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Movies: Popular Movies of 1936

Movies in chronological context: 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade. ()

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Modern Times(1936)

G
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Drama
4.2/5 (with 1,636 votes)

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Tiny Sandford, Al Ernest Garcia, ...
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My Man Godfrey(1936)

1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 139 votes)

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

Directed by Gregory La Cava - With William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer, ...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936)

1h 55min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 138 votes)

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Directed by Frank Capra - With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, H. B. Warner, ...
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Swing Time(1936)

NR
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows him to marry Margaret. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky Romero.

Directed by George Stevens - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Eric Blore, Harry Bernard, Helen Broderick, ...
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Fury(1936)

NR
| 1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 84 votes)

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Directed by Fritz Lang, Lesley Selander - With Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, ...
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The Petrified Forest(1936)

NR
| 1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 80 votes)

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Directed by Archie Mayo - With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Porter Hall, ...
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Things to Come(1936)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 77 votes)

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Directed by William Cameron Menzies - With Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaretta Scott, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, ...
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Dracula's Daughter(1936)

NR
| 1h 11min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.0/5 (with 68 votes)

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer - With Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan, Gilbert Emery, Irving Pichel, ...
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After the Thin Man(1936)

NR
| 1h 52min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 65 votes)

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke - With William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Penny Singleton, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, ...
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Thru The Mirror(1936)

9min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 62 votes)

Mickey has been reading Alice in Wonderland, and falls asleep. He finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is alive. He eats a walnut, which makes him briefly larger, then small. He dances around a lot, ultimately doing a major number with a deck of cards. He dances with the queen, making the king jealous. He comes after Mickey with swords, and Mickey defends himself with a sewing needle. Mickey gets the upper hand, and the king calls for reinforcements. Mickey finds himself chased by several decks, which throw their spots at him. He turns on a fan and blows them away, back through the mirror, where his alarm is ringing.

Directed by David Hand

Secret Agent(1936)

1h 26min | Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 58 votes)

After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Lilli Palmer, Charles Carson, ...
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Dodsworth(1936)

NR
| 1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 52 votes)

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Directed by William Wyler - With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Maria Ouspenskaya, ...
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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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Libeled Lady(1936)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

Directed by Jack Conway - With Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, ...
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor(1936)

16min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad.

Directed by Dave Fleischer

The Great Ziegfeld(1936)

NR
| 2h 56min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 46 votes)

Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, William Powell, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, ...
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The Devil-Doll(1936)

NR
| 1h 18min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 44 votes)

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When the scientist dies during the escape, Lavond heads for his lab, using the shrinking technology to get even with those who framed him and vindicate himself in both the public eye and the eyes of his daughter, Lorraine. When an accident leaves a crazed assistant dead, however, Lavond must again make an escape.

Directed by Tod Browning - With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Arthur Hohl, Claire Du Brey, Henry B. Walthall, ...
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Our Relations(1936)

NR
| 1h 13min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.

Directed by Harry Lachman - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sidney Toler, Jimmy Finlayson, Arthur Housman, Dell Henderson, ...
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Tarzan Escapes(1936)

1h 29min | Action, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.

Directed by Richard Thorpe, John Farrow, George B. Seitz, William Augustus Wellman - With Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Benita Hume, Gualtiero De Angelis, Fiorella Betti, Mario Pisu, ...
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I Love to Singa(1936)

NR
| 8min | Music, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owl who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a lighthearted tribute to Al Jolson's film The Jazz Singer.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Walking Dead(1936)

1h 6min | Crime, Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Barton MacLane, Henry O'Neill, ...

The Only Son(1936)

1h 27min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 32 votes)

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū

The Crime of Monsieur Lange(1936)

1h 20min | Drama, Crime, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 32 votes)

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

Directed by Jean Renoir - With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Maurice Baquet, Marcel Duhamel, Jean Dasté, ...

The Charge of the Light Brigade(1936)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, David Niven, Patric Knowles, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, ...
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Mickey's Rival(1936)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

Minnie's old friend, Mortimer Mouse, drops in on Mickey and Minnie's picnic. His practical jokes and coming on to Minnie soon have Mickey stewing, and their car isn't happy either. When Mortimer gets a nearby bull enraged and takes off, the car comes to the rescue after Mickey gets tangled up in a red blanket.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

The Country Cousin(1936)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

Monty Citymouse invites his cousin Abner Countrymouse for a visit and shows him the ways of the big city, including traps, eating quietly, and busy traffic.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson, David Hand

Three Little Wolves(1936)

NR
| 9min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 29 votes)

Two little pigs cry wolf on their brother and then an actual wolf comes.

Directed by David Hand

The Story of a Cheat(1936)

1h 21min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 27 votes)

Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. Through years of dabbling in crime and amusing adventures, two women appear and reappear in his life, a dazzling blonde jewel thief and a stunning brunette gambler. Finally, he meets the mysterious Charbonnier who had saved his life in World War I, leading to the surprising next phase in his career...

Directed by Sacha Guitry - With Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Marguerite Moreno, Pauline Carton, Fréhel, Adolphe Borchard, ...

Follow the Fleet(1936)

NR
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister, Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing—Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her and, despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Directed by Mark Sandrich - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Nelson, Betty Grable, Russell Hicks, ...
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Three Blind Mouseketeers(1936)

NR
| 9min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

As the title implies, the three blind mice are musketeers. The cat sets a number of traps for them, which they all evade (apparently without realizing it) while he sleeps. The cat eventually wakes up and begins chasing them unsuccessfully, thanks to their teamwork.

Directed by David Hand, Jack Cutting
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