Best Movies of 1934 by Rank
66
1
Jean Vigo
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
78
2
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
282
3
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
480
4
Norman Z. McLeod
W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp
Comedy / Family
USA
English
813
5
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
932
6
Howard Hawks
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1060
7
Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1083
8
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1167
9
Edgar G. Ulmer
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Horror / Crime / Adventure
USA
English
1193
10
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
1377
12
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1437
13
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1478
14
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1513
15
John M. Stahl
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Drama
USA
English
1637
16
Robert J. Flaherty
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
1669
17
Victor Schertzinger
Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Music / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1780
18
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1783
19
Victor Fleming
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone
Adventure / Family
USA
English
1819
20
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1853
21
John Cromwell
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1855
22
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
1897
23
Mitchell Leisen
Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander, Gail Patrick
Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
1901
24
John Ford
Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny
Adventure / War / Drama
USA
English
2069
25
King Vidor
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2129
26
Max Ophüls
Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova, Friedrich Benfer
Drama
Italy
Italian
2202
27
Frank Borzage
George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Jackie Searl, Frankie Darro
Drama
USA
English
2336
28
Basil Dean
Gracie Fields, Arthur Sinclair, Frank Pettingell, Evelyn Roberts, Olive Sloane
Comedy / Musical
UK
English
2393
29
Jean Renoir
Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2396
30
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Claude Rains, Margo, Paula Trueman, Whitney Bourne
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2418
31
Alexander Hall
Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell
Comedy / Family / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2507
32
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2578
33
Raymond Bernard
Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Paul Azaïs
Drama / Period Film
France
French
2605
34
Fritz Lang
Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Florelle, Pierre Alcover, Robert Arnoux
Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
France
French
2605
34
Frank Borzage
Margaret Sullavan, Douglass Montgomery, Alan Hale, Catherine Doucet
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2605
34
Richard Wallace
Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Andy Clyde
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2605
34
Gus Meins, Charley Rogers
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Henry Brandon
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2605
34
William Beaudine
W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen, Jan Duggan, Tammany Young
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2605
34
Gregory La Cava
Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson, Dudley Digges, Donald Crisp
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2605
34
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2646
35
William Dieterle
Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Byron
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2689
36
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2689
36
Grigori Roshal, Vera Stroyeva
Boris Dobronravov, Lev Fenin, Anatoli Goryunov, Lyubov Orlova, Kseniya Tarasova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
36
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
36
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2691
37
Roy Del Ruth
Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel
Comedy / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2691
37
W.S. Van Dyke, George Cukor
Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2709
38
Frank Borzage
Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2709
38
Lloyd Bacon
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2709
38
Irving Cummings
Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland
Drama
USA
English
2740
39
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2740
39
Georgi Vasilyev, Sergei Vasilyev
Boris Babochkin, Leonid Kmit, Varvara Myasnikova
Drama / War / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2740
39
René Clair
Max Dearly, Sinoël, Paul Ollivier, Marthe Mellot
Comedy
France
French
2740
39
Julien Duvivier
Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Jean Gabin
Drama / Romance
France
French
2740
39
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
2740
39
Friedrich Dalsheim, Knud Rasmussen
Thorvald Stauning
Romance / Drama / Documentary
Denmark
Danish
2771
41
Guido Brignone
Marta Abba, Elsa De Giorgi, Nerio Bernardi, Luigi Cimara
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2788
42
Abel Gance, Fernand Rivers
Yvonne Printemps, Pierre Fresnay, Jane Marken, Lugné-Poe
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2788
42
Jacques Feyder
Pierre Richard-Willm, Marie Bell, Françoise Rosay
Drama / Romance
France
French
2788
42
Alexander Korda
Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2792
43
Marcel Pagnol
Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon, Jean Servais
Drama / Romance
France
French
2807
44
Albert S. Rogell
Richard Cromwell, Henrietta Crosman, Billie Seward, Arthur Hohl, Ivan F. Simpson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2807
44
unknown
Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Desi Arnaz
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2807
44
Lloyd French
Douglas Wakefield, Claudia Dell, Jack Barty, Billy Gilbert, Don Barclay
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
44
Eugene Forde
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton
Mystery / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
44
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, William Gargan, Leo Carrillo
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
44
Earl Duvall, Friz Freleng
Bernard B. Brown, Shirley Reed, The Rhythmettes, The Varsity Three
Family / Animation / Musical / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
44
Roy Del Ruth
Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2807
44
David Burton
Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
44
Mitchell Leisen
Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Musical / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2807
44
unknown
Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
2807
44
Lew Landers
Maurice Murphy, Patricia Farr, Noah Berry Jr., Belle Daube, Lee Beggs
Action / Drama / Crime / Serial / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
2807
44
Lew Landers
Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin, Richard Cramer
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
2807
44
Norman Taurog
Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2824
45
Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2860
46
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
NR
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Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen
Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English
