My Top 20 by Year - 1933
Under construction and always in progress.
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 68 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Sep 2022)
Notes:
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Little Women (Cukor, 1933)
The Eagle and the Hawk (S. Walker/Leisen, 1933)
International House (Sutherland, 1933)
Pilgrimage (Ford, 1933)
Baby Face (A. E. Green, 1933)
Counsellor at Law (Wyler, 1933)
Quatorze Juillet (July 14, Clair, 1933)
Minato no nihonmusume (Japanese Girls at the Harbor, Shimizu, 1933)
Lady Killer (Del Ruth, 1933)
42nd Street (Bacon, 1933)
Heroes for Sale (Wellman, 1933)
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (Dr. Knock, Goupillières/Jouvet, 1933)
La maternelle (Children of Montmartre, Benoît-Lévy/M. Epstein, 1933)
Picture Snatcher (Bacon, 1933)
Employees' Entrance (Del Ruth, 1933)
The Working Man (Adolfi, 1933)
The Little Giant (Del Ruth, 1933)
Zoo in Budapest (R. V. Lee, 1933)
Eskimo (Van Dyke, 1933)
Morning Glory (L. Sherman, 1933)
Wild Boys of The Road (Wellman, 1933)
Midnight Mary (Wellman, 1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (S. Roberts, 1933)
Jennie Gerhardt (M. Gering, 1933)
Tianming (Daybreak, Yu Sun, 1933)
The Best films from this year (according to IMDb) I've seen (so far).
Out of (only) 68 films 'seen' (ie rated at IMDb).
(Sep 2022)
Notes:
- Features, shorts, docs and TV movies eligible ("A film is a film is a film.").
- TV mini-series are NOT (unless stated otherwise).
- My humble rates added (for films with the same rate just once or twice though).
- Films with the same rate are ordered arbitrarily. Feel free to re-order them at your will.
- When I saw more than 20 excellent films (9/10 or above in my book) from a certain year I'll try and list them ALL. That would make some lists much longer but all the excellentia deserves to be mentioned.
Cinema = cinema (big screen) viewing
TV = TV viewing
PC = download
OL = online viewing
VHS = VHS viewing
Yet to see (among many):
Little Women (Cukor, 1933)
The Eagle and the Hawk (S. Walker/Leisen, 1933)
International House (Sutherland, 1933)
Pilgrimage (Ford, 1933)
Baby Face (A. E. Green, 1933)
Counsellor at Law (Wyler, 1933)
Quatorze Juillet (July 14, Clair, 1933)
Minato no nihonmusume (Japanese Girls at the Harbor, Shimizu, 1933)
Lady Killer (Del Ruth, 1933)
42nd Street (Bacon, 1933)
Heroes for Sale (Wellman, 1933)
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (Dr. Knock, Goupillières/Jouvet, 1933)
La maternelle (Children of Montmartre, Benoît-Lévy/M. Epstein, 1933)
Picture Snatcher (Bacon, 1933)
Employees' Entrance (Del Ruth, 1933)
The Working Man (Adolfi, 1933)
The Little Giant (Del Ruth, 1933)
Zoo in Budapest (R. V. Lee, 1933)
Eskimo (Van Dyke, 1933)
Morning Glory (L. Sherman, 1933)
Wild Boys of The Road (Wellman, 1933)
Midnight Mary (Wellman, 1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (S. Roberts, 1933)
Jennie Gerhardt (M. Gering, 1933)
Tianming (Daybreak, Yu Sun, 1933)
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- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsJoseph GoebbelsHermann GöringRudolf HessDer Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler on the Night of the Long Knives in July 1934. All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitler's orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United KingdomPC. 9/10.
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- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsMarcello SpadaLina GennariCarlo PetrangeliA story about the comic adventures of a group of summertime travelers.OL.
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