The Best Movies Of 1931

In the early days of sound, it was common for Hollywood studios to make foreign-language versions of their movies using the same sets, costumes and etc. Most of these foreign language versions are no ...

Skyline is a 1931 drama film directed by Sam Taylor and starring silent film veteran Thomas Meighan. It is based on a novel, East Side, West Side by Felix Riesenberg. It was produced and released by F...

Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatri...

Maurice Legrand is married to a terror. He met "Lulu" and made her his mistress. He thinks he met the love of his life, but she is just a streetwalker in love with her pimp. She only accepts Legrand f...

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, ...

Sinclair Lewis wrote the novel "Arrowsmith". A researcher is sent to a plague outbreak to make a decision about the use of a vaccine.

When misfortune hits the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother, Rodney, takes a twis...

The sound-era silent film shows a man falling in love with a flower seller.

Four people get mixed up with other people on an ocean liner.

A Japanese legend about a fisherman who rescues a turtle and is rewarded for this with a visit to Ryūgū-jō, the palace of Ryūjin, the Dragon God, under the sea.

A little boy won't go to the bathroom and that leads to a lot of problems for his parents and their friends.

A cowhand named Bob Blake visits with Sally Thompson and her kid-brother, Jimmy, on their hard-scrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and...

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford...

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

A hobo named the Professor and his son, Charlie McCarthy, believe there's money buried in an abandoned house which was previously owned by a fellow named Herbie Larkin. Pretending to be Herbie's broth...

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

A medicine show singer finds her love.

Grierson set out to make "propaganda," and this film--with it's voice-over proclaiming the great value of the British industrial worker, without a hint of ambiguity or doubt--fits that category well. ...

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.

We follow the Melekhov family of Tatarsk through difficult times just before World War 1, based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov.

A young boy thinks of a plan to catch a man who bribed him with chocolate and cash.

When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until her mother is released. When the happy day comes,...

When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the ...

Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)

A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

As a luxurious ocean liner makes its way across the Atlantic Ocean, the audience is made privy to the travails of several of its passengers. Edmund Lowe heads the cast as Monty Greer, a suave gambler ...

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is al...

This comedy has a country bumpkin hero Gobardhan visiting his parents-in-law in Calcutta. Mistaking a 'No Nuisance' sign for an address, he gets lost trying to find his friend Amal's room. His subsequ...

A naive high school girl falls in love with a football player. Her lack of knowledge about sex leads to pregnancies and heartbreak.

A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier ha...

Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.

A cowboy who lost his friend to fraud and was murdered must take care of the man's son before he goes after the killers.

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is ...

A goat is driving his car but he is blocked off by a road hog. When he finally passes the road hog up the road hog quotes "D***!" The goat runs into some pretty weird antics. But he comes out in the e...

Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons who promise to take him to Hallelujah Land. United Artists banned one of the "Censored 11" for being racist.

Lonely in his English country estate, Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has ...

When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.

To impress his fiancée's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. He is going to plan a coup d'etat...