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Movies: Popular Movies of 1931

Movies in chronological context: 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade. ()

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City Lights(1931)

G
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
4.2/5 (with 992 votes)

In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Harry Myers, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Virginia Cherrill, Al Ernest Garcia, Albert Austin, ...
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M(1931)

PG-13
| 1h 57min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
4.1/5 (with 931 votes)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos, Inge Landgut, Ellen Widmann, ...
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Frankenstein(1931)

NR
| 1h 11min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 709 votes)

Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but, confused and traumatized, it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being and eventually must confront his tormented creation.

Directed by James Whale - With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, ...
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Dracula(1931)

NR
| 1h 12min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 493 votes)

British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London and is, unbeknownst to Renfield, a vampire. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together, and as Dracula begins preying on London socialites, the two become the subject of study for a supernaturalist professor, Abraham Van Helsing.

Directed by Tod Browning, Karl Freund - With Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Carla Laemmle, ...
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The Public Enemy(1931)

NR
| 1h 23min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 136 votes)

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931)

NR
| 1h 38min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 113 votes)

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian - With Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Sam Harris, ...
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Little Caesar(1931)

1h 19min | Drama, Action, Crime, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 105 votes)

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, George E. Stone, Stanley Fields, ...
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Monkey Business(1931)

1h 17min | Music, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 79 votes)

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod - With Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Thelma Todd, Ruth Hall, ...

Tabu(1931)

1h 26min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

The youngsters Matahi and Reri are in love with each other. The old warrior Hitu announces that Reri is to be the new chosen virgin for the gods. This means she must stay untouched, otherwise she and her lover will be killed. But Matahi abducts and escapes with her to an island ruled by the white man, where their gods would be harmless and powerless.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Anne Chevalier

Cimarron(1931)

NR
| 2h 3min | Drama, Western, History
2.8/5 (with 65 votes)

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles - With Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone, William Collier Jr., Edna May Oliver, ...
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À Nous la Liberté(1931)

1h 35min | Comedy, Music
3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

Directed by René Clair - With Henri Marchand, Albert Broquin, Alexander D'Arcy, Eugène Stuber, Germaine Aussey, Léo Courtois, ...

La Chienne(1931)

1h 31min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Viviane Romance, Agnès Capri, Alexandre Rignault, Christian Argentin, ...
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Le Million(1931)

PG
| 1h 23min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 40 votes)

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, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.

Directed by René Clair - With Annabella, Armand Bernard, Gabrielle Rosny, Jean-Louis Allibert, Louis Pré Fils, Odette Talazac, ...

The Skin Game(1931)

1h 22min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 40 votes)

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye, C.V. France, Jill Esmond, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam, ...
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Limite(1931)

2h | Drama, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just 22 years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész photograph on the cover of a French magazine, this avant-garde silent master­piece centres on a man and two women lost at sea, their pasts unfolding through flashbacks propelled by the music of Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and others. An early work of independent South American filmmaking, Limite was famously difficult to see for most of the twentieth century. It is a pioneering achievement that continues to captivate with its timeless visual poetry.

Directed by Mário Peixoto - With Carmen Santos

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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Taris(1931)

9min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.

Directed by Jean Vigo - With Jean Taris

Mädchen in Uniform(1931)

PG
| 1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. Based on "Gestern und Heute" by German playwright Christa Winsloe.

Directed by Leontine Sagan - With Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Gertrud de Lalsky, Emilia Unda, Hedwig Schlichter, Erika Mann, ...

Bimbo's Initiation(1931)

6min | Comedy, Animation, Music, Horror
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?

Directed by Dave Fleischer

Dishonored(1931)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Barry Norton, George Irving, ...

Marius(1931)

2h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles just outside the bar; and various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Alexandre Mihalesco, Alida Rouffe, Édouard Delmont, Fernand Charpin, ...
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Pardon Us(1931)

NR
| 56min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Directed by James Parrott - With Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Walter Long, Jimmy Finlayson, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, ...
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Night Nurse(1931)

1h 12min | Crime, Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

Directed by William A. Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable, Blanche Friderici, Charles Winninger, ...
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Beau Hunks(1931)

NR
| 37min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles Middleton, James W. Horne, Billy Bletcher, Charlie Hall, ...
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The Ugly Duckling(1931)

NR
| 7min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

Chickens Come Home(1931)

NR
| 30min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Mae Busch, Jimmy Finlayson, Baldwin Cooke, ...
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The 3 Penny Opera(1931)

1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Lotte Lenya, ...

Mata Hari(1931)

NR
| 1h 29min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice - With Greta Garbo, Ramón Novarro, Lewis Stone, Lionel Barrymore, Karen Morley, Alec B. Francis, ...
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The Smiling Lieutenant(1931)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

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 has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Elizabeth Patterson, ...

The Front Page(1931)

1h 41min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Directed by Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt - With Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, ...
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