A black man who passes for white and became a successful lawyer returns to his hometown for a family reunion.

A Secret Service agent investigates the murder of a numbers runner in New York.

In a Harlem nightclub, movie producer Gary Martin (Lawrence Chenault) seeks an actress for his new film, and must choose between two talented singers. Meanwhile, club patron Anthony (A.B. Comathiere) gets engaged to Letha Watkins (Willor Lee Guilford), who is hiding a secret past that re-emerges when she receives a note announcing that she has only 10 minutes to live. Letha's godfather recounts her traumatic past to Martin, while Letha must physically face it to survive.

An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.

W. Somerset Maugham's powerful story of Sadie Thompson has perhaps the most celebrated version, vividly capturing the lives of several very different human beings, thrown together on Pago Pago during a fierce monsoon. Brilliant performances by Crawford, as the cynical prostitute, and Huston, as the minister who tries to reform her. A 'tour de force' that caused controversy when first released,

London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback.

Considered Hollywood's first full length zombie film, WHITE ZOMBIE follows Murder Legendre (horror legend Bela Lugosi), the menacingly named zombie master of Haiti. When Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer) appears at Legendre's door with a twisted plan to turn his ex-wife Madeline into a zombie, Legendre decides to take her for himself -- will her new husband be able to save her before she is turned into an undead ghoul? Undeniably influential, WHITE ZOMBIE is a must see for any true horror fan. *"The divinely satanic-looking Bela Lugosi sinks his teeth into his best role since Dracula, a languorous hypnotist and voodoo master who dominates the film with his assured bearing and cruel control." - Sean Axmaker, **Parallax View***

Frankenstein director James Whale turned J.B. Priestley's novel "Benighted" into this nerve-jangling tale that became the template for all spooky-house chillers to come. Stranded travelers stumble upon a strange old house, and find themselves at the mercy of a highly eccentric and potentially dangerous family. This atmospheric thriller features an unforgettable role for Boris Karloff, as the hulking, disfigured butler Morgan. *"...there is a wealth of talent in this production... like Frankenstein, [it] had the advantage of being directed by James Whale, who again proves his ability." - Mordaunt Hall, **The New York Times***

This Weimar era film classic uses an avant-garde, fragmented narrative to tell the story of a working-class family in Berlin in 1931. Survival is difficult, with massive unemployment in the wake of the Great Depression. After Anni's brother commits suicide in despair, her family finds itself forced to move to Kuhle Wampe, a lakeside camp on the outskirts of Berlin, now home to increasing numbers of unemployed. When Anni's relationship with Franz ends, she moves back to Berlin and gets involved in the workers' youth movement. New digitally-restored transfer of the original 1932 film..

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea) is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks). While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve (Fay Wray) and Martin Towbridge (Robert Armstrong), to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.. "A gritty and exciting adaptation with loads of charm." - Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

Gow is not only a true curiosity but also in many ways a key influence of later Cooper and Schoedsack productions including King Kong. The footage in Gow was produced by Edward A. Salisbury, a wealthy British adventurer, who in 1920 set sail in an 80-ton yacht equipped with a motion picture laboratory to, in his words, catch and hold for history a photo record of the fast, disappearing races of the South Seas Islands. Cooper and Schoedsack were among the cameramen on this two-year expedition that documented genuine head-hunters and cannibals along its route. The material was originally released as four separate films in the silent era and was consolidated as the film Gow, the headhunter for an illustrated lecture by expedition member William Peck. Peck recorded his own cringe-inducing commentary in 1931. Gow was reissued as an exploitation film into the 1950s under the title Cannibal Island, but it was made with a serious purpose. True to Salisbury's intent, it indeed documents vanished cultures Gow is mastered for this edition in high definition from the original 35mm fine grain master positive.

Independently produced by Bennie Zeidman, Hell's house (1932) is a Pre-Code melodrama that captured Bette Davis and Pat O'Brien just before they were catapulted to superstardom at Warner Bros. An exposé of the American penal system (not unlike I am a fugitive from a Chain Gang and The mayor of hell), Hell's house stars Junior Durkin as a wholesome farmboy who moves to the city after the death of his mother. Dazzled by the smooth talk and beautiful girlfriend (Davis) of a wily bootlegger (O'Brien), the naive lad runs afoul of the law and is sentenced to a brutal reform school. Abandoned by the legal system, the boy's only hope is the conscience of the criminal responsible for him being there.