Category:1931, Top Films

1927 -- 1928 -- 1929 -- 1930

-- -- 1931, Top Films -- --

1932 -- 1933 -- 1934 -- 1935

Ranking

My Picks

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #10. Le Million -- #13. Dr. Jekill and My. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne -- #18. The Smiling Lieutenant -- #27. The Champ -- #28. Dracula {es} -- #30. Marius -- #34. 'City Streets -- #35. 'The Maltese Falcon -- #50+. Emil und die Detective

Limbo

-- #5. Tabu -- #8. Limit -- #9. Monkey Business

Critical Reception

Oscar, Best Films

-- Cimarron -- East Lynne -- The Front Page -- Skippy -- Trader Horn -- A Free Soul -- Morocco (1930)

Top Grossing Films

-- #2. City Lights -- Trader Horn -- Palmy Days -- The Man Who Came Back -- Merely Mary Ann -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Arrowsmith -- A Connecticut Yankee -- Cimarron -- Bad Girl -- Possessed

Schneider, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À Nous la Liberté -- #10. Le Million -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

-- #5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas -- #8. Limit -- The Front Page -- Cimarron

National Board of Review

-- #2. City Lights -- #34. City Streets

-- #5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas -- Cimarron -- Dishonored -- The Front Page -- The Guardsman -- Quick Millions -- Rango -- Surrender

National Film Registry

-- #2. City Lights -- #4. Dracula -- #3. Frankenstein -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #14. Little Caesar -- #28. Drácula

-- #5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas -- The Front Page -- A Bronx Morning <short> -- The Forgotten Frontier <doc> -- Martha Graham dance films <short> (1931–1944)

American Film Institute

-- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein

NYT, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

TSPDT, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #10. Le Million -- #17. La Chienne

-- #5. Tabu -- #8. Limit

Top10ner, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein

Film101, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #10. Le Million -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

-- The Front Page

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #16. Girls in Uniform

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1931

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #10. Le Million -- #13. Dr. Jekill and My. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne -- #18. The Smiling Lieutenant -- #27. The Champ -- #28. Dracula {es} -- #30. Marius -- #34. 'City Streets -- #35. 'The Maltese Falcon

-- #5. Tabu -- #8. Limit -- #9. Monkey Business -- #11. Taris -- #12. The Threepenny Opera -- #15. Working on the Douro River -- #16. Girls in Uniform -- #19. Dishonored -- #20. Tokyo Chorus

-- #25. Waterloo Bridge -- #36. Rich and Strange -- #38. Street Scene -- #44. The Threepenny Opera -- #49. Beau Hunks

ChildActors, Best Films

-- #27. The Champ -- #50+. Emil und die Detektive (Germany)

-- Huckleberry Finn -- Skippy

-- Ambassador Bill -- Father's Son -- Our Gang: Fly My Kite -- The Lightning Warrior -- Love Business -- On purge bébé [Baby's Laxative] (France) -- Penrod (serial) -- Penrod and Sam -- Putyovka v zhizn [Road to Life] (URSS) -- The Sin of Madelon Claudet -- Sooky -- The Star Witness -- The Vanishing Legion