List of Paramount Pictures films (1930–1939)

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1. Applause (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron

Votes: 1,503

2. The Kibitzer (1930)

77 min | Comedy

A Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Harry Green, Mary Brian, Neil Hamilton, Albert Gran

Votes: 52

3. Behind the Make-Up (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries.

Directors: Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner, Henry Hathaway, Rollo Lloyd | Stars: Hal Skelly, William Powell, Fay Wray, Kay Francis

Votes: 167

4. The Love Parade (1929)

Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth

Votes: 2,618

5. Seven Days Leave (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Based on J.M. Barrie's play "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," about a young Canadian soldier (Gary Cooper) wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil

Votes: 147

6. Burning Up (1930)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Francis McDonald, Sam Hardy

Votes: 41

7. Street of Chance (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey

Votes: 417

8. Roadhouse Nights (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

A boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Helen Morgan, Charles Ruggles, Fred Kohler, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 127

9. Dangerous Paradise (1930)

Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Votes: 151

10. Slightly Scarlet (1930)

70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A jewel thief's accomplice falls for a mysterious gentleman crook. Together, they decide to reform but trouble finds them when the girl's boss is killed during a struggle.

Directors: Louis J. Gasnier, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Helen Ware, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 50

11. Only the Brave (1930)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A Union captain (Gary Cooper) in the Civil War volunteers for spy duty, then meets and falls for a Southern belle (Mary Brian).

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Gary Cooper, Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, James Neill

Votes: 113

12. Men Are Like That (1930)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama

J. Aubrey Piper, a lowly railroad clerk with an irritating laugh and a gigantic ego, constantly brags about his knowledge and success. Despite the strenuous objections of her parents and ... See full synopsis »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Hal Skelly, Doris Hill, Clara Blandick, Charles Sellon

Votes: 77

13. Sarah and Son (1930)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance

After years of abusing his wife, a ne'er-do-well husband disappears with their son--and winds up selling him to a wealthy family. Years later, the wife, now a world-famous opera singer, ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery

Votes: 336

14. Honey (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical

A once-wealthy sister and brother rent out their Southern mansion and stay on as cook and butler.

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Harry Green, Lillian Roth, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 90

15. Young Eagles (1930)

70 min | Drama

Lt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 57

16. The Benson Murder Case (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas

Votes: 462

17. The Light of Western Stars (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »

Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey

Votes: 175

18. Paramount on Parade (1930)

Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Music

A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting ... See full summary »

Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, A. Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper

Votes: 379

19. The Vagabond King (1930)

104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »

Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth

Votes: 230

20. Ladies Love Brutes (1930)

80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: George Bancroft, Mary Astor, Fredric March, Stanley Fields

Votes: 138

21. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Warner Oland, O.P. Heggie, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton

Votes: 313

22. The Big Pond (1930)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring the tour guide to America and give him a job in the plant.

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Frank Lyon, George Barbier

Votes: 325

23. The Texan (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Romance, Western

An outlaw and con-man's plan to bilk an old woman out of a fortune takes an unexpected turn.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Emma Dunn, Oscar Apfel

Votes: 231

24. Young Man of Manhattan (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature ... See full summary »

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 222

25. The Devil's Holiday (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 256

26. True to the Navy (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A countergirl at a San Diego soda shop has a lot of sailor "boyfriends", but her heart really belongs to a free-spirited gunner, who doesn't want to be tied down to any one woman.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Harry Green, Rex Bell

Votes: 165

27. Safety in Numbers (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A songwriter hires three chorus girls to show him the "underside" of big-city life.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Carole Lombard

Votes: 151

28. Shadow of the Law (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where ... See full summary »

Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Natalie Moorhead, Regis Toomey

Votes: 177

29. The Social Lion (1930)

Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Mystery

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Olive Borden

Votes: 50

30. With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)

Passed | 82 min | Documentary, Adventure

Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.

Stars: Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black

Votes: 396

31. The Border Legion (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Western

Cowhand Jim Cleve is wrongly accused of murder and rescued by Jack Kells, leader of a band of Idaho outlaws known as the Border Legion. But when the Legion takes Joan Randall prisoner and ... See full summary »

Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 31

32. Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is ... See full summary »

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 76

33. A Man from Wyoming (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance

When World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey, Morgan Farley

Votes: 101

34. Love Among the Millionaires (1930)

74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 103

35. The Sap from Syracuse (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of her.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates, George Barbier

Votes: 116

36. For the Defense (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

William Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk, William B. Davidson

Votes: 676

38. The Silent Enemy (1930)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

A documentary about the life of Indians in Northern Canada.

Director: H.P. Carver | Stars: Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud

Votes: 271

39. Manslaughter (1930)

Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama

A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »

Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 264

40. Let's Go Native (1930)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Dress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: ... See full summary »

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, James Hall

Votes: 161

41. Queen High (1930)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical

The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play... See full summary »

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Stanley Smith, Ginger Rogers

Votes: 140

42. Grumpy (1930)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance

A crotchety lawyer (Cyril Maude) defends his daughter's boyfriend, accused of stealing a diamond.

Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Cyril Maude, Phillips Holmes, Frances Dade, Paul Lukas

Votes: 139

43. Anybody's Woman (1930)

80 min | Drama, Romance

A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Paul Lukas, Huntley Gordon

Votes: 161

44. Animal Crackers (1930)

G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

77 Metascore

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers

Votes: 15,269 | Gross: $0.91M

45. The Sea God (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

When 1 of 2 rivals diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands emerges with his goggles on, natives think he is a sea god. A romance with an endangered heroine and the threat of cannibalism also figure in this exotic adventure.

Director: George Abbott | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette, Robert Gleckler

Votes: 101

46. The Spoilers (1930)

Passed | 86 min | Action, Drama, Western

While traveling to Nome, Alaska, Roy Glenister (Gary Cooper) meets beautiful Helen Chester (Kay Johnson), who soon becomes his sweetheart. Glenister is one of several owners of a lucrative ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William 'Stage' Boyd

Votes: 92

48. Follow Thru (1930)

92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Club champion Lora Moore loses a golf match to a woman from another golf club. Then Jerry Downs, a handsome golf pro, and his goofy friend Jack Martin show up. Lora takes him on as her golf... See full summary »

Directors: Lloyd Corrigan, Laurence Schwab | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O'Neal, Jack Haley

Votes: 261

49. Monte Carlo (1930)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 1,428

50. Heads Up (1930)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Jack Mason meets Mary Trumbull at a Coast Guard Academy graduation ball and falls in love with her. However, the girl's mother considers wealthy Rex Cutting a more appropriate choice for ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Helen Kane, Margaret Breen, Victor Moore

Votes: 73

51. Playboy of Paris (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Waiter Albert is incompetent is in conflict with the owner and his daughter. However a surprise inheritance means he must keep his job by day while escorting a glamorous socialite by night.

Director: Ludwig Berger | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee, O.P. Heggie, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 103

52. Her Wedding Night (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 65

53. Laughter (1930)

85 min | Comedy, Romance

A former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.

Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Glenn Anders

Votes: 416

54. The Virtuous Sin (1930)

80 min | Drama, Romance, War

Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I.

Directors: George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Jobyna Howland

Votes: 304

55. Fast and Loose (1930)

70 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Frank Morgan, Charles Starrett

Votes: 308

56. Feet First (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

An ambitious shoe salesman who unknowingly meets his boss's daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon has to try to hide his true circumstances.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Harold Lloyd | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Barbara Kent, Robert McWade, Lillian Leighton

Votes: 1,193 | Gross: $1.59M

57. Tom Sawyer (1930)

Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 234 | Gross: $11.00M

58. Derelict (1930)

Approved | 75 min | Adventure

Adventure follows a ship on its watery course between Latin America and the United States.

Directors: Rowland V. Lee, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: George Bancroft, Jessie Royce Landis, William 'Stage' Boyd, Donald Stuart

Votes: 66

60. Only Saps Work (1930)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A youngster on his way to a health resort job offers his older boarding house mate a ride along with him, unaware that the loud talking slippery character is a crook.

Directors: Cyril Gardner, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 47

61. Morocco (1930)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt

Votes: 7,479

62. Follow the Leader (1930)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Lou Holtz

Votes: 132

63. Along Came Youth (1930)

74 min | Comedy, Romance

Rare Paramount film, supposedly lost save for a partial nitrate, is typical boy chases girl film. Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely ... See full synopsis »

Directors: Lloyd Corrigan, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Frances Dee, Stuart Erwin, William Austin

Votes: 30

64. The Right to Love (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Drama

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, David Manners, Irving Pichel

Votes: 59

65. Der blaue Engel (1930)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

90 Metascore

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti

Votes: 16,293 | Gross: $0.08M

66. The Gang Buster (1931)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy

Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is kidnapped by Slade and his gang, 'Cyclone' ... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jean Arthur, William 'Stage' Boyd, Wynne Gibson

Votes: 90

67. No Limit (1931)

72 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne'er-do-well gambler.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Norman Foster, Stuart Erwin, Dixie Lee

Votes: 135

68. Scandal Sheet (1931)

77 min | Crime, Drama

Scandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey

Votes: 128

69. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)

82 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »

Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman

Votes: 439

70. Fighting Caravans (1931)

Passed | 92 min | Western

A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

Directors: Otto Brower, David Burton | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall

Votes: 722

71. Stolen Heaven (1931)

76 min | Drama, Romance

Engineering a $20,000 robbery, Mary and Joe draw up a pact to spend all the money foolishly and then commit suicide.

Director: George Abbott | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern, Edward Keane

Votes: 146

72. Finn and Hattie (1931)

78 min | Comedy

A child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists.

Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Norman Taurog | Stars: Leon Errol, Mitzi Green, Zasu Pitts, Jackie Searl

Votes: 74

73. It Pays to Advertise (1931)

63 min | Comedy, Romance

To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 161

74. The Conquering Horde (1931)

Passed | 75 min | History, Western

Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem: the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and making it nearly impossible to get their cattle to ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Claude Gillingwater, Ian Maclaren

Votes: 69

75. Rango (1931)

66 min | Adventure

The frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then ... See full summary »

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Jaro Fürth, Claude King, Rango, Roby Roberts

Votes: 36

76. Unfaithful (1931)

85 min | Drama, Romance

In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Paul Cavanagh, Juliette Compton

Votes: 77

77. Honor Among Lovers (1931)

75 min | Drama, Romance

Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 531

78. June Moon (1931)

79 min | Comedy

Aspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New York City, with hopes of making it big in the songwriting business.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Frances Dee, Wynne Gibson, Harry Akst

Votes: 48

79. Man of the World (1931)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.

Directors: Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Lawrence Gray

Votes: 1,087

80. Dishonored (1931)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Votes: 3,195

81. City Streets (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Man joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd

Votes: 1,873

82. Skippy (1931)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl

Votes: 1,000

83. Gun Smoke (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 69

84. Tarnished Lady (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance

Tarnished Lady is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story, A Story of a New York Lady.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Phoebe Foster, Alexander Kirkland

Votes: 250

85. Ladies' Man (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Drama

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."

Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Gilbert Emery

Votes: 417

86. Dude Ranch (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Western

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 62

87. Kick In (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Ex-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Clara Bow, Regis Toomey, Wynne Gibson, Juliette Compton

Votes: 69

88. The Vice Squad (1931)

81 min | Crime, Drama

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, William B. Davidson

Votes: 128

89. Up Pops the Devil (1931)

74 min | Comedy

The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman

Votes: 109

91. I Take This Woman (1931)

72 min | Drama, Romance

A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she... See full summary »

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Lester Vail

Votes: 235

92. Newly Rich (1931)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mitzi Green, Edna May Oliver, Louise Fazenda, Jackie Searl

Votes: 76

93. The Girl Habit (1931)

77 min | Comedy

A mild Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Tamara Geva, Sue Conroy, Margaret Dumont

Votes: 28

94. Women Love Once (1931)

71 min | Drama

Happily married, award-winning Paul Lukas journeys to Europe to pursue his artistic interests. He ends up having an affair with Juliette Compton. Threatened with the breakup of her marriage... See full summary »

Director: Edward Goodman | Stars: Paul Lukas, Eleanor Boardman, Juliette Compton, Geoffrey Kerr

Votes: 15

95. Confessions of a Co-Ed (1931)

75 min | Drama

A young college student gets pregnant by the man she loves, but circumstances prevent their marrying, so she marries a classmate she doesn't love. Soon, however, her lover returns, and she finds herself in a dilemma as to who to choose.

Directors: David Burton, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Phillips Holmes, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell

Votes: 136

96. The Night Angel (1931)

86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

American drama written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth and Alan Hale, Sr.. The film was released on July 18, 1931.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Phoebe Foster, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 88

97. The Magnificent Lie (1931)

81 min | Drama

A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.

Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin, Françoise Rosay

Votes: 77

98. The Secret Call (1931)

70 min | Drama, Romance

City Commissioner Frank Kelly commits suicide after political boss Jim Blake frames him in Blake's own grafting racket. Kelly's daughter Wanda, who is in love with Blake's son Tom, vows ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon, William B. Davidson, Charles Trowbridge

Votes: 49

100. The House That Shadows Built (1931)

55 min | Documentary

Paramount Pictures marked its 20th year in the business with this feature presentation of film clips, profiles of its then-current stars, and coming attractions.

Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 87



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