Best Movies of the Last 75 Years by Year
1442
1119
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
1459
1134
1953
John Ford
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1537
1194
1953
Charles Frend, Alec McCowen
Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott, John Warner
Drama / War
UK
English
1572
1225
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
1636
1278
1953
Philip Leacock
Duncan Macrae, Jean Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri
Family / Drama
UK
English
1647
1289
1953
Henry Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1837
1457
1953
Walter Lang
Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy De Wolfe
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1847
1466
1953
Morris Engel, Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin
Richie Andrusco, Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee
Drama / Adventure / Family
USA
English
1899
1511
1953
László Benedek
Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen
Drama / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
1929
1539
1953
John Ford
Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, Stepin Fetchit, John Russell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1943
1553
1953
Jean Negulesco
Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1988
1592
1953
Marcel Carné
Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Maria-Pia Casilio
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
France / Italy
French
2007
1609
1953
Luigi Comencini
Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Roberto Risso
Comedy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2048
1646
1953
George Sidney
Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2119
1715
1953
Arne Sucksdorff
Gunnar Sjöberg, Luis Van Rooten, Anders Nohrborg
Drama / Adventure / Family
Sweden
Swedish
2139
1734
1953
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel
Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy / Adventure
USA
English
2162
1757
1953
Charles Crichton
Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson, Godfrey Tearle
Comedy
UK
English
2195
1789
1953
Byron Haskin
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2213
1806
1953
Otto Preminger
William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn Addams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2229
1822
1953
André De Toth
Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2256
1849
1953
Roy Rowland
Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig
Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2284
1876
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2306
1898
1953
Ida Lupino
Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien, Kenneth Tobey
Drama
USA
English
2480
2063
1953
George More O'Ferrall
Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell, Denholm Elliott
Drama / War / Religion
UK
English
2519
2102
1953
Jack Arnold
Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer, Russell Johnson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2579
2156
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2604
2180
1953
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Edward D. Wood Jr.
Drama / Cult
USA
English
2606
2181
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2608
2183
1953
William Cameron Menzies
Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke
Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2608
2183
1953
Art Babbitt, Ted Parmelee
Stanley Baker, James Mason
Animation / Short / Crime / Horror
USA
English
2612
2186
1953
William A. Wellman
John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness, Andy Devine, Allyn Joslyn
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2612
2186
1953
Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas
Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Michèle Cordoue
Drama / Romance
France / Mexico
French
2612
2186
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
2696
2270
1953
Eugène Lourié
Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods
Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
2696
2270
1953
Peter Brook
Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway
Crime / History / Musical / Drama
UK
English
2696
2270
1953
David Butler
Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey
Biography / Comedy / Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
2696
2270
1953
Hideo Sekigawa
Takashi Kanda, Masao Mishima, Eiji Okada, Isuzu Yamada
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2696
2270
1953
Curtis Bernhardt
Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray, Russell Collins, Diosa Costello
Drama / Musical / Religion
USA
English
2696
2270
1953
Lima Barreto
Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico, Adoniran Barbosa
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Brazil
Portuguese
2696
2270
1953
Shirô Toyoda
Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Jukichi Uno, Eijirô Tono, Chouko Iida
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2715
2289
1953
unknown
Laurence Olivier, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2717
2291
1953
Ida Lupino
Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
2746
2319
1953
Irving Pichel
Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA / West Germany
English
2747
2320
1953
George More O'Ferrall
Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Cyril Raymond, Humphrey Lestocq
Drama / War / Action / Adventure
UK
English
2779
2351
1953
Victor Vicas, Beate von Mollo
Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John
Drama / Romance / War
West Germany
German
2794
2366
1953
Rafael Gil
Fernando Sancho, José Marco Davó, Francisco Rabal
Drama
Spain
Spanish
2794
2366
1953
Claude Autant-Lara
Danielle Darrieux, Henri Vilbert, Julien Carette, Ivan Desny
Drama / Romance
France
French
2794
2366
1953
Aleksandr Ptushko
Sergei Stolyarov, Alla Larionova, Yelena Myshkova, B. Surovtsev
Adventure / Fantasy
Soviet Union
Russian
2798
2369
1953
Charles Walters
Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2798
2369
1953
Don Weis
Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2798
2369
1953
Michelangelo Antonioni
Lucia Bosé, Gino Cervi, Ivan Desny, Alain Cuny
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
2798
2369
1953
Chris Marker, Alain Resnais
Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand
Documentary / Short
France
French
2798
2369
1953
Phil Karlson
John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2798
2369
1953
Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
James Mason, Moira Shearer, Ricky Nelson, Leslie Caron
Musical / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2803
2374
1953
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe, Richard Wyler
Adventure / Action / Romance
USA
English
2803
2374
1953
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2803
2374
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2806
2377
1953
Bimal Roy
Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Murad, Rajyalakshmi
Drama
India
Hindi
2806
2377
1953
Sergei Yutkevich
Akaki Khorava, Besa Imami, Adivie Alibali, Semyon Sokolovsky
Drama
Albania / Soviet Union
Albanian
2813
2384
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones
Comedy / Serial
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Robert Mulligan
Boris Karloff, Leslie Nielsen
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
David Butler
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Owen Crump
Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott, Albert Bernard Cook
Documentary / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Dick Beals, Bea Benaderet
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Richard Sale
Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Billy Gray, Cara Williams, Natalie Schafer
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
John Farrow
John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness, Rodolfo Acosta
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Western
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
George Marshall
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Angela Clarke, Stefan Schnabel
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Don Patterson
Grace Stafford, Dal McKennon
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Marc Daniels, Edward Sedgwick
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Roy Ward Baker
Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Jules White
Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold
Comedy / Short / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
John Farrow
Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory
Adventure / Action / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Jules White
Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Lewis R. Foster
Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Guy Mitchell, Teresa Brewer
Musical / Western / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Dan Duryea, Jay C. Flippen
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2823
2394
1953
George Seaton
Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, Nicole Maurey
Drama / War
USA
English
NR
-
1953
Carol Reed
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Geoffrey Toone, Hildegard Knef, Aribert Wäscher
Drama / Thriller / Action / Spy
UK
English
9
6
1952
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
54
40
1952
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
108
75
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
173
125
1952
René Clément
Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Drama / War
France
French
252
178
1952
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
293
207
1952
Vittorio De Sica
Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea
Drama
Italy
Italian
425
305
1952
Vincente Minnelli
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
449
325
1952
Jean Renoir
Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France / Italy
English
525
382
1952
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina
Drama
Italy
Italian
802
599
1952
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
842
630
1952
John Huston
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Drama / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
849
634
1952
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
951
719
1952
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1028
785
1952
Daniel Mann
Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth, Terry Moore, Richard Jaeckel
Drama
USA
English
1055
808
1952
Jacques Becker
Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
Crime / Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1065
816
1952
Cecil B. DeMille
Betty Hutton, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, James Stewart
Drama / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
1172
899
1952
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir
Drama / Period Film
USA / Italy / France / Morocco
English
1313
1013
1952
Luis Buñuel
Dan O'Herlihy, Felipe de Alba, Jaime Fernández, Chel López
Adventure / Drama
Mexico
English
1490
1158
1952
Howard Hawks
Kirk Douglas, Dewey Martin, Elizabeth Threatt
Western / Adventure
USA
English
1537
1194
1952
Otto Preminger
Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1566
1219
1952
Fritz Lang
Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Drama / Western / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1611
1257
1952
Luis Buñuel
Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker,
Drama / Comedy
Mexico
Spanish
1708
1343
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1750
1380
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1882
1496
1952
Alexander Mackendrick, Fred F. Sears
Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan, Mandy Miller
Drama
UK
English
1940
1550
1952
David Lean
Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Action / Adventure
UK
English
1963
1570
1952
Nicholas Ray
Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt
Action / Drama / Western
USA
English
1974
1579
1952
Richard Thorpe
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Adventure / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
2024
1624
1952
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegard Knef
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2042
1640
1952
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Drama / Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
2044
1642
1952
Frank Tashlin
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers, Trigger
Action / Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
2055
1652
1952
William Wyler
Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2083
1679
1952
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White
Comedy / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2109
1705
1952
Max Ophüls
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2179
1774
1952
René Clair
Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida, Magali Vendeuil
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
France / Italy
French
2229
1822
1952
Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Todd Jr.
Lowell Thomas
Documentary
USA
English
2256
1849
1952
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Kerima
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2267
1860
1952
Walter Lang
Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2353
1940
1952
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2398
1982
1952
Irving Reis
Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2413
1997
1952
George Sidney
Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2447
2030
1952
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Michael Denison, Walter Hudd
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2480
2063
1952
Julien Duvivier
Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi
Comedy / Drama
France / Italy
Italian
2485
2068
1952
Leo McCarey
Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger
Drama / Spy / Action
USA
English
2500
2083
1952
Fritz Lang
Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2504
2087
1952
Charles Vidor
Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge
Biography / Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2519
2102
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2550
2129
1952
Renato Castellani
Maria Fiore, Vincenzo Musolino, Filomena Russo
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2563
2141
1952
Russell Rouse
Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Vale
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2573
2150
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2576
2153
1952
André Cayatte
Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin
Drama
France / Italy
French
2585
2162
1952
George Cukor
Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray, Madge Kennedy, Sheila Bond
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2590
2166
1952
Samuel Fuller
Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs, Herbert Heyes
Drama
USA
English
2612
2186
1952
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter
Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
2612
2186
1952
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Yumiko Miyagino, Mitsuko Miura, Yuko Tsumura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Jukichi Uno
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2612
2186
1952
Stuart Heisler
Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson
Drama
USA
English
2696
2270
1952
Luis García Berlanga
José Isbert, Lolita Sevilla, Alberto Romea, Manolo Morán
Comedy
Spain
Spanish
2696
2270
1952
Arch Oboler
Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill, Paul McVey, Hope Miller
Adventure / Action / Drama
USA
English
2696
2270
1952
Ronald Neame
Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark, Edward Chapman
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2696
2270
1952
Christian-Jaque
Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Olivier Hussenot
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / War
Italy / France
French
2696
2270
1952
Henry Koster
Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, Ronald Squire, George Dolenz
Mystery / Romance / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2696
2270
1952
Vladimir Petrov
Igor Gorbachyov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya, Tamara Nosova
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2696
2270
1952
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Sergei Lukyanov, Natalya Medvedeva, Nikolai Timofeyev, Anatoli Chemodurov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2696
2270
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2747
2320
1952
Donald Swanson
Tommy Ramokgopa, Harriet Qubeka, Joseph Motuba, David Mnkwanazi, Victor Cwai
Comedy / Crime / Drama
South Africa
English
2762
2335
1952
Tex Avery
Daws Butler, Carlos Ramírez
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short / Musical
USA
English
2779
2351
1952
Erik Blomberg
Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä, Åke Lindman
Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Romance
Finland
Finnish
2794
2366
1952
Philip Leacock
John Gregson, Meg Buchanan, John Rae, Andrew Keir, Fulton Mackay
Drama
UK
English
2794
2366
1952
Jean Negulesco
Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Davis Roberts
Drama
USA
English
2795
2367
1952
Henry Koster
Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Ruth Hussey
Musical / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2798
2369
1952
Federico Fellini
Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2803
2374
1952
Hugo Fregonese
Millard Mitchell, Gilbert Roland, John Beal, Marshall Thompson, Alf Kjellin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
various
Lous Costello, Bud Abbott
Comedy / Documentary
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
George Sherman
Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Alice Kelley, Mildred Natwick
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
William Beaudine
Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita, Muriel Landers
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Douglas Sirk
Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari
Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
George Franju
Jeanne d'Alcy, François Lallement, André Méliès
Short / Documentary / Biography / Drama
France
French
2813
2384
1952
Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez, Gloria Grahame
Film-Noir / Adventure / Romance / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
James Sheldon
Wally Cox, Patricia Benoit, Gage Clarke, Norma Crane, Jenny Egan
Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco
Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Detective
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice
Adventure / Family / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
David Miller
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
various
Gertrude Berg, Eli Mintz, Arlene McQuade, Robert H. Harris, Tom Taylor
Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Lewis Seiler
Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican
Biography / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Walter Lantz, various
Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2813
2384
1952
Frederick De Cordova
Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews
Adventure
USA
English
2866
2434
1952
Vijay Bhatt
Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, Surendra, B.M. Vyas
Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2866
2434
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
109
76
1951
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Drama
USA
English
126
87
1951
Robert Bresson
Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, André Guibert, Rachel Bérendt
Drama / Religion
France
French
199
144
1951
Vincente Minnelli
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Musical / Romance
USA
English
209
150
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
248
174
1951
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Adventure / Romance / War / Comedy
UK / USA
English
337
240
1951
Charles Crichton
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
364
258
1951
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
448
324
1951
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
604
443
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
666
490
1951
Jean Renoir
Nora Swinburne, Patricia Walters, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee
Drama / Romance
France / India / USA
English
767
569
1951
László Benedek
Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell
Drama
USA
English
800
597
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1107
849
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1110
850
1951
Vittorio De Sica
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano
Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
Italy
Italian
1115
854
1951
William Wyler
Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Detective
USA
English
1131
866
1951
John Huston
Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick
War / History / Epic
USA
English
1580
1232
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
1645
1287
1951
Henry Hathaway
Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1692
1327
1951
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Ronald Howard
Drama
UK
English
1763
1392
1951
Yasujiro Ozu
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1780
1407
1951
Albert Lewin
James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
1792
1418
1951
Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1807
1431
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
1810
1433
1951
Zoltan Korda
Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey
Drama
UK / South Africa
English
1890
1503
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
1910
1522
1951
John Boulting
Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson
Biography / Drama
UK
English
1972
1577
1951
Samuel Fuller
Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards
Drama / War
USA
English
2139
1734
1951
Stanley Donen
Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2162
1757
1951
Alf Sjöberg
Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff, Lissi Alandh
Drama / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
2229
1822
1951
Robert Cannon
Marvin Miller
Animation / Short / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2238
1831
1951
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2274
1867
1951
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway
Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
2309
1901
1951
Mark Robson
Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2324
1915
1951
Richard Thorpe
Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna, Richard Hageman
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2347
1934
1951
Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh
Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2371
1957
1951
Joseph Losey
Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2497
2080
1951
Luchino Visconti
Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli
Drama
Italy
Italian
2504
2087
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2504
2087
1951
George Sidney
Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2519
2102
1951
Raoul Walsh
Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2519
2102
1951
Gordon Douglas
Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican, Richard Webb
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2521
2104
1951
John Cromwell, Nicholas Ray, Mel Ferrer
Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2560
2138
1951
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer, Renate Mannhardt
Drama / Thriller / War / Crime / Film-Noir
West Germany
German
2560
2138
1951
Joseph Losey
David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2612
2186
1951
Budd Boetticher
Robert Stack, Joy Page, Gilbert Roland, Virginia Grey, John Hubbard, Katy Jurado
Drama / Romance / Action / Sports
USA
English
2612
2186
1951
Mitchell Leisen
Gene Tierney, John Lund, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Jan Sterling
Comedy
USA
English
2612
2186
1951
Gordon Parry
John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2656
2230
1951
Michael Curtiz
Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore
Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2670
2244
1951
Akira Kurosawa
Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2696
2270
1951
Frederick De Cordova
Ronald Reagan, Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley, Jesse White
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2696
2270
1951
Nitin Bose
Nargis, Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Baby Tabassum, Jal Merchant, Parikshit
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Hindi
2696
2270
1951
Henry Hathaway
James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane
Action / Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2696
2270
1951
Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Elvira Quintillá
Comedy
Spain
Spanish
2696
2270
1951
Hal Walker
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman, Don DeFore, Robert Strauss, Leif Erickson
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2746
2319
1951
Harry Watt
Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Meredith Edwards
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2747
2320
1951
Gian Carlo Menotti
Marie Powers, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Leopoldo Savona, Belva Kibler, Beverly Dame
Drama / Film-Noir / Musical
Italy / USA
English
2747
2320
1951
Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart
Vittorio Manunta, Denis O'Dea, Nerio Bernardi, Roberto Adamina, Mimo Billi
Drama
UK
English
2747
2320
1951
Pat Jackson
Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle, Petula Clark, Jean Anderson
Drama
UK
English
2762
2335
1951
Cab Calloway, Zulme Calloway
Cab Calloway, Zulme Calloway
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2762
2335
1951
Frank Stauffacher
Vincent Price
Experimental / Documentary / Short
USA
English
2794
2366
1951
Georges Lacombe
Jean Gabin, Simone Valère, Gérard Oury
Drama
France
French
2794
2366
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2798
2369
1951
Anthony Mann
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
2798
2369
1951
Leo C. Popkin, Russell Rouse
Richard Rober, Gwendolyn Laster, Maidie Norman, George Hamilton
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2803
2374
1951
Vincente Minnelli
Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Edward Bernds
Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Don Beddoe, Gordon Jones, Patti Brady, Susan Morrow
Comedy / Comic
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Robert Parrish
Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Charles Barton
Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer, John Emery, Stanley Logan
Comedy / Adventure / Musical
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Arch Oboler
William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Edward Bernds
Scotty Beckett, Jimmy Lydon, Susan Morrow, Don Beddoe, Patti Brady
Comedy / Comic
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
John Farrow, Richard Fleischer
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Edward F. Cline, Arthur Hilton
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Ford, Harold Goodwin, Marcia Mae Jones, Eleanor Keaton
Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Roy Del Ruth
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Arthur Lubin
Ray Milland, Jan Sterling, Gene Lockhart, William Frawley, Elsie Holmes
Comedy / Family / Sports / Drama
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
John Hubley
Thurl Ravenscroft, Annette Warren
Animation / Short / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Curtis Bernhardt
Humphrey Bogart, Märta Torén, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Stuart Heisler
Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2813
2384
1951
Henry Levin
Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox, Griff Barnett
Crime / Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2850
2418
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2866
2434
1951
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Drama / Family / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
