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1931 drama films
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The list 1931 drama films includes
The Champ, City Lights, Resurrection, Millie and Way Back Home.
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The Champ
1931 film
Overview: The Champ is a 1931 American pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock. The picture tells ...Release date: 9 November 1931Genre: Drama, Family, SportDirector: King VidorProducer: King Vidor, Harry RapfWriter: Frances Marion, Leonard PraskinsDink Purcell loves his alcoholic father, ex-heavyweight champion Andy "Champ" Purcell, despite his frequent binges...
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City Lights
1931 film
Overview: City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a ...
Release date: 30 January 1931Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Charles ChaplinProducer: Charles ChaplinWriter: Charles Chaplin, Harry CarrWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her ... 0
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Resurrection
1931 film
Overview: Resurrection is a 1931 American Pre-Code English-language adaptation of the 1899 Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection produced by Universal Studios. It was an all-talking version.
Release date: 27 January 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Edwin CareweProducer: E.M. Asher, Edwin CareweWriter: Finis Fox, Leo TolstoyKatusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later... 0
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Never the Twain Shall Meet
1931 film
Overview: Never the Twain Shall Meet is a 1931 American drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro. It is based on the novel of the same title by ...
Release date: 16 May 1931Genre: DramaDirector: W.S. Van DykeCast: Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, C. Aubrey Smith, Karen Morley, Mitchell Lewis, Hale HamiltonWriter: Peter B. Kyne, Edwin Justus MayerDan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as "the icebox" by his news reporter friend ... 0
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Millie
1931 film
Overview: Millie is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon from a screenplay by Charles Kenyon and Ralph Morgan, based on a novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke. The film ...Release date: 6 February 1931Genre: Drama, Romance, CrimeDirector: John Francis DillonProducer: Harry Joe Brown, Charles R. RogersWriter: Donald Henderson Clarke, Charles Kenyon 0
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Way Back Home
1931 film
Overview: Way Back Home is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Phillips Lord, Effie Palmer, Frank Albertson, and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Jane Murfin is based on ...
Release date: 13 November 1931Genre: DramaDirector: William A. SeiterProducer: William LeBaronWriter: Jane MurfinSeth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rube. When the father disappears... 0
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The Squaw Man
1931 film
Overview: The Squaw Man is a 1931 American pre-Code Western film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was his third time filming the same play but the first in sound. It stars Warner Baxter in the leading role.
Release date: 5 September 1931Genre: Drama, WesternDirector: Cecil B. DeMilleProducer: Cecil B. DeMilleWriter: Edwin Milton Royle, Lucien Hubbard 0
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The Miracle Woman
1931 film
Overview: The Miracle Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, and Sam Hardy. Based on the play Bless You Sister by John Meehan and Robert ...
Release date: 20 July 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Frank CapraProducer: Frank Capra, Harry CohnWriter: Jo Swerling, John MeehanAfter 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 ... 0
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The Finger Points
1931 film
Overview: The Finger Points is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by John Monk Saunders, W.R. Burnett and Robert Lord. The film stars Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis ...
Release date: 11 April 1931Genre: Drama, Thriller, CrimeDirector: John Francis DillonProducer: John Francis DillonWriter: John Monk Saunders, W.R. BurnettLee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper... 0
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Bad Sister
1931 film
Overview: Bad Sister is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Hobart Henley. The screenplay by Edwin H. Knopf, Tom Reed, and Raymond L. Schrock is based on the 1913 novel The Flirt by Booth Tarkington ...
Release date: 29 March 1931Genre: DramaDirector: Hobart HenleyProducer: Carl Laemmle Jr.Writer: Booth Tarkington, Raymond L. SchrockMarianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda. 0
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Svengali
1931 film
Overview: Svengali is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo. The film stars John Barrymore and Marian Marsh. It is based on the 1894 George du Maurier novel Trilby and was among the many film ...
Release date: 22 May 1931Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, RomanceDirector: Archie MayoWriter: George Du Maurier, J. Grubb AlexanderThrough hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves. 0
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Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
1931 film
Overview: Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film directed and produced by Robert Z. Leonard and starring Greta Garbo and Clark Gable. The film is based on a novel by ...
Release date: 10 October 1931Genre: Adventure, Drama, RomanceDirector: Robert Z. LeonardProducer: Robert Z. LeonardWriter: Paul Bern, Lenore J. CoffeeFleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue ... 0
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Street Scene
1931 American pre-Code drama film by King Vidor
Overview: Street Scene is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by King Vidor. With a screenplay by Elmer Rice adapted from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name ...Release date: 26 August 1931Genre: DramaDirector: King VidorProducer: Samuel GoldwynWriter: Elmer Rice 0
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Possessed
1931 film
Overview: Possessed is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown, starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is the story of Marian Martin, a factory ...
Release date: 21 November 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Clarence BrownCast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Frank Conroy, Marjorie WhiteProducer: Clarence Brown, Harry RapfWriter: Edgar Selwyn, Lenore J. CoffeeAn ambitious factory girl meets a handsome, wealthy lawyer, but he's interested in her as a mistress, not a wife. 0
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Mata Hari
1931 film
Overview: Mata Hari is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice loosely based on the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and courtesan executed for espionage during World War I. The Me ...
Release date: 26 December 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: George FitzmauriceProducer: George Fitzmaurice, Irving ThalbergWriter: Benjamin Glazer, Leo BirinskyA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. 0
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Maedchen in Uniform
1931 film
Overview: Mädchen in Uniform ("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play Gestern und heute (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with artistic d ...Release date: 27 November 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Leontine Sagan, Carl FroelichProducer: Carl Froelich, Friedrich PflughauptWriter: Christa Winsloe, Friedrich DammannGerman film in which a sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers... 0
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Inspiration
1931 film
Overview: Inspiration is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic melodrama film adapted by Gene Markey from the Alphonse Daudet novel Sappho (1884). The film stars Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis ...
Release date: 31 January 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Clarence BrownProducer: Clarence Brown, Irving ThalbergWriter: Gene Markey, Alphonse DaudetYvonne is a beautiful model who loves frequenting the Parisian bohemian life, because she loves hobnobbing with artists. 0
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Illicit
1931 film
Overview: Illicit is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, and Natalie Moorhead. Based on a play by Edith Fitzgerald and Robert ...
Release date: 14 February 1931Genre: Romance, DramaDirector: Archie MayoCast: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead, Charles Butterworth, Joan BlondellProducer: Darryl F. ZanuckWriter: Edith Fitzgerald, Robert RiskinA young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time. 0
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Hell Divers
1932 film
Overview: Hell Divers is a 1932 American pre-Code black-and-white film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers in early naval aviation. The film ...Release date: 5 December 1931Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Action, WarDirector: George W. HillProducer: George W. HillWriter: Frank Wead, Harvey GatesStory of rivalry between 2 Navy pilots on and off duty. 0
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Friends and Lovers
1931 film
Overview: Friends and Lovers is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film released by RKO Radio Pictures, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starring Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim ...Release date: 3 October 1931Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Victor SchertzingerCast: Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim, Hugh Herbert, Frederick KerrProducer: William LeBaronWriter: Maurice Dekobra, Wallace SmithBritish Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito... 0
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