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Best Movies of 1937, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
73 films from 1937 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Make Way for Tomorrow ('1937), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Pépé le Moko, 7.6 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make Way for Tomorrow '1937 | Drama / Romance | 8.2 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Leo McCarey |
| 2 | Grand Illusion '1937 | Drama / War | 8.0 | 97% | - | 7.9 | Jean Renoir |
| 3 | Captains Courageous '1937 | Drama | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.4 | Victor Fleming |
| 4 | Stage Door '1937 | Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.2 | Gregory La Cava |
| 5 | The Awful Truth '1937 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | 87 | 7.2 | Leo McCarey |
| 6 | Lost Horizon '1937 | Fantasy / Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | - | 6.9 | Frank Capra |
| 7 | The Old Mill '1937 | Animation / Thriller / Musical / Horror | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 8 | Way Out West '1937 | Comedy / Western | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.1 | James W. Horne |
| 9 | Pépé le Moko '1937 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 100% | 98 | 7.2 | Julien Duvivier |
| 10 | The Prisoner of Zenda '1937 | Romance | 7.6 | 91% | - | 7.5 | John Cromwell |
| 11 | A Day at the Races '1937 | Comedy / Musical | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.1 | Sam Wood |
| 12 | The Good Earth '1937 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 6.3 | Sidney Franklin |
| 13 | Easy Living '1937 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Mitchell Leisen |
| 14 | Humanity and Paper Balloons '1937 | Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 7.8 | Sadao Yamanaka |
| 15 | Lonesome Ghosts '1937 | Animation / Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Burt Gillett |
| 16 | Shall We Dance '1937 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 89% | - | 7.3 | Mark Sandrich |
| 17 | Stella Dallas '1937 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 82% | - | 6.9 | King Vidor |
| 18 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves '1937 | Comedy / Animation | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Dave Fleischer |
| 19 | Clock Cleaners '1937 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 20 | A Star Is Born '1937 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 100% | 77 | 7.2 | William A. Wellman |
| 21 | It's Love I'm After '1937 | Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.1 | Archie Mayo |
| 22 | Oh, Mr. Porter! '1937 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Marcel Varnel |
| 23 | Bizarre, Bizarre '1937 | Comedy | 7.4 | 78% | - | 7.0 | Marcel Carné |
| 24 | History Is Made at Night '1937 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Frank Borzage |
| 25 | The Edge of the World '1937 | Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Michael Powell |
| 26 | Life Dances On '1937 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Julien Duvivier |
| 27 | Dead End '1937 | Crime / Drama | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.0 | William Wyler |
| 28 | Topper '1937 | Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | - | 6.7 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 29 | You Only Live Once '1937 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Fritz Lang |
| 30 | Heidi '1937 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Allan Dwan |
| 31 | Kid Galahad '1937 | Crime / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Michael Curtiz |
| 32 | Angel '1937 | Romance / Drama / Comedy | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 33 | Night Must Fall '1937 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Richard Thorpe |
| 34 | The Prince and the Pauper '1937 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.2 | 71% | - | 6.8 | William Keighley |
| 35 | Harvest '1937 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | - | - | 6.8 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 36 | Lady Killer '1937 | War / Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Jean Grémillon |
| 37 | They Won't Forget '1937 | Drama / Mystery | 7.2 | - | - | 5.9 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 38 | Porky's Duck Hunt '1937 | Animation / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.7 | Tex Avery |
| 39 | The Life of Emile Zola '1937 | Drama | 7.1 | 92% | - | 6.7 | William Dieterle |
| 40 | Marked Woman '1937 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 100% | 73 | 6.6 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 41 | Modern Inventions '1937 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Jack King |
| 42 | The Hurricane '1937 | Action / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | John Ford |
| 43 | Magician Mickey '1937 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | David Hand |
| 44 | Street Angel '1937 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Muzhi Yuan |
| 45 | The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes '1937 | Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | - | - | 7.3 | Karl Hartl |
| 46 | What Did the Lady Forget? '1937 | Drama / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.3 | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 47 | Así es mi tierra '1937 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 7.6 | Arkady Boytler |
| 48 | Little Hiawatha '1937 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | David Hand |
| 49 | Francis the First '1937 | Comedy / Fantasy | 6.6 | - | - | 5.7 | Christian-Jaque |
| 50 | Moose Hunters '1937 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | 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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