1930s Comedy-drama Movies

162 movies found (page 1/6):

The Blue Angel(1930)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 48min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 131 votes)

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, ...

Zero for Conduct(1933)

42min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.

Directed by Jean Vigo - With Pierre Blanchar, Jean Dasté, Delphin, Albert Riéra, Félix Labisse, Henri Storck, ...

Lady for a Day(1933)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama

3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high society. Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.

Directed by Frank Capra - With May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, ...

L'Âge d'or(1930)

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

3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Josep Llorens i Artigas, Lionel Salem, Bonaventura Ibáñez, ...

Dinner at Eight(1933)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Directed by George Cukor - With Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, ...

I Was Born, But...(1932)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 49 votes)

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Tomio Aoki, Tatsuo Saitō, Mitsuko Yoshikawa

The Masseurs and a Woman(1938)

1h 6min | Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu - With Shin Saburi

The Baker's Wife(1938)

2h 13min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.

Directed by Marcel Pagnol - With Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Fernand Charpin, Charles Moulin, Alida Rouffe, Charles Blavette, ...

Desire(1936)

1h 35min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, ...

Angel(1937)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Mundin, ...

Nothing Sacred(1937)

1h 17min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 38 votes)

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton, Raymond Scott, ...

Rich and Strange(1931)

1h 23min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

2.8/5 (with 36 votes)

Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Joan Barry, Betty Amann, Percy Marmont, Henry Kendall

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Wife vs. Secretary(1936)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 20 votes)

Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, James Stewart, Gilbert Emery, ...

What Did the Lady Forget?(1937)

1h 11min | Drama, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Sumiko Kurishima, Tatsuo Saitō, Ken Uehara, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Tomio Aoki

Mr. Thank You(1936)

1h 18min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

A friendly bus driver is known to everybody as Mr. Thank You for thanking the people who give way to his bus on the narrow mountain road to the nearest train station. Today, he carries many passengers, who are travelling for many different reasons, but is fixated on a girl who is leaving for Tokyo.

Directed by Hiroshi Shimizu - With Ken Uehara, Michiko Kuwano

Tokyo Chorus(1931)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Tatsuo Saitō, Hideko Takamine, Tokihiko Okada

Jimmy the Gent(1934)

1h 7min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart, Alice White, Mayo Methot, ...

The Story of a Cheat(1936)

1h 21min | Comedy, Drama

3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. Through years of dabbling in crime and amusing adventures, two women appear and reappear in his life, a dazzling blonde jewel thief and a stunning brunette gambler. Finally, he meets the mysterious Charbonnier who had saved his life in World War I, leading to the surprising next phase in his career...

Directed by Sacha Guitry - With Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Marguerite Moreno, Pauline Carton, Fréhel, Adolphe Borchard, ...

Mickey's Good Deed(1932)

7min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Mickey is playing Christmas carols on a standup bass for change. Alas, all he gets is screws, rocks, and other useless stuff. He plays outside a rich man's window, and the spoiled brat kid inside decides he wants Pluto. Mickey isn't selling, but when his bass gets destroyed by a passing sleigh and he sees a house full of orphans with no presents, he changes his mind. Mickey plays Santa to the kids. Meanwhile, the brat has been torturing Pluto; his father finally has enough and throws Pluto out and spanks the child. Pluto and Mickey are reunited, and as a bonus, the kid has tied the Christmas turkey to Pluto's tail. (Also included: Chip an' Dale 1947, Lend a Paw 1941)

Directed by Burt Gillett

Topaze(1933)

1h 18min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.

Directed by Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast - With John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Albert Conti, Frank Reicher, Jobyna Howland, Luis Alberni, ...

The Animal Kingdom(1932)

1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.

Directed by Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor - With Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Henry Stephenson, Ilka Chase, ...

State Fair(1933)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.

Directed by Henry King - With Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Victor Jory, Frank Craven, ...

Swedenhielms(1935)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an excellent house maid, Boman. Because of the family's extravagance, they are heading for bankruptcy. But perhaps their problems would be solved if Rolf was awarded the Nobel Prize?

Directed by Gustaf Molander - With Gösta Ekman

The Stranger's Return(1933)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

Directed by King Vidor - With Miriam Hopkins, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Beulah Bondi, Grant Mitchell, Stuart Erwin, ...

Min and Bill(1930)

1h 6min | Drama, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Directed by George W. Hill - With Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, DeWitt Clarke Jennings, Don Dillaway, ...

Baby Take a Bow(1934)

1h 16min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love, Crime, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?

Directed by Harry Lachman - With Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart, Ray Walker, Olive Tell, ...

Rain or Shine(1930)

1h 26min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy, Music

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father's failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band of ragged shoeleather performers.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, William Collier Jr., Alan Roscoe, Clarence Muse, James J. Jeffries, ...

The Young in Heart(1938)

1h 30min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

The Carletons make a living as card sharks and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet Miss Fortune, a very wealthy but lonely elderly lady. As a reward for saving her life after the train derails, Miss Fortune invites the Carletons to come live with her. The family hopes that by winning her affection, they can eventually be named sole beneficiaries in her will. But will a change of heart soften their mercenary feelings before that time comes?

Directed by Richard Wallace - With Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Henry Stephenson, ...

Blessed Event(1932)

1h 20min | Drama, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With Lee Tracy, Mary Brian

Broadway Bill(1934)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

Directed by Frank Capra - With Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Douglass Dumbrille, Lynne Overman, ...