Finally got around to seeing "Gone With The Wind". Wow. I'm 24 years old and I never would've thought I'd enjoy such an old drama film. It really lives up to all the praise it gets. The acting is amazing, the directing is next-level, the cinematography rivals almost any modern film. It was so ahead of it's time it seems like it couldn't have been made so long ago.
My life is complete to know that Gone With The Wind was #1. I just love that movie. Too bad that it wasn't everyone's choice, but at least some agree with it.
Gone with the wind is maybe my favorite movie of all time! I love the fake backdrops! The over acting! And the whole ridiculousness of the whole thing. But there is something so American about not only the story but the picture made as a whole. Gone with the wind is a true American classic.
There are just too many classic, iconic, and simply wonderful movies from the 1930s that only 10 doesn't give the decade justice. I mean no films of Greta Garbo, Shirley Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the Marx Bothers, gangsters, Errol Flynn, or Mickey Rooney. 10 just isn't enough to showcase what could probably be the best decade in film history.
I enjoyed your list. But picking ten movies for ten years, you have to leave out a lot of good films. You should try a list of ten per year. I love that you included Stagecoach. Thanks.
@Ben DC4L Yeap Disney was on top & even terrible movies by then are now classics still terrible though , Titanc the greatest non Disney movie ever made also came out their was also Jurassic Park & countless more . So yea 90s was the greatest era for movies ever .
+Mercader de Valencia So did I! Sure, it's not a movie you necessarily want to watch over and over, but it sticks with you. Peter Lorre was amazing. When I first saw the film and his shadow appeared over the poster, even before he said his first line, I got chills down my back.
As good as Modern Times is, and it's a great movie, City Lights is better I agree. The comedy is great, the ending is truly emotional. I wish I had it in my collection. It's probably Chaplin's best movie.
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I can't believe Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" is not on this list. Not only is it considered by many to be Chaplin's greatest film, but also one of the greatest films of all time.
It is amazing how well Wizard of Oz holds up. Like its probably the only one on this list that would hold up visual against movies only made 20-10 years ago. Taking into account it was made 70 years ago, that's pretty impressive.
Some great movies of the 30s not mentioned here: - City Lights - The Champ - Grand Hotel - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Duck Soup - Mutiny on the Bounty - Top Hat - The Informer - Dodsworth - Swing Time - Mr Deeds Goes to Town - The Good Earth - Angels With Dirty Faces - You Can't Take it With You - Bringing up Baby - The Rules of the Game - Goodbye Mr Chips
Considering inflation, Gone With the Wind is considered the most financially successful film, the 300+ million it made back then turn into 3+ billion today.
Heres Mine 1: Gone With The Wind 2: The Wizard Of Oz 3: City Lights 4: Mr Smith Goes to Washington 5: Snow White 6: King Kong 7: It Happened One Night 8: Duck Soup 9: Modern Times 10: A Night At The Opera
I enjoy watching Gone with the Wind despite its 2 day running time and it's attempts to romanticize slavery. However Oz is a timeless classic, my grandmother told me it was the first film she ever watched, my mother told me she loved it growing up, I loved it as a child myself and even my daughter watches it on Blueray in 2014, 75 years later. Any movie that can capture the imagination of children for over 70 years has to be one of the greatest movies ever made. I guess the same could be said for Snow white, although I personally hated it and my daughter doesn't like it much either.
dan theman What Disney classics you like tough? Pinocchio, The Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King are at least some that will live forever. Other widely beloved by everybody, huge classics are E.T., Goonies, Iron Giant, Toy Story and other Pixar movies.
Fine list, but a couple of the foreign films in the Honorable Mentions should've been in the Top 10. Also, I'm disappointed by the absence of "CITY LIGHTS", "THE THIN MAN", "THE RULES OF THE GAME", and "MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW".
I was going to say , "Hey you forgot the Grapes of Wrath" and "Citizen Kane" but looked up the dates and found out they are 1940, 41. so I expect them to be on the next list. I suspect Casablanca will be #1 spot. Its a wonderful life coming in second.. heck of a lot of good movies in the 40s to fit into only 10 spots, good luck with that.
Niall Quinn It's actually widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time (go on any website that calculates such things), but you know...potato, potahto.
Niall Quinn So *you* know better than hundreds of professional film critics/scholars and the vast majority of the general moviegoing population?! Wow. You sure think highly of yourself.
It kind of kills the mystery when you show the #1 spot in the thumbnail, and show clips from half the films before the countdown even starts. Might I suggest not doing that next time?
My list 1. The Rules of the Game 2. City Lights 3. The Wizard of Oz 4. M 5. L' Atalante 6. Modern Times 7. Grand Illusion 8. Gone with the Wind 9. Mr. Smith goes to Washington 10. Stagecoach No Renoir or Vigo is an absolute travesty!
Nick Pagano Man, there is a lot special about it! Its one of the most meaningful, complex, layered films I've ever seen and is one of my favorites! It is an attack on the bourgeoisie of France at the dawn of the second World War. It is a very political film yet politics aren't even mentioned in the film! These aristocrats are wrapped up in the mingling of affairs and false love while the Nazis are casting a dark shadow over Europe. These people don't even realize that their world is about to collapse around them! They are selfish and too involved with their selves. It's a great film, what don't you like about it?
***** I just don't see anything that stands out about in regards to any other film regarding the same topics you mentioned. A film like L'Atalante to me still stands out as a film of timeless beauty that will never lose it's magic but RotG is so dated, unfunny, unspecial. I'm not saying it's a bad movie, but for a movie to be considered one of the greatest I just think it really needs to stand out. And that murder and how it was handled in the end was just ridiculous.
Nick Pagano But that was the point, the murder was supposed to be handled ridiculously. They can't break the class based "rules", they have to pass it off as an accident, can't reveal their emotions, they are in "high society". The response by the general was wonderful, "De La Chesnaye has class, and that has become a rare thing nowadays, a rare thing". Obviously these people are immoral lunatics. But I've learned that if someone doesn't like something you aren't going to be able to get them to like it, "for those who get it, no explanation needed, for those who don't, no explanation possible". Though I agree, L'Atalante is beautiful and is one of the best films ever made. Happy hunting at the criterion sale :)
Movies absent from the list that deserve our attention: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Captains Courageous (1937) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Camille (1936) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Top Hat (1935) or Swing Time (1936) Stage Door (1937) The Invisible Man (1933) Wuthering Heights (1939) Captain Blood (1935) Ninotchka (1939) I love the 1930s.
I haven't seen many movies from the 30's but I thought M was really good. I thought it was a better film tha for example Frankenstein, even though Frankenstein of course had a bigger cultural impact.
City Lights didn't even get an honorable mention????? I honestly liked it a lot better then Modern Times. Even Orson Welles said it was his favorite film
I'm so glad WatchMojo is doing these top 10's of the very early decades of cinema (this video and the 1920's video). I hope people choose to experience these amazing films because they first saw them on WatchMojo's lists. I've seen most of them myself, and am glad that I did.
1. The Rules of the Game 2. La Grande Illusion 3. L'atalante 4. Stagecoach 5. Gone With the Wind 6. It Happened One Night 7. Duck Soup 8. M 9. City Lights 10. Swing Time
My Top 10 List 1. Gone with the Wind 2. the Wizard of OZ 3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarf 4. Stagecoach 5. it Happen One Night 6. King Kong 7. Modern Times 8. Mr. Smith goes to Washington 9. All Quiet in the Western Front 10. M
I have seen most of the films on this list except All Quiet on the Western Front. I have a few honorable mentions that were not listed: City Lights, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, 42nd Street, Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, Mutiny on the Bounty, Mr. Deeds Goes to town, Grand Hotel, Wuthering Heights, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Citizen Kane is almost a dead cert to be number one, simply because of the fact it's been called the best movie known to man by so many people, reviewers, actors, directors ect. Casablanca I imagine top 3, top 5 at a push, any lower and it'll be not because of any major reason, just that the people who thumbs up votes on the WatchMojo website don't know it or something
10. The Black Cat 9. It Happened One Night (same) 8. Stagecoach (same) 7. Modern Times (same) 6. You Can't Take it With You 5. The Man Who Knew too Much 4. The 39 Steps 3. The Lady Vanishes 2. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (same) 1. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Honorable Mentions Bringing up Baby Beau Geste A Night at The Opera Lost Horizon
There is something inherently wrong about a Top 10 list of 30s movies that doesn't include Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney or Bette Davis. Or a movie by HITCHCOCK!!! This has better be rectified in the list for the 40s.
Well Casablanca wasn't made in the 30s it was the 40s. They said at the beginning that they were picking movies that a college professor wouldn't pick.
DoctorTennantFan10 You do know that Bogart made other movies than Casablanca? Sure. I'll accept that he'll turn up in the 40s thanks to that movie and hopefully Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep. Still think it's criminal to leave out The 39 Steps.
My list 10) Grand Illusion 9) All Quiet on the Western Front 8) King Kong 7) Modern Times 6) M 5) City Lights 4) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 3) The Rules of the Game 2) The Wizard of Oz Honorable Mentions - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - Little Caesar - The 39 Steps - It Happened One Night - Stagecoach 1) Gone With the Wind
Fun Fact: Walt Disney received eight Oscars for "Snow White": One regular size and seven miniature ones. They were quite imaginative back in those days.
*My Top 10 Favorite Motion Pictures of the 1930s* 1. La Règle du jeu (1939) 2. L'atalante (1934) 3. La Grande Illusion (1938) 4. M (1931) 5. City Lights (1931) 6. La Bête humaine (1938) 7. L'Age d'Or (1930) 8. Otona no miru ehon (1932) 9. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) 10. Vampyr (1932)
Great list! I have to admit, I've only seen five of the films on this list (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, King Kong, Modern Times, Wizard of Oz, and Gone With the Wind), and all 5 definitely deserved to be here! Now, I have to see the rest that are on this list, particularly Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Thanks for the educational list. Look forward to the best of the 40s!
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was amazing and it's very true on it's depiction of government corruption. It's a travesty that it only won one Oscar and got nominated for eleven.
bibleanddisneyfan try watching Frankenstein and the sequel(which was not on the list but made in the 30s) the bride of Frankenstein. Colin clive as the scientist Frankenstein and boris karloff as the monster were amazing in it.
Agree, I was shocked City Lights wasn't on here. Especially because between this list and the '20s list, there were 3 or 4 other Chaplin films mentioned. And City Lights is Chaplin's best!!
10. It Happened One Night 9. Stagecoach 8. King Kong 7. Frankenstein 6. All Quiet on the Western Front 5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 4. Modern Times 3. Mr Smith Goes to Washington 2. The Wizard of Oz HM: David Copperfield, Dracula, Of Mice and Men, M 1. Gone with the Wind
Very glad to see "M" at least get honorable mention. A true masterpiece by Fritz Lang that masterfully uses lighting and shadowing to add to the suspense of a terrifying story. "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse" is another great film by Lang from the 30's.
