Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1931

A Nous La Liberte (Fredom for Us) – Rene Clair

Alam Ara (The Light of the World) – Ardeshir Irani

Alibi – Leslie S. Hiscott

Alice in Wonderland – Bud Pollard

Alone – Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintev

Anna Christie – Jacques Feyder

Arrowsmith – John Ford

Bad Girl – Frank Borzage

The Bad Sister – Hobart Henley

Berlin-Alexanderplatz – Phil Jutzi

Le Blanc et le Noir – Robert Florey

Blond Crazy – Roy Del Ruth

The Champ – King Vidor

La Chienne (The Bitch) – Jean Renoir

Cimarron – Wesley Ruggles

City Streets – RoubenMamoulian

A Connecticut Yankee – David Butler

Creation – Merian C. Cooper

Dishonored – Josef von Sternberg

Down River – Peter Godfrey

Elisabeth of Austria – Adolf Trotz

Emil and the Detectives – Gerhard Lamprecht

End of the World – Abel Gance

Expensive Women - Hobart Henley

The Exile – Oscar Micheaux

Five Star Final – Merven LeRoy

A Free Soul – Clarance Brown

From Saturday to Sunday – Gustav Machaty

The Front Page – Lewis Milestone

Girls About Town – George Cukor

Goldie – Benjamin Stoloff

Hell Divers – George W. Hill

Hobson’s Choice – Thomas Bentley

Hucleberry Finn – Norman Taurog

Hyppolit, the Butler – Istvan Szekely

I Take This Woman – Marion Gering

Indiscreet – Loe McCarey

Industrial Britain – Robert J. Flaherty

Iron Man – Tob Browning

Just a Gigolo – Jack Conway

Kameradschaft – G.W. Pabst

Kiki – Sam Taylor

The Last Flight – William Dieterle

Madchen in Uniform – Carl Froelich

The Maltese Falcon – Roy Del Ruth

Marius – Alexander Korda

Mata Hari – George Fitzmaurice

Le Million – Rene Clair

The Millionaire – John G. Adolfi

The Miracle Woman – Frank Capra

Night in Montmatre – Leslie S. Hiscott

On purge bebe – Jean Renoir

The Painted Desert – Howard Higgin

Pardon Us – James Parrott

Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood – Bu Wancang

Platinum Blond – Frank Capra

Possessed – Clarence Brown

Private Lives – Sidney Franklin

Quick Millions – Rowland Brown

Sally in Our Alley – Maurice Elvey

The Secret Six – George W. Hill

The Skin Game – Alfred Hitchock

Sidewlaks of New York – Zion Myers & Jules White

The Sin of Madelon Claudet – Edgar Selwyn

The Sleeping Cardinal – Leslie S. Hiscott

Smart Money – Alfred E. Green

The Smiling Lieutenant – Ernst Lubitsch

The Squaw Man – Cecil B. DeMile

The Stolen Jools – William C. McGann

The Stronger Sex – Gareth Gundrey

Street Scene – King Vidor

Susan Lenox – Robert Leonard

Svengali – Archie Mayo

Tabu – F.W. Murnau / Robert Flaherty

Tell England – Anthony Asquith

Ten Cents a Dance – Lionel Barrymore

This Modern Age – Nick Grinde

The Threepenny Opera – G.W. Pabst

Tokyo Chorus – Yasujiro Ozu

Tommi – Yakov Protazanov

Tout Ca Ne Vaut Pas L’Amour – Jacques Tourneur

Tonight or Never – Mervan LeRoy