The 40 most popular 1930s comedy movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.








Das Ehesanatorium


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Just Speeding

Verliebtes Abenteuer



The 1930s were the studio system at full power, with sound now fully integrated and the Production Code arriving mid-decade to sharply narrow what films could depict. It's the decade of the Universal monster cycle, screwball comedy, and the first Technicolor spectacles.
Comedy is the genre that travels least well and dates fastest, which makes the films that survive genuinely remarkable. Screwball, satire, slapstick, and cringe each have their own era and their own rules.