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Best Movies of 1931 by Title

Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars
285
4
À nous la liberté
René Clair
Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly
Comedy / Musical
France
French
2.5 Stars
2692
37
Alam Ara
Ardeshir Irani
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo, J. Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor, Elizer
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2.5 Stars
2692
37
An American Tragedy
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
35
Anna Christie
Jacques Feyder
Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel, Herman Bing
Drama / Romance
USA / Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2324
27
Arrowsmith
John Ford
Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2330
28
Bad Girl
Frank Borzage
Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
The Battle of Gallipolli
Anthony Asquith
Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
War / Epic
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2794
44
Blonde Crazy
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
42
A Bronx Morning
Jay Leyda
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1487
15
The Champ
King Vidor
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Drama / Sports
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
3.5 Stars
1864
19
Cimarron
Wesley Ruggles
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr.
Drama / Western / Epic
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
95
2
City Lights
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2251
26
City Streets
Rouben Mamoulian
Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Confessions of a Co-Ed
David Burton, Dudley Murphy
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell, Florence Britton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
38
Daddy Long Legs
Alfred Santell
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge, Claude Gillingwater
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
37
Dance, Fools, Dance
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
37
Der Kongreß tanzt
Erik Charell
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Carl-Heinz Schroth
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Der Raub der Mona Lisa
Géza von Bolváry
Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Crime / Caper
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2458
31
Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Don't Bet on Women
William K. Howard
Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, J.M. Kerrigan, Una Merkel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
776
10
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
5 Stars
447
8
Dracula
Tod Browning
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler
Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2421
30
Drácula
George Melford, Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2694
38
The Dreyfus Case
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2712
39
East Lynne
Frank Lloyd
Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2755
41
Enthusiasm
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2809
45
The Finger Points
John Francis Dillon
Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2539
34
Five Star Final
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Crime / Horror / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Fleischer Rarities: Treasures from the Fleischer Studios
Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer
Animation / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
42
The Forgotten Frontier
Marvin Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge
Documentary
USA
English
5 Stars
240
3
Frankenstein
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2527
33
A Free Soul
Clarence Brown
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, Clark Gable
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2862
46
From Saturday to Sunday
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
4.5 Stars
805
11
The Front Page
Lewis Milestone
Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Golden Mountains
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2190
24
The Guardsman
Sidney Franklin
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
42
Heroes All
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
A Holy Terror
Irving Cummings
George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood
Western / Action / Crime / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1321
14
Kameradschaft
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Fritz Kampers, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch
Drama
Germany / France
French
5 Stars
445
7
La Chienne
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2195
25
Laughing Gravy
James W. Horne
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Charles Dorety, Harry Bernard
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
363
6
Le Million
René Clair
Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Musical / Comedy
France
French
2.5 Stars
2774
43
Limite
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
5 Stars
472
9
Little Caesar
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Love Business
Robert F. McGowan
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba
Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
24
1
M
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1614
17
Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2809
45
The Maltese Falcon
Roy Del Ruth
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott
Action / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Man of the World
Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman
William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1885
20
Marius
Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
4 Stars
1112
13
Monkey Business
Norman Z. McLeod
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Movie Mad
Ub Iwerks
Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
37
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine
Heinosuke Gosho
Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Shinichi Himori
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Next Door Neighbors
Harry Sweet
Edgar Kennedy, Pert Kelton, Franklin Pangborn, Georgie Billings, Arthur Housman
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
No Man's Land
Victor Trivas, George Shdanoff
Ernst Busch, Hugh Douglas, Louis Douglas, Georges Péclet,
War / Drama
Germany
French
2.5 Stars
2809
45
The Pajama Party
Hal Roach
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Elizabeth Forrester, Eddie Dunn, Donald Novis
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
44
Philips-Radio
Joris Ivens
Short / Documentary / Experimental
Netherlands
Dutch
2.5 Stars
2809
45
The Pip from Pittsburg
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Granger, Kay Deslys, Carlton Griffin
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2171
23
Platinum Blonde
Frank Capra
Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2649
36
Private Lives
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Jean Hersholt, Una Merkel
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
305
5
The Public Enemy
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
A Put Up Job
unknown
Karl Dane, George K. Arthur
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Quick Millions
Rowland Brown
Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Rango
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Claude King, Douglas Scott
Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Rich and Strange
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Road to Life
Nikolai Ekk
Nikolai Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2809
45
Romance of Water
unknown
Documentary / Short
USA
English
3 Stars
2146
22
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Edgar Selwyn
Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
The Skin Game
Alfred Hitchcock
C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam
Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2521
32
Skippy
Norman Taurog
Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Family / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
3 Stars
2051
21
The Smiling Lieutenant
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Song of Life
Alexis Granowsky
Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra, Ernst Busch, Leo Monosson
Drama
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1622
18
Street Scene
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
44
The Struggle
D.W. Griffith
Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
40
Surrender
William K. Howard
Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
918
12
Tabu
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1556
16
The Threepenny Opera
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2712
39
Trader Horn
W.S. Van Dyke
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
37
The Viking
Varick Frissell, George Melford
Louise Huntington, Charles Starrett, Arthur Vinton, Bob Bartlett, Wilfred Grenfell
Adventure / Drama
Canada / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
37
The W Plan
Victor Saville
Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, George Merritt
War / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2366
29
Waterloo Bridge
James Whale
Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Bette Davis
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
45
What Price Pants
Casey Robinson
Joe Smith, Charles Dale
Comedy / Short
USA
English
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Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
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