Top Rated "1930s" Titles
Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
1. | 8.6 | City Lights (1931) | 42,744 |
2. | 8.6 | M (1931) | 52,890 |
3. | 8.5 | Modern Times (1936) | 53,244 |
4. | 8.4 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | 42,656 |
5. | 8.3 | It Happened One Night (1934) | 33,092 |
6. | 8.2 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | 139,432 |
7. | 8.2 | Grand Illusion (1937) | 15,839 |
8. | 8.2 | Trouble in Paradise (1932) | 5,917 |
9. | 8.2 | Gone with the Wind (1939) | 109,235 |
10. | 8.1 | Dodsworth (1936) | 4,196 |
11. | 8.1 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) | 5,962 |
12. | 8.1 | Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) | 2,258 |
13. | 8.1 | My Man Godfrey (1936) | 9,954 |
14. | 8.1 | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | 28,920 |
15. | 8.1 | The Rules of the Game (1939) | 11,876 |
16. | 8.1 | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | 27,517 |
17. | 8.1 | The Lady Vanishes (1938) | 21,526 |
18. | 8.1 | Duck Soup (1933) | 33,129 |
19. | 8.0 | The Thin Man (1934) | 13,848 |
20. | 8.0 | A Night at the Opera (1935) | 16,754 |
21. | 8.0 | King Kong (1933) | 45,979 |
22. | 8.0 | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | 27,377 |
23. | 8.0 | Frankenstein (1931) | 28,597 |
24. | 8.0 | Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | 18,991 |
25. | 8.0 | Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) | 3,418 |
26. | 8.0 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) | 9,343 |
27. | 7.9 | L'Atalante (1934) | 5,769 |
28. | 7.9 | Stagecoach (1939) | 18,118 |
29. | 7.9 | The Awful Truth (1937) | 8,260 |
30. | 7.9 | Pygmalion (1938) | 3,714 |
31. | 7.9 | You Can't Take It with You (1938) | 10,718 |
32. | 7.9 | The 39 Steps (1935) | 25,024 |
33. | 7.9 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) | 5,191 |
34. | 7.9 | Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) | 10,199 |
35. | 7.9 | Ninotchka (1939) | 8,557 |
36. | 7.9 | Fury (1936) | 5,058 |
37. | 7.9 | Freaks (1932) | 18,219 |
38. | 7.9 | Scarface (1932) | 12,003 |
39. | 7.9 | I Was Born, But... (1932) | 1,696 |
40. | 7.9 | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | 9,514 |
41. | 7.9 | City Girl (1930) | 966 |
42. | 7.9 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | 5,183 |
43. | 7.9 | Midnight (1939) | 2,300 |
44. | 7.9 | Libeled Lady (1936) | 3,257 |
45. | 7.8 | Captains Courageous (1937) | 4,224 |
46. | 7.8 | The Blue Angel (1930) | 6,432 |
47. | 7.8 | The Women (1939) | 6,340 |
48. | 7.8 | The Roaring Twenties (1939) | 5,645 |
49. | 7.8 | One Way Passage (1932) | 1,651 |
50. | 7.8 | Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) | 1,371 |
Bottom Rated "1930s" Titles
Rank | Rating | Title | Votes |
1. | 2.4 | Sex Madness (1938) | 421 |
2. | 3.0 | Revolt of the Zombies (1936) | 821 |
3. | 3.1 | Torture Ship (1939) | 157 |
4. | 3.1 | Narcotic (1933) | 150 |
5. | 3.1 | The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) | 942 |
6. | 3.1 | Maniac (1934) | 1,068 |
7. | 3.2 | Midnight Shadow (1939) | 94 |
8. | 3.2 | Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934) | 123 |
9. | 3.2 | The Devil's Daughter (1939) | 129 |
10. | 3.5 | Tell Your Children (1936) | 4,032 |
The formula for calculating the Top Rated 50 Titles gives a true Bayesian estimate:
weighted rating (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C
where:
for the Top 50, only votes from regular voters are considered.
In order to appear in the Bottom 10 Titles chart the title must have received at least 1000 votes.