Best Movies of 20th Century by Title
556
494
1976
Bernardo Bertolucci
Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2700
2222
1965
Jirí Weiss
James Booth, Anne Heywood, Rudolf Hrusínský
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance
Czechoslovakia / UK
English
2751
2266
1953
Phil Karlson
John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
280
263
1939
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2606
2153
1960
France Stiglic
Boris Dvornik, Dusica Zegarac, Beba Loncar, Dragan Milivojevic
Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2084
1741
1980
William Peter Blatty
Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2628
2171
1940
Kozaburo Yoshimura
Shozaburo Abe, Munenobu Aburai, Shôtarô Fujimatsu, Toyama Fumio
War
Japan
Japanese
2756
2271
1992
Barbara Hammer
Jerre, Maria, Ruth, Sandy Binford, Peter Cramer, Barbara Hammer
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
1488
1258
1995
Oliver Stone
Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1998
Robert Lepage
Anne-Marie Cadieux, Marie Gignac, Richard Fréchette, Alexis Martin
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Canada
French
2646
2183
1957
Martin Ritt
Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Cameron Mitchell
Drama
USA
English
2766
2281
1985
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
2311
1930
1990
Claire Denis
Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-Claude Brialy, Solveig Dommartin
Drama / Crime
France / West Germany
French
2149
1794
1934
Frank Borzage
George P. Breakston, Jimmy Butler, Jackie Searl, Frankie Darro
Drama
USA
English
2661
2194
1973
Mitchell Block
Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2541
2109
1950
Mitchell Leisen
Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter, Lyle Bettger
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2628
2171
1932
Wesley Ruggles
Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2645
2182
1931
Victor Trivas, George Shdanoff
Ernst Busch, Hugh Douglas, Louis Douglas, Georges Péclet,
War / Drama
Germany
French
2719
2239
1979
George T. Nierenberg
Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green, Lionel Hampton, Howard 'Sandman' Sims
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2751
2266
1990
Manoel de Oliveira
Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria, Miguel Guilherme, Luis Lucas
Drama / History
Portugal / Spain / France
Portuguese
2646
2183
1950
Paul Rotha
Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne, Noel Purcell, Brian O'Higgins, Jack MacGowran
Drama / Crime
UK
English
2719
2239
1985
Peter Smith
Bernard Hill, Joanne Whalley, Elvis Costello, Linus Roache, Michael Angelis
Comedy
UK / Canada
English
2266
1889
1958
Mervyn LeRoy
Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Howard Smith
Comedy / War
USA
English
2683
2209
1953
Victor Vicas, Beate von Mollo
Ivan Desny, Ruth Niehaus, René Deltgen, Karl John
Drama / Romance / War
West Germany
German
2295
1916
1987
Roger Donaldson
Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2645
2182
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2591
2144
1968
Jack Smight
Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart, Murray Hamilton
Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2768
2282
1994
Doris Dörrie
Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1603
1346
1994
Robert Benton
Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2719
2239
1998
unknown
Noel Coward, Richard Attenborough, Judy Campbell, John Gielgud, John Mills
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2628
2171
1913
Mack Sennett
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2719
2239
1992
Peter Bogdanovich
Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner
Comedy
USA
English
2291
1912
1944
Clifford Odets
Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez
Drama
USA
English
2699
2221
1999
Barbara Albert
Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Tudor Chirila
Drama / Romance
Austria / Germany / Switzerland
German
1247
1047
1979
Martin Ritt
Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle
Drama
USA
English
2712
2234
1996
John McNaughton
Ashley Judd, Luke Perry, Bruce A. Young, Jim True-Frost, Edmund Wyson
Crime / Drama / Romance / Caper
USA
English
65
64
1959
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Adventure / Thriller / Mystery / Spy / Romance / Family
USA
English
1963
1645
1979
Ted Kotcheff
Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon
Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2628
2171
1923
John Ford
Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette, Will Walling
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2628
2171
1943
Lewis Milestone
Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding
Drama / War
USA
English
2628
2171
1960
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, Capucine
Comedy / Western / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2646
2183
1959
J. Lee Thompson
Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White, I.S. Johar
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
2591
2144
1978
John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, Martin Lavut
Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Marianna Åström-De Fina
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1381
1162
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
63
62
1922
F.W. Murnau
Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Horror / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
1118
946
1979
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Horror
West Germany / France
German
1678
1404
1983
Andrei Tarkovsky
Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Drama
Italy / France / Soviet Union
Russian
2688
2212
1968
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini
Experimental / History / Drama / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2341
1954
1955
Stanley Kramer, Frank Kramer
Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame
Drama
USA
English
2506
2088
1999
Yimou Zhang
Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao, Zhimei Sun
Drama / Comedy
China
Mandarin
2751
2266
1965
Jean-Marie Straub
Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, Martha Staendner
Drama
West Germany
German
2776
2290
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
2700
2222
1966
Norman Panama
Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2661
2194
1951
Frank Stauffacher
Vincent Price
Experimental / Documentary / Short
USA
English
2761
2276
1970
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray, Archie Savage
Documentary / Music
Italy
Italian
1987
1665
1964
Michael Roemer
Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster
Drama
USA
English
1545
1306
1964
Clive Donner
Alan Bates, Denholm Elliott, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2628
2171
1920
George Pearson
Hugh E. Wright, Moyna MacGill, Betty Balfour, George Keene, Mabel Poulton
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2699
2221
1995
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon
Drama
UK / Ireland
English
1093
931
1937
William A. Wellman
Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Ruman
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
118
113
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
2363
1972
1999
Roger Michell
Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans
Comedy / Romance / Drama
UK / USA
English
2667
2197
1990
Jean-Luc Godard
Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Roland Amstutz
Drama / Experimental / Fantasy / Romance
Switzerland / France
French
2751
2266
1964
Noël Burch
Annette Michelson, Frédérique Franchini
Short / Drama
France
French
2719
2239
1962
Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble
Mel Blanc
Animation / Family / Short / Comedy
USA
English
2719
2239
1926
Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller
Charles R. Bowers
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2628
2171
1916
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage, Jack Farrell, Dick La Reno, Ann Little
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2719
2239
1920
Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks, William Gillespie
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2466
2056
1975
Jean-Luc Godard
Sandrine Battistella, Alexandre Rignault, Pierre Oudrey
Drama / Experimental
France
French
2699
2221
1963
Juan Antonio Bardem
Antonio Casas, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Corinne Marchand
Drama
Spain / France
Spanish
2591
2144
1921
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2700
2222
1987
Martin Ritt
Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden
Drama
USA
English
1249
1049
1963
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance
USA
English
2628
2171
1953
Lima Barreto
Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico, Adoniran Barbosa
Action / Drama / Crime / Romance
Brazil
Portuguese
2719
2239
1952
Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco
Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1116
944
1973
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Drama / Musical / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2606
2153
1995
Fábio Barreto
Fábio Barreto, Mariana Pellegrino Barreto
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Brazil
Portuguese
2712
2234
1991
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland
Crime / Comedy / Drama / Caper
UK / USA
English
1958
1642
1945
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull
War / Drama
USA
English
2229
1858
1979
Nikita Mikhalkov
Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyryov, Andrei Popov, Yelena Solovey
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2318
1937
1976
Brian De Palma
Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2751
2266
1973
Alexander Kluge
Alexandra Kluge, Bion Steinborn, Sylvia Gartmann
Drama
West Germany
German
2237
1865
1949
Claude Autant-Lara
Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Louise Conte, Julien Carette
Comedy / Romance
France
French
NR
-
1960
Lewis Milestone
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, Angie Dickinson
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Cult
USA
English
2120
1769
1999
Joe Johnston
Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott
Biography / Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
1054
900
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2266
1889
1983
John Glen
Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1472
1243
1968
Gene Saks
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
398
366
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2509
2091
1959
Kon Ichikawa
Machiko Kyô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Junko Kano
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2223
1854
1959
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Film-Noir
USA
English
2628
2171
1974
Ronald Neame
Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey
Thriller / Drama / War / Crime
UK / West Germany
English
2591
2144
1967
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene
Drama
Italy / Morocco
Italian
2699
2221
1957
André Cayatte
Curd Jürgens, Folco Lulli, Lea Padovani, Paul Frankeur
Drama
Italy / France
French
2657
2190
1998
Aleksey Balabanov
Sergei Makovetsky, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Drama / History / Period Film
Russia
Russian
1908
1602
1934
John Cromwell
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2645
2182
1938
Clarence Brown
Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Gene Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2712
2234
1992
Gary Sinise
John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn
Drama
USA
English
2712
2234
1986
Michael Dinner
Judge Reinhold, Meg Tilly, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna, Jacques d'Amboise
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2657
2190
1999
Mike Judge
Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Diedrich Bader
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2006
1680
1982
Taylor Hackford
Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Louis Gossett Jr.,
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2699
2221
1996
Volker Schlöndorff
John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht
Drama / History / War
France / Germany / UK
English
2449
2041
1977
Carl Reiner
: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy
Comedy / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2170
1807
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2634
2174
1967
Med Hondo
Robert Liensol, Théo Légitimus, Ambroise M'Bia, Gabriel Glissant
Drama
France / Mauritania
French
1682
1407
1969
Richard Attenborough
Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell
Musical / War / Comedy
UK
English
2696
2218
1941
Hans Steinhoff, Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch
Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder
Biography / War
Germany
German
1768
1479
1955
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
2719
2239
1929
Murray Roth
Oklahoma Bob Albright, Genevieve Herbert, Bertha Muller
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2719
2239
1943
Vincent Sherman
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young, John Loder, Dolores Moran, Philip Reed
Drama
USA
English
2776
2290
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2188
1821
1929
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Marfa Lapkina, Vasili Buzenkov, M. Ivanin, Chukamaryev
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2661
2194
1966
Mike Anderson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
1492
1262
1932
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond
Horror / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2735
2251
1930
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, Harrington Reynolds, Reginald Sheffield, Betty Lawford
Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2591
2144
1934
William Beaudine
W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen, Jan Duggan, Tammany Young
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2456
2047
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
2087
1742
1939
Edmund Goulding
Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan
Drama
USA
English
2281
1903
1958
John Sturges, Henry King, Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1927
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2628
2171
1918
Cecil B. DeMille
Elliott Dexter, Florence Vidor, Sylvia Ashton, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2494
2080
1957
Robert Stevenson
Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, Jeff York, Chuck Connors, Beverly Washburn
Family / Drama / Adventure / Western
USA
English
2768
2282
1994
David Mamet
William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Scott Zigler, Rebecca Pidgeon
Drama
UK / USA
English
689
605
1948
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2628
2171
1912
unknown
Vinnie Burns, Lillian DeLesque, Nat C. Goodwin, Stuart Holmes, Jack Hopkins
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2735
2251
1922
Frank Lloyd
Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2521
2095
1992
Agnieszka Holland
Frédéric Quiring, Faye Gatteau, Emmanuel Morozof
Drama
France
French
526
470
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
567
505
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
2628
2171
1971
Boris Sagal
Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action
USA
English
2360
1969
1976
Richard Donner
Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2628
2171
1970
Vincente Minnelli
Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland
Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2319
1938
1944
Clive Brook
Beatrice Lillie, Clive Brook, Googie Withers, Roland Culver, O.B. Clarence
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2719
2239
1952
Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino
Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Detective
USA
English
2646
2183
1997
Philippe de Broca
Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette
Drama / Adventure
France / Italy / Germany
French
2193
1825
1969
Peter R. Hunt
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2252
1879
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
2239
1951
Roy Del Ruth
Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Billy Gray, Jack Smith, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2591
2144
1992
Antonio Tibaldi
Matthew Ferguson, Judy Davis, David McIlwraith, Jan Rubes, Michele Melega
Drama
Italy / Canada / Australia
English
2719
2239
1937
Roy Del Ruth
Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, George Barbier
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1522
1285
1959
Stanley Kramer
Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2661
2194
1957
Lionel Rogosin
Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews, Ray Salyer
Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2712
2234
1985
Rob Nilsson
Bruce Dern, Pam Grier, Bill Bailey, Jim Haynie, John Marley, Marty Liquori
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2628
2171
1920
Lev Kuleshov
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Lev Kuleshov, Leonid Obolensky, A. Reich
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2366
1975
1999
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt, Randy Little, Tyrene Manson, Mickey Marcello
Documentary / Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2765
2280
1988
Andrzej Zulawski
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki, Iwona Bielska
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action / Epic
Poland
Polish
523
467
1949
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
46
45
1954
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint
Crime / Romance / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2751
2266
1982
Raoul Ruiz
Fernando Bordeu, Herbert Curiel, Amber DeGrauw, Jean Badin
Drama / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Netherlands
English
2628
2171
1929
Alan Crosland
Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2712
2234
1991
Lasse Hallström
Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Danny Aiello, Laura San Giacomo, Gena Rowlands
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2719
2239
1932
Russell Mack
Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, Russell Hopton, Louise Fazenda, Zasu Pitts
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2648
2184
1995
Tim Reid
Al Freeman Jr., Phylicia Rashad, Leon, Paula Kelly, Salli Richardson
Drama
USA
English
508
456
1984
Sergio Leone
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Period Film
Italy / USA
English
1735
1452
1991
Hark Tsui
Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Steve Tartalia, Kent Cheng
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Period Film
Hong Kong
Cantonese
175
166
1968
Sergio Leone
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Western / Drama / Epic / Cult
Italy / USA
English
1800
1510
1994
Lee Tamahori
Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga
Drama
New Zealand
English
2067
1728
1916
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Albert Austin
Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2645
2182
1970
Caspar Wrede
Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Drama
UK / Norway
English
831
724
1961
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Katy Jurado, Pina Pellicer, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens
Western
USA
English
810
707
1992
Carl Franklin
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
70
68
1975
Milos Forman
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1628
1366
1941
Irving Rapper
Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart
Drama / Religion
USA
English
2207
1838
1955
Chuck Jones
Bill Roberts
Family / Animation / Short / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2751
2266
1990
Robert Frank
Mika Moses, Peter Orlovsky, Kevin O'Connor, Taylor Mead
Experimental / Documentary
France
English
1058
904
1932
George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
1793
1503
1961
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Lisa Daniels, Ben Wright
Family / Animation / Comedy / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
NR
-
1996
Stephen Herek
Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie
Family / Comedy / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1402
1180
1937
Henry Koster
Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette
Comedy / Music
USA
English
2628
2171
1936
Sidney Lanfield
Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks, Jean Hersholt
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2719
2239
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Eugenia Gilbert, Gale Henry, Vernon Dent, Burr McIntosh
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2719
2239
1933
John S. Robertson
Lionel Barrymore, Joel McCrea, May Robson, Dorothy Jordan, Frances Dee
Drama
USA
English
2751
2266
1982
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Niels Arestrup
Documentary / War
France / West Germany
French
2360
1969
1966
Don Chaffey
Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick
Adventure / Fantasy
UK
English
2628
2171
1935
Henry King
Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Woolf King, Jane Darwell, Roger Imhof
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2628
2171
1940
A. Edward Sutherland
Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1614
1356
1934
Victor Schertzinger
Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie
Music / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2699
2221
1997
Mike Figgis
Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na
Drama
USA
English
1963
1645
1942
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Drama / War
UK
English
2657
2190
1975
Robert Stevenson
Derek Nimmo, Hugh Burden, Bernard Bresslaw, Helen Hayes, Joan Sims
Family / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Spy / Sci-Fi
UK / USA
English
2127
1775
1964
Larry Peerce
Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver, Faith Burwell, Vinnette Carroll
Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1930
Paul L. Stein
Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, O.P. Heggie
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2524
2097
1977
Agnès Varda
Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
Drama / Romance
Venezuela / France / Belgium
French
2690
2214
1951
Arne Mattsson
Edvin Adolphson, Ulla Jacobsson, John Elfström, Folke Sundquist, Erik Hell
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2661
2194
1995
Kary Antholis
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein, Peter Thomas
Documentary / Short / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2628
2171
1922
Robert F. McGowan, Tom McNamara
Jack Davis, Lincoln Stedman, Ernest Morrison, Charles Stevenson, Peggy Cartwright
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2751
2266
1960
Fritz Lang
Gert Fröbe, Peter Van Eyck, Linda Sini, Wolfgang Preiss
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
France / Italy / West Germany
German
2712
2234
1980
Robert M. Young
Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett, Allen Garfield, Mare Winningham
Drama / Musical
USA
English
2591
2144
1998
Carl Franklin
Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott
Drama
USA
English
1367
1150
1961
Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Comedy
USA
English
2619
2164
1977
Sara Gómez
Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Drama / Romance
Cuba
Spanish
2591
2144
1932
Tay Garnett
William Powell, Kay Francis, Aline MacMahon, Frank McHugh, Warren Hymer
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1804
1514
1920
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1347
1131
1964
Kaneto Shindô
Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Drama / Horror
Japan
Japanese
2628
2171
1979
Harold Becker
John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox
Crime / Drama
USA
English
610
540
1939
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2217
1848
1936
Yasujiro Ozu
Chouko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2010
1684
1962
Sidney Gilliat
Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Richard Attenborough
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2719
2239
1933
John M. Stahl
Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Benita Hume
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2729
2245
1991
Isao Takahata
Daisy Ridley, Dev Patel, Alison Fernandez, Grey DeLisle, Matt Yang King
Animation / Drama / Romance
Japan
English
2712
2234
1994
Norman Jewison
Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2373
1980
1990
Gianni Amelio
Gian Maria Volonté, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri
Drama / Crime
Italy
Italian
2236
1864
1997
Alejandro Amenábar
Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
Spain / France / Italy
Spanish
2660
2193
1977
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell
Drama
USA
English
1823
1529
1965
Michael Anderson
Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Drama / War / Action / Spy / Adventure
UK
English
2049
1714
1959
Blake Edwards
Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill
Comedy / War
USA
English
2606
2153
1977
Menahem Golan
Yehoram Gaon, Assi Dayan, Ori Levy, Arik Lavie, Klaus Kinski
Action / Drama / Thriller
Israel
Hebrew
2776
2290
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1491
1261
1998
Don Roos
Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Comedy
USA
English
2700
2222
1956
David Miller
June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2332
1947
1942
Archie Mayo
George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller, The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2719
2239
1927
Alfred Santell
Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee, Alma Bennett, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2646
2183
1958
Anthony Asquith
Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Irene Worth
War / Drama / Spy / Action
UK
English
290
272
1955
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
2639
2178
1963
Mario Monicelli
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Crime / Drama
Italy / France / Yugoslavia
Italian
2628
2171
1929
Martin Fric
Karel Hasler, Oscar Marion, Suzanne Marwille, Ladislav H. Struna, Otto Zahradka
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
2719
2239
1970
unknown
Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Ann-Margret, Robert Klein, Raul Julia, Beverly Sills
Comedy / Family / Music
USA
English
2088
1743
1992
Sally Potter
Tilda Swinton, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville, John Bott
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Period Film
UK / Russia / France / Italy / Netherlands
English
2635
2175
1987
Alan J. Pakula
Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, John Kellogg, Anthony Heald
Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1351
1135
1921
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
219
206
1950
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Experimental
France
French
618
548
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
2699
2221
1997
Pedro Costa
Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Mariya Lipkina, Isabel Ruth
Drama / Comedy
Portugal / France / Denmark
Portuguese
2646
2183
1948
Wanda Jakubowska
Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gorecka, Barbara Drapinska, Aleksandra Slaska
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
2699
2221
1997
Walter Lima Jr.
Lima Duarte, Fernando Torres, Leandra Leal, Floriano Peixoto
Fantasy / Drama / Mystery / Detective
Brazil
Portuguese
2628
2171
1940
Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva
Olev Eskola
War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
1737
1453
1986
Franco Zeffirelli
Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli
Drama / Musical
Italy / Netherlands
Italian
2628
2171
1955
Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Skobtseva, Andrei Popov, Vladimir Soshalsky
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1217
1024
1952
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir
Drama / Period Film
USA / Italy / France / Morocco
English
2323
1941
1965
Stuart Burge, John Dexter
Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2712
2234
1991
Norman Jewison
Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2606
2153
1996
Berit Nesheim
Marie Theisen, Bjørn Sundquist, Hildegun Riise
Comedy / Drama
Norway
Norwegian
2104
1756
1934
King Vidor
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2628
2171
1928
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page
Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
841
733
1923
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2661
2194
1969
Larry Jordan
Experimental / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2628
2171
1966
Daniel Mann
James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant
Adventure / Comedy / Spy / Action / Cult
USA
English
1909
1603
1959
Carol Reed
Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward
Drama / Thriller / Comedy / Spy
UK
English
2546
2113
1967
Jack Clayton
Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Brooks, Pamela Franklin
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
1936
1624
1936
Harry Lachman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Alan Hale, Sidney Toler, Daphne Pollard, Betty Healy
Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English
2276
1898
1945
Roy Rowland
Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Drama / Family
USA
English
2375
1981
1971
Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bulle Ogier, Michel Lonsdale
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Experimental
France
French
2688
2212
1972
Jacques Rivette
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bulle Ogier, Michel Lonsdale
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Experimental
France
French
696
611
1985
Sydney Pollack
Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
Drama / Romance / Epic / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1275
1071
1998
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2614
2159
1980
Dennis Hopper
Linda Manz, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Farrell, Don Gordon
Drama
Canada
English
228
215
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1970
Arthur Hiller
Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols
Comedy
USA
English
2712
2234
1995
Wolfgang Petersen
Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action
USA
English
2591
2144
1962
Kon Ichikawa
Raizô Ichikawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shiho Fujimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2234
1862
1952
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Kerima
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2628
2171
1946
Aldo Vergano
Elli Parvo, Massimo Serato, Lea Padovani, Vittorio Duse, Carlo Lizzani
War / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
2769
2283
1999
Peter Tscherkassky
Barbara Hershey
Short / Horror / Experimental
Austria
English (No Dialogue)
2712
2234
1973
John Flynn
Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2713
2235
1981
Peter Hyams
Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, Kika Markham
Crime / Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Detective / Gangster
UK
English
2541
2109
1943
Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia
Drama / Western / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2162
1804
1918
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson
Drama / Crime / Romance / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
1030
883
1976
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Western / Drama
USA
English
2661
2194
1950
Ida Lupino
Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke, Raymond Bond, Lillian Hamilton
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
2719
2239
1988
Allan A. Goldstein
Jan Rubes, Aaron Schwartz, Sharon Corder, Susan Douglas Rubes, Ken Zelig
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Period Film
Canada
English
2719
2239
1972
Jacques Deray
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson, Georgia Engel
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Gangster
France / Italy / USA
French
2719
2239
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2360
1969
1983
Francis Ford Coppola
C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2535
2105
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2341
1954
1930
Robert Milton
Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2266
1889
1979
Jonathan Kaplan
Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano, Tom Fergus
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2628
2171
1917
Harold Lloyd, J. Farrell MacDonald
Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bud Jamison, Bebe Daniels, J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd
Short / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2230
1859
1959
Aleksei Batalov
Rolan Bykov, Yuri Tolubeyev, A. Yozhkina, Yelena Ponsova
Drama / Comedy / Period Film / Fantasy
Soviet Union
Russian
1838
1544
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2512
2092
1975
Stuart Cooper
Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell
War / Drama
UK
English
2688
2212
1997
Paolo Virzì
Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Matteo Campus
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2628
2171
1970
Herbert Ross
Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Roz Kelly
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2606
2153
1991
Sven Nykvist
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Period Film
Sweden / Norway / Denmark
Swedish
379
348
1943
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
2751
2266
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein
Comedy
Germany
German (Silent)
2628
2171
1950
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2719
2239
1926
Allan Dwan
Lois Moran, Noah Beery, Louise Dresser, Helen Jerome Eddy, Allan Simpson
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1929
1618
1977
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Drama
Italy
Italian
2628
2171
1929
W.S. Van Dyke
Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2629
2172
1926
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
1965
1647
1969
Joshua Logan
Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Comedy / Musical / Western
USA
English
2719
2239
1932
John G. Blystone
Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon, William 'Stage' Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2719
2239
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2606
2153
1970
Jacques Boigelot
Lucien Raimbourg, Claire Wauthion, Arlette Schreiber
Drama
Belgium
French
1484
1254
1957
George Abbott, Stanley Donen
Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney, Eddie Foy Jr., Reta Shaw, Barbara Nichols
Musical / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2719
2239
1931
Hal Roach
Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Elizabeth Forrester, Eddie Dunn, Donald Novis
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2523
2096
1971
Kamal Amrohi
Raaj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Nadira, Veena
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Urdu
2106
1757
1957
George Sidney
Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols
Musical / Romance / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2498
2082
1964
Masahiro Shinoda
Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
2209
1840
1985
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Chris Penn
Western
USA
English
1433
1210
1948
Norman Z. McLeod
Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian, Bobby Watson
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2468
2058
1922
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts
Comedy / Short / Western / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2690
2214
1980
Werner Schroeter
Nicola Zarbo, Otto Sander, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma, Johannes Wacker
Drama
West Germany
German
395
363
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2628
2171
1922
Harald Schwenzen
Hjalmar Fries, Hans Bille, Gerd Egede-Nissen, Rolf Christensen, Lillebil Ibsen
Drama
Norway
Norwegian (Silent)
1790
1500
1951
Albert Lewin
James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
210
198
1929
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
2064
1725
1971
Jerry Schatzberg
Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1119
947
1950
Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2591
2144
1947
Julien Duvivier
Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Emile Drain, Guy Favières
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
France
French
2712
2234
1994
Ron Howard
Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2040
1706
1973
James Bridges
Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, James Naughton
Drama
USA
English
1350
1134
1973
Peter Bogdanovich
Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
2694
2216
1988
Bernard Rose
Charlotte Burke, Jane Bertish, Samantha Cahill, Glenne Headly, Sarah Newbold
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Adventure
UK
English
1701
1423
1973
Franklin J. Schaffner
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Adventure / Biography / Drama
France / USA
English
2661
2194
1964
Rolf Forsberg, Tom Rook
Tom Erhart, Madhur Jaffrey, Saeed Jaffrey, Clarence Mitchell, Gordon Oarsheim
Religion / Drama / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2740
2256
1974
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma, Pia Colombo
Documentary / Family
France / Sweden
French
2456
2047
1947
Alfred Hitchcock
Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2639
2178
1996
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin
Documentary / Crime / Biography
USA
English
2768
2282
1997
Bruce Beresford
Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle
Drama / War
Australia / USA
English
929
801
1974
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
2719
2239
1956
Norman Taurog
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lori Nelson, Jeff Morrow, Jackie Loughery
Comedy / Western / Musical
USA
English
2700
2222
1976
Yves Robert
Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2719
2239
1953
Jules White
Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold
Comedy / Short / Crime
USA
English
2231
1860
1961
David Swift
Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Cathleen Nesbitt
Family / Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2366
1975
1989
Ron Howard
Steve Martin, Dianne Wiest, Dennis Dugan, Mary Steenburgen, Paul Linke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2657
2190
1989
Bob Balaban
Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, Juno Mills Cockell
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Period Film / Cult
Canada / USA
English
2645
2182
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2645
2182
1929
Edward H. Griffith
Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton
Romance / Drama
USA
English
1794
1504
1990
Jennie Livingston
Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Sol Pendavis
Documentary
USA
English
2402
2005
1960
Jacques Rivette
Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost
Mystery / Drama / Thriller
France
French
2751
2266
1925
René Clair
Henri Rollan, Martinelli, Albert Préjean
Short / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
309
289
1984
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
UK / France / West Germany / USA
English
2591
2144
1991
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon, Tina Lifford
Drama
USA
English
2505
2087
1952
Samuel Fuller
Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs, Herbert Heyes
Drama
USA
English
2501
2084
1920
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Greta Almroth, Einar Röd, Hildur Carlberg
Comedy / Drama / Horror
Sweden / Denmark
Danish (Silent)
2467
2057
1968
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin MacLeod, J. Edward McKinley
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2699
2221
1996
Manoel de Oliveira
Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira, Rogério Samora
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Portugal / France
Portuguese
2751
2266
1958
Nicholas Ray
Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland
Film-Noir / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2699
2221
1999
Benoît Jacquot
Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Lindon, Vahina Giocante
Drama
France
French
2311
1930
1963
Witold Lesiewicz, Andrzej Munk
Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Janusz Bylczynski, Krystyna Dubielowna
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
2699
2221
1995
Marco Tullio Giordana
Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Toni Bertorelli
Drama / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
2494
2080
1928
Leo McCarey, Fred Guiol
Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
663
586
1984
David Lean
Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2628
2171
1944
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn
Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
1001
859
1975
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Drama
France / Italy / USA / Spain
English
2618
2163
1933
Yasujiro Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata, Chouko Iida
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2538
2107
1977
Larry Clark
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones
Drama / Crime / Music / History
USA
English
2770
2284
1982
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2694
2216
1992
John Sayles
Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Will Mahoney
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
66
65
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
2747
2263
1983
Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Paul Melchert, Yves Stening, Sean Callinan, David Benton
Short / Drama / Experimental / Comedy / Fantasy
Australia
English
1544
1305
1949
Henry Cornelius
Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater
Comedy
UK
English
2081
1738
1952
George Cukor
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching, Sammy White
Comedy / Romance / Sports
USA
English
1270
1067
1973
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2700
2222
1998
Tom Shadyac
Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter
Comedy / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2434
2028
1965
Guy Green
Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2706
2228
1950
Pietro Germi
Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Saro Urzì, Franco Navarra, Liliana Lattanzi
Adventure / Drama / Action
Italy
Italian
36
36
1955
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
2230
1859
1987
Nils Gaup
Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo
Adventure / Action / Drama / History
Norway
Saami
2776
2290
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2719
2239
1925
Clarence G. Badger
Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi, Bert Woodruff, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2392
1996
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2456
2047
1928
King Vidor
Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1430
1207
1956
Fielder Cook
Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson
Drama
USA
English
307
287
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner
George C. Scott, Karl Malden
Drama / War / Epic / Biography
USA
English
2591
2144
1998
Matthew Diamond
Paul Taylor, Ted Thomas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
NR
-
1983
Eric Rohmer
Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2606
2153
1959
Astrid Henning-Jensen
Edvin Adolphson, Jimmy Sterman, Asbjørn Andersen
Family / Drama
Denmark
Danish
907
785
1964
Sidney Lumet
Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sánchez
Drama
USA
English
2212
1843
1916
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand, Albert Austin
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1905
1599
1972
Daryl Duke
Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil, Michael C. Gwynne
Drama
USA
English
2645
2182
1932
Lothar Mendes
Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dorothy Peterson
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2730
2246
1979
Bill Melendez, Phil Roman
Peter Robbins, Tracy Stratford, Bill Melendez, Christopher Shea, Karen Mendelson
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2468
2058
1947
Emilio Fernández
Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Mexico / USA
English
2600
2149
1937
Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2645
2182
1935
Fridrikh Ermler
Yelena Yunger, Boris Poslavsky, A. Petrov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2751
2266
1987
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Zohreh Saramadi, Esmail Saramadian, Behzad Behzadpour
Drama / Gangster
Iran
Persian
1701
1423
1973
Maximilian Schell
Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover
Drama
Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
German
2628
2171
1985
Tim Burton
Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen
Adventure / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2661
2194
1972
Randal Kleiser
Bruce Davison, Barbara Rush, Jeanette Nolan, William Schallert, David Alan Bailey
Drama / Short
USA
English
2776
2290
1982
Jane Campion
Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Short / Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
436
399
1960
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
2628
2171
1916
Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince
Billie Burke, William H. Thompson, William Desmond, Charles Ray, Nona Thomas
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2047
1712
1986
Francis Ford Coppola
Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
USA
English
1332
1117
1986
Hark Tsui
Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Cherie Chung, Mark Cheng, Kenneth Tsang, Ma Wu
Comedy / Action / Drama
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2628
2171
1993
Alan J. Pakula
Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Action
USA
English
662
585
1987
Bille August
Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume
Drama / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
2456
2047
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2278
1900
1981
Herbert Ross
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2162
1804
1941
George Stevens
Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2591
2144
1933
W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
2712
2234
1970
David Greene
Eli Wallach, Julie Harris, Deborah Winters, Stephen McHattie, Hal Holbrook
Drama
USA
English
2628
2171
1937
Aleksander Ford, Jerzy Zarzycki
Ina Benita, Jerzy Pichelski, Stanislawa Wysocka, Kazimierz Opalinski
unknown
Poland
Polish
1908
1602
1930
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
855
744
1996
Milos Forman
Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson
Drama / Biography
Canada / USA
English
2276
1898
1951
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2700
2222
1960
George Sidney
Cantinflas, Dan Dailey, Shirley Jones, Carlos Montalbán
Comedy / Musical
Mexico / USA
English
847
738
1937
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
2341
1954
1977
Diane Kurys
Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2747
2263
1978
Eric Rohmer
Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2765
2280
1997
Satoshi Kon
Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
Animation / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2719
2239
1979
Robert Altman
Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis, Belita Moreno, Henry Gibson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2700
2222
1958
Blake Edwards
Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Linda Cristal
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2648
2184
1993
Clint Eastwood
Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka
Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
767
673
1970
Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg
James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton
Drama / Experimental / Cult
UK
English
2443
2035
1977
Kidlat Tahimik
Kidlat Tahimik, Dolores Santamaria, Mang Fely, Georgette Baudry, Harmut Lerch
Drama / Comedy
Philippines
English
2364
1973
1914
Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie
Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer, Edward José, Francis Carlyle
Action / Adventure / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2700
2222
1962
George Roy Hill
Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2694
2216
1988
Marisa Silver
Alan Boyce, Keanu Reeves, Michelle Meyrink, Jennifer Rubin, Pamela Gidley
Drama / Romance
USA
English
16
16
1966
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2172
1808
1982
Robert Towne
Mariel Hemingway, Scott Glenn, Patrice Donnelly, Kenny Moore
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English
2761
2276
1980
Bill Gunn
Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Sam Waymon, Walter Cotton, Jim Wright
Drama
USA
English
2712
2234
1987
Terry Jones
Julie Walters, Shirley Stelfox, Alec McCowen, Danny Schiller, Tim Woodward
Comedy / Drama / Biography
UK
English
1934
1622
1995
Roger Michell
Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood, Corin Redgrave
Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / USA
English
2699
2221
1965
Andrei Konchalovsky
Bolot Bejshenaliyev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Idris Nogajbayev
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2706
2228
1995
Vadim Abdrashitov
Sergey Makovetskiy, Igor Livanov, Yury Belyayev, Irina Sidorova, Nelli Nevedina
Drama
Russia
Russian
2719
2239
1922
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Vera Reynolds, Joy Winthrop, Mae Laurel
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2719
2239
1939
Del Lord
Buster Keaton, Lorna Gray, Gino Corrado, Richard Fiske, Bud Jamison
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English
2535
2105
1935
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Romance / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2021
1695
1924
Herbert Brenon
Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence
Adventure / Fantasy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2131
1778
1953
Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel
Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy / Adventure
USA
English
2341
1954
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2628
2171
1938
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2083
1740
1992
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Alphonsia Emmanuel
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2628
2171
1934
Grigori Roshal, Vera Stroyeva
Boris Dobronravov, Lev Fenin, Anatoli Goryunov, Lyubov Orlova, Kseniya Tarasova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2751
2266
1971
Jean Rouch
Damoure Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia, Safi Faye, Moustapha Alassane
Comedy
France
French
1584
1331
1936
Archie Mayo
Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Humphrey Bogart
Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1291
1086
1968
Richard Lester
Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1560
1314
1957
Mark Robson
Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2646
2183
1962
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka
Drama
France / Greece / USA
English
2456
2047
1922
F.W. Murnau
Alfred Abel, Grete Berger, Lil Dagover, Lya De Putti, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Crime
Germany
German (Silent)
2712
2234
1996
Simon Wincer
Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar
Action / Adventure / Crime / Family / Fantasy / Comic
Australia / USA
English
1584
1331
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
914
788
1974
Luis Buñuel
Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Italy / France
French
601
532
1925
Rupert Julian, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Drama / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2628
2171
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
2506
2088
1974
Brian De Palma
Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2719
2239
1954
Roy Del Ruth
Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest, Allyn Ann McLerie
Crime / Horror / Mystery
USA
English
2606
2153
1966
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Drama / History / Epic / War
Poland
Polish
2719
2239
1974
Saul Bass
Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1781
1492
1955
Phil Karlson
John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1575
1323
1993
Jonathan Demme
Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman
Drama
USA
English
274
258
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2699
2221
1952
Jean Negulesco
Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Davis Roberts
Drama
USA
English
1834
1540
1998
Darren Aronofsky
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman
Thriller / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
107
104
1993
Jane Campion
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia / New Zealand / France
English
2389
1993
1954
Aleksander Ford
Aleksandra Slaska, Tadeusz Janczar, Andrzej Kozak
Drama / Gangster
Poland
Polish
2049
1714
1929
E.A. Dupont
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Semi-Silent)
316
294
1959
Robert Bresson
Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Crime / Drama
France
French
518
463
1953
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Film-Noir / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2628
2171
1913
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, James Prior, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby, Arthur Ricketts, H.P. Owen
Comedy / Short
UK / USA
English (Silent)
575
513
1975
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
1331
1116
1945
Albert Lewin
George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford
Drama / Horror / Fantasy
USA
English
2645
2182
1977
John Power
Rod Taylor, John Meillon, John Ewart, Harold Hopkins
Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
2719
2239
1932
Roy Mack
Eubie Blake, Nina Mae McKinney, The Nicholas Brothers
Short / Musical
USA
English
2121
1770
1942
Irving Pichel
Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter
Drama / War
USA
English
2591
2144
1972
Jacques Demy
Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence, John Hurt, Donovan, Michael Hordern, Roy Kinnear
Drama / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
288
270
1965
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Drama / Crime / Experimental / Romance
France / Italy
French
2719
2239
1936
David Butler
Stuart Erwin, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, Johnny Downs, Betty Grable
Musical / Comedy / Sports
USA
English
2719
2239
1933
John Ford
Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster, Lucille La Verne, Maurice Murphy
Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1923
Gregory La Cava
Charles Murray, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2299
1919
1996
Peter Greenaway
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Drama / Romance / Experimental
France / UK / Netherlands
English
1204
1013
1959
Michael Gordon
Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1114
942
1972
John Waters
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Edith Massey
Comedy / Crime / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2204
1835
1982
Alan Parker
Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon
Drama / Musical
UK
English
1290
1085
1963
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Capucine
Comedy / Crime / Caper / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
2045
1710
1976
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
2479
2068
1949
Elia Kazan, John Ford
Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, William Lundigan, Basil Ruysdael
Drama
USA
English
2719
2239
1995
Russell Calabrese, Barry Caldwell
Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, James Belushi, Corey Burton, Joe Lala
Animation / Family / Comedy
USA
English
222
209
1940
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2719
2239
1931
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Dorothy Granger, Kay Deslys, Carlton Griffin
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2306
1926
1948
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper
Musical / Adventure / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2266
1889
1961
Roger Corman
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone
Horror / Period Film
USA
English
2719
2239
1916
Joseph De Grasse
Dorothy Phillips, Jack Mulhall, Lon Chaney, Joseph De Grasse, C. Norman Hammond
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
372
343
1951
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
2606
2153
1992
Adolfo Aristarain
José Sacristán, Federico Luppi, Leonor Benedetto
Drama / Action / Western
Argentina / Spain / Uruguay
Spanish
2546
2113
1998
Nicole Garcia
Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Romance / Mystery
France
French
1169
984
1984
Robert Benton
Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Danny Glover
Drama
USA
English
2529
2100
1961
Luis García Berlanga
Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2628
2171
1910
D.W. Griffith
Mary Pickford, Kate Bruce, W. Chrystie Miller, William J. Butler, Dell Henderson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2628
2171
1936
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess
Biography / War / Western / Epic
USA
English
2658
2191
1959
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony
Horror / Sci-Fi / Action / Cult
USA
English
2409
2011
1987
John Hughes
Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
