Best Movies of 1936 by Title
2591
42
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1750
22
Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2719
52
Roy Mack
Nina Mae McKinney, The Nicholas Brothers, Emmett 'Babe' Wallace
Musical / Short
USA
English
2719
52
William Keighley
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Detective
USA
English
2620
44
Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin
Yelena Kuzmina, Lev Sverdlin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Semen Svashenko
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
488
6
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2473
39
Howard Hawks
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1816
24
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Charpin, Orane Demazis, André Fouché
Drama
France
French
2094
30
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2719
52
Harry Lachman
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
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2719
52
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, William Demarest, Guy Usher
Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
2719
52
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2541
41
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson, William Wyler
Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan, Mady Christians
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2635
47
Dorothy Arzner
Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson
Drama
USA
English
1401
16
Jean Renoir
René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
704
8
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
2696
51
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
2223
32
Frank Borzage
Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2315
35
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2645
48
W.S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown
Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1613
21
Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor
Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Family / Cult / Comic / Serial
USA
English
1871
25
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
626
7
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis
Drama / Pre-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2628
46
Richard Boleslawski
Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2591
42
Lewis Milestone
Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2645
48
Jacques Daroy
Serge Grave, Rognoni, Bouzauquet, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Family
France
French
2719
52
Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont
Buster Keaton, Diana Lewis, Harold Goodwin, John Ince, Melrose Coakley, Bud Jamison
Comedy / Short
USA
English
1355
15
Robert Z. Leonard
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Musical / Biography / Drama
USA
English
1807
23
Marc Connelly, William Keighley
Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed
Drama / Religion / Comedy
USA
English
2719
52
Tex Avery
Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen, Martha Wentworth
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2776
54
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2635
47
George B. Seitz
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
Adventure / Drama / War / History
USA
English
1875
26
Jack Conway
Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2591
42
Abel Gance
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, Andre Nox, Jane Marken, Lucas Gridoux
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film / Romance
France
French
2628
46
John Cromwell
Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee
Drama / Family
USA
English
2266
34
Henry King
Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power
Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2719
52
Walter Lang
Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2645
48
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Junie Astor, Suzy Prim, Louis Jouvet
Drama
France
French
1954
28
Lothar Mendes
Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Gardner
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
UK
English
2591
42
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
1451
17
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2719
52
Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod
Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, William Gargan
Comedy / Sports
USA
English
157
1
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2776
54
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
359
4
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2645
48
Arnold Fanck, Mansaku Itami
Setsuko Hara, Sessue Hayakawa, Ruth Eweler, Isamu Kosugi
Drama
Japan / Germany
Japanese
2719
52
Edward H. Griffith
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Ray Milland, Grant Mitchell, Anna Demetrio
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2454
38
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2645
48
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2628
46
Sidney Lanfield
Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks, Jean Hersholt
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2217
31
Yasujiro Ozu
Chouko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1936
27
Harry Lachman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler, Daphne Pollard, Betty Healy
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
1584
20
Archie Mayo
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart
Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2719
52
David Butler
Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, Johnny Downs, Betty Grable
Musical / Comedy / Sports
USA
English
2628
46
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess
Biography / War / Western / Epic
USA
English
2628
46
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2661
49
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2591
42
Irving Cummings
Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Gloria Stuart, Jack Haley, Michael Whalen, Sara Haden
Family / Adventure / Musical
USA
English
2494
40
Dave Fleischer
Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Animation / Short / Comedy / Musical / Family / Fantasy / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2719
52
A. Edward Sutherland
W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Granville Bates, Catherine Doucet
Comedy
USA
English
2719
52
William K. Howard
Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1566
19
John Ford
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1344
14
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2661
49
Edmund Padilla, Felix Padilla
Documentary
USA / Mexico
English (Silent)
1058
12
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1985
29
Joseph Cornell
Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2608
43
W.S. Van Dyke
Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones, James Stewart
Musical / Romance / Adventure / Drama / Western / Comedy
USA
English
1521
18
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
906
9
W.S. Van Dyke
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2624
45
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
2751
53
Douglas Sirk
Willy Birgel, Lil Dagover, Maria von Tasnady
Music / Drama
Germany
German
2341
36
Alfred Hitchcock
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young
Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Drama / Spy / Action / Comedy
UK
English
915
10
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2635
47
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Eitarô Shindô
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2645
48
Ilya Trauberg
Susor-Barma, Tse-Ven Rabdan, Gombo, Bato-Ochir
Drama
Soviet Union / Mongolia
Russian
2696
51
Augusto Genina
Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Olinto Cristina, Fulvia Lanzi
War / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
1954
28
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne
Comedy / Drama
France
French
1173
13
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
339
3
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2378
37
Richard Boleslawski
Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1750
22
William Wyler
Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Drama
USA
English
960
11
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
2719
52
Richard Boleslawski
Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, Irene Hervey, Sidney Toler
Western / Action / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2628
46
Henry Hathaway
Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Fred Stone, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi
Drama / Romance / Action
USA
English
2645
48
Efim Dzigan
Grigori Bushuyev, Raisa Yesipova, Vasili Zajchikov, E. Gunn
War / History / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2259
33
Alfred Santell
Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, Maurice Moscovitch
Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2591
42
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
