Best Movies of 1943 by Rank
328
1
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
360
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
602
4
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
629
5
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
760
6
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
770
7
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
1106
8
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1121
9
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
1122
10
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
1130
11
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1218
12
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
1227
13
Ernst Lubitsch
Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1329
14
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1425
15
Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
1468
16
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
1653
17
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1763
18
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
1805
19
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
1811
20
Zoltan Korda
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1829
21
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1893
22
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
1942
23
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1987
24
Lewis Seiler
Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2045
25
Roy Boulting
Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
2070
26
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt
Drama
USA
English
2117
27
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Harry Scott
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2141
28
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2227
29
Michael Curtiz
Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Gene Lockhart, George Tobias
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2231
30
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine
Drama / War / Thriller
USA
English
2231
30
Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley
Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2248
31
Vincent Sherman
Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson
Drama
USA
English
2282
33
Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Laurence Hanray, Aubrey Mallalieu
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2363
34
Fritz Lang
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant
War / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2518
35
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance / War / Fantasy
USA
English
2530
36
Frank Borzage
Katharine Hepburn, Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan
Musical / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
2553
37
Jean Grémillon
Madeleine Renaud, Pierre Brasseur, Madeleine Robinson, Paul Bernard
Drama / Romance
France
French
2553
37
Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia
Drama / Western / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2601
38
Busby Berkeley
Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Benny Goodman Orchestra
Romance / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2605
39
Edmund Goulding
Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2605
39
Tay Garnett
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia
War / Drama / Adventure / Action
USA
English
2605
39
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2666
40
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
2672
41
Michael Curtiz
George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Comedy / Musical / War / Romance
USA
English
2689
42
Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon
War / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
42
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2689
42
Roy William Neill
Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2689
42
Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis
Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
42
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Alan Carney
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2689
42
Josef von Báky
Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Brigitte Horney, Michael Bohnen, Ferdinand Marian
Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Germany
German
2689
42
Lewis Milestone
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding
Drama / War
USA
English
2689
42
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
2691
43
Harold D. Schuster
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale, Jeff Corey
Western / Family / Drama
USA
English
2730
44
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
2740
45
John M. Stahl, Lumsden Hare
Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor
Comedy
USA
English
2740
45
Jacques Becker
Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy
Drama / Crime
France
French
2740
45
Irving Pichel
Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Drama / War
USA
English
2746
46
Jean Renoir
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Drama / War
USA
English
2756
47
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
47
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
47
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
47
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
47
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2792
48
Tex Avery
Robert Emmett O'Connor, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Mystery / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
49
Harold S. Bucquet
Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns, Phyllis Morris
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Mystery / Spy
UK
English
2807
49
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2807
49
Clyde Geronimi
Adolf Hitler, Art Smith
Short / Animation / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2807
49
Mark Robson
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2807
49
Erle C. Kenton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette
Comedy
USA
English
2807
49
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
2807
49
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed
Drama
USA
English
2807
49
Lew Landers
Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2807
49
William Berke
Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Ann Savage, Bob Wills, The Texas Playboys
Western / Musical
USA
English
2807
49
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell
Drama / War
UK
English
2807
49
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
49
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2807
49
David Butler
Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2807
49
Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter
Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Documentary / Animation / War
USA
English
2860
50
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
NR
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Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
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
