Best Classic Movies 50+ Years Old by Director
2652
1541
1970
Paul Williams
Jon Voight, Jennifer Salt, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall
Drama / War
USA
English
2758
1589
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2809
1615
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2343
1388
1951
Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2229
1318
1967
Michael Winner
Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2692
1562
1974
Michael Winner
Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2791
1605
1967
Michael Winner
Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2712
1569
1958
Franz Peter Wirth
O.W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver, Ellen Schwiers, Jan Hendriks
Comedy / Romance / War
West Germany
German
197
146
1965
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
604
393
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
957
590
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
979
602
1963
Robert Wise
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1159
694
1958
Robert Wise
Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Crime / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1225
735
1954
Robert Wise
William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March
Drama
USA
English
1618
961
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1663
990
1966
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
1796
1065
1956
Robert Wise
Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2079
1237
1944
Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Julia Dean
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2173
1285
1959
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Film-Noir
USA
English
2692
1562
1971
Robert Wise
Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2692
1562
1968
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Biography / Musical / Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1962
Robert Wise
Robert Mitchum, Shirley MacLaine, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Eddie Firestone
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2839
1631
1958
Robert Wise
Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter
War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2758
1589
1970
Frederick Wiseman
Eugene Friedman M.D., Stanley Friedman M.D., Robert Schwartz M.D.
Documentary
USA
English
2692
1562
1919
Chester Withey
Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles K. Gerrard, Stuart Holmes, Marc McDermott
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2802
1611
1959
Konrad Wolf
Sasha Krusharska, Jürgen Frohriep, Erik S. Klein
War / Drama / Romance
East Germany / Bulgaria
Bulgarian
2758
1589
1916
Marion Wong
Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2600
1520
1953
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Drama / Cult
USA
English
2710
1567
1959
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Cult
USA
English
375
272
1935
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
914
568
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1121
675
1943
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
1179
704
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1490
885
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1525
904
1937
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2413
1432
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2429
1440
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2608
1527
1933
Sam Wood
Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi, Russell Hardie
Comedy
USA
English
2608
1527
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
1614
1945
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2809
1615
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1991
1181
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2514
1478
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2604
1524
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2742
1580
1970
Caspar Wrede
Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Drama
UK / Norway
English
100
74
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
234
174
1959
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
355
259
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
366
267
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
492
337
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
829
520
1956
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Religion / War
USA
English
881
547
1937
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
1005
611
1968
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
1061
639
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1113
670
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
1463
864
1958
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives
Drama / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
1718
1019
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
1827
1083
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
1899
1128
1955
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2051
1225
1952
William Wyler
Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2082
1239
1933
William Wyler
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2282
1346
1965
William Wyler
Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Drama / Horror / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2499
1470
1961
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter
Drama
USA
English
2531
1486
1966
William Wyler
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2608
1527
1935
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2608
1527
1929
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2758
1589
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2809
1615
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
1562
1937
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2862
1645
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2862
1645
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2692
1562
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2809
1615
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2809
1615
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2809
1615
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
650
420
1968
Peter Yates
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2002
1187
1972
Peter Yates
Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel, Moses Gunn
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2222
1314
1973
Peter Yates
Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2692
1562
1958
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr.
Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Alden 'Stephen' Chase
Horror / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2302
1359
1967
Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov
Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksei Glazyrin, Vadim Zakharchenko
Horror
Soviet Union
Russian
2692
1562
1963
Bud Yorkin
Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John, Tony Bill
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1562
1970
Bud Yorkin
Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw
Comedy
USA
English
2803
1612
1967
Bud Yorkin
Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons, Van Johnson
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1968
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Comedy / Crime / Detective
UK
English
2608
1527
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2692
1562
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2758
1589
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1378
814
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1317
778
1962
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1348
795
1963
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2319
1371
1965
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2531
1486
1967
Terence Young
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston
Thriller / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2791
1605
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2549
1494
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2549
1494
1970
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Jay Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2549
1494
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2549
1494
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2549
1494
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2608
1527
1965
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anita Garvin, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2692
1562
1955
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2742
1580
1931
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2802
1611
1953
Sergei Yutkevich
Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali, Semyon Sokolovsky
Drama
Albania / Soviet Union
Albanian
2540
1490
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2790
1604
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2739
1579
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
689
442
1968
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
1787
1059
1967
Franco Zeffirelli
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / USA
English
2692
1562
1972
Franco Zeffirelli
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2742
1580
1965
Franco Zeffirelli
Mirella Freni, Adriana Martino, Gianni Raimondi, Rolando Panerai
Musical / Drama
West Germany
Italian
2790
1604
1966
Mai Zetterling
Ingrid Thulin, Keve Hjelm, Jörgen Lindström, Lena Brundin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2862
1645
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2692
1562
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2862
1645
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
108
82
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
249
188
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
374
271
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
747
473
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
843
529
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
1088
655
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
1092
656
1960
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
1474
872
1957
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
1777
1052
1955
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
2366
1406
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2514
1478
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2790
1604
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2748
1584
1962
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2124
1259
1961
Valerio Zurlini
Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
2773
1592
1962
Valerio Zurlini
Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone, Sylvie
Drama
France / Italy
French
