Best romance films 1931 – 1940 - Charts
Best romance films 1931 – 1940
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: David Hand
Cast: Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan
2. Modern Times (1936)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
3. City Lights (1931)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Charlie Chaplin
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill
4. Christian (1939)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Oldřich Nový, Adina Mandlová
5. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
6. Gone with the Wind (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Victor Fleming, George Cukor
Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh
7. It Happened One Night (1934)
USA, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
8. Girl in Blue (1939)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Otakar Vávra
Cast: Lída Baarová, Oldřich Nový
9. Rebecca (1940)
USA, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
10. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn
12. Ninotchka (1939)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas
13. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
USA, Drama / War
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor
14. A Night at the Opera (1935)
USA, Comedy / Family
Directed by: Sam Wood
Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
15. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
USA, Comedy / Family
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
16. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: H.C. Potter
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
17. The Sea Hawk (1940)
USA, Adventure / Romance
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall
18. Wuthering Heights (1939)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
19. Shall We Dance? (1937)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
21. Top Hat (1935)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
22. After the Thin Man (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
23. His Girl Friday (1940)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
24. The Gay Divorcee (1934)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
25. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: William Keighley, Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
26. Swing Time (1936)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
27. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis
28. The Awful Truth (1937)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
29. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore
30. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
31. Carefree (1938)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
32. Port of Shadows (1938)
France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Marcel Carné
Cast: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan
33. Desire (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper
35. Foreign Correspondent (1940)
USA, Action / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
36. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
USA, Drama / Adventure
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur
37. Midnight (1939)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche
38. My Man Godfrey (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard
39. Grandmother (1940)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Terezie Brzková, Světla Svozilová
40. My Favorite Wife (1940)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Garson Kanin
Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
41. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
UK, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson
42. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Cast: Matahi, Anne Chevalier
43. San Francisco (1936)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald
44. Girls in Uniform (1931)
German Empire, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Leontine Sagan
Cast: Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck
45. Two Monks (1934)
Mexico, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Juan Bustillo Oro
Cast: Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro
46. Anna Karenina (1935)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March
47. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye
48. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell
49. Love Is News (1937)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Tay Garnett
Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young
50. The Letter (1940)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
51. Queen Christina (1933)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
53. Bachelor Mother (1939)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Garson Kanin
Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven
54. The Petrified Forest (1936)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Cast: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis
55. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
56. Pygmalion (1938)
UK, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Leslie Howard, Anthony Asquith
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller
57. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
59. North West Mounted Police (1940)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll
60. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper
61. Vivacious Lady (1938)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: George Stevens
Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart
62. Marie Antoinette (1938)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power
63. Little Women (1933)
USA, Drama / Family
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett
64. Remember the Night (1940)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray
65. Horse Feathers (1932)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
66. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Norman Taurog
Cast: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell
67. Virginia City (1940)
USA, Western / Drama
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins
68. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
USA, Adventure / Historical
Directed by: James Whale
Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett
69. Ecstasy (1932)
Czechoslovakia / Austria, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Gustav Machatý
Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog
70. Libeled Lady (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell
72. Secret Agent (1936)
UK, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre
74. The Ghost Goes West (1935)
UK, Comedy / Fantasy
Directed by: René Clair
Cast: Robert Donat, Jean Parker
75. City Streets (1931)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney
76. The Rains Came (1939)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Clarence Brown
Cast: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power
77. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
78. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
USA, Adventure / Horror
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
Cast: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen
79. Stella Dallas (1937)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: King Vidor
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles
80. Follow the Fleet (1936)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
81. Roberta (1935)
USA, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire
82. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Leigh Jason
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
83. The Call of the Wild (1935)
USA, Western / Adventure
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Cast: Clark Gable, Loretta Young
84. Paradise Road (1936)
Czechoslovakia, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Martin Frič
Cast: Hugo Haas, Vladimír Jedlička
85. Boom Town (1940)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Jack Conway
Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy
86. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: H.C. Potter, Stuart Heisler
Cast: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon
87. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
USA, Comedy / Fantasy
Directed by: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
Cast: Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale
88. Barbary Coast (1935)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler, Howard Hawks
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson
89. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill
90. It's a Wonderful World (1939)
USA, Crime / Comedy
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart
93. Footlight Parade (1933)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell
94. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi
96. Easy Living (1937)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold
97. Anthony Adverse (1936)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Cast: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland
98. Platinum Blonde (1931)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: Frank Capra
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Williams
99. Movie Crazy (1932)
USA, Comedy / Family
Directed by: Harold Lloyd, Clyde Bruckman
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Constance Cummings
100. Dragnet Girl (1933)
Japan, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Yasujirô Ozu
Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka, Chishû Ryû