Best Classic Movies 70+ Years Old by Director
2692
903
1928
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2692
903
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
1096
343
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2514
843
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
38
11
1950
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
53
18
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
449
162
1951
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
1081
337
1953
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
1233
395
1954
Billy Wilder
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1308
414
1942
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1330
422
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1808
586
1948
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
903
1919
Irvin Willat
Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips, Tully Marshall
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
938
1919
Irvin Willat
Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, James Gordon, Richard Wayne
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2758
920
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2809
938
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2809
938
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2343
786
1951
Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
604
206
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
957
307
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
1225
391
1954
Robert Wise
William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March
Drama
USA
English
1618
523
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2079
690
1944
Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Julia Dean
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2692
903
1919
Chester Withey
Norma Talmadge, Pedro de Cordoba, Charles K. Gerrard, Stuart Holmes, Marc McDermott
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2758
920
1916
Marion Wong
Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marion Wong, Chin Shee
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2600
878
1953
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Drama / Cult
USA
English
375
142
1935
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
914
295
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1121
355
1943
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
1179
373
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1490
476
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1525
490
1937
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2413
817
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2429
821
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2608
884
1933
Sam Wood
Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Beulah Bondi, Russell Hardie
Comedy
USA
English
2608
884
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
937
1945
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2809
938
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
938
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
938
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1991
656
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2514
843
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2604
881
1919
William Worthington
Sessue Hayakawa, Toyo Fujita, Edward Peil Sr., Tsuru Aoki
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
938
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
100
38
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
355
132
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
366
139
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
492
178
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
881
287
1937
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
1061
331
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1113
352
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
1718
552
1936
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
1827
591
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
2051
683
1952
William Wyler
Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2082
691
1933
William Wyler
John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2608
884
1935
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2608
884
1929
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2758
920
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2809
938
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
903
1937
Sadao Yamanaka
Tsuruzo Nakamura, Emitaro Ichikawa, Shizue Yamagishi, Choemon Bando
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2862
952
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2862
952
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2692
903
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2809
938
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2809
938
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2809
938
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2608
884
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2692
903
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2758
920
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1378
439
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
2742
914
1931
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2802
934
1953
Sergei Yutkevich
Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali, Semyon Sokolovsky
Drama
Albania / Soviet Union
Albanian
2540
853
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2790
928
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2692
903
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2862
952
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
108
42
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
249
96
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
843
275
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
1088
342
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
2366
800
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2514
843
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2692
903
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2790
928
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
