Top Movies of 1937


The top movies of 1937 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

11. 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.

12. Stage Door

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gregory La Cava
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Gail Patrick, Constance Collier
Plot: Terry Randall, rich and beautiful, wants to make it on broadway on her own accords - not her family connections. She joins a boardinghouse full of likewise aspiring actors and actresses - and gets caught up in the world of theatrical hopes, dreams and disappointments.

13. It's Love I'm After

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Eric Blore, Patric Knowles, George Barbier
Plot: Follows the misadventures of actors Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden - who find passion on and off the stage.

14. Make Way for Tomorrow

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall, Barbara Read
Plot: An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

15. Shall We Dance

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan, Ketti Gallian

16. Nothing Sacred

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Sig Ruman
Plot: A woman who thinks she is going to die from a fatal radium poisoning
from her workplace is instead given the new that she was misdiagnosed.
While happy to be alive, she laments the fact that she will not get to
see New York with the money she planned on getter form her company. When
a NY reporter shows up to revitalize his career with her "valiant
struggle" she plays along and becomes the toast of the town, but how
long can she live a lie?

17. History is Made at Night

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Borzage
Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff, George Meeker

18. Marked Woman

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Rosalind Marquis
Plot: A "lady of the night" gets tangled up in a murder case involving her crooked boss.

19. Dead End

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Plot: The lives of the Dead End Kids in the East Side slums. With both humor and violence, the days play out: unemployed architect Dave had to decide between two loves, gangster Baby Face Martin returns home to find no warm welcome and crimes, both juvenile and adult, affect the people around them.

20. That Certain Woman

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edmund Goulding
Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Hugh O'Connell
Plot: Mary Donnell was married at a young age to a gangster and soon become a young widow. Finding work as a legal secretary, she elopes with a client's son but her father tracks them down and has the marriage annulled, not knowing that she is pregnant.

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