Top Movies of 1930s


The top movies of 1930s list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

91. Captains Courageous

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, Freddie Bartholomew, Charley Grapewin
Plot: A rich spoiled kid learns about life and morals, after he accidentally ends up on a fishing boat.

92. Red Dust

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall

93. Dark Victory

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edmund Goulding
Actors: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers
Plot: A woman is told that she has a terrible disease, or disorder, that is
terminal.

94. Tarzan Finds a Son!

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter, Henry Stephenson, Henry Wilcoxon
Plot: A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.

95. The Music Box

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Parrott
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Plot: Laurel and Hardy try to move a piano into a house... their way!

96. Monkey Business

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Rockliffe Fellowes, Harry Woods

97. Tarzan the Ape Man

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey
Plot: In deepest Africa, a trader and his daughter search for a legendary elephant graveyard but instead discover a wild man raised by apes.

98. The Sisters

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi
Plot: Three sisters, daughters of pharmacist in a small town, all deal with relationship issues in a four year period their Montana town.

99. The Miracle Woman

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer, Russell Hopton, Charles Middleton

100. Another Thin Man

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Nat Pendleton
Plot: In this third film of The Thin Man series, Nick and Nora Charles are invited to spend the weekend at the house of Nora's father's former business partner Colonel Burr McKay. When McKay is murdered, Nick is once again called upon to solve the murder whose prime suspect involves a man wanting revenge for a past injustice by McKay.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment?