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1930s Romantic Drama Movies

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A Star Is Born(1937)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 86 votes)

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman, Jack Conway - With Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, ...
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A Farewell to Arms(1932)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A tale of the World War I love affair, begun in Italy, between American ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley. Eventually separated by Frederic's transfer, tremendous challenges and difficult decisions face each as the war rages on.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Herman Bing, Doris Lloyd, ...
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Jezebel(1938)

NR
| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

Directed by William Wyler - With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter, ...
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L'Atalante(1934)

1h 29min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 174 votes)

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Directed by Jean Vigo - With Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, Claude Aveline, Paul Grimault, Gen Paul, Jacques Prévert, ...
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Mädchen in Uniform(1931)

PG
| 1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 34 votes)

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers. One of the earliest narrative films to explicitly portray homosexuality. Based on "Gestern und Heute" by German playwright Christa Winsloe.

Directed by Leontine Sagan - With Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Gertrud de Lalsky, Emilia Unda, Hedwig Schlichter, Erika Mann, ...

Camille(1936)

NR
| 1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.6/5 (with 51 votes)

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Directed by George Cukor - With Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Laura Hope Crews, Lenore Ulric, ...
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Red Dust(1932)

NR
| 1h 23min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.

Directed by Victor Fleming - With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor, Gene Raymond, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall, ...
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Queen Christina(1933)

NR
| 1h 39min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 50 votes)

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Directed by Rouben Mamoulian - With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, ...
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Shanghai Express(1932)

1h 22min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 74 votes)

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, Emile Chautard, ...

Tabu(1931)

1h 26min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

The youngsters Matahi and Reri are in love with each other. The old warrior Hitu announces that Reri is to be the new chosen virgin for the gods. This means she must stay untouched, otherwise she and her lover will be killed. But Matahi abducts and escapes with her to an island ruled by the white man, where their gods would be harmless and powerless.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Anne Chevalier

China Seas(1935)

NR
| 1h 27min | Adventure, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!

Directed by Tay Garnett - With Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, ...
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Dinner at Eight(1933)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

Directed by George Cukor - With Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, ...
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Ecstasy(1933)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.

Directed by Gustav Machatý - With Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Jiřina Steimarová, Pierre Nay, ...
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Port of Shadows(1938)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 105 votes)

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

Directed by Marcel Carné - With Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur, Édouard Delmont, Gaby Wagner, ...

Imitation of Life(1934)

1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

Directed by John M. Stahl - With Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington, ...
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Anna Karenina(1935)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Maureen O'Sullivan, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Reginald Owen, ...
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Morocco(1930)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 56 votes)

The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Francis McDonald, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Emile Chautard, ...

Little Women(1933)

1h 55min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

Directed by George Cukor - With Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Jean Parker, Frances Dee, Douglass Montgomery, Edna May Oliver, ...
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Pépé le Moko(1937)

1h 34min | Crime, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Directed by Julien Duvivier - With Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Paul Escoffier, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, ...

The Bitter Tea of General Yen(1933)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 35 votes)

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Richard Loo, Clara Blandick, ...

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine(1936)

NR
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, George McFarland, ...

The Good Earth(1937)

NR
| 2h 19min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

Directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý - With Luise Rainer, Paul Muni, Tilly Losch, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Keye Luke, ...
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Desire(1936)

1h 35min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, ...

Nothing Sacred(1937)

NR
| 1h 17min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 38 votes)

When a small-town girl is incorrectly diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an unknowing newspaper columnist turns her into a national heroine.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman, Margaret Hamilton, Raymond Scott, ...
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Illicit(1931)

NR
| 1h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.

Directed by Archie Mayo - With Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead, Claude Gillingwater, Charles Butterworth, Joan Blondell, ...

Our Daily Bread(1934)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

Directed by King Vidor - With Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, John Qualen, Lloyd Ingraham, Henry Hall, ...
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Dishonored(1931)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, War, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, Barry Norton, George Irving, ...

Peter Ibbetson(1935)

1h 28min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Douglass Dumbrille, Ida Lupino, Virginia Weidler, ...

The Miracle Woman(1931)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Directed by Frank Capra - With Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Beryl Mercer, Sam Hardy, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Al Stewart, ...

Rich and Strange(1931)

1h 23min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 36 votes)

Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Joan Barry, Betty Amann, Percy Marmont, Henry Kendall
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