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Best Movies of 1931, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
77 films from 1931 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is City Lights ('1931), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Lights '1931 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.5 | 95% | 99 | 8.2 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 2 | M '1931 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.3 | 100% | - | 8.1 | Fritz Lang |
| 3 | Frankenstein '1931 | Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 94% | 91 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 4 | The Public Enemy '1931 | Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | 80 | 7.3 | William A. Wellman |
| 5 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '1931 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 88 | 7.2 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 6 | Marius '1931 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Alexander Korda |
| 7 | Monkey Business '1931 | Comedy | 7.4 | 90% | 74 | 6.9 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 8 | La Chienne '1931 | Drama / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Jean Renoir |
| 9 | Dracula '1931 | Horror | 7.3 | 96% | 71 | 7.2 | Tod Browning |
| 10 | Mädchen in Uniform '1931 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Leontine Sagan |
| 11 | À Nous la Liberté '1931 | Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | René Clair |
| 12 | Street Scene '1931 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 89% | - | 6.8 | King Vidor |
| 13 | Le Million '1931 | Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.8 | René Clair |
| 14 | Tabu: A Story of the South Seas '1931 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 92% | - | 7.1 | F. W. Murnau |
| 15 | Waterloo Bridge '1931 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | James Whale |
| 16 | Comradeship '1931 | Drama | 7.5 | 90% | - | 7.0 | G.W. Pabst |
| 17 | Little Caesar '1931 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 96% | - | 6.9 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 18 | Beau Hunks '1931 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.8 | James W. Horne |
| 19 | Five Star Final '1931 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 91% | - | 6.6 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 20 | Chickens Come Home '1931 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.6 | James W. Horne |
| 21 | The Smiling Lieutenant '1931 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.8 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 22 | The Champ '1931 | Drama | 7.2 | 96% | - | 7.1 | King Vidor |
| 23 | Dishonored '1931 | Drama / War / Romance | 7.2 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 24 | Laughing Gravy '1931 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | James W. Horne |
| 25 | Bimbo's Initiation '1931 | Comedy / Animation / Musical / Horror | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Dave Fleischer |
| 26 | The 3 Penny Opera '1931 | Musical / Crime | 7.2 | 80% | - | 7.1 | G.W. Pabst |
| 27 | Our Wife '1931 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | James W. Horne |
| 28 | The Miracle Woman '1931 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Frank Capra |
| 29 | Come Clean '1931 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | James W. Horne |
| 30 | Blonde Crazy '1931 | Drama / Crime / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Roy Del Ruth |
| 31 | Drácula '1931 | Horror | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.8 | George Melford |
| 32 | One Good Turn '1931 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | James W. Horne |
| 33 | Tokyo Chorus '1931 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 34 | Night Nurse '1931 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 83% | - | 6.8 | William A. Wellman |
| 35 | Working on the Douro River '1931 | Documentary | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Manoel de Oliveira |
| 36 | Limite '1931 | Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Mário Peixoto |
| 37 | City Streets '1931 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 80% | - | 6.3 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 38 | The Ugly Duckling '1931 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 39 | Possessed '1931 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 7.0 | Clarence Brown |
| 40 | Safe in Hell '1931 | Thriller / Drama | 6.9 | 100% | 57 | 6.7 | William A. Wellman |
| 41 | The Criminal Code '1931 | Crime / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.1 | Howard Hawks |
| 42 | Smart Money '1931 | Crime / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.9 | Alfred E. Green |
| 43 | Svengali '1931 | Drama / Horror / Romance | 6.8 | 80% | - | 6.3 | Archie Mayo |
| 44 | Pardon Us '1931 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.4 | James Parrott |
| 45 | The Maltese Falcon '1931 | Mystery / Crime | 6.8 | 71% | - | 6.4 | Roy Del Ruth |
| 46 | Be Big! '1931 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.9 | James W. Horne |
| 47 | The Beach Party '1931 | Animation / Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.1 | Burt Gillett |
| 48 | Traffic Troubles '1931 | Animation / Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.3 | Burt Gillett |
| 49 | The Barnyard Broadcast '1931 | Animation / Musical / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | Burt Gillett |
| 50 | Taris '1931 | Documentary | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Jean Vigo |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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