The Best Films of 1938, 1939

It's getting to be that time of year again when I begin to compile my list of the 25 best movies of the year. As a prelude I revisit the Top 25 from past years. Click on the titles to learn more about the films.

1938
1. The Adventures of Robin Hood
2. You Can’t Take It With You
3. Bringing Up Baby
4. Alexander Nevsky
5. Jezebel
6. Holiday
7. Port of Shadows
8. Pygmalion
9. La Bête Humaine
10. Angels With Dirty Faces
11. The Citadel
12. Boys Town
13. Marie Antoinette
14. The Lady Vanishes
15. Four Daughters
16. In Old Chicago
17. Alexander’s Ragtime Band
18. Algiers
19. Sidewalks of London
20. The Dawn Patrol
21. The Beachcomber
22. If I Were King
23. The Baker’s Wife
24. Ask a Policeman
25. Block-Heads

1939
1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Gone With the Wind
3. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
4. The Rules of the Game
5. Wuthering Heights
6. Ninotchka
7. Midnight
8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
9. The Women
10. The Four Feathers
11. Stagecoach
12. Goodbye Mr. Chips
13. Destry Rides Again
14. Gunga Din
15. Only Angels Have Wings
16. Le Jour Se Leve
17. Beau Geste
18. Dark Victory
19. The Roaring Twenties
20. Of Mice and Men
21. The Hound of the Baskervilles
22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
23. Love Affair
24. Young Mr. Lincoln
25. Drums Along the Mohawk