Best Movies of 1940s by Year
1895
227
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
1944
234
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1989
242
1943
Lewis Seiler
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2047
248
1943
Roy Boulting
Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
2072
249
1943
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Drama
USA
English
2119
253
1943
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Harry Scott
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2143
258
1943
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2230
268
1943
Michael Curtiz
Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Gene Lockhart, George Tobias
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2234
269
1943
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine
Drama / War / Thriller
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
2251
271
1943
Vincent Sherman
Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Drama
USA
English
2285
275
1943
Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray, Aubrey Mallalieu
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2366
294
1943
Fritz Lang
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant
War / Drama / Thriller
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
2533
314
1943
Frank Borzage
Katharine Hepburn, Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan
Musical / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
2556
319
1943
Jean Grémillon
Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard
Drama / Romance
France
French
2556
319
1943
Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia
Drama / Western / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2604
328
1943
Busby Berkeley
Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman Orchestra
Romance / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2608
330
1943
Edmund Goulding
Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1943
Tay Garnett
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia
War / Drama / Adventure / Action
USA
English
2608
330
1943
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2669
333
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
2675
334
1943
Michael Curtiz
George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Comedy / Musical / War / Romance
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
2692
336
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / 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
2692
336
1943
Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis
Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1943
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2692
336
1943
Josef von Báky
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Michael Bohnen, Ferdinand Marian
Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Germany
German
2692
336
1943
Lewis Milestone
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding
Drama / War
USA
English
2692
336
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
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
2732
340
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
2742
341
1943
John M. Stahl, Lumsden Hare
Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor
Comedy
USA
English
2742
341
1943
Jacques Becker
Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy
Drama / Crime
France
French
2742
341
1943
Irving Pichel
Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Drama / War
USA
English
2748
343
1943
Jean Renoir
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Drama / War
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
345
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2794
353
1943
Tex Avery
Robert Emmett O'Connor, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Mystery / Comedy / Short
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
1943
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Clyde Geronimi
Adolf Hitler, Art Smith
Short / Animation / Drama / Thriller / 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
1943
Erle C. Kenton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
2809
359
1943
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed
Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Lew Landers
Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2809
359
1943
William Berke
Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Ann Savage, Bob Wills, The Texas Playboys
Western / Musical
USA
English
2809
359
1943
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell
Drama / War
UK
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
1943
David Butler
Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan
Comedy / Musical
USA
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
2862
363
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1943
Dave Fleischer, Dan Gordon, Isadore Sparber, Seymour Kneitel
Jack Mercer, Margie Hines, Dave Barry, William Pennell, Tedd Pierce, Gilbert Mack
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
17
3
1942
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
239
31
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
255
32
1942
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
324
39
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
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
368
49
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
590
68
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
645
76
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
914
105
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
989
110
1942
William Keighley
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Comedy
USA
English
1061
117
1942
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
1127
128
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1179
132
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1264
143
1942
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1308
152
1942
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1320
154
1942
Noel Coward, David Lean
Noel Coward, John Mills
Drama / War
UK
English
1500
181
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
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
1528
188
1942
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders
Adventure / Family / Romance
USA
English
1559
192
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1648
198
1942
René Clair
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
1683
204
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1741
208
1942
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Drama
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
1960
237
1942
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Drama / War
UK
English
1962
238
1942
Elliott Nugent
Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2000
245
1942
Busby Berkeley
Judy Garland, George Murphy, Gene Kelly, Mártha Eggerth, Ben Blue
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2120
254
1942
David Butler
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
Adventure / Family / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2230
268
1942
Mark Sandrich
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2230
268
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2243
270
1942
Irving Pichel
Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter
Drama / War
USA
English
2323
282
1942
Zoltan Korda
Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp
Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2323
282
1942
Archie Mayo
George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2345
287
1942
Sidney Lanfield
Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco, Lionel Royce
Comedy / Adventure / Spy
USA
English
2514
309
1942
Cecil B. DeMille
Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1942
Robert Stevenson
Michèle Morgan, Paul Henreid, Thomas Mitchell, Laird Cregar, May Robson
Drama / War
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
2692
336
1942
John Huston, Vincent Sherman
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton, Victor Sen Yung
Adventure / War / Romance / Spy
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
2692
336
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
2692
336
1942
Roman Karmen, N. Komarevtsev, Valeri Solovtsov, Yefim Uchitel
Documentary / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2692
336
1942
Claude Autant-Lara
Odette Joyeux, François Périer, Julien Carette, André Alerme
Comedy / Drama
France
French
2692
336
1942
Julien Duvivier
Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1942
Renato Castellani
Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Rubi D'Alma, Mimi Dugini
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2694
337
1942
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2694
337
1942
Goffredo Alessandrini
Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Rossano Brazzi, Emilio Cigoli, Giovanni Grasso
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2742
341
1942
W.S. Van Dyke
Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Drama / War
USA
English
2742
341
1942
Thorold Dickinson
Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins
Drama / Spy / Action / War
UK
English
2743
342
1942
Alessandro Blasetti
Gino Cervi, Giuditta Rissone, Adriana Benetti, Guido Celano, Giacinto Molteni
Drama / Romance / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2758
345
1942
Josef Berne
Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Sonny Greer
Short / Music
USA
English
2773
346
1942
Augusto Genina
Amedeo Nazzari, Fosco Giachetti, Maria Von Tasnady, Vivi Gioi
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
2773
346
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2777
347
1942
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tucker
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2809
359
1942
John Ford
Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel, James Roosevelt
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
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
2809
359
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Dennis Morgan, Brenda Marshall, Alan Hale, George Tobias
Drama / War
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Jack Kinney
Clarence Nash
Family / Short / War / Animation / Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Cy Endfield
Edward Arnold, Stephen McNally, Esther Williams, Vicky Lane
Drama / Short
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Gregory La Cava
Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds
Comedy / Romance
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
1942
B. Reeves Eason
Van Johnson, Faye Emerson, George Meeker, Joseph Crehan, Ruth Ford
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2809
359
1942
John Francis Larkin
George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Caper / Detective
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Del Frazier
Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Thomson, Jack Redmond
Short / Sports
USA
English
2809
359
1942
Ray Enright
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey
Action / Western / Adventure
USA
English
2809
359
1942
unknown
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, John McLeish
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
2822
361
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
1
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
76
8
1941
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
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
312
38
1941
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / 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
739
88
1941
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
789
96
1941
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
934
106
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1047
116
1941
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
1105
123
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1158
131
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1217
139
1941
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1282
147
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
1351
158
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
1404
165
1941
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
1441
175
1941
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1519
186
1941
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1680
203
1941
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
1693
205
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1899
228
1941
Michael Curtiz
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1999
244
1941
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2011
246
1941
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2095
252
1941
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2308
279
1941
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2323
282
1941
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2323
282
1941
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2332
283
1941
Anthony Asquith
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2343
286
1941
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
2359
291
1941
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2366
294
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2401
300
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2514
309
1941
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong
Drama / War
USA
English
2516
311
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2553
317
1941
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2556
319
1941
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2606
329
1941
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
2608
330
1941
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / 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
2608
330
1941
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2608
330
1941
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2608
330
1941
John Cromwell
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
War / Drama
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Arthur Lubin
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2692
336
1941
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
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
2692
336
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2694
337
1941
Robert Stevenson
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2694
337
1941
Jack Conway
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Comedy
USA
English
2742
341
1941
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
2748
343
1941
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2756
344
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2758
345
1941
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2773
346
1941
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
2794
353
1941
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
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
2809
359
1941
William Keighley
James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance
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
2809
359
1941
Archie Mayo
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
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
2809
359
1941
Archie Mayo
Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, James Newill
Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Walter Lang
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1941
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
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
1941
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Lew Landers
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters
Western / Musical
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2809
359
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
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
2809
359
1941
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
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
212
26
1940
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
227
29
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
261
33
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
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
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
423
54
1940
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
519
63
1940
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
527
64
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
780
95
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
863
102
1940
Robert Z. Leonard
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
950
107
1940
Frank Borzage
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan
Drama
USA
English
999
111
1940
Preston Sturges
Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest
Comedy
USA
English
1075
119
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale
Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1187
134
1940
John Ford
John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson
Drama / War
USA
English
1360
160
1940
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Adventure / Western / Romance / Comic
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
1490
180
1940
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1501
182
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1527
187
1940
Garson Kanin
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1542
190
1940
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
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
1827
219
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
1899
228
1940
Mervyn LeRoy
Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
1943
233
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
1968
239
1940
Preston Sturges
Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2124
255
1940
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Georges Grey
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2135
257
1940
William Keighley
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Biography / Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
2146
259
1940
Anatole Litvak
Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2225
266
1940
Irving Cummings
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Romance / Musical / Drama
USA
English
2225
266
1940
Lloyd Bacon
Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2234
269
1940
William Dieterle
Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2303
278
1940
Mark Donskoy
Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Nikolai Plotnikov
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2347
288
1940
Mitchell Leisen
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel, Dick Purcell
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
2354
290
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2368
295
1940
Walter Lang
Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins
Family / Fantasy / Adventure
USA
English
2372
296
1940
George Marshall
Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2376
297
1940
Walter Lang
Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins, Esther Ralston
Drama / Musical
USA
English
2515
310
1940
Jack Conway
Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2556
319
1940
Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan, Ian Hunter
Musical / Drama
USA
English
2581
324
1940
Stuart Heisler
Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Helene Millard
Drama / Family
USA
English
2608
330
1940
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell
Adventure / Romance / Spy
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
2608
330
1940
William Keighley
James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Veit Harlan
Ferdinand Marian, Werner Krauss, Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / Period Film
Germany
German
2692
336
1940
Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Documentary / War / Short
UK
English
2692
336
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2692
336
1940
A. Edward Sutherland
Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Olev Eskola
War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2692
336
1940
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn, Judith Barrett
Comedy / Musical / Adventure
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2692
336
1940
Carl Koch, Jean Renoir
Imperio Argentina, Rossano Brazzi, Michel Simon, Adriano Rimoldi, Carla Candiani
Drama / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2694
337
1940
Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen, George Watts
Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2694
337
1940
Boris Ingster
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Belo
Documentary / Short / Religion
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Joseph Santley
Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, Ann Miller
Western / Musical
USA
English
2758
345
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2773
346
1940
Gustav Ucicky
Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt
Drama / Romance
Germany / Austria
German
2773
346
1940
Augusto Genina
Fosco Giachetti, Mireille Balin, Maria Denis, Rafael Calvo
War / Drama
Italy / Spain
Italian
2809
359
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco
James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Del Lord
Charley Chase, Bruce Bennett, Richard Fiske, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Jack Hively
Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert Barrat
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
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
2809
359
1940
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel, Elizabeth Patterson
Comedy / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
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
1940
Edward F. Cline
Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Dave Fleischer
Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2809
359
1940
Mitchell Leisen
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1940
George Abbott
Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Desi Arnaz
Comedy / Musical / Sports / Romance
USA
English
2809
359
1940
George Marshall
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford
Western
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Comedy / Musical / Western / Family
USA
English
