By decade
The 1930s on disc
The films of the 1930s worth owning, ranked by standing.
Algiers
1938 · John Cromwell
eBay from $2
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939 · Michael Curtiz
eBay from $34
The Story of Louis Pasteur 1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936 · William Dieterle
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935 · Henry Hathaway
eBay from $29
Trouble in Paradise
1932 · Ernst Lubitsch
eBay from $54
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Alfred Hitchcock
eBay from $28
Morning Glory 1933
Morning Glory
1933 · Lowell Sherman
Destry Rides Again
1939 · George Marshall
eBay from $35
Stage Door 1937
Stage Door
1937 · Gregory La Cava
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · William Dieterle
eBay from $26
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 · Sidney Lanfield
eBay from $25
A Day at the Races
1937 · Sam Wood
eBay from $28
Alam Ara 1931
Alam Ara
1931 · Ardeshir Irani
Volga-Volga 1938
Volga-Volga
1938 · Grigori Aleksandrov
Imitation of Life
1934 · John M. Stahl
eBay from $44
Lady for a Day
1933 · Frank Capra
eBay from $46
Secret Agent 1936
Secret Agent
1936 · Alfred Hitchcock
The Big House
1930 · George W. Hill
eBay from $20
Manhattan Melodrama 1934
Manhattan Melodrama
1934 · George Cukor
La Bête Humaine 1938
La Bête Humaine
1938 · Jean Renoir
Hell's Angels
1930 · Edmund Goulding
eBay from $61
Le Jour Se Lève
1939 · Marcel Carné
eBay from $35
Tarzan and His Mate
1934 · Cedric Gibbons
eBay from $41
Marie Antoinette 1938
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Julien Duvivier
Union Pacific
1939 · Cecil B. DeMille
eBay from $27
Jesse James
1939 · Otto Brower
eBay from $84
San Francisco
1936 · D. W. Griffith
eBay from $40
The Citadel
1938 · King Vidor
eBay from $18
Bad Girl 1931
Bad Girl
1931 · Frank Borzage
Romeo and Juliet
1936 · George Cukor
eBay from $15
David Copperfield 1935
David Copperfield
1935 · George Cukor
The Front Page
1931 · Lewis Milestone
eBay from $32
Dead End 1937
Dead End
1937 · William Wyler
Der Sieg des Glaubens 1933
Der Sieg des Glaubens
1933 · Leni Riefenstahl
Pygmalion 1938
Pygmalion
1938 · Anthony Asquith
Pépé le Moko 1937
Pépé le Moko
1937 · Julien Duvivier
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935 · William Dieterle
White Zombie
1932 · Victor Hugo Halperin
eBay from $48
Marked Woman 1937
Marked Woman
1937 · Michael Curtiz
The Scarlet Empress
1934 · Josef von Sternberg
eBay from $73
Vampyr
1932 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
eBay from $31
The Women
1939 · George Cukor
eBay from $27
Gunga Din
1939 · George Stevens
eBay from $63
Min and Bill
1930 · George W. Hill
eBay from $12
Come and Get It 1936
Come and Get It
1936 · Howard Hawks
Mata Hari 1931
Mata Hari
1931 · George Fitzmaurice
The Black Cat
1934 · Edgar G. Ulmer
eBay from $95
The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934 · Sidney Franklin