Best Classic Movies 60+ Years Old by Rank
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1
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
2
2
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Film-Noir
USA
English
4
3
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
6
4
Jean Renoir
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette, Tony Corteggiani
Comedy / Drama
France
French
7
5
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
8
6
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
9
7
Federico Fellini
Anouk Aimée, Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Agostini, Guido Alberti
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
10
8
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
11
9
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
12
10
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
13
11
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama
France
French
14
12
John Ford
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood
Western / Drama / Epic
USA
English
15
13
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
16
14
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
18
15
Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
20
16
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
23
17
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
24
18
Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien
Comedy / Romance / Music / Family
USA
English
25
19
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
30
20
David Lean
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif
Adventure / War / Drama / Epic
UK
English
32
21
Michelangelo Antonioni
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
37
22
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
40
23
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
41
24
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
42
25
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
Comedy / War / Drama / Cult
UK
English
44
26
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Drama
USA
English
45
27
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
46
28
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint
Crime / Romance / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
48
29
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee
Drama
India
Bengali
49
30
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
50
31
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / War / Romance / Epic
USA
English
52
32
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
Drama / War / Adventure / Comedy
France
French
53
33
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
57
34
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
61
35
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
62
36
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
63
37
F.W. Murnau
Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Horror / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
64
38
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
65
39
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Adventure / Thriller / Mystery / Spy / Romance / Family
USA
English
67
40
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
68
41
Jean Vigo
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
71
42
Gillo Pontecorvo
Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti
Drama / War
Algeria / Italy
French
72
43
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
74
44
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
75
45
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
78
46
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
79
47
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
80
48
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
83
49
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
84
50
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
86
51
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
88
52
David Lean
William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
89
53
Howard Hawks
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Family / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
91
54
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
92
55
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
93
56
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
94
57
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
95
58
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
96
59
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
98
60
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
100
61
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Musical / Romance / Drama / Family
USA
English
101
62
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
103
63
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
104
64
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
106
65
Jean-Luc Godard
Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Drama
France / Italy
French
111
66
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
113
68
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Drama
USA
English
114
69
Satyajit Ray
Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Drama
India
Bengali
116
70
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
117
71
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
118
72
Robert Bresson
Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, André Guibert, Rachel Bérendt
Drama / Religion
France
French
118
72
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
119
73
Federico Fellini
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
120
74
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
122
75
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
123
76
John Frankenheimer
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
125
77
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
126
78
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
128
79
Richard Lester
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Comedy / Musical / Family / Cult
UK
English
134
80
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano
Drama / Religion / Comedy
Mexico / Spain
Spanish
136
81
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
140
82
George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Drama
USA
English
141
83
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Drama / Religion
France / Italy
Italian
143
84
Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
146
85
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
147
86
Luis Buñuel
Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Short / Fantasy / Experimental / Cult
France
French (Silent)
151
87
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
152
88
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English (Silent)
154
89
Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
155
90
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English
156
91
Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Experimental
France / Italy
French
157
92
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
159
93
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault
Comedy
France
French
160
94
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
162
95
René Clément
Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Drama / War
France
French
164
96
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
Action / Western / Drama / Epic
Italy / Spain
English
167
98
Ingmar Bergman
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
168
99
Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
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170
100
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
172
102
Nicholas Ray
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen
Drama / Cult
USA
English
174
103
Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
177
105
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee
Drama / Comedy / Family
USA
English
181
106
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
185
108
Jirí Menzel
Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
Comedy / Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
186
109
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
189
110
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
192
112
Luis Buñuel
Alfonso Mejía, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Drama / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
193
113
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite
Comedy / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
194
114
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
197
115
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
200
116
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
201
117
D.W. Griffith
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis
Drama / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
205
118
Vincente Minnelli
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Musical / Romance
USA
English
207
120
Max Ophüls
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
210
121
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
212
122
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
214
123
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
215
124
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
216
125
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
217
126
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
218
127
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
219
128
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Experimental
France
French
220
129
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
221
130
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
222
131
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
226
132
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
227
133
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
228
134
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
230
135
Tony Richardson
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
231
136
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
Drama / Musical / Romance
France / West Germany
French
232
137
Roman Polanski
Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Thriller / Horror / Drama
UK
English
234
138
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
235
139
Robert Bresson
Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
Drama
France / Sweden
French
237
140
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
238
141
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
242
142
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
244
143
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
247
145
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
250
146
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
251
147
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
252
148
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
253
149
Lewis Milestone
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
254
150
Alain Resnais
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
Drama / Romance / War
France / Japan
French
258
151
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
262
152
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Adventure / Romance / War / Comedy
UK / USA
English
263
153
Robert Mulligan
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Drama / Family
USA
English
265
154
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
267
155
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
268
156
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
269
157
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
271
158
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
272
159
René Clair
Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly
Comedy / Musical
France
French
274
161
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
275
162
Howard Hawks
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
Western / Romance / Drama
USA
English
276
163
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
279
164
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
280
165
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
281
166
Milos Forman
Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
282
167
Lloyd Bacon
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee
Musical / Romance / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
284
169
Roman Polanski
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
Drama / Thriller
Poland
Polish
285
170
Vincente Minnelli
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
286
171
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
289
172
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Drama / Crime / Experimental / Romance
France / Italy
French
292
173
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
294
174
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
299
175
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
300
176
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
302
177
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph
Comedy / Crime / Family
USA
English
303
178
Vittorio De Sica
Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea
Drama
Italy
Italian
307
180
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
309
181
Nicholas Ray
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
311
182
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
312
183
Nicholas Ray
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Western / Cult
USA
English
315
184
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
316
185
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
318
186
Robert Bresson
Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Crime / Drama
France
French
319
187
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
320
188
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
329
191
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
330
192
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
331
193
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
332
194
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
336
195
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
339
196
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
340
197
David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright
Hardie Albright, Donnie Dunagan, Bobby Stewart, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander
Animation / Family / Drama / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
343
199
Frank Lloyd
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
346
200
Charles Crichton
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
354
201
Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Drama / Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
356
202
James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Corey Burton, Walt Disney
Family / Animation / Fantasy / Musical / Cult
USA
English
358
203
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
359
204
Robert Aldrich
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
360
205
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
363
206
René Clair
Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Musical / Comedy
France
French
364
207
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
365
208
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
368
209
Robert Bresson
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Adventure / Drama / War
France
French
370
210
George Cukor
Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan
Drama / Musical
USA
English
371
211
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
378
213
Vincente Minnelli
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Family / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
379
214
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
381
215
Stanley Donen
Jane Powell, Howard Keel
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
382
216
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
385
217
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
386
218
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
386
218
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
387
219
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
388
220
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
390
221
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
393
223
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe
Drama
Denmark
Danish
394
224
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
395
225
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
398
226
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
399
227
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell
Drama / Western / Action
USA
English
399
227
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy
Italy / France
French
402
229
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
405
230
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
408
232
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
410
233
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
411
234
Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe
Drama
France
French
419
236
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
424
238
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Comedy
France
French
425
239
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
430
240
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
435
242
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
436
243
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
439
244
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
440
245
Stanley Kramer
Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
Drama / Action / Crime
USA
English
446
246
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Drama
France
French
447
247
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
451
248
Vincente Minnelli
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
453
250
Jean Renoir
Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France / Italy
English
455
251
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
458
252
Kon Ichikawa
Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
460
253
Agnès Varda
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Drama
France / Italy
French
461
254
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
465
255
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
467
257
Mervyn LeRoy
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama
USA
English
474
259
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
476
260
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
480
261
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
484
263
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
486
264
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
487
265
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko
Horror
France / Germany
German
489
266
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
491
267
Michelangelo Antonioni
Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
492
268
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
496
270
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
497
271
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina
Drama
Italy
Italian
503
272
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
504
273
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
508
274
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
512
275
Norman Z. McLeod
W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp
Comedy / Family
USA
English
517
276
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Film-Noir / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
523
277
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
526
278
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
529
279
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
531
280
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
532
281
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
534
282
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
538
283
Jacques Demy
Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
540
284
Samuel Fuller
Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Drama / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
540
284
Robert Aldrich
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
541
285
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
544
286
George Cukor
Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
545
287
Sergei Parajanov
Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Ukrainian
546
288
Elia Kazan
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
Drama
USA
English
554
290
Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
557
291
Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair
Romance / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
560
292
F.W. Murnau
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
564
293
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller
Drama / Comedy / Romance
UK
English
565
294
Leo McCarey
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall
Drama
USA
English
567
295
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
Affiliate Link
570
297
Jean-Pierre Melville
Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy, Howard Vernon, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir / Detective
France
French
572
298
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
574
299
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
576
300
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
577
301
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
579
302
Mikhail Kalatozov
Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
584
303
Lowell Sherman
Mae West, Cary Grant
Comedy / Western / Crime
USA
English
588
304
Stanley Kubrick
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Gary Cockrell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / UK
English
601
305
Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Drama / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
602
306
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
603
307
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
605
308
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
607
309
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
610
310
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
613
311
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
614
312
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
615
313
George Marshall
Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
Western / Comedy
USA
English
617
314
Victor Fleming, Sidney Franklin, Gustav Machatý
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer
Drama / Epic
USA
English
618
315
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
623
316
Anatole Litvak
Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Drama
USA
English
624
317
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud
Comedy / Drama / War
Spain / Switzerland
English
625
318
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Comedy / War
USA
English
626
319
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis
Drama / Pre-Noir / Crime
USA
English
628
321
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
Drama
France / Sweden
French
632
323
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
633
324
William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
635
326
Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
637
327
Blake Edwards
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
640
328
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
643
329
Tony Richardson
Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah
Drama
UK
English
645
331
Arthur Penn
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Drama / Biography / Family
USA
English
646
332
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
649
333
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
653
334
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
660
336
Jean Renoir
Nora Swinburne, Patricia Walters, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee
Drama / Romance
France / India / USA
English
666
337
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
668
338
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
670
339
Richard Brooks
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Drama
USA
English
670
339
Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Horror / Thriller
France / Italy
French
671
340
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Western
USA
English
673
341
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
678
343
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
684
344
Jack Cardiff
Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller
Drama
UK
English
687
345
Lindsay Anderson
Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell
Drama / Sports
UK
English
688
346
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
691
348
Rouben Mamoulian
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
693
349
Roy Ward Baker
Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman
Action / Drama
UK
English
697
350
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger
Drama / War
USA
English
699
351
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
702
352
Leo McCarey
Charles Laughton, Mary Boland
Comedy / Western
USA
English
703
353
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
707
354
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Drama / Cult
UK
English
711
355
John Schlesinger
Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
711
355
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
714
357
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
722
359
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
723
360
Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn
Crime / Drama / Romance
France
French
724
361
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
725
362
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
727
363
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
732
364
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
736
365
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
739
367
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
740
368
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
743
369
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
744
370
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
746
371
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
753
372
László Benedek
Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell
Drama
USA
English
754
373
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
757
374
Stanley Kubrick
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
761
375
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
762
376
Otto Preminger
Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
762
376
George Cukor
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
766
377
Jack Clayton
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Horror / Thriller
UK
English
767
378
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
769
379
Michael Anderson
David Niven, Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Noel Coward
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
770
380
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
771
381
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
773
382
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
777
383
Marcel Camus
Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Marcel Camus, Fausto Guerzoni, Lourdes de Oliveira
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
Brazil / France / Italy
Portuguese
779
384
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
780
385
Douglas Sirk
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
783
386
Morton DaCosta
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Musical / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English
787
388
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
788
389
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
796
390
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer
Drama / Music
USA
English
797
391
David Lean
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin
Romance / Drama
UK / USA
English
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799
392
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
802
393
John Cromwell, George Cukor, W.S. Van Dyke
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
804
394
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
808
396
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
810
397
Sam Peckinpah
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
812
398
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
813
399
Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková
Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Slovak
814
400
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
820
401
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
821
402
Chris Marker
Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Sci-Fi / Short / Experimental / Romance / Fantasy
France
French
824
403
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalia Ray
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
825
404
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
828
405
Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Drama / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
831
406
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Religion / War
USA
English
832
407
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
833
408
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens
Western
USA
English
834
409
Vera Chytilová
Jitka Cerhova, Ivana Karbanova, Julius Albert
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Czechoslovakia
Czech
835
410
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
838
411
John Huston
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Drama / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
841
412
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
842
413
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
844
414
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
847
415
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
848
416
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Vattier, Robert Bassac
Comedy / Drama
France
French
851
417
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
856
418
Henry Cornelius
Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall
Comedy / Adventure
UK
English
858
419
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
860
420
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
865
421
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
867
422
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
868
423
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck
John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger
Action / Drama / War / Epic / Family
USA
English
870
424
Basil Dearden
Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls
Crime / Drama
UK
English
871
425
Jules Dassin
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
874
426
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Family
UK
English
884
427
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Japan
Japanese
884
427
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
886
428
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William, Joan Blondell
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
887
429
Abel Gance
Severin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier
Drama
France
French (Silent)
888
430
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser
Drama / War
UK
English
889
431
Walter Lang
Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner
Musical / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Romance / Drama
USA
English
890
432
Masaki Kobayashi
Rentarô Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Kenjirô Ishiyama
Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
891
433
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
894
434
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata, Yataro Kurokawa
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
896
435
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
899
436
Fred M. Wilcox
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Cult
USA
English
900
437
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
903
438
Robert Z. Leonard
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
906
439
Sidney J. Furie
Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
906
439
W.S. Van Dyke
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English
907
440
Sidney Lumet
Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez
Drama
USA
English
910
441
John Boulting
Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Comedy
UK
English
916
442
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
917
443
Max Ophüls
Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Drama / Comedy
France
French
920
444
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
925
445
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
926
446
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster / Pre-Noir
France
French
927
447
Richard Lester
Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks II, Michael Crawford
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
929
448
Jean-Luc Godard
Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance / Thriller
France / Italy
French
933
449
Blake Edwards
Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman
Romance / Drama
USA
English
936
450
Mitchell Leisen
Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
937
451
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA / Italy
English
938
452
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
939
453
Howard Hawks
Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
944
455
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
945
456
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
948
457
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
948
457
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
953
458
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
956
459
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Romance
USA
English
956
459
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
959
460
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
960
461
Sidney Lumet
Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Drama
USA
English
961
462
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
966
463
James W. Horne
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Comedy / Western / Family
USA
English
967
464
Daniel Mann
Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
970
465
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
970
465
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
971
466
Elia Kazan
Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
975
467
Pietro Germi
Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca
Comedy
Italy
Italian
976
468
Howard Hawks
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
980
469
William A. Seiter
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy / Family / Cult
USA
English
982
470
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
988
472
Joshua Logan
Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miiko Taka
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
990
473
Joshua Logan
Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
994
475
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Drama / Biography
USA
English
995
476
Karel Reisz
David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
996
477
Claude Lelouch
Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
France
French
1002
478
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
1009
479
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1010
480
John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Thriller / War / Action / Adventure
USA / France / Italy
English
1011
481
Edmund Goulding
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1015
482
Frank Borzage
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan
Drama
USA
English
1016
483
Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1017
484
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
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