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Best Movies of 1935, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
84 films from 1935 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Bride of Frankenstein ('1935), at 7.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: David Copperfield, 7.3 on IMDb against 91 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bride of Frankenstein '1935 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 98% | 95 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 2 | A Night at the Opera '1935 | Comedy / Musical | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.4 | Sam Wood |
| 3 | Top Hat '1935 | Musical / Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | 93 | 7.2 | Mark Sandrich |
| 4 | Captain Blood '1935 | - | 7.7 | 100% | 89 | 7.3 | Michael Curtiz |
| 5 | A Tale of Two Cities '1935 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 93% | 87 | 6.9 | Jack Conway |
| 6 | The 39 Steps '1935 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 93 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 7 | Mutiny on the Bounty '1935 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 87 | 7.4 | Frank Lloyd |
| 8 | The Band Concert '1935 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.8 | - | - | 7.2 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 9 | Les Misérables '1935 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 85% | - | 7.1 | Richard Boleslawski |
| 10 | Ruggles of Red Gap '1935 | Comedy | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Leo McCarey |
| 11 | Hoi Polloi '1935 | Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.4 | Del Lord |
| 12 | Tit for Tat '1935 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Charley Rogers |
| 13 | Three Little Beers '1935 | Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Del Lord |
| 14 | The Informer '1935 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 89% | 65 | 6.8 | John Ford |
| 15 | Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo '1935 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Sadao Yamanaka |
| 16 | David Copperfield '1935 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 100% | 91 | 6.7 | George Cukor |
| 17 | The Good Fairy '1935 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 88% | - | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 18 | An Inn in Tokyo '1935 | Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 19 | The Whole Town's Talking '1935 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | 100% | - | 6.9 | John Ford |
| 20 | Mad Love '1935 | Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Karl Freund |
| 21 | Carnival in Flanders '1935 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Jacques Feyder |
| 22 | Music Land '1935 | Animation / Musical / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 23 | Thicker Than Water '1935 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.4 | James W. Horne |
| 24 | Mickey's Fire Brigade '1935 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 25 | Triumph of the Will '1935 | Documentary | 7.1 | 84% | - | 6.9 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 26 | Toni '1935 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Jean Renoir |
| 27 | Happiness '1935 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 5.7 | Aleksandr Medvedkin |
| 28 | On Ice '1935 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 29 | 'G' Men '1935 | Crime / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | William Keighley |
| 30 | The Tortoise and the Hare '1935 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 31 | Pluto's Judgement Day '1935 | Animation / Comedy / Horror | 7.2 | - | - | 6.7 | David Hand |
| 32 | Anna Karenina '1935 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 86% | - | 6.6 | Clarence Brown |
| 33 | The Sea Horse '1935 | Documentary | 7.2 | - | - | 6.6 | Jean Painlevé |
| 34 | Roberta '1935 | Comedy / Musical / Romance | 7.0 | 86% | 66 | 7.1 | William A. Seiter |
| 35 | The Lives of a Bengal Lancer '1935 | Drama | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Henry Hathaway |
| 36 | The Little Colonel '1935 | Musical | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | David Butler |
| 37 | Mickey's Service Station '1935 | Animation | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 38 | The Fixer Uppers '1935 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Charley Rogers |
| 39 | Mickey's Garden '1935 | Animation | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 40 | Alice Adams '1935 | Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 89% | - | 6.7 | George Stevens |
| 41 | The Devil Is a Woman '1935 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 56% | - | 6.4 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 42 | China Seas '1935 | Action / Drama | 6.9 | 80% | - | 6.3 | Tay Garnett |
| 43 | Peter Ibbetson '1935 | Drama / Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | 80% | - | 7.0 | Henry Hathaway |
| 44 | Crime and Punishment '1935 | Crime / Drama | 6.9 | 80% | - | 6.3 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 45 | The Black Room '1935 | Horror / Crime | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Roy William Neill |
| 46 | Charlie Chan in Shanghai '1935 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | - | - | 6.7 | James Tinling |
| 47 | Who Killed Cock Robin? '1935 | Animation / Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | David Hand |
| 48 | The Cookie Carnival '1935 | Animation / Musical / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.7 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 49 | Composition in Blue '1935 | Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.7 | Oskar Fischinger |
| 50 | Three Orphan Kittens '1935 | Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.6 | David Hand |
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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