1935

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)

  • The 39 Steps – directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat & Madeleine Carroll – UK
  • After Office Hours – directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Clark Gable & Constance Bennett
  • Ah, Wilderness! – directed by Clarence Brown, starring Wallace Beery & Lionel Barrymore
  • Alice Adams – directed by George Stevens, starring Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, & Evelyn Venable
  • Amphitryon (Germany)
  • Anna Karenina – directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo & Fredric March
  • Annie Oakley – directed by George Stevens, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, & Moroni Olsen
  • April, April! – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Albrecht Schoenhals, Carola Höhn, & Erhard Siedel – Germany
  • The Arizonian – directed by Charles Vidor, starring Richard Dix
  • La Bandera, directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin (France)
  • Barbary Coast – directed by Howard Hawks & William Wyler (uncredited), starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, & Joel McCrea
  • Becky Sharp – starring Miriam Hopkins
  • Black Fury – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Paul Muni
  • The Black Room, starring Boris Karloff
  • Bordertown – directed by Archie Mayo, starring Paul Muni & Bette Davis
  • Boys Will Be Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
  • Brewster’s Millions, starring Jack Buchanan and Lili Damita (GB)
  • The Bride Comes Home – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
  • Bride of Frankenstein – directed by James Whale, starring Boris Karloff & Elsa Lanchester
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 – directed by Roy Del Ruth & W.S. Van Dyke (uncredited), starring Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
  • The Call of the Wild – directed by William A. Wellman, starring Clark Gable, Loretta Young
  • Captain Blood – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
  • Car of Dreams – starring John Mills – UK
  • Carnival in Flanders (La Kermesse héroïque), directed by Jacques Feyder (France)
  • Charlie Chan in Egypt, starring Warner Oland
  • China Seas – directed by Tay Garnett, starring Clark Gable & Jean Harlow
  • Coal Face, a documentary directed by Alberto Cavalcanti (GB)
  • Crime and Punishment – directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Peter Lorre
  • The Crime of Dr. Crespi, starring Erich Von Stroheim
  • The Crusades – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Henry Wilcoxon and Loretta Young
  • Curly Top – directed by Irving Cummings, starring Shirley Temple
  • Dandy Dick – starring Will Hay – UK
  • Dangerous – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Bette Davis & Franchot Tone
  • Dante’s Inferno – starring Spencer Tracy & Claire Trevor
  • The Dark Angel, starring Fredric March and Merle Oberon
  • David Copperfield – directed by George Cukor, starring Edna May Oliver, Freddie Bartholomew, W.C. Fields
  • Death Drives Through, directed by Edward L. Cahn
  • Devdas (India)
  • The Devil Is a Woman – directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • Dinky – starring Jackie Cooper & Mary Astor
  • Doubting Thomas – directed by David Butler, starring Will Rogers
  • Drake of England, starring Matheson Lang and Jane Baxter (GB)
  • Escapade – directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring William Powell
  • Escape Me Never, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner (GB)
  • Every Night at Eight – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring George Raft & Alice Faye
  • The Farmer Takes a Wife – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Janet Gaynor & Henry Fonda
  • Frisco Kid – directed by Lloyd Bacon, starring James Cagney
  • Foreign Affaires, directed by and starring Tom Walls (Britain)
  • Four Hours to Kill!, starring Richard Barthelmess
  • Front Page Woman – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis & George Brent
  • G Men – directed by William Keighley, starring James Cagney, Ann Dvorak, Margaret Lindsay, & Lloyd Nolan
  • The Ghost Goes West, directed by René Clair, starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette (GB)
  • The Gilded Lily – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
  • The Girl from 10th Avenue – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Bette Davis
  • The Girl from Marsh Croft – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, & Eduard von Winterstein
  • The Glass Key – directed by Frank Tuttle, starring George Raft
  • Go Into Your Dance – directed by Archie Mayo, starring Al Jolson & Ruby Keeler
  • Goin’ to Town – directed by Alexander Hall, starring Mae West
  • Gold Diggers of 1935 – directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Dick Powell & Gloria Stuart
  • The Good Fairy, starring Margaret Sullavan and Herbert Marshall
  • The Great Impersonation, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Edmund Lowe and Valerie Hobson
  • Hands Across the Table, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray
  • Harmony Lane, starring Douglass Montgomery
  • Home on the Range – starring Jackie Coogan & Randolph Scott
  • Hop-Along Cassidy, starring William Boyd
  • Hyde Park Corner, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Gordon Harker (Britain)
  • I Live My Life – directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Joan Crawford & Frank Morgan
  • The Informer – directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen
  • An Inn in Tokyo (Tokyo no yado), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
  • In Old Kentucky – directed by George Marshall, starring Will Rogers
  • Jánošík, directed by Martin Frič (Czechoslovakia)
  • Jedenácté přikázání (The Eleventh Commandment) (Czechoslovakia)
  • The Last Days of Pompeii – starring Preston Foster & Basil Rathbone
  • Let’s Go With Pancho Villa (Vámonos con Pancho Villa) (Mexico)
  • Life Begins at 40 – directed by George Marshall, starring Will Rogers
  • Little Big Shot – directed by Michael Curtiz
  • The Little Colonel – directed by David Butler, starring Shirley Temple & Lionel Barrymore
  • Little Mother (Kleine Mutti) (Austria/Hungary)
  • The Littlest Rebel, starring Shirley Temple
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper & Franchot Tone
  • Long Live with Dearly Departed (Ať žije nebožtík) (Czechoslovakia)
  • Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Abel Gance, starring Edwige Feuillère (France)
  • Mad Love – starring Peter Lorre
  • Magnificent Obsession – directed by John M. stahl, starring Irene Dunne & Robert Taylor
  • The Making of a King (Der alte und der junge König), starring Emil Jannings (Germany)
  • Man of the Moment, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. – (GB)
  • Man on the Flying Trapeze, starring W.C. Fields
  • The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, starring Ronald Colman and Joan Bennett
  • Mary Jane’s Pa – directed by William Keighley, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Robert McWade, Minor Watson and Nan Grey
  • Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed, starring Hughie Green and Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
  • The Million Ryo Pot (Tange Sazen Yowa: Hyakuman Ryō no Tsubo) (Japan)
  • Les Misérables – starring Fredric March & Charles Laughton
  • Mississippi – starring Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields & Joan Bennett
  • Moscow Nights – directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Laurence Olivier – UK
  • The Murder Man – starring Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
  • Music Hath Charms – directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Henry Hall – UK
  • Mutiny on the Bounty – directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Clark Gable & Charles Laughton
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Claude Rains and Valerie Hobson
  • Naughty Marietta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
  • The New Gulliver, directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, a stop motion-animated film (U.S.S.R.)
  • New Women – China
  • A Night at the Opera, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones
  • The Night Is Young, starring Ramon Navarro
  • No Limit, starring George Formby (GB)
  • No More Ladies – directed by Edward H. Griffith and George Cukor (uncredited), starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, film debut of Joan Fontaine (credited as Joan Burfield)
  • Our Little Girl, starring Shirley Temple
  • Page Miss Glory – directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Marion Davies, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Mary Astor, and Patsy Kelly
  • Party Wire, starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory
  • The Passing of the Third Floor Back – starring Conrad Veidt – UK
  • Peter Ibbetson – directed by Henry Hathaway, starring Gary Cooper & Ann Harding
  • Pillars of Society – directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Heinrich George, Maria Krahn, & Albrecht Schoenhals – Germany
  • Police Chief Antek (Antek policmajster) (Poland)
  • Princess Tam Tam – starring Josephine Baker – France
  • Private Worlds – starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea
  • Professional Soldier – starring Victor McLaglen
  • Public Hero No. 1 – starring Lionel Barrymore & Jean Arthur
  • The Raven – starring Boris Karloff & Béla Lugosi
  • Reckless – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone
  • Red Passport – directed by Guido Brignone, starring Isa Miranda – Italy
  • Red Salute – directed by Sidney Lanfield, starring Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Young
  • Remember Last Night? – directed by James Whale, starring Edward Arnold & Constance Cummings
  • Rendezvous – directed by William K. Howard & Sam Wood (uncredited), starring William Powell
  • The Right to Love – directed by William Keighley, starring Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, & Colin Clive
  • Roberta – directed by William A. Seiter – starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, with an uncredited appearance by Lucille Ball
  • Royal Cavalcade, a historical film celebrating George V’s silver jubilee with six directors and a large ensemble cast (GB)
  • Ruggles of Red Gap – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, & ZaSu Pitts
  • The Scoundrel, starring Noël Coward
  • Scrooge – UK
  • She – starring Randolph Scott
  • She Couldn’t Take It, starring George Raft and Joan Bennett
  • She Married Her Boss – directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Claudette Colbert & Melvyn Douglas
  • Sheela – Indian
  • Shanghai, starring Charles Boyer and Loretta Young
  • So Red the Rose, starring Margaret Sullavan
  • Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm – China
  • The Soul of the Accordion – Argentina
  • Special Agent – directed by William Keighley, starring Bette Davis & George Brent
  • Splendor, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
  • Squibs directed by Henry Edwards and starring Betty Balfour (Britain)
  • Star of Midnight – starring William Powell and Ginger Rogers
  • Stars Over Broadway – directed by William Keighley, starring Pat O’Brien, Jane Froman, James Melton, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, & Eddie Conrad
  • Steamboat Round the Bend, starring Will Rogers
  • A Tale of Two Cities, starring Ronald Colman and Elizabeth Allan
  • Thanks a Million, starring Dick Powell and Ann Dvorak
  • Toni – directed by Jean Renoir – France
  • Top Hat – directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
  • The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes, starring Arthur Wontner
  • Triumph of the Will – directed by Leni Riefenstahl – documentary – Germany
  • Tumbling Tumbleweeds – directed by Joseph Kane, starring Gene Autry
  • Trans-atlantic Tunnel – starring Richard Dix & Leslie Banks – UK
  • Turn of the Tide – starring John Garrick & Geraldine Fitzgerald – UK
  • Villa for Sale – Hungary
  • The Village Squire – starring Vivien Leigh – UK
  • Waterfront Lady, starring Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson
  • The Wedding Night – directed by King Vidor, starring Gary Cooper & Anna Sten
  • Werewolf of London, starring Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
  • Westward Ho – directed by Robert N. Bradbury, starring John Wayne
  • The Whole Town’s Talking – directed by John Ford, starring Edward G. Robinson & Jean Arthur
  • Way Down East – directed by Henry King, starring Henry Fonda
  • The Woman in Red – directed by Robert Florey, starring Barbara Stanwyck & Gene Raymond
  • Xin nü xing – directed by: Chusheng Cai, starring, Ruan Lingyu, Naidong Wang, & Junli Zheng – China
  • The Youth of Maxim – USSR