Best Movies of 1931 by Rank
23
1
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
93
2
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
269
3
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
272
4
Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly
Comedy / Musical
France
French
336
5
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
363
6
Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Musical / Comedy
France
French
446
7
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Drama
France
French
504
9
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
788
10
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
961
12
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1153
13
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
1365
14
Fritz Kampers, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch
Drama
Germany / France
French
1520
15
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1583
16
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1593
17
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1672
18
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1740
19
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr.
Drama / Western / Epic
USA
English
1861
20
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1980
21
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2137
22
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2148
23
Edgar Selwyn
Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt
Drama
USA
English
2150
24
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Charles Dorety, Harry Bernard
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2202
25
Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Drama
USA
English
2216
27
Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2236
28
Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2355
29
Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Bette Davis
Drama / War
USA
English
2367
30
George Melford, Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
Spanish
2405
31
Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Family / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2406
32
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2426
33
Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Crime / Horror / Drama
USA
English
2468
34
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, Clark Gable
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2599
35
Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel, Herman Bing
Drama / Romance
USA / Germany
German
2615
36
Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2615
36
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2617
37
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Jean Hersholt, Una Merkel
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2638
38
Ardeshir Irani
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo, J. Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor, Elizer
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2638
38
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2638
38
Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2638
38
Erik Charell
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Carl-Heinz Schroth
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Germany
German
2638
38
Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Shinichi Himori
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2638
38
Varick Frissell, George Melford
Louise Huntington, Charles Starrett, Arthur Vinton, Bob Bartlett, Wilfred Grenfell
Adventure / Drama
Canada / USA
English
2638
38
Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, George Merritt
War / Drama
UK
English
2645
39
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge, Claude Gillingwater
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2645
39
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2655
40
Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
War / Epic
UK
English
2655
40
Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Crime / Caper
Germany
German
2655
40
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2655
40
Victor Trivas, George Shdanoff
Ernst Busch, Hugh Douglas, Louis Douglas, Georges Péclet,
War / Drama
Germany
French
2655
40
Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2655
40
Nikolai Ekk
Nikolai Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2655
40
Alexis Granowsky
Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra, Ernst Busch, Leo Monosson
Drama
Germany
German
2655
40
Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / War
USA
English
2671
41
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2677
42
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2733
44
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell, Florence Britton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2733
44
Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, J.M. Kerrigan, Una Merkel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2733
44
Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2733
44
George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood
Western / Action / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2733
44
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba
Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2733
44
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott
Action / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2733
44
Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman
William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2733
44
Harry Sweet
Edgar Kennedy, Pert Kelton, Franklin Pangborn, Georgie Billings, Arthur Housman
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2733
44
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Elizabeth Forrester, Eddie Dunn, Donald Novis
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2733
44
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Granger, Kay Deslys, Carlton Griffin
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2733
44
Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2733
44
C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam
Drama
UK
English
2766
45
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2766
45
Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin
Drama
USA
English
2791
46
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech