Best Classic Movies 40+ Years Old by Title
1130
824
1943
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2742
1850
1931
Alexis Granowsky
Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra, Ernst Busch, Leo Monosson
Drama
Germany
German
1899
1343
1946
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1947
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2803
1888
1945
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2775
1867
1960
Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page
Drama / Musical / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
2803
1888
1984
Alan Rudolph
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren
Drama / Music
USA
English
694
536
1960
Jack Cardiff
Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller
Drama
UK
English
2692
1827
1965
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman
Western
USA
English
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905
678
1933
William A. Seiter
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy / Family / Cult
USA
English
2809
1891
1909
D.W. Griffith
Charles West, Herbert Prior, Anita Hendrie, Mary Pickford, Harry Solter
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1432
1020
1982
Alan J. Pakula
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2309
1607
1977
William Friedkin
Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Peter Capell
Thriller / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2802
1887
1956
Grigori Chukhraj
Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolai Kryuchkov
War / Drama / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
2792
1880
1927
Herbert Brenon
H.B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mickey McBan, Carmel Myers, Lionel Belmore
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
530
422
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
2324
1621
1948
Anatole Litvak
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2809
1891
1933
Tay Garnett, Arnold Fanck
Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Max Holzboer
Adventure / Drama
Germany / USA
English
2758
1859
1926
Gregory La Cava
W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert, Marcia Harris
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2790
1878
1948
Renato Castellani
Francesco Golisano, Alberto Sordi, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2809
1891
1920
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2055
1450
1923
Rupert Hughes
Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1936
1363
1952
David Lean
Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Action / Adventure
UK
English
2288
1593
1950
Cy Endfield
Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Richard Carlson, Lloyd Bridges
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
197
168
1965
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2862
1928
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2608
1788
1976
William A. Graham
Harold Sylvester, Ebony Wright, Taj Mahal, Annazette Chase, Erika Young
Drama
USA
English
2230
1558
1919
Frank Hurley
Ernest Shackleton, Captain F. Worsley, Lieutenant J. Stenhouse, Captain L. Hussey
Documentary / Adventure
Australia / UK
English (Silent)
2373
1661
1958
Joshua Logan
Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
Musical / Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2742
1850
1938
Victor Saville
Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd
Drama
UK
English
2230
1558
1981
Walter Hill
Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter
Drama / Thriller / War / Action
USA / Switzerland / UK
English
1292
923
1945
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
2320
1617
1973
Richard Fleischer
Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir / Detective
USA
English
2809
1891
1923
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2742
1850
1937
Joris Ivens
Ernest Hemingway, Jean Renoir
Documentary / War
USA
English
2172
1520
1926
William Beaudine, Tom McNamara
Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
247
214
1960
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
2809
1891
1938
Henry Hathaway
Henry Fonda, George Raft, Dorothy Lamour, Louise Platt, John Barrymore
Action / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2104
1477
1977
Ettore Scola
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Drama / Romance
Italy / Canada
Italian
2559
1760
1975
Costa-Gavras
Louis Seigner, Roland Bertin, Michael Lonsdale
Thriller / Drama / War
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2791
1879
1980
Goran Paskaljevic
Ljuba Tadic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Dusica Zegarac, Milan Srdoc
Drama / Comedy
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2515
1735
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
702
541
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1914
Nino Martoglio
Giovanni Grasso, Maria Carmi, Virginia Balestrieri, Vittorina Moneta
Drama
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2692
1827
1919
Fritz Lang
Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Lil Dagover, Paul Biensfeldt, Harry Frank
Adventure / Action / Crime / Serial
Germany
German (Silent)
781
599
1970
Bernardo Bertolucci
Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Drama / Mystery
Italy
Italian
2009
1414
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1985
John Landis
Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon, Bruce Davison, Bernie Casey
Adventure / Comedy / Spy / Action
USA
English
900
675
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
2202
1544
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
92
79
1973
Víctor Erice
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Drama
Spain
Spanish
2758
1859
1966
Mary J. Tsosie, Maxine Tsosie
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1968
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, James Robertson Justice, Françoise Prévost
Horror / Mystery
France / Italy
French
2602
1783
1968
Federico Fellini
Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone, Anne Tonietti, Marina Yaru, Fabrizio Angeli
Drama / Horror
France / Italy
French
2608
1788
1968
Louis Malle
Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Katia Christine, Umberto D'Orsi, Renzo Palmer
Horror / Mystery
France / Italy
French
2028
1431
1929
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams
Comedy / Romance / Gangster / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2290
1595
1984
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy
Fantasy / Family / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1914
Colin Campbell
William Farnum, Kathlyn Williams, Tom Santschi, Bessie Eyton, Frank Clark
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1923
Lambert Hillyer
Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1930
Edward Carewe
Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William 'Stage' Boyd, Harry Green
Action / Western
USA
English
2809
1891
1942
Ray Enright
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey
Action / Western / Adventure
USA
English
2758
1859
1973
Ivan Dixon
Lawrence Cook, Janet League, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2809
1891
1953
Jules White
Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
1782
1259
1948
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
2692
1827
1947
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai, Yunzhu Shangguan, Xiuwen Shu, Yinyan Wu
Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2809
1891
1945
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses' White, Marie Harmon, Rex Lease
Western / Musical
USA
English
2742
1850
1939
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
1072
785
1965
Martin Ritt
Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1895
1340
1977
Lewis Gilbert
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Romance / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2791
1879
1966
Daniel Petrie
Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes
Comedy / Spy
UK
English
2773
1865
1936
Augusto Genina
Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Olinto Cristina, Fulvia Lanzi
War / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2692
1827
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)
2692
1827
1914
Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille
Dustin Farnum, Raymond Hatton, Art Acord, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecilia de Mille
Drama / Western / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1921
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2320
1617
1985
Joel Schumacher
Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2758
1859
1929
Dudley Murphy
Bessie Smith, Hall Johnson Choir, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Alec Lovejoy
Drama / Musical / Short
USA
English
2534
1744
1943
Frank Borzage
Katharine Hepburn, Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan
Musical / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
2038
1439
1950
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
122
108
1939
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1083
791
1953
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
751
574
1979
Andrei Tarkovsky
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn
Mystery / Sci-Fi
West Germany / Soviet Union
Russian
1841
1298
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2608
1788
1952
Stuart Heisler
Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson
Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1968
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Biography / Musical / Drama
USA
English
2475
1711
1983
Bob Fosse
Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2791
1879
1952
Henry Koster
Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Ruth Hussey
Musical / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2692
1827
1983
Peter Hyams
Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James Sikking
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
348
297
1954
George Cukor
Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan
Drama / Musical
USA
English
628
488
1937
William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2450
1698
1976
Frank Pierson
Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark
Drama / Musical
USA
English
2809
1891
1934
unknown
Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
1976
1392
1982
Nicholas Meyer
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Family / Cult
USA
English
2692
1827
1984
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Cult
USA
English
2452
1699
1979
Robert Wise
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Cult
USA
English
32
30
1977
George Lucas
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
370
316
1980
Irvin Kershner
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
969
721
1983
Richard Marquand
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
2416
1685
1974
Michael Apted
David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres
Drama / Music
UK
English
2692
1827
1980
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2758
1859
1927
Karl Brown
Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2202
1544
1984
John Carpenter
Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
USA
English
2802
1887
1959
Konrad Wolf
Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
War / Drama / Romance
East Germany / Bulgaria
Bulgarian
2241
1566
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
1037
763
1939
Carol Reed
Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price
Drama
UK
English
2692
1827
1970
Bud Yorkin
Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw
Comedy
USA
English
2692
1827
1979
Alan J. Pakula
Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2136
1496
1945
Walter Lang, José Ferrer
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2656
1807
1973
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Drama / Thriller
France / West Germany / Italy
French
1260
906
1948
Frank Capra
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2610
1789
1982
Wim Wenders
Isabelle Weingarten, Rebecca Pauly, Jeffrey Kime, Geoffrey Carey
Drama / Mystery
West Germany / Portugal / USA
German
2790
1878
1950
Sidney Gilliat
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
1512
1075
1974
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2809
1891
1976
Bob Rafelson
Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Sports
USA
English
836
633
1928
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2367
1657
1935
John Ford
Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2604
1785
1928
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Walt Disney
Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
1968
1386
1951
Samuel Fuller
Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards
Drama / War
USA
English
2515
1735
1973
Alan Myerson
Mel Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton, Peter Boyle
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2301
1601
1955
Michael Cacoyannis
Melina Mercouri, George Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis
Drama / Romance
Greece
Greek
1315
940
1937
King Vidor
Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2314
1612
1925
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, Beatrix Pryor, Lois Moran
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2231
1559
1918
Marshall Neilan
Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle, Marcia Manon
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2692
1827
1975
Bryan Forbes
Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2506
1731
1969
Alan J. Pakula
Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Elizabeth Harrower, Jawn McKinley
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2281
1588
1978
Robert Enders
Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, Trevor Howard
Drama / Biography
UK
English
2861
1927
1974
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
Drama
Iran
Persian
386
326
1973
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
2809
1891
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Bull Montana, Mickey Bennett, Louise Carver
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1980
Stephen Wallace
Bryan Brown, Max Phipps, Dennis Miller, Garry Waddell, Phil Motherwell
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime
Australia
English
2692
1827
1980
Sidney Poitier
Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
556
441
1968
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
2809
1891
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1915
Frank Hall Crane
Violet Horner, George Majeroni, Bertram Marburgh, Frances Nelson, Robert Warwick
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1984
Christopher Cain
Robert Duvall, Jason Presson, Glenn Close, Susan Rinell, Dean Cain
Drama
USA
English
2794
1882
1933
Dave Fleischer
Budd Hulick, F. Chase Taylor
Animation / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
1033
759
1984
Jonathan Demme
David Byrne, Alex Weir, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
Documentary / Music
USA
English
1381
987
1928
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2809
1891
1951
Stuart Heisler
Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1806
1277
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
1912
1349
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne
Comedy / Drama
France
French
1451
1034
1975
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
2692
1827
1939
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2819
1895
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
2487
1719
1957
David Miller
Joan Crawford, Heather Sears, Rossano Brazzi, Lee Patterson
Drama
UK
English
1285
918
1945
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1190
860
1936
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2758
1859
1946
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2809
1891
1952
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice
Adventure / Family / Crime
USA
English
2608
1788
1933
Stephen Roberts
Miriam Hopkins, Jack La Rue, William Gargan, William Collier Jr., Irving Pichel
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2809
1891
1955
William Beaudine
Dick Tufield, Dr. Heinz Haber, Wernher Von Braun, Willy Ley, Ward Kimball
Documentary / Animation / Family
USA
English
2691
1826
1930
Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz
Claude Dauphin, Romain Bouquet, Laine, Sylvain Itkine, Léon Larive
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
France
French
2692
1827
1906
Charles Tait
Elizabeth Tait, John Tait, Bella Cola, Vera Linden, Frank Mills, Ollie Wilson
Biography / Drama
Australia
English (Silent)
1161
842
1939
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2794
1882
1953
Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
James Mason, Moira Shearer, Ricky Nelson, Leslie Caron
Musical / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2809
1891
1939
H.C. Potter
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields
Biography / Musical / Romance / War
USA
English
2790
1878
1960
Albert Lamorisse
Maurice Baquet, André Gille, Pascal Lamorisse, Jack Lemmon
Family / Adventure
France
French
2515
1735
1917
John Ford
Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell, Molly Malone, Ted Brooks, Hoot Gibson
Western
USA
English (Silent)
1725
1222
1978
Ulu Grosbard
Dustin Hoffman, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmett Walsh, Theresa Russell
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2862
1928
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2556
1757
1945
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2742
1850
1950
Curzio Malaparte
Raf Vallone, Rina Morelli, Alain Cuny, Anna-Maria Ferrero
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
2809
1891
1932
Robert Z. Leonard
Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2324
1621
1946
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1388
991
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1976
1392
1967
Luchino Visconti
Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Georges Wilson
Drama / Crime
Italy / France / Algeria
French
2809
1891
1955
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Miroslava Stern, Kevin McCarthy, John McIntire, John Carradine
Western
USA
English
2694
1828
1940
Boris Ingster
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
601
468
1984
Jim Jarmusch
John Lurie, Eszter Balint
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA / West Germany
English
2694
1828
1983
Matthew Chapman
Peter Coyote, Victoria Tennant, Blaine Novak, Dan Shor, Richard Romanus
Drama / Gangster / Romance
USA
English
209
180
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2608
1788
1933
King Vidor
Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, Stuart Erwin, Irene Hervey
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2415
1684
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
695
537
1971
Sam Peckinpah
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2748
1854
1941
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2802
1887
1970
Stuart Hagmann
Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, Bud Cort, Murray MacLeod
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1836
1296
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2280
1587
1928
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti, Guido Trento
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2742
1850
1930
John Cromwell
William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey
Drama
USA
English
2809
1891
1925
Herbert Brenon
Percy Marmont, Neil Hamilton, Mary Brian, John Harrington, Juliet Brenon
Crime / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2394
1672
1956
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Kumeko Urabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1622
1152
1931
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2692
1827
1925
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroki Hoshino, Yoshiko Okada
Short / Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
109
96
1951
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Drama
USA
English
2679
1821
1984
Martin Bell
Kim, Lulu, Dewayne, Lillie, Munchkin, Patti, Rat, Shadow, Shellie
Documentary
USA
English
401
334
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2506
1731
1981
Ivan Reitman
Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy
Comedy / War
USA
English
2692
1827
1963
Franklin J. Schaffner
Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Carol Lynley, Robert Webber
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1627
1156
1950
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Drama
Italy
Italian
2226
1555
1926
Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1418
1010
1977
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Drama / Comedy
West Germany
English
2794
1882
1931
D.W. Griffith
Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin
Drama
USA
English
2608
1788
1926
Henrik Galeen
Fritz Alberti, Agnes Esterhazy, Ferdinand von Alten, Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
Germany
German (Silent)
2162
1513
1927
Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
German (Silent)
2692
1827
1914
George Pearson
James Bragington, Fred Paul, Agnes Glynne, Henry Paulo, James Le Fre
Mystery / Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
1258
905
1980
Richard Rush
Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield
Action / Romance / Comedy / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2116
1486
1965
Ritwik Ghatak
Abhi Bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satindra Bhattacharya, Bijon Bhattacharya
Drama
India
Bengali
2212
1549
1968
Ulu Grosbard
Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon
Drama
USA
English
2743
1851
1985
Luc Besson
Isabelle Adjani, Christopher Lambert, Richard Bohringer, Michel Galabru
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy
France
French
2608
1788
1972
François Truffaut
Bernadette Lafont, Claude Brasseur, Charles Denner, Guy Marchand
Comedy / Drama / Crime
France
French
2785
1875
1971
Otto Preminger
Dyan Cannon, James Coco, Jennifer O'Neill, Ken Howard, Nina Foch
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2515
1735
1929
Carl Junghans
Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pistek, Mána Zenísková
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
2809
1891
1952
David Miller
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2692
1827
1983
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake
Action / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2095
1471
1954
Lewis Allen
Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1452
1035
1959
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Drama / Horror
USA
English
2692
1827
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
2261
1578
1983
Euzhan Palcy
Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Drama
France
French
914
685
1974
Steven Spielberg
Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton
Drama / Crime
USA
English
151
127
1941
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
1629
1158
1961
Peter Glenville
Laurence Harvey, Geraldine Page, Rita Moreno, Una Merkel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2694
1828
1948
Rouben Mamoulian
Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan
Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1950
Ingmar Bergman
Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2278
1586
1971
Robert Mulligan
Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2692
1827
1959
Delmer Daves
Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2515
1735
1950
Charles Walters
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven, Marjorie Main
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2742
1850
1960
Georgi Daneliya, Igor Talankin
Boris Barkhatov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2602
1783
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
790
605
1955
David Lean
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Romance / Drama
UK / USA
English
2692
1827
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2136
1496
1957
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert, Gregory Ratoff
Drama
USA
English
1925
1359
1953
John Ford
Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, Stepin Fetchit, John Russell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
669
517
1971
John Schlesinger
Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson, Murray Head, Peggy Ashcroft
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2692
1827
1963
Peter Tewksbury
Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Jo Morrow
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
630
490
1984
Bertrand Tavernier
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Period Film
France
French
1094
797
1960
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
2692
1827
1919
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Tom Wilson, Tom Terriss, Henry Bergman
Comedy / Short / Drama / Family
USA
English (Silent)
49
45
1927
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1552
1101
1960
Vincent J. Donehue
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Drama / Biography
USA
English
38
35
1950
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2450
1698
1975
Herbert Ross
Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Comedy
USA
English
2692
1827
1910
D.W. Griffith
Marion Sunshine, W. Chrystie Miller, Clara T. Bracy, Edward Dillon, Charles West
Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1974
Gordon Parks
Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Action / Detective
USA
English
1240
898
1972
Gordon Parks Jr.
Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor, Nate Adams
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
810
619
1978
Richard Donner
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Crime / Family / Comic
UK
English
2515
1735
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
2809
1891
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2402
1678
1980
Richard Lester, Richard Donner
Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Crime / Family / Comic
UK
English
NR
-
1983
Richard Lester
Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
UK
English
2692
1827
1971
Burt Kennedy
James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2071
1459
1969
Burt Kennedy
James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2127
1491
1985
Rob Reiner
John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2742
1850
1931
William K. Howard
Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / War
USA
English
2608
1788
1944
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2647
1801
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1954
Robert Mulligan
Rex Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Boris Karloff, Cloris Leachman, Brian Keith
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1107
807
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
493
399
1977
Dario Argento
Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Horror
Italy / West Germany
English
2862
1928
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2809
1891
1963
Eric Rohmer
Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière, Diane Wilkinson
Romance / Drama
France
French
2809
1891
1961
unknown
Leslie Nielsen, Barbara Eiler, Smoki Whitfield, Myron Healey, J. Pat O'Malley
Adventure / War / Family / Serial
USA
English
2692
1827
1982
Wes Craven
Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess, Nicholas Worth, Don Knight
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1941
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2743
1851
1984
Volker Schlöndorff
Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Period Film / Romance
France / West Germany
French
2608
1788
1933
John Cromwell
Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan, Gloria Stuart, Alan Dinehart
Drama
USA
English
2231
1559
1962
Richard Brooks
Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Rip Torn, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2452
1699
1969
Bob Fosse
Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2862
1928
1971
John G. Avildsen
Bob Brady, Gordon Felio, Roz Kelly, Nancy Salmon
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1915
Cecil M. Hepworth
Henry Ainley, J.V. Bryant, Stewart Rome, Alma Taylor, Chrissie White
Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
158
134
1957
Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
922
688
1971
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1074
787
1974
Lina Wertmüller
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
1715
1216
1968
Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack
Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Tony Bickley, Marge Champion
Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1941
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2556
1757
1937
Mitchell Leisen
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2493
1722
1984
Jonathan Demme
Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film / War
USA
English
330
281
1936
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2231
1559
1960
Ken Annakin
John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa
Adventure / Family
USA
English
2809
1891
1944
Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2608
1788
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
2692
1827
1963
Wolfgang Reitherman
Sebastian Cabot, Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Ginny Tyler
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2862
1928
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1770
1250
1935
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2000
1408
1968
William Greaves
Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Bob Rosen, Susan Anspach, Jonathan Gordon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2809
1891
1942
unknown
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, John McLeish
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
2517
1737
1947
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2556
1757
1895
Louis Lumière
François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Comedy / Short
France
French (Silent)
917
686
1931
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
1891
1934
Lew Landers
Maurice Murphy, Patricia Farr, Noah Berry Jr., Belle Daube, Lee Beggs
Action / Drama / Crime / Serial / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1935
Ray Taylor
Clark Williams, Noah Berry Jr., Jean Rogers, Delphine Drew, Bryant Washburn
Adventure / Action / Drama / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2740
1849
1985
Edward Yang
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wu Nien-Chen, Mei Fang, Tsai Chin, Su-Yun Ko
Drama / Romance
Taiwan
Taiwanese
2694
1828
1949
Busby Berkeley
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold
Comedy / Musical / Sports / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1969
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1520
1080
1974
Joseph Sargent
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
2655
1806
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1058
773
1971
Milos Forman
Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey
Comedy / Drama / Music
USA
English
2807
1890
1979
Yuri Norstein
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Animation / Short / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
1113
813
1935
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Adventure / War
USA
English
2692
1827
1911
William Humphrey
Maurice Costello, Florence Turner, John Bunny, Norma Talmadge, William Humphrey
Short / Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1917
Frank Lloyd
William Farnum, Jewel Carmen, Charles Clary, Herschel Mayall, Rosita Marstini
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1921
Frank Lloyd
J. Frank Glendon, Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, E. Alyn Warren, Margaret McWade
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2088
1468
1971
Reginald Mills
Frederick Ashton, Alexander Grant, Julie Wood, Ann Howard, Bob Mead, Garry Grant
Family / Musical / Fantasy
UK
English
1803
1274
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
2692
1827
1942
Julien Duvivier
Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1128
823
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2397
1674
1972
Yves Robert
Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort, Mireille Darc
Comedy / Mystery / Spy
France
French
2692
1827
1944
Edwin L. Marin
John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Audrey Long
Mystery / Western / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1960
Joshua Logan
Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Marc Connelly, Anne Jackson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2229
1557
1957
Budd Boetticher
Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan
Western
USA
English
2794
1882
1951
Anthony Mann
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
2758
1859
1964
Steve Binder
James Brown, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes
Documentary / Music
USA
English
1788
1263
1967
Franco Zeffirelli
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / USA
English
2692
1827
1929
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn, Clyde Cook
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1957
Joseph Pevney
Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Brennan, Mala Powers, Sidney Blackmer
Musical / Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
700
540
1985
Juzo Itami
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ken Watanabe, Kôji Yakusho
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2692
1827
1981
Harold Becker
George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn, Tom Cruise, Brendan Ward
Drama / Action
USA
English
2791
1879
1965
Luis Alcoriza
Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, Aurora Clavel
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
961
714
1968
Peter Bogdanovich
Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1323
947
1958
Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2794
1882
1926
F.W. Murnau
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
1857
1310
1934
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1945
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1947
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1946
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1948
Robert Florey
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma, Fernando Wagner
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2692
1827
1918
Scott Sidney
Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham, George B. French
Action / Adventure / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2038
1439
1932
W.S. Van Dyke
Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
1891
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
652
506
1961
Tony Richardson
Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah
Drama
UK
English
2692
1827
1908
D.W. Griffith
George Gebhardt, Edward Dillon, Florence Auer, Marion Leonard, Harry Solter
Action / Short
USA
English (Silent)
20
19
1976
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
2790
1878
1981
Frank Ripploh
Frank Ripploh, Bernd Broaderup, Orpha Termin, Peter Fahrni, Dieter Godde
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
2515
1735
1969
Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2528
1741
1956
Vincente Minnelli
Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman
Drama
USA
English
2799
1885
1958
George Seaton
Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren, Nick Adams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1577
1120
1956
Daniel Mann
Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert
Comedy / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2692
1827
1977
Don Siegel
Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee
Crime / Action / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2608
1788
1970
Otto Preminger
Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2604
1785
1953
Art Babbitt, Ted Parmelee
Stanley Baker, James Mason
Animation / Short / Crime / Horror
USA
English
2394
1672
1969
Abraham Polonsky
Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark
Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
2786
1876
1982
Paul Mazursky
John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Vittorio Gassman, Raul Julia
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2172
1520
1926
Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller
Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott, Lionel Barrymore, Armand Kaliz
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1700
1208
1979
Blake Edwards
Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
620
482
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
2005
1412
1923
Cecil B. DeMille
Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, James Neill
Drama / Religion / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2318
1615
1973
Max Liebman
Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Louis Nye
Comedy
USA
English
2692
1827
1971
Richard Fleischer
Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2049
1447
1976
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
France / USA
French
2581
1773
1955
Charles Walters
Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Holm
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1928
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1410
1005
1968
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
2790
1878
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2773
1865
1934
Guido Brignone
Marta Abba, Elsa De Giorgi, Nerio Bernardi, Luigi Cimara
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2790
1878
1962
Peter Glenville
Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp
Drama
UK
English
485
393
1984
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
553
438
1983
James L. Brooks
Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2029
1432
1967
Glauber Rocha
Jardel Filho, Paulo Autran, José Lewgoy, Glauce Rocha, Paulo Gracindo
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
1025
751
1979
Roman Polanski
Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / UK
English
2423
1688
1914
Edwin S. Porter
Mary Pickford, Harold Lockwood, Olive Carey, David Hartford, Louise Dunlap
Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2692
1827
1922
John S. Robertson
Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, David Torrence, Forrest Robinson
Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2351
1644
1938
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
1643
1169
1983
Lynne Littman
Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1212
878
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
1009
741
1960
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Yul Brynner, Charles Aznavour, Claudine Auger
Drama / Experimental
France
French
2334
1629
1939
Maurice Schwartz
Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub
Drama
USA
Yiddish
2785
1875
1982
Tim Hunter
Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly, Bill McKinney, Frances Lee McCain
Drama
USA
English
2809
1891
1954
Tex Avery
Bill Thompson, Frank Graham, Dick Nelson, Wally Maher, Sara Berner, Tex Avery
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
598
466
1974
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2692
1827
1917
Frank Hall Crane, Hugo Ballin
Mary Garden, Hamilton Revelle, Crauford Kent, Lionel Adams, Alice Chapin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1937
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre, Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick, Jayne Regan, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2809
1891
1943
David Butler
Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2802
1887
1963
Vojtech Jasny
Václav Babka, Jirina Bohdalová, Pavel Brodsky
Family / Comedy / Fantasy
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2692
1827
1965
Robert Stevenson
Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand
Family / Comedy / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
2367
1657
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2241
1566
1964
Philippe de Broca
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Italy / France
French
2743
1851
1957
John Newland
John Beal, Augusta Dabney, Malcolm Brodrick, Dennis Kohler, Beverly Lunsford
Drama
USA
English
2809
1891
1941
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2794
1882
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
500
404
1977
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Drama / Comedy
France / Spain
French
2191
1536
1962
Delbert Mann
Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2608
1788
1984
Steve Binder, Larry Peerce, David Winters
Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
1985
Jack Haley Jr.
Liza Minnelli, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Travolta
Documentary / Musical
USA
English
1967
1385
1974
Jack Haley Jr.
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2608
1788
1976
Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
1923
1357
1973
Douglas Hickox
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote
Comedy / Mystery / Horror
UK
English
2515
1735
1911
Thomas H. Ince, George Loane Tucker
Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Thomas H. Ince
Short
USA
English (Silent)
2231
1559
1954
Gordon Douglas
James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2394
1672
1936
Richard Boleslawski
Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2758
1859
1925
Theodore Case
Gus Visser
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2758
1859
1928
Harold Muller, Charles R. Bowers
Charles R. Bowers, Buster Brodie, Kathryn McGuire, Blue Washington
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1970
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Western / Crime
USA
English
2862
1928
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2790
1878
1962
Georges Franju
Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey
Drama
France
French
1984
1397
1953
Marcel Carné
Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Maria-Pia Casilio
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
France / Italy
French
2692
1827
1928
Jacques Feyder
Gina Manès, Wolfgang Zilzer, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Drama / Crime
France / Germany
French (Silent)
2691
1826
1963
Joseph Losey
Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
1718
1217
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
2862
1928
1981
Peter Bogdanovich
Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter
Comedy / Romance / Detective
USA
English
2692
1827
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1750
1242
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2809
1891
1929
Frank Borzage
Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill, Fifi D'Orsay
Comedy
USA
English
846
642
1949
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1939
Busby Berkeley
John Garfield, The Dead End Kids, Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Sports
USA
English
2174
1521
1947
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Mary Merrall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
UK
English
637
496
1969
Sydney Pollack
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1135
826
1945
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
2608
1788
1947
Irving Pichel
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1124
822
1937
Mervyn LeRoy
Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Drama / Mystery / Crime
USA
English
2559
1760
1952
Russell Rouse
Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Vale
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2670
1817
1981
Michael Mann
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Caper
USA
English
2809
1891
1914
Henry Lehrman
Edgar Kennedy, Virginia Kirtley, Hank Mann, Harry McCoy, Al St. John, Mack Swain
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
460
374
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
526
420
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
2794
1882
1949
Jules Dassin
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2112
1482
1974
Robert Altman
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
281
242
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2692
1827
1944
Richard Thorpe
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Helen Vinson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Family / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2777
1868
1964
Andrew Marton
Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Bob Kanter, Ray Daley, Merlyn Yordan
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
1497
1064
1982
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1106
806
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
897
673
1936
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
2809
1891
1937
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Action / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2758
1859
1975
Dwight Core
Dwight Core Jr.
Short / Documentary
USA
English
2124
1489
1979
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Volker Spengler
Comedy / Crime / Drama
West Germany
German
75
65
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
2809
1891
1929
Tod Browning
Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2809
1891
1937
George B. Seitz
May Whitty, Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck, Henry Daniell
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2809
1891
1959
Sidney Miller
Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
292
252
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2263
1579
1944
Mervyn LeRoy
Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum
Drama / War
USA
English
2550
1752
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
1506
1071
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2235
1560
1944
David Lean
Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway, Amy Veness
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2226
1555
1952
Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Todd Jr.
Lowell Thomas
Documentary
USA
English
2803
1888
1981
Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt
Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Johnny Harra, Lawrence Koller
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
396
331
1984
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher
Comedy / Music / Cult
USA
English
2675
1818
1943
Michael Curtiz
George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Comedy / Musical / War / Romance
USA
English
2748
1854
1943
Jean Renoir
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Drama / War
USA
English
1002
739
1969
Claude Chabrol
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Crime / Thriller
France / Italy
French
668
516
1963
Lindsay Anderson
Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell
Drama / Sports
UK
English
1797
1270
1968
Norman Jewison
Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Caper
USA
English
2556
1757
1917
Mauritz Stiller
Victor Sjöström, Karin Molander, Albin Lavén
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2309
1607
1967
George Roy Hill
Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2809
1891
1965
Norman Tokar
Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn
Drama / Family
USA
English
1791
1266
1965
Ken Annakin
Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas, James Fox
Adventure / Comedy / Action / Romance
UK
English
2809
1891
1953
Lewis R. Foster
Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer
Musical / Western / Romance
USA
English
2308
1606
1978
Jirí Menzel
Rudolf Hrusínsky, Jirí Menzel, Blazena Holisová
Comedy / Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
1294
924
1965
Fred Coe
Jason Robards, Barbara Harris
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1910
D.W. Griffith
Mary Pickford, Francis J. Grandon, Henry B. Walthall, Linda Arvidson
Romance / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2636
1797
1984
Mick Jackson
Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May, Nicholas Lane
Drama / Sci-Fi / War
UK / Australia / USA
English
2694
1828
1949
Felix E. Feist
Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2712
1834
1965
Aleksandar Petrovic
Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Ali Raner, Senka Veletanlic-Petrovic
Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2176
1522
1923
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Lillian Lawrence
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1788
1926
John Ford
George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi, J. Farrell MacDonald
Western
USA
English (Silent)
1573
1116
1981
Francesco Rosi
Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
1951
1373
1945
Walt Disney, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway
Animation / Family / Musical
USA
English
2235
1560
1950
Jean Negulesco
Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
War / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2348
1641
1954
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan
Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1071
784
1938
Frank Borzage
Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2742
1850
1933
Elliott Nugent
Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, Mary Boland, Wallace Ford
Comedy
USA
English
2862
1928
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
1560
1108
1975
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2231
1559
1957
Nunnally Johnson
Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome, Alena Murray
Drama
USA
English
2136
1496
1948
John Ford
John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
2809
1891
1936
Richard Boleslawski
Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler
Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2692
1827
1957
Cecil Holmes
John McCallum, Edmund Allison, Reg Lye, Alexander Archdale, Charles Tasman
Drama
Australia
English
2758
1859
1933
Burt Gillett
Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Walt Disney, Mary Moder, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Musical / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2517
1737
1950
Richard Thorpe
Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins
Biography / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2318
1615
1985
Coline Serreau
Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier
Comedy
France
French
1280
915
1973
Richard Lester
Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York
Action / Adventure / Family
USA / UK
English
1547
1097
1948
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
1827
1921
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1891
1939
Allan Dwan
Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers, Binnie Barnes, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2550
1752
1970
Laurence Olivier, John Sichel
Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Sheila Reid
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1626
1155
1937
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
2692
1827
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2608
1788
1946
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1625
1154
1957
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
1142
831
1977
Robert Altman
Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Drama
USA
English
1556
1104
1931
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2692
1827
1963
Norman Jewison
Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2758
1859
1983
John Landis
Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Vincent Price
Horror / Romance / Short / Thriller / Musical
USA
English
2809
1891
1961
Arthur Hiller, Douglas Heyes, Gerald Mayer
Boris Karloff, William Shatner, Leslie Nielson, Rip Torn, Richard Chamberlain
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
191
162
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
416
344
1961
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2809
1891
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Jay C. Flippen
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2742
1850
1934
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
2047
1446
1943
Roy Boulting
Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
