Best Classic Movies 50+ Years Old by Title
2809
1615
1960
Tian-Lin Wang
Grace Chang, Yang Chang, Po-Chien Chin, Chi Hsieh, Ta Lei, Enjia Liu, Li Ma
Musical / Romance
Hong Kong
Mandarin
2556
1500
1921
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
1562
1919
Edward LeSaint
Tom Mix, Colleen Moore, Frank Clark, Lule Warrenton, Sid Jordan, Pat Chrisman
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2049
1224
1968
Tom Gries
Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern
Western / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1743
1034
1957
Frank Tashlin
Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Betsy Drake
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1562
1971
Daniel Mann
Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante
Horror
USA
English
1314
775
1971
Mel Stuart
Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole
Family / Musical / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure / Cult
USA
English
1448
856
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
618
401
1950
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Western
USA
English
2794
1607
1958
Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg
Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden, Gypsy Rose Lee
Drama
USA
English
2581
1514
1958
Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III
Yngvar Kjelstrup, Niels Arntsen, Nils Hermansen
Documentary
USA
English
2743
1581
1957
Ronald Neame
Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry, Robert Flemyng, Michael Hordern
Drama
UK
English
2186
1295
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2841
1633
1959
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
1521
902
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2784
1601
1966
Larisa Shepitko
Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2745
1583
1957
John Ford
John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis
Drama / Biography / War
USA
English
2692
1562
1937
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2692
1562
1939
Lloyd Bacon
George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2004
1189
1926
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe
Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1952
Lewis Seiler
Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican
Biography / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
1920
1137
1948
Anthony Asquith
Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton
Drama
UK
English
1214
729
1962
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Drama / Religion
Sweden
Swedish
2600
1520
1972
unknown
Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell, Scott Camil
Documentary / War
USA
English
2382
1416
1936
Alfred Santell
Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch
Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2585
1516
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1651
983
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
2862
1645
1962
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
2263
1338
1952
Walter Lang
Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2811
1616
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2758
1589
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2758
1589
1938
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herbert Kline
Documentary / War
USA
English
1834
1089
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1945
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
1562
1948
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
927
573
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
40
31
1939
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
1351
797
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2790
1604
1957
Jirí Weiss
Jana Brejchová, Jirina Sejbalová, Miroslav Dolezal
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2692
1562
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
1562
1934
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2775
1594
1957
J. Lee Thompson
Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Andrew Ray
Drama
UK
English
405
285
1964
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
1110
668
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2323
1374
1961
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Karyn Balm, Henri Attal
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
Italy / France
French
2692
1562
1928
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2139
1267
1923
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
645
416
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2794
1607
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2809
1615
1950
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2809
1615
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
1562
1923
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2608
1527
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
490
335
1939
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
766
487
1969
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2323
1374
1945
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2805
1613
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2791
1605
1962
Henry Levin, George Pal
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak
Fantasy / Musical / Family
USA
English
469
322
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2809
1615
1952
Walter Lantz, various
Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2781
1599
1971
Elio Petri
Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato
Drama
Italy
Italian
1439
851
1964
George Roy Hill
Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Comedy / Music / Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1956
Edward Bernds
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson
Sci-Fi
USA
English
2692
1562
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
743
470
1971
Dusan Makavejev
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
Yugoslavia / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2809
1615
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2230
1319
1966
Bryan Forbes
Jeremy Lloyd, John Mills, Michael Caine, James Villiers, Peter Sellers
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1012
614
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold Stone
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
USA
English
355
259
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2694
1563
1954
Luis Buñuel
Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2691
1561
1963
Roger Corman
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2791
1605
1972
Brian G. Hutton
Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2514
1478
1974
Sydney Pollack
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA / Japan
English
2692
1562
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2692
1562
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2809
1615
1952
Frederick De Cordova
Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews
Adventure
USA
English
324
238
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2302
1359
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
1334
788
1946
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
2775
1594
1957
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2692
1562
1964
Anthony Asquith
Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Gangster
UK
English
2694
1563
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
886
552
1968
George Dunning
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Animation / Fantasy / Music / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1427
843
1963
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
2743
1581
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
2608
1527
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2743
1581
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
384
277
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2794
1607
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2862
1645
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
2608
1527
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1397
825
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2809
1615
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1475
873
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2260
1336
1967
Lewis Gilbert
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2230
1319
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
1615
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2799
1610
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2742
1580
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
535
359
1974
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
1519
900
1967
Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda
Gene Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris
Musical / Comedy / Romance
France
French
1917
1135
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1412
834
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2694
1563
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
568
376
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2103
1247
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2809
1615
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2775
1594
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2608
1527
1973
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2394
1421
1966
Francis Ford Coppola
Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2195
1301
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2809
1615
1955
Norman Taurog
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2608
1527
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2656
1545
1968
Melville Shavelson
Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Comedy / Family / Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2742
1580
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
290
216
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
1310
772
1970
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Drama
USA
English
2692
1562
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2739
1579
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
1791
1063
1960
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
189
139
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2809
1615
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2093
1242
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
2308
1362
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
1343
792
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
2809
1615
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
1726
1022
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2685
1560
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2742
1580
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
