Notable Films Released in 1930
U.S.A. unless stated
- Abraham Lincoln, starring Walter Huston November 8, 1930
- L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age), directed by Luis Buñuel November 29, 1930 - (France)
- Alraune March 2, 1930 - (Germany)
- All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Lew Ayres April 21, 1930
- Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers August 23, 1930
- Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo February 21, 1930
- The Bad Man, starring Walter Huston
- Big Boy, a musical comedy with Al Jolson
- The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
- The Big Pond, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert
- The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
- Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
- The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
- Bride of the Regiment, starring Walter Pidgeon
- Bright Lights, a musical comedy in Technicolor
- Call of the Flesh, starring Ramón Novarro - a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
- The Cat Creeps a mystery film released by Universal
- Chasing Rainbows, starring Bessie Love, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Check and Double Check, a comedy based on Amos 'n' Andy radio show
- Children of Pleasure, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- City Girl, directed by F. W. Murnau
- Common Clay, starring Constance Bennett
- The Cuckoos, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Danger Lights, starring Louis Wolheim
- The Dawn Patrol, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
- The Divorcee, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
- Dixiana, starring Bebe Daniels, a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Doughboys, a World War I comedy starring Buster Keaton
- Earth (Zemlya), directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - (U.S.S.R.)
- Elstree Calling, a British revue with color sequences, co-directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
- Fast and Loose, starring Miriam Hopkins in her film debut, with Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan
- Feet First, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
- The Florodora Girl (aka The Gay Nineties), a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Follow Thru, starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- Free and Easy, starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, and Robert Montgomery
- General Crack, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore
- Good News, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
- Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon
- Hell's Heroes, directed by William Wyler
- High Society Blues, starring Janet Gaynor
- Hold Everything, starring Joe E. Brown, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- Holiday, starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor
- Ingagi, exploitation-documentary on gorilla-worshiping women encountered by an explorer. Box-office hit was revealed to be a hoax.
- Journey's End, directed by James Whale - (Britain/USA)
- King of Jazz, a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor
- Ladies Love Brutes, a comedy directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring George Bancroft and Mary Astor
- Ladies of Leisure, starring Barbara Stanwyck
- Leathernecking, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Irene Dunne
- Let's Go Native, starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald
- The Life of the Party, musical comedy entirely in Technicolor directed by Roy Del Ruth
- Loose Ankles, comedy drama starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., directed by Ted Wilde
- Lord Byron of Broadway, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
- The Lottery Bride, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Jeanette MacDonald
- Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
- Mamba, first talking drama entirely in Technicolor starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman
- Mammy, a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences
- Manslaughter, starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March
- Min and Bill, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
- Monte Carlo, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald
- Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
- Night Birds directed by Richard Eichberg (Germany/Britain)
- Not So Dumb, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies
- Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning, starring Edward G. Robinson
- Paramount on Parade, an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences
- Peacock Alley, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences starring Mae Murray
- Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman, starring Joan Bennett, with Technicolor sequences
- Raffles, featuring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
- The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, starring Warner Oland and Jean Arthur
- The Rogue Song, a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor directed by Lionel Barrymore
- Show Girl in Hollywood, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- Son of the Gods, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
- Song o' My Heart, a musical starring Irish tenor John McCormack, directed by Frank Borzage, and shot in both 35mm and 70mm Fox Grandeur formats
- The Song of Love (La canzone dell'amore) - (Italy)
- Soup to Nuts, a comedy and film debut for The Three Stooges
- Street of Chance, starring William Powell and Jean Arthur
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
- The Three from the Filling Station (Die Drei von der Tankstelle), directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey (Germany)
- Tom Sawyer
- True to the Navy, starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
- Under a Texas Moon, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor directed by Michael Curtiz
- Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris), directed by René Clair - (France)
- The Vagabond King, a musical drama entirely in Technicolor starring Jeanette MacDonald
- Wara Wara, directed by José Maria Velasco Maidana; now the only surviving silent Bolivian feature film
- Way for a Sailor, starring John Gilbert and Wallace Beery
- Westfront 1918 (Vier von der Infanterie), directed by G. W. Pabst - (Germany)
- Whoopee!, a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
- Young Man of Manhattan, starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers
- Young Woodley, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Madeleine Carroll (Britain)
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