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2. City Lights (Chaplin)

1927 -- 1928 -- 1929 -- 1930

-- -- 1931, Top Films -- --

>> Film Studies (1930s) <<

1932 -- 1933 -- 1934 -- 1935

1. M (Lang)

10. Le Million (Clair)

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  3. Frankenstein
  (Whale)

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  4. Dracula
  (Browning)

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  6. The Public Enemy (Wellman)

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  7. À nous la liberté (Clair)

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  13. Dr. Jekill and My. Hyde (Mamoulian)

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  14. Little Caesar (LeRoy)

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  17. La Chienne
  (Renoir)

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  18. The Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch)

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  27. The Champ
  (Vidor)

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  34. 'City Streets (Mamoulian)

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  35. 'The Maltese Falcon (Del Ruth)

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  +. Emil und die Detective (Lamprecht)

-- #28. Dracula {es} -- #30. Marius

Notable Mention (1931)

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  5. Tabu (Murnau)

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  8. Limit (Peixoto)

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  9. Monkey Business (McLeod)

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  19. Front Page (Milestone)

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  +. Cimarron (Ruggles) <Oscar>

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  Street Scene (Vidor)

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  Skippy (Taurog)

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  Arrowsmith (Ford)

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  Bad Girl (Borzage)

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  The Guardsman (Franklin)

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  Road to Life (Ekk)

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Additional films (1931)

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  +. A Free Soul (Brown)

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  +. East Lynne (Lloyd)

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  +. Alice in Wonderland (Pollard)

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  +. Girls in Uniform (Sagan)

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  +. Dishonored (Sternberg)

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  +. Guilty Hands
  (Van Dyke)

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  +. Trader Horn
  (Van Dyke)

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Critical Reception / Ranking (1931)

MUBI, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #5. Tabu -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #8. Limit / Limite -- #9. Monkey Business -- #10. Le Million

-- #11. Taris -- #12. The Threepenny Opera -- #13. Dr. Jekill and My. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #15. Working on the Douro River -- #16. Girls in Uniform -- #17. La Chienne -- #18. The Smiling Lieutenant -- #19. Dishonored -- #20. Tokyo Chorus

-- #21. Enthusiasm -- #22. Night Nurse -- #23. Bimbo's Iniziation -- #24. Flunky, Work Hard! -- #25. Waterloo Bridge -- #26. Safe in Hell -- #27. The Champ -- #28. Dracula {es} -- #29. The Light Penetrates the Dark -- #30. Marius

-- #31. Blonde Crazy -- #32. Autumn Fire -- #33. The Miracle Woman -- #34. 'City Streets -- #35. 'The Maltese Falcon -- #36. Rich and Strange -- #37. Comradeship -- #38. Street Scene -- #39. Possessed -- #40. Philips-Radio

-- #41. Platinum Blonde -- #42. A Bronx Morning -- #43. Other Men's Women -- #44. The Threepenny Opera -- #45. Dainah la metisse -- #46. A Free Soul -- #47. Egyptian Melodies -- #48. El desastre en Oaxaca -- #49. Beau Hunks -- #50. Mor'vran

Flickchat, Best Films

-- @1. City Lights -- @2. M -- @3. Frankenstein -- @4. Dracula -- @5. The Public Enemy -- @6. Monkey Business -- @7. The Maltese Falcon -- @8. Dr. Jekill and My. Hyde -- @9. Little Caesar -- @10. Dracula

-- @11. Tabu -- @12. Liberty for Us / À nous la liberté (Clair) -- @13. Le Million -- @14. La Chienne -- @15. The Champ -- @16. Night Nurse -- @17. The Smiling Lieutenant -- @18. Madchen in Uniform -- @19. The Front Page -- @20. Dishonored

CriticsTop10, Best Films

-- =1 Cimarron (1931) -- =2 Street Scene -- =3 The Champ -- =4 Skippy -- =5 Arrowsmith -- =6 Bad Girl -- =7 The Front Page -- =8 The Guardsman -- =9 <Five Star Final> -- =10 City Lights

-- =11 A Free Soul -- =12 The Sin of Madelon Claudet -- =13 Little Caesar -- =14 Smiling Lieutenant -- =15 Trader Horn -- =16 An American Trajedy -- =17 Alexander Hamilton -- =18 Public Enemy -- =19 Waterloo Bridge (1931) -- =20 Daddy Long Legs (1931) -- =21 Susan Lenox -- =22 The Millionaire -- =23 A Connecticut Yankee (1931) -- =24 Tabu -- =25 Private Lives -- =26 Seed -- =27 East Lynne -- =28 Mati Hari -- =29 Blue Angel -- =30 Frankenstein

-- =31 Spirit of Notre Dame -- =32 Dirigible -- =33 Palmy Days -- =34 The Criminal Code -- =35 Monkey Business -- =36 Dracula -- =37 Devotion (1931) -- =38 Star Witness -- =39 Huckleberry Finn -- =40 Svengali -- =41 Smart Money -- =42 Transatlantic -- =43 Rebound -- =44 Merely Mary Ann -- =45 Strangers May Kiss -- =46 Sporting Blood -- =47 Platinum Blonde -- =48 Night Nurse -- =49 Politics -- =50 The Miracle Woman -- =51 A Nous, La Liberte

National Board of Review, Best Films

-- < Cimarron -- City Lights -- City Streets -- < Dishonored -- < The Front Page -- < The Guardsman -- Quick Millions -- Rango -- Surrender -- < Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

-- The Song of Life -- The Threepenny Opera -- 'Under the Roofs of Paris -- Westfront 1918

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #16. Tabu -- #31. City Lights

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #4. City Lights -- #61. Tabu -- #300+. Limit / Limite

Oscar, Best Films

-- Cimarron -- East Lynne -- The Front Page -- Skippy -- Trader Horn -- A Free Soul -- Morocco (1930)

Top Grossing Films

-- #2. City Lights -- Trader Horn -- Palmy Days -- The Man Who Came Back -- Merely Mary Ann -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Arrowsmith -- A Connecticut Yankee -- Cimarron -- Bad Girl -- Possessed

Schneider, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À Nous la Liberté -- #8. Limit -- #10. Le Million -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

-- The Front Page -- Cimarron

National Film Registry

-- #2. City Lights -- #4. Dracula -- #3. Frankenstein -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #14. Little Caesar -- #28. Drácula

-- #5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas -- The Front Page -- A Bronx Morning <short> -- The Forgotten Frontier <doc> -- Martha Graham dance films <short> (1931–1944)

American Film Institute

-- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein

NYT, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #3. Frankenstein -- #4. Dracula -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

TSPDT, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #10. Le Million -- #17. La Chienne

-- #5. Tabu -- #8. Limit

Top10ner, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein

Film101, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #2. City Lights -- #3. Frankenstein -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #7. À nous la liberté -- #10. Le Million -- #13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- #14. Little Caesar -- #17. La Chienne

-- The Front Page

Rotten Tomatoes, Best Films

-- #1. M -- #6. The Public Enemy -- #16. Girls in Uniform

ChildActors, Best Films

Best movies: -- #27. The Champ -- #50+. Emil und die Detektive (Germany) -- The Lightning Warrior -- Putyovka v zhizn [Road to Life] (URSS) <YouTube> -- The Vanishing Legion (serial)

See also: -- Huckleberry Finn -- Skippy -- Ambassador Bill -- Father's Son -- Our Gang: Fly My Kite -- Love Business -- On purge bébé [Baby's Laxative] (France) -- Penrod (serial) -- Penrod and Sam -- The Sin of Madelon Claudet -- Sooky -- The Star Witness

Best International Films

{France}

-- #17. La chienne

TimeOut, Best French Films

-- #69. La Chienne