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Criteria: These Greatest Movies of the 1930s are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

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1. The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)
2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - David Hand et al. (1937)
3. Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)
4. City Lights - Charles Chaplin (1931)
5. M - Fritz Lang (1931)
6. Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (1936)
7. Stagecoach - John Ford (1939)
8. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
9. King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
10. It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)
11. Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)
12. The Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937)
13. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Frank Capra (1939)
14. Duck Soup - Leo McCarey (1933)
15. All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (1930)
16. Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
17. Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks (1938)
18. The Adventures of Robin Hood - Michael Curtiz & William Keighley (1938)
19. Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
20. Scarface - Howard Hawks (1932)
21. The Public Enemy - William A. Wellman (1931)
22. Freaks - Tod Browning (1932)
23. The Thin Man - W. S. Van Dyke (1934)
24. Make Way for Tomorrow - Leo McCarey (1937)
25. Top Hat - Mark Sandrich (1935)
26. The Blue Angel - Josef von Sternberg (1930)
27. The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
28. L'Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934)
29. Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch (1932)
30. L'âge d'or - Luis Buñuel (1930)
31. Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch (1939)
32. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Mervyn LeRoy (1932)
33. Love Me Tonight - Rouben Mamoulian (1932)
34. 42nd Street - Lloyd Bacon (1933)
35. The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock (1935)
36. A Night at the Opera - Sam Wood (1935)
37. My Man Godfrey - Gregory La Cava (1936)
38. Mutiny on the Bounty - Frank Lloyd (1935)
39. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
40. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Frank Capra (1936)
41. The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey (1937)
42. Little Caesar - Mervyn LeRoy (1931)
43. Alexander Nevsky - Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilyev (1938)
44. Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
45. The Lady Vanishes - Alfred Hitchcock (1938)
46. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)
47. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty - Leni Riefenstahl (1938)
48. Angels with Dirty Faces - Michael Curtiz (1938)
49. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - Fritz Lang (1933)
50. Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
51. Port of Shadows - Marcel Carné (1938)
52. Captain Blood - Michael Curtiz (1935)
53. Pépé le Moko - Julien Duvivier (1937)
54. Only Angels Have Wings - Howard Hawks (1939)
55. You Can't Take It with You - Frank Capra (1938)
56. Dodsworth - William Wyler (1936)
57. Fury - Fritz Lang (1936)
58. Zero for Conduct - Jean Vigo (1933)
59. Gold Diggers of 1933 - Mervyn LeRoy (1933)
60. Swing Time - George Stevens (1936)
61. Shanghai Express - Josef von Sternberg (1932)
62. The Black Cat - Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
63. The Scarlet Empress - Josef von Sternberg (1934)
64. Le jour se lève - Marcel Carné (1939)
65. Morocco - Josef von Sternberg (1930)
66. Earth - Alexander Dovzhenko (1930)
67. I Was Born, but... - Yasujirō Ozu (1932)
68. Hell's Angels - Howard Hughes (1930)
69. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums - Kenji Mizoguchi (1939)
70. Holiday - George Cukor (1938)
71. La bête humaine - Jean Renoir (1938)
72. Tabu - F. W. Murnau (1931)
73. Man of Aran - Robert J. Flaherty (1934)
74. Sons of the Desert - William A. Seiter (1933)
75. À nous la liberté - René Clair (1931)
76. The Women - George Cukor (1939)
77. The Roaring Twenties - Raoul Walsh (1939)
78. The Gay Divorcee - Mark Sandrich (1934)
79. The Mummy - Karl Freund (1932)
80. People on Sunday - Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer (1930)
81. The Big Trail - Raoul Walsh (1930)
82. La chienne - Jean Renoir (1931)
83. Young Mr. Lincoln - John Ford (1939)
84. Wuthering Heights - William Wyler (1939)
85. Gunga Din - George Stevens (1939)
86. Captains Courageous - Victor Fleming (1937)
87. Humanity and Paper Balloons - Sadao Yamanaka (1937)
88. Jezebel - William Wyler (1938)
89. Pygmalion - Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard (1938)
90. Porky in Wackyland - Bob Clampett (1938)
91. Le million - René Clair (1931)
92. Animal Crackers - Victor Heerman (1930)
93. Boudu Saved from Drowning - Jean Renoir (1932)
94. Grand Hotel - Edmund Goulding (1932)
95. Island of Lost Souls - Erle C. Kenton (1932)
96. The Petrified Forest - Archie Mayo (1936)
97. A Star Is Born - William A. Wellman (1937)
98. Lost Horizon - Frank Capra (1937)
99. A Day at the Races - Sam Wood (1937)
100. Queen Christina - Rouben Mamoulian (1933)
101. Stage Door - Gregory La Cava (1937)
102. Twentieth Century - Howard Hawks (1934)
103. She Done Him Wrong - Lowell Sherman (1933)
104. Dinner at Eight - George Cukor (1933)
105. Footlight Parade - Lloyd Bacon (1933)
106. Imitation of Life - John M. Stahl (1934)
107. Design for Living - Ernst Lubitsch (1933)
108. Three Little Pigs - Burt Gillett (1933)
109. Destry Rides Again - George Marshall (1939)
110. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - William Dieterle (1939)
111. Love Affair - Leo McCarey (1939)
112. Horse Feathers - Norman Z. McLeod (1932)
113. Monkey Business - Norman Z. McLeod (1931)
114. Mädchen in Uniform - Leontine Sagan (1931)
115. Tarzan the Ape Man - W. S. Van Dyke (1932)
116. Under the Roofs of Paris - René Clair (1930)
117. Baby Face - Alfred E. Green (1933)
118. The Informer - John Ford (1935)
119. Camille - George Cukor (1936)
120. You Only Live Once - Fritz Lang (1937)
121. Ruggles of Red Gap - Leo McCarey (1935)
122. San Francisco - W. S. Van Dyke (1936)
123. Libeled Lady - Jack Conway (1936)
124. Stella Dallas - King Vidor (1937)
125. Things to Come - William Cameron Menzies (1936)
126. Sabotage - Alfred Hitchcock (1936)
127. Tarzan and His Mate - Cedric Gibbons (1934)
128. It's a Gift - Norman Z. McLeod (1934)
129. Cleopatra - Cecil B. DeMille (1934)
130. I'm No Angel - Wesley Ruggles (1933)
131. The Goddess - Wu Yonggang (1934)
132. The Crime of Monsieur Lange - Jean Renoir (1936)
133. The Baker's Wife - Marcel Pagnol (1938)
134. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Sam Wood (1939)
135. The Life of Emile Zola - William Dieterle (1937)
136. David Copperfield - George Cukor (1935)
137. Way Out West - James W. Horne (1937)
138. Show Boat - James Whale (1936)
139. Midnight - Mitchell Leisen (1939)
140. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sidney Lanfield (1939)
141. The Four Feathers - Zoltan Korda (1939)
142. Dark Victory - Edmund Goulding (1939)
143. Toni - Jean Renoir (1935)
144. Dead End - William Wyler (1937)
145. The Great Ziegfeld - Robert Z. Leonard (1936)
146. Topper - Norman Z. McLeod (1937)
147. The Old Mill - Wilfred Jackson (1937)
148. The Music Box - James Parrott (1932)
149. Dishonored - Josef von Sternberg (1931)
150. The Old Dark House - James Whale (1932)
151. White Zombie - Victor Halperin (1932)
152. Limite - Mário Peixoto (1931)
153. The Private Life of Henry VIII - Alexander Korda (1933)
154. Little Women - George Cukor (1933)
155. The Blood of a Poet - Jean Cocteau (1932)
156. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Henry Hathaway (1935)
157. Boys Town - Norman Taurog (1938)
158. The 3 Penny Opera - G. W. Pabst (1931)
159. The Most Dangerous Game - Ernest B. Schoedsack & Irving Pichel (1932)
160. Red Dust - Victor Fleming (1932)
161. The Merry Widow - Ernst Lubitsch (1934)
162. Les misérables - Richard Boleslawski (1935)
163. The Tale of the Fox - Irene & Ladislas Starevich (1937)
164. A Tale of Two Cities - Jack Conway (1935)
165. Anna Karenina - Clarence Brown (1935)
166. The Little Colonel - David Butler (1935)
167. The Band Concert - Wilfred Jackson (1935)
168. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - Dave Fleischer (1936)
169. Bimbo's Initiation - Dave Fleischer (1931)
170. The Champ - King Vidor (1931)
171. The Big House - George W. Hill (1930)
172. Of Human Bondage - John Cromwell (1934)
173. Land Without Bread - Luis Buñuel (1933)
174. Ecstasy - Gustav Machatý (1933)
175. Bright Eyes - David Butler (1934)
176. Confessions of a Cheat - Sacha Guitry (1936)
177. Street Angel - Yuan Muzhi (1937)
178. City Girl - F. W. Murnau (1930)
179. Anna Christie - Clarence Brown (1930)
180. The Only Son - Yasujirō Ozu (1936)
181. After the Thin Man - W. S. Van Dyke (1936)
182. Chapayev - Georgi & Sergei Vasilyev (1934)
183. À propos de Nice - Jean Vigo (1930)
184. Marius - Alexander Korda (1931)
185. Alexander's Ragtime Band - Henry King (1938)
186. The Childhood of Maxim Gorky - Mark Donskoy (1938)
187. Mad Love - Karl Freund (1935)
188. Hôtel du Nord - Marcel Carné (1938)
189. By the Bluest of Seas - Boris Barnet (1936)
190. Kameradschaft - G. W. Pabst (1931)
191. Sylvia Scarlett - George Cukor (1935)
192. Werewolf of London - Stuart Walker (1935)
193. Peter Ibbetson - Henry Hathaway (1935)
194. Becky Sharp - Rouben Mamoulian (1935)
195. Love Finds Andy Hardy - George B. Seitz (1938)
196. Westfront 1918 - G. W. Pabst (1930)
197. The Prisoner of Zenda - John Cromwell (1937)
198. Of Mice and Men - Lewis Milestone (1939)
199. Nothing Sacred - William A. Wellman (1937)
200. The Good Earth - Sidney Franklin (1937)
201. Beau Geste - William A. Wellman (1939)
202. G Men - William Keighley (1935)
203. The Charge of the Light Brigade - Michael Curtiz (1936)
204. Sant Tukaram - Vishnupant Govind Damle & Sheikh Fattelal (1936)
205. Snow-White - Dave Fleischer (1933)
206. A Farewell to Arms - Frank Borzage (1932)
207. The Smiling Lieutenant - Ernst Lubitsch (1931)
208. One Hour with You - Ernst Lubitsch & George Cukor (1932)
209. Cimarron - Wesley Ruggles (1931)
210. Cavalcade - Frank Lloyd (1933)
211. Alam Ara - Ardeshir Irani (1931)
212. Blonde Venus - Josef von Sternberg (1932)
213. The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Frank Capra (1932)
214. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife - Ernst Lubitsch (1938)
215. The Dawn Patrol - Edmund Goulding (1938)
216. Union Pacific - Cecil B. DeMille (1939)
217. Dodge City - Michael Curtiz (1939)
218. Sisters of the Gion - Kenji Mizoguchi (1936)
219. The Sign of the Cross - Cecil B. DeMille (1932)
220. Queen Kelly - Erich von Stroheim (1932)
221. Red-Headed Woman - Jack Conway (1932)
222. Flowers and Trees - Burt Gillett (1932)
223. The Man Who Knew Too Much - Alfred Hitchcock (1934)
224. Min and Bill - George W. Hill (1930)
225. The Dawn Patrol - Howard Hawks (1930)
226. The Divorcee - Robert Z. Leonard (1930)
227. Easy Living - Mitchell Leisen (1937)
228. Liebelei - Max Ophüls (1933)
229. Son of Frankenstein - Rowland V. Lee (1939)
230. Marie Antoinette - W. S. Van Dyke (1938)
231. In Old Chicago - Henry King (1938)
232. Alice Adams - George Stevens (1935)
233. A Midsummer Night's Dream - Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle (1935)
234. Song at Midnight - Ma-Xu Weibang (1937)
235. Shall We Dance - Mark Sandrich (1937)
236. Dancing Lady - Robert Z. Leonard (1933)
237. Lady for a Day - Frank Capra (1933)
238. The Front Page - Lewis Milestone (1931)
239. A Free Soul - Clarence Brown (1931)
240. City Streets - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
241. Hoi Polloi - Del Lord (1935)
242. Three Comrades - Frank Borzage (1938)
243. Algiers - John Cromwell (1938)
244. Test Pilot - Victor Fleming (1938)
245. Four Daughters - Michael Curtiz (1938)
246. Murder! - Alfred Hitchcock (1930)
247. Brats - James Parrott (1930)
248. King of Jazz - John Murray Anderson (1930)
249. Hog Wild - James Parrott (1930)
250. Whoopee! - Thornton Freeland (1930)