Best Movies of 1941 by Title
2719
46
John English, William Witney
Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Serial / Comic
USA
English
1443
17
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
2635
40
Robert Stevenson
Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1260
14
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
NR
-
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2332
30
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn
Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2661
42
Spencer Williams
Cathryn Caviness, Spencer Williams, Juanita Riley
Drama / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2440
32
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2719
46
William Keighley
James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Jack Carson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2751
47
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Shin Saburi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2628
39
Arthur Lubin
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2719
46
Dave Fleischer, Shamus Culhane
Kenny Gardner, Gwen Williams, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Carl Meyer, Stan Freed
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2719
46
Archie Mayo
Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy
USA
English
1
1
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
2591
38
Sam Wood
Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2456
34
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith, Robert Armstrong
Drama / War
USA
English
2628
39
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
354
6
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
2719
46
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2719
46
René Clair
Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer, Andy Devine
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1181
13
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
2454
33
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2719
46
Archie Mayo
Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero, James Newill
Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2312
29
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1648
21
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
744
7
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
981
10
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
2591
38
King Vidor
Hedy Lamarr, Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Charles Coburn, Van Heflin, Fay Holden
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1559
19
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2628
39
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2332
30
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin, Robert Sterling
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2002
24
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2686
44
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
120
3
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2635
40
Jack Conway
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson, Florence Bates
Comedy
USA
English
2294
28
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
1090
11
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
84
2
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
1354
15
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
1447
18
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2719
46
Walter Lang
Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2719
46
William Morgan
Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2591
38
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart, Kenneth Brown
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2719
46
Riley Thomson
Walt Disney, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Thurl Ravenscroft
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2696
45
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
1628
20
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2162
25
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2282
26
Anthony Asquith
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2719
46
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
2544
37
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
2645
41
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
1958
22
Michael Curtiz
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
NR
-
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
2719
46
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2719
46
Lew Landers
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters
Western / Musical
USA
English
2591
38
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2719
46
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2591
38
John Cromwell
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
War / Drama
USA
English
2673
43
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
160
4
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
2719
46
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
1139
12
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2719
46
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2628
39
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2352
31
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2719
46
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2628
39
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1992
23
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2284
27
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2541
36
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2461
35
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
1419
16
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2628
39
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
