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Best Movies of 1932, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
83 films from 1932 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ('1932), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang '1932 | Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 87 | 7.8 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 2 | Trouble in Paradise '1932 | Comedy / Crime / Romance | 7.9 | 90% | - | 7.4 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 3 | Freaks '1932 | Drama / Horror | 7.8 | 95% | 80 | 7.8 | Tod Browning |
| 4 | The Music Box '1932 | Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.5 | James Parrott |
| 5 | Scarface '1932 | Crime / Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 90 | 7.4 | Howard Hawks |
| 6 | I Was Born, But... '1932 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 100% | 91 | 7.5 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 7 | Horse Feathers '1932 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 83 | 6.9 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 8 | Vampyr '1932 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.4 | 98% | - | 7.2 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 9 | Helpmates '1932 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | James Parrott |
| 10 | Love Me Tonight '1932 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 11 | One Way Passage '1932 | Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Tay Garnett |
| 12 | Fanny '1932 | Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Marc Allégret |
| 13 | Grand Hotel '1932 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 85% | 79 | 7.0 | Edmund Goulding |
| 14 | Towed in a Hole '1932 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.0 | George Marshall |
| 15 | Island of Lost Souls '1932 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.3 | 88% | - | 6.9 | Erle C. Kenton |
| 16 | Shanghai Express '1932 | Drama / Romance / War | 7.3 | 96% | 83 | 7.0 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 17 | Wooden Crosses '1932 | Drama / War | 7.7 | - | - | 7.1 | Raymond Bernard |
| 18 | The Blood of a Poet '1932 | Fantasy | 7.3 | 95% | 67 | 7.0 | Jean Cocteau |
| 19 | American Madness '1932 | Drama / Crime | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Frank Capra |
| 20 | Broken Lullaby '1932 | Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 21 | Boudu Saved from Drowning '1932 | Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Jean Renoir |
| 22 | County Hospital '1932 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | James Parrott |
| 23 | Red Dust '1932 | Romance / Drama | 7.2 | 91% | 66 | 6.9 | Victor Fleming |
| 24 | Flowers and Trees '1932 | Animation / Musical / Romance / Comedy / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Burt Gillett |
| 25 | Minnie the Moocher '1932 | Musical / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 7.3 | - | - | 6.6 | Dave Fleischer |
| 26 | The Most Dangerous Game '1932 | Thriller / Horror / Action | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Irving Pichel |
| 27 | Scram! '1932 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Ray McCarey |
| 28 | Pack Up Your Troubles '1932 | Comedy / War | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | George Marshall |
| 29 | Jewel Robbery '1932 | Romance / Comedy / Crime | 7.2 | 83% | - | 6.5 | William Dieterle |
| 30 | Any Old Port! '1932 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | James W. Horne |
| 31 | Blonde Venus '1932 | Drama | 7.1 | 73% | - | 6.8 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 32 | Mickey's Good Deed '1932 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.5 | Burt Gillett |
| 33 | Three on a Match '1932 | Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 83% | - | 6.3 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 34 | Their First Mistake '1932 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.4 | George Marshall |
| 35 | Santa's Workshop '1932 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 36 | The Old Dark House '1932 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.0 | 97% | - | 6.7 | James Whale |
| 37 | Red-Headed Woman '1932 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Jack Conway |
| 38 | One Hour with You '1932 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 88% | - | 6.4 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 39 | What Price Hollywood? '1932 | Drama | 7.0 | 83% | - | 6.8 | George Cukor |
| 40 | The Klondike Kid '1932 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.0 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 41 | If I Had a Million '1932 | Drama / Comedy | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.5 | James Cruze |
| 42 | Merrily We Go to Hell '1932 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.4 | Dorothy Arzner |
| 43 | Forbidden '1932 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Frank Capra |
| 44 | Rain '1932 | Drama | 6.9 | 82% | - | 6.6 | Lewis Milestone |
| 45 | Tarzan the Ape Man '1932 | - | 6.9 | 88% | - | 6.6 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 46 | The Mummy '1932 | Horror | 6.9 | 90% | - | 6.7 | Karl Freund |
| 47 | What Scoundrels Men Are! '1932 | Comedy / Romance | 6.8 | - | - | 7.1 | Mario Camerini |
| 48 | The Idea '1932 | Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.1 | Berthold Bartosch |
| 49 | Touchdown Mickey '1932 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.2 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 50 | The Chimp '1932 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.6 | James Parrott |
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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