Top Movies of 1930s


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81. 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

82. Zero for Conduct ( Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège )

Year of Release: 1933
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Vigo
Actors: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive, Madame Émile
Plot: In a stuffy, repressive boarding school a group of boys, back from holiday, come up with a plan to rebel against the system coinciding with a celebrated day.

83. The Public Enemy

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William A. Wellman
Actors: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Plot: Two friends grow up doing jobs for gangsters, and so they become gangsters themselves.

84. Manhattan Melodrama

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.9 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

85. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Year of Release: 1931
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Actors: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert, Halliwell Hobbes, Edgar Norton
Plot: The classic tale penned by Robert Louis Stevenson comes to life: the good Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that mankind has two distinct sides: the good and evil - and only by separating the two can man liberate himself. In order to prove his theory he creates a chemical that does just that - only to have his evil side, Mr. Hyde, go on a crime spree. When he realizes what he has unleashed, he stops the treatment... but it is already too late.

86. Gunga Din

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, Sam Jaffe, Eduardo Ciannelli
Plot: 3 friends in the British army try to find a treasure, while a cult tries to kill them.

87. Alexander Nevsky ( Aleksandr Nevskiy )

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitri Orlov, Vasili Novikov, Sergei Blinnikov

88. Morocco

Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern, Francis McDonald

89. 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

90. Trouble in Paradise

Year of Release: 1932
Overall Rating: 2.8 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.

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