1931 Movies

Palmy Days

Directed by: A. Edward Sutherland

Starring: Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks, Spencer Charters, Paul Page

Outline: An assistant of phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.

A Connecticut Yankee

Directed by: David Butler

Starring: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan

Outline: Will Rogers, beloved American humorist, takes a trip back in time to King Arthur's Court. With Maureen O'Sullivan and Myrna Loy.

Trader Horn

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu

Outline: Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.

Arrowsmith

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Based on Sinclair Lewis's novel "Arrowsmith". A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

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Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke

Country: United States of America

Outline: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

Frankenstein

Directed by: James Whale

Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Country: United States of America

Outline: An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Tonight or Never

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.

Gentleman's Fate

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page

Outline: Jack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive but dying of lead poisoning. His father sent him away, twenty years ...

Indiscreet

Directed by: Leo McCarey

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley, Barbara Kent

Outline: A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

The Public Enemy

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

Street Scene

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi

Country: United States of America

Outline: Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

Le Million

Directed by: René Clair

Starring: Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier

Country: United States of America

Outline: An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

Dracula

Directed by: Tod Browning

Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye

Country: United States of America

Outline: The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge

Country: United States of America

Outline: On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

Monkey Business

Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod

Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers, Chico Marx

Country: United States of America

Outline: On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.

The Miracle Woman

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer

Country: United States of America

Outline: After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

The Champ

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates

Country: United States of America

Outline: An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.

Five Star Final

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell

Outline: The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.

City Streets

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian

Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd

Country: United States of America

Outline: Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

Blonde Crazy

Directed by: Roy Del Ruth

Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis

Country: United States of America

Outline: The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.

Arizona Terror

Directed by: Phil Rosen

Starring: Ken Maynard, Lina Basquette, Hooper Atchley, Nina Quartero

Outline: Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the ...

Emma

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy

Outline: After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

Forbidden

Directed by: Frank Capra

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled woman.

Svengali

Directed by: Archie Mayo

Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher

Country: United States of America

Outline: Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.

Smart Money

Directed by: Alfred E. Green

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde

Country: United States of America

Outline: Immigrant Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.