10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1930-х по версии Jeffrey M . Anderson (Combustible Celluloid):

1939
1. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
2. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
3. Stagecoach (John Ford)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
7. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
8. Miracles for Sale (Tod Browning)
9. Gunga Din (George Stevens)
10. Gulliver's Travels (Dave Fleischer)

Runners up: Another Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding), Destry Rides Again (George Marshall), Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming), The Hound of the Bakservilles (Sidney Lanfield), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra), Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee), The Women (George Cukor)

1938
1. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
2. Holiday (George Cukor)
3. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
5. You Can't Take It with You (Frank Capra)
6. La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
7. Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)
8. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
9. Three Comrades (Frank Borzage)
10. Room Service (William A. Seiter)

Runners up: n/a

1937
1. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cottrell, David Hand)
4. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
5. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
6. The Hurricane (John Ford)
7. A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
8. Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
10. A Damsel in Distress (George Stevens)

Runners up: Nothing Sacred (William Wellman), Heidi (Allan Dwan), Way Out West (James W. Horne), Marked Woman (Lloyd Bacon)

1936
1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
3. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
4. Swing Time (George Stevens)
5. Desire (Frank Borzage)
6. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
7. Camille (George Cukor)
8. After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
9. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. The Devil Doll (Tod Browning)

Runners up: Ceiling Zero (Howard Hawks), The Milky Way (Leo McCarey), The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu), Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell), Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock), Show Boat (James Whale), Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich), Fury (Fritz Lang), Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer)

1935
1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
3. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
4. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
5. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown)
7. Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning)
8. The Informer (John Ford)
9. Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz)
10. Mad Love (Karl Freund)

Runners up: Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks), The Good Fairy (William Wyler), The Raven (Louis Friedlander), Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor), Legong: Dance of the Virgins (Henri de la Falaise)

1934
1. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
4. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
5. A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
7. Judge Priest (John Ford)
8. It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
9. Tarzan and His Mate (Cedric Gibbons)
10. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

Runners up: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), The Lost Patrol (John Ford), The Goddess (Yonggang Wu)

1933
1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack)
3. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
4. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
5. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
6. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
7. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian)
8. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
9. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon)
10. Ecstasy (Gustav Machaty)

Runners up: Little Women (George Cukor), Dinner at Eight (George Cukor), Counsellor at Law (William Wyler), Hallelujah I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone), Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch), Lady for a Day (Frank Capra), Gabriel over the White House (Gregory La Cava)

1932
1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. The Old Dark House (James Whale)
3. I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
5. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6. Freaks (Tod Browning)
7. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
8. The Mummy (Karl Freund)
9. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
10. Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke)

Runners up: Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack), The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor), Red Dust (Victor Fleming), White Zombie (Victor Halperin), Liebelei (Max Ophuls), Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian), The Music Box (James Parrott)

1931
1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
2. M (Fritz Lang)
3. Tabu (F.W. Murnau/Robert J. Flaherty)
4. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
5. The Criminal Code (Howard Hawks)
6. Dracula (Tod Browning)
7. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Frankenstein (James Whale)
9. Waterloo Bridge (James Whale)
10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)

Runners up: Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock), Night Nurse (William Wellman), The Public Enemy (William Wellman), À Nous la Liberté (René Clair), Taris (Jean Vigo), Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)

1930
1. L'Age d'Or (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali)
2. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
3. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
4. People on Sunday (Edgar G. Ulmer, Robert Siodmak, etc.)
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
6. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
7. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
8. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Anna Christie (Clarence Brown)
10. The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard)

Runners up: Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair), The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh), The Golf Specialist (Monte Brice)

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии издания WhatNerd:

Top-10:
1. Gone With the Wind (1939), by Victor Fleming
2. The Wizard of Oz (1939), by Victor Fleming
3. The 39 Steps (1935), by Alfred Hitchcock
4. Modern Times (1936), by Charlie Chaplin
5. Stagecoach (1939), by John Ford
6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), by David Hand, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben Sharpsteen
7. M (1931), by Fritz Lang
8. King Kong (1933),by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
9. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), by Frank Capra
10. Frankenstein (1931), by James Whale

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии издания Slash Films:

Top-15:
M
Death Takes a Holiday
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
City Lights
Scarface
Ninotchka
The Wizard of Oz
Holiday
It Happened One Night
Freaks
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The 39 Steps
All Quiet on the Western Front
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Design for Living

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1930-х по версии Vadim Rizov:

1930.
1. HOMETOWN (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg)
3. HELL'S ANGELS (Howard Hughes)
4. CITY GIRL (F.W. Murnau)
5. WESTFRONT 1918 (G.W. Pabst)

Shorts: GOING PLACES (Murray Roth)

1931.
1. PLATINUM BLONDE (Frank Capra)
2. STRICTLY DISHONORABLE (John M. Stahl)
3. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
4. A NOUS LA LIBERTE (René Clair)
5. GIRLS OF LEISURE (George Cukor)
6. SEED (John. M. Stahl)
7. MONKEY BUSINESS (Norman Z. McLeod)
8. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (William A. Wellman)
9. CONSOLATION MARRIAGE (Paul Sloane)
10. THE CRIMINAL CODE (Howard Hawks)

1932.
1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
2. LOVE ME TONIGHT (Rouben Mamoulian)
3. NIGHT WORLD (Hobart Henley)
4. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (Mervyn LeRoy)
5. A BLONDE DREAM (Paul Martin)
6. RED DUST (Victor Fleming)
7. IVAN (Alexander Dovzhenko)
8. AIR MAIL (John Ford)
9. BY WHOSE HAND? (Ben Stoloff)
10. SINNERS IN THE SUN (Alexander Hall)

Also: VIRTUE (Edward Buzzell), JEWEL ROBBERY (William Dieterle), SCARFACE (Howard Hawks), HORSE FEATHERS (Norman Z. McLeod), TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch), BLESSED EVENT (Roy Del Ruth)
Shorts: KOLORATUREN (Oskar Fischinger)

1933.
1. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey)
2. ZOO IN BUDAPEST (Rowland V. Lee)
3. FOOTLIGHT PARADE (Lloyd Bacon)
4. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
5. BOMBSHELL (Victor Fleming)
6. PRISONER 13 (Fernando de Fuentes)
7. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo)
8. PASSING FANCY (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. THE INVISIBLE MAN (James Whale)
10. KING KONG (Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper)

Also: STATE FAIR (Henry King), I AM SUZANNE! (Rowland V. Lee), WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD (William A. Wellman), OUTSKIRTS (Boris Barnet), SHE DONE HIM WRONG (Lowell Sherman)

1934.
1. THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY (William Beaudine)
2. THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
3. MY BUDDY MENDOZA (Fernando de Fuentes)
4. ONE MORE RIVER (James Whale)
5. IT'S A GIFT (Norman Z. McLeod)
6. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Frank Capra)
8. BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK (Roy Del Ruth)
9. THE THIN MAN (W.S. Van Dyke)
10. L'ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

Also: TWENTIETH CENTURY (Howard Hawks)
Shorts: MURATTI GRAFT EIN (Oskar Fischinger)

1935.
1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
2. THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
3. TOP HAT (Mark Sandrich)
4. THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE (Clyde Bruckman)
5. THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN (Josef von Sternberg)
6. THE DOWNFALL OF OSEN (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (John M. Stahl)
8. WIFE! BE LIKE A ROSE! (Mikio Naruse)
9. AN INN IN TOKYO (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. THE GOOD FAIRY (William Wyler)

Also: THE SCOUNDREL (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes), THE STEEL ANIMAL (Willy Zielke), THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock), THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING (John Ford)
Shorts: KOMPOSITION IN BLAU (Oskar Fischinger)

1936.
1. MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Frank Capra)
2. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)
3. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. SISTERS OF THE GION (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. THE THIRTEEN (Mikhail Romm)
6. THE ONLY SON (Yasujiro Ozu)
7. COME AND GET IT (Howard Hawks, William Wyler)
8. CAMILLE (George Cukor)
9. MY MAN GODFREY (Gregory La Cava)
10. OSAKA ELEGY (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1937.
1. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
2. YOUNG AND INNOCENT (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. STELLA DALLAS (King Vidor)
4. YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (Fritz Lang)
5. PEPE LE MOKO (Julien Duvivier)
6. STAGE DOOR (Gregory La Cava)
7. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
8. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Michael Powell)

1938.
1. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Michael Curtiz)
2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. QUADRILLE (Sacha Guitry)
4. CAREFREE (Mark Sandrich)
5. FIVE SCOUTS (Tomotaka Tasaka)
6. HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
7. PORT OF SHADOWS (Marcel Carné)
8. BROADWAY MUSKETEERS (John Farrow)

Shorts: COTILLION (Joseph Cornell)

1939.
1. LOVE AFFAIR (Leo McCarey)
2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
3. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (George Marshall)
4. STAGECOACH (John Ford)
5. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
6. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Frank Capra)
7. THE ROARING TWENTIES (Raoul Walsh)
8. THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming, George Cukor)
10. NINOTCHKA (Ernst Lubitsch)

Also: MIDNIGHT (Mitchell Leisen)

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии издания The Gibson Review:

Top-10:
1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
2. Modern Times (1936)
3. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
4. My Man Godfrey (1936)
5. The Thin Man (1934)
6. A Night at the Opera (1935) 7. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
8. Frankenstein (1931)
9. Dracula (1931)
10. King Kong (1933)

11-20:
11. Stagecoach (1939)
12. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
13. City Lights (1931)
14. The Women (1939)
15. Duck Soup (1933)
16. M (1931)
17. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
18. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
19. Boys Town (1938)
20. The Invisible Man (1933)

21-30:
21. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
22. Sons of the Desert (1933)
23. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
24. Heidi (1937)
25. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
26. Freaks (1932)
27. Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
28. The Hound of Baskervilles (1939)
29. The Little Princess (1939)
30. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Лучшие фильмы 1930-х годов по версии Jonathan Rosenbaum:

1930
L'age d'Or (Bunuel)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
The Blue Angel (Sternberg)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
Her Man (Tay Garnett)
Laughter (Harry d'Arrast)
Monte Carlo (Lubitsch)
Sous les toits de Paris (Clair)
Tabu (Murnau)
That Night's Wife (Ozu)

1931
Blonde Crazy (Roy del Ruth)
The Champ (King Vidor)
La chienne (Renoir)
City Lights (Chaplin)
Dishonored (Sternberg)
Enthusiasm (Vertov)
M (Lang)
The Man I Killed (Lubitsch)
La nuit du carrefour (Renoir)
Philips Radio (Joris Ivens)
The Struggle (Griffith)

1932
Boudu sauve des eaux (Renoir)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)
Las hurdes (Land Without Bread) (Bunuel)
Ivan (Dovzhenko)
I Was Born But (Ozu)
Love Me Tonight (Robert Mamoulian)
Marie, legende hongrois (Fejos)
The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
Me and My Gal (Walsh)
Million Dollar Legs (Edward F. Cline)
The Music Box (James Parrott)
The Old Dark Horse (James Whale)
One Hour with You (Lubitsch)
Scarface (Hawks)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Zero de conduite (Jean Vigo)

1933
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
Bombshell (Victor Fleming)
Deserter (Pudovkin)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
The Great Consoler (Kuleshov)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Milestone)
Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy)
Man's Castle (Borzage)
Passing Fancy (Ozu)
Stoopnocracy (Dave Fleischer)
Topaze (d'Arrast)

1934
Angele (Marcel Pagnol)
L'atalante (Vigo)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
Cleopatra (DeMille)
The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
Judge Priest (John Ford)
Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
The Scarlet Empress (Sternberg)
La signora di tutti (Max Ophuls)
Toni (Renoir)
Twentieth Century (Hawks)

1935
Aerograd / Frontier (Dovzhenko)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
Le crime de Monsieur Lange (Renoir)
Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey)
The Scoundrel (Ben Hecht / Charles MacArthur)
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)

1936
The Devil Doll (Browning)
Fury (Lang)
Modern Times (Chaplin)
The Only Son (Ozu)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (Ford)
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
Slussakkord (Final Accord) (Douglas Sirk)
Show Boat (Whale)

1937
La grande illusion (Renoir)
The Great Garrick (Whale)
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
Les perles de la couronne (Sacha Guitry)
You Only Live Once (Lang)

1938
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
La bete humaine (Renoir)
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoi)
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
Olympia (Leni Riefenshahl)
You and Me (Lang)

1939
L'espoir (Andre Malraux)
Love Affair (McCarey)
Only Angels Have Wings (Hawks)
La regle du jeu (Renoir)
Story of Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)

10 лучших фильмов каждого года из 1930-х по версии Ed Gonzalez (Slant Magazine):

1930:
1. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
2. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
3. L’ Age D’Or (Luis Buñuel)
4. Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
5. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
6. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
7. Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
8. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. All Quiet On the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)

Honorable Mention: Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch), Min and Bill (George W. Hill), Hell’s Angels (Howard Hughes), Anna Christie (Clarence Brown), Free and Easy (Edward Sedgwick), Our Blushing Brides (Harry Beaumont), Prix de Beaute (Augusto Genina)

Blind Spots: Salt for Svanetia (Mikheil Kalatozishvili), People on Sunday (Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer and Fred Zinnemann), The Royal Family of Broadway (George Cukor and Cyril Gardner), The Devil to Pay! (George Fitzmaurice), Holiday (Edward H. Griffith), The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)

1931:
1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. Stolen Heaven (George Abbott)
3. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
4. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. Le Million (Rene Clair)
7. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
8. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
10. Man of the World (Edward Goodman & Richard Wallace)

Honorable Mention: The Last Flight (William Dieterle), La Chienne (Jean Renoir), The Front Page (Lewis Milestone), Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod), This Modern Age (Nick Grinde), À Nous la Liberté (Rene Clair), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), The Champ (King Vidor), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian), City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)

Blind Spots: Tokyo Chorus (Yasujirô Ozu), The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra), Hippolyt, the Lackey (Steve Sekely), Limite (Mario Peixoto), Girls in Uniform (Leontine Sagan), Marius (Alexander Korda & Marcel Pagnol), The Black Camel (Hamilton MacFadden), Emil and the Detectives (Gerhard Lamprecht), Erik Charell (Congress Dances), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra), Laugh and Get Rich (Gregory La Cava), Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman), Other Men’s Women (William A. Wellman), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Piel Jutzi), Girls About Town (George Cukor)

1932:
1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
4. ¡Que viva México! (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
5. Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
6. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
8. Rain (Lewis Milestone)
9. If I Had a Million (Lots of People)
10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)

Honorable Mention: Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding), One Hour With You (George Cukor and Ernst Lubistch), I Was Born, But… (Yasujirô Ozu), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg), Three on a Match (Mervyn LeRoy), The Old Dark House (James Whale), A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage), So Big! (William A. Wellman), Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock)

Blind Spots: Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle), Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille), This Is the Night (Frank Tuttle). and Doctor X (Michael Curtiz)

1933:
1. Hallelujah I’m a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
2. Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
3. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
4. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter)
7. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
8. Liebelei (Max Ophüls)
9. Secrets (Frank Borzage)
10. The Private Life of Henvy VIII (Alexander Korda)

Honorable Mention: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy), Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu), 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon), Ever in My Heart (Archie Mayo), Passing Fancy (Yasujirô Ozu), Lady for a Day (Frank Capra), The Devil’s Brother (Hal Roach & Charley Rogers), Baby Face (Alfred E. Green), I’m No Angel (Wesley Ruggles), Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner)

Blind Spots: Man’s Castle (Frank Borzage), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz), Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon), Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon), The Good Companions (Victor Saville), Only Yesterday (John Stahl), The Silver Cord (John Cromwell), The Stranger’s Return (King Vidor), Our Betters (George Cukor), Hello, Sister (Eric Von Stroheim), Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava), Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman), The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi), Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)

1934:
1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Three Songs of Lenin (Dziga Vertov)
4. Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl)
5. Liliom (Fritz Lang)
6. Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty)
7. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
8. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
9. Six of a Kind (Leo McCarey)
10. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)

Honorable Mention: We’re Not Dressing (Norman Taurog), You’re Telling Me! (Erle C. Kenton), Judge Priest (John Ford), Our Daily Bread (King Vidor), It Happened One Night (Frank Capra), The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks), The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich), The Story of the Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu), Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown)

Blind Spots: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), Hips Hips Hooray! (Mark Sandrich), No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage), Mills of the Gods (Roy William Neill), One More River (James Whale), Death Takes a Holiday (Mitchell Leisen), Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen), La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophüls), The Lost Patrol (John Ford), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin), Fog Over Frisco (William Dieterle), The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee), 6 Day Bike Rider (Lloyd Bacon), Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage), Plunder of Peach and Plum (Ying Yunwei)

1935:
1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. The Informer (John Ford)
3. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding & Sam Wood)
5. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
6. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
7. Roberta (William A. Seiter)
8. The Devil Is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
10. Toni (Jean Renoir)

Honorable Mention: The Good Fairy (William Wyler), Top Hat (Mark Sandrich), Mad Love (Karl Freund), Goin’ to Town (Alexander Hall), Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen), Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown), The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle), Man on the Flying Trapeze (Clyde Bruckman & W.C. Fields), Alice Adams (George Stevens), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt)

Blind Spots: The Raven (Lew Landers), Four Hours to Kill! (Mitchell Leisen), ’G’ Men (William Keighley), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway), Lucrezia Borgia (Abel Gance), The Ghost Goes West (René Clair), The Phantom Light (Michael Powell), Ah, Wilderness! (Clarence Brown), Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder), The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley), No More Ladies (Edward H. Griffith & George Cukor), The Whole Town’s Talking (John Ford), Naughty Marietta (Robert Z. Leonard & W.S. Van Dyke), The Black Room (Roy William Neill), Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)

1936:
1. Fury (Fritz Lang)
2. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Desire (Frank Borzage)
4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
5. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
6. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu)
8. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
9. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
10. Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)

Honorable Mention: Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies), Dodsworth (William Wyler), Libeled Lady (Jack Conway), Swing Time (George Stevens), Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer), Camille (George Cukor), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra), Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock), The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning), The Milky Way (Leo McCarey)

Blind Spots: They Were Five (Julien Duvivier), It’s Love Again (Victor Saville), Cesar (Marcel Pagnol), The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes), The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir), Show Boat (James Whale), Woman of Osaka (Kenji Mizoguchi), Mary of Scotland (John Ford), After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), The Plainsman (Cecile B. DeMille), Craig’s Wife (Dorothy Arzner), San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke), These Three (William Wyler), Mayerling (Anatole Litvak), The Garden of Allah (Richard Boleslawski), Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler), Three Godfathers (Richard Boleslawski), The Road to Glory (Howard Hawks), Small Town Girl (William A. Wellman), Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)

1937:
1. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
3. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
4. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
5. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6. Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
7. Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
8. Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
10. The Hurricane (John Ford)

Honorable Mention: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Lots of People), History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage), The Last of Mrs. Cheney (Richard Boleslawski), Topper (Norman Z. McLeod), Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman), Way Out West (James W. Horne), A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman), It’s Love I’m After (Archie Mayo), Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich), A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)

Blind Spots: Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka), Dick Tracy (Alan James & Ray Taylor), Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen), Bizarre, Bizarre (Marcel Carné), Life Dances On (Julien Duvivier), Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel), Angel (Ernst Lubitsch), Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen), Regain (Marcel Pagnol), To New Shores (Douglas Sirk), They Won’t Forget (Mervyn LeRoy), Confession (Joe May), The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell), Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford)

1938:
1. The Human Beast (Jean Renoir)
2. Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev)
4. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
6. The Citadel (King Vidor)
7. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl)
8. The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
10. You Can’t Take It With You (Frank Capra)

Honorable Mention: The Baker’s Wife (Marcel Pagnol), Block-Heads (John G. Blystone), Room Service (William A. Seiter), Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard), Swiss Miss (John G. Blystone), Three Comrades (Frank Borzage, 1938), The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding), La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir), Boys’ School (Christian-Jaque), The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoy)

Blind Spots: Mad About Music (Norman Taurog), Mars Attacks the World (Ford Beebe and Robert F. Hill), Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné), Ask a Policeman (Marcel Varnel), The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason), King of Alcatraz (Robert Florey), The Shopworn Angel (H.C. Potter), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norman Taurog), The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage), Joy of Living (Tay Garnett), Sidewalks of London (Tim Whelan), A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon)

1939:
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
6. The Women (George Cukor)
7. Daybreak (Marcel Carne)
8. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
9. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
10. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)

Honorable Mention: Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford), Midnight (Mitchell Leisen), The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding), Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch), Love Affair (Leo McCarey), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra), Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock), Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)

Blind Spots: The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker), Beau Geste (William Wellman), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle), and The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии критика Leonard Maltin:

The 39 Steps (1935)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
City Lights (1931)
Dodsworth (1936)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
Frankenstein (1931)
Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Grand Illusion (1937)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Gift (1934)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
M (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Stagecoach (1939)
Swing Time (1936)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии издания Collider:

Top-10:
1. 'Modern Times' (1936) Director: Charlie Chaplin
2. 'M' (1931) Director: Fritz Lang
3. 'City Lights' (1931) Director: Charlie Chaplin
4. 'It Happened One Night' (1934) Director: Frank Capra
5. 'Make Way for Tomorrow' (1937) Director: Leo McCarey
6. 'The Rules of the Game' (1939) Director: Jean Renoir
7. 'Grand Illusion' (1937) Director: Jean Renoir
8. 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1930) Director: Lewis Milestone
9. 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) Director: Victor Fleming
10. 'Only Angels Have Wings' (1939) Director: Howard Hawks

11-25:
11. 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' (1939) Director: Frank Capra
12. 'Trouble in Paradise' (1932) Director: Ernst Lubitsch
13.' The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum' (1939) Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
14. 'Stagecoach' (1939) Director: John Ford
15. 'I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang' (1932) Director: Mervyn LeRoy
16. 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse' (1933) Director: Fritz Lang
17. 'The Bride of Frankenstein' (1935) Director: James Whale
18. 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) Director: Howard Hawks
19. 'Les Misérables' (1934) Director: Raymond Bernard
20. 'The Roaring Twenties' (1939) Director: Raoul Walsh
21. 'Freaks' (1932) Director: Tod Browning
22. 'The Adventures of Robin Hood' (1938) Directors: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
23. 'Duck Soup' (1933) Director: Leo McCarey
24. 'Scarface' (1932) Director: Howard Hawks
25. 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1939) Director: William Dieterle

Лучшие ленты 1930-х годов по версии издания Films Fatale:

Top-10:
1. Аталанта / L'Atalante / 1934
2. Правила игры / La règle du jeu / 1939
3. Огни большого города / City Lights / 1931
4. Золотой век / L'âge d'or / 1930
5. Великая иллюзия / La grande illusion / 1937
6. М убийца / M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder / 1931
7. Богиня / Shennü / 1934
8. День начинается / Le jour se lève / 1939
9. На Западном фронте без перемен / All Quiet on the Western Front / 1930
10. Александр Невский / 1938

11-20:
11. Лицо со шрамом / Scarface / 1932
12. Новые времена / Modern Times / 1936
13. Ниночка / Ninotchka / 1939
14. Вампир: Сон Алена Грея / Vampyr / 1932
15. Это случилось однажды ночью / It Happened One Night / 1934
16. Мордашка / Baby Face / 1933
17. Ужасная правда / The Awful Truth / 1937
18. Волшебник страны Оз / The Wizard of Oz / 1939
19. Набережная туманов / Le quai des brumes / 1938
20. Девушки в униформе / Mädchen in Uniform / 1931

21-30:
21. Предел / Limite / 1931
22. Загородная прогулка / Partie de campagne / 1946
23. Дама с камелиями / Camille / 1936
24. Повесть о поздней хризантеме / Zangiku monogatari / 1939
25. Грозовой перевал / Wuthering Heights / 1939
26. Голубой ангел / Der blaue Engel / 1930
27. 39 ступеней / The 39 Steps / 1935
28. Будю, спасенный из воды / Boudu sauvé des eaux / 1932
29. Невеста Франкенштейна / Bride of Frankenstein / 1935
30. Фанни / Fanny / 1932

31-40:
31. Распутная императрица / The Scarlet Empress / 1934
32. Додсворт / Dodsworth / 1936
33. Завещание доктора Мабузе / Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse / 1933
34. Враг общества / The Public Enemy / 1931
35. Граница / Borderline / 1930
36. Уродцы / Freaks / 1932
37. Мой слуга Годфри / My Man Godfrey / 1936
38. Сезар / César / 1936
39. Единственный сын / Hitori musuko / 1936
40. Приключения Робин Гуда / The Adventures of Robin Hood / 1938

41-50:
41. Парад в огнях рампы / Footlight Parade / 1933
42. Человек-зверь / La bête humaine / 1938
43. Воспитание Крошки / Bringing Up Baby / 1938
44. Земля / 1930
45. Ангелы с грязными лицами / Angels with Dirty Faces / 1938
46. Праздник / Holiday / 1938
47. Солидарность / Kameradschaft / 1931
48. Кинг Конг / King Kong / 1933
49. Мариус / Marius / 1931
50. Люби меня сегодня / Love Me Tonight / 1932

51-60:
51. Это подарок / It's a Gift / 1934
52. Дверь на сцену / Stage Door / 1937
53. Пепе ле Моко / Pépé le Moko / 1936
54. Молодой мистер Линкольн / Young Mr. Lincoln / 1939
55. Роман обманщика / Le roman d'un tricheur / 1936
56. 42-я улица / 42nd Street / 1933
57. Ноль за поведение / Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège / 1933
58. Шанхайский экспресс / Shanghai Express / 1932
59. Жена Крейга / Craig's Wife / 1936
60. Человечность и бумажные шары / Ninjô kami fûsen / 1937

61-70:
61. Мистер Смит едет в Вашингтон / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington / 1939
62. Западный фронт, 1918 год / Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie / 1930
63. Ярость / Fury / 1936
64. Кровь поэта / Le sang d'un poète / 1932
65. Леди исчезает / The Lady Vanishes / 1938
66. Повесть о плавучей траве / Ukikusa monogatari / 1934
67. Только у ангелов есть крылья / Only Angels Have Wings / 1939
68. Марокко / Morocco / 1930
69. Франкенштейн / Frankenstein / 1931
70. На дне / Les bas-fonds / 1936

71-80:
71. История Темпл Дрейк / The Story of Temple Drake / 1933
72. Мистер Дидс переезжает в город / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town / 1936
73. Люди в воскресенье / Menschen am Sonntag / 1930
74. Утиный суп / Duck Soup / 1933
75. Элегия Нанива / Naniwa erejî / 1936
76. Белоснежка и семь гномов / Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs / 1937
77. Тангэ Садзэн слаб: горшок стоимостью в миллион рё / Tange Sazen yowa: Hyakuman ryô no tsubo / 1935
78. Сука / La chienne / 1931
79. Уступи место завтрашнему дню / Make Way for Tomorrow / 1937
80. Жена пекаря / La femme du boulanger / 1938

81-90:
81. Королева Кристина / Queen Christina / 1933
82. Время свинга / Swing Time / 1936
83. Ангел с улицы / Ma lu tian shi / 1937
84. Гранд Отель / Grand Hotel / 1932
85. Весело мы катимся в ад / Merrily We Go to Hell / 1932
86. Четыре пера / The Four Feathers / 1939
87. Обесчещенная, или Агент X-27 / Dishonored / 1931
88. Гионские сёстры / Gion no shimai / 1936
89. Маленький Цезарь / Little Caesar / 1931
90. Миллион / Le million / 1931

91-100:
91. Неприятности в раю / Trouble in Paradise / 1932
92. Мятеж на Баунти / Mutiny on the Bounty / 1935
93. Родиться-то я родился, но... / Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo / 1932
94. Дилижанс / Stagecoach / 1939
95. Наша свобода / À nous la liberté / 1931
96. Черный кот / The Black Cat / 1934
97. Унесённые ветром / Gone with the Wind / 1939
98. Вечер в опере / A Night at the Opera / 1935
99. Преступление господина Ланжа / Le crime de monsieur Lange / 1936
100. Пигмалион / Pygmalion / 1938