Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
1325
11
Robert Rossen
John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
1369
12
Michael Curtiz
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1439
13
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Palau, Henri Gaultier
Romance / Drama
France
French
1542
14
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1696
15
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1700
16
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1916
17
John Ford, Emilio Fernández
Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Drama / Religion
Mexico / USA
English
1958
18
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2020
19
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2021
20
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant
Crime / Drama / Detective
France
French
2103
21
Henry Koster
Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Family / Religion
USA
English
2127
22
Irving Rapper
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
2223
23
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Mary Merrall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
UK
English
2233
24
Anthony Kimmins
Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2266
25
George Cukor
Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2266
25
H.C. Potter
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2275
26
Charles Crichton
Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2332
27
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2332
27
Elliott Nugent
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Charles Dingle
Comedy / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2332
27
Norman Z. McLeod, Lumsden Hare
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2352
28
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2390
29
Karel Steklý
Josef Bek, I. Bohàc, Vera Kalendová
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2424
30
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2456
31
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2456
31
Alfred Hitchcock
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2461
32
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2463
33
Hans Richter, Man Ray
Max Ernst, Louis Applebaum, Ethel Beseda, Jack Bittner
Experimental
USA
English
2468
34
Emilio Fernández
Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Mexico / USA
English
2501
35
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
2535
36
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2538
37
Oskar Fischinger
Animation / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2541
38
Otto Preminger
Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2541
38
Martin Gabel
Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2591
39
Zoltan Korda
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny, Jean Gillie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2591
39
Julien Duvivier
Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Emile Drain, Guy Favières
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France
French
2591
39
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2591
39
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2591
39
Irving Pichel
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2624
40
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2628
41
James Edward Grant
John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon
Romance / Western / Drama
USA
English
2628
41
Irving Reis
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
41
John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2628
41
Chester Erskine
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
41
Jack Conway
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
41
Kurt Maetzig
Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm, Willy Prager, Hans Leibelt
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
2628
41
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2628
41
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai, Yunzhu Shangguan, Xiuwen Shu, Yinyan Wu
Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2628
41
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2635
42
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell
Comedy
USA
English
2661
43
Frank Tashlin
Lew Ayres
Short / Animation / Religion
USA
English
2673
44
Jacques Becker
Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Romance / Comedy / Drama
France
French
2673
44
René Clément
Michel Auclair, Paul Bernard, Anne Campion
Drama / War
France
French
2699
45
Giuseppe De Santis
Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Italy
Italian
2699
45
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2699
45
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
46
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2719
46
Anatole Litvak
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2719
46
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2719
46
Charles A. Nichols
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2719
46
Alfred L. Werker
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart
Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
2719
46
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
46
Friz Freleng
Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2719
46
Frank McDonald
Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans
Western / Musical
USA
English
2747
47
Tex Avery
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2751
48
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Short / Comedy
France
French
2751
48
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Bruce Bennett, Martha Vickers
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster / Music
USA
English
2751
48
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
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