1931 Movies

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Ramon Novarro starred and directed this French remake of Call of the Flesh as he studios feared subtitles and dubbing techniques were primitive at the time. A student nun falls in love with a singer performing in the cafe next door to her convent.

A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.

Toby the Pup organises a Halloween celebration. Some witches and elves join the party.

A wagon train of "Forty-Niners" heading for the California gold fields includes a girl, her father and an old black servant, who have hidden their family jewels and life savings in their wagon. One of the men in the train plots with some Indians to attack the...

Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.

A navy lieutenant contemplates suicide in his despair but then meets a beautiful stranger, who turns out to be a princess.

The wealthy Mr. Clyde is found dead, shot to death in his home. Inspector Carr suspects a conspiracy between the victim's young wife and her lover, Capt. Rugg. But Doctor Crabtree the criminologist never so quick to jump to conclusions as Inspector Carr.

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.

John Moon is a businessman interested in ghosts. He decides to spend the night in a barn hoping to see the ghost of the bushranger Sturdy who died there when betrayed to the police by his friend Rogan.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages...

Simultaneously made French version of "Einbrecher": A wealthy old husband looks for the successor for his young wife.A devious gentleman burglar is one possibility he toys with.

A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Bill Sommers returns to find his ranch threatened by a corrupt, water-stealing landowner, John Weston. Weston’s foreman, Ballon, commits murder, frames Bill, and forces him to fight to clear his name.

During WW1, the girls become spies when they spend the evening with two German officers.

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister