Top Movies of 1930s


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81. Shanghai Express

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant

82. Stella Dallas

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main
Plot: Stella Davis wanted nothing other than the good life... until she had a daughter.

83. Of Mice and Men

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele
Plot: Based on John Steinbeck's classic novel: two drifters, gentle giant Lennie and his friend George wander the countryside during the Great Depression, finding themselves on a farm run by a sadistic man and his flirtatious wife. All they want is a piece of the good life - and it always seems just out of reach.

84. The Public Enemy

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Plot: Two friends grow up doing jobs for gangsters, and so they become gangsters
themselves.

85. Red Dust

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall

86. Lower Depths, The ( bas-fonds, Les )

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Le Vigan

87. Ninotchka

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Plot: A no-nonsense Russian woman, sent to Paris to make sure the sale of the jewels of exiled Grand Duchess Swana goes off without a hitch, finds her hard exterior being slowly chipped away by Count Leon. Falling in love, the Grand Duchess becomes jealous - while the relationship itself goes against the Russian political system.

88. Zero for Conduct ( Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège )

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Vigo
Actors: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive, Madame Émile
Plot: In a stuffy, repressive boarding school a group of boys, back from holiday, come up with a plan to rebel against the system coinciding with a celebrated day.

89. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Edgar Norton
Plot: The classic tale penned by Robert Louis Stevenson comes to life: the good Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that mankind has two distinct sides: the good and evil - and only by separating the two can man liberate himself. In order to prove his theory he creates a chemical that does just that - only to have his evil side, Mr. Hyde, go on a crime spree. When he realizes what he has unleashed, he stops the treatment... but it is already too late.

90. Gunga Din

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli
Plot: 3 friends in the British army try to find a treasure, while a cult tries to kill them.

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