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)