1934: World Premieres 1934: Still Left to See Looking Back Moving Ahead Browse Films by Title / Year / Reviews Home / Blog / E-Mail The Movies of 1934: World Premieres  By Title // By Grade ★ = Full Review   /   ★ = Capsule   /   ★ = Feature or Blog Post   /   ★ = Grain of Salt Updated: 17 Feb 2023, with The Man Who Knew Too Much, Street without End, It's a Gift Top Ten List 1.  The Scarlet Empress Dir. Josef von Sternberg. Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe A 2.  Everybody's Woman Dir. Max Ophüls. Isa Miranda, Friedrich Benfer A 3.  It Happened One Night Dir. Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable A 4.  L'Atalante Dir. Jean Vigo. Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon A– 5.  Little Man, What Now? Dir. Frank Borzage. Douglass Montgomery A– 6.  The Man Who Knew Too Much Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Leslie Banks A– 7.  The Thin Man Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Porter Hall A– 8.  A Story of Floating Weeds Dir. Yasujirō Ozu. Takeshi Sakamoto, Chōko Iida B+ 9.  Imitation of Life Dir. John M. Stahl. Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers B+ 10.  Street without End Dir. Mikio Naruse. Setsuko Shinobu, Chiyoko Katori B+ Ranked Tiers of Films Screened Everybody's Woman Dir. Max Ophüls. Isa Miranda, Friedrich Benfer A It Happened One Night Dir. Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable A The Scarlet Empress Dir. Josef von Sternberg. Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe A ★ L'Atalante Dir. Jean Vigo. Jean Dasté, Dita Parlo, Michel Simon A– Little Man, What Now? Dir. Frank Borzage. Douglass Montgomery A– The Man Who Knew Too Much Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Leslie Banks A– The Thin Man Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Porter Hall A– Imitation of Life Dir. John M. Stahl. Claudette Colbert, Louise Beavers B+ Our Daily Bread Dir. King Vidor. Tom Keene, Karen Morley, John Qualen B+ A Story of Floating Weeds Dir. Yasujirō Ozu. Takeshi Sakamoto, Chōko Iida B+ Street without End Dir. Mikio Naruse. Setsuko Shinobu, Chiyoko Katori B+ The Barretts of Wimpole Street Dir. Sidney Franklin. Norma Shearer B Flirtation Walk Dir. Frank Borzage. Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Pat O'Brien B The Gay Divorcée Dir. Mark Sandrich. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers B Man of Aran Dir. Robert J. Flaherty. Colman "Tiger" King, Maggie Dirrane B Manhattan Melodrama Dir. W.S. Van Dyke. Clark Gable, William Powell B Of Human Bondage Dir. John Cromwell. Leslie Howard, Bette Davis B One Night of Love Dir. Victor Schertzinger. Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati B Twentieth Century Dir. Howard Hawks. John Barrymore, Carole Lombard B Viva Villa! Dir. Jack Conway. Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray B The Age of Innocence Dir. Philip Moeller. John Boles, Irene Dunne B– ★ Death Takes a Holiday Dir. Mitchell Leisen. Fredric March, Evelyn Venable B– Girls Will Be Boys Dir. Marcel Varnel. Dolly Haas, Cyril Maude, Esmond Knight B– Here Comes the Navy Dir. Lloyd Bacon. James Cagney, Pat O'Brien B– The House of Rothschild Dir. Alfred L. Werker. George Arliss, Loretta Young B– ★ Murder at the Vanities Dir. Mitchell Leisen. Carl Brisson, Kitty Carlisle B– Operator 13 Dir. Richard Boleslawski. Marion Davies, Gary Cooper B– The Black Cat Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners C+ ★ It's a Gift Dir. Norman Z. McLeod. W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol C+ The Affairs of Cellini Dir. Gregory La Cava. Fredric March, Constance Bennett C Cleopatra Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. Claudette Colbert, Henry Wilcoxon C The White Parade Dir. Irving Cummings. Loretta Young, John Boles C The Scarlet Letter Dir. Robert G. Vignola. Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright C– Spitfire Dir. John Cromwell. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Bellamy, Robert Young C–