A list of science fiction films released in the 1930s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
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| 1930 | ||||||
| Alraune | Richard Oswald | Albert Basserman, Brigitte Helm, Harald Paulsen | ||||
| Just Imagine | David Butler | El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick, Marjorie White | ||||
| The Voice from the Sky | Ben F. Wilson | Wally Wales, Neva Gerber | Serial film | |||
| 1931 | ||||||
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert | ||||
| End of the World | Abel Gance | Colette Darfeuil, Abel Gance, Jeanne Brindau | ||||
| Frankenstein | James Whale | Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye | ||||
| 1932 | ||||||
| F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Sybille Schmitz, Georg John | ||||
| Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams | ||||
| Six Hours to Live | William Dieterle | Warner Baxter, John Boles, Beryl Mercer | ||||
| 1933 | ||||||
| Deluge | Felix E. Feist | Peggy Shannon, Sidney Blackmer, Lois Wilson | ||||
| Der Tunnel | Kurt Bernhardt | Madeleine Renaud, Jean Gabin | ||||
| The Invisible Man | James Whale | Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, William Harrigan | ||||
| It's Great to Be Alive | Alfred L. Werker | Raul Roulien, Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver | ||||
| Men Must Fight | Edgar Selwyn | Diana Wynyard, May Robson | ||||
| 1934 | ||||||
| Gold | Karl Hartl | Hans Albers, Michael Bohnen | ||||
| Master of the World | Harry Piel | Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Aribert Waescher | ||||
| Once in a New Moon | Anthony Kimmins | Derrick de Marney, Vernon Kelso, John Clements, Thorley Walters, Morton Selten | ||||
| The Vanishing Shadow | Lew Landers | Onslow Stevens, James Durkin, Walter Miller, Ada Ince | Serial film | |||
| 1935 | ||||||
| Aerograd | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stepan Shagaida, Sergei Stolyarov, Yevgeniya Melnikova | ||||
| Air Hawks | Albert S. Rogell | Ralph Bellamy, Tala Birell, Wiley Post | ||||
| Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester | ||||
| Kosmicheskiy reys: Fantasticheskaya novella | Vassili Jouravlev | Sergei Komarov, Vassily Kovrigin, Nikolai Feoktistov, Xenia Moskalenko | ||||
| The Lost City | Harry Revier | William "Stage" Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell, Josef Swickard | Serial film | |||
| The Phantom Empire | Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason | Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross | Serial film | |||
| 1936 | ||||||
| Flash Gordon | Larry "Buster" Crabbe | Serial film | ||||
| Flash Gordon | Frederick Stephani | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles B. Middleton | Feature film | |||
| Ghost Patrol | Sam Newfield | Tim McCoy, Claudia Dell | ||||
| The Invisible Ray | Lambert Hillyer | Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford | ||||
| The Man Who Changed His Mind | Robert Stevenson | Boris Karloff, Anna Lee | ||||
| Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | Raymond Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman | ||||
| Undersea Kingdom | B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Lois Wilde | Serial film | |||
| 1937 | ||||||
| Non-Stop New York | Robert Stevenson | John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan | ||||
| 1938 | ||||||
| The Fighting Devil Dogs | William Witney, John English | Lee Powell, Herman Brix | Serial film | |||
| Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | Ford I. Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon | Serial film | |||
| The Secret of Treasure Island | Elmer Clifton | Don Terry, Gwen Gaze, Walter Miller | ||||
| 1939 | ||||||
| Buck Rogers | Ford I. Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Jackie Moran | ||||
| The Man They Could Not Hang | Nick Grinde | Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Don Beddoe | ||||
| The Phantom Creeps | Ford I. Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold | Serial film | |||
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