Best Movies of 20th Century by Rank
2783
2295
1990
Ann Hui
Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li
Drama
Hong Kong / Taiwan
Cantonese
2783
2295
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2783
2295
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2783
2295
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2783
2295
1971
John G. Avildsen
Bob Brady, Gordon Felio, Roz Kelly, Nancy Salmon
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2783
2295
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2783
2295
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2783
2295
1981
Peter Bogdanovich
Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter
Comedy / Romance / Detective
USA
English
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2783
2295
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
2783
2295
1997
John Greyson
Michael Achtman, Matthew Ferguson, Damon D'Oliveira
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Canada
English
2783
2295
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2783
2295
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2783
2295
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2783
2295
1962
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
2783
2295
1978
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama
Poland / France
Polish
2783
2295
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
2785
2296
1987
Eric Rohmer
Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, Eric Viellard
Comedy / Romance
France
French
NR
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1966
Vittorio De Sica
Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam, Akim Tamiroff
Comedy / Crime / Caper
Italy / USA / UK
English
NR
-
1997
Wolfgang Petersen
Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews
Action / Thriller / Drama
USA / Germany
English
NR
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1943
Edward Sedgwick
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jacqueline White, Stephen McNally
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1962
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Drama / Romance
France
French
NR
-
1939
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker, Florence Rice
Comedy / Family / Musical
USA
English
NR
-
1999
Jay Roach
Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Spy
USA
English
NR
-
1989
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, Elisabeth Shue
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
-
1995
Joel Schumacher
Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell
Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Comic
USA / UK
English
NR
-
1987
Tony Scott
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
1988
Luc Besson
Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto
Adventure / Drama / Romance
France / USA / Italy
English
NR
-
1941
Charles Reisner
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Virginia Grey
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1967
Robert Parrish
Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1983
Blake Edwards
Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Capucine, Joanna Lumley
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1978
E.W. Swackhamer
James Coburn, Hector Elizondo, Jason Miller, Jean Simmons, Paul Stewart
Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
1968
Bryan Forbes
Michael Caine, Vladek Sheybal, Emilio Rodríguez, David Buck, Carmen Dene
Crime / Drama / Caper
UK
English
NR
-
1998
Mimi Leder
Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1995
John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp
Action / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1971
Steven Spielberg
Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski, Tim Herbert, Charles Seel
Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1975
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Brühl
Action / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1996
Diarmuid Lawrence
Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond, James Hazeldine
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
1982
Ted Kotcheff
Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, Bill McKinney, Jack Starrett
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Cult / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
1995
Jerry Zucker
Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1994
Brian Levant
John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan
Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
1940
Edward Buzzell
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, John Carroll, Diana Lewis
Comedy / Musical / Western / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1998
Roland Emmerich
Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
USA
English
NR
-
1959
Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas, Molly McCarthy
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
1979
Michael Crichton
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris
Drama / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Caper / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
1968
Ted Post
Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
NR
-
1991
Steven Spielberg
Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
1926
Dick Smith
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
1967
Gordon Douglas
James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee, Hanna Landy
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Spy / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1968
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Comedy / Crime / Detective
UK
English
NR
-
1971
Lee H. Katzin
Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Fred Haltiner
Action / Adventure / Sports / Drama / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1992
Richard Donner
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Stuart Wilson
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
NR
-
1997
Tom Shadyac
Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes, Anne Haney
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
1934
Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen
Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1997
Steven Spielberg
Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Attenborough
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1953
Carol Reed
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Geoffrey Toone, Hildegard Knef, Aribert Wäscher
Drama / Thriller / Action / Spy
UK
English
NR
-
1994
Chuck Russell
Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni
Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
1970
Martin Ritt
Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe
Drama / History / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
1999
Stephen Sommers
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1966
Henry Hathaway
Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette
Western
USA
English
NR
-
1971
László Benedek
Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies
Crime / Thriller / Horror
USA / Sweden
English
NR
-
1960
Lewis Milestone
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1996
Stephen Herek
Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie
Family / Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1970
Arthur Hiller
Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols
Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
1983
Eric Rohmer
Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
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
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1974
Richard A. Colla
Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Lew Ayres, James Shigeta
Sci-Fi
USA
English
NR
-
1966
Michael Anderson
George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders
Thriller / Spy / Action
UK
English
NR
-
1996
Ron Howard
Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1978
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Tony Beckley
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1991
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1985
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen
Action / Drama / Sports
USA
English
NR
-
1938
William A. Seiter
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller, Frank Albertson
Comedy / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1999
Garry Marshall
Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson
Comedy / Romance
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
NR
-
1980
Jeannot Szwarc
Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1993
Blake Edwards
Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Shabana Azmi, Debrah Farentino
Comedy / Detective / Crime / Family
Italy / USA
English
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
NR
-
1983
Richard Lester
Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic
UK
English
NR
-
1987
Sidney J. Furie
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic
UK
English
NR
-
1985
Jack Haley Jr.
Liza Minnelli, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly, Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Travolta
Documentary / Musical
USA
English
NR
-
1980
William Wiard
Steve McQueen, Linda Evans, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Green Bush, Slim Pickens
Western / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
1982
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1970
Don Siegel
Shirley MacLaine, Clint Eastwood, Manuel Fábregas, Alberto Morin
Comedy / War / Western
USA / Mexico
English
NR
-
1960
Robert Day
Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Maurice Denham
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
