Top Movies of 1930s


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61. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Actors: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko, Henriette Gérard

62. 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

63. Holiday

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker
Plot: A young, free-spirited man finds himself about to married to a wealthy heiress. But while the majority of the family wants him to settle down and help run the business, he would rather spend his early years on holiday. With the help of the black sheep sister-in-law and perpetual drunk Ned, along with his friends, he'll decide the best course of action.

64. 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.

65. 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.

66. The Roaring Twenties

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh
Plot: Three WWI Army buddies get mixed up with the mob in peacetime.

67. Midnight

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Actors: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie

68. Island of Lost Souls

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Actors: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Bela Lugosi, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke
Plot: The original telling of H.G. Well's classic novel about a man who stumbles upon an island of half-human and half-animal inhabitants.

69. Jezebel

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter
Plot: Prior to the Civil War a high-spirited Southern belle flouts convention
and behaves in an unlady-like manner. As a result she drives away the man
she loves. However, the war comes along, the young man gets yellow fever
and she redeems herself by risking her life to nurse him.

70. Manhattan Melodrama

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney

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