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Best Movies of 1938, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
80 films from 1938 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Adventures of Robin Hood ('1938), at 7.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Lady Vanishes, 7.7 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventures of Robin Hood '1938 | Romance / Action | 7.9 | 100% | 97 | 7.5 | Michael Curtiz |
| 2 | Bringing Up Baby '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 91 | 7.5 | Howard Hawks |
| 3 | You Can't Take It with You '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Frank Capra |
| 4 | Angels with Dirty Faces '1938 | Crime / Drama | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Michael Curtiz |
| 5 | The Lady Vanishes '1938 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 98 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 6 | Holiday '1938 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.3 | George Cukor |
| 7 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs '1938 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.6 | - | 96 | 7.1 | David Hand |
| 8 | Port of Shadows '1938 | Romance / Drama / Crime | 7.7 | 97% | - | 7.4 | Marcel Carné |
| 9 | Pygmalion '1938 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Anthony Asquith |
| 10 | Mickey's Trailer '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 11 | Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations '1938 | Documentary | 7.7 | 89% | - | 6.9 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 12 | Alexander Nevsky '1938 | Drama / War | 7.5 | 91% | - | 7.1 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 13 | La Bête Humaine '1938 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.1 | Jean Renoir |
| 14 | A Christmas Carol '1938 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.5 | 100% | 72 | 7.0 | Edwin L. Marin |
| 15 | Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty '1938 | Documentary | 7.6 | - | - | 6.7 | Leni Riefenstahl |
| 16 | Jezebel '1938 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 96% | 82 | 7.0 | William Wyler |
| 17 | Block-Heads '1938 | Comedy / War | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | John G. Blystone |
| 18 | Brave Little Tailor '1938 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Bill Roberts |
| 19 | The Dawn Patrol '1938 | Action / Drama / War | 7.5 | - | - | 6.8 | Edmund Goulding |
| 20 | Porky in Wackyland '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert Clampett |
| 21 | Hôtel du Nord '1938 | Romance / Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | Marcel Carné |
| 22 | The Baker's Wife '1938 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 23 | Marie Antoinette '1938 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.6 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 24 | Boys Town '1938 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Norman Taurog |
| 25 | Merrily We Live '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | Norman Z. McLeod |
| 26 | Bluebeard's Eighth Wife '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 46% | - | 7.0 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 27 | The Young in Heart '1938 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 6.7 | Richard Wallace |
| 28 | Vivacious Lady '1938 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 100% | - | 7.0 | George Stevens |
| 29 | Ferdinand the Bull '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.7 | Dick Rickard |
| 30 | Heartbeat '1938 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Marcel Pagnol |
| 31 | Boys' School '1938 | Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | - | - | 7.4 | Christian-Jaque |
| 32 | The Citadel '1938 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.4 | King Vidor |
| 33 | Three Comrades '1938 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Frank Borzage |
| 34 | Boat Builders '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 35 | The Childhood of Maxim Gorky '1938 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.0 | Mark Donskoy |
| 36 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse '1938 | Crime / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Anatole Litvak |
| 37 | A Slight Case of Murder '1938 | Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 67% | - | 6.4 | Lloyd Bacon |
| 38 | The Masseurs and a Woman '1938 | Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Hiroshi Shimizu |
| 39 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer '1938 | - | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Norman Taurog |
| 40 | La Marseillaise '1938 | Drama | 7.0 | 78% | - | 6.8 | Jean Renoir |
| 41 | An Optical Poem '1938 | Animation / Musical | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Oskar Fischinger |
| 42 | J'Accuse '1938 | War / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | - | - | 6.5 | Abel Gance |
| 43 | The Whalers '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.2 | Dick Huemer |
| 44 | St. Martin's Lane '1938 | Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 7.4 | Tim Whelan |
| 45 | Donald's Nephews '1938 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Jack King |
| 46 | Four Daughters '1938 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Michael Curtiz |
| 47 | Carefree '1938 | Musical / Comedy / Romance | 6.9 | 57% | - | 6.7 | Mark Sandrich |
| 48 | Mickey's Parrot '1938 | Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.1 | Bill Roberts |
| 49 | Have You Got Any Castles '1938 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 6.8 | - | - | 6.6 | Frank Tashlin |
| 50 | Polar Trappers '1938 | Animation / 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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