1932 Drama Movies

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Grand Hotel(1932)

3.5/5 (with 125 votes)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Directed by Edmund Goulding - With Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Hersholt, ...

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American Madness(1932)

1h 13min | Drama, Crime

3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.

Directed by Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill - With Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Gavin Gordon, Arthur Hoyt, Sterling Holloway, ...

Blonde Venus(1932)

1h 33min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 65 votes)

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Sidney Toler, Sterling Holloway, ...

The Sign of the Cross(1932)

| 2h 4min | Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

After burning Rome, Emperor Nero decides to blame the Christians, and issues the edict that they are all to be caught and sent to the arena. Two old Christians are caught, and about to be hauled off, when Marcus, the highest military official in Rome, comes upon them. When he sees their stepdaughter Mercia, he instantly falls in love with her and frees them. Marcus pursues Mercia, which gets him into trouble with Emperor (for being easy on Christians) and with the Empress, who loves him and is jealous.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith, Ferdinand Gottschalk, ...

Rain(1932)

| 1h 34min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.

Directed by Lewis Milestone - With Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Walter Catlett, ...

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Lawyer Man(1932)

| 1h 12min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the attention of high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley, who asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm. But Adam's rising career takes a nosedive when he's framed by Gilmurry and a sexy actress in a trumped-up breach of promise suit. The only constant in Adam's life is the loyalty and unrequited love of his secretary Olga.

Directed by William Dieterle - With William Powell, Joan Blondell

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Frisco Jenny(1932)

1h 13min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Frisco Jenny was orphaned by the 1906 earthquake and fire and has become the madame of prosperous bawdy house. She puts her son up for adoption and he rises to prominence as district attorney dedicated to closing down such houses. When her underling Dutton proposes killing the DA, she kills the underling and must face execution.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, William A. Wellman, Berton Churchill, Buster Phelps, Clarence Muse, ...

Me and My Gal(1932)

| 1h 19min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Marion Burns, George Walsh, Billy Bevan, George Chandler, ...

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Broken Lullaby(1932)

| 1h 16min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 14 votes)

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, ZaSu Pitts, Emma Dunn, George Irving, ...

Madame Butterfly(1932)

1h 26min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.

Directed by Marion Gering - With Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Irving Pichel, Berton Churchill, Verna Hillie, ...

Hell Divers(1932)

1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.

Directed by George W. Hill - With Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Alan Roscoe, Cliff Edwards, Conrad Nagel, Dorothy Jordan, ...

Kongo(1932)

| 1h 27min | Drama, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life.

Directed by William J. Cowen - With Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce, C. Henry Gordon, Mitchell Lewis, ...

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Union Depot(1932)

| 1h 7min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.

Directed by Alfred Edward Green - With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell

Wooden Crosses(1932)

1h 50min | Drama, War

3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

Directed by Raymond Bernard - With Antonin Artaud, Charles Vanel, Christian-Jaque, Gabriel Gabrio, Géo Laby, Jean Galland, ...

What Price Hollywood?(1932)

| 1h 28min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.

Directed by George Cukor - With Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Gregory Ratoff, King Baggot, Wilfred Lucas, Bryant Washburn, ...

Downstairs(1932)

| 1h 17min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.

Directed by Monta Bell - With Paul Lukas, Virginia Bruce, John Gilbert, Hedda Hopper, Reginald Owen, Olga Baclanova, ...

So Big!(1932)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Bette Davis, Alan Hale, Lionel Belmore, Eulalie Jensen, ...

The Rich Are Always with Us(1932)

1h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.

Directed by Alfred Edward Green - With Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Bette Davis

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The Cabin in the Cotton(1932)

| 1h 18min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Jordan, Bette Davis, Henry B. Walthall, Berton Churchill, Tully Marshall, ...

No Blood Relation(1932)

1h 19min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.

Directed by Mikio Naruse - With Yoshiko Okada

While Paris Sleeps(1932)

| 1h 7min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are twofold: he must keep Manon from being abducted into a life of prostitution, and he must also hide his true identity from the girl, who has been raised to believe that Jacques died a hero in WWI.

Directed by Allan Dwan

A Bill of Divorcement(1932)

| 1h 10min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.

Directed by George Cukor - With John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Katharine Hepburn, David Manners, Henry Stephenson, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

Flesh(1932)

| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Directed by John Ford - With Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, Herman Bing, Charles Williams, ...

Rasputin and the Empress(1932)

| 2h 1min | Drama, History

2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski, Charles Brabin - With John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard, Edward Arnold, ...

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The Match King(1932)

| 1h 19min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.

Directed by William Keighley, Howard Bretherton - With Warren William, Lili Damita

The Woman from Monte Carlo(1932)

1h 10min | Romance / Love, Drama, War

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Lil Dagover, Walter Huston, Warren William, George E. Stone, Robert Warwick, Francis McDonald, ...

Wild Girl(1932)

| 1h 18min | Western

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Irving Pichel, Minna Gombell, ...

The Trial of Vivienne Ware(1932)

| 56min | Crime, Drama

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

Directed by William K. Howard - With Joan Bennett, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, ZaSu Pitts, Ruth Selwyn, Christian Rub, Ward Bond, ...

The Blue Light(1932)

| 1h 25min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village for one reason or another, the townsfolk chase her away. They feel that she may in some way be responsible for the deaths of several young men of the village, who have felt compelled, one by one, to climb the local mountain - and fall to their deaths - on nights when the moon is full.

Directed by Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs - With Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Max Holzboer

Back Street(1932)

1h 33min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.

Directed by John M. Stahl - With Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde, ZaSu Pitts, William Bakewell, Walter Catlett, ...

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1932 Drama Movies

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Grand Hotel(1932)

American Madness(1932)

Blonde Venus(1932)

The Sign of the Cross(1932)

Rain(1932)

Lawyer Man(1932)

Frisco Jenny(1932)

Me and My Gal(1932)

Broken Lullaby(1932)

Madame Butterfly(1932)

Hell Divers(1932)

Kongo(1932)

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Union Depot(1932)

Wooden Crosses(1932)

What Price Hollywood?(1932)

Downstairs(1932)

So Big!(1932)

The Rich Are Always with Us(1932)

The Cabin in the Cotton(1932)

No Blood Relation(1932)

While Paris Sleeps(1932)

A Bill of Divorcement(1932)

Flesh(1932)

Rasputin and the Empress(1932)

The Match King(1932)

The Woman from Monte Carlo(1932)

Wild Girl(1932)

The Trial of Vivienne Ware(1932)

The Blue Light(1932)

Back Street(1932)

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