Best Movies of 20th Century 1st Half by Title
2692
737
1912
Charles Brabin
Mary Fuller, Marc McDermott, Charles Ogle, Herbert Yost, Bliss Milford
Action
USA
English (Silent)
1993
533
1926
Raoul Walsh
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2809
769
1925
Leo McCarey
Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield, Jane Sherman, Buddy the Dog
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2556
705
1932
George Cukor
Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff, Brooks Benedict
Drama
USA
English
2310
623
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2608
721
1919
Victor Fleming, Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau, Ralph Lewis, Daisy Jefferson
Action / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1940
George Marshall
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford
Western
USA
English
2423
668
1916
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Marie Walcamp, C. Norman Hammond, Tyrone Power Sr.
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
737
1923
Chester M. Franklin
Claire Adams, Rin Tin Tin, Walter McGrail, Pat Hartigan, Myrtle Owen
Adventure / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
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2809
769
1948
Lewis Seiler
Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
729
191
1949
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2692
737
1918
Cecil B. DeMille
Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Edythe Chapman, Elliott Dexter, Noah Beery
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1921
Emile Chautard
Lucy Cotton, Charles A. Stevenson, Philip Merivale, Robert Barrat, Mabel Archdale
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
768
1944
Clarence Brown
Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowell, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2809
769
1925
Reginald Barker
Claire Windsor, Pat O'Malley, Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, William Eugene
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1927
William K. Howard
Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft, George Nichols, Bob Perry
Western / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
271
75
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
2712
741
1934
Irving Cummings
Loretta Young, John Boles, Dorothy Wilson, Muriel Kirkland
Drama
USA
English
2809
769
1924
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2809
769
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery, Alfred Allen
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2742
747
1935
David Hand
Billy Bletcher
Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Short / Mystery
USA
English
2794
762
1943
Tex Avery
Robert Emmett O'Connor, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Mystery / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2420
667
1935
John Ford
Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, Arthur Byron, Wallace Ford
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2515
688
1930
Thornton Freeland
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2692
737
1920
Cecil B. DeMille
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2232
606
1923
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1945
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2423
668
1917
John Emerson
Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Monte Blue, Walter Bytell, Calvert Carter
Western / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2692
737
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2331
631
1933
William A. Wellman
Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, Rochelle Hudson, Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Drama / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
2809
769
1925
George B. Seitz
Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., George Magrill
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2556
705
1924
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1927
Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller
Charles R. Bowers
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1930
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Lingyu Ruan
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2692
737
1933
Bugao Cheng
Die Hu, Zhiyuan Tan, Jianong Gong, Xianzhai Wang
Drama
China
Mandarin
2556
705
1921
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
737
1919
Edward LeSaint
Tom Mix, Colleen Moore, Frank Clark, Lule Warrenton, Sid Jordan, Pat Chrisman
Western
USA
English (Silent)
1448
373
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2188
591
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1521
394
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
737
1937
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2692
737
1939
Lloyd Bacon
George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Litel
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2006
537
1926
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe
Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1922
510
1948
Anthony Asquith
Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton
Drama
UK
English
2384
660
1936
Alfred Santell
Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch
Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2585
715
1914
Maurice Tourneur
Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2811
770
1930
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Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2758
753
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2758
753
1938
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herbert Kline
Documentary / War
USA
English
1837
482
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1945
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2692
737
1948
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
40
7
1939
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
1351
344
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2692
737
1915
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Marta Golden, Margie Reiger
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
737
1934
Archie Gottler
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Marjorie White, Walter Brennan
Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
1112
280
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2692
737
1928
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2141
578
1923
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
645
172
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2794
762
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2809
769
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
737
1923
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2809
769
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2608
721
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
489
134
1939
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2325
629
1945
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2805
767
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
737
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2809
769
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
354
99
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2692
737
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2692
737
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
323
87
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2304
621
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
1334
338
1946
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
2694
738
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2608
721
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2794
762
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2608
721
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1397
354
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2809
769
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1475
379
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2232
606
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2809
769
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2692
737
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
1919
509
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
567
151
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2809
769
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2197
596
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2608
721
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2742
747
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2692
737
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
189
49
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2095
565
1946
Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2310
623
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2809
769
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2685
735
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2742
747
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
