Best Movies of 1940s by Title
523
60
1949
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
1628
192
1941
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2628
331
1940
A. Edward Sutherland
Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1963
229
1942
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Drama / War
UK
English
2776
356
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2332
286
1942
Archie Mayo
George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
618
68
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
2646
334
1948
Wanda Jakubowska
Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gorecka, Barbara Drapinska, Aleksandra Slaska
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
2628
331
1940
Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Olev Eskola
War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2276
271
1945
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
228
28
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
2628
331
1946
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2541
319
1943
Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia
Drama / Western / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1838
216
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
379
45
1943
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
1433
164
1948
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson
Comedy / Western
USA
English
395
47
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2591
326
1947
Julien Duvivier
Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Emile Drain, Guy Favières
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France
French
2456
304
1947
Alfred Hitchcock
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2645
333
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2628
331
1944
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
1544
184
1949
Henry Cornelius
Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater
Comedy
UK
English
2468
309
1947
Emilio Fernández
Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Mexico / USA
English
2162
257
1941
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1584
188
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2628
331
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
274
33
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1331
150
1945
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
2121
252
1942
Irving Pichel
Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter
Drama / War
USA
English
2479
313
1949
Elia Kazan, John Ford
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael
Drama
USA
English
222
26
1940
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2306
278
1948
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1940
Dave Fleischer
Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wickie
Animation / Short / Musical / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Comic / Documentary / Serial
USA
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
1614
190
1948
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
797
91
1946
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2719
348
1943
Lew Landers
Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger, Victor Jory
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2661
335
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2719
348
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
903
99
1940
Robert Z. Leonard
Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1958
228
1945
Delmer Daves
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
1074
116
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
2635
332
1949
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
2591
326
1947
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2719
348
1944
Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin, Bob Clampett
Mel Blanc
Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2719
348
1945
Harold F. Kress
Byron Foulger, Dick Elliott, Morris Ankrum, Paul E. Burns, Edward Earle
Crime / Short
USA
English
2535
317
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2021
242
1947
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant
Crime / Drama / Detective
France
French
1922
222
1948
Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart
Claud Allister, Felix Aylmer, Angela Baddeley
Drama
UK
English
2646
334
1942
Alessandro Blasetti
Gino Cervi, Giuditta Rissone, Adriana Benetti, Guido Celano, Giacinto Molteni
Drama / Romance / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2162
257
1949
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold
Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
UK
English
2449
301
1948
Sidney Meyers
Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
2719
348
1942
John Francis Larkin
George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Caper / Detective
USA
English
2282
272
1941
Anthony Asquith
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2719
348
1949
John Hubley
Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
1261
136
1942
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2352
289
1948
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1643
194
1946
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2456
304
1942
Cecil B. DeMille
Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey, Robert Preston
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
237
29
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1408
160
1949
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2673
336
1945
Lau Lauritzen, Bodil Ipsen
Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin, Per Buckhøj
War / Drama
Denmark
Danish
197
20
1948
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
170
17
1948
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
2719
348
1941
Alfred L. Werker, Ford Beebe, Jasper Blystone, Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Erwin L. Verity
Robert Benchley, Frances Gifford, Buddy Pepper, Nana Bryant, Claud Allister
Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
2719
348
1940
Mitchell Leisen
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2544
320
1941
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
2719
348
1947
Alfred L. Werker
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart
Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
2591
326
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2150
256
1942
David Butler
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope
Adventure / Family / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1940
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Hope, Charles Coburn, Judith Barrett
Comedy / Musical / Adventure
USA
English
2628
331
1946
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2645
333
1941
Victor Schertzinger
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Comedy / Adventure
USA
English
2719
348
1946
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Pavel Kadochnikov, Yuri Lyubimov, Aleksandr Smiranin, E. Sanikidze, V. Pavlenko
Adventure / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2591
326
1949
Anthony Pelissier
Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills, Hugh Sinclair
Drama
UK
English
2719
348
1948
Michael Curtiz
Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
94
9
1945
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
1496
175
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1549
185
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
2719
348
1943
William Berke
Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor, Ann Savage, Bob Wills, The Texas Playboys
Western / Musical
USA
English
1829
215
1943
Zoltan Korda
Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
2070
247
1949
Cecil B. DeMille
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Drama / Romance / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2546
322
1949
Allan Dwan
John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Action / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2717
347
1945
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2719
348
1946
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2591
326
1944
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1464
169
1945
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2699
341
1948
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2751
354
1944
Tex Avery
Wally Maher, Dick Nelson
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
1099
119
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale
Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1958
228
1941
Michael Curtiz
Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
1088
117
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
2311
279
1948
Fritz Lang
Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer
Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2719
348
1949
Fred M. Wilcox
Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
2332
286
1947
Norman Z. McLeod, Lumsden Hare
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
830
94
1941
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
1003
106
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
2628
331
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2276
271
1945
Compton Bennett
James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1260
135
1943
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
386
46
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
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
958
103
1949
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1941
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi, James Barton
Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2719
348
1942
Del Frazier
Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Jimmy Thomson, Jack Redmond
Short / Sports
USA
English
530
62
1940
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2719
348
1943
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell
Drama / War
UK
English
1223
132
1944
John Cromwell, André De Toth
Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Drama / War
USA
English
2719
348
1941
Lew Landers
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Virginia Dale, Mary Lee, Spencer Charters
Western / Musical
USA
English
2591
326
1946
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
1212
131
1948
Walter Lang
Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn
Comedy
USA
English
2591
326
1941
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1941
Eugene Forde
Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1753
204
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
623
69
1948
Anatole Litvak
Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Drama
USA
English
2591
326
1949
Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Raymond Bond, Daniel Haight
Family / Drama
USA
English
2591
326
1941
John Cromwell
Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford, Anna Sten
War / Drama
USA
English
2719
348
1949
Chuck Jones
Frank Graham
Animation / Short / Documentary
USA
English
2142
255
1943
Mark Sandrich
Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, George Reeves
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2719
348
1948
Richard L. Bare
George O'Hanlon, Art Gilmore, Kit Guard, Charles Horvath, Fred Kelsey, Donald Kerr
Comedy / Crime / Short / Detective
USA
English
2628
331
1946
Gerhard Lamprecht
Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Drama / War
Germany
German
2628
331
1948
Howard Hawks
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong
Comedy / Musical / Gangster
USA
English
1118
121
1943
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1958
228
1946
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
2628
331
1947
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2712
345
1945
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2332
286
1948
Anatole Litvak
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2699
341
1948
Renato Castellani
Francesco Golisano, Alberto Sordi, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
1307
143
1945
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
747
84
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
971
104
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
2719
348
1942
Ray Enright
Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, John Wayne, Margaret Lindsay, Harry Carey
Action / Western / Adventure
USA
English
1789
209
1948
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
2628
331
1947
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai, Yunzhu Shangguan, Xiuwen Shu, Yinyan Wu
Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2719
348
1945
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses' White, Marie Harmon, Rex Lease
Western / Musical
USA
English
2479
313
1943
Frank Borzage
Katharine Hepburn, Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan
Musical / Romance / Comedy / War
USA
English
2131
254
1945
Walter Lang, José Ferrer
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1299
142
1948
Frank Capra
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1807
212
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2730
349
1944
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
1266
137
1945
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2661
335
1946
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2541
319
1945
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2332
286
1946
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1388
157
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2635
332
1940
Boris Ingster
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2396
294
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2673
336
1941
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1900
218
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
160
16
1941
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
2635
332
1948
Rouben Mamoulian
Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan
Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2456
304
1948
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr
Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill, Carol Forman, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Jack Ingram
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Family / Comic / Serial
USA
English
2719
348
1941
Dave Fleischer
Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa, Jack Mercer
Animation / Family / Short / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Crime / Comic
USA
English
2591
326
1944
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1139
124
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1941
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2628
331
1941
Ivan Pyryev
Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Zeldin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, N. Kitayev, Grigori Alekseyev
Musical / Romance / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
348
1944
Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2719
348
1942
unknown
Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, John McLeish
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short / Music
USA
English
2461
307
1947
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2635
332
1949
Busby Berkeley
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold
Comedy / Musical / Sports / Drama
USA
English
2628
331
1942
Julien Duvivier
Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1158
126
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2628
331
1944
Edwin L. Marin
John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Audrey Long
Mystery / Western / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1945
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1947
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1946
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1948
Robert Florey
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma, Fernando Wagner
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Johnny Sheffield, Frances Gifford, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1943
Wilhelm Thiele
Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly, Johnny Sheffield, Otto Kruger, Joe Sawyer
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2719
348
1943
David Butler
Dinah Shore, Bette Davis, Joan Leslie, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2352
289
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2719
348
1941
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, S.Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1825
214
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
948
102
1949
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2223
262
1947
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Mary Merrall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
UK
English
1208
130
1945
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
2591
326
1947
Irving Pichel
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
572
63
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
2751
354
1949
Jules Dassin
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2628
331
1944
Richard Thorpe
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Helen Vinson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Family / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
78
7
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
2238
265
1944
Mervyn LeRoy
Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum
Drama / War
USA
English
1497
176
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2276
271
1944
David Lean
Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway, Amy Veness
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2567
325
1943
Michael Curtiz
George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Comedy / Musical / War / Romance
USA
English
2673
336
1943
Jean Renoir
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Drama / War
USA
English
2635
332
1949
Felix E. Feist
Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1988
235
1945
Walt Disney, Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young
Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway
Animation / Family / Musical
USA
English
2131
254
1948
John Ford
John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
1533
182
1948
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2591
326
1946
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1982
232
1943
Roy Boulting
Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason, Lilli Palmer
Drama / Fantasy
UK
English
2635
332
1945
Louis King
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale
Family / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2719
348
1946
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
2628
331
1946
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2332
286
1940
Walter Lang
Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins, Esther Ralston
Drama / Musical
USA
English
2622
329
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
267
32
1942
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
2332
286
1946
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Drama / War
USA
English
669
72
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2424
298
1947
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2591
326
1948
Robert Stevenson
Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1992
236
1941
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2719
348
1940
Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Michael Lah
Tex Avery, Joseph Barbera, Billy Bletcher, Daws Butler, Bill Cole, Pinto Colvig
Animation / Family
USA
English
2284
273
1941
Garson Kanin
Ginger Rogers, George Murphy, Alan Marshal, Burgess Meredith
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2719
348
1946
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2719
348
1949
Byron Haskin
Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2719
348
1940
George Abbott
Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken, Desi Arnaz
Comedy / Musical / Sports / Romance
USA
English
1457
168
1944
Alf Sjöberg
Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2591
326
1940
William Keighley
James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson
Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2635
332
1942
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1940
Carl Koch, Jean Renoir
Imperio Argentina, Rossano Brazzi, Michel Simon, Adriano Rimoldi, Carla Candiani
Drama / Musical / Comedy / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2719
348
1946
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2719
348
1949
Richard Fleischer
Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
98
11
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
777
89
1945
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2605
327
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2719
348
1947
Friz Freleng
Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
698
76
1949
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger
Drama / War
USA
English
2719
348
1947
Frank McDonald
Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans
Western / Musical
USA
English
2719
348
1945
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2541
319
1941
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Robert Sterling
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1942
Renato Castellani
Assia Noris, Fosco Giachetti, Antonio Centa, Rubi D'Alma, Mimi Dugini
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2628
331
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2541
319
1949
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker
Drama / Romance / Crime
UK
English
2541
319
1949
Yves Allégret
Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais, André Valmy
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France / Netherlands
French
1486
172
1948
Preston Sturges
Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy
USA
English
1958
228
1944
Lewis Allen
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
2635
332
1944
Elliott Nugent
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2400
296
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2719
348
1945
Alexander Korda
Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
UK
English
2708
344
1945
Tay Garnett
Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2673
336
1945
Fridrikh Ermler
Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuri Tolubeyev
Drama / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2699
341
1947
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
348
1943
Perce Pearce, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter
Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Documentary / Animation / War
USA
English
2127
253
1947
Irving Rapper
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
760
86
1945
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
2545
321
1949
René Clément
Isa Miranda, Jean Gabin, Andrea Checchi, Vera Talchi
Drama / Crime / Romance
France / Italy
Italian
2719
348
1949
Jack Hannah, Jack King
Clarence Nash, Ronald Colman, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2661
335
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1088
117
1943
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
1958
228
1940
Mervyn LeRoy
Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor, Lucile Watson, Virginia Field, Maria Ouspenskaya
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
1634
193
1944
Carol Reed
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
War / Drama
UK
English
1825
214
1945
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
2635
332
1942
Goffredo Alessandrini
Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Rossano Brazzi, Emilio Cigoli, Giovanni Grasso
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2127
253
1940
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day, Georges Grey
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1683
199
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
2461
307
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
1886
217
1940
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
Western
USA
English
2719
348
1940
George Marshall
Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, George Bancroft, Broderick Crawford
Western
USA
English
2719
348
1948
Lewis Seiler
Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
766
88
1949
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2717
347
1944
Clarence Brown
Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowell, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
292
34
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
2751
354
1943
Tex Avery
Robert Emmett O'Connor, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher
Animation / Mystery / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2719
348
1945
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
1380
155
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2198
259
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1936
225
1948
Anthony Asquith
Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton
Drama
UK
English
2719
348
1945
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2628
331
1948
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
1419
163
1941
George Waggner
Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy, Evelyn Ankers
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
1180
127
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
679
74
1942
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2751
354
1947
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2591
326
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2332
286
1945
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2628
331
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
332
40
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
1322
147
1946
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
2635
332
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2719
348
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2266
269
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2056
246
1946
Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
