Top 30 movies of 1938

A wanted jewel thief ensconced in the Casbah meets a beautiful woman who makes him long for an escape.

A musician is blessed with four musical prodigies, all girls, and cursed when a troubled young composer enters the lives of his daughters.

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.

British flying aces in World War I contend with the harsh realities of war.

The tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.

Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?

An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.

In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.

A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray.

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.