IMDB Top 50 - 1930s Movies

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The Top 50 1930s Movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: Sept 1, 2011

  1. 1.

  2. 2.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  3. 3.
    Modern Times (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Charles Chaplin

  4. 4.
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

  5. 5.
    It Happened One Night

  6. 6.
    Dodsworth

  7. 7.
    The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by J. Farrell MacDonald

  8. 8.
    Trouble in Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  9. 9.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  10. 10.
    Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Victor Fleming

  11. 11.
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Lewis Milestone

  12. 12.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy

  13. 14.
    Make Way for Tomorrow (The Criterion Collection)
    by Leo McCarey

  14. 16.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  15. 17.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  16. 18.
    Duck Soup

  17. 19.
    The Thin Man (Keepcase)
    by W.S. Van Dyke

  18. 20.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Edmund Goulding

  19. 21.
    Gold Diggers of 1933

  20. 23.
    ?
    King Kong (Collector's Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  21. 26.
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

  22. 27.
    One Way Passage (1932)
    by Tay Garnett

  23. 28.
    The Awful Truth

  24. 29.
    You Can't Take It With You
    by Frank Capra

  25. 30.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  26. 31.
    L'Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  27. 32.
    Pygmalion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Leslie Howard

  28. 33.
    Stagecoach (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Ford

  29. 34.
    The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  30. 35.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  31. 36.
    Ninotchka
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  32. 37.

  33. 38.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd

  34. 39.
    Fury
    by Fritz Lang

  35. 40.
    I Was Born, But...
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  36. 41.
    Freaks

  37. 42.
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  38. 43.
    Midnight (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Mitchell Leisen

  39. 44.
    The Women (1939)
    by George Cukor

  40. 45.
    Captains Courageous
    by Joseph Sherman

  41. 46.
    CITY GIRL

  42. 47.
    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway

  43. 48.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

  44. 49.
    A Tale of Two Cities
    by John Conway

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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.
 

Comments

Good Grief — 1 year ago

For some reason Queen Kelly, originally made in 1928-9, is labeled a 1930s film because technically it was never released till 1932 in Europe (also a tacked on ending was shot).




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