Best Movies of 20th Century 2nd Quarter by Rank

1 2 3 4 5
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
1
1
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
6
2
Jean Renoir
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette, Tony Corteggiani
Comedy / Drama
France
French
5 Stars, Top 100
7
3
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
5 Stars, Top 100
20
4
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
23
5
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
5 Stars, Top 100
25
6
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
45
7
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
5 Stars, Top 100
49
8
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
50
9
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / War / Romance / Epic
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
52
10
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
Drama / War / Adventure / Comedy
France
French
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
57
11
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
61
12
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
62
13
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
67
14
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
68
15
Jean Vigo
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
5 Stars, Top 100
72
16
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
5 Stars, Top 100
74
17
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
78
18
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
5 Stars, Top 100
80
19
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
84
20
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
86
21
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
89
22
Howard Hawks
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Family / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
93
23
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
94
24
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
5 Stars, Top 100
96
25
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
5 Stars, Top 100
98
26
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
101
27
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
111
28
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
112
29
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
118
30
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
120
31
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
122
32
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
125
33
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
5 Stars
126
34
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
136
35
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
143
36
Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
146
37
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
147
38
Luis Buñuel
Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Short / Fantasy / Experimental / Cult
France
French (Silent)
5 Stars
155
39
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
157
40
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars
160
41
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
170
42
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
5 Stars
177
43
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee
Drama / Comedy / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
181
44
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
5 Stars
184
45
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
189
46
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
5 Stars
193
47
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite
Comedy / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
197
48
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
5 Stars
206
49
Billy Wilder
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
210
50
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
5 Stars
214
51
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
5 Stars
215
52
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
5 Stars
216
53
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
5 Stars
217
54
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
5 Stars
218
55
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
5 Stars
220
56
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
222
57
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
5 Stars
226
58
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
5 Stars
228
59
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars
237
60
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
238
61
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
5 Stars
251
62
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
252
63
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
253
64
Lewis Milestone
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
5 Stars
267
65
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
5 Stars
269
66
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
5 Stars
271
67
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
5 Stars
272
68
René Clair
Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly
Comedy / Musical
France
French
5 Stars
274
69
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
280
70
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
282
71
Lloyd Bacon
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee
Musical / Romance / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars
286
72
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
5 Stars
294
73
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
299
74
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
300
75
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
5 Stars
302
76
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph
Comedy / Crime / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
307
77
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars
316
78
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
5 Stars
319
79
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
320
80
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
5 Stars
328
81
William Wyler
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
331
82
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
5 Stars
332
83
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
5 Stars
336
84
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
5 Stars
339
85
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
340
86
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
5 Stars
341
87
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
343
88
Frank Lloyd
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
354
89
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
5 Stars
356
90
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
5 Stars
358
91
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
363
92
René Clair
Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Musical / Comedy
France
French
5 Stars
364
93
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
365
94
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
5 Stars
372
95
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
379
96
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
5 Stars
386
97
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
386
97
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
395
98
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars
398
99
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars
402
100
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
406
101
John Ford
Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
408
102
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars
410
103
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
5 Stars
418
104
Robert Rossen
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
419
105
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
424
106
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Comedy
France
French
5 Stars
425
107
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
5 Stars
430
108
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars
434
109
King Vidor
Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
439
110
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
5 Stars
446
111
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Drama
France
French
5 Stars
452
112
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
465
113
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
5 Stars
466
114
Tod Browning
Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler
Horror
USA
English
5 Stars
467
115
Mervyn LeRoy
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
472
116
Roberto Rossellini
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore
War / Drama
Italy
Italian
5 Stars
474
117
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
5 Stars
476
118
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
486
119
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
487
120
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko
Horror
France / Germany
German
5 Stars
492
121
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars
493
122
Edgar G. Ulmer
Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars
496
123
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
4.5 Stars
503
124
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
4.5 Stars
504
125
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4.5 Stars
508
126
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
4.5 Stars
512
127
Norman Z. McLeod
W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp
Comedy / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
523
128
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
526
129
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
4.5 Stars
529
130
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
531
131
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
532
132
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
564
133
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller
Drama / Comedy / Romance
UK
English
4.5 Stars
565
134
Leo McCarey
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
567
135
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
4.5 Stars
568
136
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett
Drama / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
572
137
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
4.5 Stars
574
138
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
577
139
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
584
140
Lowell Sherman
Mae West, Cary Grant
Comedy / Western / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
601
141
Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Drama / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
602
142
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
4.5 Stars
605
143
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
607
144
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
610
145
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
613
146
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
4.5 Stars
614
147
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
615
148
George Marshall
Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
Western / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
617
149
Victor Fleming, Sidney Franklin, Gustav Machatý
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer
Drama / Epic
USA
English
4.5 Stars
618
150
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
623
151
Anatole Litvak
Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
625
152
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Comedy / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
626
153
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis
Drama / Pre-Noir / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
631
154
Gregory La Cava
Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
633
155
William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
644
156
Sam Wood
Robert Donat, Greer Garson
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
646
157
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
4.5 Stars
653
158
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
4.5 Stars
659
159
Victor Sjöström
Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
668
160
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
673
161
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
678
162
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
4.5 Stars
688
163
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
691
164
Rouben Mamoulian
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
697
165
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger
Drama / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
699
166
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
4.5 Stars
702
167
Leo McCarey
Charles Laughton, Mary Boland
Comedy / Western
USA
English
4.5 Stars
703
168
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
4.5 Stars
711
169
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
4.5 Stars
713
170
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
714
171
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
4.5 Stars
722
172
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
4.5 Stars
724
173
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
725
174
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
727
175
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4.5 Stars
736
176
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
739
177
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
740
178
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
4.5 Stars
743
179
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
744
180
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
746
181
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
754
182
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
4.5 Stars
761
183
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
762
184
George Cukor
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
762
184
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Pre-Noir
USA
English
4.5 Stars
767
185
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
4.5 Stars
770
186
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
4.5 Stars
779
187
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
785
188
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
787
189
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
788
190
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
4.5 Stars
796
191
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer
Drama / Music
USA
English
4.5 Stars
799
192
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
802
193
John Cromwell, George Cukor, W.S. Van Dyke
Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
806
194
Lewis Milestone
Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien
Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
812
195
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
814
196
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
820
197
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
825
198
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
832
199
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
844
200
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
847
201
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
4.5 Stars
848
202
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Vattier, Robert Bassac
Comedy / Drama
France
French
4.5 Stars
858
203
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
865
204
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
867
205
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
871
206
Jules Dassin
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
4.5 Stars
884
207
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
886
208
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William, Joan Blondell
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
896
209
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
4.5 Stars
900
210
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4.5 Stars
903
211
Robert Z. Leonard
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
906
212
W.S. Van Dyke
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English
4.5 Stars
916
213
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
920
214
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
926
215
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster / Pre-Noir
France
French
4.5 Stars
936
216
Mitchell Leisen
Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
937
217
Lewis Milestone
Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr.
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
944
218
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
945
219
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
948
220
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
948
220
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
953
221
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
956
222
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
956
222
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
959
223
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
4.5 Stars
961
224
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
966
225
James W. Horne
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Comedy / Western / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
970
226
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
4.5 Stars
976
227
Howard Hawks
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
980
228
William A. Seiter
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy / Family / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
982
229
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
4.5 Stars
986
230
Josef von Sternberg
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
Romance / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1002
231
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1009
232
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1011
233
Edmund Goulding
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1015
234
Frank Borzage
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1017
235
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1018
236
Jean Negulesco, Robert Wise
Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1019
237
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Action / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1022
238
William Keighley
Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1042
239
Preston Sturges
Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1052
240
William Wyler
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1056
241
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
4 Stars
1057
242
King Vidor
Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell
Drama
UK
English
4 Stars
1058
243
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
4 Stars
1059
244
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
4 Stars
1060
245
George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
4 Stars
1060
245
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1067
246
Sam Wood
William Holden, Martha Scott
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1072
247
Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1075
248
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1076
249
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
4 Stars
1089
250
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
4 Stars
1089
250
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1090
251
Frank Lloyd
Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Beryl Mercer
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1090
251
Carol Reed
Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price
Drama
UK
English
4 Stars
1092
252
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
4 Stars
1095
253
William A. Wellman
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1101
254
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale
Adventure / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1112
255
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1119
256
Frank Borzage
Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1120
257
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1130
258
Vittorio De Sica
Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni
Drama
Italy
Italian
4 Stars
1131
259
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
4 Stars
1132
260
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1139
261
Mervyn LeRoy
Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Drama / Mystery / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1141
262
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1144
263
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1153
264
Norman Z. McLeod
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1154
265
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1159
266
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
4 Stars
1162
267
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Adventure / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1168
268
George Stevens
Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1173
269
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1174
270
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1177
271
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1178
272
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
4 Stars
1180
273
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1181
274
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
4 Stars
1181
274
William Dieterle
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke
Drama / Horror / Romance / Period Film / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1206
275
John Ford
John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson
Drama / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1207
276
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1211
277
Walter Lang
Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1212
278
Lloyd Bacon
James Cagney, Joan Blondell
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
4 Stars
1224
279
John Cromwell, André De Toth
Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Drama / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1230
280
William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1233
281
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
Family / Drama / Sports
USA
English
4 Stars
1235
282
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
4 Stars
1238
283
Edgar G. Ulmer
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Horror / Crime / Adventure
USA
English
4 Stars
1252
284
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1259
285
Ernst Lubitsch
Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1261
286
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1261
286
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1262
287
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1265
288
Henry King
Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, Lew Ayres
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1267
289
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1269
290
Frank Capra
Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1270
291
Rouben Mamoulian
Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Drama / Musical
USA
English
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4 Stars
1271
292
King Vidor
Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
4 Stars
1275
293
Clarence Brown
David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1282
294
Norman Z. McLeod
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1284
295
Noel Coward, David Lean
Noel Coward, John Mills
Drama / War
UK
English
4 Stars
1285
296
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1289
297
Robert J. Flaherty
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1300
298
Frank Capra
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1306
299
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1307
300
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1308
301
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1309
302
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
4 Stars
1312
303
Elia Kazan
Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1317
304
René Clair
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez
Crime / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1322
305
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1323
306
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1324
307
Billy Wilder
Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1325
308
Robert Rossen
John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
4 Stars
1331
309
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
4 Stars
1332
310
René Clair
Marise Maia, Olga Tschechowa, Albert Prejean, Paul Olivier
Comedy / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
4 Stars
1333
311
Victor Fleming
Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1344
312
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
4 Stars
1345
313
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1354
314
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
4 Stars
1355
315
Robert Z. Leonard
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Musical / Biography / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1357
316
Frank Capra
Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1360
317
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1360
317
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1365
318
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Fritz Kampers, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch
Drama
Germany / France
French
4 Stars
1369
319
Michael Curtiz
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1372
320
Rouben Mamoulian
Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Adventure / Western / Romance / Comic
USA
English
4 Stars
1378
321
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
4 Stars
1379
322
John Ford
Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1381
323
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1381
323
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1382
324
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
4 Stars
1382
324
King Vidor
Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1389
325
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1393
326
Alfred Hitchcock
Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
4 Stars
1396
327
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
4 Stars
1402
328
Jean Renoir
René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
4 Stars
1403
329
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette
Comedy / Music
USA
English
4 Stars
1408
330
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
331
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
331
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
331
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
331
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
4 Stars
1410
332
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1410
332
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
4 Stars
1415
333
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
4 Stars
1419
334
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1419
334
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
4 Stars
1432
335
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1433
336
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson
Comedy / Western
USA
English
4 Stars
1439
337
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Palau, Henri Gaultier
Romance / Drama
France
French
4 Stars
1441
338
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1443
339
William Dieterle
Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
USA
English
4 Stars
1448
340
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Spring Byington
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1452
341
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
4 Stars
1458
342
Alf Sjöberg
Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
4 Stars
1464
343
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1467
344
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1475
345
Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
4 Stars
1478
346
John M. Stahl
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1485
347
Preston Sturges
Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1489
348
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1491
349
Sam Wood
Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1491
349
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond
Horror / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1492
350
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
Musical / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1494
351
René Clair
Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
4 Stars
1495
352
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1496
353
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
4 Stars
1497
354
Jean Epstein
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Drama / Horror
France / USA
French (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1506
355
Robert Hamer
Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines
Crime / Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1506
355
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1507
356
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3.5 Stars
1512
357
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1514
358
Garson Kanin
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1520
359
King Vidor
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Drama / Sports
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1521
360
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1522
361
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders
Adventure / Family / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1523
362
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1523
362
Lloyd Bacon
Edward G. Robinson, Jane Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly
Comedy / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1524
363
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1529
364
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1533
365
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1533
365
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1535
366
Frank Borzage
Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1542
367
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1545
368
Henry Cornelius
Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater
Comedy
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1548
369
W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan
Drama / Musical / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1550
370
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1560
371
Mitchell Leisen
Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1566
372
John Ford
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Drama / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1575
373
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1575
373
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1581
374
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1583
375
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1584
376
Archie Mayo
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart
Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1584
376
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1589
377
Robert J. Flaherty
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
3.5 Stars
1593
378
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1603
379
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1604
380
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1607
381
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, E.E. Clive
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1607
381
Gregory Ratoff
Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway
Romance / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1608
382
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Donald Crisp, Tully Marshall
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1608
382
King Vidor
Marion Davies, William Haines
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1613
383
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1613
383
Clarence Brown
John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1614
384
Victor Schertzinger
Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Music / Romance / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1614
384
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1618
385
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1628
386
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1629
387
Julien Duvivier
Harry Baur, Marie Bell, Pierre Blanchar, Fernandel
Drama / Romance
France
French
3.5 Stars
1634
388
Carol Reed
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
War / Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1642
389
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker
Comedy / Family / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1643
390
Michael Curtiz
Claude Rains, John Garfield, May Robson, Priscilla Lane
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1643
390
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1643
390
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Binnie Barnes, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1644
391
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1644
391
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1646
392
Wesley Ruggles
Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde, Kent Taylor
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1647
393
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1649
394
Zoltan Korda
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Adventure / War
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1651
395
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1653
396
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1654
397
René Clair
Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward, Cecil Kellaway
Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1658
398
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy
Drama / Crime / Pre-Noir
France
French
3.5 Stars
1659
399
Jean Renoir
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia
Drama / Crime
France
French
3.5 Stars
1672
400
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1681
401
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1692
402
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1694
403
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1695
404
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Eric Blore
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1698
405
John Ford
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1698
405
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1702
406
James W. Horne, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1706
407
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh
Western / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1710
408
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict, James Anderson, Hazel Keener
Comedy / Family / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1713
409
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1715
410
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1721
411
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1721
411
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1725
412
Jacques Feyder
Françoise Rosay, Micheline Cheirel, Lyne Clevers
Romance / War / Comedy / Drama / Period Film
France / Germany
French
3.5 Stars
1735
413
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady
Drama / Action / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1736
414
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1740
415
Wesley Ruggles
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr.
Drama / Western / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1741
416
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1744
417
Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1744
417
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1747
418
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1754
419
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1757
420
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1762
421
George Fitzmaurice
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1766
422
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
3.5 Stars
1766
422
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George
Drama / Horror / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1772
423
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1772
423
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1773
424
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Caper
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1782
425
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1783
426
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
3.5 Stars
1785
427
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1789
428
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1791
429
Henry Hathaway
James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1792
430
John Farrow
Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston
War / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1796
431
John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1797
432
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3.5 Stars
1801
433
Marc Connelly, William Keighley
Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed
Drama / Religion / Comedy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1801
433
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1808
434
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
3.5 Stars
1810
435
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, André Fouché
Drama
France
French
3.5 Stars
1810
435
Marc Allégret
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Auguste Mouriès
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
3.5 Stars
1810
435
Pál Fejös
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3.5 Stars
1812
436
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1818
437
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1821
438
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1821
438
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1823
439
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Hill
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1825
440
Zoltan Korda
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1827
441
René Clair
Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry
Drama / Romance
France
French
3.5 Stars
1833
442
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1834
443
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
3.5 Stars
1844
444
George Cukor
John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1849
445
Frank Borzage
Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive, Ivan Lebedeff
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1849
445
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
3.5 Stars
1849
445
Victor Fleming
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger, Lewis Stone
Adventure / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1861
446
Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
3.5 Stars
1867
447
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1871
448
Jack Conway
Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1874
449
Erich von Stroheim
Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1877
450
Alfred E. Green
Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1882
451
Karl Freund
Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1882
451
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1884
452
Victor Heerman
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1888
453
Jean Cocteau
Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talaza
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
3.5 Stars
1890
454
Cedric Gibbons, Jack Conway, James C. McKay
Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Action / Adventure / Romance / Cult / Family / Comic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1893
455
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3.5 Stars
1895
456
Mitchell Leisen
Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1896
457
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
3.5 Stars
1905
458
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
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