1930's

FILMS OF THE YEAR: THE 1930's

"For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately. I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence." - Fritz Lang

1939
  1. The Rules of the Game(Jean Renoir)
  2. The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker)
  4. Stagecoach (John Ford)
  5. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
  6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
  7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sidney Lanfield)
  8. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
  9. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
  10. Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone)
Honourary Mentions: 
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)

1938
  1. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
  2. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
  3. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
  4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
  5. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
  7. You Can't Take It with You (Frank Capra)
  8. Holiday (George Cukor)
  9. Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard)
  10. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Anatole Litvak)
1937
  1. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
  2. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
  3. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
  4. The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
  5. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
  6. Lost Horizon (Frank Capra)
  7. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka
  8. They Won't Forget (Mervyn LeRoy)
  9. The Life of Emile Zola (William Dieterle)
  10. Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming)
1936
  1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
  2. Fury (Fritz Lang)
  3. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
  4. After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
  5. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
  6. Things to Come (Fritz Lang)
  7. The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)
  8. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
  9. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
  10. The Invisible Ray (Lambert Hillyer)
1935
  1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
  2. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
  4. Captain Blood (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Mad Love (Karl Freund)
  6. China Seas (Tay Garnett)
  7. Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning)
  8. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding)
  9. Werewolf of London (Stuart Walker)
  10. The Raven (Lew Landers)
1934
  1. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
  2. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
  4. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
  5. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  6. Godfather Mendoza (Juan Bustillo Oro, Fernando de Fuentes)
  7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. Manhattan Melodrama (W.S. Van Dyke)
  9. Charlie Chan in London (Eugene Forde)
  10. The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee)
1933
  1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
  2. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
  3. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
  4. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  5. Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
  6. Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman)
  7. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
  8. The Kennel Murder Case (Michael Curtiz)
  9. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
  10. Lady Killer (Roy Del Ruth)
1932
  1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
  2. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
  3. The Old Dark House (James Whale)
  4. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
  5. The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  6. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  7. Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
  8. The Mummy (Karl Freund)
  9. Freaks (Tod Browning)
  10. Doctor X (Michael Curtiz)
1931
  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
  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. Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy)
  9. The Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth)
  10. City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian)
1930
  1. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
  2. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
  3. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler)
  4. People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann)
  5. Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes)
  6. L'Age d'Or (Luis Buñuel)
  7. The Big House (George W. Hill, Ward Wing)
  8. The Silent Enemy (H.P. Carver)
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