Top Ten Films of 1930-1939

[mae]

We're almost there! Here are the '30s and for me this was probably the toughest decade, because I love the movies made during this time so much. As usual, here are my top pick for each year with the top three for that year highlighted. My ranking will follow.

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Animal Crackers (1930)
Hell's Angels (1930)
L'Age d'Or (1930)
Murder! (1930)
People on Sunday (1930)
Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

Cimarron (1931)
City Lights (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
Le Million (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
M (1931)
Monkey Business (1931)
Night Nurse (1931)
Safe in Hell (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Waterloo Bridge (1931)

American Madness (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Freaks (1932)
Grand Hotel (1932)
Horse Feathers (1932)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Scarface (1932)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Vampyr (1932)

Baby Face (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
King Kong (1933)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Little Women (1933)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

It Happened One Night (1934)
L'Atlante (1934)
The Goddess (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
The Thin Man (1934)
Thirty Day Princess (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)

A Night at the Opera (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Mad Love (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Top Hat (1935)

Fury (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Things to Come (1936)

A Day at the Races (1937)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Young and Innocent (1937)

Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Room Service (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

[mae]

Here are those rankings now:

1 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
2 M (1931)
3 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
4 It Happened One Night (1934)
5 Duck Soup (1933)
6 Alexander Nevsky (1938)
7 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8 City Lights (1931)
9 The Lady Vanishes (1938)
10 Modern Times (1936)
11 The 39 Steps (1935)
12 A Night at the Opera (1935)
13 King Kong (1933)
14 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
15 Freaks (1932)
16 Grand Illusion (1937)
17 Gone with the Wind (1939)
18 Scarface (1932)
19 The Public Enemy (1931)
20 My Man Godfrey (1936)
21 Animal Crackers (1930)
22 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
23 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
24 Vampyr (1932)
25 The Rules of the Game (1939)
26 A Day at the Races (1937)
27 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
28 The Thin Man (1934)
29 L'Age d'Or (1930)
30 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

[needfulthings]

"Someone is missing from the list"
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YES the 30s...... THE GOLDEN AGE OF HORROR & UNIVERSAL RULES:nana:

[mae]

Maybe. Not a very big fan, to be honest. Good film, not great.

[needfulthings]

Still one of the iconic films of the time & the genre.
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[needfulthings]

But the film on the TOP of the list & The Movie I have seen more then any other in my live time (and have owned on VHS,DVD & BLU-RAY & a LOT of screenings)
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[needfulthings]

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[needfulthings]

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& ANYTHING with
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[needfulthings]

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[needfulthings]

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[frik]

Maybe the best (horror) movie ever:

http://images.worthpoint.com/files/74673/9c26e74fb7db7719058cd54bc4a1507b.jpg

[Jean]

lazy bears are using pablo's list as their source:

M (1931)
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Lady Vanishes (1938 )
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

the last of those is one of my favorite movies ever

will add my own some time later. Definitely this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029347/

and this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028216/?ref_=nv_sr_1

and this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[mae]

The Sea Hawk is from 1940, Jean.

[Jean]

very good! one slot more

(one slot less for the 40s, though...)

[mae]

My favorite movie of the thirties and the funniest movie ever made, hope it's on other lists as well:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4U4aA0ZmVM

[Heather19]

I'll have to check that one out Pablo.

[RichardX]

"Sons of the Desert." The great Laurel and Hardy film. Much of their work was in shorts, but it holds up and compares to just about anything in film. "The Music Box" may be the single most perfect comedy short. The Marx Brothers (sans the annoying musical interludes) and Chaplin may have greater artistic merit, but L&H were as good as it gets.

[needfulthings]

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If you don't have it....This book is a must
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[needfulthings]

THE LEADER OF THE PACK! (WITH 13 MORE TO FOLLOW 1939-1946)
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[needfulthings]

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[mae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hmIdXh5cEg