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A list of Western films released in the 1930s.

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Annie Oakley is a 1935 American biographical film directed by George Stevens and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, and Moroni Olsen. The film is based on the life of Annie Oakley.

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Bar-Z Bad Men is a 1937 American Western film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Johnny Mack Brown.

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Broadway to Cheyenne is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Harry L. Fraser. The film is also known as From Broadway to Cheyenne. The film successfully combines the Western with the gangster film and vigilante film.

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Clearing the Range is a 1931 American Pre-Code Western film starring Hoot Gibson and his then wife Sally Eilers. Directed by Otto Brower, it was the first film released by the Poverty Row studio Allied Pictures. Gibson remade the film in 1933 as The Dude Bandit.

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Come On, Rangers is a 1938 American western musical film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

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Coyote Trails is a 1935 American film produced and directed by Bernard B. Ray starring Tom Tyler. There are no coyotes or their trails featured in the film.

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Desert Gold is a 1936 American western directed by James P. Hogan, starring Buster Crabbe and Marsha Hunt, based on a Zane Grey novel and released by Paramount Pictures. The film's sets were designed by David S. Garber, overseen by Hans Dreier.

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Down the Wyoming Trail is a 1939 American Western film directed by Albert Herman and starring Tex Ritter.

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Drift Fence is a 1936 American film directed by Otho Lovering. The film is also known as Texas Desperadoes.

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Ghost Patrol is a 1936 American film directed by Sam Newfield.

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Law and Lead is a 1936 American film directed by Robert F. Hill.

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Law of the Wolf is a 1939 American film directed by Bernard B. Ray and featuring Rin Tin Tin III. The film is also known as Law of the Wild.

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The Mysterious Avenger is a 1936 American romantic western film directed by David Selman.

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The Mysterious Rider is a 1938 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Douglass Dumbrille, Sidney Toler, and Russell Hayden. Written by Maurice Geraghty based on the 1921 novel The Mysterious Rider by Zane Gray, the film is about a notorious outlaw who returns to the ranch he once owned and takes a job disguised as a ranch hand. Unrecognized by the ranch's current owner, he waits patiently for an opportunity to expose the men who murdered his partner twenty years ago, framed him for the crime, and then stole his ranch. The film was later released for television in the United States as Mark of the Avenger.

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Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity.

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Park Avenue Logger is a 1937 American film directed by David Howard.

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Ridin' Thru is a 1934 American western film directed by Harry S. Webb and starring Tom Tyler, Ruth Hiatt and Lafe McKee.

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Rocky Mountain Mystery is a 1935 American Western mystery film directed by Charles Barton and starring Randolph Scott, Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Ann Sheridan. Based on an unpublished novel Golden Dreams by Zane Grey, the film is about a mining engineer who teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve a series of mystery killings at an old radium mine where the owner's family waits for his death for their inheritance. The film was re-released under the title The Fighting Westerner.

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Rogue of the Range is a 1936 American western film directed by S. Roy Luby and starring Johnny Mack Brown and Lois January. The picture is also known as Spider and the Fly in the United Kingdom.

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Rollin' Plains is a 1938 American film directed by Albert Herman.

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The Singing Outlaw is a 1938 "B" movie directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Bob Baker as a singing cowboy.

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Skull and Crown is a 1935 American film directed by Elmer Clifton. It was the final film of cast member Molly O'Day.

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Southward Ho is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers.

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Under the Pampas Moon, also known as The Gaucho, is a 1935 American romantic western film directed by James Tinling and starring Warner Baxter and Ketti Gallian. Baxter plays an Argentine gaucho. Rita Hayworth also had an early role in the film. The film has been cited as a "ludicrously dated essay into South American caricature".

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The Utah Trail is a 1938 American Western film directed by Albert Herman.