Best Movies of 1940s by Year

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Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
78
7
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
5 Stars
181
18
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
5 Stars
294
34
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
418
51
Robert Rossen
Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
465
54
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
4.5 Stars
523
60
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
529
61
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
697
76
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger
Drama / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
713
79
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
767
88
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
948
102
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
956
103
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1002
106
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1009
107
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1131
123
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
4 Stars
1275
138
Clarence Brown
David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1408
160
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
161
Mark Robson
Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1545
184
Henry Cornelius
Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater
Comedy
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1747
204
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1896
218
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
3.5 Stars
1933
225
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart, Bill Neff
Comedy / Romance / War
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1946
227
William A. Wellman
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Action / War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Vincent Sherman
Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Drama / War
UK
English
3 Stars
2069
247
Cecil B. DeMille
Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Drama / Romance / Religion / Epic
USA
English
3 Stars
2095
249
Max Ophüls, John Berry
James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson, Curt Bois, Ruth Brady
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2163
257
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold
Drama / Horror / Fantasy / Period Film
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2200
259
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2216
261
Jean-Pierre Melville
Howard Vernon, Nicole Stéphane, Jean-Marie Robain, Ami Aaröe
Drama / War
France
French
2.5 Stars
2240
264
Claude Autant-Lara
Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Louise Conte, Julien Carette
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2321
281
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark
Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2399
294
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2464
307
James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney
Bing Crosby, Eric Blore, Basil Rathbone, J. Pat O'Malley, Colin Campbell
Family / Animation / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2478
312
Mark Robson
Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2482
313
Elia Kazan, John Ford
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2541
317
King Vidor
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Raoul Walsh
Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone, Henry Hull, John Archer, James Mitchell
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker
Drama / Romance / Crime
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Yves Allégret
Madeleine Robinson, Gérard Philipe, Jean Servais, André Valmy
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France / Netherlands
French
2.5 Stars
2551
321
René Clément
Isa Miranda, Jean Gabin, Andrea Checchi, Vera Talchi
Drama / Crime / Romance
France / Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2552
322
Allan Dwan
John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker
Action / Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2556
323
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart
Animation / Short / Music / Experimental
Canada
English (No Dialogue)
2.5 Stars
2559
324
Henry Koster
Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Edmund Goulding
Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn, Millard Mitchell
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Lloyd Bacon
Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Ted de Corsia, Ray Collins
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Sports / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Vincente Minnelli
Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Anthony Pelissier
Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills, Hugh Sinclair
Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Raymond Bond, Daniel Haight
Family / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Frank Launder
Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones, Noel Purcell
Adventure / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
David MacDonald
Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Tay Garnett
Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye
Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Victor Saville
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman
Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Anthony Pelissier
John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Henry Levin
Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin
Biography / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Josef von Báky
Fritz Kortner, Johanna Hofer, Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens, William Sinnigen
Drama
West Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Frank McHugh, Douglas Fowley
Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Busby Berkeley
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold
Comedy / Musical / Sports / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Felix E. Feist
Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Sidney Peterson
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2693
338
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cécile Aubrey, Gabrielle Dorziat, Michel Auclair
Drama / Crime / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Augusto Genina
Inés Orsini, Rubi D'Alma, Michele Malaspina
Drama / Biography / Religion
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Emilio Fernández
Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Columba Domínguez
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2722
344
Alfred L. Werker
Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Richard Hylton, Susan Douglas Rubes
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Max Baer, Buddy Baer
Action / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Preston Sturges
Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Porter Hall
Comedy / Western / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Anthony Mann
Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Robert Stevens
Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Ray Walston
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Richard Fleischer
William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva, Charles D. Brown
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Richard L. Bare
George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Rudolf Ising, Hugh Harman, Robert Clampett, Tom Palmer, Jack King, Robert McKimson, Norm McCabe, Abe Levitow
Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Billy Bletcher, Stan Freberg, Arthur Q. Bryan
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
David Miller, Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey, Vera-Ellen, Marion Hutton
Comedy / Musical / Detective / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles A. Nichols
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
John Hubley
Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Fred M. Wilcox
Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Chuck Jones
Frank Graham
Animation / Short / Documentary
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Byron Haskin
Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Richard Fleischer
Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Jack Hannah, Jack King
Clarence Nash, Ronald Colman, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2753
351
Georges Franju
Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral
Documentary / Short / Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Tex Avery
Tex Avery
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Tex Avery
Daws Butler, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig
Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Jules Dassin
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2792
356
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2.5 Stars
2792
356
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2792
356
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2792
356
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
7
2
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
5 Stars, Top 100
98
11
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
170
17
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
5 Stars
197
20
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
5 Stars
386
46
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
492
57
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
614
67
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
623
69
Anatole Litvak
Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
688
75
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
711
78
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
4.5 Stars
820
93
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
871
97
Jules Dassin
Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
4 Stars
1018
109
Jean Negulesco, Robert Wise
Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1058
113
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
4 Stars
1089
117
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
4 Stars
1211
131
Walter Lang
Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1289
141
Robert J. Flaherty
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1300
142
Frank Capra
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Adolphe Menjou
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1381
155
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
161
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oskar Homolka, Philip Dorn
Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1433
164
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson
Comedy / Western
USA
English
4 Stars
1485
172
Preston Sturges
Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1495
175
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1506
177
Robert Hamer
Googie Withers, Edward Chapman, Susan Shaw, Patricia Plunkett, David Lines
Crime / Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1533
182
George Sidney
Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury, Frank Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1614
190
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1698
202
John Ford
John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendáriz, Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1766
206
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
3.5 Stars
1783
209
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
3.5 Stars
1791
210
Henry Hathaway
James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker, Betty Garde
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1818
213
Billy Wilder
Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1906
220
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Sylvia Bataille, Lia Corelli, Federico Fellini, Gabrielle Fontan
Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
3.5 Stars
1919
222
Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart
Claud Allister, Felix Aylmer, Angela Baddeley
Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1926
223
H.C. Potter
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Sharyn Moffett
Comedy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1933
225
Anthony Asquith
Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton
Drama
UK
English
3 Stars
2131
254
John Ford
John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, Mae Marsh
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2179
258
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2212
260
Joseph Losey
Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
Family / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2225
262
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2269
269
Charles Walters
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2309
278
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2314
279
Fritz Lang
Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer
Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Yvonne de Bray, Gabrielle Dorziat
Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Anatole Litvak
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2344
287
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2355
289
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2355
289
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2415
297
Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Brian Donlevy, Charles Bickford
War / Drama / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2435
299
Yves Allégret
Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier, Marcel Dalio
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
France
French
2.5 Stars
2435
299
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Ewald Balser, Ernst Deutsch, Albert Truby, Heinz Moog
Drama / Period Film
Austria
German
2.5 Stars
2452
301
Sidney Meyers
Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2453
302
Robert A. Stemmle
Gert Fröbe, Tatjana Sais, Ute Sielisch, Aribert Wäscher
Comedy
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2459
304
Vincent Sherman
Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent
Adventure / Romance / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2459
304
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
2.5 Stars
2464
307
Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Emilio Fernández
María Félix, Pedro Armendáriz, Carlos López Moctezuma
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Robert Stevenson
Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
George Seaton
Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Griff Barnett
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Roy Del Ruth
William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, William Frawley
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Howard Hawks
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong
Comedy / Musical / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Alberto Lattuada
Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Pierre Claudé, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Romance / War
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Rouben Mamoulian
Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan
Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2656
333
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2.5 Stars
2657
334
Wanda Jakubowska
Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gorecka, Barbara Drapinska, Aleksandra Slaska
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Helen Levitt
Short / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais, Jean Chevrier, Robert Murzeau
Romance / Drama / Comedy
France
French
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Gustaf Molander
Birger Malmsten, Eva Stiberg, Eva Dahlbeck, Åke Claesson
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Ingmar Bergman
Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Naima Wifstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Renato Castellani
Francesco Golisano, Alberto Sordi, Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Bernard Vorhaus
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Jack Bernhard
Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen, James Griffith
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles A. Nichols
Family / Comedy / Animation / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles A. Nichols
Family / Comedy / Animation / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
George Sherman
Donald O'Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Penny Edwards, Joe Besser
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles A. Nichols
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Michael Curtiz
Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
James Algar
Winston Hibler
Documentary / Short / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Richard L. Bare
George O'Hanlon, Art Gilmore, Kit Guard, Charles Horvath, Fred Kelsey, Donald Kerr
Comedy / Crime / Short / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Robert Florey
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, George Zucco, Andrea Palma, Fernando Wagner
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Lewis Seiler
Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Jeffrey Lynn
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Cy Endfield
William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, John Banner, Peter Brocco
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Leo McCarey
Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Yasujiro Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shuji Sano, Chieko Murata, Chishu Ryu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Frank Borzage
Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
228
28
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars
398
48
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
5 Stars
474
56
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
4.5 Stars
503
59
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
4.5 Stars
673
73
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
865
95
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
884
98
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
956
103
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1312
144
Elia Kazan
Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1322
146
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1325
149
Robert Rossen
John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere, William Conrad
Drama / Film-Noir / Sports
USA
English
4 Stars
1369
153
Michael Curtiz
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1439
165
Claude Autant-Lara
Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Palau, Henri Gaultier
Romance / Drama
France
French
3.5 Stars
1542
183
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1694
200
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1698
202
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1913
221
John Ford, Emilio Fernández
Henry Fonda, Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
Drama / Religion
Mexico / USA
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
3 Stars
2020
241
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
3 Stars
2021
242
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant
Crime / Drama / Detective
France
French
3 Stars
2103
250
Henry Koster
Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy / Family / Religion
USA
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
3 Stars
2127
253
Irving Rapper
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2225
262
Alberto Cavalcanti
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Mary Merrall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2236
263
Anthony Kimmins
Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2269
269
George Cukor
Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien, Shelley Winters, Ray Collins
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2269
269
H.C. Potter
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2278
270
Charles Crichton
Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Elliott Nugent
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr., John Hoyt, Charles Dingle
Comedy / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Norman Z. McLeod, Lumsden Hare
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2355
289
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2393
292
Karel Steklý
Josef Bek, I. Bohàc, Vera Kalendová
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2427
298
Luigi Zampa
Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, Mirella Monti, John Kitzmiller
Drama / War / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2459
304
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2459
304
Alfred Hitchcock
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2464
307
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2466
308
Hans Richter, Man Ray
Max Ernst, Louis Applebaum, Ethel Beseda, Jack Bittner
Experimental
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2471
309
Emilio Fernández
Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Mexico / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2505
315
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2541
317
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2544
318
Oskar Fischinger
Animation / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Otto Preminger
Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Martin Gabel
Robert Cummings, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Joan Lorring, Eduardo Ciannelli
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Zoltan Korda
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny, Jean Gillie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Julien Duvivier
Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Emile Drain, Guy Favières
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France
French
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, John Carradine
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Irving Pichel
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer, Rita Johnson, Tom Powers
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2634
330
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
James Edward Grant
John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, Irene Rich, Lee Dixon
Romance / Western / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Irving Reis
Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Chester Erskine
Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Jack Conway
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Kurt Maetzig
Paul Klinger, Ilse Steppat, Alfred Balthoff, Claus Holm, Willy Prager, Hans Leibelt
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng
Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai, Yunzhu Shangguan, Xiuwen Shu, Yinyan Wu
Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Ronald Colman, Peggy Cummins, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Frank Tashlin
Lew Ayres
Short / Animation / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2684
336
Jacques Becker
Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert
Romance / Comedy / Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2684
336
René Clément
Michel Auclair, Paul Bernard, Anne Campion
Drama / War
France
French
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Giuseppe De Santis
Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi, Carla Del Poggio, Massimo Girotti
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Luigi Zampa
Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Drama
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Konovalov
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Sci-Fi
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Mitchell Leisen
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester, Dennis Hoey
Adventure / Romance / Spy / Action / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Anatole Litvak
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Charles A. Nichols
Animation / Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Alfred L. Werker
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart
Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Film-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Patricia Morison
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Friz Freleng
Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Frank McDonald
Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans
Western / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2763
353
Tex Avery
Family / Animation / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Short / Comedy
France
French
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Bruce Bennett, Martha Vickers
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Gangster / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Jean Renoir
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Nan Leslie
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
61
5
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
96
10
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
5 Stars
101
12
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
118
14
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
216
23
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
5 Stars
217
24
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
5 Stars
226
27
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
5 Stars
251
30
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
419
52
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
472
55
Roberto Rossellini
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore
War / Drama
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
714
80
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
4.5 Stars
799
91
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
970
104
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
4 Stars
1059
114
Sidney Gilliat
Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John, Alastair Sim
Mystery / Detective / Crime
UK
English
4 Stars
1130
122
Vittorio De Sica
Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni
Drama
Italy
Italian
4 Stars
1323
147
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1389
157
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1409
161
John Cromwell
Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1643
194
Edmund Goulding
Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1757
205
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1834
216
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Harve Foster, Wilfred Jackson
Ruth Warrick, Bobby Driscoll, James Baskett, Luana Patten, Lucile Watson
Adventure / Family / Musical / Animation / Drama
USA
English
3 Stars
2055
246
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
3 Stars
2069
247
King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Western / Drama / Epic / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2163
257
Jean Negulesco
Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2236
263
Jean Renoir
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2269
269
Ernst Lubitsch
Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker, Reginald Gardiner
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2269
269
Wolfgang Staudte
Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi, Marlise Ludwig
Drama / War / Romance
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2328
284
Jean Delannoy
Michèle Morgan, Pierre Blanchar
Drama / Romance / Religion
France
French
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Gabriel Pascal
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Lewis Milestone
Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Judith Anderson
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
Mitchell Leisen
Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Bill Goodwin
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2363
290
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2403
296
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2459
304
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2459
304
George Sidney
Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Preston Foster, Virginia O'Brien
Musical / Western / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2474
310
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2497
314
John Huston
Walter Huston
Documentary / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas
War / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Dudley Nichols
Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre, Robert Shayne
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Robert Florey
Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish
Horror
USA
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Ingmar Bergman
Wiktor Andersson, Anna-Lisa Baude, Allan Bohlin, Julia Cæsar
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Marcel Carné
Pierre Brasseur, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Nathalie Nattier, Saturnin Fabre
Drama / Romance
France
French
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Archie Mayo
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Lois Collier, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Hal Walker
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille
Adventure / Family / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Gerhard Lamprecht
Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Drama / War
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
George Pal
Rex Ingram
Animation / Short / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
unknown
Gloria Blondell
Animation / Short / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2684
336
Frantisek Cáp
Gustav Nezval
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2.5 Stars
2684
336
Chetan Anand
Uma Anand, Kamini Kaushal
Drama
India
Hindi
2.5 Stars
2692
337
René Clément
Marcel Barnault, Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand
Drama / War
France
French
2.5 Stars
2711
341
Lev Arnshtam
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Serova, Vasily Merkuryev, Katya Ivanova
Biography / Drama / Musical / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2715
342
Victor Saville
Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Anthony Mann
Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian, Richard Martin
Music / War / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Henry Hathaway
Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens, Kurt Kreuger
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Jack Bernhard
Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Derwin Abrahams
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Linda Leighton, Riley Hill, John Merton
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Lee 'Lasses' White, Jennifer Holt, Jack Ingram, Louise Arthur
Western / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Aleksandr Andriyevsky
Pavel Kadochnikov, Yuri Lyubimov, Aleksandr Smiranin, E. Sanikidze, V. Pavlenko
Adventure / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart
Adventure / Crime / Romance / Comedy / Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli, George Sidney
June Allyson, Lucille Bremer, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin
Biography / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Irving Pichel
Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Gunther von Fritsch
Charles Reineke, Ben Hall, Ralph Montgomery, Gil Perkins, Jason Robards Sr.
Short / Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
John Berry
Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
72
6
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
5 Stars, Top 100
94
9
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
5 Stars
206
21
Billy Wilder
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
214
22
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
5 Stars
402
49
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
410
50
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
5 Stars
493
58
Edgar G. Ulmer
Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
646
70
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
4.5 Stars
746
84
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
754
85
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
4.5 Stars
761
86
Lewis Milestone
Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges
Drama / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
779
89
Elia Kazan
Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan
Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1207
130
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1267
137
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
War / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
4 Stars
1308
143
Jean Renoir
Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1317
145
René Clair
Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez
Crime / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1331
150
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
4 Stars
1396
159
David Lean
Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
4 Stars
1410
162
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1464
169
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1489
173
Vincente Minnelli, Fred Zinnemann
Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn
Adventure / Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1618
191
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan
Drama / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1644
195
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1772
207
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1821
214
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Stanley Holloway
Drama / War / Romance
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Delmer Daves
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1987
235
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
3 Stars
2027
243
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
3 Stars
2103
250
George Sidney
Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3 Stars
2131
254
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
3 Stars
2131
254
Walter Lang, José Ferrer
Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine, Charles Winninger
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2279
271
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2279
271
Compton Bennett
James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2335
286
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2394
293
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2.5 Stars
2401
295
Leopold Lindtberg
Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan
War / Drama
Switzerland
English
2.5 Stars
2415
297
Irving Rapper
Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, Rhys Williams, Rosalind Ivan, Mildred Dunnock
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2514
316
André Malraux, Boris Peskine
Andrés Mejuto, Julio Peña, Pedro Codina, Miguel Del Castillo
Documentary / Drama / War
Spain / France
French
2.5 Stars
2547
319
Robert Siodmak
George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Henry King
Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Irving Pichel
Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2615
327
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Edward Dmytryk
John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Peter Godfrey
Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
John Cromwell
Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick, Spring Byington
Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Sam Newfield
Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Jean Yarbrough
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers, Lois Collier
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Allan Dwan
Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Louis King
Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson, James Bell, Patti Hale
Family / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Mervyn LeRoy
Frank Sinatra, Harry McKim, Teddy Infuhr, Merrill Rodin, Axel Stordahl
Short / Family / Drama / Religion / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
William Beaudine
June Carlson, Lois Austin, George Eldredge, Jimmy Clark, Hardie Albright
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Dave Tatsuno
Documentary / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
unknown
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2684
336
Lau Lauritzen, Bodil Ipsen
Poul Reichhardt, Lisbeth Movin, Per Buckhøj
War / Drama
Denmark
Danish
2.5 Stars
2684
336
Fridrikh Ermler
Mikhail Derzhavin, Pyotr Andriyevsky, Yuri Tolubeyev
Drama / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2.5 Stars
2722
344
Tay Garnett
Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore, Preston Foster
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2727
345
Charles Vidor
Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Paul Muni, Nina Foch, George Coulouris
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2732
347
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin, John Warburton
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Wallace Fox
Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Syd Saylor, Joe Devlin, George Meeker
Serial / Crime / Action / Drama / Comic
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Jacques de Baroncelli
Josephine Baker, Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Raymond Aimos, Jean Tissier
Comedy / Romance / Musical
France
French
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Arthur Crabtree
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, John Stuart
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Harold F. Kress
Byron Foulger, Dick Elliott, Morris Ankrum, Paul E. Burns, Edward Earle
Crime / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Oliver Drake
Jimmy Wakely, Dennis Moore, Lee 'Lasses' White, Marie Harmon, Rex Lease
Western / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Kurt Neumann
Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Action / Adventure / Drama / Comic
USA
English
Rating
Year
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Alexander Korda
Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver, Elliott Mason
Drama / Romance / Comedy / War
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Leslie Arliss
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie
Adventure / Drama / Crime
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Harold S. Bucquet
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn, Carl Esmond
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
352
Otto Preminger
Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford, Anne Revere
Film-Noir / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2781
355
Humphrey Jennings
Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen, George Woodbridge
Documentary / Short
UK
English
5 Stars, Top 100
57
4
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
220
25
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
299
35
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
300
36
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
4.5 Stars
577
64
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
613
66
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
4.5 Stars
668
72
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
722
81
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
4.5 Stars
724
82
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
920
100
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
4 Stars
1180
127
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1224
132
John Cromwell, André De Toth
Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Drama / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1233
133
Clarence Brown
Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp
Family / Drama / Sports
USA
English
4 Stars
1285
140
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
4 Stars
1381
155
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1393
158
Alfred Hitchcock
Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Slezak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
4 Stars
1458
168
Alf Sjöberg
Stig Järrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling, Olof Winnerstrand
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
3.5 Stars
1584
188
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1603
189
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring
Drama / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1634
193
Carol Reed
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, John Laurie, Leslie Dwyer
War / Drama
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1905
219
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1905
219
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1935
226
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1956
228
Lewis Allen
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dorothy Stickney
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1983
233
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet
Drama / Mystery / War / Comedy
UK
English
3 Stars
2007
239
Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Eve March, Julia Dean
Drama / Fantasy / Horror
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2241
265
Mervyn LeRoy
Van Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2250
267
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2279
271
David Lean
Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway, Amy Veness
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2294
274
Clifford Odets
Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2322
282
Clive Brook
Beatrice Lillie, Clive Brook, Googie Withers, Roland Culver, O.B. Clarence
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2382
291
Emilio Fernández
Dolores del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz, Alberto Galán
Romance / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2459
304
Lloyd Bacon
Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall
Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2505
315
Edgar Neville
Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín
Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2544
318
Gjon Mili
Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison
Short / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2547
319
King Vidor
Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen, Stephen McNally
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2600
326
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Joseph Santley
Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Veloz
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Helmut Weiss
Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt, Hilde Sessak, Erich Ponto, Paul Henckels
Comedy
Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Edward Ludwig
John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Erle C. Kenton
Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Anne Gwynne, Peter Coe
Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Edwin L. Marin
John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Audrey Long
Mystery / Western / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2639
331
Richard Thorpe
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Helen Vinson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Family / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
John Brahm
Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2646
332
Elliott Nugent
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2656
333
William Wyler
Robert Taylor
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Maya Deren
Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2672
335
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2672
335
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2717
343
John M. Stahl
Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Roddy McDowall
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2727
345
Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2732
347
Clarence Brown
Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowell, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
William Cameron Menzies
Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter van Eyck, Mady Christians, Morris Carnovsky
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Arthur Lubin
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Kurt Katch, Frank Puglia
Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Robert Siodmak
Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jr., Edgar Barrier, Mary Nash
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Delmer Daves
The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Jack Benny, Joan Leslie, Julie Bishop
Comedy / Musical / Romance / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Lambert Hillyer
Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Nan Holliday, Stephen Keyes, Hugh Prosser
Western / Action
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin, Chuck Jones
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Billy Bletcher, John T. Smith II, Michael Maltese
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Edward L. Cahn
Ray Collins, Henry O'Neill, Addison Richards, John Nesbitt, Stanley Andrews
Short / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Will Jason
Pete Smith, William Bailey, Heinie Conklin, Ben Hall, May McAvoy, Dave O'Brien
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin, Bob Clampett
Mel Blanc
Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2734
348
Frank Tashlin
Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2746
349
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston
Drama / Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
William Castle
Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Jean Grémillon
Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel, Anne Vandène
Drama / Biography
France
French
2.5 Stars
2767
354
Tex Avery
Wally Maher, Dick Nelson
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2792
356
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
5 Stars
320
39
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
5 Stars
379
45
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
5 Stars
386
46
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
618
68
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
653
71
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
4.5 Stars
699
77
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
4.5 Stars
867
96
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1089
117
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1112
120
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
4 Stars
1120
121
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1144
125
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff
Drama / Romance / Adventure / War
USA
English
4 Stars
1259
134
Ernst Lubitsch
Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1261
135
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1360
152
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1467
170
Fred M. Wilcox
Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
4 Stars
1475
171
Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley
Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1653
197
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1741
203
Howard Hawks
John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1782
208
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
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