Best Classic Movies 40+ Years Old by Rank
1339
938
1977
Herbert Ross
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1341
939
1924
Fritz Lang
Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
1342
940
1957
Leo McCarey
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1343
941
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
1347
943
1926
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1348
944
1963
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1350
945
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1351
946
1964
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee
Horror
UK
English
1351
946
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
1353
947
1947
Michael Curtiz
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1354
948
1954
Robert Hamer
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
UK
English
1356
949
1957
Rouben Mamoulian
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1358
950
1961
John Huston
Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
1359
951
1958
Anthony Mann
Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord
Romance / Western / Cult
USA
English
1360
952
1980
Michael Cimino
Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Western / Drama / Epic / Cult
USA
English
1360
952
1940
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Adventure / Western / Romance / Comic
USA
English
1361
953
1950
John Ford
Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
1363
954
1964
Kenneth Anger
Bruce Byron, Johnny Sapienza, Ernie Allo, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1364
955
1920
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch
Fantasy / Horror / Religion
Germany
German (Silent)
1364
955
1983
Francis Ford Coppola
Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid
Drama
USA
English
1367
956
1975
Ingmar Bergman
Josef Köstlinger, Sixten Fark
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
Sweden
Swedish
1368
957
1954
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Drama
USA / Italy
English
1368
957
1945
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1370
958
1936
Jean Renoir
René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
1371
959
1979
Carl Reiner
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward
Comedy
USA
English
1371
959
1973
Paul Verhoeven
Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman
Romance / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
1372
960
1963
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
1373
961
1936
Robert Z. Leonard
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Musical / Biography / Drama
USA
English
1374
962
1973
Peter Bogdanovich
Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
1374
962
1972
Peter Bogdanovich
Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars
Comedy / Family / Music / Romance
USA
English
1377
963
1964
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
1378
964
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1378
964
1929
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1378
964
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1379
965
1965
Marco Bellocchio
Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace
Drama
Italy
Italian
1380
966
1979
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari, Irene Papas
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
1382
967
1958
Louis Malle
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance / Post-Noir
France
French
1382
967
1928
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1385
968
1963
Ralph Nelson
Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1386
969
1950
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1387
970
1958
Tony Richardson
Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans
Drama
UK
English
1389
971
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
1389
971
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1390
972
1964
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy
Action / Western
West Germany / Spain / Italy
English
1392
973
1968
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons
Drama
USA
English
1395
974
1967
Robert Bresson
Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
Drama
France
French
1395
974
1956
Fielder Cook
Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson
Drama
USA
English
1396
975
1961
Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Comedy
USA
English
1397
976
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1398
977
1962
John Schlesinger
Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer, Malcolm Patton, Gwen Nelson
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1399
978
1946
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1399
978
1948
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Drama / Family
USA
English
1401
979
1984
Norman Jewison
Denzel Washington, Adolph Caesar, Howard E Rollins Jr., Robert Townsend
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
1402
980
1978
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff
Drama / Music
France / West Germany / Sweden
Swedish
1402
980
1933
Frank Capra
Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Comedy
USA
English
1404
981
1941
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
1406
982
1956
Nicholas Ray
James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon
Drama
USA
English
1408
983
1959
Richard Fleischer
Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1409
984
1944
Alfred Hitchcock
Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1411
985
1972
Elaine May
Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley
Comedy
USA
English
1411
985
1968
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
1412
986
1937
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette
Comedy / Music
USA
English
1412
986
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
1413
987
1948
Preston Sturges
Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy
USA
English
1414
988
1974
John Carpenter
Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Adam Beckenbaugh
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1418
989
1959
Roberto Rossellini
Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
1419
990
1977
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Drama / Comedy
West Germany
English
1421
991
1949
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
1422
992
1960
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, George Foundas, Titos Vandis
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Greece
English
1423
993
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1424
994
1975
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu
Comedy / War
USA
English
1425
995
1948
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson
Comedy / Western
USA
English
1426
996
1943
Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
1426
996
1982
Peter Greenaway
Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham
Comedy / Drama / Mystery
UK
English
1427
997
1947
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Palau, Henri Gaultier
Romance / Drama
France
French
1427
997
1976
John Schlesinger
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1427
997
1963
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
1428
998
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1429
999
1945
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1429
999
1963
Don Chaffey
Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith
Action / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
UK / USA
English
1433
1000
1973
John D. Hancock
Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1433
1000
1982
Alan J. Pakula
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1434
1001
1922
Benjamin Christensen
Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Tora Teje
Documentary / Horror
Denmark / Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
1435
1002
1956
Henry King
Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Ruick, Claramae Turner
Musical / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
1435
1002
1972
Bob Rafelson
Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
1436
1003
1945
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1438
1004
1950
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Ilene Woods, James MacDonald II, Eleanor Audley
Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
1438
1004
1964
Sidney Lumet
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Thriller
USA
English
1438
1004
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1439
1005
1975
Dick Richards
Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
1439
1005
1964
George Roy Hill
Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Comedy / Music / Drama
USA
English
1440
1006
1956
Frank Tashlin
Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Julie London
Comedy / Music / Crime
USA
English
1440
1006
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
1441
1007
1941
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1443
1008
1932
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond
Horror / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1445
1009
1973
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Chitra Banerjee, Govinda Chakravarti
Drama
India
Bengali
1448
1010
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1449
1011
1966
Alain Resnais
Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold
Drama
France / Sweden
French
1450
1012
1981
Sam Raimi
Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly
Horror / Cult
USA
English
1450
1012
1921
Henry King
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence
Drama / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1451
1013
1962
Peter Ustinov
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
1452
1014
1975
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
1453
1015
1959
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Drama / Horror
USA
English
1455
1016
1970
George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1457
1017
1953
John Ford
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1458
1018
1944
Alf Sjöberg
Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1463
1019
1958
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives
Drama / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
1464
1020
1983
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1466
1021
1924
John Ford
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling
Western / Epic / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1466
1021
1981
Louis Malle
Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Jean Lenauer, Roy Butler
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1468
1022
1971
Roman Polanski
Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1469
1023
1943
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
1470
1024
1969
Paul Mazursky
Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1472
1026
1967
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Drama / Crime / Romance
UK
English
1473
1027
1948
Robert Hamer
Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines
Crime / Drama
UK
English
1474
1028
1957
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
1475
1029
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1477
1030
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
1478
1031
1957
George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1479
1032
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1480
1033
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1480
1033
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1481
1034
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1482
1035
1962
John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe
Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, James Stewart, Carroll Baker
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic
USA
English
1483
1036
1964
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1486
1037
1966
James Hill, Tom McGowan
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
Family / Drama / Adventure
UK / USA
English
1487
1038
1931
King Vidor
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1488
1039
1952
Howard Hawks
Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt
Western / Adventure
USA
English
1489
1040
1972
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Hong Kong
Mandarin
1490
1041
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1493
1042
1969
Haskell Wexler
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle
Drama
USA
English
1496
1043
1962
Bryan Forbes
Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix
Drama
UK
English
1496
1043
1957
Billy Wilder
Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, Van Doude
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1497
1044
1982
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1500
1045
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1501
1046
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1502
1047
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1503
1048
1929
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1504
1049
1957
Delbert Mann
Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Philip Abbott
Drama
USA
English
1505
1050
1936
Archie Mayo
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart
Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1505
1050
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1506
1051
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1507
1052
1954
William A. Wellman
John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack
Adventure / Drama / Action
USA
English
1508
1053
1982
Amy Heckerling
Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1511
1054
1957
John Sturges
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland
Western / Gangster / Romance
USA
English
1511
1054
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman
Adventure / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1511
1054
1936
John Ford
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1512
1055
1974
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1513
1056
1982
Franco Zeffirelli
Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Drama / Musical
Italy
Italian
1514
1057
1934
John M. Stahl
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Drama
USA
English
1517
1058
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1519
1059
1941
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1519
1059
1967
Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda
Gene Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris
Musical / Comedy / Romance
France
French
1520
1060
1974
Joseph Sargent
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
1521
1061
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1524
1062
1959
Claude Chabrol
Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Drama
France
French
1524
1062
1964
Luis Buñuel
Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Daniel Ivernel
Drama
France / Italy
French
1524
1062
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
1525
1063
1937
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
1527
1064
1940
Garson Kanin
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1528
1065
1942
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders
Adventure / Family / Romance
USA
English
1528
1065
1966
Norman Jewison
Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin
Comedy / War
USA
English
1528
1065
1938
Lloyd Bacon
Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1529
1066
1971
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
Drama / Epic / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
1529
1066
1963
Louis Malle
Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech, Hubert Deschamps
Drama
Italy / France
French
1531
1067
1949
Henry Cornelius
Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater
Comedy
UK
English
1533
1069
1961
Daniel Petrie
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Drama
USA
English
1534
1070
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1535
1071
1952
Otto Preminger
Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1535
1071
1953
Charles Frend, Alec McCowen
Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, John Warner
Drama / War
UK
English
1539
1072
1958
Mario Monicelli
Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
Comedy / Crime / Caper
Italy
Italian
1541
1073
1964
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1542
1074
1940
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
1543
1075
1957
Andrzej Wajda
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
1547
1076
1948
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1549
1077
1935
René Clair
Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
1549
1077
1964
Clive Donner
Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1550
1078
1959
Stanley Kramer
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1551
1079
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
Musical / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1552
1080
1962
Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1552
1080
1960
Vincent J. Donehue
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1554
1081
1955
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol
Mystery / Western
USA
English
1555
1082
1980
Paul Schrader
Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1555
1082
1979
Richard Pearce
Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell, Barry Primus, Megan Folsom
Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1556
1083
1931
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1557
1084
1975
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Drama / Horror
Italy / France
Italian
1558
1085
1958
George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Sports
USA
English
1559
1086
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1559
1086
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1560
1087
1975
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1560
1087
1975
Theo Angelopoulos
Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Stratos Pahis, Maria Vassiliou
Drama
Greece
Greek
1563
1088
1961
Joshua Logan
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1564
1089
1965
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
1564
1089
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1564
1089
1952
Fritz Lang
Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Drama / Western / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1565
1090
1983
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
UK / USA / Czechoslovakia
English
1566
1091
1928
Jean Epstein
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Drama / Horror
France / USA
French (Silent)
1568
1092
1938
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy
Drama / Crime / Pre-Noir
France
French
1570
1093
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
1570
1093
1935
Jean Renoir
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia
Drama / Crime
France
French
1572
1094
1932
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1573
1095
1981
Francesco Rosi
Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
1574
1096
1965
Sidney Lumet
Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch
Drama / War
UK
English
1575
1097
1981
Ivan Passer
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1576
1098
1935
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1576
1098
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
1577
1099
1956
Daniel Mann
Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert
Comedy / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1578
1100
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
1579
1101
1968
Brian G. Hutton
Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark
Action / Adventure / War
UK / USA
English
1580
1102
1939
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1581
1103
1984
Alan Rudolph
Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1581
1103
1976
John Cassavetes
Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1582
1104
1968
Gene Saks
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1583
1105
1944
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1583
1105
1979
James Frawley
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Musical
UK / USA
English
1584
1106
1963
Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein
Drama
France / Italy
French
1585
1107
1973
Sydney Pollack
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1586
1108
1970
Elio Petri, Lee Kresel
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Italy
Italian
1588
1109
1950
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1589
1110
1939
Gregory Ratoff
Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway
Romance / Drama
USA
English
1590
1111
1976
Nicolas Roeg
David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Jackson D. Kane
Sci-Fi / Drama / Cult
UK
English
1590
1111
1927
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
1592
1112
1974
Paul Mazursky
Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof
Drama / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
1592
1112
1970
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Post-Noir / Detective
France / Italy
French
1595
1113
1937
Julien Duvivier
Harry Baur, Marie Bell, Pierre Blanchar, Fernandel
Drama / Romance
France
French
1596
1114
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1598
1115
1955
Charles Vidor
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1600
1116
1957
Mark Robson
Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1601
1117
1932
Frank Borzage
Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
1602
1118
1948
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
1603
1119
1956
John Huston
Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
1604
1120
1970
Cy Howard
Beatrice Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1604
1120
1947
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1605
1121
1939
Zoltan Korda
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Adventure / War
UK
English
1607
1122
1964
Jack Clayton
Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray, Cedric Hardwicke
Drama
UK
English
1608
1123
1952
Luis Buñuel
Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker,
Drama / Comedy
Mexico
Spanish
1609
1124
1930
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1609
1124
1976
Martin Ritt
Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1609
1124
1935
W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Drama / Musical / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1611
1125
1964
Bryan Forbes
Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Nanette Newman
Crime / Drama
UK
English
1614
1126
1967
Stanley Kramer
Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1614
1126
1931
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1618
1127
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1618
1127
1936
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
1619
1128
1927
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1619
1128
1950
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Adventure / Romance / Action / Family
USA
English
1620
1129
1933
Wesley Ruggles
Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1620
1129
1983
Geoff Murphy
Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa
Drama / Adventure / History
New Zealand
English
1621
1130
1974
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
1622
1131
1931
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1623
1132
1929
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1625
1133
1960
Mario Bava
Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici
Horror
Italy
Italian
1625
1133
1957
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
1626
1134
1938
Michael Curtiz
Claude Rains, John Garfield, May Robson, Priscilla Lane
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1626
1134
1946
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1626
1134
1937
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
1627
1135
1956
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Adventure / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
1627
1135
1922
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey
Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1627
1135
1950
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Drama
Italy
Italian
1628
1136
1983
Andrei Tarkovsky
Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Drama
Italy / France / Soviet Union
Russian
1628
1136
1983
Paul Brickman
Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
1629
1137
1959
Basil Dearden
Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Caper
UK
English
1629
1137
1975
Jim Sharman
Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Cult
UK
English
1629
1137
1961
Peter Glenville
Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1630
1138
1977
Robert Benton
Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Drama / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1631
1139
1978
Edouard Molinaro
Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault
Comedy
France / Italy
French
1631
1139
1962
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
1633
1140
1974
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
1633
1140
1973
Peter Hall
Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant
Drama
UK / USA
English
1633
1140
1953
Philip Leacock
Duncan Macrae, Jean Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri
Family / Drama
UK
English
1636
1141
1981
Karel Reisz
Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1637
1142
1964
Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1637
1142
1963
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1638
1143
1934
Robert J. Flaherty
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
1639
1144
1972
Robert Benton
Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser
Western / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
USA
English
1640
1145
1983
Richard Eyre
Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay, Charlie Dore
Drama
UK
English
1641
1146
1965
Blake Edwards
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk
Action / Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English
1641
1146
1982
Blake Edwards
Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren
Comedy / Romance / Musical
UK / USA
English
1642
1147
1951
Henry Hathaway
Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1643
1148
1978
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt
Drama
USA
English
1643
1148
1983
Lynne Littman
Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1644
1149
1953
Henry Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1646
1150
1967
Michael Snow
Hollis Frampton, Amy Taubin
Drama / Experimental
Canada / USA
English
1647
1151
1930
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1648
1152
1926
Clarence Brown
John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1648
1152
1942
René Clair
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
1649
1153
1960
Delbert Mann
Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury
Drama
USA
English
1649
1153
1977
Herbert Ross
Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1650
1154
1979
Albert Brooks
Dick Haynes, Albert Brooks, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston
Comedy
USA
English
1651
1155
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
1652
1156
1956
José Ferrer
José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London
Drama
USA
English
1653
1157
1960
Jacques Becker
Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1654
1158
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1655
1159
1958
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Epic
Japan
Japanese
1655
1159
1964
John Huston
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1657
1160
1950
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Romance / Western
USA
English
1657
1160
1944
Carol Reed
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
War / Drama
UK
English
1659
1161
1972
Perry Henzell
Jimmy Cliff, Janet Barkley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman, Basil Keane
Action / Crime / Drama / Music / Cult
Jamaica
English
1660
1162
1976
Luchino Visconti
Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
1663
1163
1977
Peter Weir
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Australia
English
1663
1163
1971
Elaine May
Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1663
1163
1973
Franklin J. Schaffner
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Adventure / Biography / Drama
France / USA
English
1663
1163
1966
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
1666
1164
1975
John Schlesinger
Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton
Drama / Horror / Period Film
USA
English
1666
1164
1925
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, James Anderson, Hazel Keener
Comedy / Family / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
1666
1164
1969
Peter Collinson
Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Action / Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
1667
1165
1954
Ralph Thomas
Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Kay Kendall
Comedy
UK
English
1668
1166
1975
Marguerite Duras
Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Experimental
France
French
1668
1166
1967
Frantisek Vlácil
Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Romance / Drama / Epic / History
Czechoslovakia
Czech
1669
1167
1967
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1670
1168
1934
Victor Schertzinger
Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Music / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1671
1169
1948
John Ford
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
1671
1169
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1673
1170
1928
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker
Comedy / Family / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1675
1171
1958
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan
Comedy
UK
English
1676
1172
1969
Bo Widerberg
Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1676
1172
1957
Richard Thorpe
Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor
Drama / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1679
1173
1945
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1680
1174
1941
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1683
1175
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1684
1176
1957
George Cukor
Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1686
1177
1966
François Truffaut
Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1687
1178
1979
Milos Forman
John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden
Musical / Comedy / Drama
USA / West Germany
English
1688
1179
1951
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Ronald Howard
Drama
UK
English
1689
1180
1954
David Lean
Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1690
1181
1921
Rex Ingram
Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1690
1181
1960
René Clément
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / Italy
French
1693
1182
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1693
1182
1964
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster, Peter Copley
Drama / War
UK
English
1695
1183
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1696
1184
1964
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
1697
1185
1976
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Sid Caesar
Comedy
USA
English
1698
1186
1976
Alan Parker
Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi
Comedy / Crime / Family / Musical / Gangster
UK
English
1700
1187
1972
Michael Ritchie
Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1700
1187
1979
Blake Edwards
Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1704
1189
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1705
1190
1939
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh
Western / Romance
USA
English
1706
1191
1955
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson
Drama / Family / Animation / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1708
1192
1960
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
1714
1193
1961
Bryan Forbes
Bernard Lee, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Norman Bird
Drama / Religion / Family
UK
English
1715
1194
1984
John G. Avildsen
Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller
Action / Drama / Family / Sports
USA
English
1715
1194
1968
Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack
Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Tony Bickley, Marge Champion
Drama
USA
English
1718
1195
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
1719
1196
1976
Larisa Shepitko
Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
1721
1197
1932
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
1721
1197
1958
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles
Drama
USA
English
1723
1198
1975
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven
Drama / Crime / Romance
West Germany
German
1723
1198
1984
Alex Cox
Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1724
1199
1950
René Clair
Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
France / Italy
French
1725
1200
1978
Ulu Grosbard
Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmett Walsh, Theresa Russell
Crime / Drama
USA
English
1726
1201
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
1727
1202
1974
Ted Kotcheff
Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Drama
Canada
English
1729
1203
1946
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1732
1204
1932
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
1733
1205
1957
Jacques Tourneur
Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler
Horror / Mystery / Cult
UK
English
1733
1205
1960
Ritwik Ghatak
Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray, Gita Ghatak
Drama
India
Bengali
1735
1206
1974
Robert Bresson
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1737
1207
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
1737
1207
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1738
1208
1955
Mark Robson
William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss
Drama / War
USA
English
1739
1209
1966
Jack Smight
Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
1740
1210
1984
Albert Magnoli
Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1740
1210
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George
Drama / Horror / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1741
1211
1942
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Drama
USA
English
1742
1212
1968
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea
Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Cult / Comic
France / Italy
English
1743
1213
1957
Frank Tashlin
Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1745
1215
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1746
1216
1967
John Schlesinger
Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
1747
1217
1963
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1747
1217
1975
Hal Ashby
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1748
1218
1925
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
1749
1219
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1754
1220
1917
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, Albert Austin
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1754
1220
1962
Anselmo Duarte
Leonardo Villar, Glória Menezes, Dionísio Azevedo
Drama / Religion
Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
1757
1221
1964
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
1758
1222
1951
Yasujiro Ozu
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1758
1222
1963
Jack Smith
Joel Markman, Mario Montez
Drama / Experimental
USA
English
1759
1223
1982
Walter Hill
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1760
1224
1948
Henry Hathaway
James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1762
1225
1937
John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1764
1226
1943
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
1764
1226
1977
Ridley Scott
Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines
Action / War / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1764
1226
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
Drama / Action / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
1764
1226
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
1769
1227
1935
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1770
1228
1936
Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1772
1229
1974
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit
Drama / Period Film
West Germany
German
1775
1230
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1775
1230
1951
Albert Lewin
James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
1776
1231
1962
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1776
1231
1973
Maximilian Schell
Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover
Drama
Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
German
1777
1232
1955
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
1778
1233
1982
Richard Benjamin
Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna
Comedy
USA
English
1779
1234
1926
George Fitzmaurice
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1780
1235
1979
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
1780
1235
1934
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1781
1236
1948
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
1783
1237
1937
Frank Borzage
Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1783
1237
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
1783
1237
1919
Cecil B. DeMille
Lila Lee, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Mildred Reardon, Gloria Swanson
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
1783
1237
1934
Victor Fleming
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone
Adventure / Family
USA
English
1784
1238
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
1786
1239
1969
Richard Attenborough
Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell
Musical / War / Comedy
UK
English
1787
1240
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1787
1240
1968
Ralph Nelson
Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1787
1240
1951
Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1787
1240
1967
Franco Zeffirelli
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / USA
English
1788
1241
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
1788
1241
1976
Elaine May
Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Rose Arrick
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1788
1241
1962
Francesco Rosi
Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff
Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
1789
1242
1938
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
1789
1242
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1790
1243
1965
Ken Annakin
Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas, James Fox
Adventure / Comedy / Action / Romance
UK
English
1791
1244
1972
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA / Italy
English
1791
1244
1930
René Clair
Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry
Drama / Romance
France
French
1791
1244
1960
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
1793
1245
1984
Barry Levinson
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley
Drama / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
1794
1246
1973
René Laloux
Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont
Animation / Sci-Fi
Czechoslovakia / France
French
1796
1247
1967
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell
Action / Western
USA
English
1796
1247
1956
Robert Wise
Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1796
1247
1968
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Caper
USA
English
1797
1248
1930
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1798
1249
1955
Phil Karlson
John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1799
1250
1929
James W. Horne, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1802
1251
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
1803
1252
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1804
1253
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
1804
1253
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
1805
1254
1970
Dario Argento
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Italy / West Germany
Italian
1805
1254
1951
Zoltan Korda
Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey
Drama
UK / South Africa
English
1805
1254
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
1806
1255
1972
Federico Fellini
Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
1807
1256
1967
Bo Widerberg
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
1807
1256
1964
Don Siegel
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1808
1257
1978
Steve Rash
Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis
Drama / Music / Biography / Family
USA
English
1808
1257
1980
Brian De Palma
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1808
1257
1948
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1808
1257
1965
Michael Anderson
Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Drama / War / Action / Spy / Adventure
UK
English
1808
1257
1928
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1811
1258
1936
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1811
1258
1982
Eric Rohmer
Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1811
1258
1943
Zoltan Korda
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1812
1259
1968
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Drama / Horror
Sweden
Swedish
1812
1259
1973
Claude Goretta
Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion
Comedy
Switzerland / France
French
1813
1260
1969
Gene Kelly
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
1814
1261
1961
Ermanno Olmi
Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich, Sandro Panseri, Mara Revel
Drama
Italy
Italian
1814
1261
1967
Joseph Strick
Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves
Drama
UK / USA
English
1816
1262
1936
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, André Fouché
Drama
France
French
1816
1262
1932
Marc Allégret
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Auguste Mouriès
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1816
1262
1936
Marc Connelly, William Keighley
Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed
Drama / Religion / Comedy
USA
English
1817
1263
1977
Ousmane Sembene
Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaila Diagne, Matoura Dia
Drama / Experimental
Senegal
French
1817
1263
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
1819
1264
1973
Melvin Frank
George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, K Callan
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
1819
1264
1974
Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Action / Thriller / Drama / Family
USA
English
1819
1264
1945
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
1820
1265
1934
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1827
1266
1932
Karl Freund
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
1827
1266
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
1828
1267
1925
Erich von Stroheim
Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
1830
1268
1980
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1830
1268
1943
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1831
1269
1914
Giovanni Pastrone
Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta, Gina Marangoni, Dante Testa, Umberto Mozzato
Adventure / Drama / Epic / Romance
Italy
Italian (Silent)
1831
1269
1978
Claudia Weill
Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Adam Cohen, Anita Skinner, Jean De Baer
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1832
1270
1960
Guy Green
Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Drama
UK
English
1833
1271
1953
Walter Lang
Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy De Wolfe
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1834
1272
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1836
1273
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
1837
1274
1981
Steve Gordon
Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1841
1275
1969
Arthur Penn
Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1841
1275
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1842
1276
1972
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler
Biography / Drama / War
UK
English
1843
1277
1953
Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin
Richie Andrusco, Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee
Drama / Adventure / Family
USA
English
1844
1278
1962
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1845
1279
1928
Pál Fejös
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1846
1280
1980
John Landis
John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin
Comedy / Musical / Adventure / Action
USA
English
1846
1280
1968
Francis Ford Coppola
Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks
Family / Fantasy / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
1846
1280
1961
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Lisa Daniels, Ben Wright
Family / Animation / Comedy / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
1848
1281
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
1849
1282
1964
Arthur Hiller
James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn
Comedy / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
1852
1283
1949
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff
Comedy / Romance / War
USA
English
1853
1284
1921
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Drama / Fantasy
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
1854
1285
1962
J. Lee Thompson
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1854
1285
1944
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1854
1285
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
1854
1285
1934
John Cromwell
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1856
1286
1965
Russ Meyer
Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Sue Bernard
Action / Drama / Comedy / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1856
1286
1934
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
1857
1287
1932
Erle C. Kenton
Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Kathleen Burke, Arthur Hohl
Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
1858
1288
1972
Peter Medak
Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
1859
1289
1971
Peter Brook
Paul Scofield, Patrick Magee, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb
Drama
UK / Denmark
English
1860
1290
1977
Robert Bresson
Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Drama
France
French
