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City LightsCity Lights (1931) Aro Favourite
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow
Chaplin's most melancholy and beautiful film revolves around his love for a blind flower girl and his on–off relationship with a drunkard…
DraculaDracula (1931) Recommended
Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Bela Lugosi
The role that immortalised Bela Lugosi – the original and most convincing Dracula ever committed to the screen. For sheer gothic ambience, look…
FrankensteinFrankenstein (1931) Recommended
Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff is the definitive incarnation of Mary Shelley's tragic man–monster, while the delicate balance of horror and pathos give the film…
M... Worst Crime of AllM... Worst Crime of All (1931) Recommended
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre
A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
Madchen in UniformMadchen in Uniform (1931) Recommended
Dir. Leontine Sagan
Feat. Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck
Influential early German sound–film notorious (and censored) for the sensual lesbian overtones that colour its tale of Hertha Thiele's…
MariusMarius (1931)
Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis
Based on the play by revered French writer Marcel Pagnol, this is the first film in the Marseille Trilogy featuring the characters of Marius (Pierre…
Mata HariMata Hari (1931)
Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Heavily fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, the exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. Garbo is magnetic…
Miracle Woman, TheMiracle Woman, The (1931)
Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
Monkey BusinessMonkey Business (1931)
Dir. Norman Z. McLeod
Feat. Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
The four Marx Brothers stowaway, crash a society party and manage to hatch a few crooks in the process. Another exercise in breathlessly sustained…
Parlour, Bedroom & Bath (1931)
Dir. Edward Sedgewick
Feat. Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton is mistaken for a rich playboy in one of his rare 'talkies'. Not in the same league as his silent classics, but an interesting curio.

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