1931 Movies

A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tanning. A private entrepreneur, former kulak Lopatin...

On an expedition through Latin America, Italian General Italo Balbo made the Atlantic crossing with his seaplane squadron, which left Boloma, entered...

A crime film directed by Guy Newall.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 February 1931.

Frank Orth is a husband who is hen-pecked both by his wife and by her mother. He comes home on his birthday and finds his wife has given him a birthda...

Andy fixes his rocket invention to a locomotive in order to win a race with a bus.

A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.

This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931). This film is presumed to be lost.

A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he m...

An introductory poem read by Erik Asklund, and a series of images from the Old Town of Stockholm, which tells a story of a young woman and an unemploy...

Created by Shochiku’s cultural film department on behalf of the Ministry of Education, this film tells an ironic anecdote juxtaposing the fate of a co...

In this entry, passengers enter a mockup of an airplane. During the flight, Robert Ripley shows the "passengers" several oddities across the United St...

Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.

This Brechtian musical about a young woman who flees from her decrepit, noble fiancé and marries a sailor is an interesting, although not a completely...

Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject him. He joins a rival college team and aims to defea...