5F0008_Movies 1931
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1. Jede Frau hat etwas (1931)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Leo Mittler | Stars: Trude Berliner, Willy Clever, Kurt Vespermann, Annie Ann
Trude Berliner
2. Pardon Us (1931)
Approved | 56 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 2,817
Oliver Hardy
3. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,711
Mae Clarke
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 15,809 | Gross: $2.79M
Miriam Hopkins
5. East of Borneo (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar
Votes: 254
Lupita Tovar
6. The Public Enemy (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell
Votes: 23,017 | Gross: $1.01M
Jean Harlow
7. Platinum Blonde (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Halliwell Hobbes
Votes: 3,455
Jean Harlow
8. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Votes: 6,382
Anne Chevalier
9. The Painted Desert (1931)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western
Two men find an abandoned baby and fight over the ownership of the child, resulting in lifelong rivalry.
Directors: Howard Higgin, Tom Buckingham | Stars: William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 826
Helen Twelvetrees
10. Der weiße Rausch - Neue Wunder des Schneeschuhs (1931)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
An exhilarating view of skiing the German Alps, with a load in your pants.
Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Rudi Matt, Lothar Ebersberg
Votes: 126
Leni Riefenstahl
11. Little Caesar (1931)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 14,527
Glenda Farrell
12. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young
Votes: 1,129
Helen Hayes
13. Cimarron (1931)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 6,930
Irene Dunne
14. Arizona (1931)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Bob refuses to marry his girlfriend and leaves her. She marries his close friend out of revenge.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Laura La Plante, John Wayne, June Clyde, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 342
June Clyde
15. Mata Hari (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone
Votes: 3,953 | Gross: $0.93M
Greta Garbo
16. Marius (1931)
Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Votes: 2,567
Alida Rouffe
17. La Chienne (1931)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Votes: 4,836
Janie Marese
18. Other Men's Women (1930)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney
Votes: 1,390
Joan Blondell
19. Inspiration (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
Yvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 630 | Gross: $0.73M
Greta Garbo
20. My Wife, the Adventuress (1931)
91 min | Comedy
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Director: Kurt Gerron | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Käthe von Nagy, Fritz Grünbaum, Hermann Vallentin
Votes: 29
Heinz Rühmann
21. Man braucht kein Geld (1931)
92 min | Comedy
Family Brandt has lost its fortune in oil speculation, and they have great debts at the local bank. This one is threatened with its own crash due to lack of money. The only hope is Brandt's... See full summary »
Director: Carl Boese | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Heinz Rühmann, Hans Moser, Ida Wüst
Votes: 137
Hedy Lamarr
22. Die Privatsekretärin (1931)
100 min | Comedy
A vivacious girl seeks an office job in hard times in the hope of landing a rich man. The director of the bank she lands up working at, flirts with her while hiding his identity, so at first she rejects him.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Felix Bressart, Ludwig Stössel
Votes: 20
Renate Müller
23. The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
97 min | Comedy, Film-Noir
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 243
Heinz Rühmann
24. The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
107 min | Comedy
A poor cobbler named Wilhelm Voigt purchased the second-hand uniform of a Prussian infantry captain. Wearing this, he traveled to the borough of Köpenick and ordered a troop of guardsmen to... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Max Adalbert, Ernst Dernburg, Willi Schur, Paul Wagner
Votes: 118
Max Adalbert
25. Der Draufgänger (1931)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Hans Albers, Sigurd Lohde, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Gerda Maurus
Votes: 43
Hans Albers
26. The Upright Sinner (1931)
78 min | Comedy
A small town bank official, entrusted with taking money to Vienna, spends some of it.On his return to admit his guilt he learns that his boss,the director, has run off with even more.
Director: Fritz Kortner | Stars: Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann, Dolly Haas, Josefine Dora
Votes: 64
Heinz Rühmann
27. Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931)
111 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Hans Albers, Anna Sten, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst
Votes: 168
Heinz Rühmann
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