Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
214
1
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
241
2
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
244
3
Lewis Milestone
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
316
4
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
986
5
Josef von Sternberg
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
Romance / Drama
USA
English
1608
6
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1646
7
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1791
8
René Clair
Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry
Drama / Romance
France
French
1797
9
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1883
10
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
1904
11
Victor Heerman
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Family
USA
English
1949
12
Ernst Lubitsch
Jack Buchanan, Jeanette MacDonald, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2127
13
George W. Hill
Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Don Dillaway
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2133
14
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2193
15
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Fay Holderness, Charles McMurphy, Dorothy Granger
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2222
16
Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler
John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr.
Adventure / Western / Romance / Epic
USA
English
2231
17
George Cukor, Cyril Gardner
Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman, Arnold Korff
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2305
18
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Gustav Diessl, Fritz Kampers, Hans-Joachim Moebis, Claus Clausen
Drama / War
Germany
German
2376
19
Edward H. Griffith
Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2393
20
Robert Milton
Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2393
20
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2435
21
F.W. Murnau
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Anne Shirley
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2477
22
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Nancy Carroll, Fredric March, Frank Morgan
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2484
23
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2511
24
Thornton Freeland
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2540
25
Robert Z. Leonard
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Florence Eldridge
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2601
26
John Murray Anderson, Pál Fejös
Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff, Bing Crosby, Al Rinker
Music / Animation
USA
English
2688
27
Irene Starewicz, Wladyslaw Starewicz
Claude Dauphin, Romain Bouquet, Laine, Sylvain Itkine, Léon Larive
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
France
French
2689
28
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2689
28
Florián Rey
Carmen Viance, Pedro Larrañaga, Pedro Pastor, Amelia Muñoz
Drama
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2689
28
Alfred Santell
Milton Sills, Jane Keithley, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Harris, Nat Pendleton
Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2689
28
George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier
Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Kenneth MacKenna, Jobyna Howland, Paul Cavanagh
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
28
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2740
29
Robert Wiene
Fritz Kortner, Käthe von Nagy, Heinrich George
Crime / Drama
Germany
German
2740
29
Alfred E. Green
John Barrymore, Loretta Young, William Austin, Albert Gran
Comedy
USA
English
2740
29
John Ford
Kenneth MacKenna, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
2740
29
John Cromwell
William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey
Drama
USA
English
2740
29
John G. Blystone
Richard Cromwell, Noah Beery, Joan Peers, Henry B. Walthall
Drama / Action
USA
English
2740
29
Géza von Bolváry
Walter Janssen, Oscar Karlweis, Willi Forst, Gretl Theimer
Musical / Drama
Germany
German
2740
29
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
2756
30
Alfred Ames, Howard Kahn
Tim Sample
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
30
Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, Josefina Barrera Fuentes
Documentary
USA
Spanish (Silent)
2756
30
Eloyce Gist, James Gist
Crime / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2756
30
Robert F. McGowan
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Jackie Cooper
Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2792
31
Tay Garnett
Helen Twelvetrees, Phillips Holmes, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2792
31
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2797
32
James Whale
Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners, Billy Bevan, Anthony Bushell
Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2807
33
Burt Gillett
Family / Animation / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Amo Bek-Nazaryan
Drama / Crime
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2807
33
John G. Adolfi
Otis Skinner, Beryl Mercer, Betty Jane Graham, Loretta Young, Walter Pidgeon
Short / History / Music
USA
English
2807
33
Frank Borzage
Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner, Lee Tracy, Walter Abel
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Caper
USA
English
2807
33
Robert F. McGowan
Joe Cobb, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2807
33
Albert S. Rogell
Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming, Will Stanton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2807
33
Walt Disney
Comedy / Family / Musical / Animation / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Paul L. Stein
Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2807
33
unknown
Willie West and McGinty
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
33
unknown
Franklin Pangborn, Helen Ferguson, Ruth Lyons, Clara Blandick
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Richard Wallace
Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, David Manners, Irving Pichel, Louise Mackintosh
Drama / Romance / Religion
USA
English
2807
33
H.P. Carver
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk
Drama / Action / History / Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2807
33
Frank Borzage
Alice Joyce, Maureen O'Sullivan, Tommy Clifford, John Garrick, Effie Ellsler
Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
2807
33
Edward Carewe
Gary Cooper, Kay Johnson, Betty Compson, William 'Stage' Boyd, Harry Green
Action / Western
USA
English
2807
33
John Ford
Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce, Warren Hymer, Humphrey Bogart, William Collier Sr.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
33
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Jiqun Liu, Lingyu Ruan
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2809
34
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2821
35
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Betty Lawford
Drama
USA
English
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Rank
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Starring
Genre
Country
Language