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.

231. The Great Ziegfeld

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Actors: Myrna Loy, William Powell, Luise Rainer, Virginia Bruce, Frank Morgan
Plot: A biography of the life of Florenz Ziegfeld, the famed producer of extravagant stage revues.

232. Pack Up Your Troubles

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Marshall, Ray McCarey
Actors: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jackie Lyn Dufton, Mary Carr, James Finlayson
Plot: Laurel and Hardy search for their dead friend's wife to give her back her
daughter.

233. These Three

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet, Alma Kruger, Bonita Granville

234. I'm No Angel

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Actors: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor
Plot: What will happen when a woman, famous for her enormous number of wealthy lovers, actually falls in love?

235. The Smiling Lieutenant

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Hugh O'Connell

236. Design for Living

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Franklin Pangborn, Isabel Jewell
Plot: When a woman can't choose between two men who love her, all three move in together as a platonic trio.

237. The Man in the Iron Mask

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Walter Kingsford
Plot: Twin brothers are born to the royal family. One becomes king, the other a peasant.

238. White Zombie

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Halperin
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst
Plot: A young couple are convinced by Monsieur Beaumont to be married on his Haitian plantation. Yet he has his own motives - he wants the young Madeleine for himself. He turns to Legendre, a man who controls his own people via mind-control potions - his own zombies. Beaumont takes the potion, but is distressed by his now-emotionless and distant Madeleine. Legendre, unwilling to reverse the process, adds both to his zombie collection - all this time Neil has been searching for his missing bride...

239. Near the Rainbow's End

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: J.P. McGowan
Actors: Bob Steele, Lafe McKee, Al Ferguson, Alfred Hewston, Louise Lorraine

240. 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.

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