The Top 250 Movies of the 1930s

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The Top 250 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 -
2319 Zero For Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo NR -
2325 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939 Alfred L. Werker NR -
2412 The Gay Divorcee 1934 Mark Sandrich NR -
2420 A Star Is Born 1937 William A. Wellman NR -
2461 Mad Love 1935 Karl Freund R -
2496 Of Mice and Men 1939 Lewis Milestone NR -
2501 Tabu: A Story of the South Seas 1931 F.W. Murnau NR -
2511 Footlight Parade 1933 Lloyd Bacon NR -
2654 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian NR -
2716 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
2739 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor NR -
2813 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir NR -
2818 Daybreak 1939 Marcel Carné NR -
2891 The Wizard of Oz 1933 Ted Eshbaugh NR -
2903 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen NR -
2946 Little Women 1933 George Cukor NR -
3078 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks G -
3089 Liberty for Us 1931 René Clair NR -
3104 The Music Box 1932 James Parrott NR -
3109 The Informer 1935 John Ford NR -
3131 At the Circus 1939 Edward Buzzell NR -
3298 The Million 1931 René Clair NR -
3314 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg G -
3331 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 Jack Conway NR -
3365 The Four Feathers 1939 Zoltan Korda PG13 -
3367 Things to Come 1936 William Cameron Menzies NR -
3393 It's a Wonderful World 1939 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
3481 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey NR -
3496 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter NR -
3531 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod NR -
3587 You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang NR -
3613 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle NR -
3616 A Farewell to Arms 1932 Frank Borzage NR -
3631 Stella Dallas 1937 King Vidor NR -
3641 The Raven 1935 Lew Landers NR -
3778 Secret Agent 1936 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
3782 Young and Innocent 1937 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
3803 La Chienne 1931 Jean Renoir NR -
3807 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne NR -
3811 White Zombie 1932 Victor Halperin NR -
3816 Boys Town 1938 Norman Taurog NR -
3846 Nothing Sacred 1937 William A. Wellman NR -
3856 The Scarlet Pimpernel 1934 Harold Young NR -
3893 The Champ 1931 King Vidor NR -
3901 Follow the Fleet 1936 Mark Sandrich NR -
3904 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian NR -
4005 Night Nurse 1931 William A. Wellman NR -
4008 A Story of Floating Weeds 1934 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
4023 The Smiling Lieutenant 1931 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
4035 Dead End 1937 William Wyler NR -
4044 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko NR -
4048 The Only Son 1936 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
4065 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 John Cromwell NR -
4090 Les Misérables 1934 Raymond Bernard NR -
4109 Beau Geste 1939 William A. Wellman NR -
4121 Babes in Toyland 1934 Gus Meins, Charley Rogers NR -
4171 Dracula's Daughter 1936 Lambert Hillyer NR -
4216 City Girl 1930 F.W. Murnau NR -
4233 Room Service 1938 William A. Seiter NR -
4287 Carefree 1938 Mark Sandrich NR -
4325 Camille 1936 George Cukor NR -
4328 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
4334 Show Boat 1936 James Whale NR -
4344 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor NR -
4372 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey NR -
4376 One Hour with You 1932 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
4433 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda NR -
4555 Bachelor Mother 1939 Garson Kanin NR -
4566 A Christmas Carol 1938 Edwin L. Marin NR -
4579 Vivacious Lady 1938 George Stevens NR -
4584 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 Cedric Gibbons NR -
4612 The Lost Patrol 1934 John Ford NR -
4627 Imitation of Life 1934 John M. Stahl NR -
4636 Drums Along the Mohawk 1939 John Ford NR -
4692 Werewolf of London 1935 Stuart Walker NR -
4715 The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936 Jean Renoir NR -
4737 Hell's Angels 1930 Howard Hughes NR -
4739 Les Misérables 1935 Richard Boleslawski NR -
4795 Anna Karenina 1935 Clarence Brown NR -
4819 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl NR -
4830 Dodge City 1939 Michael Curtiz NR -
4868 The Old Mill 1937 Wilfred Jackson NR -
4938 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard NR -
4945 Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933 Michael Curtiz NR -
4969 The Little Princess 1939 Walter Lang G -
5023 Blonde Venus 1932 Josef von Sternberg NR -
5050 Easy Living 1937 Mitchell Leisen NR -
5052 Cleopatra 1934 Cecil B. DeMille NR -
5138 The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933 Frank Capra NR -
5157 The Man in the Iron Mask 1939 James Whale NR -
5159 History is Made at Night 1937 Frank Borzage NR -
5171 Tarzan the Ape Man 1932 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
5174 One Way Passage 1932 Tay Garnett NR -
5185 Mädchen in Uniform 1931 Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich NR -
5209 Alice Adams 1935 George Stevens NR -
5296 Roberta 1935 William A. Seiter NR -
5304 The Front Page 1931 Lewis Milestone NR -
5306 The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex 1939 Michael Curtiz NR -
5317 Lady for a Day 1933 Frank Capra NR -
5358 The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 Rowland V. Lee NR -
5437 Thru the Mirror 1936 David Hand NR -
5439 Heidi 1937 Allan Dwan NR -
5460 The Big Trail 1930 Raoul Walsh NR -
5467 Murders in the Rue Morgue 1932 Robert Florey NR -
5521 Of Human Bondage 1934 John Cromwell NR -
5551 Three Little Pigs 1933 Burt Gillett NR -
5558 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife 1938 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
5576 Brave Little Tailor 1938 Bill Roberts NR -
5613 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman NR -
5626 The Dawn Patrol 1938 Edmund Goulding NR -
5684 Black Legion 1937 Archie Mayo NR -
5695 The Devil Doll 1936 Tod Browning NR -
5717 Dishonored 1931 Josef von Sternberg NR -
5726 Red Dust 1932 Victor Fleming NR -
5796 The Spy in Black 1939 Michael Powell NR -
5817 The Lower Depths 1936 Jean Renoir NR -
5868 The Merry Widow 1934 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
5895 Doctor X 1932 Michael Curtiz PG -
5922 Confessions of a Cheat 1936 Sacha Guitry NR -
5947 Manhattan Melodrama 1934 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
5985 Three on a Match 1932 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
6143 I Love to Singa 1936 Tex Avery NR -
6191 Flowers and Trees 1932 Burt Gillett NR -
6208 Land Without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel NR -
6225 The Cat and the Canary 1939 Elliott Nugent NR -
6227 Under the Roofs of Paris 1930 René Clair NR -
6230 The Kennel Murder Case 1933 Michael Curtiz NR -
6245 Platinum Blonde 1931 Frank Capra NR -
6297 À propos de Nice 1930 Jean Vigo NR -
6350 Each Dawn I Die 1939 William Keighley NR -
6443 Clock Cleaners 1937 Ben Sharpsteen NR -
6483 Ferdinand the Bull 1938 Dick Rickard NR -
6496 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935 Max Reinhardt G -
6508 Dames 1934 Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley NR -
6530 People on Sunday 1930 Robert Siodmank, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann, Edgar G. Ulmer NR -
6541 The Band Concert 1935 Wilfred Jackson NR -
6553 G Men 1935 William Keighley NR -
6574 Wooden Crosses 1932 Raymond Bernard NR -
6575 Wife vs. Secretary 1936 Clarence Brown NR -
6599 Flying Down to Rio 1933 Thornton Freeland NR -
6603 Flash Gordon 1936 Frederick Stephani NR -
6645 A Slight Case of Murder 1938 Lloyd Bacon NR -
6661 Minnie the Moocher 1932 Dave Fleischer NR -
6666 Porky in Wackyland 1938 Robert Clampett NR -
6670 Gulliver's Travels 1939 Dave Fleischer NR -
6683 Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor 1936 Dave Fleischer NR -
6718 Romeo and Juliet 1936 George Cukor NR -
6723 Westfront 1918 1930 Georg Wilhelm Pabst NR -
6726 The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936 William Dieterle NR -
6727 Double Wedding 1937 Richard Thorpe NR -

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