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Best Romance Movies of the 1930s

Romance films released 1930–1939, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Modern Times (1936) · ★ 8.3 · 4,209 votes · 1h 27m · comedy, romance, drama

   A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..…

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   #2 City Lights (1931) · ★ 8.2 · 2,534 votes · 1h 27m · comedy, romance, drama

   A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.…

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   #3 Gone with the Wind (1939) · ★ 7.9 · 4,498 votes · 3h 58m · romance, drama, war

   The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.…

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   #4 It Happened One Night (1934) · ★ 7.8 · 1,450 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, romance

   A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.…

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   #5 Bringing Up Baby (1938) · ★ 7.5 · 1,125 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, romance

   David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventure…

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   #6 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) · ★ 7.5 · 877 votes · 1h 42m · action, adventure, romance

   Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.…

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   #7 The Rules of the Game (1939) · ★ 7.5 · 678 votes · 1h 50m · comedy, romance, drama

   The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all agains…

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   #8 The Lady Vanishes (1938) · ★ 7.4 · 1,063 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, thriller, romance

   On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the…

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   #9 Scarface (1932) · ★ 7.4 · 715 votes · 1h 33m · action, thriller, romance

   In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the crim…

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