3.27M
11. The Great Gatsby (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbour, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton, Georgia Hale
12. Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher
Votes: 4,898 | Gross: $2.14M
13. Three on a Match (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William
Votes: 4,409
14. Cavalcade (1933)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Romance, War
A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 6,008 | Gross: $7.63M
15. Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Broadway was never brighter and never roared louder than New Year's Eve, 1928, when anything could happen-and did. A four part short story musical co-starring Madonna, Jennifer Grey, and Matt Dillon.
Director: Howard Brookner | Stars: Josef Sommer, Madonna, Tony Azito, Jennifer Grey
Votes: 1,443 | Gross: $0.04M
16. The Wild Party (1929)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara
Votes: 558
17. Children of Divorce (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson
Votes: 411
18. Foxtrot (1976)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
At the beginning of WW2, Liviu, a Romanian count, and his wife Julia come to live on an uninhabited tropical island, where they hope to escape the war and their past. They bring with them ... See full summary »
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Max von Sydow, Jorge Luke
Votes: 394
19. Born Reckless (1930)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, War
Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan, Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 565
20. Our Blushing Brides (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Three department-store girls--Connie, Franky, and Jerry--share an apartment on West 91st Street in New York City. Each earns little more than $20 per week. Jerry is the sensible one, but ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 927
21. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 892
22. Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 1,973 | Gross: $0.76M
23. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 45 min | Drama
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Veronica Cartwright, Bud Cort, Lane Binkley
Votes: 463
24. Margie (1946)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari, Alan Young
Votes: 868
25. Only Yesterday (1933)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke
Votes: 422
26. Brief Moment (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 367
27. Words and Music (1929)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Music
Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees
Votes: 91
28. Alibi (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took ... See full summary »
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith
Votes: 954
29. On with the Show! (1929)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil
Votes: 376
30. The American Venus (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Esther Ralston, Lawrence Gray, Ford Sterling, Fay Lanphier
Votes: 54
31. Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Comedy
A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Anita Page
Votes: 909
32. Flaming Youth (1923)
Passed | 90 min | Drama
An ingenue becomes a bob-haired flapper and enters into a ménage-à-trois with her mother's lover amid the sexual revolution of the Jazz Age.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Colleen Moore, Milton Sills, Elliott Dexter, Sylvia Breamer
Votes: 104
33. Ella Cinders (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doris Baker
Votes: 1,084
34. Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 28
35. The Plastic Age (1925)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Donald Keith, Clara Bow, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 377
36. Playing Around (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Alice White, Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle
Votes: 330
37. The Tender Hook (2008)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
Director: Jonathan Ogilvie | Stars: Rose Byrne, Tyler Coppin, John Batchelor, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 607
38. The Big Broadcast (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A radio-singer, Bing Crosby, is none-too-concerned about his job, and an affair with Mona leads to his dismissal. When it appears Hornsby is getting and paying a lot of attention to his ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Bing Crosby, Leila Hyams, George Burns
Votes: 288
39. Party Girl (1930)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanette Loff, Judith Barrie, Marie Prevost
Votes: 322
40. Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature ... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 222
41. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivety and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish
Votes: 181
42. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels
Votes: 1,359
43. Man Trouble (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.
Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 33
44. King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors
Votes: 297
45. Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee
Votes: 182
46. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The tale of two sisters with the older one pledged to look after the younger one that transpires between a department store, NYC's Central Park and a boarding house. THe older one is the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Lawrence Gray, Louise Brooks, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 268
47. The Jazz Age (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
When Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 28
48. New York Nights (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, John Wray, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 272
49. Safety in Numbers (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Carole Lombard
Votes: 152
50. Wolfblood (1925)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After wolf blood transfusion, man thinks he's becoming a wolf.
Directors: George Chesebro, Bruce Mitchell | Stars: George Chesebro, Roy Watson, Milburn Morante, Frank Clark
Votes: 361