National Board of Review

1933 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBerkeley SquareA young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.AmazonCavalcadeThe triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridges, from 1899 to 1933 are portrayed.AmazonLittle WomenA chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America.AmazonMama Loves PapaWidow Martha and widower Brandon plan to marry; their teenaged children do their slapstick best to interfere. One of "The Boy Friends" series.AmazonShe Done Him WrongIn the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealou...

1932 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Bill of DivorcementA man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.AmazonA Farewell to ArmsAn American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.AmazonAs You Desire MeBudapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. A strange man (Tony) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara...AmazonI Am a Fugitive from a Chain GangWrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.AmazonMadame RacketeerInternational con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig ...

1931 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerCimarronA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.AmazonCity LightsWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.AmazonCity StreetsMan joins a gang to free his girlfriend from prison.AmazonDishonoredThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.AmazonQuick MillionsTruck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he makes plans to kidnap her on her wedding day.AmazonRangoThe frame story is nar...

1930 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAll Quiet on the Western FrontA young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.AmazonHolidayHoliday is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film which tells the story of a young man who is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.AmazonLaughterA former chorus girl weds a millionaire after the composer she loves leaves. Meanwhile, she strings along an artist in love with her. When the composer returns, she struggles with her needs for security vs love. High jinks and drama ensue.AmazonMen Without WomenNavy divers clear the torpedo tube of a sunken submarine.AmazonMoroccoA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is ...

1929 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerApplauseA burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.AmazonBroadwayA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.AmazonBulldog DrummondA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman, whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.AmazonDisraeliPrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.AmazonHallelujahA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.AmazonParis BoundPre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of...