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
    by Frank Capra

  5. 5.
    It Happened One Night
    by Frank Capra

  6. 6.
    Dodsworth

  7. 7.
    The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by George Cukor

  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. 13.
    My Man Godfrey (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gregory La Cava

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

  15. 16.
    Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  16. 17.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  17. 18.
    Duck Soup

  18. 19.
    The Thin Man (Keepcase)
    by W.s. Van Dyke

  19. 20.
    A Night at the Opera
    by Sam Wood

  20. 21.
    Gold Diggers of 1933

  21. 23.
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    King Kong (Collector's Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

  22. 26.
    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

  23. 27.
    One Way Passage (1932)
    by Tay Garnett

  24. 28.
    The Awful Truth
    by Leo McCarey

  25. 29.
    You Can't Take It With You
    by Frank Capra

  26. 30.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  27. 31.
    L'Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  28. 32.
    Pygmalion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Leslie Howard

  29. 33.
    Stagecoach (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Ford

  30. 34.
    The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  31. 35.
    Angels With Dirty Faces
    by Bobby Connolly

  32. 36.
    Ninotchka
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  33. 37.

  34. 38.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd

  35. 39.
    Fury
    by Fritz Lang

  36. 40.
    I Was Born, But...
    by Yasujiro Ozu

  37. 41.
    Freaks

  38. 42.
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  39. 43.
    Midnight (Universal Cinema Classics)
    by Mitchell Leisen

  40. 44.
    The Women (1939)
    by George Cukor

  41. 45.
    Captains Courageous
    by Victor Fleming

  42. 46.
    CITY GIRL

  43. 47.
    Libeled Lady
    by Jack Conway

  44. 48.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

  45. 49.
    A Tale of Two Cities
    by John Conway

  46. 50.
    The Scarlet Empress (The Criterion Collection)
    by Josef von Sternberg

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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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