Best Color Films by Year
2126
1553
1935
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2647
2032
1935
David Hand
Billy Bletcher
Animation / Comedy / Family / Musical / Short / Mystery
USA
English
2725
2103
1935
Ben Sharpsteen
Tommy Bupp
Family / Comedy / Animation / Musical / Short
USA
English
2725
2103
1935
Friz Freleng
Tommy Bond, The Debutantes
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Music
USA
English
2766
2136
1935
David Butler
Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
Family / Drama
USA
English
1769
1243
1934
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2725
2103
1934
Earl Duvall, Friz Freleng
Bernard B. Brown, Shirley Reed, The Rhythmettes, The Varsity Three
Family / Animation / Musical / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2725
2103
1934
Roy Del Ruth
Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2725
2103
1934
unknown
Leo Carrillo, Ted Fio Rito, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band
Short / Music
USA
English
2004
1441
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2663
2046
1933
Burt Gillett
Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Walt Disney, Mary Moder, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Musical / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2725
2103
1933
Jack Cummings
Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Henry Armetta, Bonnie Bonnell
Comedy / Short / Musical
USA
English
2725
2103
1933
Nick Grinde
Pete Smith, Luis Alberni, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn
Comedy / Fantasy / Short
USA
English
2637
2024
1932
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2663
2046
1932
Burt Gillett
Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Esther Campbell, Marion Darlington
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2725
2103
1932
unknown
Patsy Kelly, Roy Fant, Judy Garland, Marjorie Beebe, Janet Reade
Short / Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2725
2103
1931
Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer
Animation / Comedy
USA
English
1687
1173
1930
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2452
1848
1930
Thornton Freeland
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2490
1884
1930
John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös
Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker
Music / Animation
USA
English
2725
2103
1930
Albert S. Rogell
Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming, Will Stanton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2442
1839
1929
Luther Reed
Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2445
1841
1929
Roy Del Ruth
Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2607
1998
1929
Charles Reisner
Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Marion Davies
Musical
USA
English
2630
2018
1929
Alan Crosland
Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2630
2018
1929
Leo McCarey
Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, Josephine Dunn, Anita Garvin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2647
2032
1929
Pál Fejös
Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Musical / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2725
2103
1929
Harry Edwards
Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers, Daphne Pollard, Matty Kemp, Carole Lombard
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1929
Victor Schertzinger
Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Jane Novak, Larry Steers, Tully Marshall, Bernard Siegel
Western / Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1928
Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2452
1848
1927
F. Richard Jones
Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Adventure / Romance / Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2461
1856
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
1172
775
1926
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1926
Reginald Barker
Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, Gardner James, William Austin
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2758
2130
1926
Howard Hawks
George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Phyllis Haver, George Beranger
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
949
611
1925
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1341
902
1925
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
1711
1193
1925
Harry O. Hoyt, William Dowling
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery, Arthur Hoyt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1925
Monta Bell
Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman, Bernard Randall
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1753
1227
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2021
1455
1923
Cecil B. DeMille
Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, James Neill
Drama / Religion / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1922
Chester M. Franklin
Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran, Etta Lee
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2663
2046
1922
John Capstaff
Mae Murray, Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton
Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1921
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1917
Wray Bartlett Physioc
Grace Darmond, Niles Welch, Herbert Fortier, Violet Axzelle, Charles Brandt
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2157
1582
1914
Winsor McCay
George McManus, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan, Roy L. McCardell, Winsor McCay
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2766
2136
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2663
2046
1911
Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton
John Bunny, Winsor McCay, George McManus
Short / Animation / Documentary / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2725
2103
1911
William F. Haddock
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Drama
USA
English
2725
2103
1909
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2725
2103
1907
Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Short / Fantasy / Horror / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2725
2103
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
1288
860
1903
Edwin S. Porter
A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron
Short / Action / Crime / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2018
1903
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2725
2103
1900
Clément Maurice
Benoit Constant Coquelin
Drama / Short
France
French
