A-Z
| Title | Director | Featured Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Maiden Lane | Allen Dwan | Claire Trevor, Cesar Romero, Lloyd Nolan | Drama, Crime | |
| 36 Hours to Kill | Eugene Forde | Brian Donlevy, Gloria Stuart, Warren Hymer | Drama, Crime, Romance | |
| Absolute Quiet | George B. Seitz | Lionel Atwill, Raymond Walburn, Irene Hervey | Comedy, Drama | |
| The Accusing Finger | James P. Hogan | Paul Kelly, Kent Taylor, Marsha Hunt | Drama, Crime | |
| Aces and Eights | Sam Newfield | Tim McCoy, Luana Walters, Rex Lease | Western | |
| After the Thin Man | W.S. Van Dyke | William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart | Comedy, Mystery | |
| All American Chump | Edwin L. Marin | Stuart Erwin, Betty Furness, Edmund Gwenn | Comedy | |
| Along Came Love | Bert Lytell | Irene Hervey, H.B. Warner, Charles Starrett | Comedy | |
| And So They Were Married | Elliott Nugent | Mary Astor, Melvyn Douglas, Edith Fellows | Comedy, Romance | |
| Anthony Adverse | Mervyn Le Roy | Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Marilyn Knowlden | Drama, Romance | |
| Anything Goes | Lewis Milestone | Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Ida Lupino | Comedy, Romance, Musical | |
| Banjo on My Knee | John Cromwell | Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan | Comedy, Musical | |
| Beloved Enemy | H.C. Potter | Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, David Niven | Drama | |
| Bengal Tiger | Louis King | Barton MacLane, June Travis | Drama, Adventure | |
| Beyond the Caribbean | Andre Roosevelt, Ewing Scott | Andre Roosevelt, Carol Jeffries | Drama, Adventure | |
| The Big Broadcast of 1937 | Mitchell Leisen | Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen | Comedy, Musical | |
| Big Brown Eyes | Raoul Walsh | Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon | Comedy, Mystery | |
| The Big Game | George Nichols Jr. | James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, June Travis | Drama, Romance, Sports | |
| The Big Noise | Frank McDonald | Guy Kibbee, Warren Hull, Alma Lloyd | Crime comedy | |
| The Big Show | Mack V. Wright | Gene Autry, Sons of the Pioneers | Western, Musical | |
| The Bohemian Girl | James W. Horne, Charley Rogers | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd | Comedy | |
| Border Flight | Otho Lovering | Frances Farmer, John Howard, Grant Withers | Drama, Adventure | |
| Born to Dance | Roy Del Ruth | Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce | Comedy, Musical | |
| Born to Fight | Charles Hutchison | Frankie Darro, Jack La Rue, Sheila Bromley | Drama | |
| The Bride Walks Out | Leigh Jason | Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, Hattie McDaniel | Comedy | |
| The Bridge of Sighs | Phil Rosen | Onslow Stevens, Dorothy Tree, Walter Byron | Drama | |
| Bullets or Ballots | William Keighley | Edward G. Robinson, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart | Drama, Crime | |
| Cain and Mabel | Lloyd Bacon | Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins | Romantic comedy | |
| Camille | George Cukor | Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore | Drama, Romance | |
| Can This Be Dixie? | George Marshall | Jane Withers, Slim Summerville, Hattie McDaniel | Comedy, Musical | |
| Captain Calamity | John Reinhardt | George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett | Adventure, Romance | |
| Captain January | David Butler | Shirley Temple, Buddy Ebsen, Guy Kibbee | Musical | |
| The Case Against Mrs. Ames | William A. Seiter | Madeleine Carroll, George Brent, Beulah Bondi | Drama | |
| The Case of the Black Cat | William C. McGann | Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Guy Usher | Drama, Mystery | |
| Ceiling Zero | Howard Hawks | James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Barton MacLane | Drama, Adventure | |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Michael Curtiz | Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp | Drama, Adventure | |
| Charlie Chan at the Opera | H. Bruce Humberstone | Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Boris Karloff | Comedy, Mystery | |
| Chatterbox | George Nichols Jr. | Anne Shirley, Phillips Holmes, Lucille Ball | Comedy, Drama | |
| China Clipper | Ray Enright | Pat O'Brien, Ross Alexander, Humphrey Bogart | Drama | |
| Colleen | Alfred E. Green | Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert | Comedy, Musical | |
| College Holiday | Frank Tuttle | George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny | Comedy | |
| Come and Get It | Howard Hawks, William Wyler | Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer | Drama | |
| Counterfeit | Erle C. Kenton | Lloyd Nolan, Chester Morris, George McKay | Drama, Crime | |
| The Country Doctor | Henry King | Jean Hersholt, Jane Darwell, John Qualen | Drama | |
| Crack Up | Malcolm St. Clair | Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood | Drama | |
| Craig's Wife | Dorothy Arzner | Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Alma Kruger | Drama | |
| Crash Donovan | William Nigh | Jack Holt, Ward Bond, Nan Grey | Drama, Crime | |
| Dangerous Waters | Lambert Hillyer | Robert Armstrong, Jack Holt, Edwin Maxwell | Drama | |
| Daniel Boone | David Howard | George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine | Western | |
| Death in the Air | Elmer Clifton | Henry Hall, Wheeler Oakman, Leon Ames | Drama, Mystery | |
| Desire | Frank Borzage | Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, William Frawley | Comedy, Drama | |
| Devil's Squadron | Erle C. Kenton | Richard Dix, Lloyd Nolan, Karen Morley | Drama, Action | |
| The Devil Doll | Tod Browning | Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Pedro de Cordoba | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction | |
| Dimples | William A. Seiter | Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan | Musical | |
| Dodsworth | William Wyler | Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor | Drama | |
| Doughnuts and Society | Lewis D. Collins | Maude Eburne, Louise Fazenda, Franklin Pangborn | Comedy | |
| Down the Stretch | William Clemens | Willie Best, Mickey Rooney, Patricia Ellis | Drama | |
| Dracula's Daughter | John Carradine | |||
| Early to Bed | Norman Z. MacLeod | Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Lucien Littlefield | Comedy | |
| Ellis Island | Phil Rosen | Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Bradley Page | Drama, Crime | |
| Everybody's Old Man | James Flood | Irvin S. Cobb, Rochelle Hudson, Sara Haden | Comedy, Drama | |
| Exclusive Story | George B. Seitz | Franchot Tone, Madge Evans, Joseph Calleia | Drama | |
| A Face in the Fog | Robert F. Hill | Lawrence Gray, June Collyer, Forrest Taylor | Drama, Mystery | |
| The Farmer in the Dell | Ben Holmes | Frank Albertson, Moroni Olsen, Lucille Ball | Comedy | |
| Fatal Lady | Edward Ludwig | Mary Ellis, Ruth Donnelly, Samuel S. Hinds | Drama | |
| First Baby | Lewis Seiler | Marjorie Gateson, Shirley Deane, Hattie McDaniel | Comedy | |
| Florida Special | Ralph Murphy | Frances Drake, Jack Oakie, Claude Gillingwater | Comedy, Drama | |
| Follow the Fleet | Mark Sandrich | Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball | Comedy, Musical | |
| Follow Your Heart | Aubrey Scotto | Marion Talley, Michael Bartlett, Nigel Bruce | Drama, Musical | |
| Frankie and Johnnie | John H. Auer, Chester Erskine | Helen Morgan, Chester Morris, Walter Kingsford | Drama | |
| Freshman Love | William C. McGann | Frank McHugh, Patricia Ellis, Mary Treen | Comedy, Musical | |
| Fury | Fritz Lang | Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Brennan | Drama, Crime | |
| Gambling with Souls | Elmer Clifton | Gay Sheridan, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn | Drama, Crime | |
| The General Died at Dawn | Lewis Milestone | Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Dudley Digges | Drama, Adventure | |
| The Girl on the Front Page | Harry Beaumont | Gloria Stuart, Edmund Lowe, Spring Byington | Comedy, Drama | |
| Go West, Young Man | Henry Hathaway | Mae West, Warren William, Alice Brady | Comedy | |
| Gold Diggers of 1937 | Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon | Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore | Musical | |
| The Golden Arrow | Alfred E. Green | Bette Davis, George Brent, Eugene Pallette | Comedy, Drama | |
| The Gorgeous Hussy | Clarence Brown | Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor | Drama | |
| The Great Ziegfeld | Robert Z. Leonard | William Powell, Myrna Loy, Louise Rainer | Musical Biopic | |
| The Green Pastures | William Keighley | Rex Ingram, Al Stokes, Eddie Anderson | Fantasy | |
| Hearts Divided | Frank Borzage | Claude Rains, Dick Powell, Marion Davies | Comedy, Drama, Musical | |
| Her Master's Voice | Joseph Santley | Edward Everett Horton, Peggy Conklin, Laura Hope Crews | Comedy | |
| His Brother's Wife | W.S. Van Dyke | Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Hersholt | Drama | |
| Hollywood Boulevard | Robert Florey | John Halliday, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt | Drama | |
| Hopalong Cassidy Returns | Nate Watt | William Boyd, Gabby Hayes, Gail Sheridan | Western | |
| Hot Money | William C. McGann | Joseph Cawthorn, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander | Comedy | |
| House of Secrets | Roland D. Reed | Muriel Evans, Leslie Fenton, Noel Madison | Drama, Mystery | |
| I Married a Doctor | Archie Mayo | Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Ross Alexander | Drama | |
| The Invisible Ray | Lambert Hillyer | Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake | Science Fiction, Horror | |
| Isle of Fury | Frank McDonald | Humphrey Bogart, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods | Drama, Adventure | |
| It Had to Happen | Roy Del Ruth | George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Alan Dinehart | Drama | |
| Juggernaut | Henry Edwards | Boris Karloff, Joan Wyndham, Mona Goya | Drama, Mystery | |
| The Jungle Princess | Wilhelm Thiele | Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, Molly Lamont | Drama, Adventure | |
| King of Burlesque | Sidney Lanfield | Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Fats Waller | Comedy, Drama, Musical | |
| The King Steps Out | Josef von Sternberg | Grace Moore, Franchot Tone, Victor Jory | Musical | |
| Ladies in Love | Edward H. Griffith | Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor, Don Ameche | Comedy, Romance | |
| Lady of Secrets | Marion Gering | Ruth Chatterton, Lionel Atwill, Otto Kruger | Drama | |
| The Last of the Mohicans | George B. Seitz | Randolph Scott, Bruce Cabot, Henry Wilcoxon | Drama, Adventure | |
| The Lawless Nineties | Joseph Kane | John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Gabby Hayes | Western | |
| The Leathernecks Have Landed | Howard Bretherton | Lew Ayres, Clay Clement, Ward Bond | Drama, Adventure | |
| Legion of Terror | Charles C. Coleman | Bruce Cabot, Ward Bond, Marguerite Churchill | Drama, Crime | |
| Libeled Lady | Jack Conway | Jean Harlow, William Powell, Spencer Tracy | Comedy, Romance | |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | John Cromwell | Freddie Bartholomew, C. Aubrey Smith, Mickey Rooney | Comedy, Drama | |
| Love Before Breakfast | Walter Lang | Carole Lombard, Cesar Romero, Preston Foster | Comedy | |
| Love on the Run | W.S. Van Dyke | Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone | Comedy, Romance | |
| Lloyd's of London | Henry King | Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Tyrone Power | Historical | |
| The Luckiest Girl in the World | Edward Buzzell | Jane Wyatt, Eugene Pallette, Catherine Doucet | Comedy | |
| Lucky Terror | Alan James | Hoot Gibson, Charles Hill, Lona Andre | Western | |
| Mad Holiday | George B. Seitz | Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts | Comedy, Mystery | |
| Magnificent Brute | John G. Blystone | Victor McLaglen, William Hall, Jean Dixon | Drama | |
| Make Way for a Lady | David Burton | Anne Shirley, Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael | Comedy | |
| Man of the Frontier | B. Reeves Eason | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette | Western | |
| The Man Who Lived Twice | Harry Lachman | Ralph Bellamy, Thurston Hall, Isabel Jewell | Drama, Crime | |
| Marihuana | Dwain Esper | Hugh McArthur, Dorothy Dehn, Paul Ellis | Drama | |
| Mary of Scotland | John Ford | Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Moroni Olsen | Drama | |
| A Message to Garcia | George Marshall | John Boles, Barbara Stanwyck, Wallace Beery | War | |
| The Milky Way | Leo McCarey | Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Helen Mack | Comedy | |
| Mind Your Own Business | Norman Z. MacLeod | Charles Ruggles, Alice Brady, Gene Lockhart | Comedy | |
| Missing Girls | Phil Rosen | Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison | Drama, Crime | |
| Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard | Comedy, Drama | |
| The Moon's Our Home | William A. Seiter | Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Brennan | Comedy | |
| More Than a Secretary | Alfred E. Green | Jean Arthur, George Brent, Ruth Donnelly | Comedy, Romance | |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Lionel Stander | Comedy, Romance | |
| My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette | Comedy, Romance | |
| Next Time We Love | Edward H. Griffith | James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Ray Milland | Drama, Romance | |
| Night Waitress | Lew Landers | Margot Grahame, Gordon Jones, Billy Gilbert | Drama, Crime | |
| One in a Million | Sidney Lanfield | Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche | Comedy, Musical | |
| One Rainy Afternoon | Rowland V. Lee | Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young | Comedy | |
| Our Relations | Harry Lachman | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale | Comedy | |
| Parole! | Lew Landers | Henry Hunter, Ann Preston, Anthony Quinn | Drama, Crime | |
| Pennies from Heaven | Norman Z. MacLeod | Bing Crosby, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong | Comedy, Drama, Musical | |
| The Petrified Forest | Archie Mayo | Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart | Drama, Crime | |
| The Plainsman | Cecil B. DeMille | Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison | Western, War | |
| Poor Little Rich Girl | Irving Cummings | Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley | Musical | |
| The President's Mystery | Phil Rosen | Henry Wilcoxon, Sidney Blackmer, Betty Furness | Drama, Mystery | |
| The Prisoner of Shark Island | John Ford | Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart | Biopic | |
| Private Number | Roy Del Ruth | Loretta Young, Robert Taylor | Drama | |
| Reefer Madness | Louis J. Gasnier | Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig | Exploitation | |
| Reunion | Norman Taurog | Jean Hersholt, Rochelle Hudson, The Dionne Quintuplets | Comedy | |
| Revolt of the Zombies | Victor Halperin | Dean Jagger, Dorothy Stone, Roy D'Arcy | Drama, Horror | |
| Riffraff | J. Walter Ruben | Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Mickey Rooney | Comedy, Drama, Crime | |
| Road Gang | Louis King | Donald Woods, Kay Linaker | Drama | |
| The Road to Glory | Howard Hawks | Lionel Barrymore, Fredric March, June Lang | Drama, War | |
| Roaming Lady | Albert S. Rogell | Fay Wray, Thurston Hall, Ralph Bellamy | Drama | |
| The Rogues Tavern | Robert F. Hill | Wallace Ford, Joan Woodbury, Barbara Pepper | Comedy, Drama, Horror | |
| Romeo and Juliet | George Cukor | Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore | Drama | |
| Rose Marie | W.S. Van Dyke | Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart | Western, Musical | |
| San Francisco | Oliver T. Marsh, W.S. Van Dyke | Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy | Drama, Adventure, Musical | |
| Satan Met a Lady | William Dieterle | Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth | Comedy, Drama | |
| Show Boat | James Whale | Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Paul Robeson | Comedy, Musical | |
| Silver Spurs | Ray Taylor | Gabby Hayes, Buck Jones, Muriel Evans | Western | |
| Sing Me a Love Song | Ray Enright | James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Zasu Pitts | Comedy, Musical | |
| The Singing Kid | William Keighley | Al Jolson, Sybil Jason, Beverley Roberts | Musical | |
| Small Town Girl | William A. Wellman | Robert Taylor, Janet Gaynor, James Stewart | Comedy, Drama | |
| Smartest Girl in Town | Joseph Santley | Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Eric Blore | Comedy | |
| Special Investigator | Louis King | Richard Dix, Margaret Callahan, Owen Davis, Jr. | Drama, Crime | |
| Spendthrift | Raoul Walsh | Henry Fonda, Pat Paterson and Mary Brian | Romance | |
| Stage Struck | Busby Berkeley | Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Frank McHugh | Comedy, Musical | |
| Star for a Night | Lewis Seiler | Claire Trevor, Jane Darwell, Dean Jagger | Drama | |
| The Story of Louis Pasteur | William Dieterle | Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise | Biopic | |
| Stowaway | William A. Seiter | Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Eugene Pallette | Comedy, Musical | |
| Sutter's Gold | James Cruze | Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Montagu Love | Drama, Western | |
| Suzy | George Fitzmaurice | Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant | Drama | |
| Swing Time | George Stevens | Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore | Comedy, Musical | |
| Sworn Enemy | Edwin L. Marin | Florence Rice, Robert Young, Joseph Calleia | Drama, Crime | |
| Tango | Phil Rosen | Marian Nixon, Chick Chandler, Franklin Pangborn | Drama | |
| Tarzan Escapes | Richard Thorpe, John Farrow | Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Weissmuller, John Buckler | Drama, Adventure | |
| The Texas Rangers | King Vidor | Fred MacMurray, Jean Parker, Jack Oakie | Western | |
| That Girl from Paris | Leigh Jason | Lily Pons, Gene Raymond, Lucille Ball | Comedy, Musical | |
| Theodora Goes Wild | Richard Boleslawski | Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thurston Hall | Comedy | |
| These Three | William Wyler | Merle Oberon, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea | Drama | |
| They Met in a Taxi | Alfred E. Green | Fay Wray, Chester Morris, Raymond Walburn | Comedy | |
| Thirteen Hours by Air | Mitchell Leisen | Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts | Drama | |
| Three Godfathers | Richard Boleslawski | Chester Morris, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey | Western | |
| Three Smart Girls | Henry Koster | Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Ray Milland | Musical | |
| Three Wise Guys | George B. Seitz | Robert Young, Betty Furness, Bruce Cabot | Drama | |
| Till We Meet Again | Robert Florey | Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill | Drama, War | |
| Times Square Playboy | William C. McGann | Gene Lockhart, Warren William, June Travis | Comedy | |
| To Mary With Love | John Cromwell | Myrna Loy, Warner Baxter, Claire Trevor | Drama | |
| Too Many Parents | Robert F. McGowan | Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Anne Grey | Comedy | |
| The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | Henry Hathaway | Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda | Romance | |
| Two in a Crowd | Alfred E. Green | Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Elisha Cook Jr. | Comedy | |
| Under Your Spell | Otto Preminger | Lawrence Tibbett, Wendy Barrie, Berton Churchill | Comedy, Romance, Musical | |
| The Unguarded Hour | Sam Wood | Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Roland Young | Drama, Crime | |
| The Walking Dead | Michael Curtiz | Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn | Science Fiction, Horror | |
| Walking on Air | Joseph Santley | Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Jessie Ralph | Comedy, Musical | |
| Wanted: Jane Turner | Edward Killy | Ann Preston, Lee Tracy, John McGuire | Drama, Crime | |
| Wedding Present | Richard Wallace | Cary Grant, Joan Bennett, Conrad Nagel | Drama | |
| The White Angel | William Dieterle | Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp | Drama | |
| Wife vs. Secretary | Clarence Brown | Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow | Comedy | |
| The Widow from Monte Carlo | Arthur Greville Collins | Dolores del Río, Warren William, Colin Clive | Comedy | |
| Winterset | Alfred Santell | Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli | Drama | |
| A Woman Rebels | Mark Sandrich | Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan | Drama | |
| Yellow Cargo | Crane Wilbur | Conrad Hunt, Vince Barnett, Eleanor Hunt | Drama | |
| Yellow Dust | Wallace Fox | Richard Dix, Leila Hyams, Moroni Olsen | Western | |
| Yiddle With His Fiddle | Joseph Green | Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold | Yiddish | |
| Yours for the Asking | Alexander Hall | George Raft, Ida Lupino, Dolores Costello | Comedy |
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