Best Films Of 1932

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers.

A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.

A psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.

Trapped in a wheelchair, a disabled white man proclaims himself a living god over natives in Africa, using trickery. He sadistically imprisons whites, awaiting vengeance on the man who crippled him and stole his wife

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.

A World War I veteran and aspiring engineer tries to re-enter civilian life. After being unwillingly caught up in a robbery, he suffers the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, struggling to clear his name and prove his worth.

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.

Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to invest. He believes that the process to produce artificial rubber exists, but does it?

A native girl falls for a visitor to her island, but she's chosen to be sacrificed to the volcano god.

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.

A gold-digging secretary will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage.

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing prison cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but the tough but compassionate warden is able to effect change in him.

Unscrupulous Paul Kroll, starting as a Chicago janitor, uses graft to finance a trip to Sweden where by trickery he gains control of his uncle's small match factory. By expert manipulation of everyone and employment of femmes-fatale, he parlays this into a match monopoly, expanding over many countries. Finally he meets a woman so gorgeous she turns his head away from a business that needs constant financial manipulation to survive. Based on the real career of Ivar Kreuger.

An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a test screening and goes off to Hollywood.

Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.