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.

101. 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.

102. 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

103. 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.

104. Dodge City

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale
Plot: A cattle herder (Errol Flynn) returns to Dodge City to find it overrun by corruption. He decides to become sheriff and clean up the town from these outlaws.

105. Sons of the Desert

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Seiter
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Lucien Littlefield
Plot: Two friends decide to lie to their wives and go to a convention without
their approval. But, their wives find out about it!

106. Sabotage

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour, Matthew Boulton
Plot: A cinema owner is suspected of being a saboteur in a terrorist gang launching attacks throughout London. As an undercover Scotland Yard detective investigates, he begins to fall in love with the suspect's beautiful young wife.

107. Young Mr. Lincoln

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore
Plot: A mix of fact and fiction based on the early life of future president Abraham Lincoln covering a murder trial, the death of his girlfriend, Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd and early foray into politics.

108. Way Out West

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James W. Horne
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sharon Lynn, James Finlayson, Rosina Lawrence, Stanley Fields
Plot: Two men are looking for a woman to hand her the deed to her dead father's goldmine. Another woman poses as her to get the deed, at which point hilarity ensues.

109. Drums Along the Mohawk

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Ford
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Eddie Collins, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon

110. Abraham Lincoln

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Walter Huston, William L. Thorne, Helen Freeman, Kay Hammond, Ian Keith, Gordon Thorpe
Plot: D.W. Griffith presents a biopic of Abraham Lincoln from birth through his assassination.

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