Best Movies of 1940s by Title
1337
157
1948
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2354
290
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2692
336
1942
John Huston, Vincent Sherman
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung
Adventure / War / Romance / Spy
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
1943
Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon
War / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1944
William Cameron Menzies
Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter van Eyck, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1941
John English, William Witney
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
2514
309
1948
Vincent Sherman
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent
Adventure / Romance / Action
USA
English
2516
311
1949
James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney
Bing Crosby, Eric Blore, Basil Rathbone, J. Pat O'Malley, Colin Campbell
Family / Animation / Fantasy
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Harold S. Bucquet
Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns, Phyllis Morris
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Mystery / Spy
UK
English
2809
359
1949
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer, Buddy Baer
Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
1764
211
1943
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
NR
-
1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Arthur Lubin
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Kurt Katch, Frank Puglia
Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2364
292
1949
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark
Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
1404
165
1941
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2146
259
1940
Anatole Litvak
Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1948
Bernard Vorhaus
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2556
319
1944
King Vidor
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally
Drama
USA
English
1887
226
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Sylvia Bataille, Lia Corelli, Federico Fellini, Gabrielle Fontan
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
2164
260
1945
George Sidney
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1277
146
1945
René Clair
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez
Crime / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
2862
363
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2692
336
1947
James Edward Grant
John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon
Romance / Western / Drama
USA
English
2694
337
1940
Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts
Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1399
164
1946
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2781
349
1947
Jacques Becker
Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Romance / Comedy / Drama
France
French
2692
336
1948
George Seaton
Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Griff Barnett
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2794
353
1948
Cy Endfield
William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, John Banner, Peter Brocco
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2347
288
1940
Mitchell Leisen
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Dick Purcell
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
1201
136
1944
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2721
339
1944
Maya Deren
Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2790
350
1948
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Chevrier, Robert Murzeau
Romance / Drama / Comedy
France
French
2692
336
1948
Roy Del Ruth
William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2692
336
1947
Irving Reis
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2694
337
1941
Robert Stevenson
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1945
Edward Dmytryk
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo
Drama / War
USA
English
1217
139
1941
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
330
41
1942
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
2809
359
1946
Anthony Mann
Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian, Richard Martin
Music / War / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
286
36
1940
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph
Comedy / Crime / Family
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2809
359
1942
John Ford
Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel, James Roosevelt
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2042
247
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2802
356
1946
René Clément
Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Drama / War
France
French
1971
240
1949
William A. Wellman
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Action / War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
2692
336
1946
Robert Florey
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish
Horror
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Preston Sturges
Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Porter Hall
Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
98
10
1946
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
2514
309
1946
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2601
327
1949
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart
Animation / Short / Music / Experimental
Canada
English (No Dialogue)
2608
330
1945
Henry King
Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
1679
202
1945
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2773
346
1942
Augusto Genina
Amedeo Nazzari, Fosco Giachetti, Maria Von Tasnady, Vivi Gioi
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
2558
321
1948
Robert A. Stemmle
Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Comedy
Germany
German
100
12
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2794
353
1944
William Castle
Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Romance
USA
English
7
2
1948
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
2201
265
1948
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
236
30
1946
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2581
324
1940
Stuart Heisler
Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Helene Millard
Drama / Family
USA
English
2164
260
1947
Henry Koster
Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Family / Religion
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
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
473
57
1947
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
1528
188
1942
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders
Adventure / Family / Romance
USA
English
1368
161
1945
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2809
359
1948
Jack Bernhard
Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen, James Griffith
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2323
282
1941
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2758
345
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2692
336
1945
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2553
317
1941
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2368
295
1940
Walter Lang
Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins
Family / Fantasy / Adventure
USA
English
2319
280
1946
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Frank Launder
Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones, Noel Purcell
Adventure / Romance
UK
English
2809
359
1942
Herbert I. Leeds
Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves, Steven Geray
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Spy / Gangster
USA
English
1213
138
1947
Robert Rossen
John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
1618
196
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2515
310
1940
Jack Conway
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1306
151
1947
Elia Kazan
Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Anthony Mann
Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2165
261
1948
Joseph Losey
Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
Family / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Joseph Santley
Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Veloz
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1945
Wallace Fox
Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Joe Devlin, George Meeker
Serial / Crime / Action / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2694
337
1945
Allan Dwan
Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1941
William Keighley
James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
202
23
1945
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
1502
183
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
2556
319
1940
Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter
Musical / Drama
USA
English
2794
353
1941
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1899
228
1947
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Arthur Lubin
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane
Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Carl Meyer, Stan Freed
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
1426
171
1943
Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2790
350
1947
Giuseppe De Santis
Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Italy
Italian
2323
282
1946
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1760
210
1948
Henry Hathaway
James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1984
241
1944
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet
Drama / Mystery / War / Comedy
UK
English
2323
282
1947
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias
Drama / War
USA
English
2608
330
1946
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas
War / Drama
UK
English
17
3
1942
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Robert Stevens
Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Ray Walston
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2366
294
1947
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
590
68
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
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
1421
168
1949
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Archie Mayo
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy
USA
English
2556
319
1946
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
70
6
1945
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2692
336
1945
Peter Godfrey
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1968
239
1940
Preston Sturges
Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1949
David MacDonald
Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama
UK
English
2790
350
1949
Augusto Genina
Inés Orsini, Rubi D'Alma, Michele Malaspina
Drama / Biography / Religion
Italy
Italian
1
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
1429
173
1945
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2230
268
1946
Ernst Lubitsch
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Comedy / Romance
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
2556
319
1949
Raoul Walsh
Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2661
332
1949
Henry Koster
Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2429
302
1948
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Belo
Documentary / Short / Religion
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Tay Garnett
Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye
Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Adventure
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Victor Saville
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman
Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2608
330
1943
Edmund Goulding
Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1940
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell
Adventure / Romance / Spy
UK
English
2429
302
1945
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2694
337
1945
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
1854
223
1944
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1946
Ingmar Bergman
Wiktor Andersson, Anna-Lisa Baude, Allan Bohlin, Julia Cæsar
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
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
2608
330
1943
Tay Garnett
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia
War / Drama / Adventure / Action
USA
English
509
62
1947
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2862
363
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
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
2556
319
1947
Otto Preminger
Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2781
349
1947
René Clément
Michel Auclair, Paul Bernard, Anne Campion
Drama / War
France
French
1542
190
1940
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Henry Hathaway
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2694
337
1946
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2492
307
1947
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
629
73
1943
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
718
86
1945
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
2692
336
1947
John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1943
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Jack Bernhard
Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2483
306
1948
Yves Allégret
Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier, Marcel Dalio
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
France
French
2809
359
1942
Jack Kinney
Clarence Nash
Family / Short / War / Animation / Comedy
USA
English
2773
346
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2773
346
1940
Gustav Ucicky
Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt
Drama / Romance
Germany / Austria
German
2483
306
1948
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog
Drama / Period Film
Austria
German
2692
336
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2608
330
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1427
172
1947
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Palau, Henri Gaultier
Romance / Drama
France
French
2251
271
1946
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Helmut Weiss
Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto, Paul Henckels
Comedy
Germany
German
2514
309
1941
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong
Drama / War
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
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
2230
268
1947
George Cukor
Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2225
266
1940
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Romance / Musical / Drama
USA
English
2234
269
1940
William Dieterle
Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2803
357
1944
Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2482
305
1947
Hans Richter, Man Ray
Max Ernst, Louis Applebaum, Ethel Beseda, Jack Bittner
Experimental
USA
English
2173
263
1948
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
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
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
2230
268
1948
Charles Walters
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2234
269
1943
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine
Drama / War / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Clyde Geronimi
Adolf Hitler, Art Smith
Short / Animation / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2692
336
1947
Chester Erskine
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2692
336
1945
John Cromwell
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington
Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2790
350
1948
Gustaf Molander
Birger Malmsten, Eva Stiberg, Eva Dahlbeck, Åke Claesson
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2608
330
1949
Edmund Goulding
Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell
Comedy
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
691
81
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
345
43
1940
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
2230
268
1947
H.C. Potter
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1948
George Sherman
Donald O'Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Penny Edwards, Joe Besser
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2135
257
1940
William Keighley
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Biography / Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Edward Ludwig
John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2514
309
1944
Lloyd Bacon
Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall
Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
1944
234
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
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
2809
359
1941
René Clair
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2692
336
1942
David Miller
John Wayne, John Carroll, Anna Lee, Paul Kelly, Gordon Jones, Mae Clarke
Action / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Richard Fleischer
William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva, Charles D. Brown
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2000
245
1942
Busby Berkeley
Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly, Mártha Eggerth, Ben Blue
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1121
126
1943
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
466
56
1948
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
1808
216
1948
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
780
95
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
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
1671
201
1948
John Ford
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
1158
131
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
2401
300
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2554
318
1949
King Vidor
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith
Drama
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
1945
Jacques de Baroncelli
Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier
Comedy / Romance / Musical
France
French
2794
353
1946
John Berry
Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1936
232
1947
John Ford, Emilio Fernández
Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Drama / Religion
Mexico / USA
English
2604
328
1943
Busby Berkeley
Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman Orchestra
Romance / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
698
82
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
1501
182
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
2692
336
1946
Marcel Carné
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Romance
France
French
1500
181
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1000
112
1947
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2758
345
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
1784
213
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
1267
144
1947
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2372
296
1940
George Marshall
Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Gangster
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
657
78
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2234
269
1943
Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1899
228
1942
Stuart Heisler
Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2790
350
1946
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
NR
-
1940
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Comedy / Musical / Western / Family
USA
English
613
70
1944
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
2809
359
1947
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2794
353
1948
Leo McCarey
Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Archie Mayo
Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, James Newill
Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
423
54
1940
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
224
28
1946
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
2359
291
1941
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
999
111
1940
Preston Sturges
Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
1009
113
1946
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
2792
352
1946
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1989
242
1943
Lewis Seiler
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2521
312
1943
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance / War / Fantasy
USA
English
706
84
1944
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
623
72
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
2366
294
1943
Fritz Lang
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant
War / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2251
271
1943
Vincent Sherman
Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Drama
USA
English
2514
309
1946
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
1899
228
1949
Vincent Sherman
Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Drama / War
UK
English
2809
359
1946
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
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
1227
141
1943
Ernst Lubitsch
Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Del Lord
Charley Chase, Bruce Bennett, Richard Fiske, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe
Comedy / Short
USA
English
492
59
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1693
205
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2794
353
1948
Yasujiro Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishu Ryu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
292
37
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
739
88
1941
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2862
363
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
934
106
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Anthony Pelissier
John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2692
336
1943
Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis
Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1941
King Vidor
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1519
186
1941
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2230
268
1942
Mark Sandrich
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Delmer Daves
The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Julie Bishop
Comedy / Musical / Romance / War
USA
English
2742
341
1943
John M. Stahl, Lumsden Hare
Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor
Comedy
USA
English
2583
325
1949
Mark Robson
Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
2758
345
1945
Mervyn LeRoy
Frank Sinatra, Harry McKim, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin, Axel Stordahl
Short / Family / Drama / Religion / Music
USA
English
2692
336
1944
Erle C. Kenton
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
1378
162
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
312
38
1941
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1947
Jack Conway
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2321
281
1947
Charles Crichton
Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2072
249
1943
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
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
2692
336
1945
Sam Newfield
Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
Crime / Drama
USA
English
586
67
1945
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
2608
330
1940
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
1648
198
1942
René Clair
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
1399
164
1948
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Drama / Family
USA
English
2694
337
1946
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
760
91
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1852
222
1949
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff
Comedy / Romance / War
USA
English
1320
154
1942
Noel Coward, David Lean
Noel Coward, John Mills
Drama / War
UK
English
2809
359
1942
Cy Endfield
Edward Arnold, Stephen McNally, Esther Williams, Vicky Lane
Drama / Short
USA
English
1272
145
1949
Clarence Brown
David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1945
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Erle C. Kenton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette
Comedy
USA
English
1473
179
1948
Robert Hamer
Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines
Crime / Drama
UK
English
2742
341
1943
Jacques Becker
Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy
Drama / Crime
France
French
2608
330
1949
Lloyd Bacon
Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Sports / Fantasy
USA
English
57
5
1946
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
378
50
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2758
345
1942
Josef Berne
Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Sonny Greer
Short / Music
USA
English
2585
326
1944
Gjon Mili
Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison
Short / Music
USA
English
1951
236
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2396
299
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2608
330
1942
Robert Stevenson
Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson
Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1949
Richard L. Bare
George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates
Comedy
USA
English
2758
345
1946
George Pal
Rex Ingram
Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
2323
282
1941
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Henry Levin
Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin
Biography / Music
USA
English
1729
206
1946
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1082
120
1949
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
2742
341
1942
W.S. Van Dyke
Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Drama / War
USA
English
1654
199
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Veit Harlan
Ferdinand Marian, Werner Krauss, Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / Period Film
Germany
German
2323
282
1942
Zoltan Korda
Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp
Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2777
347
1942
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
971
109
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2795
354
1944
John M. Stahl
Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Roddy McDowall
Drama / Religion
USA
English
390
52
1946
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
179
18
1949
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
914
105
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2011
246
1941
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
1671
201
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1490
180
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2225
266
1940
Lloyd Bacon
Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2756
344
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2692
336
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
2790
350
1949
Emilio Fernández
Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Columba Domínguez
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2377
298
1946
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar
Drama / Romance / Religion
France
French
765
93
1948
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
2492
307
1944
Edgar Neville
Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín
Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2809
359
1940
Jack Hively
Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert Barrat
Drama / Romance
USA
English
114
15
1941
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
812
97
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Gregory La Cava
Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2514
309
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Lambert Hillyer
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Nan Holliday, Stephen Keyes, Hugh Prosser
Western / Action
USA
English
2608
330
1942
Lloyd Bacon
Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
2773
346
1940
Augusto Genina
Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, Maria Denis, Rafael Calvo
War / Drama
Italy / Spain
Italian
1469
178
1943
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
2544
316
1945
Leopold Lindtberg
Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan
War / Drama
Switzerland
English
2692
336
1949
Josef von Báky
Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens, William Sinnigen
Drama
West Germany
German
2694
337
1947
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell
Comedy
USA
English
498
60
1949
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
280
35
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2794
353
1944
Jean Grémillon
Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Anne Vandène
Drama / Biography
France
French
1895
227
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
2780
348
1949
Georges Franju
Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral
Documentary / Short / Drama
France
French
2171
262
1949
Jean-Pierre Melville
Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Drama / War
France
French
1789
214
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2794
353
1947
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Short / Comedy
France
French
2692
336
1942
Roman Karmen, N. Komarevtsev, Valeri Solovtsov, Yefim Uchitel
Documentary / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2669
333
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
2336
284
1945
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2323
282
1948
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Yvonne de Bray, Gabrielle Dorziat
Drama
France
French
383
51
1948
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
1021
114
1949
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2692
336
1942
Claude Autant-Lara
Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Julien Carette, André Alerme
Comedy / Drama
France
French
328
40
1943
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
1353
159
1947
Michael Curtiz
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1409
166
1944
Alfred Hitchcock
Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
2822
361
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
2794
353
1949
Tex Avery
Daws Butler, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2694
337
1944
John Brahm
Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Documentary / War / Short
UK
English
2809
359
1947
Anatole Litvak
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1187
134
1940
John Ford
John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson
Drama / War
USA
English
2790
350
1947
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2809
359
1949
Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Rudolf Ising, Hugh Harman, Robert Clampett, Tom Palmer, Jack King, Robert McKimson, Norm McCabe, Abe Levitow
Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Billy Bletcher, Stan Freberg, Arthur Q. Bryan
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin, Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Billy Bletcher, John T. Smith II, Michael Maltese
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2799
355
1949
Alfred L. Werker
Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Richard Hylton, Susan Douglas Rubes
Drama
USA
English
2556
319
1947
Martin Gabel
Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
1286
149
1948
Robert J. Flaherty
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
2694
337
1941
Jack Conway
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1949
David Miller, Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Marion Hutton
Comedy / Musical / Detective / Family
USA
English
2692
336
1945
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2343
286
1941
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
2556
319
1943
Jean Grémillon
Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard
Drama / Romance
France
French
2809
359
1947
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2692
336
1948
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2556
319
1948
Emilio Fernández
María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2608
330
1947
Zoltan Korda
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny, Jean Gillie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2608
330
1949
Vincente Minnelli
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1830
220
1943
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2809
359
1945
Arthur Crabtree
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
UK
English
239
31
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Edward L. Cahn
Ray Collins, Henry O'Neill, Addison Richards, John Nesbitt, Stanley Andrews
Short / Drama
USA
English
1308
152
1942
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1047
116
1941
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
1962
238
1942
Elliott Nugent
Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
76
8
1941
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
1282
147
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
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
2119
253
1943
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Harry Scott
Drama / Romance
UK
English
989
110
1942
William Keighley
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Herbert I. Leeds
Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Helene Reynolds, Henry Wilcoxon, Richard Derr
Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2773
346
1949
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cécile Aubrey, Gabrielle Dorziat, Michel Auclair
Drama / Crime / Romance
France
French
2495
308
1945
André Malraux, Boris Peskine
Andrés Mejuto, Julio Peña, Pedro Codina, Miguel Del Castillo
Documentary / Drama / War
Spain / France
French
2463
304
1944
Emilio Fernández
Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán
Romance / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
1360
160
1940
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Adventure / Western / Romance / Comic
USA
English
2692
336
1947
Kurt Maetzig
Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm, Willy Prager, Hans Leibelt
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
2758
345
1944
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2226
267
1944
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
208
25
1946
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
2608
330
1945
Irving Pichel
Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1441
175
1941
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
204
24
1944
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Joseph Santley
Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller
Western / Musical
USA
English
2758
345
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
770
94
1943
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel, Elizabeth Patterson
Comedy / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2692
336
1949
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley
Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
367
48
1945
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
2279
273
1947
Anthony Kimmins
Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
1854
223
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
565
65
1944
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
838
98
1947
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2230
268
1943
Michael Curtiz
Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Gene Lockhart, George Tobias
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2758
345
1945
William Beaudine
June Carlson, Lois Austin, George Eldredge, Jimmy Clark, Hardie Albright
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Jules White
Andy Clyde, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Lynton Brent, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison
Comedy / Short
USA
English
637
74
1947
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2143
258
1947
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
1741
208
1942
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Drama
USA
English
2742
341
1943
Irving Pichel
Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Walter Lang
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1946
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Louise Arthur
Western / Musical
USA
English
2794
353
1948
Frank Borzage
Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
1106
124
1943
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
950
107
1940
Frank Borzage
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1944
Will Jason
Pete Smith, William Bailey, Heinie Conklin, Ben Hall, May McAvoy, Dave O'Brien
Comedy / Short
USA
English
1946
235
1948
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1941
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / 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
1583
193
1944
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1061
117
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2692
336
1943
Josef von Báky
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Michael Bohnen, Ferdinand Marian
Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Germany
German
2135
257
1945
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2809
359
1942
B. Reeves Eason
Van Johnson, Faye Emerson, George Meeker, Joseph Crehan, Ruth Ford
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
844
99
1944
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2230
268
1946
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2790
350
1948
Ingmar Bergman
Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
196
21
1946
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
2345
287
1942
Sidney Lanfield
Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Lionel Royce
Comedy / Adventure / Spy
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
1527
187
1940
Garson Kanin
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Comedy / Romance
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
2285
275
1943
Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray, Aubrey Mallalieu
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2809
359
1940
Edward F. Cline
Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2862
363
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2303
278
1940
Mark Donskoy
Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Nikolai Plotnikov
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
860
101
1948
Jules Dassin
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
1209
137
1944
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
Family / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2692
336
1945
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1944
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
2608
330
1941
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2742
341
1942
Thorold Dickinson
Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins
Drama / Spy / Action / War
UK
English
2758
345
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2531
313
1946
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2692
336
1946
Archie Mayo
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2608
330
1943
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
1943
233
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
1604
195
1947
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2349
289
1944
Clifford Odets
Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez
Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1943
Lewis Milestone
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding
Drama / War
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
2862
363
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
110
14
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
1899
228
1945
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
2283
274
1949
Claude Autant-Lara
Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Louise Conte, Julien Carette
Comedy / Romance
France
French
364
47
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2773
346
1941
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
2809
359
1943
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed
Drama
USA
English
639
75
1948
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2365
293
1944
Clive Brook
Beatrice Lillie, Clive Brook, Googie Withers, Roland Culver, O.B. Clarence
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
503
61
1949
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
