Top 10 Films of the 1930s

This is very incomplete but I finally feel like I've seen more than 10 really good movies from the 1930s, so until I'm ready to post a breakdown of best for each year in this pivotal decade I think I'll go with these ten.



1. Freaks
2. Duck Soup
3. Olympia
4. Gunga Din
5. My Man Godfrey
6. Hell's Angels
7. City Lights
8. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
9. The 39 Steps
10. The Adventures of Robin Hood

Angels with Dirty Faces
Bringing Up Baby
The Front Page
Gone with the Wind
It Happened One Night
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Women
You Can't Take It with You

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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
~Mae West

My top 3 is Wizard of Oz, Horsefeathers, and You Can't Take it With You. Overall I haven't been that impressed with the decade, but obviously I've still got a lot to see (It Happened One Night, All Quiet on the Western Front, Gone with the Wind etc. etc.)

Here's a few horror films that were missed:

Devil Doll (1936)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Invisible Man (1933)
Mummy (1932)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
White Zombie (1932)

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Movies like Duck Soup, City Lights, and Modern Times just weren't that great for me. I can hold an appreciation for Duck Soup though, but Chaplin films are looking like they aren't for me. I'm also in the process of watching Cimarron, yes in the process. I couldn't finish it last night so I figured I'll finish tonight.

It Happened one Night
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The 39 Steps
Gone With The Wind
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
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City Lights
Modern Times

..if Rebecca were a year sooner haha

and Duck Soup of course

I can now see why Cimarron hasn't made the list as one of the better 30's films.

I also find it strangely ironic that I enjoyed Horsefeathers more than I did Duck Soup.

1) Modern Times
2) Gone with the wind
3) Wizard of Oz
4) City Lights
5) It happened one night
6) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
7) The Public Enemy
8) Bringing up Baby
9) King Kong
10 Top Hat

Easily my favorite, it has more magic in it all of the other films of that era combined.

2) My Man Godfrey (1936)
3) The Grand Illusion (1937)
4) Gone With the Wind (1939)
5) City Lights (1931)
6) The Thin Man (1934)
7) After the Thin Man (1936)
8) Bringing Up Baby (1938)
9) Scarface (1932)
10) It Happened One Night (1934)

1) Angels With Dirty Faces
2) Modern Times
3) the Public Enemy
4) It Happened One Night
5) the Adventures of Robin Hood
6) Captain Blood
7) Gone With the Wind
8) the Wizard of Oz
9) the Invisible Man
10) Lost Horizon