Best Movies of 1934 by Rank
68
1
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
86
2
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
286
3
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
512
4
W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp
Comedy / Family
USA
English
858
5
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
976
6
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1072
7
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1132
8
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1177
9
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
1238
10
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Horror / Crime / Adventure
USA
English
1410
12
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1415
13
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1478
14
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Drama
USA
English
1523
15
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1589
16
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
1614
17
Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Music / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1772
18
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1833
19
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1849
20
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone
Adventure / Family
USA
English
1890
21
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
1905
22
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1911
23
Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny
Adventure / War / Drama
USA
English
1956
24
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander, Gail Patrick
Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2104
25
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2150
26
George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Jackie Searl, Frankie Darro
Drama
USA
English
2173
27
Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova, Friedrich Benfer
Drama
Italy
Italian
2292
28
Gracie Fields, Arthur Sinclair, Frank Pettingell, Evelyn Roberts, Olive Sloane
Comedy / Musical
UK
English
2344
29
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2352
30
Claude Rains, Margo, Paula Trueman, Whitney Bourne
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2367
31
Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell
Comedy / Family / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2395
32
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2476
33
Raymond Bernard
Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2599
34
Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Florelle, Pierre Alcover, Robert Arnoux
Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
France
French
2599
34
Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2599
34
Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Andy Clyde
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2599
34
Gus Meins, Charley Rogers
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Henry Brandon
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2599
34
W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen, Jan Duggan, Tammany Young
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2599
34
Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2599
34
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2615
35
Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2615
35
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2615
35
Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland
Drama
USA
English
2617
36
Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Byron
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2638
37
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2638
37
Grigori Roshal, Vera Stroyeva
Boris Dobronravov, Lev Fenin, Anatoli Goryunov, Lyubov Orlova, Kseniya Tarasova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2638
37
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2638
37
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2645
38
Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel
Comedy / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2645
38
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2655
39
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2655
39
Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev
Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Varvara Myasnikova
Drama / War / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2655
39
Max Dearly, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier, Marthe Mellot
Comedy
France
French
2655
39
Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Jean Gabin
Drama / Romance
France
French
2655
39
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
2655
39
Friedrich Dalsheim, Knud Rasmussen
Thorvald Stauning
Romance / Drama / Documentary
Denmark
Danish
2707
41
Guido Brignone
Marta Abba, Elsa De Giorgi, Nerio Bernardi, Luigi Cimara
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2710
42
Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Jane Marken, Lugné-Poe
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2710
42
Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay
Drama / Romance
France
French
2710
42
Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2733
43
Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman, Billie Seward, Arthur Hohl, Ivan F. Simpson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2733
43
unknown
Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Desi Arnaz
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2733
43
Douglas Wakefield, Claudia Dell, Jack Barty, Billy Gilbert, Don Barclay
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2733
43
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton
Mystery / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2733
43
Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2733
43
Earl Duvall, Friz Freleng
Bernard B. Brown, Shirley Reed, The Rhythmettes, The Varsity Three
Family / Animation / Musical / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2733
43
Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2733
43
Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2733
43
Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Musical / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2733
43
unknown
Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
2733
43
Maurice Murphy, Patricia Farr, Noah Berry Jr., Belle Daube, Lee Beggs
Action / Drama / Crime / Serial / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
2733
43
Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin, Richard Cramer
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
2733
43
Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2757
44
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2766
45
Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon, Jean Servais
Drama / Romance
France
French
2791
46
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
NR
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Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English