Here are my favorite films of the 1930s.

Rated 10/10
L’Age d’Or (Buñuel, 1930)
City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch, 1932)
King Kong (Schoedsack & Cooper, 1933)
Zero for Conduct (Vigo, 1933)
L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
Swing Time (Stevens, 1936)
Grand Illusion (Renoir, 1937)
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks, 1938)
Stagecoach (Ford, 1939)
The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra, 1939)
Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939)

Rated 9/10
Earth (Dovzhenko, 1930)
M (Lang, 1931)
La Chienne (Renoir, 1931)
The Blood of a Poet (Cocteau, 1932)
I Was Born, But… (Ozu, 1932)
Duck Soup (McCarey, 1933)
Lot in Sodom (Webber & Watson, 1933)
It’s a Gift (McLeod, 1934)
Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935)
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
My Man Godfrey (La Cava, 1936)
Libeled Lady (Conway, 1936)
Nothing Sacred (Wellman, 1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz, 1938)
Gunga Din (Stevens, 1939)
Destry Rides Again (Marshall, 1939)