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.

181. Platinum Blonde

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breese

182. The Mikado

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Actors: Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, John Barclay, Gregory Stroud, Jean Colin
Plot: A love triangle in mythical Japan between a high executioner, a wandering minstrel and the woman they both love.

183. Westfront 1918

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actors: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen, Jackie Monnier, Hanna Hoessrich
Plot: Follows a group of German infantrymen during WWI, where trench warfare takes its toll on the men but for one member of the group, Karl, finds that coming home brings its own emotional toll.

184. Three on a Match

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Warren William, Lyle Talbot

185. Marie Antoinette

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Gladys George
Plot: Follows the life of the famed Marie Antoinette from her isolated teenage life, to finding high society (and a count) to becoming queen and responsible mother and rule to her death by beheading as France faces crippling poverty and revolution.

186. Intermezzo: A Love Story

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Actors: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway, Enid Bennett
Plot: In this version of the film, a married concert violinist and his young
protege engage in an affair.

187. Pennies from Heaven

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Edith Fellows, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek, John Gallaudet

188. The Front Page

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, George E. Stone, Mae Clarke

189. Footlight Parade

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert

190. Camille

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph

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