Best Movies of 1937 by Rank

Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
52
1
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
Drama / War / Adventure / Comedy
France
French
5 Stars
125
2
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
5 Stars
331
3
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
5 Stars
341
4
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
565
5
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
617
6
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer
Drama / Epic
USA
English
4.5 Stars
631
7
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
633
8
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
736
9
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
787
10
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
802
11
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
847
12
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
4.5 Stars
900
13
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4.5 Stars
966
14
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Comedy / Western / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1095
15
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1139
16
Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Drama / Mystery / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1382
17
Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1403
18
Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette
Comedy / Music
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1506
19
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1533
20
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1629
21
Harry Baur, Marie Bell, Pierre Blanchar, Fernandel
Drama / Romance
France
French
3.5 Stars
1643
22
Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1796
23
Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1849
24
Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1895
25
Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3 Stars
2012
26
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
3 Stars
2054
27
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2171
28
Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2233
29
Gabriel Gabrio, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Marguerite Moreno
Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2236
30
Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2279
31
Constance Bennett, Cary Grant, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2287
32
Belle Chrystall, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2294
33
Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2314
34
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2344
35
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2426
36
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2435
37
Emil Jannings, Paul Wagner, Maria Koppenhofer, Hilde Körber
Drama
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2444
38
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2452
39
Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2459
40
Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Barton MacLane, Joe Sawyer
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2497
41
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2546
42
Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Mary Philips
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2546
42
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2560
43
Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris
Crime / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2560
43
Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2599
44
Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane, Billy Mauch
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2609
45
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2.5 Stars
2617
46
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore, Herman Bing, Tom Brown
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2638
47
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2638
47
Ronald Reagan, June Travis, Eddie Acuff, Ben Welden, Robert Barrat
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Comedy / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2638
47
Aleksander Ford, Jerzy Zarzycki
Ina Benita, Jerzy Pichelski, Stanislawa Wysocka, Kazimierz Opalinski
unknown
Poland
Polish
2.5 Stars
2638
47
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2645
48
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2655
49
Iosif Khejfits, Aleksandr Zarkhy
Nikolai Cherkasov, Marta Domasheva, Boris Livanov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2655
49
Ernest Hemingway, Jean Renoir
Documentary / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2671
50
Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2671
50
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2671
50
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2671
50
unknown
Documentary
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2683
51
Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane, Keye Luke
Mystery / Comedy / Action / Crime/ Spy / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Musical / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, Danny Webb
Western / Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Geoffrey Barkas, Milton Rosmer
Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer, Antoinette Cellier, Barry MacKay, Roy Emerton
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Thomas Beck
Family / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Grant Withers, Betty Jane Rhodes, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Brent, Henry Brandon
Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Carey Wilson, Ernie Adams, Erville Alderson, Virginia Brissac, Philo McCullough
Short / History / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Robert Benchley
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, George Barbier
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
John 'Dusty' King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Summerville, Maurice Murphy, Andy Devine
Drama / Crime / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Scott Kolk, Jean Rogers, David Oliver, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon
Action / Adventure / Spy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
George Nichols Jr.
Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter
Adventure / History / Romance / War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick, Jayne Regan, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Action / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck, Henry Daniell
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2733
52
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2773
53
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2789
54
Michal Waszynski
Avrom Morevski, Isaac Samberg, Moyshe Lipman, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold
Fantasy / Romance
Poland
Yiddish
2.5 Stars
2791
55
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2791
55
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese