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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Chuck Workman
Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1988
889
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2510
1136
The Penalty
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2600
1182
The Dragon Painter
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
Hail the Woman!
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
100
57
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
315
164
Dodsworth
1936
William Wyler
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
355
183
Wuthering Heights
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
366
190
Roman Holiday
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars
429
218
Jezebel
1938
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars
492
243
The Heiress
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
710
333
The Letter
1940
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Pre-Noir
USA
English
4.5 Stars
746
350
The Little Foxes
1941
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
881
404
Dead End
1937
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4 Stars
1061
476
Mrs. Miniver
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1113
498
Detective Story
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1717
758
These Three
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1825
807
The Westerner
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1896
844
The Desperate Hours
1955
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
3 Stars
2048
921
Carrie
1952
William Wyler
Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3 Stars
2079
933
Counsellor at Law
1933
William Wyler
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2278
1018
The Collector
1965
William Wyler
Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Drama / Horror / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2495
1130
The Children's Hour
1961
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2604
1185
The Good Fairy
1935
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2604
1185
Hell's Heroes
1929
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
The Shakedown
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2688
1221
Humanity and Paper Balloons
1937
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2859
1322
Kochiyama soshun
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2859
1322
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2688
1221
The Naughty Nineties
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
The Abbott & Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection Season 1
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
The Abbott & Costello Show: 100th Anniversary Collection Season 2
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
A Pair of Tights
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2604
1185
Sisters of Nishijin
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2688
1221
Nishizumi senshacho-den
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2839
1309
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
1993
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2755
1255
Heroes All
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2755
1255
White Fawn's Devotion
1910
James Young Deer
Red Wing
Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1377
612
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2545
1153
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2545
1153
4 Clowns
1970
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Jay Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2.5 Stars
2545
1153
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2545
1153
30 Years of Fun
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2.5 Stars
2545
1153
When Comedy Was King
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2604
1185
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's
1965
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2.5 Stars
2739
1246
Golden Mountains
1931
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2536
1149
To Live in Peace
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2787
1273
L'Onorevole Angelina
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2806
1287
Bound by Flesh
2012
Leslie Zemeckis
Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Nancy Allen, Blake Boyd, Tim Stack, Lea Thompson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
5 Stars
437
221
Forrest Gump
1994
Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2800
1284
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Marina Zenovich
Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Mia Farrow
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
2.5 Stars
2859
1322
Loving Couples
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
4 Stars
1002
451
Hero
2002
Yimou Zhang
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / History / Epic
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2688
1221
Domestic Agitator
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2859
1322
Crows and Sparrows
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2846
1315
Fun
1994
Rafal Zielinski
Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope, Ania Suli
Drama / Crime
Canada
English
5 Stars
108
61
High Noon
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
5 Stars
249
134
From Here to Eternity
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
843
388
The Men
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1088
487
The Search
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
4 Stars
1473
657
A Hatful of Rain
1957
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2362
1071
Act of Violence
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2510
1136
The Member of the Wedding
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2688
1221
The Seventh Cross
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2787
1273
Teresa
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2745
1249
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
3 Stars
2121
949
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
Valerio Zurlini
Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
2.5 Stars
2590
1177
Thelonious Monk:
Straight, No Chaser
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
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