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.

131. Block-Heads

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John G. Blystone
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert
Plot: Laurel and Hardy are two former army buddies who reunite after the war.

132. Forbidden

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, Myrna Fresholt
Plot: A dissatisfied librarian (Barbara Stanwyck) impulsively books a cruise to
Havana. On board, she meets and falls in love with a charming man (Adolphe
Menjou) and he with her. But his true identity will have shattering
consequences for them both.

133. The Bitter Tea of General Yen

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Richard Loo

134. Swing Time

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore, Betty Furness
Plot: A gambler travels to New York to try and win the big money to make it possible to pay for his Fiance's expensive wedding - he begins to fall for another woman.

135. The Citadel

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams, Penelope Dudley-Ward
Plot: Follows the life of a young doctor, Andrew Manson. His first job at a Welsh mining town is cut short when his persistence at looking into the coughing spell of local miners is thwarted. Moving to London, his practice falters as well, until a friend turns him on to milking rich hypochondriacs out of their money. But it takes a great shock to open his eyes to what his profession truly means.

136. Jesse James

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Brian Donlevy, Henry Hull
Plot: As the railroads move in, families are forced off their land. The James
family is one such casualty and after witnessing their mother's death at
the hands of a railroad agent, the brothers become bank and train robbers
- and popular heroes to the general public.

137. Mad Love

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Karl Freund
Actors: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy
Plot: A renowned plastic surgeon replaces the crushed hands of a pianist with those of a guillotined murderer. The murderer's hands soon take on a life of their own.

138. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Actors: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney

139. Blonde Venus

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Gene Morgan, Robert Emmett O'Connor

140. Golden Age, The ( age d'or, L' )

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Josep Llorens Artigas, Lionel Salem, Germaine Noizet, Bonaventura Ibáñez

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