Best Action Movies by Year
836
67
1956
Fred M. Wilcox
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Cult
USA
English
2338
272
1956
Robert Aldrich
Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert, Robert Strauss
Drama / War / Action
USA
English
2353
277
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2496
316
1956
Carol Reed
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2689
380
1956
Ishirô Honda
Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori, Yasuko Nakata
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
Japan
Japanese
2691
381
1956
Robert Day, Basil Dearden
Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley
Comedy / Action / Crime
UK
English
2709
392
1956
Helmut Käutner
Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth
Comedy / Drama / Action
West Germany
German
2741
397
1956
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee
Action / Adventure / War / Drama
UK
English
2807
421
1956
Norman Foster
Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey, Clem Bevans
Family / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Western / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1956
Jack Hannah
Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Ollie Johnston, Ward Kimball, Oliver Wallace
Animation / Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Western / Documentary
USA
English
2306
264
1955
Brian Desmond Hurst
Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty
Drama / Action
UK
English
2353
277
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2609
351
1955
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford
Western / Action
USA
English
2689
380
1955
Jesse Hibbs
Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2788
411
1955
Andrzej Munk, Jan Riesser
Gustaw Holoubek, Wojciech Siemion, Stanislaw Wawrytko
War / Drama / Action / Adventure
Poland
Polish
2860
435
1955
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
8
1
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1506
133
1954
William A. Wellman
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack
Adventure / Drama / Action
USA
English
1961
196
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2306
264
1954
Michael Anderson
Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson, Stanley Van Beers, Colin Tapley
Action / War / Drama
UK
English
2741
397
1954
Robert Parrish
Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham
Adventure / Drama / War / Action
UK
English
2797
417
1954
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans
Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance / Action / Spy / War
USA
English
2797
417
1954
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin
Comedy / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
155
13
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
2689
380
1953
Lima Barreto
Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico, Adoniran Barbosa
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Brazil
Portuguese
2741
397
1953
George More O'Ferrall
Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq
Drama / War / Action / Adventure
UK
English
2797
417
1953
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe, Richard Wyler
Adventure / Action / Romance
USA
English
2797
417
1953
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2807
421
1953
John Farrow
John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Western
USA
English
2807
421
1953
William Cameron Menzies
Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1953
John Farrow
Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory
Adventure / Action / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2807
421
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Jay C. Flippen
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1953
Carol Reed
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Geoffrey Toone, Hildegard Knef, Aribert Wäscher
Drama / Thriller / Action / Spy
UK
English
1933
192
1952
David Lean
Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Action / Adventure
UK
English
1956
195
1952
Nicholas Ray
Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt
Action / Drama / Western
USA
English
2037
210
1952
Frank Tashlin
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Trigger
Action / Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
2477
309
1952
Leo McCarey
Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger
Drama / Spy / Action
USA
English
2566
341
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2605
349
1952
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter
Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
2689
380
1952
Arch Oboler
Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill, Paul McVey, Hope Miller
Adventure / Action / Drama
USA
English
2807
421
1952
George Sherman
Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Alice Kelley, Mildred Natwick
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2860
435
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
1883
184
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
2511
325
1951
Raoul Walsh
Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2605
349
1951
Budd Boetticher
Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard, Katy Jurado
Drama / Romance / Action / Sports
USA
English
2689
380
1951
Henry Hathaway
James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2807
421
1951
Arch Oboler
William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1951
Curtis Bernhardt
Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English
1618
147
1950
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Adventure / Romance / Action / Family
USA
English
1802
172
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
2605
349
1950
Victor Saville
Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez
Family / Drama / Adventure / War / Action / Spy
USA
English
2807
421
1950
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Lyle Talbot, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2807
421
1950
Frederick De Cordova
Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1968
197
1949
William A. Wellman
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Action / War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
2562
338
1949
Allan Dwan
John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Action / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2689
380
1949
David MacDonald
Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama
UK
English
2807
421
1949
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer, Buddy Baer
Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
193
17
1948
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
1546
139
1948
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2426
293
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2511
325
1948
Vincent Sherman
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent
Adventure / Romance / Action
USA
English
2511
325
1948
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2788
411
1948
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2807
421
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2807
421
1948
Robert Florey
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma, Fernando Wagner
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2320
268
1947
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2788
411
1947
Giuseppe De Santis
Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Italy
Italian
2807
421
1947
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2807
421
1947
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2689
380
1946
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2807
421
1946
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1946
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2689
380
1945
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2807
421
1945
Wallace Fox
Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Joe Devlin, George Meeker
Serial / Crime / Action / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
421
1945
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2689
380
1944
Edward Ludwig
John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2807
421
1944
Lambert Hillyer
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Nan Holliday, Stephen Keyes, Hugh Prosser
Western / Action
USA
English
2817
427
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
1763
164
1943
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
1986
200
1943
Lewis Seiler
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2605
349
1943
Tay Garnett
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia
War / Drama / Adventure / Action
USA
English
2730
395
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
2807
421
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
421
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2320
268
1942
Zoltan Korda
Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp
Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2511
325
1942
Cecil B. DeMille
Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
380
1942
David Miller
John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones, Mae Clarke
Action / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2740
396
1942
Thorold Dickinson
Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins
Drama / Spy / Action / War
UK
English
2807
421
1942
B. Reeves Eason
Van Johnson, Faye Emerson, George Meeker, Joseph Crehan, Ruth Ford
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2807
421
1942
Ray Enright
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey
Action / Western / Adventure
USA
English
2398
286
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2754
400
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2807
421
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2689
380
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
122
9
1939
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1988
201
1939
Anatole Litvak
Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
Drama / Spy / Action / Mystery / Detective / War
USA
English
2572
342
1939
William A. Wellman
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
USA
English
2691
381
1939
James Whale
Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale
Adventure / Action
USA
English
2740
396
1939
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2807
421
1939
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford
Action / History / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2807
421
1939
Allan Dwan
Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers, Binnie Barnes, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2807
421
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
145
12
1938
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English
478
43
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1763
164
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
Drama / Action / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
2807
421
1938
Henry Hathaway
Henry Fonda, George Raft, Dorothy Lamour, Louise Platt, John Barrymore
Action / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
1761
163
1937
John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2807
421
1937
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane, Keye Luke
Mystery / Comedy / Action / Crime/ Spy / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
421
1937
Geoffrey Barkas, Milton Rosmer
Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer, Antoinette Cellier, Barry MacKay, Roy Emerton
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
UK
English
2807
421
1937
Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith
Scott Kolk, Jean Rogers, David Oliver, Monte Blue, Henry Brandon
Action / Adventure / Spy
USA
English
2807
421
1937
George Nichols Jr.
Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter
Adventure / History / Romance / War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2807
421
1937
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Action / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1617
146
1936
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2142
226
1936
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2393
284
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young
Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Drama / Spy / Action / Comedy
UK
English
2553
337
1936
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, William Wyler
Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Mady Christians
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2689
380
1936
Henry Hathaway
Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1936
William Keighley
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Detective
USA
English
2807
421
1936
Richard Boleslawski
Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler
Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
966
78
1935
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1016
83
1935
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Action / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2605
349
1935
Howard Hawks, William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2689
380
1935
Tay Garnett
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2807
421
1935
William A. Wellman
Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy
Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2807
421
1935
James Tinling
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke
Mystery / Action / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
421
1935
Cecil B. DeMille
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Action / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2807
421
1935
Ray Taylor
Buck Jones, Silver, Muriel Evans, Frank McGlynn Sr., Walter Miller, Eole Galli
Action / Adventure / Music / Western / Serial
USA
English
2807
421
1935
Ray Taylor
Clark Williams, Noah Berry Jr., Jean Rogers, Delphine Drew, Bryant Washburn
Adventure / Action / Drama / Serial / Comic
USA
English
1193
93
1934
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
1854
180
1934
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
2709
392
1934
Lloyd Bacon
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2807
421
1934
Lew Landers
Maurice Murphy, Patricia Farr, Noah Berry Jr., Belle Daube, Lee Beggs
Action / Drama / Crime / Serial / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
2807
421
1934
Lew Landers
Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin, Richard Cramer
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
2170
230
1933
Raoul Walsh
Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton, Herman Bing
Comedy / Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2605
349
1933
Stuart Walker
Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing
War / Action / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2689
380
1933
Edwin H. Knopf, Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Vilma Bánky, Victor Varconi, Olga Engl, Erika Dannhoff
Action
Germany
English
2035
209
1932
W.S. Van Dyke
Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family / Comic
USA
English
2605
349
1932
Edward L. Cahn
Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Russell Hopton, Raymond Hatton, Ralph Ince
Western / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1932
John Ford
Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart, Pat O'Brien, Slim Summerville, Lilian Bond
Adventure / Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English
2807
421
1932
Lambert Hillyer
Buck Jones, Barbara Weeks, Mary Carr, George Cooper, Ed Brady, Frank Rice
Action / Adventure / Romance / Western / Comedy
USA
English
305
26
1931
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2455
305
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2709
392
1931
W.S. Van Dyke
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2807
421
1931
Irving Cummings
George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood
Western / Action / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2807
421
1931
Roy Del Ruth
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott
Action / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2689
380
1930
Alfred Santell
Milton Sills, Jane Keithley, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Harris, Nat Pendleton
Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2689
380
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2740
396
1930
John Ford
Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2740
396
1930
John G. Blystone
Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, Joan Peers, Henry B. Walthall
Drama / Action
USA
English
2807
421
1930
H.P. Carver
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk
Drama / Action / History / Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2807
421
1930
Edward Carewe
Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William 'Stage' Boyd, Harry Green
Action / Western
USA
English
1803
173
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
2689
380
1929
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
421
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1381
118
1928
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2511
325
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1928
Lloyd Ingraham, Alfred L. Werker
Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, Dorothy Janis, Raoul Paoli, William Courtright
Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1520
135
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2756
401
1927
Karl Brown
Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1927
Marion Norris Gleason
Romance / Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1927
George Fitzmaurice
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Natalie Kingston, John George
Action / Adventure / Romance / Drama
USA
English
106
8
1926
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1233
98
1926
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2001
206
1926
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe
Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2226
241
1926
Lewis Seiler
Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Action / Western / Detective / Crime / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2418
291
1926
Clarence G. Badger
Raymond Griffith, Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin, Mack Swain, Montagu Love
Comedy / Spy / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2478
310
1926
Herbert Brenon
Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, Alice Joyce, Mary Brian, Noah Beery
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2511
325
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
2601
348
1926
Richard E. Norman
Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts, Lions Daniels
Adventure / Crime / War / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1926
Charles Reisner
Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy, Charles K. Gerrard
Comedy / War / Drama / Spy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2817
427
1926
Millard Webb
John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin, Sam Baker
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1331
115
1925
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1925
Clarence Brown
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti
Comedy / Romance / Action / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1925
James Cruze
Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft
Western / Action / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1925
Lynn Reynolds, Wilfred Lucas
Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Seesel Ann Johnson, Arthur Morrison, Warner Oland
Western / Romance / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2756
401
1925
Noel M. Smith
June Marlowe, Rin Tin Tin, Charles Farrell, Heinie Conklin
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2793
414
1925
Donald Crisp
Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp, Stella De Lanti, Warner Oland
Adventure / Romance / Action / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
461
40
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2299
263
1924
Harry Beaumont
John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers, Irene Rich
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2518
327
1924
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Action / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
970
80
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1923
John Ford
Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette, Will Walling
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1923
George B. Seitz
Pearl White, Warren William, Harry Semels, Tom McIntyre, William Nally
Serial / Action / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2805
420
1923
Rex Ingram
Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Julia Swayne Gordon, Lloyd Ingraham
Drama / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2418
291
1922
Lynn Reynolds
Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak
Western / Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1922
George Melford
Dorothy Dalton, Charles Brinley, Emil Jorgenson, Rudolph Valentino, Maude Wayne
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1449
124
1921
Henry King
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence
Drama / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2605
349
1921
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1921
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1920
Harry Revier, George M. Merrick
Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Armand Cortes, Franklin B. Coates
Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2605
349
1919
Victor Fleming, Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Daisy Jefferson
Action / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1919
Henry MacRae
Elmo Lincoln, Grace Cunard, Fred Starr, Virginia Kraft, Ivor McFadden, James Cole
Action / Adventure / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1919
Fritz Lang
Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensfeldt, Harry Frank
Adventure / Action / Crime / Serial
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
380
1919
William S. Hart, Lambert Hillyer
William S. Hart, Ann Little, Lloyd Bacon, Frank Whitson, Edwin Wallock, Tom O'Brien
Action / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1918
Scott Sidney
Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham, George B. French
Action / Adventure / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1916
Grace Cunard, Francis Ford
Francis Ford, Grace Cunard, Jean Hathaway, Peter Gerald, Jerome Ash
Action / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1916
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Pomeroy Cannon, Joseph Singleton, Bessie Love
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1916
Stuart Paton
Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore, Jane Gail
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2418
291
1914
Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Pearl White, Arnold Daly, Creighton Hale, Raymond Owens, Sheldon Lewis
Action / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2418
291
1914
Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie
Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer, Edward José, Francis Carlyle
Action / Adventure / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1914
Christy Cabanne
Irene Hunt, W.H. Lawrence, Walter Long, Teddy Sampson, Pancho Villa, Raoul Walsh
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1914
Francis Ford
Grace Cunard, Francis Ford, Harry Schumm, Ernest Shields, Edgar Keller
Action / Western / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1914
Colin Campbell
William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton, Frank Clark
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
421
1914
Lucius Henderson, William Nigh
Beatriz Michelena, House Peters, William Pike, Clara Beyers, Lorraine Levy
Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1912
Charles Brabin
Mary Fuller, Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, Herbert Yost, Bliss Milford
Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1911
D.W. Griffith
George Nichols, Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Lionel Barrymore, Clara T. Bracy
Short / Action / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1911
William Humphrey
Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, John Bunny, Norma Talmadge, William Humphrey
Short / Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1908
D.W. Griffith, G.W. Bitzer
Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Gladys Egan, Charles Inslee, Madeline West
Action / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1908
D.W. Griffith
George Gebhardt, Edward Dillon, Florence Auer, Marion Leonard, Harry Solter
Action / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2689
380
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
1232
97
1903
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2418
291
1903
Edwin S. Porter, George S. Fleming
Vivian Vaughan, Arthur White, James White
Short / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1203
94
1902
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Farjaut, Kelm
Sci-Fi / Short / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
