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. 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.

102. Of Human Bondage

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
Plot: A man meets and falls in love with a waitress. But she proves to be a burden to him.

103. 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!

104. The Private Life of Henry VIII

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Korda
Actors: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander, Laurence Hanray, Merle Oberon

105. 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.

106. Ruggles of Red Gap

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams

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. 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.

110. 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

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