1931 Movies

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.

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

A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.

A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he’s been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to…

At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the…

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry nightclub owner in Chicago and a Scottish farmgirl in South Dakota.

A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he’s the only man on the team.

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…

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Sought by the New Orleans police for accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a woman flees New Orleans for a Caribbean island. Surrounded by…

A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried.

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Flip the Frog is on the road in his tiny automobile. He’s on his way to serenade his feline sweetie. On the way, a rich, cigar-chomping cat in his expensive…

A feline organ grinder wanders by Farmer Al Falfa’s house making some very bad music. Farmer Al Falfa chases him away. Later, the old man chases two roosters up a…

On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer), and Policeman Martin French (sent to get Kathleen as a witness). Athens shoots…

A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.

Stan & Ollie (speaking phonetic French!), having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night, attempt to smuggle their little dog into an apartment house where dogs are…

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides,…

A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.

Independently wealthy American Jack Forbes has just arrived in Paris. Because of his wealth, he can have any woman on his arms. Currently that role is filled by Marcelle Dubrey,…

A remake in Spanish of the Laurel and Hardy short Chickens Come Home (1931) , expanded into a feature by adding scenes of a magician and a regurgitator performing.

On their way to the train station with their wives for a vacation in Atlantic City, Stanley and Oliver get a phone call from a fellow lodge member who tells…

An expanded remake in Spanish of Be Big! (1931) by Laurel & Hardy.

Card cheat Ronald Adair hears a disembodied voice coming from a painting of a cardinal threatening him with exposure and disgrace unless he becomes part of a criminal conspiracy involving…

Mickey and Minnie are next-door neighbors tending their yards. When Minnie is captured by a bird’s song, Mickey hides in his bird-house and pretends to be a bird himself, until…

Mickey heads over to see Minnie, but Pluto won’t leave him alone. He gets there and watches through the window, standing on Pluto, while Minnie plays piano. Pluto runs off…

Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. They receive a big inheritance by a rich relative and now they can realize all their dreams. They leave…

A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower, who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs. Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower…

In Germany, Hans Beckert is an unknown killer of girls. He whistles Edvard Grieg’s ‘In The Hall of the Mountain King’, from the ‘Peer Gynt’ Suite I Op. 46 while…

A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen’s chicks.

When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up…

Lisbeth is a modern woman who thinks that marriage is old fashioned. She has two men in her life; Steve, who wants to marry her and Alan, who wants her…

Violet Stoner dies under mysterious circumstances in her bedroom at the gloomy mansion of her brutish stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Rylott. Because Violet had become engaged to be married, she stood…

When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight…

Mickey plays a bluesy tune on a piano on a stage. Minnie sings. Then an unseen band plays while both sing and dance. Mickey then leads the 9-piece band in…

Christmas; Mickey and Minnie are singing carols. Someone drops a basket on the doorstep that has what seems like hundreds of kittens; they quickly overrun the house. Mickey dresses as…

Mickey’s friends throw him a surprise birthday party at Minnie’s house. The chef brings out the cake (with 2 candles); Mickey manages to blow all the cake onto the chef’s…