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IMDB - Top 50 - 1930s Movies

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

Updated: December 3, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/1930s)
1. City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
  
2. M - Criterion Collection (Special Edition)  
3. Modern Times (2 Disc Special Edition)  
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
by Frank Capra
  
5. Dodsworth  
6. It Happened One Night
by Frank Capra
  
7. The Wizard of Oz (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)  
8. Trouble in Paradise - Criterion Collection  
9.
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 One Way Passage (1932)
by Tay Garnett
  
10.
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 Downstairs (1932)
by
 
11.
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 Music in the Air (1934)
by Joe May
  
12.
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 Gold Diggers of 1933
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
13.
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 Peg o' My Heart (1933)
by Robert Z. Leonard
  
14.
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 The Phantom of Paris
by John S. Robertson
  
15. My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
by Gregory La Cava
  
16.
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 The Florodora Girl (1930)
by Harry Beaumont
  
17.
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 The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
by Ernst Lubitsch
  
18. Gone with the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Victor Fleming
  
19.
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 The Lady Vanishes - Criterion Collection  
20.
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 Five and Ten (1931)
by Robert Z. Leonard
  
21. Duck Soup
by Leo McCarey
  
22. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Michael Curtiz
  
23. All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
by Lewis Milestone
  
24. Indiscreet
by Stanley Donen
  
25. King Kong (Collector's Edition)
by Ernest B. Schoedsack
  
26. Tonight or Never
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
27. Frankenstein (75th Anniversary Edition) (Universal Legacy Series)
by James Whale
  
28. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
  
29. The Bride of Frankenstein
by James Whale
  
30. A Night at the Opera
by Sam Wood
  
31.
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 Going Hollywood (1933)
by Raoul Walsh
  
32. The Awful Truth
by Leo McCarey
  
33. Twentieth Century
by Howard Hawks
  
34. You Can't Take It With You (1938) (Sub)
by Frank Capra
  
35. The Thin Man (Keepcase)
by W.S. Van Dyke
  
36. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
by Frank Capra
  
37. The Dawn Patrol
by Edmund Goulding
  
38. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
39. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
40.
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 Confession (1937)
by Joe May
  
41. The 39 Steps - Criterion Collection  
42. Pygmalion - Criterion Collection
by Anthony Asquith
  
43. Mutiny on the Bounty
by Frank Lloyd
  
44.
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 The Last Flight (1931)
by William Dieterle
  
45.
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 What Price Hollywood?
by George Cukor
  
46.
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 The Women (1939)
by George Cukor
  
47.
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 Heroes for Sale
by William A. Wellman
  
48.
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 L'Atalante
by Jean Vigo
  
49. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
50.
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 Beau Geste
by William A. Wellman
  
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Created by IYG on Aug 24, 2007.