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Films from 1932 — 16 films

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Two hands reach towards one another from white and khaki sleeves against pale blue.
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Frank Borzage88 min · Romantic war drama

An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love in wartime Italy, where military duty and institutional interference repeatedly separate them.

RomanticBleakEasy
Large black lettering and a white telephone receiver fill a pale yellow-green field.
American Madness
1932 · Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill75 min · Drama

A bank president who lends on character rather than collateral faces robbery, panic, and a run that tests whether public trust can move faster than fear.

TenseGentleEasy
Two figures are seen from behind, their dark coats and shoulders close together.
Back Street
1932 · John M. Stahl86 min · Romantic drama

A woman accepts a life kept out of public view as the long-term lover of a wealthy married man.

RomanticBleakModerate
Wet hands rest over a fish-covered work surface, with the title on a pale apron.
Fanny
1932 · Marc Allégret140 min · Romantic drama

Fanny faces pregnancy and an uncertain future after Marius leaves Marseille for the sea, while the people around the harbour debate love, duty, and security.

RomanticGentleModerate
Freaks — A circus tent surrounds a ring of chairs in a handmade paper scene.
Freaks
1932 · Tod Browning62 min · Horror

A circus community closes ranks after a trapeze artist’s scheme against a performer with a substantial inheritance.

StrangeBleakModerate
Original illustration: A giant hotel key and tag above layered paper revolving doors, lobby figures and a staircase.
Grand Hotel
1932 · Edmund Goulding115 min · Drama

Guests and workers cross inside a Berlin hotel where money, loneliness, performance, and chance briefly share a lobby.

RomanticBleakEasy
Footprints approach a sparse wire fence beside a pale water edge on dry earth.
Heritage of the Desert
1932 · Henry Hathaway60 min · Western

A young man enters a struggle over a Western ranch, where land, water, loyalty, and a growing romance are threatened by organised violence.

TenseRomanticEasy
Large worn boots joined by an ankle chain advance diagonally through a coarse black and ochre print.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · Mervyn LeRoyCrime drama

A veteran’s search for work leads to wrongful implication in a robbery, a brutal chain gang, escape, and a life made increasingly impossible by the system pursuing him.

BleakTenseEasy
I Was Born, But...: Momo peeks through a green paper fence as two schoolboys walk through a layered neighbourhood.
I Was Born, But...
1932 · Yasujiro Ozu90 min · Comedy

Two brothers learn that their father’s place in the adult world does not match the hero they imagined.

FunnyGentleEasy
A woman reaches across an aircraft wing design.
Love Affair
1932 · Thornton Freeland68 min · Romantic comedy drama

A socialite and a pilot fall in love, while the money behind his invention complicates their freedom to choose each other.

RomanticFunnyEasy
Original illustration: Tailoring scissors, buttons and cloth form a paper cityscape, with Momo drawing a strip of red fabric beneath the title.
Love Me Tonight
1932 · Rouben Mamoulian88 min · Musical

A Parisian tailor follows an unpaid bill into an aristocratic household and lets a borrowed identity become a musical romance.

FunnyRomanticEasy
White railway tracks fork across vivid blue beside a red signal lever and diagonal title lettering.
Number Seventeen
1932 · Alfred Hitchcock64 min · Mystery thriller

A vacant house, a corpse, a missing necklace, and several uncertain identities lead into a chase that refuses to remain indoors.

MysteryFunnyModerate
Rain streaks across broad green leaves in front of two dark profiles.
Red Dust
1932 · Victor Fleming86 min · Romantic drama

On a remote rubber plantation, a manager’s attraction to two very different women exposes the emotional and colonial assumptions sustaining his authority.

RomanticTenseEasy
Scarface: Towering angular lettering and crossing searchlights rise above a red and black city.
Scarface
1932 · Howard Hawks95 min · Crime

A gangster climbs through a city with such speed that every victory already looks like a warning.

TenseBleakEasy
Shanghai Express — Pearls and a feather lie inside a richly painted night-train corridor.
Shanghai Express
1932 · Josef von Sternberg82 min · Drama

A train journey through civil conflict reunites a notorious courtesan with the British officer who once loved her.

RomanticTenseEasy
Gloved hands reach towards a pocket-watch chain beside an open handbag on dark blue satin, above TROUBLE IN PARADISE lettering.
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · Ernst LubitschRomantic comedy

Two elegant thieves discover that love can be harder to manage than a perfect robbery.

FunnyRomanticEasy

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