Best Classic Movies 70+ Years Old by Rank
2807
939
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
939
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1925
Malcolm St. Clair
Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey, Chester Conklin
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1950
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2807
939
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
939
1925
Gregory La Cava
Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams, Olive Tell
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1952
Walter Lantz, various
Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
939
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1952
Frederick De Cordova
Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews
Adventure
USA
English
2807
939
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
939
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2807
939
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
939
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2809
940
1932
Clarence Brown
Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2809
940
1922
Sidney Franklin
Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Glenn Hunter
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
940
1926
Cecil B. DeMille
William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi, Julia Faye
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
940
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2813
941
1929
Raoul Walsh
Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Leila Karnelly, El Brendel
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2817
942
1932
John M. Stahl
Irene Dunne, John Boles, June Clyde, George Meeker, Zasu Pitts
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2817
942
1922
Elmer Clifton
Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2817
942
1929
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2817
942
1953
George Seaton
Bing Crosby, Claude Dauphin, Christian Fourcade, Gabrielle Dorziat, Nicole Maurey
Drama / War
USA
English
2817
942
1927
Edwin Carewe
Rod La Rocque, Dolores del Rio, Rita Carewe, Marc McDermott, Lucy Beaumont
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2817
942
1926
Millard Webb
John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin, Sam Baker
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2817
942
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
2820
943
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
2821
944
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2821
944
1925
Ernst Lubitsch
Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow, Willard Louis
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2821
944
1930
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Betty Lawford
Drama
USA
English
2821
944
1922
Frank Lloyd
Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2824
946
1934
Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley
Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2824
946
1945
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2837
947
1935
David Butler
Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Family / Drama
USA
English
2837
947
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2839
948
1933
Ernst Lubitsch
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2843
950
1937
Ernst Lubitsch
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2844
951
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2858
952
1937
Michal Waszynski
Avrom Morevski, Isaac Samberg, Moyshe Lipman, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold
Fantasy / Romance
Poland
Yiddish
2858
952
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2858
952
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2860
953
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
953
1951
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Drama / Family / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
953
1952
Vijay Bhatt
Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, Surendra, B.M. Vyas
Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2860
953
1954
Allan Dwan
Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller
Western
USA
English
2860
953
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2860
953
1933
Yu Sun
Zhanfei Gao, Li-li Li, Juanjuan Ye, Congmei Yuan
Drama
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2860
953
1931
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
2860
953
1932
Oscar Micheaux
Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Juano Hernandez, Bud Harris
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2860
953
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2860
953
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2860
953
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
2860
953
1934
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2860
953
1938
Marcel Carné
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Drama
France
French
2860
953
1954
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2860
953
1938
Abel Gance
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max
Drama / Horror / War
France
French
2860
953
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
953
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2860
953
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
2860
953
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
953
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2860
953
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
2860
953
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
953
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2860
953
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2860
953
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
953
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2860
953
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
953
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2860
953
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
NR
-
1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1939
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice
Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Comedy / Musical / Western / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1926
Dick Smith
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1934
Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen
Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1953
Carol Reed
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Geoffrey Toone, Hildegard Knef, Aribert Wäscher
Drama / Thriller / Action / Spy
UK
English
NR
-
1943
Dave Fleischer, Dan Gordon, Isadore Sparber, Seymour Kneitel
Jack Mercer, Margie Hines, Dave Barry, William Pennell, Tedd Pierce, Gilbert Mack
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1938
William A. Seiter
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson
Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1941
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
