Film Decades: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- 1860 – (Italy)
- All of Me, starring Miriam Hopkins and Fredric March
- Amok, directed by Fedor Ozep – (France)
- Angèle, directed by Marcel Pagnol, starring Fernandel – (France)
- Anne of Green Gables, starring Anne Shirley
- Are We Civilized?, starring William Farnum
- L’Atalante, directed by Jean Vigo, starring Michel Simon – (France)
- Babes in Toyland, starring Laurel and Hardy
- Babbit – directed by William Keighley, starring Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee and Claire Dodd
- Baby Take a Bow, starring Shirley Temple
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Charles Laughton
- The Battle, starring Merle Oberon, Charles Boyer and John Loder – (GB/France)
- Belle of the Nineties – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Mae West and Johnny Mack Brown
- Big Hearted Herbert – directed by William Keighley, starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee
- The Big Road (Dalu), directed by Sun Yu – (China)
- The Big Shakedown, starring Bette Davis and Charles Farrell
- The Black Cat – directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
- Bolero, starring George Raft and Carole Lombard
- Boots! Boots!, starring George Formby – (GB – first film by Blakeley’s Productions)
- Born to Be Bad – starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, Jackie Kelk
- Bright Eyes, starring Shirley Temple
- Broadway Bill – directed by Frank Capra, starring Warner Baxter and Myrna Loy
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, starring Ronald Colman
- The Captain Hates the Sea – starring Victor McLaglen and John Gilbert in his last film role
- Carolina, starring Janet Gaynor and Lionel Barrymore
- The Case of the Howling Dog, starring Warren William (as Perry Mason)
- The Cat and the Fiddle, starring Ramón Novarro and Jeanette MacDonald
- The Cat’s-Paw, starring Harold Lloyd
- Chained – starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
- Chapayev – winner of National Board of Review “Best Foreign Film” Award in 1935 – (U.S.S.R.)
- Charlie Chan in London, starring Warner Oland and Ray Milland
- Charlie Chan’s Courage, starring Warner Oland
- The Circus Clown, starring Joe E. Brown
- City Limits
- Cleopatra – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
- Colonel Blood, starring Frank Cellier
- The Count of Monte Cristo, starring Robert Donat
- Crime Without Passion, starring Claude Rains
- Dames, choreographed by Busby Berkeley, starring Joan Blondell, Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler
- David Harum starring Will Rogers
- Dark Hazard, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Death on the Diamond starring Robert Young
- Death Takes a Holiday, starring Fredric March
- The Dream Car – (Hungary)
- Don’t Make Grandpa Angry (Nezlobte dědečka) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Dr. Monica- directed by William Keighley, starring Kay Francis, Warren William and Jean Muir
- Easy to Love – directed by William Keighley, starring Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, and Edward Everett Horton
- Evelyn Prentice, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Evergreen, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews – (GB)
- Everybody’s Woman (La signora di tutti), directed by Max Ophüls, starring Isa Miranda – (Italy)
- Fashions of 1934, starring William Powell and Bette Davis
- Ferdowsi, starring Abdolhossein Sepanta and Ardeshir Irani (Iran)
- Frontier Marshal, starring George O’ Brien
- Fog Over Frisco, starring Bette Davis
- Forbidden Territory, starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, Binnie Barnes – (GB)
- Forsaking All Others – starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery
- Four Frightened People – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Claudette Colbert
- Gambling, starring George M. Cohan
- Gambling Lady – directed by Archie Mayo, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea
- The Gay Bride, starring Carole Lombard
- The Gay Divorcee – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- The Girl from Missouri, starring Jean Harlow
- Girl o’ My Dreams, starring Mary Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent, Lon Chaney Jr., Sterling Holloway
- The Goddess (Shen nu) – (China)
- Grand Canary, starring Warner Baxter
- Le Grand Jeu (The Great Game), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
- Great Expectations, starring Henry Hull and Jane Wyatt
- Here Comes the Navy, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien
- Here is My Heart, starring Bing Crosby and Kitty Carlisle
- Hide-Out, starring Robert Montgomery and Margaret Sullavan
- Hollywood Party, starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante and Lupe Velez
- The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young
- I’ve Got Your Number, starring Joan Blondell and Pat O’Brien
- Imitation of Life – starring Claudette Colbert and Warren William
- The Iron Duke, starring George Arliss
- It Happened One Night – directed by Frank Capra, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert – winner of 5 Academy Awards
- It’s a Gift, starring W.C. Fields
- Jane Eyre, starring Virginia Bruce and Colin Clive
- Jew Suss, starring Conrad Veidt
- Jimmy the Gent, starring James Cagney and Bette Davis
- Jolly Fellows (Vesyolye rebyata) – the first Russian musical
- Journal of a Crime – directed by William Keighley, and starring Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, and Claire Dodd
- Juárez y Maximiliano (Juarez and Maximilian) – (Mexico)
- Judge Priest, starring Will Rogers
- The Key, starring William Powell and Edna Best
- Kansas City Princess – directed by William Keighley, starring Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell
- Kid Millions, starring Eddie Cantor
- Kiss and Make-Up – starring Cary Grant, Helen Mack
- The Lady Is Willing, starring Leslie Howard and Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
- The Last Round-Up – starring Randolph Scott
- Lieutenant Kijé – (U.S.S.R.)
- Liliom – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Charles Boyer – (France)
- Limehouse Blues, starring George Raft and Jean Parker
- Little Man, What Now?, starring Margaret Sullavan and Douglass Montgomery
- The Little Minister – starring Katharine Hepburn and John Beal
- Little Miss Marker, starring Shirley Temple
- A Lost Lady – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, and Ricardo Cortez
- The Lost Patrol – starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff and Wallace Ford
- The Lucky Texan – starring John Wayne
- Madame Du Barry, starring Dolores del Río
- Maniac, starring Horace B. Carpenter
- The Man from Utah – starring John Wayne
- Man of Aran (documentary), directed by Robert Flaherty – (GB)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre – (GB)
- The Man with Two Faces, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Managed Money, starring Shirley Temple
- Mandalay, starring Kay Francis
- Manhattan Melodrama – starring Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Mauvaise Graine (Bad Seed) – directed by Billy Wilder
- The Merry Widow (La veuve joyeuse), directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald – (France/US)
- Les Misérables, directed by Raymond Bernard, starring Harry Baur and Charles Vanel – (France)
- The Mighty Barnum, starring Wallace Beery
- Murder at Monte Carlo – starring Errol Flynn – (GB)
- The Mysterious Mr. Wong – starring Bela Lugosi
- Now and Forever – starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard
- Now I’ll Tell – starring Spencer Tracy
- Of Human Bondage, starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis
- The Old Curiosity Shop, directed by Thomas Bentley – (GB)
- The Old Fashioned Way, starring W.C. Fields
- One More River, directed by James Whale
- One Night of Love, starring Grace Moore
- Operator 13 – starring Marion Davies and Gary Cooper
- Our Daily Bread – directed by King Vidor, starring Karen Morley and Tom Keene
- The Painted Veil, starring Greta Garbo and Herbert Marshall
- Pardon My Pups, a Shirley Temple short
- Peck’s Bad Boy, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Cooper
- Plunder of Peach and Plum (Taoli Jie) – (China)
- The Private Life of Don Juan, directed by Alexander Korda, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Merle Oberon – (GB)
- The Pursuit of Happiness, directed by Alexander Hall
- Radio Parade of 1935, starring Will Hay – (GB)
- Red Ensign, starring Leslie Banks – (GB)
- The Return of Bulldog Drummond, starring Ralph Richardson and Ann Todd – (GB)
- The Return of Chandu – starring Bela Lugosi
- The Richest Girl in the World, starring Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea and Fay Wray
- Riptide, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
- The Rise of Catherine the Great, starring Elisabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. – (GB)
- Road House, directed by Maurice Elvey, starring Violet Loraine and Gordon Harker (GB)
- Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (The King of the Champs-Élysées), starring Buster Keaton – (France)
- Sadie McKee, starring Joan Crawford
- The Scarlet Empress, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and John Lodge
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon – (GB)
- The Secret Bride – directed by William Dieterle, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Warren William
- Servants’ Entrance, starring Janet Gaynor
- She Loves Me Not, starring Miriam Hopkins and Bing Crosby
- Shirin and Farhad starring Roohangiz Saminejad. (Iran)
- The Silver Streak, starring Charles Starrett
- Sing as We Go, starring Gracie Fields and Stanley Holloway – (GB)
- Six of a Kind – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland and W.C. Fields
- Something Always Happens, directed by Michael Powell, starring, Ian Hunter, Nance O’Neil, Peter Gawthorne, Muriel George – (GB)
- The Song of Ceylon, documentary directed by Basil Wright – (GB)
- Song of the Fishermen (Yu guang qu) – (China)
- Spitfire – starring Katharine Hepburn
- The St. Louis Kid, starring James Cagney
- Stand Up and Cheer! starring Warner Baxter and Madge Evans, featuring 5-year-old Shirley Temple.
- A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukikusa monogatari), directed by Yasujirō Ozu – (Japan)
- The Tars – (Netherlands)
- Tarzan and His Mate, starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan
- The Thin Man, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- Thirty-Day Princess – starring Sylvia Sydney and Cary Grant
- Those Were the Days, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Will Hay and John Mills – (GB)
- The Trail Beyond – starring John Wayne
- Treasure Island, starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper
- Twentieth Century – directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard
- Twenty Million Sweethearts – starring Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers
- Unfinished Symphony, directed by Anthony Asquith (GB/Austria)
- Viva Villa!, starring Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo and Fay Wray
- Waltzes from Vienna – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Esmond Knight and Jessie Matthews – (GB)
- We’re Not Dressing, starring Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard
- We’re Rich Again, starring Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke
- What Every Woman Knows, starring Helen Hayes
- Whirlpool, starring Jack Holt and Jean Arthur
- The White Parade, starring Loretta Young
- A Wicked Woman, starring Mady Christians, Jean Parker and Charles Bickford
- The Woman of the Port (La Mujer del Puerto) – (Mexico)
- Wonder Bar, starring Al Jolson
- Workers, Let’s Go (Hej rup!), directed by Martin Frič – (Czechoslovakia)
- You Can’t Buy Everything, starring May Robson and Jean Parker
- You’re Telling Me!, starring W.C. Fields
- Young and Beautiful
- Zouzou, directed by Marc Allégret, starring Jean Gabin and Josephine Baker – (France)