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.

71. Boys Town

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Norman Taurog
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris
Plot: Father Flanagan starts "Boys Town" after hearing a convicts story. Hoping
to help wayward boys, one such charge is Whitey Marsh. The boy attempts
numerous escapes, but returns - but he wants nothing more than to join his
brother Joe in a local gang.

72. David Copperfield

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Lionel Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone

73. 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

74. Little Women

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas, Edna May Oliver, Jean Parker, Frances Dee
Plot: The four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, along with thier beloved Marmee, must learn how to run the family (and deal with life) after their father is sent away to fight in the Civil War.

75. Trouble in Paradise

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Greig, Herbert Marshall
Plot: A high class thief meets his match in a professional pickpocket - and their romance is matched only by their talent. They target the owner of a perfume company but romance and jealousy make get in the way of the job at hand.

76. Gold Diggers of 1933

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell

77. Beau Geste

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, J. Carrol Naish
Plot: Following a mysterious robbery in their household, three brothers all flee and find themselves part of the foreign legion. Two brothers finds themselves under the command of a ruthless general - and a mutiny is planned - but a horde of soldiers are also on the way.

78. 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.

79. Shanghai Express

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Lawrence Grant

80. Stella Dallas

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main
Plot: Stella Davis wanted nothing other than the good life... until she had a daughter.

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