1. Modern Times
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford, Al Ernest Garcia, Stanley Blystone
Plot: A man who struggles with life is struggling to get along in the industrial society. He finds help when he meets a homeless woman.
2. My Man Godfrey
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gregory La Cava
Actors: Carole Lombard, William Powell, Alice Brady, Pat Flaherty, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette
Plot: With the Depression in full steam, a rather ditzy socialite picks up a vagrant, Godfrey, and hires him on as the family butler. He struggles with understanding the nutty actions of the idle rich family, even as the butler and socialite fall in love - but the fallout from falling for one of the servants may be too much... but there is more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
3. Libeled Lady
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Conway
Actors: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin
Plot: Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is filed a 5 million dollars claim by Connie Allenbury for having printed she is a marriage-breaker, he organizes the unconsummated marriage of Gladys and the don Juan Bill Chandler. The goal is to catch Connie alone with a married man.
4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn
Plot: Longfellow Deeds is a humble small-town man, and tuba player, who finds himself the owner of a small fortune. Moving to the big city, he finds himself the target of every scheming person around, but it's not until hot-shot reporter Babe Bennett plays the damsel in distress card that he gets hooked.
5. Fury
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan
Plot: When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
6. The Petrified Forest
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Archie Mayo
Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Humphrey Bogart, Charley Grapewin, Joe Sawyer
Plot: A man walks into a gas station and falls in love with a waitress working there, but only after they are held up and robbed.
7. Dodsworth
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven, Mary Astor, Paul Lukas, Kathryn Marlowe
Plot: Struggling marriage of a middle-aged couple is put to further test during a European vacation, wherein both are faced with temptation.
8. Rembrandt
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Korda
Actors: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman, Walter Hudd, Roger Livesey
9. Things to Come
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Cameron Menzies
Actors: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell
Plot: War and humanity changes from 1940 to 2036. John Cabal (Raymond Massey) and Passworthy (Edward Chapman) become part of the changes in the different time's era.
10. Swing Time
Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore, Betty Furness
Plot: A gambler travels to New York to try and win the big money to make it possible to pay for his Fiance's expensive wedding - he begins to fall for another woman.
