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.

161. San Francisco

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Jessie Ralph, Ted Healy
Plot: In 1906 San Francisco, the talented Mary Blake becomes the target, both professionally and personally, between saloon keeper Blackie Norton and Tivoli Opera House socialite Jack Burley.

162. The Dawn Patrol

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edmund Goulding
Actors: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitzgerald
Plot: Follows the commanders and men in the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps during WWI. High mortality rates, insubordination and unreasonable demands - all part of the job.

163. 42nd Street

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Guy Kibbee

164. Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The ( Essex and Elizabeth )

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price

165. The Story of Louis Pasteur

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Dieterle
Actors: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber, Porter Hall

166. Follow the Fleet

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Sandrich
Actors: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Betty Grable, Astrid Allwyn

167. Dinner at Eight

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke

168. Barbary Coast

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy

169. The Plainsman

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Porter Hall, John Miljan
Plot: Wild Bill Hickok helps protect a fort from Native American attacks, after they have gotten a hold of repeating rifles from gun-runners.

170. Three on a Match

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Warren William, Lyle Talbot

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