| 1. The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| 2. Grand Illusion | Jean Renoir | 1937 |
| 3. Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| 4. The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| 5. Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| 6. M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| 7. The Blue Angel | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 8. City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 |
| 9. Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 1936 |
| 10. The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | 1934 |
| 11. It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 |
| 12. Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | 1932 |
| 13. Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 |
| 14. Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 |
| 15. The Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | 1935 |
| 16. Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 1932 |
| 17. Scarface | Howard Hawks | 1932 |
| 18. Mr Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | 1939 |
| 19. The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 1935 |
| 20. King Kong | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | 1933 |
| 21. Le Jour se Leve | Marcel Carne | 1939 |
| 22. Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | 1937 |
| 23. Frankenstein | James Whale | 1931 |
| 24. You Only Live Once | Fritz Lang | 1937 |
| 25. Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | 1932 |
| 26. Shanghai Express | Josef von Sternberg | 1932 |
| 27. Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | 1939 |
| 28. A Day in the Country | Jean Renoir | 1936 |
| 29. The Devil is a Woman | Josef von Sternberg | 1935 |
| 30. Port of Shadows | Marcel Carne | 1938 |
| 31. Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 |
| 32. Young Mr Lincoln | John Ford | 1939 |
| 33. Blonde Venus | Josef von Sternberg | 1932 |
| 34. Top Hat | Mark Sandrich | 1935 |
| 35. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang | Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 |
| 36. A Farewell to Arms | Frank Borzage | 1932 |
| 37. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand | 1937 |
| 38. Manhattan Melodrama | W.S. van Dyke | 1934 |
| 39. Dracula | Tod Browning | 1931 |
| 40. Little Women | George Cukor | 1933 |
| 41. Boudu Saved From Drowning | Jean Renoir | 1932 |
| 42. The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1934 |
| 43. A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 1935 |
| 44. Swing Time | George Stevens | 1936 |
| 45. The Thin Man | W.S. van Dyke | 1934 |
| 46. Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 |
| 47. Holiday | George Cukor | 1938 |
| 48. The Invisible Man | James Whale | 1933 |
| 49. Dishonored | Josef von Sternberg | 1931 |
| 50. Twentieth Century | Howard Hawks | 1934 |
Some other to consider from that era
Les Misérables (1934) – Raymond Bernard
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) – Leo McCarey
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – Lewis Milestone
My Man Godfrey (1936) – Gregory La Cava
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) – Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) – Michael Curtiz
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) – Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
Captains Courageous (1937) – Victor Fleming
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) – Fritz Lang
The Roaring Twenties (1939) – Raoul Walsh
I Was Born, But… (1932) – Yasujiro Ozu
Freaks (1932) – Tod Browning
You Can’t Take It with You (1938) – Frank Capra
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) – William Dieterle
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) – Frank Capra
A Tale of Two Cities (1935) – Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Fury (1936) – Fritz Lang
Of Mice and Men (1939) – Lewis Milestone
Dodsworth (1936) – William Wyler
Libeled Lady (1936) – Jack Conway
L’Atalante (1934) – Jean Vigo
Midnight (1939) – Mitchell Leisen
Marius (1931) – Alexander Korda
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) – Kenji Mizoguchi
Fanny (1932) – Marc Allégret
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) – Mervyn LeRoy
The Lady Vanishes (1938) – Alfred Hitchcock
The Women (1939) – George Cukor
Great additions! I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of these in the future, and particularly getting deeper into Ozu and Mizoguchi.