Best Movies of 1940s by Director
2296
276
1948
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1949
Vincente Minnelli
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2338
285
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2401
300
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2862
363
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2790
350
1948
Gustaf Molander
Birger Malmsten, Eva Stiberg, Eva Dahlbeck, Åke Claesson
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2514
309
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2608
330
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2809
359
1941
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2095
252
1946
Jean Negulesco
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2226
267
1944
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2608
330
1946
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2608
330
1944
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2692
336
1943
Roy William Neill
Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2809
359
1945
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
359
1947
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2492
307
1944
Edgar Neville
Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín
Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2692
336
1945
Sam Newfield
Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2608
330
1946
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
1962
238
1942
Elliott Nugent
Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2323
282
1947
Elliott Nugent
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Charles Dingle
Comedy / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2694
337
1944
Elliott Nugent
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2349
289
1944
Clifford Odets
Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez
Drama
USA
English
292
37
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
623
72
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
383
51
1948
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
1316
153
1949
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2125
256
1949
Max Ophüls, John Berry
James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois, Ruth Brady
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
498
60
1949
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2794
353
1941
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2794
353
1948
Yasujiro Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishu Ryu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2483
306
1948
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog
Drama / Period Film
Austria
German
2124
255
1940
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Georges Grey
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2758
345
1946
George Pal
Rex Ingram
Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
1047
116
1941
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
2323
282
1946
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2809
359
1943
Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter
Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Documentary / Animation / War
USA
English
2608
330
1949
Anthony Pelissier
Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills, Hugh Sinclair
Drama
UK
English
2692
336
1949
Anthony Pelissier
John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2243
270
1942
Irving Pichel
Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter
Drama / War
USA
English
2608
330
1945
Irving Pichel
Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2608
330
1947
Irving Pichel
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2742
341
1943
Irving Pichel
Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
466
56
1948
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
1693
205
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1946
235
1948
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett
Comedy
USA
English
2230
268
1947
H.C. Potter
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1943
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
170
17
1948
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
208
25
1946
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
328
40
1943
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
473
57
1947
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
586
67
1945
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
1158
131
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1737
207
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1960
237
1942
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Drama / War
UK
English
1984
241
1944
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet
Drama / Mystery / War / Comedy
UK
English
2608
330
1940
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell
Adventure / Romance / Spy
UK
English
280
35
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2556
319
1947
Otto Preminger
Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2685
335
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2826
362
1945
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
1680
203
1941
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2124
255
1947
Irving Rapper
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
2429
302
1945
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
847
100
1949
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
75
7
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
364
47
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
691
81
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
1657
200
1944
Carol Reed
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
War / Drama
UK
English
1943
233
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2011
246
1941
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2692
336
1947
Irving Reis
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
1292
150
1945
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
2251
271
1946
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2748
343
1943
Jean Renoir
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Drama / War
USA
English
2794
353
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2482
305
1947
Hans Richter, Man Ray
Max Ernst, Louis Applebaum, Ethel Beseda, Jack Bittner
Experimental
USA
English
2556
319
1946
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1218
140
1943
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
1421
168
1949
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2514
309
1946
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2583
325
1949
Mark Robson
Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Mark Robson
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2809
359
1945
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
90
9
1945
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
1784
213
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
1887
226
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Sylvia Bataille, Lia Corelli, Federico Fellini, Gabrielle Fontan
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
1213
138
1947
Robert Rossen
John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2234
269
1945
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
2143
258
1943
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2230
268
1942
Mark Sandrich
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2608
330
1941
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Joseph Santley
Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Veloz
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Joseph Santley
Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller
Western / Musical
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Victor Saville
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman
Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2792
352
1946
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn, Judith Barrett
Comedy / Musical / Adventure
USA
English
2742
341
1941
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley
Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
2608
330
1949
Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Raymond Bond, Daniel Haight
Family / Drama
USA
English
2694
337
1943
Harold D. Schuster
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale, Jeff Corey
Western / Family / Drama
USA
English
838
98
1947
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1948
George Seaton
Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Griff Barnett
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
1989
242
1943
Lewis Seiler
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1948
Lewis Seiler
Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2230
268
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2732
340
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
2809
359
1943
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell
Drama / War
UK
English
354
44
1941
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
2809
359
1948
George Sherman
Donald O'Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Penny Edwards, Joe Besser
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
1583
193
1944
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1899
228
1949
Vincent Sherman
Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Drama / War
UK
English
2251
271
1943
Vincent Sherman
Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Drama
USA
English
2514
309
1948
Vincent Sherman
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent
Adventure / Romance / Action
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed
Drama
USA
English
1122
127
1943
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
1547
191
1948
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2164
260
1945
George Sidney
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2514
309
1946
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
390
52
1946
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
901
104
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
1505
184
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2556
319
1949
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Drama
USA
English
2556
319
1945
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1944
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2694
337
1946
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Robert Siodmak
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jr., Edgar Barrier, Mary Nash
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1947
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1458
177
1944
Alf Sjöberg
Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1789
214
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2742
341
1943
John M. Stahl, Lumsden Hare
Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor
Comedy
USA
English
2795
354
1944
John M. Stahl
Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Roddy McDowall
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2230
268
1946
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2773
346
1941
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
2558
321
1948
Robert A. Stemmle
Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Comedy
Germany
German
645
76
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
1106
124
1943
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1127
128
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1399
164
1948
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Drama / Family
USA
English
2095
252
1941
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2758
345
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Robert Stevens
Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Ray Walston
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1951
236
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2608
330
1942
Robert Stevenson
Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson
Drama / War
USA
English
2608
330
1948
Robert Stevenson
Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2694
337
1941
Robert Stevenson
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1805
215
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2862
363
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
114
15
1941
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
151
16
1941
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
368
49
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
565
65
1944
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
706
84
1944
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
999
111
1940
Preston Sturges
Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest
Comedy
USA
English
1413
167
1948
Preston Sturges
Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy
USA
English
1968
239
1940
Preston Sturges
Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Preston Sturges
Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Porter Hall
Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2692
336
1940
A. Edward Sutherland
Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
1082
120
1949
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
2794
353
1947
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Short / Comedy
France
French
2234
269
1943
Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2556
319
1940
Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter
Musical / Drama
USA
English
2186
264
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Richard Thorpe
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Helen Vinson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Family / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
200
22
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
590
68
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
760
91
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2669
333
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
1506
185
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2773
346
1940
Gustav Ucicky
Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt
Drama / Romance
Germany / Austria
German
2758
345
1944
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2758
345
1946
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2809
359
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2809
359
1942
unknown
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, John McLeish
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
2608
330
1940
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2742
341
1942
W.S. Van Dyke
Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Drama / War
USA
English
NR
-
1941
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2742
341
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2692
336
1946
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
657
78
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
1854
223
1944
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2803
357
1945
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1389
163
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
1990
243
1946
King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Western / Drama / Epic / Romance
USA
English
2554
318
1949
King Vidor
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith
Drama
USA
English
2556
319
1944
King Vidor
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally
Drama
USA
English
2608
330
1941
King Vidor
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
602
69
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
765
93
1948
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
2692
336
1949
Josef von Báky
Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens, William Sinnigen
Drama
West Germany
German
2692
336
1943
Josef von Báky
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Michael Bohnen, Ferdinand Marian
Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Germany
German
2809
359
1946
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2809
359
1948
Bernard Vorhaus
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1351
158
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2692
336
1946
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2608
330
1943
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
272
34
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
934
106
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1500
181
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1749
209
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1899
228
1945
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
2554
318
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2556
319
1949
Raoul Walsh
Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2748
343
1941
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2794
353
1947
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Bruce Bennett, Martha Vickers
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster / Music
USA
English
2230
268
1948
Charles Walters
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1865
224
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2692
336
1944
Helmut Weiss
Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto, Paul Henckels
Comedy
Germany
German
1
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
239
31
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
812
97
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1389
163
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1948
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
359
45
1943
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
1285
148
1945
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1971
240
1949
William A. Wellman
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Action / War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
2694
337
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2516
311
1948
Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2799
355
1949
Alfred L. Werker
Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Richard Hylton, Susan Douglas Rubes
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Alfred L. Werker, Ford Beebe, Jasper Blystone, Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Erwin L. Verity
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister
Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2809
359
1947
Alfred L. Werker
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart
Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Jules White
Andy Clyde, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Lynton Brent, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
1469
178
1943
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Fred M. Wilcox
Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
53
4
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1308
152
1942
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1330
155
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1808
216
1948
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2758
345
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
957
108
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
1618
196
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2079
250
1944
Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Julia Dean
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
914
105
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1121
126
1943
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
1179
132
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1490
180
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2413
301
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2429
302
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2608
330
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
358
1945
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
100
12
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
492
59
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1061
117
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1827
219
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
2758
345
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2692
336
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2540
315
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2790
350
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2862
363
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
1088
121
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
2366
294
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
