1930 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1930

Notable Films Released in 1930

U.S.A. unless stated

• Abraham Lincoln, starring Walter Huston November 8, 1930
• L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age), directed by Luis Buñuel November 29, 1930 - (France)
• Alraune March 2, 1930 - (Germany)
• All Quiet on the Western Front, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Lew Ayres April 21, 1930
• Animal Crackers, starring the Marx Brothers August 23, 1930
• Anna Christie, starring Greta Garbo February 21, 1930
• The Bad Man, starring Walter Huston
• Big Boy, a musical comedy with Al Jolson
• The Big House, starring Chester Morris and Wallace Beery
• The Big Pond, starring Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert
• The Big Trail, starring John Wayne
• Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel), directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un Poete), directed by Jean Cocteau - (France)
• Bride of the Regiment, starring Walter Pidgeon
• Bright Lights, a musical comedy in Technicolor
• Call of the Flesh, starring Ramón Novarro - a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
• The Cat Creeps a mystery film released by Universal
• Chasing Rainbows, starring Bessie Love, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Check and Double Check, a comedy based on Amos 'n' Andy radio show
• Children of Pleasure, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• City Girl, directed by F. W. Murnau
• Common Clay, starring Constance Bennett
• The Cuckoos, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Danger Lights, starring Louis Wolheim
• The Dawn Patrol, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• The Divorcee, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
• Dixiana, starring Bebe Daniels, a lavish musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Doughboys, a World War I comedy starring Buster Keaton
• Earth (Zemlya), directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - (U.S.S.R.)
• Elstree Calling, a British revue with color sequences, co-directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• Fast and Loose, starring Miriam Hopkins in her film debut, with Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan
• Feet First, a comedy starring Harold Lloyd
• The Florodora Girl (aka The Gay Nineties), a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Follow Thru, starring Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Free and Easy, starring Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Trixie Friganza, and Robert Montgomery
• General Crack, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring John Barrymore
• Good News, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow and Ben Lyon
• Hell's Heroes, directed by William Wyler
• High Society Blues, starring Janet Gaynor
• Hold Everything, starring Joe E. Brown, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Holiday, starring Ann Harding and Mary Astor
• Ingagi, exploitation-documentary on gorilla-worshiping women encountered by an explorer. Box-office hit was revealed to be a hoax.
• Journey's End, directed by James Whale - (Britain/USA)
• King of Jazz, a revue with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra entirely in Technicolor
• Ladies Love Brutes, a comedy directed by Rowland V. Lee, starring George Bancroft and Mary Astor
• Ladies of Leisure, starring Barbara Stanwyck
• Leathernecking, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Irene Dunne
• Let's Go Native, starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette MacDonald
• The Life of the Party, musical comedy entirely in Technicolor directed by Roy Del Ruth
• Loose Ankles, comedy drama starring Loretta Young and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., directed by Ted Wilde
• Lord Byron of Broadway, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences
• The Lottery Bride, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Madam Satan, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• Mamba, first talking drama entirely in Technicolor starring Jean Hersholt and Eleanor Boardman
• Mammy, a musical comedy starring Al Jolson with Technicolor sequences
• Manslaughter, starring Claudette Colbert and Fredric March
• Min and Bill, starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery
• Monte Carlo, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Jack Buchanan and Jeanette MacDonald
• Morocco, starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich
• Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• Night Birds directed by Richard Eichberg (Germany/Britain)
• Not So Dumb, directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies
• Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning, starring Edward G. Robinson
• Paramount on Parade, an all-star revue with Technicolor sequences
• Peacock Alley, a musical drama with Technicolor sequences starring Mae Murray
• Puttin' on the Ritz, directed by Edward Sloman, starring Joan Bennett, with Technicolor sequences
• Raffles, featuring Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
• The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu, starring Warner Oland and Jean Arthur
• The Rogue Song, a musical operetta entirely in Technicolor directed by Lionel Barrymore
• Show Girl in Hollywood, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences directed by Mervyn LeRoy
• Son of the Gods, a drama with Technicolor sequences starring Richard Barthelmess
• Song o' My Heart, a musical starring Irish tenor John McCormack, directed by Frank Borzage, and shot in both 35mm and 70mm Fox Grandeur formats
• The Song of Love (La canzone dell'amore) - (Italy)
• Soup to Nuts, a comedy and film debut for The Three Stooges
• Street of Chance, starring William Powell and Jean Arthur
• Sweet Kitty Bellairs, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Three from the Filling Station (Die Drei von der Tankstelle), directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey (Germany)
• Tom Sawyer
• True to the Navy, starring Clara Bow and Fredric March
• Under a Texas Moon, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor directed by Michael Curtiz
• Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris), directed by René Clair - (France)
• The Vagabond King, a musical drama entirely in Technicolor starring Jeanette MacDonald
• Wara Wara, directed by José Maria Velasco Maidana; now the only surviving silent Bolivian feature film
• Way for a Sailor, starring John Gilbert and Wallace Beery
• Westfront 1918 (Vier von der Infanterie), directed by G. W. Pabst - (Germany)
• Whoopee!, a musical comedy in Technicolor with Eddie Cantor
• Young Man of Manhattan, starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles and Ginger Rogers
• Young Woodley, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Madeleine Carroll (Britain)