Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.

The Miracle Woman

1931

English

7.2

♡ 3

100%

Frank Capra Director

June Lang as Church Choir Singer

Barbara Stanwyck as Florence 'Faith' Fallon

Robert Bolder as Man in Audience

Dennis O'Keefe as Man in Audience

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 former aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Platinum Blonde

1931

English

6.7

♡ 3

78%

Frank Capra Director

Bill Elliott as Ann's Beau - The Round-the-World Flyer

Walter Catlett as Bingy

Edmund Breese as Conroy - The Editor

Tom London as Reporter

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.

The Woman Between

1931

English

5.4

♡ 2

Victor Schertzinger Director

Rolfe Sedan as Headwaiter

Blanche Friderici as Mrs. Weston

Bill Elliott as Party Guest

George Chandler as Sweet - A Waiter

Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.

The Lady Refuses

1931

English

5.9

♡ 7

George Archainbaud Director

Reginald Sharland as Freddy

Betty Compson as June

Daphne Pollard as Millie - Apartment House Maid

Ivan Lebedeff as Nikolai Rabinoff

A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young woman to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.

Cimarron

1931

English

5.8

♡ 7

52%

Wesley Ruggles Director

George E. Stone as Sol Levy

William Collier Jr. as The Kid

Jack Leonard as (uncredited)

Dennis O'Keefe as (uncredited)

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.

The Captain from Köpenick

1931

German

7.0

♡ 2

Comedy

Richard Oswald Director

Albert Florath as Aufseher

Leonard Steckel as Krakauer, ein Trödler

Hans Leibelt as Mann der Litfassäule

Eugen Rex as Zweiter Bahnbeamter

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.

Limit

1931

Portuguese

7.0

♡ 8

100%

Mario Peixoto Director

Raul Schnoor as Man #1

Mario Peixoto as Man Sitting at the Cemetery

Olga Breno as Woman #1

Tatiana Rey as Woman #2

Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another. As they delve into their personal narratives, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to this desolate predicament, they navigate through the depths of three distinct destinies. Bound by the confines of their shared space, every aspect of their existence becomes a boundary, underscoring their plight.

Hot Biskits

1931

English

5.1

♡ 3

Comedy

Spencer Williams Director

Spencer Williams as

Thurston Briggs as

Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is played out in a high-stakes game of mini golf.

Indiscreet

1931

English

6.2

♡ 3

22%

Leo McCarey Director

Arthur Lake as Buster Collins

Gloria Swanson as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent

Nella Walker as Mrs. Woodward

Jack Byron as Party Guest

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.

La fin du monde

1931

French

5.9

♡ 5

Drama

mad scientist

Sci-Fi

Abel Gance Director

Vanda Gréville as

Major Heitner as Doctor

Colette Darfeuil as Genevieve de Murcie

Jeanne Brindeau as Mme. Novalic

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1931

English

7.6

♡ 21

91%

81%

Action

alter ego

based on novel or book

Rouben Mamoulian Director

Murdock MacQuarrie as Dissenting Doctor at Lecture

Fredric March as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Tom London as Undetermined Role

Arnold Lucy as Utterson

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

Labor on the Douro River

1931

Portuguese

7.2

♡ 10

Action

Documentary

Manoel de Oliveira Director

Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.

The Public Enemy

1931

English

7.6

♡ 19

100%

William A. Wellman Director

Arnold Lucy as Brewery owner

Jean Harlow as Gwen Allen

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Paddy Ryan

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Tom

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

M

1931

German

8.3

♡ 70

100%

Fritz Lang Director

Peter Lorre as

Leonard Steckel as Man

Franz Stein as Minister

Paul Rehkopf as (uncredited)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Dishonored

1931

English

7.2

♡ 5

90%

Josef von Sternberg Director

William B. Davidson as 2nd Firing Squad Officer

Lew Cody as Colonel Kovrin

Ramsay Hill as Grinning Officer

Tom London as Minor Role

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Waterloo Bridge

1931

English

7.4

♡ 4

73%

based on play or musical

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, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.

City Lights

1931

English

♡ 135

95%

Action

blindness and impaired vision

Charles Chaplin Director

Virginia Cherrill as A Blind Girl

Harry Myers as An Eccentric Millionaire

Charles Chaplin as A Tramp

Al Ernest Garcia as James - the Millionaire's Butler

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Mata Hari

1931

English

6.6

♡ 6

60%

George Fitzmaurice Director

Karen Morley as Carlotta

Lennox Pawle as DiSignac

Lionel Barrymore as General Shubin

Edmund Breese as Warden

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Hyppolit a lakáj

1931

Hungarian

7.7

♡ 3

Comedy

Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole life is turned upside down. It has remained one of the most viewed Hungarian comedies of all time: it is shown regularly and is still extremely popular

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