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Best Movies of 1930, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
53 films from 1930 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is All Quiet on the Western Front ('1930), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Hell's Angels, 7.2 on IMDb against 39 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Quiet on the Western Front '1930 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 98% | 91 | 7.8 | Lewis Milestone |
| 2 | The Blue Angel '1930 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 90 | 7.3 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 3 | City Girl '1930 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 63% | - | 7.5 | F. W. Murnau |
| 4 | Animal Crackers '1930 | Comedy / Musical | 7.4 | 97% | 77 | 6.9 | Victor Heerman |
| 5 | À propos de Nice '1930 | Documentary | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Jean Vigo |
| 6 | Hog Wild '1930 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | James Parrott |
| 7 | Hell's Angels '1930 | Drama / War / Action | 7.2 | 76% | 39 | 6.6 | Howard Hughes |
| 8 | Earth '1930 | Drama | 7.2 | 75% | - | 6.7 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| 9 | The Big Trail '1930 | Drama / Western | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Raoul Walsh |
| 10 | Westfront 1918 '1930 | War / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 6.6 | G.W. Pabst |
| 11 | Night Owls '1930 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.4 | James Parrott |
| 12 | L'Âge d'or '1930 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 89% | - | 6.8 | Luis Buñuel |
| 13 | Another Fine Mess '1930 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | James Parrott |
| 14 | Blotto '1930 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | James Parrott |
| 15 | Brats '1930 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | James Parrott |
| 16 | People on Sunday '1930 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 17 | Salt for Svanetia '1930 | Documentary | 7.6 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 18 | Morocco '1930 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 83% | - | 6.5 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 19 | The Big House '1930 | Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 75% | 74 | 6.6 | George W. Hill |
| 20 | Swing You Sinners! '1930 | Animation / Horror / Musical | 7.6 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 21 | Below Zero '1930 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | James Parrott |
| 22 | The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case '1930 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | James Parrott |
| 23 | The Dawn Patrol '1930 | War / Drama / Action | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 24 | Under the Roofs of Paris '1930 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 90% | - | 6.6 | René Clair |
| 25 | Au Bonheur des Dames '1930 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 6.3 | Julien Duvivier |
| 26 | That Night's Wife '1930 | Drama / Crime | 6.9 | - | - | 6.3 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 27 | Enthusiasm: Symphony of Donbas '1930 | Documentary | 6.8 | 80% | - | 6.4 | Dziga Vertov |
| 28 | The Fire Fighters '1930 | Animation / Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.4 | Burt Gillett |
| 29 | Min and Bill '1930 | Drama / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.2 | George W. Hill |
| 30 | King of Jazz '1930 | Musical | 6.7 | - | - | 6.4 | John Murray Anderson |
| 31 | Ladies of Leisure '1930 | Drama / Romance | 6.7 | - | - | 6.2 | Frank Capra |
| 32 | The Gorilla Mystery '1930 | Animation | 6.5 | - | - | 6.4 | Burt Gillett |
| 33 | Anna Christie '1930 | Drama / Romance | 6.6 | - | - | 6.0 | Clarence Brown |
| 34 | The Divorcee '1930 | Drama / Romance | 6.6 | 78% | - | 6.2 | Robert Z. Leonard |
| 35 | The Chain Gang '1930 | Animation | 6.3 | - | - | 6.1 | Burt Gillett |
| 36 | The Cactus Kid '1930 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 6.2 | - | - | 5.9 | Walt Disney |
| 37 | The Picnic '1930 | Animation | 6.1 | - | - | 6.1 | Burt Gillett |
| 38 | Night '1930 | Animation | 6.0 | - | - | 5.5 | Walt Disney |
| 39 | Pioneer Days '1930 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 6.0 | - | - | 5.7 | Burt Gillett |
| 40 | Sinkin' in the Bathtub '1930 | Animation / Comedy | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | Hugh Harman |
| 41 | The Bat Whispers '1930 | Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Horror / Thriller | 6.3 | 67% | - | 6.6 | Roland West |
| 42 | Madam Satan '1930 | Romance / Musical / Comedy | 6.3 | 40% | - | 5.9 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 43 | Summer '1930 | Animation | 5.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Ub Iwerks |
| 44 | The Shindig '1930 | Animation | 5.7 | - | - | 5.6 | Burt Gillett |
| 45 | The Golf Specialist '1930 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 5.3 | Monte Brice |
| 46 | The Barnyard Concert '1930 | Animation | 5.7 | - | - | 5.7 | Walt Disney |
| 47 | Cannibal Capers '1930 | Animation | 5.4 | - | - | 5.6 | Burt Gillett |
| 48 | Congo Jazz '1930 | Comedy / Animation | 5.7 | - | - | 5.2 | Hugh Harman |
| 49 | Murder! '1930 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.3 | 83% | - | 5.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 50 | Up the River '1930 | Comedy / Crime | 5.9 | - | - | 5.7 | John Ford |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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