1930s
| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Alf's Button | W.P. Kellino | Tubby Edlin Alf Goddard | Gaumont British film with colour sequences. | |
| An Elastic Affair | Alfred Hitchcock | Short film made by Hitchcock for awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930. | |||
| The Big Fight | Walter Lang | Lola Lane, Ralph Ince | |||
| Big Money | Russell Mack | Eddie Quillan, Robert Armstrong | |||
| The Big Party | John G. Blystone | Sue Carol, Dixie Lee | |||
| Bride of the Regiment | John Francis Dillon | Vivienne Segal, Walter Pidgeon | All Technicolor musical drama, only the soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. | ||
| Cameo Kirby | Irving Cummings | J. Harold Murray, Norma Terris | |||
| The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Herbert Brenon | Chester Morris | Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. | ||
| The Cat Creeps | Rupert Julian | Helen Twelvetress, Raymond Hackett | |||
| The Climax | Renaud Hoffman | Jean Hersholt and Kathryn Crawford | |||
| College Lovers | John G. Adolfi | Marion Nixon, Jack Whiting | Musical comedy | ||
| Courage | Archie Mayo | Marian Nixon, Leon Janney | |||
| Crazy That Way | Hamilton MacFadden | Kenneth MacKenna, Joan Bennett | |||
| The Dude Wrangler | Richard Thorpe | Lina Basquette, Tom Keene | |||
| Dumbbells In Ermine | John G. Adolfi | Robert Armstrong, Barbara Kent | |||
| The Eyes of the World | Henry King | John Holland, Una Merkel | |||
| Fellers | Austin Fay, Arthur Higgins | Arthur Tauchert, Les Coney | An Australian comedy. | ||
| Furies | Alan Crosland | Lois Wilson, H. B. Warner | |||
| The Girl of the Golden West | John Francis Dillon | Ann Harding, James Rennie | |||
| The Golden Calf | Millard Webb | Jack Mulhall, Sue Carol | |||
| The Gorilla | Bryan Foy | Joe Frisco, Walter Pidgeon | |||
| The Grand Parade | Fred C. Newmeyer | Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott | |||
| Hide Out | Reginald Barker | James Murray, Kathryn Crawford | |||
| Hit the Deck | Luther Reed | Jack Oakie, Polly Walker | Part Technicolor musical comedy. | ||
| Hold Everything | Roy Del Ruth | Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown | All Technicolor musical comedy. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. | ||
| In the Next Room | Edward F. Cline | Jack Mulhall, Alice Day | |||
| Just for a Song | Gareth Gundrey | Lillian Hall-Davis, Roy Royston | Gainsborough British film with colour sequences. | ||
| Kismet | John Francis Dillon | Otis Skinner, Loretta Young | A lavish costume drama in the early widescreen process known as Vitascope. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. | ||
| Knowing Men | Elinor Glyn | Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi | The second British sound feature in colour. A B.I.P film. | ||
| Leathernecking | Edward F. Cline | Irene Dunne, Ken Murray | Dunne's film debut. Part Technicolor musical comedy. | ||
| Let's Go Places | Frank R. Strayer | Frank Richardson, Dixie Lee | |||
| Lilies of the Field | Alexander Korda | Corinne Griffith, Ralph Forbes | |||
| The Love Trader | Joseph Henabery | Leatrice Joy, Noah Beery | this film survives in the Library of Congress. | ||
| Once a Gentlemen | James Cruze | Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson | |||
| One Mad Kiss | Marcel Silver | José Mojica, Antonio Moreno | |||
| The Other Tomorrow | Lloyd Bacon | Billie Dove, Kenneth Thomson | |||
| The Man from Blankley's | Alfred E. Green | John Barrymore, Loretta Young | |||
| The Man Hunter | D. Ross Lederman | Rin-Tin-Tin, Nora Lane | |||
| Murder Will Out | Clarence G. Badger | Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee | |||
| No, No, Nanette | Clarence G. Badger | Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray | Part Technicolor musical comedy. The soundtrack discs survive. | ||
| A Romance of Seville | Norman Walker | Alexander D'Arcy, Marguerite Allan | The first British sound feature in colour. B.I.P film. | ||
| Rough Waters | John Daumery | Rin-Tin-Tin, Jobyna Ralston | |||
| Second Choice | Howard Bretherton | Dolores Costello, Chester Morris | |||
| She Couldn't Say No | Lloyd Bacon | Winnie Lightner, Chester Morris | Musical drama. | ||
| She Got What She Wanted | James Cruze | Lee Tracy, Betty Compson | |||
| Song of the Flame | Alan Crosland | Bernice Claire, Noah Beery | All Technicolor musical drama, the first color film featuring wide screen, and Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist. | ||
| Song of the West | Ray Enright | John Boles, Joe E. Brown | All Technicolor. The first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors and the first color Western. The complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone discs. In a June 2011 forum discussion, a person claimed to have fragments which others then identified as being from this film. | ||
| Sons of the Saddle | Harry Joe Brown | Ken Maynard, Doris Hill | |||
| Strictly Modern | William A. Seiter | Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer | |||
| Troopers Three | Norman Taurog | Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver | |||
| Way of All Men | Frank Lloyd | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dorothy Revier | |||
| What a Widow! | Allan Dwan | Gloria Swanson | Musical drama. | ||
| Lord Richard in the Pantry | Walter Forde | Richard Cooper, Dorothy Seacombe | Included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. | ||
| The Last Hour | Walter Forde | Richard Cooper | |||
| 1931 | Age for Love | Frank Lloyd | Billie Dove, Lois Wilson, Charles Starrett | Produced by the Caddo Company and an uncredited Howard Hughes. | |
| Alam Ara | Ardeshir Irani | Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor | The first Indian sound film. | ||
| Annabelle's Affairs | Alfred L. Werker | Victor McLaglen, Jeanette MacDonald | |||
| Children of Dreams | Alan Crosland | Paul Gregory, Margaret Schilling | Musical drama. | ||
| Charlie Chan Carries On | Warner Oland, Hamilton MacFadden | An alternate Spanish-language version, featuring a different cast, exists. | |||
| Compromised | John G. Adolfi | Rose Hobart, Ben Lyon | |||
| Damaged Love | Irvin Willat | June Collyer, Charles Starrett | |||
| Fanny Foley Herself | Edna May Oliver | All-color film photographed in Technicolor. | |||
| Father's Son | Leon Janney, Lewis Stone | ||||
| Fifty Fathoms Deep | Roy William Neill | Richard Cromwell, Mary Doran | |||
| Honor of the Family | Warren William, Bebe Daniels | ||||
| Men of the Sky | Alfred E. Green | Irene Delroy, Jack Whiting | Musical drama. | ||
| Racetrack | James Cruze | Leo Carrillo, Frank Coghlan Jr. | Completed in 1931, but not released until 1933. | ||
| Shanghaied Love | George B. Seitz | Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery | |||
| The Bargain | Robert Milton | Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp | |||
| The Last Ride | Duke Worne | Dorothy Revier, Charles Morton | |||
| White Shoulders | Melville W. Brown | Mary Astor, Jack Holt | |||
| Women Go on Forever | James Cruze | Clara Kimball Young, Marian Nixon | |||
| Woman Hungry | Clarence G. Badger | Lila Lee | All-color film photographed in Technicolor. | ||
| Peludópolis | Quirino Cristiani | Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system. | |||
| 1932 | Charlie Chan's Chance | John G. Blystone | Warner Oland | Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland. | |
| Men of Tomorrow | Zoltan Korda, Leontine Sagan | Maurice Braddell, Joan Gardner | Robert Donat's film debut. The film is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | ||
| The Missing Rembrandt | Arthur Wontner | Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series. | |||
| Paprika | Franciska Gaal | ||||
| Speed Demon | D. Ross Lederman | William Collier, Jr., Joan Marsh | |||
| Tonendes ABC | László Moholy-Nagy | Experimental film, scratched by hand and seen by Norman McLaren in the 1930s. | |||
| 1933 | The Big Brain | George Archainbaud | Fay Wray, George E. Stone | ||
| Charlie Chan's Greatest Case | Warner Oland and Heather Angel | ||||
| Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka | Kenzō Masaoka | First sound anime. | |||
| Convention City | Archie Mayo | Joan Blondell Dick Powell Adolphe Menjou Mary Astor |
A pre-Code film produced by First National–Warner Bros. | ||
| India Speaks | Walter Futter | Richard Halliburton | Documentary on India. | ||
| The Monkey's Paw | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adaptation of the W. W. Jacobs horror story. | |||
| Night in the City | Fei Mu | Ruan Lingyu Jin Yan |
The debut of Fei Mu, one of China's greatest filmmakers. | ||
| Stop, Sadie, Stop | Ted Healy | Never released, only one print made. | |||
| Two Minutes Silence | Paulette McDonagh | Frank Bradley, Campbell Copelin, Marie Lorraine | Australia's first anti-war movie. | ||
| Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajiro Saito | Isamu Yamaguchi | Japanese short based on King Kong, and the first Kaiju film, preceding Godzilla by 21 years. | ||
| 1934 | Charlie Chan's Courage | Second version of the Charlie Chan adventure. The 1927 version still exists. | |||
| West of the Pecos | Phil Rosen | Richard Dix | |||
| Murder at Monte Carlo | Errol Flynn | Flynn's debut film in the UK. | |||
| The Scarab Murder Case | Wilfrid Hyde-White | A Philo Vance film. | |||
| White Heat | Lois Weber | Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright | The last film, and only talkie, directed by Weber. | ||
| 1935 | The Magic Shoes | Peter Finch | Completed but never released. | ||
| Dark World | Bernard Vorhaus | Tamara Desni, Leon Quartermaine, Googie Withers | Released only in the UK. | ||
| 1937 | Terang Boelan | Albert Balink | Rd. Mochtar, Roekiah | Romance film from the Dutch East Indies; the colony's biggest commercial success | |
| 1938 | King Kong Appears in Edo | Sōya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | A Japanese kaiju (giant monster) film preceded Godzilla by sixteen years. It was likely lost during World War II. | |
| Nad Niemnem | Wanda Jakubowska and Karol Szolowski | The Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. It was dubbed and re-edited, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed the Polish underground, and the remaining three copies (out of 5 total) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost. | |||
| 1939 | Secreto de confesión | It was lost during the bombing of Manila during World War II. |
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