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Best Movies of 1934, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
81 films from 1934 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is It Happened One Night ('1934), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Lost Patrol, 6.8 on IMDb against 85 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It Happened One Night '1934 | Comedy / Romance | 8.1 | 98% | 87 | 7.8 | Frank Capra |
| 2 | The Thin Man '1934 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 98% | 86 | 7.5 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 3 | L'Atalante '1934 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Jean Vigo |
| 4 | Les Misérables '1934 | Drama | 8.3 | - | - | 7.9 | Raymond Bernard |
| 5 | Queen Christina '1934 | Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 81% | - | 6.9 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 6 | The Scarlet Empress '1934 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 87% | - | 6.9 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 7 | Imitation of Life '1934 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 88% | 72 | 7.0 | John M. Stahl |
| 8 | A Story of Floating Weeds '1934 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 9 | The Goddess '1934 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Wu Yonggang |
| 10 | The Gay Divorcee '1934 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 93% | 80 | 6.9 | Mark Sandrich |
| 11 | Twentieth Century '1934 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Howard Hawks |
| 12 | Them Thar Hills '1934 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.5 | Charley Rogers |
| 13 | The Count of Monte Cristo '1934 | Drama | 7.4 | 88% | - | 6.8 | Rowland V. Lee |
| 14 | Men in Black '1934 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | Ray McCarey |
| 15 | The Scarlet Pimpernel '1934 | Drama | 7.3 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Harold Young |
| 16 | Going Bye-Bye! '1934 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Charley Rogers |
| 17 | Punch Drunks '1934 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.0 | Lou Breslow |
| 18 | Tarzan and His Mate '1934 | Action | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Cedric Gibbons |
| 19 | The Merry Widow '1934 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.2 | 89% | - | 6.8 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 20 | Babes in Toyland '1934 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.3 | Gus Meins |
| 21 | Manhattan Melodrama '1934 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 81% | - | 7.0 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 22 | The Live Ghost '1934 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.2 | Charley Rogers |
| 23 | Oliver the Eighth '1934 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Lloyd French |
| 24 | Bright Eyes '1934 | Drama / Musical | 7.2 | 83% | - | 6.7 | David Butler |
| 25 | Man of Aran '1934 | Documentary / Drama | 7.2 | 92% | - | 7.3 | Robert Flaherty |
| 26 | Treasure Island '1934 | - | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Victor Fleming |
| 27 | Of Human Bondage '1934 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 87% | - | 6.5 | John Cromwell |
| 28 | Everybody's Woman '1934 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.6 | Max Ophüls |
| 29 | It's a Gift '1934 | Comedy | 7.0 | 94% | - | 6.3 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 30 | The Grasshopper and the Ants '1934 | Animation / Musical | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 31 | Dames '1934 | Romance / Musical / Comedy | 7.0 | 60% | - | 6.5 | Ray Enright |
| 32 | The Black Cat '1934 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 89% | - | 6.7 | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| 33 | Our Daily Bread '1934 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 79% | - | 6.7 | King Vidor |
| 34 | Chapayev '1934 | Drama / War | 7.0 | - | - | 6.0 | Sergey Vasilev |
| 35 | Gulliver Mickey '1934 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Burt Gillett |
| 36 | The Wise Little Hen '1934 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 37 | Death Takes a Holiday '1934 | Fantasy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 78% | 53 | 6.3 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 38 | The Big Bad Wolf '1934 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Burt Gillett |
| 39 | Charlie Chan in London '1934 | Crime / Mystery | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Eugene Forde |
| 40 | Angele '1934 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.5 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 41 | Evelyn Prentice '1934 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | William K. Howard |
| 42 | Two Monks '1934 | Drama / Romance / Mystery | 7.0 | - | - | 6.2 | Juan Bustillo Oro |
| 43 | Cleopatra '1934 | Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 83% | - | 6.1 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 44 | Poor Cinderella '1934 | Animation / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Dave Fleischer |
| 45 | The Lost Patrol '1934 | Action / War | 6.8 | 100% | 85 | 6.6 | John Ford |
| 46 | The Dognapper '1934 | Animation | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | David Hand |
| 47 | The Phantom of the Monastery '1934 | Horror / Mystery | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Fernando de Fuentes |
| 48 | Liliom '1934 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.8 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Fritz Lang |
| 49 | Funny Little Bunnies '1934 | Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 7.0 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 50 | Two-Gun Mickey '1934 | Animation / Western / Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.2 | Ben Sharpsteen |
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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