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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Morder aka M (1931) Movie | Crime, Mystery | Germany | German
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang, Egon Jacobsohn
Cast Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Plot When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
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City Lights (1931) Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English
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Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker
Cast Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Plot With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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Frankenstein (1931) Movie | Drama, Horror | USA | English, Latin
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Director James Whale
Writer John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley, Peggy Webling
Cast Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
Plot Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
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Dracula (1931) Movie | Drama, Fantasy | USA | English, Hungarian
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Director Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Writer Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Plot Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
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The Public Enemy (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey F. Thew
Cast James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Plot An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
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A nous la liberte aka Freedom for Us (1931) Movie | Comedy, Musical | France | French
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Director Rene Clair
Writer Rene Clair
Cast Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France
Plot Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
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La chienne aka The Bitch (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | France | French
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Georges de La Fouchardiere, Jean Renoir, Andre Girard
Cast Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant
Plot 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 ...
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Madchen in Uniform aka M dchen in Uniform (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | Germany | German, French
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Director Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich
Writer Christa Winsloe, Friedrich Dammann, Colette
Cast Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda
Plot At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Movie | Horror, Sci-Fi | USA | English
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Director Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath, Robert Louis Stevenson
Cast Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Plot Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
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Le million (1931) Movie | Comedy, Musical | France | French
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Director Rene Clair
Writer Georges Berr, Marcel Guillemaud, Rene Clair
Cast Annabella, Rene Lefevre, Jean-Louis Allibert
Plot An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.
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Marius (1931) Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French
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Director Alexander Korda
Writer Marcel Pagnol
Cast Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin
Plot Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.
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Monkey Business (1931) Movie | Comedy, Family | USA | English
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Director Norman Z. McLeod
Writer S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, Arthur Sheekman
Cast Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, The Marx Brothers
Plot On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.
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Die 3 Groschen-Oper aka The Threepenny Opera (1931) Movie | Comedy, Crime | Germany, USA | German, French
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Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer Bertolt Brecht, Leo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher
Plot The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronat...
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Kameradschaft aka Comradeship (1931) Movie | Drama, Thriller | Germany, France | French, German
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Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer Anna Gmeyner, Carl Haensel, Peter Martin Lampel
Cast Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch
Plot Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
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Little Caesar (1931) Movie | Action, Crime | USA | English
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer W.R. Burnett, Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Plot A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
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Limite aka Limit (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | Brazil | Portuguese
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Director Mario Peixoto
Writer Mario Peixoto
Cast Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Plot Three castaways - a man and two women - adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to their desolate predicament.
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Hyppolit a lakaj aka Hyppolit a lak j (1931) Movie | Comedy | Hungary | Hungarian
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Director Steve Sekely
Writer Ka¡roly Nati, Istva¡n Za¡gon
Cast Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, Mici Haraszti
Plot A butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.
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Taris, roi de l'eau aka Taris (1931) Movie | Documentary, Short | France | French
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Director Jean Vigo
Writer Jean Vigo
Cast Jean Taris
Plot Jean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
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Tokyo no korasu aka Tokyo Chorus (1931) Movie | Comedy, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Yasujira Ozu
Writer Komatsu Kitamura, Kago Noda
Cast Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Hideo Sugawara
Plot A married Tokyo man faces unemployment after standing up for an older colleague.
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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
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Director F.W. Murnau
Writer F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty, Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu
Plot 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.
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Dracula aka Dr cula (1931) Movie | Drama, Fantasy | USA | Spanish, Hungarian
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Director George Melford
Writer Bram Stoker, Baltasar Ferna¡ndez Cue, John L. Balderston
Cast Carlos Villaraas, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton
Plot Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
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Douro, Faina Fluvial aka Labor on the Douro River (1931) Movie | Documentary, Short | Portugal
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Director Manoel de Oliveira
Writer Manoel de Oliveira
Plot A documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
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Emil und die Detektive aka Emil and the Detectives (1931) Movie | Adventure, Family | Germany | German
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Director Gerhard Lamprecht
Writer Erich Ka¤stner, Billy Wilder, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Rolf Wenkhaus, Ka¤the Haack, Fritz Rasp
Plot Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
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The Champ (1931) Movie | Drama, Family | USA | English
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Director King Vidor
Writer Wanda Tuchock, Don Marquis
Cast Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich
Plot An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English, French
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Leopold Jacobson
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Plot An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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Night Nurse (1931) Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, Cantonese
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer Grace Perkins, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Charles Kenyon
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell
Plot A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.
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Waterloo Bridge (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
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Director James Whale
Writer Robert E. Sherwood, Benn W. Levy, Tom Reed
Cast Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
Plot A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.
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Dishonored (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Daniel Nathan Rubin, Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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Alam Ara aka The Light of the World (1931) Movie | Drama, Fantasy | India | Hindi
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Director Ardeshir Irani
Writer Joseph David, Ardeshir Irani
Cast Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo
Plot A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce t...
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Berlin-Alexanderplatz - Die Geschichte Franz Biberkopfs aka Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany | German
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Director Phil Jutzi
Writer Alfred Daablin, Karl Heinz Martin, Hans Wilhelm
Cast Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel
Plot Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
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Five Star Final (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Louis Weitzenkorn, Byron Morgan, Robert Lord
Cast Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner
Plot The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
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Der Kongress tanzt aka Congress Dances (1931) Movie | Comedy, History | Germany | German
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Director Erik Charell
Writer Norbert Falk, Robert Liebmann
Cast Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg
Plot Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
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Mary (1931) Movie | Mystery, Thriller | Germany, UK | German
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Director Alfred Hitchcock
Writer Clemence Dane, Herbert Juttke, Georg C. Klaren
Cast Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz
Plot A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
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The Miracle Woman (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Jo Swerling, John Meehan, Robert Riskin
Cast Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Plot After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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Street Scene (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
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Director King Vidor
Writer Elmer Rice
Cast Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Plot Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
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The Front Page (1931) Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English
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Director Lewis Milestone
Writer Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Bartlett Cormack
Cast Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian
Plot A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
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Putyovka v zhizn aka Road to Life (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | Russia | Russian, Mari
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Director Nikolai Ekk
Writer Osip Brik, Nikolai Ekk, Anton Makarenko
Cast Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Plot Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
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Koshiben ganbare aka Flunky, Work Hard! (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | Japan | Japanese
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Director Mikio Naruse
Writer Mikio Naruse
Cast Shizue Akiyama, Seiichi Kata, Tomoko Naniwa
Plot The story of a poor insurance salesman who struggles to provide for his wife and family.
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Platinum Blonde (1931) Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
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Director Frank Capra
Writer Harry Chandlee, Douglas W. Churchill, Robert Riskin
Cast Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams
Plot A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
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The Maltese Falcon (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Chinese
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Director Roy Del Ruth
Writer Dashiell Hammett, Maude Fulton, Brown Holmes
Cast Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges
Plot A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
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Mata Hari (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director George Fitzmaurice
Writer Benjamin Glazer, Leo Birinsky, Doris Anderson
Cast Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Plot A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Beau Hunks (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne
Writer H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Plot Jilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to r...
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Blonde Crazy (1931) Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English
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Director Roy Del Ruth
Writer Kubec Glasmon, John Bright
Cast James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Plot The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.
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Shukujo to hige aka The Lady and the Beard (1931) Movie | Comedy, Romance | Japan
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Director Yasujira Ozu
Writer Komatsu Kitamura, Yasujira Ozu
Cast Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Chako Iida
Plot A bearded kendo champion has difficulties in life because of his conservative ways and his unusual beard.
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Pardon Us (1931) Movie | Comedy, Crime | USA | English, Italian
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Director James Parrott
Writer H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe
Plot Two guys end up in prison after attempting to sell beer to a policeman during Prohibition.
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Svengali (1931) Movie | Drama, Horror | USA | English, French
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Director Archie Mayo
Writer George L. Du Maurier, J. Grubb Alexander
Cast John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
Plot Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
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On purge bebe aka Baby's Laxative (1931) Movie | Comedy | France | French
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Director Jean Renoir
Writer Georges Feydeau, Pierre Prevert, Jean Renoir
Cast Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon
Plot A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
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Safe in Hell (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director William A. Wellman
Writer Houston Branch, Joseph Jackson, Maude Fulton
Cast Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Plot After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.
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A Free Soul (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Clarence Brown
Writer Adela Rogers St. Johns, Becky Gardiner, Philip Dunning
Cast Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
Plot An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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David Golder (1931) Movie | Drama | France | Russian, German
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Director Julien Duvivier
Writer Irene Nemirovsky, Julien Duvivier
Cast Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jackie Monnier
Plot David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
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Chickens Come Home (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne
Writer H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
Plot Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.
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Possessed (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English, French
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Director Clarence Brown
Writer Edgar Selwyn, Lenore J. Coffee
Cast Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
Plot An ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife.
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Bimbo's Initiation (1931) Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
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Director Dave Fleischer, Grim Natwick
Cast Margie Hines, Billy Murray, William Pennell
Plot Bimbo the dog is initiated into a secret society in a sadistic 'fun house'; then Betty Boop (with dog's ears) takes a hand.
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City Streets (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Dashiell Hammett, Max Marcin, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
Plot Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.
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Smart Money (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Alfred E. Green
Writer Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Lucien Hubbard
Cast Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
Plot A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.
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Philips-Radio (1931) Movie | Documentary, Short | Netherlands
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Director Joris Ivens
Writer Joris Ivens
Plot An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower begins a more complex tub...
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Lursmani cheqmashi aka Nail in the Boot (1931) Movie | Drama, War | Russia
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Director Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer Leonid Perelman
Cast Aleksandre Jaliashvili, Siko Palavandishvili, Akaki Khorava
Plot Sympathetic portrayal of a soldier who inadvertently commits sabotage through his ineptitude on the battlefield.
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Our Wife (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne
Writer H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Plot Oliver's plans to marry his hefty sweetheart go awry when the girl's father gets a load of her intended groom. They then elope in a tiny car much too small for their combined dimensions, not to mention the accompanying Stan. They ...
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One Good Turn (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne
Writer H.M. Walker, Stan Laurel, James Parrott
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr
Plot A kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.
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Der Morder Dimitri Karamasoff aka Der M rder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931) Movie | Drama | Germany | German
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Director Erich Engel, Fyodor Otsep
Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, Erich Engels, Leonhard Frank
Cast Fritz Kortner, Anna Sten, Fritz Rasp
Plot Suspicion surrounds a lieutenant for killing his father: Dimitri asks his father for his heritage. The father says he wants to marry young Grushenka. Dimitri tries to talk the girl out of that plan and is himself totally smitten w...
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La fin du monde (1931) Movie | Drama, Sci-Fi | France | French
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Director Abel Gance
Writer Jean Boyer, Camille Flammarion, Abel Gance
Cast Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
Plot The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his life of suffering. Martial is an internat...
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Come Clean (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne
Writer Charlie Hall, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
Plot Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Laurel send their husbands to the store to buy ice-cream but on the way back home the boys rescue from drowning a suicidal woman who's wanted by the police.
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Studie Nr. 7 aka Study No. 7 (1931) Movie | Animation, Short | Germany | German
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Director Oskar Fischinger
Plot In Fischinger's study No. 7, the shapes of Study No. 6 move to the 5th Hungarian dance by Johannes Brahms.
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To neznate Hadimrsku aka Business in Distress (1931) Movie | Comedy | Czech | Czech
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Director Martin Fric, Karel Lamac
Writer Va¡clav Wasserman, Fritz Anders, Franz Arnold
Cast Vlasta Burian, Meda Valentova¡, Otto Rubak
Plot Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.
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The Criminal Code (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English
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Director Howard Hawks
Writer Martin Flavin, Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
Cast Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings
Plot After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
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Odna aka Alone (1931) Movie | Drama | Russia | Russian
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Director Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Cast Yelena Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergey Gerasimov
Plot The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is a...
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Madamu to nyobo aka The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (1931) Movie | Comedy, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Heinosuke Gosho
Writer Akira Fushimi, Komatsu Kitamura
Cast Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura
Plot A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much.
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The Black Camel (1931) Movie | Crime, Mystery | USA | English
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Director Hamilton MacFadden
Writer Earl Derr Biggers, Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Barry Conners
Cast Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi
Plot The unsolved murder of a Hollywood actor several years earlier and an enigmatic psychic are the keys to help Charlie solve the Honolulu stabbing death of a beautiful actress.
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Bad Girl (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | USA | English
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Director Frank Borzage
Writer Via±a Delmar, Brian Marlow, Edwin J. Burke
Cast James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
Plot A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
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Tonight or Never (1931) Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
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Director Mervyn LeRoy
Writer Fanny Hatton, Frederic Hatton, Lily Hatvany
Cast Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
Plot A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
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Taxi! aka Taxi (1931) Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Yiddish
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Director Roy Del Ruth
Writer Kenyon Nicholson, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright
Cast James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
Plot Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.
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Be Big! (1931) Movie | Short, Comedy | USA | English
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Director James W. Horne, James Parrott
Writer H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Spencer Bell
Plot In order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.
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The Last Flight (1931) Movie | Drama | USA | English, French
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Director William Dieterle
Writer John Monk Saunders
Cast Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown
Plot World War I veterans roam Paris, drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.
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Der Mann, der seinen Morder sucht aka The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Movie | Comedy, Film-Noir | Germany | German
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Ludwig Hirschfeld, Ernst Neubach, Curt Siodmak
Cast Heinz Rahmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek
Plot 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.
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Ze soboty na nedeli (1931) Movie | Drama | Czech, Austria | Czech
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Director Gustav Machata½
Writer Vatezslav Nezval, Gustav Machata½
Cast Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalova¡
Plot Mána is a young secretary. One evening she and her roommate accompany two wealthy older gentlemen to dinner. After one of them offers money to her she realizes his intentions and flees from the restaurant in shock. She later meets...
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Private Lives (1931) Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, French
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Director Sidney Franklin
Writer Noel Coward, Hanns Kra¤ly, Richard Schayer
Cast Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny
Plot Divorced couple unexpectedly meet each other during their honeymoon and rekindle their love.
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Lian ai yu yi wu aka Love and Duty (1931) Movie | Drama, Family | China | Mandarin
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Director Wancang Bu
Writer Stephanie Rosen-hua, Shilin Zhu
Cast Lingyu Ruan, Jiqun Liu, Yan Jin
Plot A decades-spanning romantic drama about a woman who pays dearly for following her heart.
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Tao hua qi xue ji aka The Peach Girl (1931) Movie | Drama, Romance | China | Mandarin
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Director Wancang Bu
Writer Wancang Bu, Richard J. Meyer
Cast Lingyu Ruan, Yan Jin, Lili Zhou
Plot The daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.
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The Ugly Duckling (1931) Movie | Animation, Family | USA | English
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Director Wilfred Jackson
Writer Hans Christian Andersen
Cast Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Florence Gill
Plot A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks.