Top Movies of 1930s


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71. Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 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

72. 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.

73. 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.

74. Scarface

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff, Edwin Maxwell
Plot: An emigrant during prohibition climbs up the chain of command in the mob business to become a ruthless gangster only to be brought down by what brought him to the top.

75. 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.

76. 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.

77. 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.

78. Of Mice and Men

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele
Plot: Based on John Steinbeck's classic novel: two drifters, gentle giant Lennie and his friend George wander the countryside during the Great Depression, finding themselves on a farm run by a sadistic man and his flirtatious wife. All they want is a piece of the good life - and it always seems just out of reach.

79. Lower Depths, The ( bas-fonds, Les )

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Renoir
Actors: Jean Gabin, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Le Vigan

80. Ninotchka

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Actors: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Plot: A no-nonsense Russian woman, sent to Paris to make sure the sale of the jewels of exiled Grand Duchess Swana goes off without a hitch, finds her hard exterior being slowly chipped away by Count Leon. Falling in love, the Grand Duchess becomes jealous - while the relationship itself goes against the Russian political system.

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