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