Movies by Lists - MGM 100th Anniversary 1930s Movies (35 [35]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Anna KareninaThe married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions. | 1935 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (5.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Barretts of Wimpole Street, TheElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. | 1934 | Sidney Franklin | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
BombshellA glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. | 1933 | Victor Fleming (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (2.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Boys TownWhen a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys. | 1938 | Norman Taurog | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.3 (5.6K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
CamilleA Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. | 1936 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (7.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Captains CourageousA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. | 1937 | Victor Fleming (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family | 8.0 (9.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
Champ , TheAn alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son. | 1931 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Family, Sport | 7.3 (3.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Christmas Carol, AAn elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve. | 1938 | Edwin L. Marin | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 (7.4K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Citadel, TheAn enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails. | 1938 | King Vidor (*) | Drama | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
David CopperfieldA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. | 1935 | George Cukor (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance | 7.4 (4.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
Day At The Races, AA veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse. | 1937 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy, Family, Musical, Sport | 7.6 (13.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Dinner at EightAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 7.5 (8.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Divorcee, TheWhen a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind. | 1930 | Robert Z. Leonard | Romance, Drama | 6.7 (3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
FreaksA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. | 1932 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.9 (45.1K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
FuryWhen a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder. | 1936 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (12.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.1 (306.3K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
Good Earth, TheAlthough married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. | 1937 | Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav MachatĂ˝, Sam Wood | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.9K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
Goodbye Mr. ChipsAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | 1939 | Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (10.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Great Ziegfeld, TheThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Musical | 6.7 (7.9K votes) | 176 | 20211228 |
Libeled LadyWhen a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true. | 1936 | Jack Conway | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (7.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Love Finds Andy HardyAndy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled. | 1938 | George B. Seitz | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Mad LoveIn Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing. | 1935 | Karl Freund | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (5.1K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Mata HariA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I. | 1931 | George Fitzmaurice | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Mutiny on the BountyFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny. | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (22.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
Night at the Opera, AA sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. | 1935 | Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Comedy, Music, Musical | 7.9 (32.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Queen ChristinaQueen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves. | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
San FranciscoA Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally in 1906 San Francisco. | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (5.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Tale of Two Cities, AA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution. | 1935 | Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, History, Romance | 7.8 (5.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
Tarzan The Ape ManA trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes. | 1932 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.0 (7.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Treasure IslandYoung Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure. | 1934 | Victor Fleming (*) | Adventure, Family | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 110 | 20220723 |
Wizard of Oz, TheYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishe | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (384.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Women, TheA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. | 1939 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (13.6K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |