20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1930s

  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

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  1. The Wizard of Oz - (Victor Fleming)
  2. Gone with the Wind - (Victor Fleming)
  3. Stagecoach - (John Ford)
  4. The Rules of the Game - (Jean Renoir)
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - (Frank Capra)
  6. Ninotchka - (Ernst Lubitsch)
  7. Only Angels Have Wings - (Howard Hawks)
  8. Le Jour se lève - (Marcel Carné)
  9. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums - (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10. The Women - (George Cukor)
11. The Roaring Twenties - (Raoul Walsh)
12. Young Mr. Lincoln - (John Ford)
13. Wuthering Heights - (William Wyler)
14. Gunga Din - (George Stevens)
15. Destry Rides Again - (George Marshall)
16. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - (William Dieterle)
17. Love Affair - (Leo McCarey)
18. Goodbye Mr. Chips - (Sam Wood)
19. Midnight - (Mitchell Leisen)
20. The Hound of the Baskervilles - (Sidney Lanfield)

  1. Bringing Up Baby - (Howard Hawks)
  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood - (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
  3. Alexander Nevsky - (Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitriy Vasilyev)
  4. The Lady Vanishes - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations - (Leni Riefenstahl)
  6. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty - (Leni Riefenstahl)
  7. Angels with Dirty Faces - (Michael Curtiz)
  8. Port of Shadows - (Marcel Carné)
  9. You Can't Take It with You - (Frank Capra)
10. Holiday - (George Cukor)
11. La Bête Humaine - (Jean Renoir)
12. Jezebel - (William Wyler)
13. Pygmalion - (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)
14. Porky in Wackyland - (Bob Clampett)
15. The Baker's Wife - (Marcel Pagnol)
16. Boys Town - (Norman Taurog)
17. Alexander's Ragtime Band - (Henry King)
18. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky - (Mark Donskoy)
19. Hôtel du Nord - (Marcel Carné)
20. Love Finds Andy Hardy - (George B. Seitz)

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - (David Hand et al.)
  2. The Grand Illusion - (Jean Renoir)
  3. Make Way for Tomorrow - (Leo McCarey)
  4. The Awful Truth - (Leo McCarey)
  5. Pépé Le Moko - (Julien Duvivier)
  6. Captains Courageous - (Victor Fleming)
  7. Humanity and Paper Balloons - (Sadao Yamanaka)
  8. A Star Is Born - (William A. Wellman)
  9. Lost Horizon - (Frank Capra)
10. A Day at the Races - (Sam Wood)
11. Stage Door - (Gregory La Cava)
12. You Only Live Once - (Fritz Lang)
13. Stella Dallas - (King Vidor)
14. The Life of Emile Zola - (William Dieterle)
15. Way Out West - (James W. Horne)
16. Dead End - (William Wyler)
17. Topper - (Norman Z. McLeod)
18. The Old Mill - (Wilfred Jackson)
19. The Tale of the Fox - (Irene & Ladislas Starevich)
20. Street Angel - (Yuan Muzhi)

  1. Modern Times - (Charles Chaplin)
  2. My Man Godfrey - (Gregory La Cava)
  3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - (Frank Capra)
  4. Dodsworth - (William Wyler)
  5. Fury - (Fritz Lang)
  6. Swing Time - (George Stevens)
  7. The Petrified Forest - (Archie Mayo)
  8. Camille - (George Cukor)
  9. San Francisco - (W. S. Van Dyke)
10. Libeled Lady - (Jack Conway)
11. Things to Come - (William Cameron Menzies)
12. Sabotage - (Alfred Hitchcock)
13. The Crime of Monsieur Lange - (Jean Renoir)
14. Show Boat - (James Whale)
15. The Great Ziegfeld - (Robert Z. Leonard)
16. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - (Dave Fleischer)
17. Confessions of a Cheat - (Sacha Guitry)
18. The Only Son - (Yasujiro Ozu)
19. After the Thin Man - (W.S. Van Dyke)
20. By the Bluest of Seas - (Boris Barnet)

  1. The Bride of Frankenstein - (James Whale)
  2. Top Hat - (Mark Sandrich)
  3. The 39 Steps - (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. A Night at the Opera - (Sam Wood)
  5. Mutiny on the Bounty - (Frank Lloyd)
  6. Triumph of the Will - (Leni Riefenstahl)
  7. Captain Blood - (Michael Curtiz)
  8. The Informer - (John Ford)
  9. Ruggles of Red Gap - (Leo McCarey)
10. David Copperfield - (George Cukor)
11. Toni - (Jean Renoir)
12. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - (Henry Hathaway)
13. Les Misérables - (Richard Boleslawski)
14. A Tale of Two Cities - (Jack Conway)
15. Anna Karenina - (Clarence Brown)
16. The Little Colonel - (David Butler)
17. The Band Concert - (Wilfred Jackson)
18. Mad Love - (Karl Freund)
19. Sylvia Scarlett - (George Cukor)
20. Werewolf of London - (Stuart Walker)

  1. It Happened One Night - (Frank Capra)
  2. The Thin Man - (W.S. Van Dyke)
  3. L'Atalante - (Jean Vigo)
  4. The Black Cat - (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  5. The Scarlet Empress - (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. Man of Aran - (Robert J. Flaherty)
  7. The Gay Divorcee - (Mark Sandrich)
  8. Twentieth Century - (Howard Hawks)
  9. Imitation of Life - (John M. Stahl)
10. Tarzan and His Mate - (Cedric Gibbons)
11. It's a Gift - (Norman Z. McLeod)
12. Cleopatra - (Cecil B. DeMille)
13. The Goddess - (Wu Yonggang)
14. The Merry Widow - (Ernst Lubitsch)
15. Of Human Bondage - (John Cromwell)
16. Bright Eyes - (David Butler)
17. Chapayev - (Georgi & Sergei Vasilyev)
18. The Man Who Knew Too Much - (Alfred Hitchcock)
19. A Story of Floating Weeds - (Yasujirô Ozu)
20. Judge Priest - (John Ford)

  1. King Kong - (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  2. Duck Soup - (Leo McCarey)
  3. The Invisible Man - (James Whale)
  4. 42nd Street - (Lloyd Bacon)
  5. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - (Fritz Lang)
  6. Zero for Conduct - (Jean Vigo)
  7. Gold Diggers of 1933 - (Mervyn LeRoy)
  8. Sons of the Desert - (William A. Seiter)
  9. Queen Christina - (Rouben Mamoulian)
10. She Done Him Wrong - (Lowell Sherman)
11. Dinner at Eight - (George Cukor)
12. Footlight Parade - (Lloyd Bacon)
13. Design for Living - (Ernst Lubitsch)
14. Three Little Pigs - (Burt Gillett)
15. Baby Face - (Alfred E. Green)
16. I'm No Angel - (Wesley Ruggles)
17. The Private Life of Henry VIII - (Alexander Korda)
18. Little Women - (George Cukor)
19. Land Without Bread - (Luis Buñuel)
20. Ecstasy - (Gustav Machatý)

  1. Scarface - (Howard Hawks)
  2. Freaks - (Tod Browning)
  3. Trouble in Paradise - (Ernst Lubitsch)
  4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - (Mervyn LeRoy)
  5. Love Me Tonight - (Rouben Mamoulian)
  6. Vampyr - (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  7. Shanghai Express - (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. I Was Born, But... - (Yasujirô Ozu)
  9. The Mummy - (Karl Freund)
10. Boudu Saved from Drowning - (Jean Renoir)
11. Grand Hotel - (Edmund Goulding)
12. Island of Lost Souls - (Erle C. Kenton)
13. Horse Feathers - (Norman Z. McLeod)
14. Tarzan the Ape Man - (W.S. Van Dyke)
15. The Music Box - (James Parrott)
16. The Old Dark House - (James Whale)
17. White Zombie - (Victor Halperin)
18. The Blood of a Poet - (Jean Cocteau)
19. The Most Dangerous Game - (Irving Pichel & Ernst B. Schoedsack)
20. Red Dust - (Victor Fleming)

  1. City Lights - (Charles Chaplin)
  2. M - (Fritz Lang)
  3. Frankenstein - (James Whale)
  4. Dracula - (Tod Browning)
  5. The Public Enemy - (William A. Wellman)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - (Rouben Mamoulian)
  7. Little Caesar - (Mervyn LeRoy)
  8. Tabu - (F. W. Murnau)
  9. À Nous la Liberté - (René Clair)
10. La Chienne - (Jean Renoir)
11. Le Million - (René Clair)
12. Monkey Business - (Norman Z. McLeod)
13. Mädchen in Uniform - (Leontine Sagan)
14. Dishonored - (Josef von Sternberg)
15. Limite - (Mário Peixoto)
16. The Threepenny Opera - (G.W. Pabst)
17. Bimbo's Initiation - (Dave Fleischer)
18. The Champ - (King Vidor)
19. Marius - (Alexander Korda)
20. Kameradschaft - (G.W. Pabst)

  1. All Quiet on the Western Front - (Lewis Milestone)
  2. The Blue Angel - (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. L'Âge d'or - (Luis Buñuel)
  4. Morocco - (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. Earth - (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
  6. Hell's Angels - (Howard Hughes & Edmund Goulding)
  7. People on Sunday - (Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer)
  8. The Big Trail - (Raoul Walsh)
  9. Animal Crackers - (Victor Heerman)
10. Under the Roofs of Paris - (René Clair)
11. The Big House - (George Hill)
12. City Girl - (F.W. Murnau)
13. Anna Christie - (Clarence Brown)
14. À propos de Nice - (Jean Vigo)
15. Westfront 1918 - (G.W. Pabst)
16. Min and Bill - (George Hill)
17. The Dawn Patrol - (Howard Hawks)
18. The Divorcee - (Robert Z. Leonard)
19. Murder! - (Alfred Hitchcock)
20. Brats - (James Parrott)