Film Decades: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Each review will be linked to the title below.
(*seen originally in theaters)
(**seen rereleased in theaters)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney and Rex Ingram
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- Allegheny Uprising, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne
- Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- The Angels Wash Their Faces, starring Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids
- The Amazing Mr. Williams, starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell
- Another Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
- The Arizona Kid, starring Roy Rogers
- The Arsenal Stadium Mystery – (GB)
- Ask a Policeman, starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott – (GB)
- At the Circus, starring the Marx Brothers
- Babes in Arms, directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
- Bachelor Mother – starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
- Bad Lands, starring Robert Barrat and Robert Coote
- Barricade, starring Alice Faye and Warner Baxter
- Beau Geste – directed by William Wellman, starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland
- Bel Ami – (Germany)
- Blackmail, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Blue Montana Skies, starring Gene Autry
- Boy Slaves
- Boys’ Reformatory, starring Frankie Darro
- Blue Montana Skies
- The Bronze Buckaroo, starring Herb Jeffries
- The Cat and the Canary, starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard
- Cesta do hlubin študákovy duše – (Czechoslovakia)
- Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, starring Sidney Toler
- Charlie Chan in Reno, starring Sidney Toler and Ricardo Cortez
- Cheer Boys Cheer, starring Nova Pilbeam (GB)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas
- Dark Victory – starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan
- Daughter of the Tong, starring Evelyn Brent and Grant Withers
- Days of Jesse James, directed by Joseph Kane, starring Roy Rogers
- Destry Rides Again – directed by George Marshall, starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart
- Dodge City – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
- Drums Along the Mohawk- directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert
- Each Dawn I Die – directed by William Keighley, starring James Cagney and George Raft
- The Empress Wu Tse-tien – (China)
- Eva tropí hlouposti (Eva Fools Around) – (Czechoslovakia)
- Everything Happens at Night, starring Sonja Henie and Ray Milland
- Fifth Ave Girl – starring Ginger Rogers and Walter Connolly
- First Love, starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Stack
- Five Came Back, directed by John Farrow, starring Lucille Ball and Chester Morris
- The Flying Deuces, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, starring Laurel and Hardy
- The Flying Irishman, starring Douglas Corrigan
- The Four Feathers, starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson – (GB)
- The Four Just Men, directed by Walter Forde (GB)
- Frontier Marshal – starring Randolph Scott, Cesar Romero, John Carradine
- Full Confession – starring Victor McLaglen
- The Girl from Mexico, starring Lupe Velez
- A Girl Must Live, directed by Carol Reed, starring Margaret Lockwood – (GB)
- Golden Boy – directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou and William Holden
- Gone with the Wind** – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel – Academy Awards for best picture, director, actress and supporting actress
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Sam Wood, starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson – (GB)
- Gulliver’s Travels, starring Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross
- Gunga Din – directed by George Stevens, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sam Jaffe, Joan Fontaine
- The Hardys Ride High, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence, starring Glenn Ford
- Hello Janine!, starring Marika Rökk – (Germany)
- Hollywood Cavalcade, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis
- Honolulu, starring Eleanor Powell, Burns and Allen
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – first in Sherlock Holmes series starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – directed by William Dieterle, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara
- I Met a Murderer, starring James Mason – (GB)
- Idiot’s Delight – starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer
- In Name Only – starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis
- Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday, starring Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim – (GB)
- Intermezzo – starring Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard
- It’s a Wonderful World – directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starring James Stewart and Claudette Colbert
- Jamaica Inn – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O’Hara – (GB)
- Jesse James – starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott
- Juarez, starring Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Brian Aherne
- Le Jour se lève (Daybreak), directed by Marcel Carné, starring Jean Gabin and Arletty – (France)
- Judge Hardy and Son, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden
- King of the Underworld – starring Humphrey Bogart and Kay Francis
- The Lambeth Walk, directed by Albert de Courville, starring Lupino Lane and Sally Gray – (GB)
- The Last Turning (Le Dernier Tournant), starring Michel Simon – (France)
- Lenin in 1918 (Lenin v 1918 godu) – (USSR)
- Let Us Live, starring Maureen O’Sullivan and Henry Fonda
- The Little Princess, starring Shirley Temple and Richard Greene
- Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer
- Lucky Night, starring Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor
- Made For Each Other – starring Carole Lombard, James Stewart, and Charles Coburn
- Maisie, starring Robert Young and Ann Sothern
- The Man in the Iron Mask, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William
- Man of Conquest – starring Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine
- Mexicali Rose – starring Gene Autry
- Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
- The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, first British film shot in Technicolor – (GB)
- Million Dollar Legs, starring Betty Grable
- Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation – starring Peter Lorre
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
- Mr. Wong in Chinatown, starring Boris Karloff
- The Mystery of Mr. Wong, starring Boris Karloff
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, starring Bonita Granville
- Never Say Die, starring Martha Raye and Bob Hope
- Ninotchka – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi
- Of Mice and Men, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr.
- Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise, a comedy short starring The Three Stooges
- The Oklahoma Kid – starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp
- The Old Maid, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
- On Borrowed Time, starring Lionel Barrymore and Cedric Hardwicke
- On Dress Parade, starring The Dead End Kids
- On the Night of the Fire (aka The Fugitive), starring Ralph Richardson – (GB)
- On Your Toes, screenplay by Lawrence Riley, starring Vera Zorina and Eddie Albert
- Only Angels Have Wings – starring Cary Grant, Rita Hayworth and Jean Arthur
- Prisioneros de la tierra (Prisoners of the Land) – (Argentina)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Vincent Price
- Q Planes, starring Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier – (GB)
- The Rains Came, starring Tyrone Power and Myrna Loy
- Range War, a Hopalong Cassidy western starring William Boyd
- Remember?, starring Greer Garson, Robert Taylor, Lew Ayres
- The Return of Doctor X – a horror film starring Humphrey Bogart
- The Roaring Twenties – starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
- The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
- The Saint in London, starring George Sanders
- The Saint Strikes Back, starring George Sanders
- Seven Little Australians, directed by Arthur Greville Collins – (Australia)
- Son of Frankenstein, – starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
- De Spooktrein (The Ghost Train) – (Netherlands)
- The Spy in Black, directed by Michael Powell, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson – (GB)
- Stagecoach – directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill, John Carradine
- Stanley and Livingstone – starring Spencer Tracy and Cedric Hardwicke
- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Zangiku monogatari), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan)
- The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle – starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
- Susannah of the Mounties – starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott
- Swanee River, starring Don Ameche
- Tarzan Finds a Son!, starring Johnny Weissmuller
- These Glamour Girls, starring Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown
- They Made Me a Criminal, starring John Garfield
- They Shall Have Music, starring Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Walter Brennan
- The Three Musketeers, starring Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers
- Three Smart Girls Grow Up, starring Deanna Durbin and Robert Cummings
- Three Texas Steers – directed by George Sherman, starring John Wayne
- Tower of London – starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price
- Tsuchi (Japan)
- The Trip to Tilsit (Die Reise nach Tilsit) – (Germany)
- Union Pacific – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea
- Vasilisa the Beautiful (Vasilisa prekrasnaya) – (U.S.S.R.)
- The Vyborg Side (Vyborgskaya storona) – (U.S.S.R.)
- Way Down South, directed by Leslie Goodwins and Bernard Vorhaus
- Wilton’s Zoo (Boefje), directed by Douglas Sirk – (Netherlands)
- The Wizard of Oz – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton
- The Women – directed by George Cukor, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine
- Wuthering Heights – directed by William Wyler, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson
- Wyoming Outlaw – directed by George Sherman, starring John Wayne
- Yes, My Darling Daughter – directed by William Keighley, starring Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn
- You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man, starring W.C. Fields
- Young Man’s Fancy, directed by Robert Stevenson, starring Anna Lee – (GB)
- Young Mr. Lincoln – directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Alice Brady
- Zenobia, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Oliver Hardy
- Zorro’s Fighting Legion, starring Reed Hadley