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.

21. Slave Ship

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tay Garnett
Actors: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell
Plot: Captain Lovett wants out of the slave trading business and orders first mate Thompson to find a new crew for respectable shipping. But later, coming aboard with his new wife Nancy, he finds nothing has changed.

22. The Prisoner of Zenda

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, David Niven, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Raymond Massey
Plot: A guy goes on holiday in a small country where he bears more than a passing resemblence to the King. Taking place some time in the late 19th century in central europe.
An attempt is made on the King's life and the commoner/tourist must fill his shoes untill the King is more able. While impresonating the King he meets the future Queen and finds his emotions conflicted.

23. A Damsel in Distress

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner, Ray Noble

24. Topper

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Eugene Pallette
Plot: A pair of wealthy socialites, who die in a car crash, become ghosts and decide to spend their afterlife helping their friend Topper enjoy life by shedding his stuffy lifestyle.

25. Night Must Fall

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison
Plot: A psychotic killer is terrorizing the countryside when a young woman comes to learn his identity... could this put her life in danger?

26. The Paneless Window Washer

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky
Actors: Mae Questel, Jack Mercer, Gus Wickie
Plot: A brutish window washer ruins windows so that he can clean them, but Popeye stands up to him.

27. Lonesome Ghosts

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Burt Gillett
Actors: Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Bletcher
Plot: Mickey, Goofy, and Donald are called into an old abandoned mansion to get rid of four
pesky ghosts.

28. Heidi

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Allan Dwan
Actors: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash, Helen Westley, Sidney Blackmer

29. Lady Killer ( Gueule d'amour )

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Grémillon
Actors: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Pierre Etchepare, Henri Poupon, Jean Aymé, Pierre Magnier

30. Kid Galahad

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Harry Carey
Plot: A boxing promoter who has mob ties convinces a bellhop with a great punch to box for him.

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