The Best Movies: The 1930s

The 100 Best Movies of the 1930s

1.  The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2.  Gone With the Wind (1939)
3.  All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
4.  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
5.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
6.  It Happened One Night (1934)
7.  Wuthering Heights (1939)
8.  Duck Soup (1933)
9.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
10. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
11. Dinner at Eight (1933)
12. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
13. Top Hat (1935)
14. David Copperfield (1935)
15. Lost Horizon (1937)
16. City Lights (1931)
17. Grand Hotel (1932)
18. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. A Night at the Opera (1935)
21. 42nd Street (1933)
22. Ninotchka (1939)
23. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
24. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
25. Swing Time (1936)
26. The Good Earth (1937)
27. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
28. Midnight (1939)
29. The Awful Truth (1937)
30. Modern Times (1936)
31. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
32. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
33. The Women (1939)
34. The Thin Man (1934)
35. Camille (1936)
36. The Four Feathers (1939)
37. Twentieth Century (1934)
38. Libeled Lady (1936)
39. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
40. Stagecoach (1939)
41. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
42. Frankenstein (1931)
43. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
44. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
45. Jezebel (1938)
46. Holiday (1938)
47. Captain Blood (1935)
48. Destry Rides Again (1939)
49. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
50. Gunga Din (1939)
51. Pygmalion (1938)
52. My Man Godfrey (1936)
53. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
54. Shall We Dance (1937)
55. Scarface, the Shame of the Nation (1932)
56. It's a Gift (1934)
57. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
58. San Francisco (1936)
59. Beau Geste (1939)
60. Horse Feathers (1932)
61. Dark Victory (1939)
62. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
63. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
64. The Citadel (1938)
65. The Public Enemy (1931)
66. Show Boat (1936)
67. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
68. The 39 Steps (1935)
69. Of Mice and Men (1939)
70. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
71. Fury (1936)
72. Dracula (1931)
73. Sons of the Desert (1933)
74. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
75. The Invisible Man (1933)
76. Animal Crackers (1930)
77. Little Caesar (1930)
78. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
79. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
80.  Monkey Business (1931)
81. Nothing Sacred (1937)
82. Way Out West (1937)
83. Anna Karenina (1935)
84. The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
85. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
86. Imitation of Life (1934)
87. A Day at the Races (1937)
88. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
89. Jesse James (1939)
90. The Front Page (1931)
91. Stella Dallas (1937)
92. Follow the Fleet (1936)
93. The Petrified Forest (1936)
94. After the Thin Man (1936)
95. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1937)
96. Topper (1937)
97. Dodge City (1939)
98. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
99. The Hurricane (1937)
100. Another Thin Man (1939)