Search results for "1931"
The Mad Genius

The Mad Genius

The Mad Genius
IMDb: 6.3
81

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Street Scene

Street Scene

Street Scene
IMDb: 7.6
78

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen
IMDb: 6.7
80

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Girls About Town

Girls About Town

Girls About Town
IMDb: 6.9
80

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Genre: Comedy
The Road to Singapore

The Road to Singapore

The Road to Singapore
IMDb: 6.5
68

A woman’s life falls to pieces when she’s caught cheating on her husband.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Palmy Days

Palmy Days

Palmy Days
IMDb: 7
77

Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Hot Heiress

The Hot Heiress

The Hot Heiress
IMDb: 5.8
79

Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.

Genre: Romance
Smart Money

Smart Money

Smart Money
IMDb: 6.8
81

Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith
IMDb: 6.2
108

Based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel “Arrowsmith”. A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

Genre: Drama
Party Husband

Party Husband

Party Husband
IMDb: 6.4
73

Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays…

Genre: Comedy
Honor Among Lovers

Honor Among Lovers

Honor Among Lovers
IMDb: 6.9
75

Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Strangers May Kiss

Strangers May Kiss

Strangers May Kiss
IMDb: 6
81

After years of fighting off the advances of her old flame Steve, Lisbeth settles into a steamy, casual romance with journalist Alan. Against the advice of her happily married aunt…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge
IMDb: 7.5
81

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy,…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Chances

Chances

Chances
IMDb: 6.5
72

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Cheat

The Cheat

The Cheat
IMDb: 6.4
68

Love, lust, possession, money, social standing, and addiction. Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler; though loved by her husband Jeff, she’s spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile,…

Genre: Drama
God’s Gift to Women

God’s Gift to Women

God’s Gift to Women
IMDb: 5.2
72

A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Gentleman’s Fate

Gentleman’s Fate

Gentleman’s Fate
IMDb: 6.4
90

A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Five Star Final

Five Star Final

Five Star Final
IMDb: 7.3
89

An unscrupulous newspaper editor searches for headlines at any cost.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Local Boy Makes Good

Local Boy Makes Good

Local Boy Makes Good
IMDb: 6.2
68

John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Shipmates

Shipmates

Shipmates
IMDb: 5.5
72

A sailor falls in love with the admiral’s daughter but finds they can’t marry because of his lowly rank.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Seas Beneath

The Seas Beneath

The Seas Beneath
IMDb: 5.8
90

In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. “Mystery Ship,” sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
IMDb: 6.1
73

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she…

Genre: Comedy
Illicit

Illicit

Illicit
IMDb: 6.1
77

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man
IMDb: 6.4
107

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of…

Genre: Drama, Western
Sit Tight

Sit Tight

Sit Tight
IMDb: 5.1
74

Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Brown is a wrestler named JoJo and he is forced to…

Private Lives

Private Lives

Private Lives
IMDb: 6.8
84

Amanda and Elyot are one another’s former spouse. Elyot remarries to Sibyl, Amanda weds Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive to a hotel on the same day and are put…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Reducing

Reducing

Reducing
IMDb: 6.5
77

A woman and her family leave their hick-town to help her sister out in the big-city beauty parlour. There is a bit of a culture shock.

Genre: Comedy
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton
IMDb: 5.9
70

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

Genre: Drama, History
Caught Plastered

Caught Plastered

Caught Plastered
IMDb: 6.4
68

Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.

Genre: Comedy
The Bad Sister

The Bad Sister

The Bad Sister
IMDb: 6.4
68

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father’s endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later…

Genre: Drama
Suicide Fleet

Suicide Fleet

Suicide Fleet
IMDb: 5.6
87

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements
IMDb: 6.5
53

This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that “portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes”, such as the flow of the tide…

Genre: Documentary
La Chienne

La Chienne

La Chienne
IMDb: 7.6
91

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Arizona

Arizona

Arizona
IMDb: 5.7
70

A West Point graduate (John Wayne) jilts his girlfriend (Laura La Plante) but runs into her later at an Army outpost.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Skin Game

The Skin Game

The Skin Game
IMDb: 5.8
82

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

Genre: Drama
The Terror of Batignolles

The Terror of Batignolles

The Terror of Batignolles
IMDb: 6.4
15

An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Unknown Singer

The Unknown Singer

The Unknown Singer
IMDb: 5.8
95

A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance. He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.

Genre: Drama
Dragnet Night

Dragnet Night

Dragnet Night
IMDb: 6.4
109

A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ…

Genre: Drama
I’ll Be Alone After Midnight

I’ll Be Alone After Midnight

I’ll Be Alone After Midnight
IMDb: 5.5
102

A woman’s marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
My Cousin From Warsaw

My Cousin From Warsaw

My Cousin From Warsaw
IMDb: 5.9
N/A

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It’s a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to…

Genre: Comedy