# List of American films of 1931

A list of American films released in 1931. Cimarron won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

## A–B

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Age for Love | Frank Lloyd | Billie Dove, Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson | Comedy | United Artists |
| Air Eagles | Phil Whitman | Lloyd Hughes, Norman Kerry, Shirley Grey | Adventure | Independent |
| Air Police | Stuart Paton | Kenneth Harlan, Josephine Dunn, Richard Cramer | Crime | Independent |
| Alexander Hamilton | John G. Adolfi | George Arliss, Doris Kenyon, Montagu Love | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Alias the Bad Man | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, Virginia Brown Faire, Frank Mayo | Western | Tiffany |
| Alice in Wonderland | Bud Pollard | Ruth Gilbert, Leslie King, Ralph Hertz | Fantasy | Independent |
| Aloha | Albert S. Rogell | Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Thelma Todd | Drama | Tiffany |
| Always Goodbye | Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies | Elissa Landi, Paul Cavanagh, Lewis Stone | Drama | Fox Film |
| Ambassador Bill | Sam Taylor | Will Rogers, Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen | Comedy | Fox Film |
| An American Tragedy | Josef von Sternberg | Sylvia Sidney, Phillips Holmes, Frances Dee | Drama | Paramount |
| Annabelle's Affairs | Alfred L. Werker | Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Anybody's Blonde | Frank R. Strayer | Dorothy Revier, Reed Howes, Edna Murphy | Mystery | Independent |
| Are These Our Children? | Wesley Ruggles | Eric Linden, Rochelle Hudson, Ben Alexander | Drama | RKO |
| Are You There? | Hamilton MacFadden | Beatrice Lillie, John Garrick, Olga Baclanova | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Arizona | George B. Seitz | Laura La Plante, John Wayne, June Clyde | Drama | Columbia |
| Arizona Terror | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, Lina Basquette, Hooper Atchley | Western | Tiffany |
| Arrowsmith | John Ford | Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Myrna Loy | Drama | United Artists |
| The Avenger | Roy William Neill | Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier, Otto Hoffman | Western | Columbia |
| Bachelor Apartment | Lowell Sherman | Irene Dunne, Lowell Sherman, Mae Murray | Comedy | RKO |
| The Bachelor Father | Robert Z. Leonard | Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith | Comedy | MGM |
| Bad Company | Tay Garnett | Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, John Garrick | Crime | RKO |
| Bad Girl | Frank Borzage | Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell | Drama | Fox Film |
| Bad Sister | Hobart Henley | Conrad Nagel, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart | Drama | Universal |
| The Bargain | Robert Milton | Evalyn Knapp, Lewis Stone, Doris Kenyon | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Beau Ideal | Herbert Brenon | Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Irene Rich | Adventure | RKO |
| Behind Office Doors | Melville W. Brown | Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen | Drama | RKO |
| The Beloved Bachelor | Lloyd Corrigan | Paul Lukas, Dorothy Jordan, Vivienne Osborne | Drama | Paramount |
| Beyond Victory | John S. Robertson | Bill Boyd, James Gleason, Marion Shilling | War | RKO |
| Big Business Girl | William A. Seiter | Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez | Romance | Warner Bros. |
| The Big Gamble | Fred Niblo | William Boyd, James Gleason, June MacCloy | Drama | RKO |
| The Big Shot | Ralph Murphy | Eddie Quillan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Nolan | Comedy | RKO |
| The Black Camel | Hamilton MacFadden | Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi | Drama, Crime | Fox Film |
| Blonde Crazy | Roy Del Ruth | James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ray Milland | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Body and Soul | Alfred Santell | Charles Farrell, Elissa Landi, Humphrey Bogart | Action | Fox Film |
| Border Law | Louis King | Buck Jones, Jim Mason, Lupita Tovar | Western | Columbia |
| Born to Love | Paul L. Stein | Joel McCrea, Constance Bennett, Paul Cavanagh | Drama | RKO |
| Bought | Archie Mayo | Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, Ray Milland | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Branded | D. Ross Lederman | Buck Jones, Wallace MacDonald, Philo McCullough | Western | Columbia |
| Branded Men | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, June Clyde, Irving Bacon | Western | Tiffany |
| The Brat | John Ford | Sally O'Neil, Alan Dinehart, Virginia Cherrill | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Broadminded | Mervyn LeRoy | Joe E. Brown, Marjorie White, Bela Lugosi | Comedy | Warner Bros. |

## C-D

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Captain Applejack | Hobart Henley | Mary Brian, John Halliday, Claud Allister | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Caught | Edward Sloman | Richard Arlen, Louise Dresser, Frances Dee | Western | Paramount |
| Caught Cheating | Frank R. Strayer | George Sidney, Charles Murray, Dorothy Christy | Comedy | Tiffany |
| Caught Plastered | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | Comedy | RKO |
| Cavalier of the West | John P. McCarthy | Harry Carey, Carmen Laroux, Kane Richmond | Western | Independent |
| The Champ | King Vidor | Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich | Drama | MGM |
| Chances | Allan Dwan | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rose Hobart, Anthony Bushell | War | Warner Bros. |
| Charlie Chan Carries On | Hamilton MacFadden | Warner Oland, John Garrick, Marguerite Churchill | Mystery | Fox Film |
| The Cheat | George Abbott | Tallulah Bankhead, Harvey Stephens, Irving Pichel | Drama | Paramount |
| The Cheyenne Cyclone | Armand Schaefer | Lane Chandler, Marie Quillan, Frankie Darro | Western | Independent |
| Children of Dreams | Alan Crosland | Tom Patricola, Marion Byron, Charles Winninger | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| Chinatown After Dark | Stuart Paton | Carmel Myers, Rex Lease, Barbara Kent | Crime, Drama | Independent |
| Cimarron | Wesley Ruggles | Irene Dunne, Richard Dix, Estelle Taylor | Drama, Western | RKO |
| The Cisco Kid | Irving Cummings | Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Conchita Montenegro | Western | Fox Film |
| City Lights | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee | Comedy, Drama | United Artists |
| City Streets | Rouben Mamoulian | Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas | Drama, Crime | Paramount |
| Clearing the Range | Otto Brower | Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Hooper Atchley | Western | Independent |
| Command Performance | Walter Lang | Neil Hamilton, Una Merkel, Helen Ware | Drama | Tiffany |
| The Common Law | Paul L. Stein | Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Hedda Hopper | Drama | RKO |
| Compromised | John G. Adolfi | Rose Hobart, Ben Lyon, Claude Gillingwater | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Confessions of a Co-Ed | Dudley Murphy | Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Claudia Dell | Drama | Paramount |
| A Connecticut Yankee | David Butler | Will Rogers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy | Comedy | Fox Film |
| The Conquering Horde | Edward Sloman | Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Claude Gillingwater | Western | Paramount |
| Consolation Marriage | Paul Sloane | Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, Myrna Loy | Drama | RKO |
| Convicted | Christy Cabanne | Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy | Mystery | Independent |
| Corsair | Roland West | Chester Morris, Thelma Todd, Fred Kohler | Crime | United Artists |
| Cracked Nuts | Edward F. Cline | Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Robert Woolsey | Comedy | RKO |
| The Criminal Code | Howard Hawks | Walter Huston, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff | Crime Drama | Columbia |
| The Cuban Love Song | W. S. Van Dyke | Lupe Vélez, Lawrence Tibbett, Jimmy Durante | Musical | MGM |
| Daddy Long Legs | Alfred Santell | Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Damaged Love | Irvin Willat | June Collyer, Charles Starrett, Betty Garde | Drama | Independent |
| Dance, Fools, Dance | Harry Beaumont | Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Clark Gable | Crime | MGM |
| Dancing Dynamite | Noel M. Smith | Richard Talmadge, Blanche Mehaffey, Robert Ellis | Crime | Independent |
| A Dangerous Affair | Edward Sedgwick | Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Sally Blane | Mystery | Columbia |
| Daughter of the Dragon | Lloyd Corrigan | Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa | Drama | Paramount |
| Daybreak | Jacques Feyder | Ramon Novarro, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt | Drama | MGM |
| The Deadline | Lambert Hillyer | Buck Jones, Robert Ellis, G. Raymond Nye | Western | Columbia |
| The Deceiver | Louis King | Lloyd Hughes, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead | Mystery | Columbia |
| Defenders of the Law | Joseph Levering | Catherine Dale Owen, Edmund Breese, Mae Busch | Crime | Independent |
| Delicious | David Butler | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Virginia Cherrill | Musical | Fox Film |
| Desert Vengeance | Louis King | Buck Jones, Barbara Bedford, Douglas Gilmore | Western | Columbia |
| The Devil Plays | Richard Thorpe | Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, Lillian Rich | Mystery | Chesterfield |
| Devotion | Robert Milton | Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Robert Williams | Romance | RKO |
| Dirigible | Frank Capra | Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Ralph Graves | Adventure | Columbia |
| Dishonored | Josef von Sternberg | Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Warner Oland | Drama, War | Paramount |
| Doctors' Wives | Frank Borzage | Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett, Victor Varconi | Drama | Fox Film |
| Don't Bet on Women | William K. Howard | Jeanette MacDonald, Edmund Lowe, Roland Young | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart | Drama, Horror | Paramount |
| Dracula | Tod Browning | Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners | Horror | Universal |
| Dragnet Patrol | Frank R. Strayer | Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Marjorie Beebe | Drama | Independent |
| The Drums of Jeopardy | George B. Seitz | Warner Oland, June Collyer, Hale Hamilton | Drama, Thriller | Tiffany |
| Dude Ranch | Frank Tuttle | Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette | Comedy | Paramount |
| Dugan of the Badlands | Robert N. Bradbury | Bill Cody, Blanche Mehaffey, Ethan Laidlaw | Western | Monogram |

## E-F

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Easiest Way | Jack Conway | Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Clark Gable | Drama | MGM |
| East Lynne | Frank Lloyd | Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel | Drama | Fox Film |
| East of Borneo | George Melford | Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Lupita Tovar | Adventure | Universal |
| Enemies of the Law | Lawrence C. Windom | Mary Nolan, Johnnie Walker, Lou Tellegen | Crime | Independent |
| Everything's Rosie | Clyde Bruckman | Robert Woolsey, Anita Louise, John Darrow | Comedy | RKO |
| Ex-Bad Boy | Vin Moore | Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur | Comedy | Universal |
| Expensive Women | Hobart Henley | Dolores Costello, H. B. Warner | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Fair Warning | Alfred L. Werker | George O'Brien, George Brent, Louise Huntington | Western | Fox Film |
| The False Madonna | Stuart Walker | Kay Francis, Conway Tearle, William Boyd | Drama | Paramount |
| Fanny Foley Herself | Melville W. Brown | Edna May Oliver, Helen Chandler, Rochelle Hudson | Comedy drama | RKO |
| Father's Son | William Beaudine | Leon Janney, Irene Rich, Lewis Stone | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Fifty Fathoms Deep | Roy William Neill | Jack Holt, Richard Cromwell | Adventure | Columbia |
| Fifty Million Frenchmen | Lloyd Bacon | Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, William Gaxton | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Fighting Caravans | Otto Brower, David Burton | Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence | Western | Paramount |
| The Fighting Marshal | D. Ross Lederman | Tim McCoy | Western | Columbia |
| The Fighting Sheriff | Louis King | Buck Jones, Lillian Worth | Western | Columbia |
| The Finger Points | John Francis Dillon | Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Clark Gable | Drama, Crime | Warner Bros. |
| Finn and Hattie | Norman Taurog | Leon Errol, ZaSu Pitts | Comedy | Paramount |
| First Aid | Stuart Paton | Grant Withers, Marjorie Beebe | Crime | Independent |
| Five and Ten | Robert Z. Leonard | Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Irene Rich | Drama | MGM |
| Five Star Final | Mervyn LeRoy | Edward G. Robinson, H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Flood | James Tinling | Eleanor Boardman, Monte Blue | Drama | Columbia |
| Flying High | Charles Reisner | Bert Lahr, Kathryn Crawford, Charlotte Greenwood | Comedy | MGM |
| Forbidden Adventure | Norman Taurog | Mitzi Green, Edna May Oliver | Comedy | Paramount |
| Forgotten Women | Richard Thorpe | Marion Shilling, Beryl Mercer, Edna Murphy | Drama | Monogram |
| Frankenstein | James Whale | Boris Karloff, Frederick Kerr, Mae Clarke | Horror, Science fiction | Universal |
| A Free Soul | Clarence Brown | Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable | Drama | MGM |
| Freighters of Destiny | Fred Allen | Tom Keene, Barbara Kent | Western | RKO |
| Friends and Lovers | Victor Schertzinger | Lili Damita, Adolphe Menjou, Laurence Olivier | Drama | RKO |
| The Front Page | Lewis Milestone | Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Edward Everett Horton | Comedy | United Artists |

## G-H

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Galloping Thru | Lloyd Nosler | Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Alan Bridge | Western | Monogram |
| The Gang Buster | A. Edward Sutherland | Jack Oakie, Jean Arthur, William Boyd | Comedy | Paramount |
| The Gay Diplomat | Richard Boleslawski | Ivan Lebedeff, Genevieve Tobin | Spy drama | RKO |
| Gentleman's Fate | Mervyn LeRoy | John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams | Drama | MGM |
| The Girl Habit | Edward F. Cline | Charlie Ruggles, Tamara Geva, Margaret Dumont | Comedy | Paramount |
| Girl of the Rio | Herbert Brenon | Dolores del Río, Norman Foster, Boris Karloff | Comedy | RKO |
| Girls About Town | George Cukor | Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman, Joel McCrea | Comedy | Paramount |
| Girls Demand Excitement | Seymour Felix | Virginia Cherrill, John Wayne | Comedy | Fox Film |
| God's Country and the Man | John P. McCarthy | Tom Tyler, Betty Mack | Western | Independent |
| God's Gift to Women | Michael Curtiz | Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Gold Dust Gertie | Lloyd Bacon | Winnie Lightner, Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Goldie | Benjamin Stoloff | Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow | Comedy | Fox Film |
| The Good Bad Girl | Roy William Neill | Mae Clarke, James Hall, Marie Prevost | Drama | Columbia |
| Good Sport | Kenneth MacKenna | Linda Watkins, John Boles, Greta Nissen | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Graft | Christy Cabanne | Regis Toomey, Boris Karloff, Dorothy Revier | Drama, Thriller | Universal |
| The Great Lover | Harry Beaumont | Adolphe Menjou, Irene Dunne, Neil Hamilton | Drama | MGM |
| The Great Meadow | Charles Brabin | Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman, Anita Louise | Adventure | MGM |
| Grief Street | Richard Thorpe | Barbara Kent, John Holland, Dorothy Christy | Romantic crime/mystery | Chesterfield |
| The Guardsman | Sidney Franklin | Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young | Comedy drama | MGM |
| The Guilty Generation | Rowland V. Lee | Leo Carrillo, Constance Cummings, Robert Young | Drama | Columbia |
| Guilty Hands | W. S. Van Dyke | Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Polly Moran | Drama, Crime | MGM |
| Gun Smoke | Edward Sloman | Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William Boyd | Western | Paramount |
| Hard Hombre | Otto Brower | Hoot Gibson, Lina Basquette | Western | Independent |
| The Hawk | Jacques Jaccard | Norman Kerry, Nina Quartero, Frank Mayo | Western | Independent |
| Heartbreak | Alfred L. Werker | Charles Farrell, Madge Evans, Paul Cavanagh | War | Fox Film |
| Heaven on Earth | Russell Mack | Lew Ayres, Anita Louise | Drama | Universal |
| Hell-Bent for Frisco | Stuart Paton | Charles Delaney, Vera Reynolds, Carroll Nye | Action | Independent |
| Hell Bound | Walter Lang | Leo Carrillo, Lloyd Hughes, Lola Lane | Crime | Tiffany |
| Hell Divers | George W. Hill | Wallace Beery, Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel | Drama, Adventure | MGM |
| Her Majesty, Love | William Dieterle | Marilyn Miller, Ben Lyon | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| High Stakes | Lowell Sherman | Mae Murray, Karen Morley | Comedy drama | RKO |
| His Woman | Edward Sloman | Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert | Romance | Paramount |
| A Holy Terror | Irving Cummings | George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Humphrey Bogart | Western | Fox Film |
| The Homicide Squad | George Melford | Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Noah Beery | Crime | Universal |
| Honeymoon Lane | William James Craft | June Collyer, Raymond Hatton | Comedy | Paramount |
| Honor Among Lovers | Dorothy Arzner | Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Ginger Rogers | Drama | Paramount |
| Honor of the Family | Lloyd Bacon | Bebe Daniels, Warren William, Alan Mowbray | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Hot Heiress | Clarence G. Badger | Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| A House Divided | William Wyler | Walter Huston, Helen Chandler | Drama | Universal |
| Huckleberry Finn | Norman Taurog | Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin | Comedy | Paramount |
| Husband's Holiday | Robert Milton | Clive Brook, Vivienne Osborne, Charles Ruggles | Drama | Paramount |
| Hush Money | Sidney Lanfield | Joan Bennett, Myrna Loy, George Raft | Comedy | Fox Film |

## I-J

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| I Like Your Nerve | William C. McGann | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Claud Allister | Romantic comedy | Warner Bros. |
| I Take This Woman | Marion Gering | Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware | Romance | Paramount |
| Illicit | Archie Mayo | Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| In Line of Duty | Bert Glennon | Sue Carol, Noah Beery | Western | Monogram |
| In Old Cheyenne | Stuart Paton | Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver | Western | Independent |
| Indiscreet | Leo McCarey | Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley | Drama, Musical | United Artists |
| Inspiration | Clarence Brown | Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone | Drama | MGM |
| Iron Man | Tod Browning | Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, Jean Harlow | Film noir | Universal; Remade in 1951 |
| Is There Justice? | Stuart Paton | Rex Lease, Henry B. Walthall, Blanche Mehaffey | Crime | Independent |
| It Pays to Advertise | Frank Tuttle | Norman Foster, Carole Lombard | Comedy | Paramount |
| It's a Wise Child | Robert Z. Leonard | Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason | Comedy | MGM |
| June Moon | A. Edward Sutherland | Frances Dee, June MacCloy, Wynne Gibson | Comedy | Paramount |
| Just a Gigolo | Jack Conway | William Haines, Irene Purcell, Ray Milland | Comedy | MGM |

## K-L

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Kept Husbands | Lloyd Bacon | Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, Clara Kimball Young | Drama | RKO |
| Kick In | Richard Wallace | Clara Bow, Regis Toomey, Wynne Gibson | Crime | Paramount |
| Kiki | Sam Taylor | Mary Pickford, Reginald Denny, Margaret Livingston | Romantic comedy | United Artists |
| Kiss Me Again | William A. Seiter | Edward Everett Horton, June Collyer, Walter Pidgeon | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| L'aviateur | William A. Seiter | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jeanne Helbling | Comedy | |
| Ladies' Man | Lothar Mendes | William Powell, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis | Drama | Paramount |
| Ladies of the Big House | Marion Gering | Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson | Drama | Paramount |
| The Lady from Nowhere | Richard Thorpe | Alice Day, John Holland, Barbara Bedford | Crime | Chesterfield |
| The Lady Refuses | George Archainbaud | Betty Compson, John Darrow, Margaret Livingston | Drama | RKO |
| The Lady Who Dared | William Beaudine | Billie Dove, Conway Tearle, Sidney Blackmer | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Land of Wanted Men | Harry L. Fraser | Bill Cody, Sheila Bromley, Gibson Gowland | Western | Monogram |
| Lasca of the Rio Grande | Edward Laemmle | Leo Carrillo, Dorothy Burgess | Western | Universal |
| The Last Flight | William Dieterle | Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Helen Chandler | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Last Parade | Erle C. Kenton | Jack Holt, Tom Moore, Constance Cummings | Crime | Columbia |
| The Last Ride | Duke Worne | Dorothy Revier, Virginia Brown Faire | Crime | Universal |
| Laugh and Get Rich | Gregory La Cava | Hugh Herbert, Edna May Oliver, Dorothy Lee | Comedy | RKO |
| Laughing Sinners | Harry Beaumont | Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable | Drama | MGM |
| The Law of the Sea | Otto Brower | William Farnum, Sally Blane | Drama | Monogram |
| The Law of the Tong | Lewis D. Collins | Phyllis Barrington, John Harron | Crime | Independent |
| The Lawless Woman | Richard Thorpe | Vera Reynolds, Carroll Nye | Crime | Chesterfield |
| The Lawyer's Secret | Louis J. Gasnier | Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Clive Brook | Drama | Paramount |
| Left Over Ladies | Erle C. Kenton | Claudia Dell, Marjorie Rambeau, Dorothy Revier | Drama | Tiffany |
| The Lightning Flyer | William Nigh | James Hall, Dorothy Sebastian | Action | Columbia |
| The Lion and the Lamb | George B. Seitz | Walter Byron, Carmel Myers, Montagu Love | Comedy thriller | Columbia |
| Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell | Drama, Crime | Warner Bros. |
| Local Boy Makes Good | Mervyn LeRoy | Joe E. Brown, Dorothy Lee | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Lonely Wives | Russell Mack | Edward Everett Horton, Laura La Plante, Esther Ralston | Comedy | RKO |
| Lover Come Back | Erle C. Kenton | Constance Cummings, Jack Mulhall, Jameson Thomas | Drama | Columbia Pictures |

## M-N

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Mad Genius | Michael Curtiz | John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Boris Karloff | Drama, Thriller | Warner Bros. |
| The Mad Parade | William Beaudine | Evelyn Brent, Irene Rich, Louise Fazenda | War drama | Paramount |
| The Magnificent Lie | Berthold Viertel | Ruth Chatterton, Ralph Bellamy, Stuart Erwin | Drama | Paramount |
| Maid to Order | Elmer Clifton | Julian Eltinge, Betty Boyd, George E. Stone | Comedy | Independent |
| Maker of Men | Edward Sedgwick | Jack Holt, Joan Marsh, John Wayne | Drama | Columbia |
| The Maltese Falcon | Roy Del Ruth | Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Man from Death Valley | Lloyd Nosler | Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Gino Corrado | Western | Monogram |
| The Man in Possession | Sam Wood | Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell | Comedy | MGM |
| Man of the World | Richard Wallace | William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson | Romance | Paramount |
| The Man Who Came Back | Raoul Walsh | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna | Drama | Fox Film |
| Manhattan Parade | Lloyd Bacon | Charles Butterworth, Winnie Lightner | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Many a Slip | Vin Moore | Joan Bennett, Lew Ayres | Comedy | Universal |
| Mata Hari | George Fitzmaurice | Greta Garbo, Ramón Novarro, Lionel Barrymore | Drama | MGM |
| Meet the Wife | Leslie Pearce | Laura La Plante, Lew Cody, Joan Marsh | Comedy | Columbia |
| Men Call It Love | Edgar Selwyn | Adolphe Menjou, Leila Hyams, Norman Foster | Drama | MGM |
| Men in Her Life | William Beaudine | Lois Moran, Charles Bickford, Victor Varconi | Drama | Columbia |
| Men of Chance | George Archainbaud | Ricardo Cortez, Mary Astor, Ralph Ince | Drama, Crime | RKO |
| Men of the Sky | Alfred E. Green | Irene Delroy, Bramwell Fletcher | Musical | Warner Bros. |
| Men on Call | John G. Blystone | Edmund Lowe, Mae Clarke | Drama | Fox Film |
| Merely Mary Ann | Henry King | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Beryl Mercer | Romantic comedy | Fox Film |
| Millie | John Francis Dillon | Helen Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman | Drama | RKO |
| The Millionaire | John G. Adolfi | George Arliss, James Cagney, Noah Beery | Comedy, Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Miracle Woman | Frank Capra | Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy | Drama | Columbia |
| Misbehaving Ladies | William Beaudine | Lila Lee, Ben Lyon, Louise Fazenda | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx | Comedy | Paramount |
| The Montana Kid | Harry L. Fraser | Bill Cody, Doris Hill | Western | Monogram |
| Morals for Women | Mort Blumenstock | Bessie Love, Conway Tearle | Drama | Tiffany |
| Mother and Son | John P. McCarthy | Clara Kimball Young, John Elliott | Drama | Monogram |
| Mounted Fury | Stuart Paton | John Bowers, Blanche Mehaffey | Western | Independent |
| Mr. Lemon of Orange | John G. Blystone | El Brendel, Fifi D'Orsay | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Murder at Midnight | Frank R. Strayer | Alice White, Aileen Pringle | Mystery | Tiffany |
| Murder by the Clock | Edward Sloman | William Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Regis Toomey | Mystery | Paramount |
| My Past | Roy Del Ruth | Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| My Sin | George Abbott | Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March | Drama | Paramount |
| The Mystery Train | Phil Whitman | Hedda Hopper, Marceline Day, Nick Stuart | Mystery | Independent |
| The Naughty Flirt | Edward F. Cline | Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Near the Trail's End | Wallace Fox | Bob Steele, Marion Shockley | Western | Tiffany |
| Neck and Neck | Richard Thorpe | Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds, Walter Brennan | Drama | Independent |
| The Nevada Buckaroo | John P. McCarthy | Bob Steele, Ed Brady | Western | Tiffany |
| Never the Twain Shall Meet | W. S. Van Dyke | Leslie Howard, Conchita Montenegro, Karen Morley | Drama | MGM |
| New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford | Sam Wood | William Haines, Jimmy Durante | Comedy | MGM |
| Nice Women | Edwin H. Knopf | Sidney Fox, Frances Dee, Alan Mowbray | Romance | Universal |
| The Night Angel | Edmund Goulding | Nancy Carroll, Fredric March | Drama | Paramount |
| Night Beat | George B. Seitz | Jack Mulhall, Patsy Ruth Miller, Walter McGrail | Crime | Independent |
| Night Life in Reno | Raymond Cannon | Virginia Valli, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy | Crime | Independent |
| Night Nurse | William A. Wellman | Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, Ben Lyon | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| No Limit | Frank Tuttle | Clara Bow, Norman Foster, Stuart Erwin | Comedy | Paramount |
| Not Exactly Gentlemen | Benjamin Stoloff | Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody | Western | Fox Film |

## O-P

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Oklahoma Jim | Harry L. Fraser | Bill Cody, Marion Burns, William Desmond | Western | Monogram |
| Once a Lady | Guthrie McClintic | Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello, Jill Esmond | Drama | Paramount |
| Once a Sinner | Guthrie McClintic | Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, John Halliday | Romance | Fox Film |
| One Heavenly Night | George Fitzmaurice | Evelyn Laye, John Boles, Leon Errol | Comedy | United Artists |
| The One Way Trail | Ray Taylor | Tim McCoy, Doris Hill, Carroll Nye | Western | Columbia |
| Other Men's Women | William A. Wellman | Grant Withers, Regis Toomey, Mary Astor | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Over the Hill | Henry King | Mae Marsh, James Dunn | Drama | Fox Film |
| The Pagan Lady | John Francis Dillon | Evelyn Brent, Conrad Nagel, Roland Young | Drama | Columbia |
| The Painted Desert | Howard Higgin | William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, Clark Gable | Western | RKO |
| Palmy Days | A. Edward Sutherland | Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks | Musical comedy | United Artists |
| Pardon Us | James Parrott | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy | Comedy | MGM |
| Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | Edward Sedgwick | Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny | Comedy | MGM |
| Partners of the Trail | Wallace Fox | Tom Tyler, Betty Mack | Western | Monogram |
| Party Husband | Clarence G. Badger | Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, Dorothy Peterson | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Peach O'Reno | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee | Comedy | RKO |
| Penrod and Sam | William Beaudine | Leon Janney, Frank Coghlan | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Personal Maid | Monta Bell, Lothar Mendes | Nancy Carroll, Pat O'Brien | Drama | Paramount |
| The Phantom | Alan James | Guinn Williams, Tom O'Brien | Horror | Independent |
| The Phantom of Paris | John S. Robertson | John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Jean Hersholt | Drama | MGM |
| Platinum Blonde | Frank Capra | Loretta Young, Jean Harlow, Robert Williams | Comedy | Columbia |
| Pleasure | Otto Brower | Conway Tearle, Carmel Myers, Frances Dade | Drama | Independent |
| The Pocatello Kid | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, Marceline Day | Western | Tiffany |
| Politics | Charles Reisner | Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Roscoe Ates | Romantic comedy | MGM |
| Possessed | Clarence Brown | Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford | Drama | MGM |
| The Primrose Path | William A. O'Connor | Helen Foster, Dorothy Granger, Lane Chandler | Drama | Independent |
| Private Lives | Sidney Franklin | Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny | Comedy, Drama | MGM |
| A Private Scandal | Charles Hutchison | Marian Nixon, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore von Eltz | Crime | Independent |
| The Prodigal | Harry A. Pollard | Lawrence Tibbett, Esther Ralston, Roland Young | Romance | MGM |
| The Public Defender | J. Walter Ruben | Richard Dix, Shirley Grey | Crime | RKO |
| The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods | Drama, Crime | Warner Bros. |

## Q-R

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Quick Millions | Rowland Brown | Spencer Tracy, Sally Eilers, George Raft | Crime drama | Fox Film |
| The Rainbow Trail | David Howard | George O'Brien, Cecilia Parker, Minna Gombell | Western | Fox Film |
| The Range Feud | D. Ross Lederman | Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming | Western | Columbia |
| Range Law | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Frank Mayo | Western | Tiffany |
| Rebound | Edward H. Griffith | Robert Ames, Ina Claire, Myrna Loy | Drama | RKO |
| The Reckless Hour | John Francis Dillon | Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, Joan Blondell | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Reckless Living | Cyril Gardner | Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke, Norman Foster | Drama | Universal |
| Reducing | Charles Reisner | Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page | Comedy | MGM |
| Resurrection | Edwin Carewe | Lupe Vélez, John Boles | Drama | Universal |
| Rich Man's Folly | John Cromwell | Frances Dee, George Bancroft | Drama | Paramount |
| Rider of the Plains | John P. McCarthy | Tom Tyler, Lilian Bond | Western | Independent |
| Riders of the Purple Sage | Hamilton MacFadden | George O'Brien, Marguerite Churchill | Western | Fox Film |
| Riders of the Rio | Robert Emmett Tansey | Lane Chandler, Sheldon Lewis, Ben Corbett | Western | Independent |
| The Ridin' Fool | John P. McCarthy | Bob Steele, Frances Morris, Florence Turner | Western | Tiffany |
| The Right of Way | Frank Lloyd | Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Road to Reno | Richard Wallace | Lilyan Tashman, Charles Rogers, Peggy Shannon | Comedy, Drama | Paramount |
| The Road to Singapore | Alfred E. Green | William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Louis Calhern | Romance | Warner Bros. |
| The Royal Bed | Lowell Sherman | Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell | Comedy | RKO |
| The Ruling Voice | Rowland V. Lee | Walter Huston, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
| The Runaround | William James Craft | Mary Brian, Marie Prevost | Comedy | RKO |

## S

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Safe in Hell | William A. Wellman | Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde | Thriller | Warner Bros. |
| Salvation Nell | James Cruze | Ralph Graves, Helen Chandler, Sally O'Neil | Drama | Tiffany |
| Scandal Sheet | John Cromwell | George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook | Drama | Paramount |
| Sea Devils | Joseph Levering | Molly O'Day, Edmund Burns, Paul Panzer | Drama | Independent |
| The Sea Ghost | William Nigh | Alan Hale, Laura La Plante, Claud Allister | Drama | Independent |
| Seas Beneath | John Ford | George O'Brien, Mona Maris, Warren Hymer | Adventure | Fox Film |
| The Secret Call | Stuart Walker | Peggy Shannon, Richard Arlen, William B. Davidson | Drama | Paramount |
| Secret Menace | Richard C. Kahn | Glenn Tryon, Virginia Brown Faire | Action | Independent |
| Secret Service | J. Walter Ruben | Richard Dix, Shirley Grey | War | RKO |
| The Secret Six | George W. Hill | Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lewis Stone | Crime | MGM |
| The Secret Witness | Thornton Freeland | Una Merkel, ZaSu Pitts | Mystery | Columbia |
| Secrets of a Secretary | George Abbott | Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall | Drama | Paramount |
| Seed | John M. Stahl | John Boles, Lois Wilson, Genevieve Tobin | Drama | Universal |
| Shanghaied Love | George B. Seitz | Richard Cromwell, Sally Blane | Drama | Columbia |
| The She-Wolf | James Flood | May Robson, Lawrence Gray | Drama | Universal |
| Shipmates | Harry A. Pollard | Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan | Comedy | MGM |
| Ships of Hate | John P. McCarthy | Lloyd Hughes, Dorothy Sebastian | Adventure | Monogram |
| Shotgun Pass | J. P. McGowan | Tim McCoy, Virginia Lee Corbin | Western | Columbia |
| Side Show | Roy Del Ruth | Winnie Lightner, Charles Butterworth | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Sidewalks of New York | Zion Meyers, Jules White | Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Cliff Edwards | Comedy | MGM |
| Silence | Louis J. Gasnier | Clive Brook, Peggy Shannon | Crime | Paramount |
| The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Edgar Selwyn | Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton | Drama | MGM |
| The Sin Ship | Louis Wolheim | Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith | Drama | RKO |
| The Single Sin | William Nigh | Kay Johnson, Bert Lytell, Holmes Herbert | Drama | Tiffany |
| Sit Tight | Lloyd Bacon | Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, Claudia Dell | Musical comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Six Cylinder Love | Thornton Freeland | Spencer Tracy, Edward Everett Horton | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Skippy | Norman Taurog | Jackie Cooper, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl | Comedy, Drama | Paramount |
| Skyline | Sam Taylor | Thomas Meighan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy | Drama | Fox Film |
| Sky Raiders | Christy Cabanne | Lloyd Hughes, Marceline Day | Adventure | Columbia |
| The Sky Spider | Richard Thorpe | Glenn Tryon, Beryl Mercer, Blanche Mehaffey | Adventure | Independent |
| Smart Money | Alfred E. Green | Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Margaret Livingston | Drama, Crime | Warner Bros. |
| Smart Woman | Gregory La Cava | Mary Astor, Robert Ames | Comedy drama | RKO |
| The Smiling Lieutenant | Ernst Lubitsch | Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins | Musical comedy | Paramount |
| Sob Sister | Alfred Santell | James Dunn, Linda Watkins | Romance | Fox Film |
| Son of India | Jacques Feyder | Ramón Novarro, Madge Evans | Romance | MGM |
| Sooky | Norman Taurog | Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Jackie Searl | Adventure | Paramount |
| Soul of the Slums | Frank R. Strayer | William Collier Jr., Blanche Mehaffey | Drama | Independent |
| The Spider | William Cameron Menzies | Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran | Mystery | Fox Film |
| The Spirit of Notre Dame | Russell Mack | Lew Ayres, Sally Blane, William Bakewell | Drama, Sports | Universal |
| Sporting Blood | Charles Brabin | Clark Gable, Madge Evans, Ernest Torrence | Sports | MGM |
| Sporting Chance | Albert Herman | William Collier Jr., Claudia Dell, James Hall | Action | Independent |
| The Spy | Berthold Viertel | Kay Johnson, Neil Hamilton | Drama | Fox Film |
| The Squaw Man | Cecil B. DeMille | Warner Baxter, Lupe Vélez, Eleanor Boardman | Drama | MGM |
| The Star Witness | William A. Wellman | Walter Huston, Frances Starr | Crime drama | Warner Bros. |
| Stepping Out | Charles Reisner | Charlotte Greenwood, Leila Hyams, Reginald Denny | Comedy | MGM |
| Stolen Heaven | George Abbott | Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern | Drama | Paramount |
| The Stolen Jools | William C. McGann | Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Norma Shearer | Comedy | Paramount |
| Strangers May Kiss | George Fitzmaurice | Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Neil Hamilton | Drama | MGM |
| Street Scene | King Vidor | Sylvia Sidney, Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi | Drama | United Artists |
| Strictly Dishonorable | John M. Stahl | Paul Lukas, Sidney Fox, Lewis Stone | Comedy | Universal |
| The Struggle | D. W. Griffith | Hal Skelly, Zita Johann | Drama | United Artists |
| Subway Express | Fred C. Newmeyer | Jack Holt, Aileen Pringle | Mystery | Columbia |
| Suicide Fleet | Albert S. Rogell | William Boyd, James Gleason, Ginger Rogers | War | RKO |
| Sundown Trail | Robert F. Hill | Tom Keene, Marion Shilling | Western | RKO |
| The Sunrise Trail | John P. McCarthy | Bob Steele, Blanche Mehaffey | Western | Tiffany |
| Surrender | William K. Howard | Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy | War | Fox Film |
| Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) | Robert Z. Leonard | Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Jean Hersholt | Drama | MGM |
| Svengali | Archie Mayo | John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Swanee River | Raymond Cannon | Grant Withers, Thelma Todd, Philo McCullough | Musical | Independent |
| Sweepstakes | Albert S. Rogell | James Gleason, Marian Nixon | Comedy | RKO |

## T

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Tabu | F. W. Murnau | Matahi, Anne Chevalier | Drama | Paramount |
| A Tailor Made Man | Sam Wood | William Haines, Dorothy Jordan | Comedy | MGM |
| Tarnished Lady | George Cukor | Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook | Drama | Paramount |
| Ten Cents a Dance | Lionel Barrymore | Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez | Romance drama | Columbia |
| Ten Nights in a Barroom | William A. O'Connor | William Farnum, Tom Santschi, Phyllis Barrington | Drama | Independent |
| The Texas Ranger | D. Ross Lederman | Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty | Western | Columbia |
| Their Mad Moment | Chandler Sprague | Dorothy Mackaill, Warner Baxter | Comedy | Fox Film |
| This Modern Age | Nick Grinde | Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Pauline Frederick | Drama | MGM |
| Three Girls Lost | Sidney Lanfield | Loretta Young, John Wayne | Drama | Fox Film |
| Three Who Loved | George Archainbaud | Betty Compson, Conrad Nagel | Drama | RKO |
| The Tip-Off | Albert S. Rogell | Eddie Quillan, Ginger Rogers, Robert Armstrong | Comedy | RKO |
| Tonight or Never | Mervyn LeRoy | Gloria Swanson, Constance Cummings | Comedy | United Artists |
| Too Many Cooks | William A. Seiter | Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee | Romantic comedy | RKO |
| Too Young to Marry | Mervyn LeRoy | Loretta Young, Grant Withers | Comedy | Warner Bros. |
| Touchdown | Norman Z. McLeod | Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon | Sports | Paramount |
| Trader Horn | W. S. Van Dyke | Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, C. Aubrey Smith | Drama, Adventure | MGM |
| Transatlantic | William K. Howard | Edmund Lowe, Myrna Loy, John Halliday | Drama | Fox Film |
| Transgression | Herbert Brenon | Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Ricardo Cortez | Drama | RKO |
| Trapped | Bruce M. Mitchell | Nick Stuart, Priscilla Dean, Nina Quartero | Crime | Independent |
| Traveling Husbands | Paul Sloane | Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings | Drama | RKO |
| 24 Hours | Marion Gering | Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Regis Toomey | Drama | Paramount |
| Two Fisted Justice | George Arthur Durlam | Tom Tyler, Barbara Weeks | Western | Monogram |
| The Two Gun Man | Phil Rosen | Ken Maynard, Lucille Powers | Western | Tiffany |

## U-Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Under Eighteen | Archie Mayo | Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Warren William | Drama | Warner Bros. |
| Under Suspicion | A. F. Ericsson | Lois Moran, J. Harold Murray, George Brent | Drama | Fox Film |
| Unfaithful | John Cromwell | Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Juliette Compton | Drama | Paramount |
| The Unholy Garden | George Fitzmaurice | Ronald Colman, Fay Wray, Estelle Taylor | Drama | United Artists |
| Up for Murder | Monta Bell | Lew Ayres, Genevieve Tobin, Frank McHugh | Drama | Universal |
| Up Pops the Devil | A. Edward Sutherland | Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Carole Lombard, Stuart Erwin | Comedy | Paramount |
| The Vice Squad | John Cromwell | Kay Francis, Paul Lukas, Judith Wood | Drama, Crime | Paramount |
| The Viking | George Melford | Louise Huntington, Charles Starrett, Robert Bartlett | Adventure | Independent |
| The Virtuous Husband | Vin Moore | Betty Compson, Elliott Nugent, Jean Arthur | Comedy | Universal |
| Waterloo Bridge | James Whale | Mae Clarke, Bette Davis, Frederick Kerr | Drama, War | Universal; Remake of 1940 film |
| Way Back Home | William A. Seiter | Phillips Lord, Bette Davis, Frank Albertson | Comedy, Drama | RKO |
| West of Broadway | Harry Beaumont | John Gilbert, Lois Moran, Madge Evans | Drama | MGM |
| White Renegade | Jack Irwin | Tom Santschi, Blanche Mehaffey, Philo McCullough | Western | Independent |
| White Shoulders | Melville W. Brown | Mary Astor, Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez | Comedy drama | RKO |
| Wicked | Allan Dwan | Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Una Merkel | Drama | Fox Film |
| Wild Horse | Richard Thorpe | Hoot Gibson, Alberta Vaughn | Western | Independent |
| Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Sidney Blackmer, Lila Lee | Western | Warner Bros. |
| The Woman Between | Victor Schertzinger | Lili Damita, Lester Vail | Drama | RKO |
| A Woman of Experience | Harry Joe Brown | Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell, Lew Cody | War drama | RKO |
| Women Go on Forever | Walter Lang | Clara Kimball Young, Marian Nixon | Drama | Tiffany |
| Women Love Once | Edward Goodman | Paul Lukas, Eleanor Boardman, Juliette Compton | Drama | Paramount |
| Women of All Nations | Raoul Walsh | Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Women Men Marry | Charles Hutchison | Natalie Moorhead, Sally Blane, Randolph Scott | Drama | Independent |
| Working Girls | Dorothy Arzner | Judith Wood, Dorothy Hall, Paul Lukas | Drama | Paramount |
| X Marks the Spot | Erle C. Kenton | Sally Blane, Lew Cody, Fred Kohler | Drama, Crime | Tiffany |
| Yankee Don | Noel M. Smith | Richard Talmadge, Lupita Tovar | Western | Independent |
| The Yellow Ticket | Raoul Walsh | Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Elissa Landi | Drama | Fox Film |
| Young as You Feel | Frank Borzage | Will Rogers, Fifi D'Orsay, Lucien Littlefield | Comedy | Fox Film |
| Young Donovan's Kid | Fred Niblo | Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper | Drama | RKO |
| Young Sinners | John G. Blystone | Thomas Meighan, Dorothy Jordan | Drama | Fox Film |

## Documentaries

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks | Douglas Fairbanks | Douglas Fairbanks | Documentary | United Artists |

## Multiple-language versions

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| El código penal | Phil Rosen | Barry Norton, Maria Alba | Prison drama | Spanish language |
| Demon of the Sea | Michael Curtiz | William Dieterle, Lissy Arna, Anton Pointner | Drama | Warner Bros. German-language. Lost film |
| El Impostor | Lewis Seiler | Juan Torena, Blanca Castejon | Drama | Spanish language |
| Eran Trece | David Howard | Juan Torena, Ana Maria Custodio | Comedy. Mystery | Spanish language |
| La ley del harem | Lewis Seiler | José Mojica, Carmen Larrabeiti | Drama | Spanish language |
| Mi ultimo amor | Lewis Seiler | José Mojica, Ana Maria Custodio | Romance | Spanish language |