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.

241. Dead End

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Plot: The lives of the Dead End Kids in the East Side slums. With both humor and
violence, the days play out: unemployed architect Dave had to decide
between two loves, gangster Baby Face Martin returns home to find no warm
welcome and crimes, both juvenile and adult, affect the people around
them.

242. A Free Soul

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clarence Brown
Actors: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Gleason, Lucy Beaumont
Plot: A defense lawyer's daughter falls in love with the mobster client he successfully helped beat a murder charge.

243. Marked Woman

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Rosalind Marquis
Plot: A "lady of the night" gets tangled up in a murder case involving her
crooked boss.

244. Mystery of the Wax Museum

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent, Edwin Maxwell

245. The Devil Doll

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont

246. Alice in Wonderland

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Actors: Richard Arlen, Charlotte Henry, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton

247. She Done Him Wrong

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lowell Sherman
Actors: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, David Landau

248. Each Dawn I Die

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Keighley
Actors: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, Stanley Ridges
Plot: James Cagney plays a journalist framed for a crime he didn't commit, he
tries to endure the indignities of incarceration while he awaits to be
proven innocent. George Raft is a career criminal who Cagney befriends
tries to help in Cagney's plight.

249. Stowaway

Year of Release: 1936
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Adventure
MPAA Rating: G
Director: William A. Seiter
Actors: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley, Arthur Treacher

250. Bright Eyes

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Butler
Actors: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Jane Darwell, Judith Allen, Jane Withers, George Irving

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