Best Movies of the '30s

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Top 100 movies of the 30s decade rated on FilmAffinity

City Lights (1931)
- 8.6
  33,625
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee ...
1
Modern Times (1936)
- 8.6
  64,292
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman ...
2
M (1931)
- 8.3
  22,153
- Fritz Lang
- Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens ...
3
A Night at the Opera (1935)
- 8.3
  46,979
- Sam Wood
- The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx ...
4
Freaks (1932)
- 8.2
  23,998
- Tod Browning
- Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova ...
5
Captains Courageous (1937)
- 8.1
  8,761
- Victor Fleming
- Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore ...
6
Duck Soup (1933)
- 8.1
  40,115
- Leo McCarey
- The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx ...
7
Fury (1936)
- 8.0
  6,326
- Fritz Lang
- Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel ...
8
You Can't Take it with You (1938)
- 8.0
  9,207
- Frank Capra
- James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore ...
9
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
- 8.0
  6,667
- Raoul Walsh
- James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart ...
10
Stagecoach (1939)
- 8.0
  28,714
- John Ford
- John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell ...
11
The Broken Lullaby (1932)
- 8.0
  1,920
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes ...
12
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
- 8.0
  3,261
- Leo McCarey
- Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter ...
13
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
- 8.0
  2,544
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson ...
14
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
- 8.0
  2,308
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Shotaro Hanayagi, Kakuko Mori, Kôkichi Takada ...
15
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- 8.0
  32,919
- Howard Hawks
- Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles ...
16
Ninotchka (1939)
- 7.9
  15,894
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi ...
17
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- 7.9
  3,908
- Fritz Lang
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oskar Beregi, Theodor Loos ...
18
Grande Illusion (1937)
- 7.9
  8,808
- Jean Renoir
- Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay ...
19
The Rules of the Game (1939)
- 7.9
  8,179
- Jean Renoir
- Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir ...
20
Gone with the Wind (1939)
- 7.9
  59,973
- Victor Fleming, George Cukor ...
- Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland ...
21
It Happened One Night (1934)
- 7.9
  17,888
- Frank Capra
- Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly ...
22
Scarface (1932)
- 7.8
  13,912
- Howard Hawks
- Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley ...
23
L'Atalante (1934)
- 7.8
  5,447
- Jean Vigo
- Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon ...
24
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- 7.8
  7,460
- Lewis Milestone
- Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray ...
25
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- 7.8
  13,003
- Frank Capra
- James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains ...
26
I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo) (1932)
- 7.8
  1,852
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Kato ...
27
Midnight (1939)
- 7.8
  2,493
- Mitchell Leisen
- Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore ...
28
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
- 7.8
  2,464
- F.W. Murnau
- Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge ...
29
The Blue Angel (1930)
- 7.8
  5,849
- Josef von Sternberg
- Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron ...
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