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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
766
572
Women in Love
1969
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2323
1593
Wonder Man
1945
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2805
1858
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2791
1848
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
Henry Levin, George Pal
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak
Fantasy / Musical / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
469
372
Woodstock
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2549
1723
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Woody Woodpecker and Friends
1952
Walter Lantz, various
Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
1828
Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2781
1841
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
Elio Petri
Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato
Drama
Italy
Italian
3.5 Stars
1903
1320
The World According to Garp
1982
George Roy Hill
Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4 Stars
1439
1005
The World of Henry Orient
1964
George Roy Hill
Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Comedy / Music / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
World Without End
1956
Edward Bernds
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson
Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2184
1503
World Without Sun
1964
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Documentary
France / Italy / USA
French
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
The World's Champion
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
743
552
WR - Mysteries of the Organism
1971
Dusan Makavejev
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
Yugoslavia / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
The Wrath of the Gods
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
323
270
Written on the Wind
1956
Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2230
1531
The Wrong Box
1966
Bryan Forbes
Jeremy Lloyd, John Mills, Michael Caine, James Villiers, Peter Sellers
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
4 Stars
1012
726
The Wrong Man
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold Stone
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
355
298
Wuthering Heights
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
1799
Wuthering Heights
1954
Luis Buñuel
Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2691
1797
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
Roger Corman
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2791
1848
X, Y & Zee
1972
Brian G. Hutton
Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton
Drama / Romance
UK
English
4 Stars
1111
794
Xala
1975
Ousmane Sembene
Seun Samb, Tierno Leye, Younous Seye, Makhouredia Gueye
Comedy
Senegal
French
2.5 Stars
2514
1706
The Yakuza
1974
Sydney Pollack
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA / Japan
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
A Yank at Oxford
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Yankee Buccaneer
1952
Frederick De Cordova
Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews
Adventure
USA
English
5 Stars
324
271
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
1819
Yanks
1979
John Schlesinger
Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn, William Devane
Romance / Drama / War
USA / West Germany / UK
English
2.5 Stars
2302
1575
Ye ban ge sheng
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
975
710
The Year of Living Dangerously
1982
Peter Weir
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Romance / Drama
Australia
English
3 Stars
2141
1474
A Year of the Quiet Sun
1984
Krzysztof Zanussi
Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka
Romance / Drama / War
Poland / West Germany / USA
Polish
4 Stars
1334
934
The Yearling
1946
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2775
1836
Yellow Crow
1957
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2742
1819
Yellow Cruise
1936
Andre Sofame
M. O. Williams
Documentary
France
French
2.5 Stars
2684
1794
Yellow Earth
1984
Kaige Chen
Bai Xue, Xueyin Wang, Tuo Tan, Quiang Liu
Drama
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
Anthony Asquith
Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Gangster
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2694
1799
Yellow Sky
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
4.5 Stars
886
650
Yellow Submarine
1968
George Dunning
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Animation / Fantasy / Music / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
3.5 Stars
1565
1090
Yentl
1983
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
UK / USA / Czechoslovakia
English
4 Stars
1427
997
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
1963
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
2.5 Stars
2743
1820
Yesterday's Enemy
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1760
Yidl Mitn Fidl
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2.5 Stars
2743
1820
Yield to the Night
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
5 Stars
384
321
Yojimbo
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
4.5 Stars
949
689
Yol
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
2.5 Stars
2794
1851
You and Me
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2794
1851
You Are Not I
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2862
1896
You Are Weighed in the Balance But Are Found Wanting
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1760
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1397
976
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1475
1029
You Only Live Once
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2260
1550
You Only Live Twice
1967
Lewis Gilbert
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2230
1531
You Were Never Lovelier
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Young and Innocent
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2799
1854
Young Bess
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2742
1819
The Young Doctors
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
Young Dr. Kildare
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
535
419
Young Frankenstein
1974
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1519
1059
The Young Girls of Rochefort
1967
Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda
Gene Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris
Musical / Comedy / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2712
1805
Young Girls of Wilko
1979
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Poland / France
Polish
3.5 Stars
1917
1328
The Young in Heart
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1412
986
The Young Lions
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
1799
Young Man with a Horn
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
568
440
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
3 Stars
2103
1450
The Young One
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
The Young Rajah
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2775
1836
Young Winston
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Your Technocracy and Mine
1933
Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1760
Your Three Minutes Are Up
1973
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2394
1645
You're a Big Boy Now
1966
Francis Ford Coppola
Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2195
1512
You're Darn Tootin'
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
You're Never Too Young
1955
Norman Taurog
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2608
1760
You're Telling Me!
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2656
1779
Yours, Mine and Ours
1968
Melville Shavelson
Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Comedy / Family / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
Youth of Chopin
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2.5 Stars
2742
1819
The Youth of Maxim
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
5 Stars
290
247
Z
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
4 Stars
1310
916
Zabriskie Point
1970
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
Zalacaín el aventurero
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2739
1818
Zapruder Film
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1791
1244
Zazie dans le métro
1960
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
3.5 Stars
1804
1253
Zelig
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
5 Stars
189
158
Zéro de conduite
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Zero Hour!
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
3 Stars
2093
1444
Ziegfeld Follies
1946
Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2790
1847
Zlaté kapradí
1963
Jirí Weiss
Josef Bek
Fantasy
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2308
1579
Zoo in Budapest
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2578
1744
Zoot Suit
1981
Luis Valdez
Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1343
941
Zorba the Greek
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
2.5 Stars
2838
1877
Zorn's Lemma
1970
Hollis Frampton
Twyla Tharp, Joyce Wieland
Experimental
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
1860
Zorro's Fighting Legion
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2636
1769
Zu : Warriors from the Magic Mountain
1983
Hark Tsui
Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Brigitte Lin, Damian Lau
Horror / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Hong Kong
Cantonese
3.5 Stars
1726
1201
Zulu
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2692
1798
Zulu Dawn
1979
Douglas Hickox
Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, John Mills, Bob Hoskins, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War
USA / South Africa / Netherlands
English
2.5 Stars
2685
1795
Zvenigora
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2742
1819
Zwei Menschen
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
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