Top Movies of 1935


The top movies of 1935 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

1. Bride of Frankenstein

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Gavin Gordon
Plot: Dr. Frankenstein builds his monster a mate, The Monster's Bride.

2. The 39 Steps

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Wylie Watson
Plot: In this classic Hitchcockian thriller, Robert Donat is an innocent man who becomes accidentally embroiled in an insidious spy ring and is forced to run for his life.

3. Top Hat

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick
Plot: Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

4. Captain Blood

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee
Plot: Dr. Peter Blood is falsely accused of treason and sold into slavery. In Port Royale, the governor's daughter purchases him to spite her father - but when he proves to be a capable doctor, he finds himself in the medical service. But when opportunity presents itself he and his friends take over a Spanish ship and become the most feared pirates on the water.

5. A Night at the Opera

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont
Plot: A pair of wacky characters who manage opera singers use them to get back at their enemies.

6. Mutiny on the Bounty

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Lloyd
Actors: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Charles Laughton, Dudley Digges, Eddie Quillan, Herbert Mundin
Plot: The Bounty sets sail for Tahiti while along the way they face the hardship of mutiny, storms, and other sea mishaps.

7. Les misérables

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Actors: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, Florence Eldridge, John Beal

8. A Tale of Two Cities

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Actors: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka
Plot: An epic version of Charles Dickens' classic tale set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. A lawyer takes on the case of a man accused of spying and finds himself falling in love with his fiancee. Yet in order to gain her heart, he will have to save the man she loves from the guillotine.

9. David Copperfield

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Lionel Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone

10. Ruggles of Red Gap

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Leo McCarey
Actors: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts, Roland Young, Leila Hyams

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