1. The Broadway Melody
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
2. Now or Never
A young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
3. It's Love I'm After
An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
4. Children of Divorce
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.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
5. A Song of Lisbon (A Canção de Lisboa)
Vasco is a medical student in Lisbon, supported by his rich aunts, whom he had falsely told he had already graduated. In fact, he devotes himself to a bohemian life, preferring the popular fairs and pretty women, especially Alice, a seamstress from the Castelinhos quarter, which rather upsets her ambitious father, tailor Caetano, who is familiar with Vasco's debts. After failing yet another final exam, he is surprised by his aunts' announcement that they will visit him in Lisbon to see his practice.
It has an average vote of 8.4 on TMDB.
6. Deadline - U.S.A.
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
7. The Merry Widow
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
8. Salt of the Earth
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
It has an average vote of 6.925 on TMDB.
9. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (Октябрь)
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
10. Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
It has an average vote of 6.77 on TMDB.
11. The Last of Sheila
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
It has an average vote of 6.946 on TMDB.
12. Napoléon (Napoléon)
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
13. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
It has an average vote of 7.86 on TMDB.
14. The Jazz Singer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
It has an average vote of 6.131 on TMDB.
15. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
It has an average vote of 7.612 on TMDB.
16. The Hero
Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.
It has an average vote of 6.147 on TMDB.
17. The Sugarland Express
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
19. The Birth of a Nation
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. The Rocketeer
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
