Public Domain Movies

The Stranger

A war crimes commissioner travels to Connecticut to find a famous Nazi (1946).

Director: Orson Welles

Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young

Broken Blossoms

A Chinese man and a British woman building a relationship. There are consequences due to the era this occurred during (1919).

Director: D.W. Griffith

Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp

Jigsaw

A district attorney in New York unravels a secret extremist group while investigating a series of murders (1949).

Director: Fletcher Markle

Stars: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick

Submarine Base

An ex-gangster is hiding on a tiny island during World War 2. He proves his worth by helping defeat the Nazis as free agent, but he is also helping the Nazis. When the Nazis find out he is working with both sides they decide to execute him (1943).

Director: Albert H Kelly

Stars: John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore

Kid Monk Baroni

A street gang leader becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in little Italy (1952).

Director: Harold D. Schuster

Stars: Richard Rober, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts

Algiers!

A beautiful woman falls in love with a handsome man who happens to be a jewel thief (1938).

Director: Director: John Cromwell

Stars: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie

Freaks

A beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry a freak show leader. The deformed circus freaks find out that she is only marrying him for his money (1932).

Director: Tod Browning

Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova

Angel on my Shoulder

The devil sends a man to earth to be a judge to make up for his previous life as a gangster (1946).

Director: Archie Mayo

Stars: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claudia Rains

Battleship Potemkin

Sailors revolt against a leader who sets poor working conditions. They kill the captain and many of his officers. The Sailors are praised by the revolution as heroes (1925).

Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein

Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp is the story of a lower class woman. Becky manages to ruin her life through a series of events (1935).

Director: Rouben Mamoullian, Lowell Sherman

Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke

Dance Hall Racket

A gangster operates a sleazy dance hall using a sadistic bodyguard. That keep his girls and his customers in check (1953).

Directors: Phil Tucker

Stars: Timothy Farrell, Lenny Bruce, Bernie Jones

Go Down, Death

A jute joint owner to frame an innocent preacher, but his plan back fires (1945).

Director: Spencer Williams

Stars: Myra D. Hemmings, Samuel H. James, Eddye L. Houston

Cause for Alarm!

A husband believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him. He writes that suspicion in a letter. The husband is wrong he ends up dying anyway. The letter gets discovered and now people are getting suspicious (1951).

Directors: Tay Garnett

Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sulivan, Bruce Cowling

Cheers for Ms. Bishop

A girl is left in an exclusive seminary for girls. while her father fights in the Second Boer War (1939).

Directors: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter

Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise

Meet John Doe

A man needing money impersonates a person who would commit suicide for a protest. A political movement begins in his honor (1941).

Director: Frank Capra

Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbaran Stanwyck, Edward Arnold