1931 Mystery Movies

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Murder at Midnight(1931)

1h 9min | Mystery

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.

Directed by Frank R. Strayer

Subway Express(1931)

| 1h 12min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual-and-unusual suspects climb on and off at each stop.

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer

Charlie Chan Carries On(1931)

| 1h 16min | Crime, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden - With Warner Oland, Marguerite Churchill, C. Henry Gordon, George Brent, Jason Robards, Lumsden Hare, ...

The Speckled Band(1931)

| 1h 30min | Romance / Love, Mystery, Crime, Drama

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.

Directed by Jack Raymond - With Lyn Harding, Raymond Massey, Angela Baddeley, Nancy Price

The Phantom(1931)

| 1h 2min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

1.7/5 (with 5 votes)

An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.

Directed by Alan James

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Murder by the Clock(1931)

| 1h 16min | Horror, Mystery

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A policeman (William Boyd) investigates a woman's (Lilyan Tashman) link to murders that are preceded by a shrilling horn inside a family mausoleum.

Directed by Edward Sloman - With William "Stage" Boyd, Lilyan Tashman

The Sleeping Cardinal(1931)

| 1h 24min | Mystery, Crime

2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.

Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott - With Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Philip Hewland, Jane Welsh

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Daughter of the Dragon(1931)

| 1h 10min | Crime, Drama

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

Directed by Lloyd Corrigan - With Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher, Nella Walker

The Devil Plays(1931)

1h 3min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A mystery novelist's detective skills are put to the test when he attends a party where a murder is committed.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Carmelita Geraghty, Edmund Burns, Jameson Thomas, Richard Tucker, Dorothy Christy, Lillian Rich, ...

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The Old Man(1931)

1h 17min | Mystery

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

Directed by Manning Haynes

The House of Unrest(1931)

58min | Mystery

A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.

Directed by Leslie Howard Gordon - With Dorothy Boyd

Moon over Morocco(1931)

1h 27min | Mystery, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Georges Péclet, Harry Baur, Jacques Erwin, Mady Berry, Marc Dantzer, Odette Barencey, ...

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A Night in Montmartre(1931)

1h 9min | Mystery

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.

Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott - With Horace Hodges, Franklin Dyall, Hugh Williams, Heather Angel

The Spider(1931)

| 59min | Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.

Directed by Kenneth MacKenna - With Edmund Lowe

A Dangerous Affair(1931)

1h 15min | Mystery

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst of reading a will to a motley collection of heirs.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick

There Were Thirteen(1931)

1h 19min | Crime, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.

Directed by David Howard - With Juan Torena

Scent of the Woman in Black(1931)

1h 50min | Crime, Mystery

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.

Directed by Marcel L'Herbier - With Edmond Van Daële, Huguette Duflos, Ksenia Kuprina, Léon Belières, Marcel Vibert, Roland Toutain, ...

Checkmate(1931)

1h 15min

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.

Directed by Roger Goupillières - With Dolly Davis

The Train of Suicides(1931)

Drama

Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.

Directed by Edmond T. Gréville - With Germaine Aussey, Georges Péclet, René Ferté, Georges Colin, Vanda Gréville, Simone Bourday, ...