My Top 20 by Year - 1930
by miran_kor | created - 28 Jan 2016 | updated - 30 May 2022 | PublicUnder construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 29 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(May 2022)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing TV = TV viewing PC = download OL = online viewing VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Sono yo no tsuma (That Night's Wife, Ozu, 1930) Rakudai wa shi.takeredo (I Flunked, But..., Ozu, 1930) The Big Trail (Walsh, 1930) The Dawn Patrol (Hawks, 1930) Rain or Shine (Capra, 1930) Le mystère de la chambre jaune (The Mystery of the Yellow Room, L'Herbier, 1930) Monte Carlo (Lubitsch, 1930) Ladies of Leisure (Capra, 1930) Murder! (Hitchcock, 1930) The Unholy Three (Conway, 1930) Au bonheur des dames (Duvivier, 1930) Laughter (d'Arrast, 1930) Pyat nevest (Five Brides, Solovyov, 1930) La petite Lise (Little Lise, Grémillon, 1930) The Big House (G. W. Hill, 1930) The Doorway to Hell (Mayo, 1930) Madam Satan (DeMille, 1930) The Bat Whispers (R. West, 1930) Her Man (Garnett, 1930) La aldea maldita (The Cursed Village, F. Rey, 1930) Das Flötenkonzert von Sans-souci (The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci, Ucicky, 1930) Sangue mineiro (H. Mauro, 1930) Borderline (MacPherson, 1930) Tonka Sibenice (K. Anton, 1930) Paid (Wood, 1930) Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (Ludwig II, King of Bavaria; Dieterle, 1930) Up the River (Ford, 1930)
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1. The Golden Age (1930)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama
A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Votes: 14,806 | Gross: $0.03M
Cinema. 10/10.
2. À Propos de Nice (1930)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Votes: 4,629
PC.
3. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,401
PC. 10/10.
4. Salt for Svanetia (1930)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary
Story of distant mountainous region in Georgia that depicts folklore, lifestyle and daily routines of Svani people, focuses on the scarcity of salt in Svaneti region. Rich with documentary ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Votes: 896
OL. 9/10.
5. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,049
OL.
6. Sentimental Romance (1930)
20 min | Comedy, Short
A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Star: Mara Griy
Votes: 650
OL.
7. Mechanical Principles (1931)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Close up we see pistons move up and down or side to side. Pendulums sway, the small parts of machinery move. Gears drive larger wheels. Gears within gears spin. Shafts turn some mechanism ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Steiner
Votes: 294
OL.
9. People on Sunday (1930)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
Directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Rochus Gliese, Curt Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, Christl Ehlers
Votes: 3,547
OL.
10. Der blaue Engel (1930)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
Votes: 16,291 | Gross: $0.08M
Cinema.
11. Bezucelná procházka (1930)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A young man sets out for an aimless stroll by tram from the center to the outskirts of Prague.
Director: Alexander Hammid
Votes: 208
PC. 9/10.
12. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,668 | Gross: $3.27M
TV. 8/10.
13. Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T. Gréville, Bill Bocket
Votes: 2,488
PC.
14. Westfront 1918 (1930)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Möbis, Claus Clausen
Votes: 2,419
OL.
15. City Girl (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke
Votes: 3,728
OL.
16. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,478
OL.
17. Takový je zivot (1930)
71 min | Drama
Realistic portrait of a poor working family in late 20s Prague: the washerwoman mother whose burial is held after she scalds herself; the alcoholic father; the manicurist daughter who becomes pregnant.
Director: Carl Junghans | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pistek, Mána Zenísková, Wolfgang Zilzer
Votes: 142
OL.
18. Hog Wild (1930)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Ollie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Russell Custer, Betty Danko
Votes: 2,219
TV. 8/10.
19. Tomatos Another Day (1930)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
The images on the screen tell it all. In a drawing room, the clock shows two on an afternoon. Adulterous lovers cling; her husband is due home momentarily, so he leaves. She goes to a table... See full summary »
Director: James Sibley Watson
Votes: 273
OL. 7/10.
OL. 7/10.
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