1933 Top Box Office Movies

This movie page looks at 1933 Top Box Office Movies.  Finding box office information for movies made in the 1930s and 1940s is extremely difficult.   For somebody looking for box office information on 1933 it is very very frustrating.  Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies.  So we figured we would show all the 1933 movies in our database.

To make this list a movie had to be made in 1933.  Obviously many movies made in 1932 earned box office dollars in 1933.  On the other side many movies made in 1933 made money in 1934 and later.  This page will looks at 133 1933 Top Box Office Movies.  The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.

The following massive table only includes the movies made in 1933 that are in our database.  Since we are constantly adding new movies to our database….this page will quickly become obsolete.  We will try and update this page on a regular basis.

Our UMR Top 50 of 1933

1933 Top Box Office Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort 1933 Top Box Office Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
  • Sort 1933 Top Box Office Movies by domestic actual box office grosses
  • Sort 1933 Top Box Office Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost.
  • Sort 1933 Top Box Office Movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each 1933 Top Box Office Movies received.
  • Sort 1933 Top Box Office Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR).  Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Cary Grant and Mae West in 1933’s I’m No Angel

Top earners in 1933 for Adjusted USA Box Office:

My Main Sources

Source 1: Eddie Mannix MGM Ledgers

Source 2: C.J. Tevlin RKO Ledgers

Source 3: William Schaefer Warner Brothers Ledgers

Source 4: Year In Review Variety Editions

Source 5: Grand Design: Hollywood As A Modern Business Enterprise 1930-1942 by Tino Balio

Source 6: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon

Source 7:  Wikipedia

Source 8:  IMDb.com

Source 9:  “Revenue sharing and the coming of sound” by H. Mark Glancy

Source 10: Hollywood Power Stats by Christopher Reynolds

Adjusted 1933 Worldwide Box Office

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) $360,025,742.00
Queen Christina (1933) $297,637,264.00
Tugboat Annie (1933) $293,303,883.00
Footlight Parade (1933) $275,514,034.00
Dancing Lady (1933) $274,373,685.00
42nd Street (1933) $260,118,972.00
Dinner at Eight (1933) $245,864,342.00
Little Women (1933) $236,057,164.00
The Bowery (1933) $228,132,217.00
The White Sister (1933) $190,670,317.00
Flying Down to Rio (1933) $176,187,581.00
Mystery of the Wax Musuem (1933) $166,266,324.00
Hell Below (1933) $158,397,788.00
The Working Man (1933) $139,467,545.00
Night Flight (1933) $123,046,205.00
Hold Your Man (1933) $122,361,983.00
Today We Live (1933) $118,028,582.00
Going Hollywood (1933) $109,703,874.00
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) $106,396,797.00
Voltaire (1933) $87,238,504.00
Bombshell (1933) $82,958,705.00
The House on 56th Street (1933) $79,141,900.00
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) $77,773,401.00
The World Changes (1933) $77,659,403.00
Mayor of Hell (1933) $74,922,451.00
I Loved a Woman (1933) $73,782,102.00
Son of a Sailor (1933) $73,668,105.00
Little Giant (1933) $73,440,000.00
Reunion in Vienna (1933) $73,325,966.00
Broadway to Hollywood (1933) $73,325,966.00
Storm at Daybreak (1933) $72,527,710.00
What No Beer? (1933) $72,185,581.00
The Son Of Kong (1933) $70,246,957.00
Lady Killer (1933) $68,422,368.00
The King’s Vacation (1933) $67,624,112.00
Winner Takes All (1933) $66,027,545.00
Elmer The Great (1933) $60,211,657.00
The Keyhole (1933) $60,211,656.00
Picture Snatcher (1933) $59,185,332.00
Hard To Handle (1933) $58,501,147.00
Mary Stevens M.D. (1933) $56,904,590.00
Double Harness (1933) $56,220,358.00
Melody Cruise (1933) $55,308,059.00
Ever in My Heart (1933) $54,965,966.00
Baby Face (1933) $51,544,865.00
Female (1933) $51,430,830.00
Made on Broadway (1933) $50,746,600.00
Private Detective 62 (1933) $50,290,436.00
Employees’ Entrance (1933) $49,720,238.00
Men Must Fight (1933) $49,492,171.00
Parachute Jumper (1933) $44,930,675.00
After Tonight (1933) $43,334,190.00
Wild Boys On The Road (1933) $42,992,052.00
Ladies They Talk About (1933) $42,763,956.00
The Women In His Life (1933) $39,228,821.00
From Headquarters (1933) $38,544,626.00
Blondie Johnson (1933) $38,088,463.00
The Mind Reader (1933) $35,807,701.00
Lucky Devils (1933) $32,500,634.00
Ex Lady (1933) $32,272,565.00
Fast Workers (1933) $32,044,516.00
The Chief (1933) $28,053,162.00
The Telegraph Trail (1933) $23,833,795.00
Somewhere in Sonora (1933) $22,465,333.00
The Man from Monterey (1933) $22,009,206.00
Cross Fire (1933) $11,175,649.00

42 thoughts on “1933 Top Box Office Movies

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    Rainbow Ranch $663.00 Cecilia Parker Rex Bell
    Das Lockende/The Alluring Goal $600.00 Maria Elsner Richard Tauber
    Ranger’s Code $550.00 Doris Hill Bob Steele
    White Face/Edgar Wallace’s White Face the Fiend $550.00 Renee Gadd Hugh Williams
    Diamond Trail $550.00 Frances Rich Rex Bell
    Tattoo on the Rhine $525.00 Charlotte Susa Hans Stüwe
    Frederica/Friederike $500.00 Mady Christians Hans Heinz Bollmann
    Whirlwind Rider $500.00 Genee Boutell Jay Wilsey 
    Zwei Gute Kameraden/Two Good Comrades $500.00 Jessie Vihrog Paul Hörbiger
    Gallant Fool $475.00 Arletta Duncan Bob Steele
    Trailing North  $475.00 Doris Hill Bob Steele
    Fighting with Kit Carson $475.00 Betsy King Ross Johnny Mack Brown
    Before Morning $475.00 Lora Baxter Leo Carrillo
    Live and Laugh $450.00 Celina Breene Max Wilner
    The Fighting Texans $450.00 Luana Walters Rex Bell
    Her Secret $450.00 Sari Maritza William Collier Jr.
    The Cheyenne Cyclone (1931) $437.00 Marie Quillan Lane Chandler
    Drum Taps $425.00 Dorothy Dix Ken Maynard
    Via Pony Express $400.00 Marceline Day Jack Hoxie
    Deadwood Pass $400.00 Alice Dahl Tom Tyler
    Der Liebling von Wien/The Darling of Vienna(1930) $350.00 Else Elster  Willi Forst 
    Ten Nights in a Bar-Room $350.00 Phyllis Barrington William Farnum
    Laubenkolonie(1930) $313.00 Camilla Spira  Fritz Kampers
    Lightning Range $300.00 Patsy Bellamy Buddy Roosevelt 
    The Cheyenne Kid $275.00 Mary Mason Tom Keene
    Gun Law $259.00 Betty Boyd Jack Hoxie
    Circle Canyon $250.00 June Mathews Buddy Roosevelt 
    Sagebrush Trail $250.00 Nancy Shubert John Wayne
    Dr. Hauptman von Kopenick(1931)/The Captain from Köpenick $225.00 * Max Adalbert
    Der Korvettenkapitan $225.00 Lia Eibenschütz Max Ehrlich 
    Viktoria und Ihr Husar(1931)/Victoria and Her Hussar $225.00 Else Elster Michael Bohnen
    Schicksal der Renate Langen/The Fate of Renate Langen $213.00 Mady Christians Francis Lederer 
    Der Bettelstudent/The Beggar Student $213.00 Jarmila Novotna Hans Heinz Bollmann
    Frau Lehman’s Tochter/Mrs. Lehmann’s Daughters(1932) $200.00 Hansi Niese  Fritz Kampers 
    Traum von Scheonbrunn $200.00 Mártha Eggerth Hermann Thimig
    Der Brave Suender/The Upright Sinner $200.00 Dolly Haas Max Pallenberg
    Theodor Koerner $200.00 Dorothea Wieck  Willy Domgraf-Fassbaender 
    Lachende Erben/Laughing Heirs $180.00 Lien Deyers Heinz Rühmann
    Luegen auf Ruegan/Distorting at the Resort/The Isle of Lies $180.00 Maria Matray Paul Hörbiger 
    Saison of Kairo/Season in Cairo $175.00 Renate Müller  Willy Fritsch 

    1. Hey Mike…what a slacker….you ONLY have 547 movies listed…..according to my Film Facts book 644 movies were released in 1933…507 made in United States….and 137 made internationally. What about the other 97 movies? A good researcher would have found the last 97……I am of only trying to be funny….the 547 movies you have listed is truly impressive! Way way way more than the 175 I have. Once again awesome work.

      1. Thx

        I have been sending you the lists by how the movies ranked by box office to help you figure out what the box office data for the missing might be.

        The missing probably bombed at the opening day and were not listed.
        Some are probably foreign which are difficult to track.

        One of the most interesting data I have not sent you is reissues.
        The 30s reissues have been quite low, but the 40s data I have is huge.
        Someday I will send you that data, if you want.

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