Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
805
11
Lewis Milestone
Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien
Comedy
USA
English
918
12
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1112
13
Norman Z. McLeod
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
1320
14
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Fritz Kampers, Alexander Granach, Ernst Busch
Drama
Germany / France
French
1486
15
King Vidor
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1555
16
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
G.W. Pabst, Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Musical / Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1613
17
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1621
18
King Vidor
Walter Miller, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1862
19
Wesley Ruggles
Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil, William Collier Jr.
Drama / Western / Epic
USA
English
1883
20
Alexander Korda, Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis, Fernand Charpin, Alida Rouffe
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2048
21
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2143
22
Edgar Selwyn
Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt
Drama
USA
English
2168
23
Frank Capra
Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2187
24
Sidney Franklin
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2192
25
James W. Horne
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Charles Dorety, Harry Bernard
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2247
26
Rouben Mamoulian
Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William 'Stage' Boyd
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2320
27
John Ford
Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Drama
USA
English
2326
28
Frank Borzage
Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell
Drama
USA
English
2362
29
James Whale
Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Bette Davis
Drama / War
USA
English
2417
30
George Melford, Enrique Tovar Ávalos
Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton, Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
Spanish
2454
31
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2517
32
Norman Taurog
Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Family / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2523
33
Clarence Brown
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, James Gleason, Clark Gable
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2535
34
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Crime / Horror / Drama
USA
English
2604
35
Jacques Feyder
Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel, Herman Bing
Drama / Romance
USA / Germany
German
2645
36
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Jean Hersholt, Una Merkel
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2688
37
Ardeshir Irani
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo, J. Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor, Elizer
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2688
37
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2688
37
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2688
37
Erik Charell
Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Carl-Heinz Schroth
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Germany
German
2688
37
Heinosuke Gosho
Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura, Satoko Date, Shinichi Himori
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2688
37
Varick Frissell, George Melford
Louise Huntington, Charles Starrett, Arthur Vinton, Bob Bartlett, Wilfred Grenfell
Adventure / Drama
Canada / USA
English
2688
37
Victor Saville
Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, George Merritt
War / Drama
UK
English
2690
38
Alfred Santell
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Una Merkel, John Arledge, Claude Gillingwater
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2690
38
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2708
39
Frank Lloyd
Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Cecilia Loftus
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2708
39
W.S. Van Dyke
Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Adventure / Action / Biography / Drama
USA
English
2739
40
Anthony Asquith
Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
War / Epic
UK
English
2739
40
Géza von Bolváry
Trude von Molo, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Crime / Caper
Germany
German
2739
40
Sergei Yutkevich
Yuri Korvin-Krukovsky, V. Fedoseyev, Nikolai Michurin
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2739
40
Victor Trivas, George Shdanoff
Ernst Busch, Hugh Douglas, Louis Douglas, Georges Péclet,
War / Drama
Germany
French
2739
40
Rowland Brown
Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2739
40
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Claude King, Douglas Scott
Adventure
USA
English
2739
40
Nikolai Ekk
Nikolai Batalov, Yvan Kyrlya, Mikhail Dzhagofarov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2739
40
Alexis Granowsky
Aribert Mog, Margot Ferra, Ernst Busch, Leo Monosson
Drama
Germany
German
2739
40
William K. Howard
Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / War
USA
English
2752
41
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2755
42
Jay Leyda
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2755
42
Marvin Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge
Documentary
USA
English
2755
42
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2771
43
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2791
44
Roy Del Ruth
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern, Noel Francis
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2791
44
Joris Ivens
Short / Documentary / Experimental
Netherlands
Dutch
2791
44
D.W. Griffith
Hal Skelly, Zita Johann, Charlotte Wynters, Evelyn Baldwin
Drama
USA
English
2806
45
David Burton, Dudley Murphy
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Norman Foster, Claudia Dell, Florence Britton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2806
45
William K. Howard
Edmund Lowe, Jeanette MacDonald, Roland Young, J.M. Kerrigan, Una Merkel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2806
45
John Francis Dillon
Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott, Clark Gable
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2806
45
Max Fleischer, Dave Fleischer
Animation / Comedy
USA
English
2806
45
Irving Cummings
George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirkwood
Western / Action / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2806
45
Robert F. McGowan
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba
Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2806
45
Roy Del Ruth
Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Robert Elliott
Action / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2806
45
Richard Wallace, Edward Goodman
William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2806
45
Ub Iwerks
Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2806
45
Harry Sweet
Edgar Kennedy, Pert Kelton, Franklin Pangborn, Georgie Billings, Arthur Housman
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2806
45
Hal Roach
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Elizabeth Forrester, Eddie Dunn, Donald Novis
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2806
45
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Granger, Kay Deslys, Carlton Griffin
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2806
45
unknown
Karl Dane, George K. Arthur
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2806
45
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2806
45
unknown
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2806
45
Alfred Hitchcock
C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam
Drama
UK
English
2806
45
Casey Robinson
Joe Smith, Charles Dale
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2859
46
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
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