Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 15 |
2 | Gone with the Wind | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 32 |
3 | City Lights | 1931 | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
4 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
5 | Modern Times | 1936 | Charles Chaplin | 53 |
6 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang | 69 |
7 | Duck Soup | 1933 | Leo McCarey | 85 |
8 | Bringing Up Baby | 1938 | Howard Hawks | 91 |
9 | It Happened One Night | 1934 | Frank Capra | 92 |
10 | The Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | 99 |
11 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | 1937 | David Hand | 104 |
12 | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | 122 |
13 | Stagecoach | 1939 | John Ford | 140 |
14 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
15 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
16 | The Adventures of Robin Hood | 1938 | Michael Curtiz and William Keighley | 212 |
17 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 219 |
18 | All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | 225 |
19 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 235 |
20 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1939 | Frank Capra | 303 |
21 | Top Hat | 1935 | Mark Sandrich | 330 |
22 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 340 |
23 | The 39 Steps | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock | 355 |
24 | Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
25 | Ninotchka | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch | 401 |
26 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | 523 |
27 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 530 |
28 | Scarface | 1932 | Howard Hawks | 534 |
29 | The Thin Man | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke | 568 |
30 | Triumph of the Will | 1935 | Leni Riefenstahl | 590 |
31 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 611 |
32 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 643 |
33 | 42nd Street | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 664 |
34 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 665 |
35 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 734 |
36 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
37 | The Public Enemy | 1931 | William A. Wellman | 753 |
38 | The Awful Truth | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 758 |
39 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev | 760 |
40 | Swing Time | 1936 | George Stevens | 772 |
41 | My Man Godfrey | 1936 | Gregory La Cava | 788 |
42 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | 1938 | Leni Riefenstahl | 790 |
43 | Destry Rides Again | 1939 | George Marshall | 836 |
44 | Earth | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 841 |
45 | Love Me Tonight | 1932 | Rouben Mamoulian | 845 |
46 | The Scarlet Empress | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | 913 |
47 | Make Way for Tomorrow | 1937 | Leo McCarey | 949 |
48 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | 975 |
49 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 981 |
50 | Little Caesar | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy | 983 |
51 | Things to Come | 1936 | William Cameron Menzies | 1022 |
52 | Sons of the Desert | 1933 | William A. Seiter | 1066 |
53 | It's a Gift | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1068 |
54 | Zero for Conduct | 1933 | Jean Vigo | 1071 |
55 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | 1074 |
56 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | 1932 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1100 |
57 | Way Out West | 1937 | James W. Horne | 1109 |
58 | Le Jour se lève | 1939 | Marcel Carné | 1124 |
59 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1134 |
60 | Wuthering Heights | 1939 | William Wyler | 1136 |
61 | Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | Howard Hawks | 1142 |
62 | The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums | 1939 | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1162 |
63 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1936 | Frank Capra | 1191 |
64 | Dodsworth | 1936 | William Wyler | 1212 |
65 | Gunga Din | 1939 | George Stevens | 1213 |
66 | Pépé Le Moko | 1937 | Julien Duvivier | 1243 |
67 | Lost Horizon | 1937 | Frank Capra | 1248 |
68 | Holiday | 1938 | George Cukor | 1270 |
69 | Grand Hotel | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | 1274 |
70 | The Women | 1939 | George Cukor | 1294 |
71 | Angels with Dirty Faces | 1938 | Michael Curtiz | 1382 |
72 | Fury | 1936 | Fritz Lang | 1385 |
73 | I Was Born, But... | 1932 | Yasujirô Ozu | 1392 |
74 | The Roaring Twenties | 1939 | Raoul Walsh | 1456 |
75 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1462 |
76 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1518 |
77 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang | 1521 |
78 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 1527 |
79 | Horse Feathers | 1932 | Norman Z. McLeod | 1533 |
80 | Footlight Parade | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | 1584 |
81 | Land without Bread | 1933 | Luis Buñuel | 1602 |
82 | Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Sam Wood | 1621 |
83 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | 1932 | Jean Renoir | 1628 |
84 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1638 |
85 | Morocco | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 1642 |
86 | You Can't Take It with You | 1938 | Frank Capra | 1644 |
87 | Ruggles of Red Gap | 1935 | Leo McCarey | 1651 |
88 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | William Dieterle | 1656 |
89 | The Blood of a Poet | 1932 | Jean Cocteau | 1659 |
90 | Tabu | 1931 | F.W. Murnau | 1667 |
91 | The Music Box | 1932 | James Parrott | 1691 |
92 | Twentieth Century | 1934 | Howard Hawks | 1709 |
93 | Shanghai Express | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 1741 |
94 | The Crime of Mr. Lange | 1936 | Jean Renoir | 1766 |
95 | La Bête Humaine | 1938 | Jean Renoir | 1767 |
96 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | 1797 |
97 | Jezebel | 1938 | William Wyler | 1824 |
98 | Midnight | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | 1832 |
99 | Port of Shadows | 1938 | Marcel Carné | 1841 |
100 | The Informer | 1935 | John Ford | 1868 |
101 | Stella Dallas | 1937 | King Vidor | 1913 |
102 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle | 1936 |
103 | Pygmalion | 1938 | Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard | 1940 |
104 | Man of Aran | 1934 | Robert J. Flaherty | 1980 |
105 | Camille | 1936 | George Cukor | 2006 |
106 | The Merry Widow | 1934 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2030 |
107 | She Done Him Wrong | 1933 | Lowell Sherman | 2069 |
108 | La Chienne | 1931 | Jean Renoir | 2082 |
109 | Show Boat | 1936 | James Whale | 2083 |
110 | Captains Courageous | 1937 | Victor Fleming | 2092 |
111 | Little Women | 1933 | George Cukor | 2096 |
112 | Dark Victory | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | 2100 |
113 | Le Million | 1931 | René Clair | 2102 |
114 | Animal Crackers | 1930 | Victor Heerman | 2104 |
115 | À Nous la Liberté | 1931 | René Clair | 2136 |
116 | Captain Blood | 1935 | Michael Curtiz | 2176 |
117 | Stage Door | 1937 | Gregory La Cava | 2186 |
118 | Dinner at Eight | 1933 | George Cukor | 2226 |
119 | Monkey Business | 1931 | Norman Z. McLeod | 2234 |
120 | Sabotage | 1936 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2257 |
121 | Reefer Madness | 1936 | Louis J. Gasnier | 2329 |
122 | The Gay Divorcee | 1934 | Mark Sandrich | 2348 |
123 | People on Sunday | 1930 | Curt and Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann | 2392 |
124 | One Hour with You | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2399 |
125 | Ecstasy | 1933 | Gustav Machatý | 2410 |
126 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 2445 |
127 | The Story of a Cheat | 1936 | Sacha Guitry | 2448 |
128 | Design for Living | 1933 | Ernst Lubitsch | 2451 |
129 | Dead End | 1937 | William Wyler | 2470 |
130 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | 1936 | Michael Curtiz | 2493 |
131 | Dodge City | 1939 | Michael Curtiz | 2540 |
132 | Baby Face | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | 2551 |
133 | David Copperfield | 1935 | George Cukor | 2568 |
134 | Le Roman de Renard | 1937 | Irene and Wladyslaw Starewicz | 2628 |
135 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2674 |
136 | A Day at the Races | 1937 | Sam Wood | 2681 |
137 | The Good Earth | 1937 | Sidney Franklin | 2689 |
138 | Liebelei | 1933 | Max Ophüls | 2746 |
139 | The Petrified Forest | 1936 | Archie Mayo | 2765 |
140 | Blonde Venus | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | 2785 |
141 | Of Mice and Men | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | 2789 |
142 | Maedchen in Uniform | 1931 | Leontine Sagan | 2800 |
143 | You Only Live Once | 1937 | Fritz Lang | 2802 |