1937

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)

  • Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
  • Action for Slander, starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd (GB)
  • Ali Baba Goes to Town, starring Eddie Cantor
  • Andula Won (Andula vyhrála) (Czechoslovakia)
  • Angel – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Marlene Dietrich
  • Annapolis Salute, starring James Ellison
  • Artists and Models – directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Jack Benny & Ida Lupino
  • The Awful Truth – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Irene Dunne & Cary Grant
  • Battle of Greed – starring Tom Keene
  • Bezhin Meadow – directed by Sergei Eisenstein (U.S.S.R.)
  • Big City – starring Luise Rainer & Spencer Tracy
  • Bizarre, Bizarre (Drôle de drame ou L’étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Louis Jouvet and Michel Simon (France)
  • Black Legion – starring Humphrey Bogart
  • Born to the West – starring John Wayne
  • Breakfast for Two – directed by Alfred Santell, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Glenda Farrell
  • The Bride Wore Red, directed by Dorothy Arzner, starring Joan Crawford
  • Brief Ecstasy, starring Paul Lukas (GB)
  • Broadway Melody of 1938 – starring Eleanor Powell and Judy Garland
  • Captains Courageous – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Freddie Bartholomew & Spencer Tracy
  • Charlie Chan at the Olympics, starring Warner Oland
  • Confession – starring Kay Francis & Basil Rathbone
  • Conquest, starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer
  • Crossroads (Shi zi jie tou) (China)
  • A Damsel in Distress – starring Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine
  • Danger – Love at Work – directed by Otto Preminger
  • The Daughter of the Samurai (Die Tochter des Samurai / Atarashiki tsuchi), directed by Arnold Fanck and Mansaku Itami (Germany/Japan)
  • Daughter of Shanghai, starring Anna May Wong and Philip Ahn
  • A Day at the Races, directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers
  • Dead End – directed by William Wyler, starring Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor
  • Double Wedding – starring William Powell & Myrna Loy
  • Dreaming Lips, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey (Britain)
  • Duniya Na Mane (The Unexpected) (India)
  • The Dybbuk, Yiddish language film from (Poland)
  • Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur and Edward Arnold
  • The Edge of the World, directed by Michael Powell (GB)
  • Elephant Boy, directed by Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, starring Sabu (GB)
  • España 1936, a documentary produced and co-written by Luis Buñuel (Spain)
  • Ever Since Eve, starring Marion Davies and Robert Montgomery
  • A Family Affair, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
  • Fire Over England – starring Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh (GB)
  • The Firefly, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones
  • First Lady, starring Kay Francis and Preston Foster
  • Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
  • The Good Earth, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer (Academy Award for Best Actress)
  • Good Morning, Boys, starring Will Hay (GB)
  • Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir, starring Jean Gabin and Dita Parlo (France)
  • The Great Barrier, starring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer (GB)
  • The Great Garrick – directed by James Whale, starring Brian Aherne & Olivia de Havilland
  • The Great O’Malley – starring Pat O’Brien & Humphrey Bogart
  • Green Fields – a Yiddish language film
  • Gribouille (a.k.a. The Meddler), starring Raimu and Michèle Morgan (France)
  • La Habanera, directed by Douglas Sirk (Germany)
  • Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews (GB)
  • Heidi, starring Shirley Temple
  • High, Wide, and Handsome – starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott
  • History is Made at Night, starring Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur
  • Humanity and Paper Balloons (Ninjō Kami Fūsen) (Japan)
  • The Hurricane, starring Dorothy Lamour
  • Internes Can’t Take Money – directed by Alfred Santell, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, and Stanley Ridges
  • It Happened in Hollywood, starring Richard Dix and Fay Wray
  • It’s Love I’m After – starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland
  • Jump for Glory, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Valerie Hobson (GB)
  • Kid Galahad – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
  • King Solomon’s Mines, starring Cedric Hardwicke and Paul Robeson (GB)
  • Knight Without Armour – starring Marlene Dietrich & Robert Donat (GB)
  • Lancashire Luck, film debut of Wendy Hiller (GB)
  • The Last Gangster – starring Edward G. Robinson & James Stewart
  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, starring Joan Crawford and William Powell
  • Law for Tombstone, directed by and starring Buck Jones
  • Layla and Majnun directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta (Iran)
  • The Life of Emile Zola – directed by William Dieterle, starring Paul Muni
  • Lost Horizon – directed by Frank Capra, starring Ronald Colman & Jane Wyatt
  • Love from a Stranger – starring Ann Harding & Basil Rathbone – (GB)
  • Love Is on the Air, directed by Nick Grinde, starring Ronald Reagan and June Travis
  • Madame X, starring Gladys George and Warren William
  • Maid of Salem – directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray
  • Make Way for Tomorrow – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Victor Moore & Beulah Bondi
  • The Man Who Found Himself – directed by Lew Lander, starring John Beal, Joan Fontaine
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (Der Mann, der Sherlock Holmes war) (Germany)
  • Marked Woman – directed by Lloyd Bacon & Michael Curtiz (uncredited), starring Bette Davis & Humphrey Bogart
  • Maytime, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
  • Men in Exile – directed by John Farrow, starring Dick Purcell
  • Morality Above All Else (Mravnost nade vše) (Czechoslovakia)
  • Music for Madame – directed by John G. Blystone, starring Nino Martini, Joan Fontaine
  • Nancy Steele Is Missing! – directed by George Marshall & Otto Preminger (uncredited), starring Victor McLaglen & Peter Lorre
  • Navy Blue and Gold – starring Robert Young, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
  • Night Must Fall, starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell
  • Nothing Sacred, directed by William Wellman, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March
  • Oh, Mr Porter!, starring Will Hay (GB)
  • O-Kay for Sound, starring The Crazy Gang (GB)
  • The Old Mill, a Silly Symphonies cartoon
  • On the Avenue, starring Dick Powell & Madeleine Carroll, with songs by Irving Berlin
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl, starring Deanna Durbin and Leopold Stokowski
  • Parnell – starring Clark Gable & Myrna Loy
  • Pépé le Moko, directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Jean Gabin (France)
  • Pick a Star, starring Jack Haley
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves
  • The Perfect Specimen – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al.
  • The Prince and the Pauper – directed by William Keighley, starring Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Billy and Bobby Mauch
  • The Prisoner of Zenda, starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll
  • Quality Street – starring Katharine Hepburn & Franchot Tone
  • The Road Back, directed by James Whale
  • Saratoga – starring Clark Gable & Jean Harlow in her last film
  • The Seven Ravens (Germany)
  • Seventh Heaven – starring James Stewart and Simone Simon
  • She Loved a Fireman – directed by John Farrow, starring Dick Foran & Ann Sheridan
  • Shall We Dance – starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
  • Il signor Max – starring Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
  • Silver Blaze, starring Arthur Wontner
  • Skeleton on Horseback (Bílá nemoc), directed by and starring Hugo Haas (Czechoslovakia)
  • Slave Ship, starring Warner Baxter and Wallace Beery
  • Slim, starring Henry Fonda
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, first American feature-length animated film. Directed by David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben Sharpsteen, starring Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Roy Atwell, Pinto Colvig, Otis Harlan, Scotty Mattraw, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Collins, Moroni Olsen, and Stuart Buchanan
  • The Soldier and the Lady
  • Something to Sing About, directed by Victor Schertzinger, starring James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley
  • Song at Midnight (Ye ban ge sheng) (China)
  • Souls at Sea – starring Gary Cooper & George Raft
  • Stage Door – starring Katharine Hepburn & Ginger Rogers
  • Stand-In – starring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart
  • A Star Is Born – starring Janet Gaynor & Fredric March
  • Stella Dallas – directed by King Vidor, starring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley
  • Storm in a Teacup – starring Vivien Leigh & Rex Harrison (GB)
  • Street Angel (Malu tianshi), starring Zhou Xuan (China)
  • The Tale of the Fox (Germany)
  • That Certain Woman – directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Bette Davis & Henry Fonda
  • The Three Garridebs, starring Louis Hector, in the first televised adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes character.
  • They Gave Him a Gun – directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring Spencer Tracy & Gladys George
  • They Won’t Forget, starring Claude Rains
  • Think Fast, Mr. Moto – starring Peter Lorre
  • This Is My Affair – directed by William A. Seiter, starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen & Brian Donlevy
  • Thunder in the City – directed by Marion Gering, starring Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Ralph Richardson (GB)
  • To New Shores, directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Zarah Leander (Germany)
  • Topper – starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young
  • Tovarich – directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Claudette Colbert & Charles Boyer
  • Tři vejce do skla (Three eggs in a glass) (Czechoslovakia)
  • True Confession, starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore
  • Varsity Show – directed by William Keighley, starring Dick Powell, Fred Waring and Waring’s Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy, and Priscilla Lane
  • The Vicar of Bray, starring Stanley Holloway
  • Victoria the Great, starring Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook (GB)
  • Way Out West, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  • Wee Willie Winkie, starring Shirley Temple
  • Wells Fargo, starring Joel McCrea
  • West of Shanghai – directed by John Farrow, starring Boris Karloff
  • What Did the Lady Forget? (Shukujo wa nani wo wasureta ka), directed by Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)
  • Wise Girl, starring Miriam Hopkins and Ray Milland
  • Without Dowry (Bespridannitsa) (U.S.S.R.)
  • Woman Chases Man, starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea
  • The Woman I Love, starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins
  • Yoshiwara, directed by Max Ophüls, starring Sessue Hayakawa (France)
  • You Can’t Beat Love – directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine
  • You Can’t Have Everything, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Gypsy Rose Lee
  • You Only Live Once – directed by Fritz Lang, starring Henry Fonda & Sylvia Sidney
  • Young and Innocent – directed by Alfred Hitchcock (GB)
  • You’re a Sweetheart
  • You’re Only Young Once, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
  • Znachor (The Miracle Man) (Poland)