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.

191. Footlight Parade

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert

192. Waterloo Bridge

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Bette Davis, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Enid Bennett

193. Gulliver's Travels

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky
Actors: Jessica Dragonette, Lanny Ross

194. Hell's Angels

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hughes
Actors: Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Frank Clarke, Lucien Prival
Plot: During WWI, two brothers with very different personalities enlist in the Airforce on England's side while fighting over a girl before they go to war.

195. Show Boat

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Hattie McDaniel

196. The Young in Heart

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Wallace
Actors: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Billie Burke, Roland Young, Minnie Dupree

197. Girl Was Young, The ( Young and Innocent )

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden
Plot: A young and innocent man tries to prove that he did not commit a murder, even though he had a motive.

198. Anna Christie

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clarence Brown
Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack, Lee Phelps

199. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven, Elizabeth Patterson, Herman Bing
Plot: The daughter of a broke French Marquis marries multi-millionaire Michael
Barndon. But when she learns she is the eighth in a line of eight previous
wives, she designs a strategy to tame her new husband and not become just
another number.

200. The Man in the Iron Mask

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Walter Kingsford
Plot: Twin brothers are born to the royal family. One becomes king, the other a peasant.

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