Drama Movies
The Man Who Played God (1932)
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his…
The Monster Walks (1932)
Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it’s her…
The Hatchet Man (1932)
When he’s forced to kill his best friend, a Chinese hit man adopts the man’s daughter.
Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother–a lawyer–don’t like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.
Hell’s House (1932)
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
Lovers Courageous (1932)
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
Broken Lullaby (1932)
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…
Hell Divers (1932)
The story of two Naval crewmen who work hard at sea and play harder on land.
Forbidden (1932)
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a…
Under Eighteen (1932)
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…
Freaks (1932)
A circus’ beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Taxi! (1931)
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the…
Mata Hari (1931)
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
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….
Safe in Hell (1931)
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of…
Rich and Strange (1931)
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Arrowsmith (1931)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
West of Broadway (1931)
A wealthy soldier returns home after WWI, discovers his socialite fiancee no longer wants to marry him, and weds an admitted gold-digger he’s just met after a night of drinking…
The Cheat (1931)
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she’s spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes…
Consolation Marriage (1931)
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Frankenstein (1931)
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his creation’s violent rage…
The Champ (1931)
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Suicide Fleet (1931)
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.
The Guilty Generation (1931)
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents’ notoriety.
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
The Mad Genius (1931)
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…
Five Star Final (1931)
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Street Scene (1931)
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,…
The Road to Singapore (1931)
A woman’s life falls to pieces when she’s caught cheating on her husband.
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
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,…
Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.
An American Tragedy (1931)
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Bad Girl (1931)
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
The Woman Between (1931)
Returning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.
Stranger in Town (1931)
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles’ supply of…