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Best Movies of 1936, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
90 films from 1936 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Modern Times ('1936), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Swing Time, 7.4 on IMDb against 91 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Times '1936 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.5 | 98% | 96 | 8.3 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 2 | My Man Godfrey '1936 | Comedy | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.6 | Gregory La Cava |
| 3 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town '1936 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Frank Capra |
| 4 | Fury '1936 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 95% | - | 7.5 | Fritz Lang |
| 5 | Libeled Lady '1936 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 81% | - | 7.3 | Jack Conway |
| 6 | Dodsworth '1936 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 91% | - | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 7 | After the Thin Man '1936 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 76 | 7.3 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 8 | Disorder in the Court '1936 | Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Jack White |
| 9 | The Petrified Forest '1936 | Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.1 | Archie Mayo |
| 10 | The Only Son '1936 | Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 11 | Swing Time '1936 | Romance / Comedy | 7.4 | 96% | 91 | 6.8 | George Stevens |
| 12 | The Lower Depths '1936 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.5 | 89% | - | 7.2 | Jean Renoir |
| 13 | I Love to Singa '1936 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.6 | - | - | 6.8 | Tex Avery |
| 14 | Thru the Mirror '1936 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | David Hand |
| 15 | The Story of a Cheat '1936 | Comedy / Crime | 7.5 | 90% | - | 7.5 | Sacha Guitry |
| 16 | Camille '1936 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 96% | - | 7.0 | George Cukor |
| 17 | Show Boat '1936 | Musical / Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 100% | 88 | 6.7 | James Whale |
| 18 | These Three '1936 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.1 | William Wyler |
| 19 | Sisters of the Gion '1936 | Drama | 7.4 | 89% | - | 7.1 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 20 | César '1936 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 21 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.6 | Dave Fleischer |
| 22 | Our Relations '1936 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Harry Lachman |
| 23 | The Crime of Monsieur Lange '1936 | Drama / Crime / Comedy | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Jean Renoir |
| 24 | The Story of Louis Pasteur '1936 | Drama | 7.3 | 90% | - | 6.9 | William Dieterle |
| 25 | La Belle Équipe '1936 | Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.5 | Julien Duvivier |
| 26 | Little Lord Fauntleroy '1936 | Drama | 7.3 | 86% | - | 6.8 | John Cromwell |
| 27 | Somewhere in Dreamland '1936 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.5 | - | - | 7.3 | Dave Fleischer |
| 28 | The Prisoner of Shark Island '1936 | Drama | 7.2 | 89% | - | 6.8 | John Ford |
| 29 | Osaka Elegy '1936 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 30 | Moving Day '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.4 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 31 | San Francisco '1936 | Drama / Romance / Musical | 7.1 | 92% | - | 6.6 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 32 | Mr. Thank You '1936 | Drama / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Hiroshi Shimizu |
| 33 | Follow the Fleet '1936 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 83% | - | 6.9 | Mark Sandrich |
| 34 | Desire '1936 | Romance / Crime / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 100% | 86 | 7.0 | Frank Borzage |
| 35 | Theodora Goes Wild '1936 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Richard Boleslawski |
| 36 | Alpine Climbers '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.5 | David Hand |
| 37 | Charlie Chan at the Opera '1936 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | H. Bruce Humberstone |
| 38 | Sabotage '1936 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 91% | 85 | 6.7 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 39 | Christmas Comes But Once a Year '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.1 | Dave Fleischer |
| 40 | The Charge of the Light Brigade '1936 | Drama / War | 7.0 | 67% | - | 6.5 | Michael Curtiz |
| 41 | The Devil-Doll '1936 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 79% | - | 6.8 | Tod Browning |
| 42 | Wife vs. Secretary '1936 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Clarence Brown |
| 43 | Bullets or Ballots '1936 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | William Keighley |
| 44 | Donald and Pluto '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 45 | Rembrandt '1936 | Drama | 7.0 | 75% | - | 6.8 | Alexander Korda |
| 46 | Three Little Wolves '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | David Hand |
| 47 | Mickey's Polo Team '1936 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | David Hand |
| 48 | Flash Gordon '1936 | Sci-Fi / Action | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Ray Taylor |
| 49 | Come and Get It '1936 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 91% | - | 6.8 | William Wyler |
| 50 | The Ex-Mrs. Bradford '1936 | Comedy / Mystery | 6.9 | - | - | 6.2 | Stephen Roberts |
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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