The Top 100 Movies of the 1930s

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The Top 100 Movies of the 1930s
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
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17 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin G -
28 M 1931 Fritz Lang NR -
84 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra NR -
92 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir NR -
94 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin G -
111 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir NR -
144 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
152 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks NR -
159 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming NR -
169 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra NR -
170 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey NR -
208 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
212 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale NR -
219 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava NR -
245 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford NR -
287 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood NR -
294 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
306 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale NR -
342 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley NR -
355 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich NR -
358 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
401 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey NR -
419 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale NR -
453 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone NR -
471 Holiday 1938 George Cukor NR -
472 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning NR -
499 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
501 Animal Crackers 1930 Victor Heerman NR -
577 L'atalante 1934 Jean Vigo NR -
609 You Can't Take It With You 1938 Frank Capra NR -
620 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks NR -
626 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning NR -
636 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey G -
652 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz NR -
659 Mr. Deeds Goes To Town 1936 Frank Capra NR -
674 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming G -
708 Horse Feathers 1932 Norman Z. McLeod NR -
758 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
760 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman NR -
804 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper NR -
837 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz NR -
854 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens NR -
905 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang NR -
939 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson PG -
959 Monkey Business 1931 Norman Z. McLeod NR -
972 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall NR -
973 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford NR -
979 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
991 Island of Lost Souls 1932 Erle C. Kenton NR -
994 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand NR -
1012 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd NR -
1081 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg NR -
1085 A Day at the Races 1937 Sam Wood NR -
1159 After the Thin Man 1936 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
1202 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang NR -
1222 The Maltese Falcon 1931 Roy Del Ruth NR -
1263 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh NR -
1329 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale NR -
1366 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian NR -
1378 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1391 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1431 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon NR -
1432 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding NR -
1513 Libeled Lady 1936 Jack Conway NR -
1540 The Women 1939 George Cukor NR -
1562 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra NR -
1574 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava NR -
1586 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo NR -
1631 Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard NR -
1647 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler NR -
1654 Design For Living 1933 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
1719 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1737 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler NR -
1738 Drácula 1931 George Melford NR -
1759 Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming G -
1763 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund NR -
1779 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné NR -
1790 The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack NR -
1794 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg NR -
1806 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee NR -
1816 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
1860 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens NR -
1862 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
1910 Goodbye, Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood NR -
1933 Shall We Dance 1937 Mark Sandrich NR -
1965 Pépé le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier NR -
1991 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle NR -
1992 L'Age d'Or 1930 Luis Buñuel NR -
2000 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding NR -
2011 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev NR -
2027 Baby Face 1933 Alfred E. Green NR -
2043 The Human Beast 1938 Jean Renoir NR -
2060 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield NR -
2071 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg NR -
2110 Topper 1937 Norman Z. McLeod NR -
2124 Another Thin Man 1939 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
2154 Sabotage 1936 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
2165 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir NR -
2186 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler NR -
2273 The Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau NR -

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