Aug 22, 1931
96 min
Full-HD

An American Tragedy (1931)

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Category

Crime Drama Romance

Country

United States of America

Companies

Paramount Pictures

Phillips Holmes

Clyde Griffiths

Sylvia Sidney

Roberta 'Bert' Alden

Frances Dee

Sondra Finchley

Irving Pichel

District Attorney Orville Mason

Frederick Burton

Samuel Griffiths

Claire McDowell

Mrs. Samuel Griffiths

Wallace Middleton

Gilbert Griffiths

Emmett Corrigan

Belknap

Recommended For You

Crime
1959
Movie

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

7.8
1959

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Drama
1951
Movie

A Place in the Sun

A Place in the Sun

7.3
1951

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Thriller
1956
Movie

A Kiss Before Dying

A Kiss Before Dying

6.2
1956

A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

Genre : Thriller

Crime
1958
Movie

Party Girl

Party Girl

6.8
1958

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Crime
1947
Movie

Born to Kill

Born to Kill

6.7
1947

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Crime
1950
Movie

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

7
1950

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Crime
1957
Movie

Time Without Pity

Time Without Pity

6.6
1957

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Drama
1957
Movie

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

8.2
1957

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

Crime
1934
Movie

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

7
1934

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Comedy
1945
Movie

Lady on a Train

Lady on a Train

6.6
1945

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.

Crime
1945
Movie

Fallen Angel

Fallen Angel

6.6
1945

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.

Mystery
2014
Movie

Man from Reno

Man from Reno

6.4
2014

A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.

Genre : Mystery

Thriller
2014
Movie

Perfect Sisters

Perfect Sisters

5.8
2014

Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.

Genre : Thriller

Mystery
1944
Movie

Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady

7
1944

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Genre : Mystery

Crime
1953
Movie

The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

6.5
1953

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Drama
1927
Movie

Underworld

Underworld

7
1927

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Comedy
1947
Movie

Song of the Thin Man

Song of the Thin Man

6.7
1947

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Drama
2013
Movie

The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

6
2013

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.