Best Movies of 1935 by Rank
120
1
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
132
2
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
293
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
375
5
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
483
7
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
485
8
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
738
10
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
966
11
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1016
12
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Action / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1112
13
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Adventure / War
USA
English
1138
14
George Stevens
Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English
1229
15
William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
1548
16
René Clair
Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
1575
18
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1608
19
W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Drama / Musical / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1769
20
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1875
21
Jacques Feyder
Françoise Rosay, Micheline Cheirel, Lyne Clevers
Romance / War / Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France / Germany
French
1897
22
William Keighley
James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Lloyd Nolan, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2002
23
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2015
24
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper
Pre-Noir / Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2130
25
Werner Hochbaum
Thekla Ahrens, Tom Kraa, Peter Petersen, Franz Schafheitlin
Drama / Fantasy
Austria / Switzerland
German
2189
26
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2202
27
Clyde Bruckman, W.C. Fields
W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton, Vera Lewis
Comedy
USA
English
2231
28
Clarence Brown
Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2330
29
William A. Seiter
Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2339
30
Roy Del Ruth
Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, Natalie Paley, Ann Sothern, Sim Viva, Eric Blore
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2363
31
John Ford
Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Irvin S. Cobb, Eugene Pallette, John McGuire
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2415
32
John Ford
Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, Arthur Byron, Wallace Ford
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2461
33
Karl Freund
Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2480
34
Zoltan Korda
Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney, Martin Walker
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
2513
35
Mitchell Leisen
Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2540
36
Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke
Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Una Merkel
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2551
37
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Romance / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2554
38
Pierre Chenal
Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray
Drama / Crime
France
French
2605
39
Howard Hawks, William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2605
39
William Wyler
Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2605
39
A. Edward Sutherland
Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Queenie Smith
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2653
40
Busby Berkeley
Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Hugh Herbert
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2689
41
Michael Curtiz
Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, John Qualen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2689
41
Tay Garnett
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2689
41
John M. Stahl
Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness, Sara Haden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
41
Henry King
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell, Roger Imhof
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2689
41
Joseph Kane
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lucile Browne, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Norma Taylor
Western / Musical
USA
English
2689
41
Stuart Walker
Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Lawrence Grant
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2691
42
Irving Cummings
Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell, Rafaela Ottiano
Musical / Family / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2691
42
James Whale
Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers, Reginald Denny
Comedy / Mystery / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2740
43
Wesley Ruggles
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2740
43
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Edwige Feuillère, Juliette Verneuil, Vanah Yami
Adventure / Drama / Religion / Epic / Biography
France
French
2740
43
Martin Fric
Palo Bielik, Zlata Hajdúková, Andrej Bagar
Adventure / Romance / Biography
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2740
43
Aleksandr Ptushko, A. Vanichkin
K. Konstantinov, Ivan Yudin, Ivan Bobrov, F. Brest
Animation / Fantasy / Adventure / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2740
43
Fridrikh Ermler
Yelena Yunger, Boris Poslavsky, A. Petrov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2740
43
David Hand
Billy Bletcher
Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Short / Mystery
USA
English
2740
43
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2771
44
Carmine Gallone
Mártha Eggerth, Phillips Holmes, Donald Calthrop
Biography / Drama / Musical
Italy
Italian
2788
45
Walter Reisch
Paula Wessely, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Otto Tressler, Friedl Czepa
Romance / Comedy
Austria
German
2788
45
Marcel L'Herbier
Annabella, Victor Francen, Gabriel Signoret, Pierre Renoir
Drama / War
France
French
2788
45
King Vidor
Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson, Esther Dale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2792
46
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shagaida, Sergei Stolyarov, Yevgeniya Melnikova
Sci-Fi / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2807
47
Roy Mack
Adelaide Hall, The Nicholas Brothers, The 3 Whippets, The Five Racketeers
Short / Music
USA
English
2807
47
James W. Horne
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, William Janney, Anne Grey, Vernon Steele
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2807
47
Ben Sharpsteen
Tommy Bupp
Family / Comedy / Animation / Musical / Short
USA
English
2807
47
William A. Wellman
Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen, Frank Conroy
Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2807
47
Louis King
Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Jameson Thomas
Mystery / Horror / Detective / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2807
47
Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Erik Rhodes
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2807
47
James Tinling
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke
Mystery / Action / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
47
Cecil B. DeMille
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Action / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2807
47
David Butler
Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway, Andrew Tombes
Comedy
USA
English
2807
47
Victor Fleming
Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Jane Withers, Charles Bickford
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2807
47
Edward Buzzell
Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian, Ray Walker
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
47
Howard Bretherton
William Boyd, James Ellison, Paula Stone, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Kenneth Thomson
Western
USA
English
2807
47
George Marshall
Will Rogers, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Charles Sellon, Louise Henry
Comedy
USA
English
2807
47
George Marshall
Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2807
47
Milton Rosmer
Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2807
47
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2807
47
Friz Freleng
Tommy Bond, The Debutantes
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Music
USA
English
2807
47
Erle C. Kenton
Jean Arthur, George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, Robert Middlemass
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2807
47
Lew Landers
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds
Horror / Crime
USA
English
2807
47
Ray Taylor
Buck Jones, Silver, Muriel Evans, Frank McGlynn Sr., Walter Miller, Eole Galli
Action / Adventure / Music / Western / Serial
USA
English
2807
47
Ray Taylor
Clark Williams, Noah Berry Jr., Jean Rogers, Delphine Drew, Bryant Washburn
Adventure / Action / Drama / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2807
47
Jack Jevne, William H. Terhune
Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Grace Goodall, Fuzzy Knight, Ferdinand Munier
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2837
48
David Butler
Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Family / Drama
USA
English
2860
50
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
