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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe Hostess | Sidney Salkow | Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley | Drama | |
| Calling All Husbands | Noel M. Smith | George Tobias, Lucile Fairbanks, Ernest Truex | Comedy | Version of Too Young to Marry (1931 film). |
| Calling Philo Vance | William Clemens | James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O'Neill | Mystery | 12th (out of 15) film with Philo Vance character. Remake of The Kennel Murder Case (1933 film). |
| Captain Caution | Richard Wallace | Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo | Action Adventure | Nominated for Academy Award. |
| Carolina Moon | Frank McDonald | Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey | Western | Remake of Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935 film). |
| Castle on the Hudson | Anatole Litvak | John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien | Drama | Version of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932 film). |
| Chad Hanna | Henry King | Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda Darnell | Romantic drama | |
| Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum | Lynn Shores | Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon | Mystery | 6th (out of 22) film with Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. |
| Charlie Chan in Panama | Norman Foster | Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel Atwill | Mystery | 7th (out of 22) film with Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. |
| Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise | Eugene Forde | Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill | Mystery | 5th (out of 22) film with Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. |
| Charter Pilot | Eugene Forde | Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Arleen Whelan | Adventure | |
| Chasing Trouble | Howard Bretherton | Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland | Comedy-drama | |
| Cherokee Strip | Lesley Selander | Richard Dix, Florence Rice, William Henry | Western | |
| Christmas in July | Preston Sturges | Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn | Screwball comedy | |
| A Chump at Oxford | Alfred J. Goulding | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey | Comedy | First half is a remake of From Soup to Nuts (1928 short silent film). |
| City for Conquest | Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven | Drama | |
| City of Chance | Ricardo Cortez | Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods | Film noir | |
| City of Lost Men | Harry Revier | William "Stage" Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell | Science fiction | 3rd feature version of the 1935 serial The Lost City. |
| Colorado | Joseph Kane | Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Pauline Moore | Western | |
| Comes Midnight | James Baskett, Eddie Green, Amanda Randolph | Comedy horror | ||
| Comin' Round the Mountain | George Archainbaud | Bob Burns, Una Merkel, Jerry Colonna | Comedy | |
| Comrade X | King Vidor | Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oskar Homolka | Comedy Spy | Nominated for Academy Award. |
| Congo Maisie | H.C. Potter | Ann Sothern, John Carroll, Rita Johnson | Comedy | Version of Red Dust (1932 film). 2nd (out of 10) film with Maisie character. |
| Convicted Woman | Nick Grinde | Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Glenn Ford | Crime | |
| Covered Wagon Days | George Sherman | Robert Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo | Western | 29th (out of 51) film of The Three Mesquiteers series. |
| Covered Wagon Trails | Bernard B. Ray | Addison Randall, Sally Cairns, David Sharpe | Western | |
| Cross-Country Romance | Frank Woodruff | Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper | Romantic comedy | |
| Curtain Call | Frank Woodruff | Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray, Helen Vinson | Romantic comedy | |
| Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball | Musical | Footage preserved in US National Registry. |
| Dancing on a Dime | Joseph Santley | Robert Paige, Peter Lind Hayes, Eddie Quillan | Musical | |
| Danger Ahead | Ralph Staub | James Newill, Dorothea Kent, Guy Usher | Adventure | 5th (out of 6) film with James Newill as Sgt. Renfrew of the Royal Mounties |
| Danger on Wheels | Christy Cabanne | Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Peggy Moran | Sport Thriller | |
| Dark Command | Raoul Walsh | Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon | Western | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. |
| Dark Streets of Cairo | László Kardos | Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan | Mystery | |
| Deadwood Dick | James W. Horne | Don Douglas, Lorna Gray, Harry Harvey, Marin Sais | Western | A 15 episodes Serial |
| Diamond Frontier | Harold D. Schuster | Victor McLaglen, John Loder, Anne Nagel | Adventure | |
| A Dispatch from Reuter's | William Dieterle | Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert | Drama, Biography | |
| Doomed to Die | William Nigh | Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers | Horror-Mystery | |
| Down Argentine Way | Irving Cummings | Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda | Musical | Nominated for 3 Academy Awards. #9 in Top Grossing Films. |
| Dr. Cyclops | Ernest B. Schoedsack | Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan | Science Fiction Horror | Nominated for Academy Award. |
| Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | William Dieterle | Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger | Biography | Nominated for Academy Award. |
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