1931 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1931

Notable Films Released in 1931

U.S.A. unless stated

• À nous la liberté (Freedom for Us), directed by René Clair - (France)
• Alam Ara (The Light of the World), directed by Ardeshir Irani - the first Indian talkie
• Alibi directed by Leslie S. Hiscott (Britain)
• Alice in Wonderland, the first sound version
• Alone (Odna) - (USSR)
• Anna Christie, directed by Jacques Feyder, starring Greta Garbo - (Germany)
• Arrowsmith, directed by John Ford, starring Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes
• Bad Girl, directed by Frank Borzage
• The Bad Sister, starring Bette Davis
• Berlin-Alexanderplatz film of the novel by Alfred Döblin - (Germany)
• Blonde Crazy, starring James Cagney and Joan Blondell
• The Champ, starring Wallace Beery
• La Chienne (The Bitch), directed by Jean Renoir, starring Michel Simon - (France)
• Cimarron, starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
• City Lights, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• City Streets, starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
• A Connecticut Yankee, starring Will Rogers
• The Criminal Code, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Walter Huston
• Dishonored, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Victor McLaglen
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins
• Dracula, directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi and Dwight Frye
• Elisabeth of Austria starring Lil Dagover and Paul Otto (Germany)
• Emil und die Detektive, starring Rolf Wenkhaus, Käthe Haack and Fritz Rasp - (Germany)
• Expensive Women, starring Dolores Costello and H. B. Warner
• Five Star Final, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive and Mae Clarke
• A Free Soul, starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable
• From Saturday to Sunday (Ze soboty na neděli) - (Czechoslovakia)
• The Front Page, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien
• Girls About Town, directed by George Cukor, starring Kay Francis and Joel McCrea
• Goldie, starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy
• Hell Divers, starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable
• Hobson's Choice, directed by Thomas Bentley
• Huckleberry Finn, starring Jackie Coogan
• Hyppolit, the Butler (Hyppolit, a lakáj) - (Hungary)
• I Take This Woman, starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
• Illicit, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Indiscreet, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Gloria Swanson and Ben Lyon
• Industrial Britain, documentary filmed by Robert J. Flaherty - (Britain)
• Iron Man, starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow
• Just a Gigolo, starring Jack Haines
• Kameradschaft (Comradeship), directed by G.W. Pabst - (Germany)
• Kiki, starring Mary Pickford
• The Last Flight, starring Richard Barthelmess
• Laugh and Get Rich, starring Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, and Dorothy Lee
• Little Caesar, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• M, directed by Fritz Lang, starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke - (Germany)
• Mädchen in Uniform, directed by Carl Froelich, starring Hertha Thiele - (Germany)
• The Maltese Falcon, starring Bebe Daniels
• Marius, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Raimu and Pierre Fresnay - (France)
• Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore
• Le Million, directed by René Clair - (France)
• The Millionaire, starring George Arliss
• The Miracle Woman, directed by Frank Capra, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Monkey Business, starring Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx
• Night in Montmatre, directed by Leslie S. Hiscott (Britain)
• Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ben Lyon
• Palmy Days, starring Eddie Cantor
• Pardon Us, starring Laurel and Hardy
• Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood - (China)
• Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young, Robert Williams and Jean Harlow
• Possessed, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• Private Lives, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
• The Public Enemy, directed by William A. Wellman, starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow and Joan Blondell
• Quick Millions, starring Spencer Tracy
• Sally in Our Alley, starring Gracie Fields - (Britain)
• The Secret Six, starring Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable
• Sidewalks of New York, starring Buster Keaton
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet, starring Helen Hayes
• Smart Money, starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney
• Smart Woman, starring Mary Astor and Edward Everett Horton
• The Smiling Lieutenant, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins
• The Speckled Band, directed by Jack Raymond, starring Raymond Massey (Britain)
• The Squaw Man directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Warner Baxter
• The Stolen Jools, starring Gary Cooper, Laurel and Hardy, and Norma Shearer
• Street Scene, directed by King Vidor, starring Sylvia Sidney
• Svengali, starring John Barrymore
• Tabu, directed by F. W. Murnau
• Tell England, directed by Anthony Asquith (Britain)
• Ten Cents a Dance, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez
• This Modern Age, starring Joan Crawford
• Tilly of Bloomsbury, directed by Jack Raymond, starring Sydney Howard, Phyllis Konstam (Britain)
• The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 groschen-oper), starring Lotte Lenya - (Germany)
• Tokyo Chorus (Tokyo no korasu), directed by Yasujirō Ozu - (Japan)
• Tommi, directed by Yakov Protazanov - (USSR)
• Tonight or Never, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Gloria Swanson and Melvyn Douglas
• Waterloo Bridge, directed by James Whale