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1920s1940s

The 1930s

Sound found its footing and the movies found their myths: monsters, musicals and screwball wit against the Depression.

Ten years, ten doors

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The films that defined the decade

Modern Times

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...

4.1

Modern Times

1936

City Lights

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

4.1

City Lights

1931

M

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

4.0

M

1931

Gone with the Wind

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

4.0

Gone with the Wind

1939

King Kong

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

3.8

King Kong

1933

The Wizard of Oz

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

3.8

The Wizard of Oz

1939

Frankenstein

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

3.7

Frankenstein

1931

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

3.6

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938

What everyone watched

All Quiet on the Western Front

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

3.9

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

Wuthering Heights

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

3.6

Wuthering Heights

1939

The Invisible Man

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

3.8

The Invisible Man

1933

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

3.7

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1938

Freaks

A 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.

3.9

Freaks

1932

Dracula

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

3.6

Dracula

1931

Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

3.7

Scarface

1932

Bride of Frankenstein

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

3.8

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

After the death of a United States Senator, the idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. The naive and earnest new senator soon finds himself battling political corruption.

3.9

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

3.9

It Happened One Night

1934

Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

3.8

Stagecoach

1939

You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

3.8

You Can't Take It with You

1938

On the page

Brave New World

Utopias · Brainwashing

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932

The Hobbit

Fantasy · Arkenstone

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

1937

Hearing on code of fair practices and competition

United States. National Recovery Administration

1933

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

English Horror tales · short stories

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories

Bram Stoker

1937

Romeo & Juliet

British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author) · Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, romeo and juliet

Romeo & Juliet

William Shakespeare

1939

The Grapes of Wrath

Labor camps · Depressions

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

1939

Tender is the Night

Fiction · Psychiatrists

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1933

Anne of Windy Poplars

Juvenile fiction · High school principals

Anne of Windy Poplars

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1936

Think and Grow Rich

Wealth · Success

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

1937

Anthem

Fiction · Individuality

Anthem

Ayn Rand

1936

Of Mice and Men

contemporary fiction · literary fiction

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

1937

Anne of Ingleside

Children's fiction · Shirley, anne (fictitious character), fiction

Anne of Ingleside

Lucy Maud Montgomery

1939

The Waves

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · Fiction, psychological

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

1931

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie · Private investigator

Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie

1933

Gone With the Wind

survival · slavery

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

1936

Hearing on code of fair practices and competition

United States. National Recovery Administration

1933

Right Ho, Jeeves

Bertie Wooster (Fictitious character) · Valets

Right Ho, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

1934

The reluctant dragon

Fiction · Dragons

The reluctant dragon

Kenneth Grahame

1938

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