IMDB: Movie - Venice Film Festival
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1. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 10,647
2. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young
Votes: 647
3. Road to Life (1931)
Passed | 105 min | Drama
Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards, and it works well. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolai Ekk | Stars: Nikolay Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov, Mikhail Zharov
Votes: 289
4. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.
Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedwig Schlichter
Votes: 1,933
6. Au nom de la loi (1932)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A policeman is killed when he tries to investigate a case involving cocaine traffic. The only evidence of the crime is a white female's bloodstained glove found in an abandoned taxi and a ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Marcelle Chantal, Régine Dancourt, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Marchat
Votes: 60
7. Azaïs (1932)
102 min | Comedy
Director: René Hervil | Stars: Max Dearly, Simone Rouvière, Jeanne Saint-Bonnet, Pierre Stéphen
8. David Golder (1931)
86 min | Drama
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Harry Baur, Paule Andral, Jackie Monnier, Jean Bradin
Votes: 147
9. Hôtel des étudiants (1932)
Drama
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Lisette Lanvin, Raymond Galle, Christian Casadesus, Yvonne Yma
10. The Blue Light (1932)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
When the moon is full, young men die attempting to reach the mysterious blue light in the mountains.
Directors: Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Mathias Wieman, Beni Führer, Max Holzboer
Votes: 948
11. Das Lied einer Nacht (1932)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
Opera star Enrico Ferraro, tired of his stressful schedule, changes trains for a Swiss vacation. When his presence is discovered at the peaceful lakeside resort, he changes places with a ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Magda Schneider, Fritz Schulz, Otto Wallburg
Votes: 16
12. Der Kongreß tanzt (1931)
85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815.
Director: Erik Charell | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt
Votes: 395
13. Zwei Menschen (1930)
108 min | Drama
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler, Fritz Alberti
14. Faithful Hearts (1932)
64 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Mignon O'Doherty, Lawrence Hanray
Votes: 6
15. Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932)
TV-G | 65 min | Adventure, Documentary
American animal trapper Frank Buck travels with Ali, his "number one boy," on an expedition into the Malayan jungle. From their jungle headquarters just north of Singapore, Frank, Ali and a... See full summary »
Director: Clyde E. Elliott | Star: Frank Buck
Votes: 67
16. Broken Lullaby (1932)
76 min | Drama
French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter
Votes: 662
17. Forbidden (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled woman.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 1,005
18. Frankenstein (1931)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 54,831 | Gross: $12.00M
19. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 14,649 | Gross: $1.24M
20. Strange Interlude (1932)
Passed | 109 min | Drama
After Nina Leeds finds out that insanity runs in her husband's family, she has a love child with a handsome doctor and lets her husband believes the child is his.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 524
21. The Champ (I) (1931)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Sport
Alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 2,259
22. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Sports car racer becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden
Votes: 842
23. The Devil to Pay! (1930)
TV-G | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Frederick Kerr, David Torrence
Votes: 428
24. The Yellow Ticket (1931)
Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron
Votes: 114
25. Gli uomini, che mascalzoni... (1932)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
Bruno, a young Milanese driver, falls in love with Mariuccia, dependent on a perfumery. Wanting to impress her, he shows up for their first date, in his employer's car.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Lia Franca, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zoppetti, Aldo Moschino
Votes: 212
26. Due cuori felici (1932)
78 min | Comedy
Director: Baldassarre Negroni | Stars: Rina Franchetti, Mimi Aylmer, Vittorio De Sica, Umberto Melnati
27. Zemlya (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 3,972
28. Tikhiy Don (1930)
75 min | Drama
Directors: Ivan Pravov, Olga Preobrazhenskaya, Mikhail Provor | Stars: Nikolay Podgorny, Andrei Abrikosov, Emma Tsesarskaya, Raisa Puzhnaya
Votes: 64
29. Bialy slad (1932)
67 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Adam Krzeptowski | Stars: Andrzej Krzeptowski, Janina Fischer, Stanislaw Sieczka, Lina Kari
Votes: 22
30. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 3,446
31. Man of Aran (1934)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane, Pat Mullin
Votes: 1,598
32. Beyond Bengal (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure
The record of an expedition deep into the Malayan jungle.
Director: Harry Schenck | Stars: Harry Schenck, Joan Baldwin, John Martin, Nain Sei
Votes: 28
33. Broken Dreams (1933)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 33
34. By Candlelight (1933)
70 min | Comedy
Beautiful woman mistakes a prince's butler for the prince.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 70
35. The Invisible Man (1933)
Not Rated | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 24,128
36. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 1,361
37. Going Hollywood (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Musical, Romance
A love-struck teacher pursues a radio singer to Hollywood.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Marion Davies, Bing Crosby, Fifi D'Orsay, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,450 | Gross: $0.96M
38. The World Moves On (1934)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance
Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Franchot Tone, Reginald Denny, Sig Ruman
Votes: 259
39. Twentieth Century (1934)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 5,015
40. White Heat (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of ... See full summary »
Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright, David Newell
Votes: 33
41. Wonder Bar (1934)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Rio, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 509
43. Petersburg Nights (1934)
104 min | Drama
Yegor Efimov - talented violinist is dreams to get to Petersburg. Released by the squire, he sets forth for the capital, but on a road sticks in district city.
Directors: Grigoriy Roshal, Vera Stroyeva | Stars: Lyubov Orlova, Boris Dobronravov, Kseniya Tarasova, Anatoliy Goryunov
Votes: 12
44. Moscow Laughs (1934)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love... See full summary »
Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov | Stars: Leonid Utyosov, Lyubov Orlova, Mariya Strelkova, Elena Tyapkina
Votes: 702
45. Thunderstorm (1934)
85 min | Drama
Events take place in the first half of the XIX century in the invented small town Kalinov. Here family of Kobanovy lives: merchant mother-woman, her adult children - Tikhon and Varvara, ... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Petrov | Stars: Alla Tarasova, Ivan Chuvelyov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Varvara Massalitinova
Votes: 39
46. Jeunesse (1933)
Drama
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Robert Arnoux, Lisette Lanvin, Jean Servais, Jean-Louis Allibert
47. Le paquebot Tenacity (1934)
85 min
Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They wait for the departure of their ship in a hotel recommended by Hidoux, an old porter that they met at the station. They drink ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Albert Préjean, Pierre Laurel, Martial Rèbe, Léon Arvel
Votes: 51
48. April Blossoms (1934)
82 min | Musical, Romance
The film spotlights famed composer Franz Schubert, who loves a woman from afar. He stands by in quiet desperation as his beloved is married to a dashing military officer, then pours his ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter, Carl Esmond, Athene Seyler
Votes: 37
49. Reka (1933)
75 min | Drama
Director: Josef Rovenský | Stars: Jarmila Beránková, Vasa Jalovec, Jaroslav Vojta, Hermína Vojtová
Votes: 41
51. Frühjahrsparade (1934)
93 min | Comedy