BFI Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2012
703
30
88
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
535
31
1994
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Drama / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
2266
88
1969
Jacques Rivette
Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, André S. Labarthe
Drama
France
French
1734
30
1974
Robert Bresson
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2751
31
1912
Dorothy G. Shore
Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2848
31
88
1971
Werner Herzog
Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, Fini Straubinger
Documentary / Biography
West Germany
German
2788
31
1928
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
362
86
1972
Bernardo Bertolucci
Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
Drama / Romance / Adult
Italy / France
English
280
31
88
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2314
71
1965
Agnès Varda
Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot, Sandrine Drouot
Drama / Romance
France
French
274
87
1970
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
Drama / Thriller / Horror
France / Italy
French
2741
87
1977
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Experimental
France
French
2598
31
1966
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster / Caper / Post-Noir
France
French
275
31
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
2859
31
1970
Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Gian Maria Volonté, Anne Wiazemsky, Paolo Pozzesi
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2845
30
88
1968
Maurice Pialat
Michel Tarrazon, Linda Gutenberg, Raoul Billerey
Drama
France
French
2332
30
1945
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2859
31
1971
John D. Hancock
Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2086
31
1933
Max Ophüls
Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Germany
German
2859
31
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2461
31
1992
Paul Schrader
Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2771
78
1931
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2844
87
1999
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Moussa Baldé, Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Dieynaba Laam, Tayerou M'Baye
Drama
Senegal / France / Switzerland / Germany
Wolof
328
84
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
796
31
1983
Bill Forsyth
Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Comedy / Drama / Cult
UK
English
1558
31
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
559
31
1962
Stanley Kubrick
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Gary Cockrell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / UK
English
2297
31
1997
Adrian Lyne
Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain
Drama / Romance
USA / France
English
860
31
87
1996
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
USA
English
1274
80
1992
Terence Davies
Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont
Biography / Drama
UK
English
2859
31
1968
Peter Collinson
David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie
Drama / War
UK
English
2730
86
2018
Gan Bi
Wei Tang, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee, Yongzhong Chen
Drama / Mystery
China / France
Mandarin
2843
31
87
1971
Kira Muratova
Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko, Yuri Kayurov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
211
81
2001
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
New Zealand / USA
English
172
88
2003
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
USA / New Zealand
English
2859
31
1972
Raymundo Gleyzer
Víctor Proncet, Raúl Fraire, Susana Lanteri
Drama / Crime
Argentina
Spanish
2544
78
1982
Kathleen Collins
Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Duane Jones, Billie Allen, Gary Bolling, Noberto Kerner
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
346
81
2003
Sofia Coppola
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Drama / Comedy
USA / Japan
English
710
31
1939
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1423
31
1975
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu
Comedy / War
USA
English
2844
87
2016
Arthur Jafa
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cassi Namoda, Bayard Rustin, Walter Scott
Short / History / Documentary
USA
English
1709
31
87
1991
Leos Carax
Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber
Drama / Romance
France
French
2497
84
2020
Steve McQueen
Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, Micheal Ward, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Shaniqua Okwok
Drama
UK
English
287
28
87
1965
Milos Forman
Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2859
31
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2681
31
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2292
31
1969
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2858
30
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
691
72
2015
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
1613
31
83
1931
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1094
31
1960
John Sturges
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Family
USA
English
737
31
84
1992
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1630
85
1962
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
1293
31
1992
Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert
Horror / Comedy / Crime / Drama
Belgium
French
2849
31
1993
Raoul Peck
Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau
Drama
France / Canada
Haitian
799
31
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1358
31
1958
Anthony Mann
Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord
Romance / Western / Cult
USA
English
2838
85
1968
Ousmane Sembene
Makhouredia Gueye, Ynousse N'Diaye, Isseu Niang, Mustapha Ture, Farba Sarr
Comedy / Drama
Senegal / France
Wolof
2859
31
1993
Yousry Nasrallah
Zaki Abdel Wahab, Taheya Cariocca, Seif El Dine, Youssra
Drama / Adventure / Romance
Egypt / France
Arabic
1655
85
2011
Kenneth Lonergan
Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick
Drama
USA
English
2181
86
2006
Sofia Coppola
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period Film
Japan / France / USA
English
318
88
1979
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen
Drama / War
West Germany
German
543
31
1964
Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
1278
81
2012
Paul Thomas Anderson
Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, Laura Dern
Drama / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
1960
31
1972
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Biography
Italy
Italian
2206
87
1975
Lino Brocka
Bembol Roco, Hilda Koronel, Lou Salvador Jr., Princess Reymundo, Tommy Abuel
Drama / Adventure
Philippines
Tagalog
225
30
85
1973
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA
English
2550
31
1984
Mike Leigh
Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Pam Ferris, Jeff Robert
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2013
31
87
1963
Jean-Daniel Pollet, Volker Schlöndorff
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2112
82
2010
Kelly Reichardt
Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson, Will Patton
Western
USA
English
496
88
2000
Christopher Nolan
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
2500
81
2003
Joon-ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
South Korea
Korean
2703
82
2006
Michael Mann
Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1787
83
1976
Elaine May
Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Rose Arrick
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
367
31
88
1945
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2665
81
2001
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Qi Shu, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Jun Takeuchi
Drama / Romance
Taiwan / France
Cantonese
1108
30
84
1951
Vittorio De Sica
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano
Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
Italy
Italian
1357
31
1961
John Huston
Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
1545
31
1985
Paul Schrader
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Drama / Biography
USA
Japanese
2843
31
87
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2735
87
1965
Marlen Khutsiyev
Valentin Popov, Nikolai Gubenko, Stanislav Lyubshin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2844
87
1958
Jean Rouch
Oumarou Ganda, Gambi, Petit Touré, Alassane Maiga, Amadou Demba
Drama / Documentary
France
French
400
31
81
1958
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy
Italy / France
French
2859
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
962
31
85
2001
Mira Nair
Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome
Drama / Romance / Comedy
India / USA / France / Italy / Germany
Hindi
627
31
86
1979
Terry Jones
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Comedy / Religion / Cult
UK
English
578
44
2016
Barry Jenkins
Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert, Janelle Monáe
Drama
USA
English
1691
74
2002
Lynne Ramsay
Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Ruby Milton, Dolly Wells
Drama
UK
English
2035
87
2009
Joon-ho Bong
Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, Young-Suck Lee
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
758
31
1957
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
2794
31
1961
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Drama / Religion / Period Film
Poland
Polish
2859
31
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
408
31
88
2001
Baz Luhrmann
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor
Drama / Musical / Romance
Australia / USA
English
2108
88
1976
Joseph Losey
Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
2613
31
88
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2800
81
1969
Chadi Abdel Salam
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmad Anan, Shafik Nour El Din
Drama
Egypt
Arabic
2859
31
1975
Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Drama
Cameroon
French
775
31
1979
Gillian Armstrong
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Australia
English
1840
88
1972
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler
Biography / Drama / War
UK
English
726
31
1985
Lasse Hallström
Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén
Drama / Comedy / Family
Sweden
Swedish
2859
31
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
406
31
1936
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2104
86
1989
Ildikó Enyedi
Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovsky, Paulus Manker
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Hungary / West Germany / Cuba
Hungarian
2859
31
1955
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
2764
88
1964
Samuel Fuller
Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
1027
30
1924
Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2844
87
1997
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi
Animation / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
163
30
87
1976
Sidney Lumet
Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1662
80
1971
Elaine May
Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose, James Coco
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1925
86
2005
Terrence Malick
Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
1906
87
1977
Martin Scorsese
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus
Musical / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2084
41
1976
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
Belgium / France / West Germany
French
1846
31
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
2859
31
1989
Tracey Moffatt
Akira Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle, Agnes Hardwick, Marcia Langton
Short / Drama
Australia
English
2562
88
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2859
31
1991
David Greene
Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid, Amy Bebout, Reid Binion
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
555
31
1982
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
263
31
88
1939
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2841
86
1992
Barbara Hammer
Jerre, Maria, Ruth, Sandy Binford, Peter Cramer, Barbara Hammer
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2849
31
1985
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
2831
84
2015
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman, Sylvaine Akerman
Documentary
Belgium / France
French
567
83
2020
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
2859
31
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
2844
87
1970
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray, Archie Savage
Documentary / Music
Italy
Italian
2038
86
1964
Michael Roemer
Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Drama
USA
English
2735
87
2000
João Pedro Rodrigues
Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato, Andre Barbosa, Eurico Vieira
Drama / Adult
Portugal
Portuguese
1095
31
88
1973
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Drama / Musical / Comedy
UK / USA
English
364
30
88
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2629
30
1967
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene
Drama
Italy / Morocco
Italian
2748
76
1967
Med Hondo
Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise M'Bia, Gabriel Glissant
Drama
France / Mauritania
French
2859
31
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2844
87
2006
Kelly Reichardt
Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran
Drama
USA
English
377
84
2003
Chan-wook Park
Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim
Action / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
South Korea
Korean
491
31
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
2292
31
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1089
81
2019
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
2582
86
1977
Agnès Varda
Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
Drama / Romance
Venezuela / France / Belgium
French
1395
31
1961
Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Comedy
USA
English
2734
75
1977
Sara Gómez
Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Drama / Romance
Cuba
Spanish
1889
88
1920
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1321
87
1964
Kaneto Shindô
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Drama / Horror
Japan
Japanese
2859
31
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1517
31
1998
Don Roos
Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Comedy
USA
English
2735
31
1963
Mario Monicelli
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Crime / Drama
Italy / France / Yugoslavia
Italian
2140
30
73
1992
Sally Potter
Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Bott
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Period Film
UK / Russia / France / Italy / Netherlands
English
602
88
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
2068
31
1934
King Vidor
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
817
31
83
1923
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
960
31
1976
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Western / Drama
USA
English
2550
31
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2384
88
2017
Paul King
Michael Gambon, Imelda Staunton, Ben Whishaw, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
UK / France / USA
English
1991
31
1977
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Drama
Italy
Italian
2694
83
1926
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2563
30
88
1971
Kamal Amrohi
Raaj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Nadira, Veena
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Urdu
368
29
88
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
175
81
2006
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
2748
88
2006
Satoshi Kon
Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya
Animation / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Detective
Japan
Japanese
858
31
1974
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
399
53
2019
Joon-ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Seo-joon Park
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1872
71
1990
Jennie Livingston
Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Sol Pendavis
Documentary
USA
English
2788
31
1983
Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Paul Melchert, Yves Stening, Sean Callinan, David Benton
Short / Drama / Experimental / Comedy / Fantasy
Australia
English
2859
31
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2859
31
1982
Jane Campion
Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Short / Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
2844
87
2002
Leslie Thornton
Drama / Experimental / Epic
USA
English
1252
88
1986
Hark Tsui
Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng, Kenneth Tsang, Ma Wu
Comedy / Action / Drama
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1882
84
1930
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
751
31
1937
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
2788
31
1978
Eric Rohmer
Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2462
84
1977
Kidlat Tahimik
Kidlat Tahimik, Dolores Santamaria, Mang Fely, Georgette Baudry, Harmut Lerch
Drama / Comedy
Philippines
English
562
83
2007
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Tilly Mandelbrot
Animation / Drama / Comic
France
French
2550
31
1935
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Romance / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
1737
77
2021
Céline Sciamma
Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
Drama / Fantasy
France
French
2565
85
1974
Brian De Palma
Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1539
77
2017
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Sue Clark, Joan Brown
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
261
31
83
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
253
88
2002
Roman Polanski
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Katarzyna Figura
Drama / War / Period Film
Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
826
86
2001
Michael Haneke
Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Drama
France / Austria
French
2549
88
2014
Roy Andersson
Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom
Drama / Comedy
Sweden / Germany / Norway / France
Swedish
2379
31
1996
Peter Greenaway
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Drama / Romance / Experimental
France / UK / Netherlands
English
1068
78
1972
John Waters
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Edith Massey
Comedy / Crime / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2025
31
1976
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
212
84
1940
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
365
31
1951
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2640
88
1961
Luis García Berlanga
Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
276
31
1992
Robert Altman
Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
475
85
1967
John Boorman
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
2371
85
1991
Kathryn Bigelow
Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Sports / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
802
34
2019
Céline Sciamma
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Drama / Romance
France
French
1601
86
1948
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
864
83
2021
Jane Campion
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Drama / Romance / Western
UK / Australia / USA / Canada / New Zealand
English
1563
31
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
185
31
87
1967
Mel Brooks
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor
Comedy / Musical / Cult
USA
English
402
86
2009
Jacques Audiard
Niels Arestrup, Alaa Oumouzoune, Tahar Rahim, Gilles Cohen, Farid Elouardi
Crime / Drama / Gangster
France / Italy
French
2859
31
1970
Manoj Kumar
Ashok Kumar, Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Bharti, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2550
31
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
1289
31
1979
Franc Roddam
Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett
Drama / Music / Cult
UK
English
2030
31
1932
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Sergei Bondarchuk, Grigori Aleksandrov
Documentary / Experimental / Romance
Soviet Union / USA / Mexico
Russian (Silent)
1391
31
1968
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons
Drama
USA
English
2594
31
1993
Ken Loach
Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix, Ricky Tomlinson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2791
31
1958
Leo McCarey
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Comedy / War
USA
English
1264
31
1942
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2779
79
1999
Lynne Ramsay
Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart, Lynne Ramsay Jr.
Drama
UK / France
English
227
31
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1315
31
88
1949
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
893
86
1967
Miklós Jancsó
József Madaras, Tibor Molnár
Drama / War
Hungary / Soviet Union
Hungarian
2059
85
1965
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2859
31
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
757
31
1987
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Liu Jia, Cunhua Ji
Drama / War / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2841
86
1989
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Mariella Valentini, Alfonso Santagata
Comedy / Sports / Drama
Italy / France
Italian
254
31
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
824
30
1993
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2602
87
1941
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
1071
31
88
2000
Darren Aronofsky
Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
845
31
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
756
31
1962
Sam Peckinpah
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
2196
88
2017
Chloé Zhao
Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier
Drama / Western
USA
English
2378
30
1990
Ken Loach
Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Richard Belgrave, Jim R. Coleman
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
1656
31
1950
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Romance / Western
USA
English
1445
88
1987
Paul Verhoeven
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox
Sci-Fi / Action / Crime
USA
English
259
31
87
1976
John G. Avildsen
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
Drama / Romance / Sports / Family
USA
English
2859
31
1977
John Flynn
William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
530
82
2018
Alfonso Cuarón
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Drama
Mexico / USA
Spanish
1791
31
1996
Baz Luhrmann
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1422
31
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1977
31
85
1936
Joseph Cornell
Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson
Short / Experimental
USA
English
1363
88
1983
Francis Ford Coppola
Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid
Drama
USA
English
430
88
1998
Tom Tykwer
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German
2680
31
1985
Amir Naderi
Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh
Drama
Iran
Persian
1241
87
1969
David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Melbourne I. Feltman
Documentary
USA
English
1206
31
1954
Herbert J. Biberman
Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe
Drama
USA
English
2650
69
1972
Sarah Maldoror
Elisa Andrade, Domingos de Oliveira, Jean M'Vondo, Dino Abelino
Drama
Angola / France
Portuguese
2681
31
1936
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
380
31
1960
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
1569
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2859
31
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
813
30
86
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2841
86
1967
Mikio Naruse
Yûzô Kayama, Yôko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
36
30
81
1993
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
500
31
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
1114
87
2009
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
USA / UK / France
English
695
88
1995
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1064
84
1975
Lina Wertmüller
Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Comedy / Drama / War
Italy
Italian
880
86
1925
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2841
86
1965
John Ford
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
1218
88
1943
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
360
31
88
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
777
87
1932
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2225
88
1978
Chia-Liang Liu
John Cheung, Chia Hui Liu, Yu Wang, Lieh Lo, Chia Yung Liu, Norman Chu
Action / Drama
Hong Kong
English
314
84
1994
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown
Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
897
30
1949
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
2476
85
1916
Lois Weber
Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting, Jessie Arnold, William V. Mong
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2594
31
87
1975
Ramesh Sippy
Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Adventure / Action / Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller
India
Hindi
996
85
2018
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2838
85
1995
Paul Verhoeven
Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi
Drama / Cult
France / USA
English
77
84
1991
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine
Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult / Horror
USA
English
2797
30
1994
Moufida Tlatli
Amel Hedhili, Najia Ouerghi, Hend Sabri, Fatima Ben Saïdane
Drama
France / Tunisia
Arabic
2859
31
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2048
88
1931
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2859
31
2000
Guy Ritchie
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Alan Ford, Vinnie Jones, Ewen Bremner
Crime / Comedy / Caper / Gangster
UK / USA
English
111
88
1937
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
413
88
2010
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2752
88
1963
Vera Chytilová
Jirí Kodet, Eva Bosáková
Documentary / Drama / Sports
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2426
88
1993
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Action / Drama / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2859
31
1990
Ann Hui
Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li
Drama
Hong Kong / Taiwan
Cantonese
2859
31
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2622
87
2019
Joanna Hogg
Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Tom Burke, Honor Swinton Byrne, Jack McMullen
Drama / Mystery / Romance
UK / USA
English
247
29
1960
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
2101
88
1977
Ettore Scola
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Drama / Romance
Italy / Canada
Italian
2841
86
2008
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Sci-Fi / Sports
USA / UK / Germany / Japan
English
2087
31
2002
David Cronenberg
Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave
Drama / Mystery
Canada / UK
English
1913
88
2018
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry
Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
781
31
1970
Bernardo Bertolucci
Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Drama / Mystery
Italy
Italian
2598
31
1968
Federico Fellini
Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone, Anne Tonietti, Marina Yaru, Fabrizio Angeli
Drama / Horror
France / Italy
French
948
85
1986
Rob Reiner
Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
371
85
1980
Irvin Kershner
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
2236
88
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
1946
88
1997
Paul Verhoeven
Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
USA
English
2858
30
1974
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
Drama
Iran
Persian
2590
82
2008
Hirokazu Koreeda
Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Kirin Kiki
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1032
87
1984
Jonathan Demme
David Byrne, Alex Weir, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
Documentary / Music
USA
English
1909
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne
Comedy / Drama
France
French
833
31
1992
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
873
31
1999
David Lynch
Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth, Jane Galloway
Drama / Adventure / Cult
France / UK / USA
English
2859
31
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
209
30
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
694
31
1971
Sam Peckinpah
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2210
31
1994
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz
Drama / Comedy
Cuba / Mexico / Spain
Spanish
1834
30
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2735
87
2013
Ming-liang Tsai
Shiang-chyi Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi Cheng Lee, Yi Chieh Lee, Yi Ching Lu
Drama
France / Taiwan
Mandarin
2848
31
88
1986
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Feliks Stawinski
Short / Experimental
UK
English
401
30
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1418
88
1977
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Drama / Comedy
West Germany
English
2256
30
86
1983
Euzhan Palcy
Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck
Drama
France
French
2598
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1922
86
1953
John Ford
Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, Stepin Fetchit, John Russell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
810
31
1978
Richard Donner
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Crime / Family / Comic
UK
English
2515
87
1987
Todd Haynes
Rob LaBelle, Gwen Kraus, Bruce Tuthill
Short / Biography / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
2643
84
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
494
78
1977
Dario Argento
Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Horror
Italy / West Germany
English
2859
31
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2859
31
1971
John G. Avildsen
Bob Brady, Gordon Felio, Roz Kelly, Nancy Salmon
Romance / Drama
USA
English
463
31
1997
Atom Egoyan
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Drama
Canada
English
331
31
1936
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2859
31
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1997
73
1968
William Greaves
Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Bob Rosen, Susan Anspach, Jonathan Gordon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2560
88
2012
Miguel Gomes
Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Henrique Espírito Santo
Drama / Romance
Portugal / Germany / Brazil / France
Portuguese
2737
31
87
1985
Edward Yang
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wu Nien-Chen, Mei Fang, Tsai Chin, Su-Yun Ko
Drama / Romance
Taiwan
Taiwanese
1534
87
1999
Anthony Minghella
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
1801
31
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
2519
31
2000
Agnès Jaoui
Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
719
31
2002
Abbas Kiarostami
Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh
Drama / Documentary / Experimental
France / Iran / USA
Persian
620
31
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
486
31
86
1984
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
476
85
1991
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Drama
France / USA
English
228
31
86
1991
Ridley Scott
Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2859
31
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2859
31
1981
Peter Bogdanovich
Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter
Comedy / Romance / Detective
USA
English
1135
31
1945
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
527
30
1940
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
2109
31
1974
Robert Altman
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
1104
30
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2049
82
2008
Claire Denis
Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Grégoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly
Drama / Romance
France / Germany
French
293
31
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
1268
31
1993
François Girard
Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands
English
2748
87
2011
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Documentary
Iran
Persian
2859
31
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
625
31
1999
David O. Russell
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
War / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Caper
USA
English
1624
31
1957
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
1142
82
1977
Robert Altman
Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Drama
USA
English
2720
31
87
1918
Louis Feuillade
Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
1431
88
2014
Abderrahmane Sissako
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Mehdi A.G. Mohamed
Drama
France / Mauritania
French
2764
88
2020
Garrett Bradley
Rob G. Rich, Rob Rich II, Fox Rich, Freedom Rich, Justus Rich, Laurence M. Rich
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
1634
31
2000
Bahman Ghobadi
Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini
Drama / Crime
Iran
Persian
2305
30
1988
Emir Kusturica
Davor Dujmovic, Bora Todorovic, Ljubica Adzovic, Husnija Hasimovic
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
UK / Italy / Yugoslavia
Romany
456
31
1979
Volker Schlöndorff
Mario Adorf, David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
Drama / Period Film / War
West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia
German
2674
30
1959
William Castle
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2161
85
2021
Julia Ducournau
Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
France / Belgium
French
2729
85
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
980
31
1994
Yimou Zhang
You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong, Deng Fei, Tao Guo, Wu Jiang, Zhang Lu
Drama
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2052
30
88
1990
Charles Burnett
Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Paul Butler, Mary Alice
Drama
USA
English
1996
31
1941
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1569
88
1935
Jean Renoir
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia
Drama / Crime
France
French
822
82
2016
Maren Ade
Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl
Comedy / Drama
Germany / Austria
German
1988
85
1982
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Experimental / Drama / Documentary
France
German
772
30
1999
Mike Leigh
Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Comedy / Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
596
31
1996
Danny Boyle
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2815
82
1976
Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis
Albino S. Pedro, Carlos Margarido, Mariana Margarido, Luis Ferreira, Armando Manuel
Drama
Portugal
Portuguese
543
31
79
1978
Ermanno Olmi
Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianin
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
1239
31
1962
Orson Welles
Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
English
485
31
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
2815
82
2001
Claire Denis
Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, Florence Loiret Caille
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Romance
France / Germany / Japan / Luxembourg
French
1480
31
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
619
86
2013
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
2760
77
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2748
76
1992
David Lynch
Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Phoebe Augustine
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
France / USA
English
2618
67
2017
David Lynch
Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell, Miguel Ferrer
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
508
88
1971
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Romance / Drama / Period Film
France
French
1554
31
1992
Claude Sautet
Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier
Drama / Romance / Music
France
French
2859
31
1997
John Greyson
Michael Achtman, Matthew Ferguson, Damon D'Oliveira
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Canada
English
1917
73
2013
Jonathan Glazer
Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Jessica Mance, Joe Szula
Drama / Sci-Fi
UK
English
1739
85
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George
Drama / Horror / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2859
31
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2592
87
2019
Jordan Peele
Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Shahadi Wright Joseph
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Japan / USA
English
2833
88
1995
Claire Denis
Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin, Martine Gautier
Drama / Romance
France
French
353
31
1995
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
626
50
1985
Agnès Varda
Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère
Drama
France / UK
French
2766
31
1965
Luchino Visconti
Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Renzo Ricci
Drama
Italy
Italian
2841
86
1978
Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina
Luis Alfonso Londoño, Carlos Mayolo, Ramiro Arbeláez
Short / Comedy
Colombia
Spanish
2859
31
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2838
85
1983
Bette Gordon
Sandy McLeod, Will Patton, Richard M. Davidson, Luis Guzmán, Nan Goldin
Drama
USA / West Germany / UK
English
1816
31
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2722
85
1999
Sofia Coppola
James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
2738
86
2019
Pedro Costa
Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito
Drama
Portugal
Portuguese
2841
86
1978
Gonzalo García Pelayo
Miguel Ángel Iglesias, Ana Bernal, Lola Sordo, Guillermo Méndez
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
2849
31
1996
Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
446
88
2008
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
1063
31
1956
King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Drama / Romance / War / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
1198
31
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
2415
71
1996
Cheryl Dunye
Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Cheryl Clarke
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2684
31
1987
Michel Khleifi
Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury
Drama
Israel / France / Belgium
Arabic
2264
83
2008
Kelly Reichardt
Michelle Williams, Will Patton, Will Oldham, John Robinson, Wally Dalton
Drama
USA
English
1682
88
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
2686
71
1979
Med Hondo
Cyril Aventurin, Fernand Berset, Roland Bertin, Gérald Bloncourt
Drama / Musical
France / Algeria / Mauritania
French
101
31
83
1961
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Musical / Romance / Drama / Family
USA
English
2455
31
87
1960
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
407
31
86
1989
Rob Reiner
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2395
31
1956
Fritz Lang
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1466
87
2014
Damien Chazelle
Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, J.K. Simmons, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair
Drama / Music
USA
English
1713
31
1961
Bryan Forbes
Bernard Lee, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Norman Bird
Drama / Religion / Family
UK
English
442
28
1994
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Comedy / Drama
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
Polish
1891
88
1995
Jafar Panahi
Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadr Orfani, Anna Borkowska
Drama / Family / Adventure
Iran
Persian
272
30
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
2473
31
1957
Luchino Visconti
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2800
81
1982
Chantal Akerman
Angelo Abazoglou, Frank Aendenboom, Natalia Akerman, Véronique Alain
Drama
Belgium / France / Netherlands / Canada
French
2859
31
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
741
82
1973
Robin Hardy
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
UK
English
2441
86
1990
David Lynch
Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman
Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
2838
85
1959
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2742
86
1957
John Ford
John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis
Drama / Biography / War
USA
English
2859
31
1962
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
1832
87
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
736
84
1987
Bruce Robinson
Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick
Comedy / Cult
UK
English
2859
31
1978
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama
Poland / France
Polish
2790
30
1981
François Truffaut
Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin
Drama / Romance
France
French
218
31
86
1988
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2802
31
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2733
88
2014
Alice Rohrwacher
Monica Bellucci, Alba Rohrwacher, Margarete Tiesel, André Hennicke
Drama
Italy / Switzerland / Germany
Italian
2156
88
1986
Lizzie Borden
Louise Smith, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell, Marusia Zach, Amanda Goodwin
Drama
USA
English
144
88
2001
Alfonso Cuarón
Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
384
81
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2859
31
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
2573
85
2017
Lynne Ramsay
Joaquin Phoenix, Dante Pereira-Olson, Larry Canady, Vinicius Damasceno, Neo Randall
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK / France
English
1309
87
1970
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Drama
USA
English
2545
74
2017
Lucrecia Martel
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Drama
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Dominican Republic / France / Netherlands / Mexico / Switzerland / USA / Portugal / Lebanon
Spanish
2681
31
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
