1939 Top Ten List

  • —Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
  • The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
  • Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
  • Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
  • The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
  • Stagecoach (John Ford)

    • Additional 1939 Films By Rating

  • Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
  • Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
  • The Women (George Cukor)
  • The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda)
  • Jesse James (Henry King)
  • Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford)
  • The Night Riders (George Sherman)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
  • Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
  • Tevya (Maurice Schwartz)
  • Three Texas Steers (George Sherman)
  • New Frontier (George Sherman)