Best Movies of 20th Century by Title
2597
2137
1948
Zoltan Korda
Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Crime
USA
English
531
472
1939
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
779
679
1969
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
209
197
1988
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2334
1940
1945
H. Bruce Humberstone
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S.Z. Sakall, Allen Jenkins
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Gangster
USA
English
2724
2231
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2727
2233
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2710
2218
1962
Henry Levin, George Pal
Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak
Fantasy / Musical / Family
USA
English
465
421
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2541
2099
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
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2731
2236
1952
Walter Lantz, various
Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford
Animation / Family / Comedy / Short
USA
English
2669
2189
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2681
2198
1971
Elio Petri
Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato
Drama
Italy
Italian
1336
1118
1988
Mike Nichols
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2195
1819
1986
Lizzie Borden
Louise Smith, Deborah Banks, Liz Caldwell, Marusia Zach, Amanda Goodwin
Drama
USA
English
1911
1599
1982
George Roy Hill
Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2149
1786
1988
Chris Menges
Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, Nadine Chalmers
Drama
UK / Zimbabwe
English
2724
2231
1999
Michael Apted
Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1412
1187
1964
George Roy Hill
Peter Sellers, Merrie Spaeth, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury
Comedy / Music / Drama
USA
English
2636
2166
1956
Edward Bernds
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor, Shirley Patterson
Sci-Fi
USA
English
2636
2166
1922
Phil Rosen
Wallace Reid, Lois Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Henry Miller Jr., Helen Dunbar
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
761
667
1971
Dusan Makavejev
Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
Drama / Comedy / Fantasy
Yugoslavia / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2731
2236
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2268
1883
1966
Bryan Forbes
Jeremy Lloyd, John Mills, Michael Caine, James Villiers, Peter Sellers
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1078
917
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold Stone
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir
USA
English
364
335
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2643
2170
1954
Luis Buñuel
Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado, Ernesto Alonso
Drama / Romance
Mexico
Spanish
2731
2236
1996
Rintaro
Tomokazu Seki, Ken Narita, Junko Iwao, Toni Barry, Rupert Degas
Animation / Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi
Japan
Japanese
2665
2185
1963
Roger Corman
Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt, Don Rickles
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2710
2218
1972
Brian G. Hutton
Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton
Drama / Romance
UK
English
1041
889
1975
Ousmane Sembene
Seun Samb, Tierno Leye, Younous Seye, Makhouredia Gueye
Comedy
Senegal
French
2777
2277
1998
Joan Chen
Lu Lu, Lopsang, Zheng Qian, Jie Gao, Qianqian Li, Yue Lu, Qian Qiao, Cheng Jiang
Drama
Hong Kong / USA / Taiwan
Mandarin
1925
1607
1989
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouédraogo, Roukietou Barry, Adama Ouédraogo
Family / Drama
Burkina Faso / Switzerland / France
Mòoré
2458
2040
1974
Sydney Pollack
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA / Japan
English
2636
2166
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2636
2166
1941
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English
2731
2236
1952
Frederick De Cordova
Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia, George Mathews
Adventure
USA
English
332
308
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2653
2177
1979
John Schlesinger
Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn, William Devane
Romance / Drama / War
USA / West Germany / UK
English
2313
1923
1937
Weibang Ma-Xu
Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jin, Chao Shi, Wenzhu Zhou
Horror
China
Mandarin
2665
2185
1987
John Duigan
Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, Ben Mendelsohn, Graeme Blundell, Lynette Curran
Drama / Romance
Australia
English
1009
863
1982
Peter Weir
Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Bembol Roco
Romance / Drama
Australia
English
2017
1682
1984
Krzysztof Zanussi
Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka
Romance / Drama / War
Poland / West Germany / USA
Polish
1323
1107
1946
Clarence Brown
Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr.
Drama / Family
USA
English
570
507
1987
Souleymane Cissé
Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo
Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany
French
2708
2216
1996
Abolfazl Jalili
Mohammad Ashayeri, Samad Khani, Fazlali Ahayeri, Abolfazl Jalili
Drama
Iran
Persian
2691
2203
1957
Heinosuke Gosho
Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2636
2166
1964
Anthony Asquith
Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Gangster
UK
English
2643
2170
1948
William A. Wellman
Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell
Western
USA
English
903
779
1968
George Dunning
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Animation / Fantasy / Music / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1525
1284
1983
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
UK / USA / Czechoslovakia
English
1373
1153
1963
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Religion
Italy / France
Italian
2654
2178
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
2597
2137
1936
Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Molly Picon, Leon Liebgold, Simche Fostel, Max Bozyk, Dora Fakiel, A. Lewin
Comedy / Musical / Romance
Poland / USA
Yiddish
2654
2178
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
387
355
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
936
803
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
2764
2264
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2764
2264
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2789
2288
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
2597
2137
1939
George Marshall, Edward F. Cline, Edward Sedgwick
W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Constance Moore, John Arledge
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1432
1205
1938
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2731
2236
1948
H.C. Potter
Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2708
2216
1997
Yimou Zhang
Wen Jiang, Baotian Li, Qu Ying, You Ge, Yimou Zhang
Comedy / Romance
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
1506
1269
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2200
1824
1967
Lewis Gilbert
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsuro Tamba, Donald Pleasence
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2268
1883
1942
William A. Seiter
Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Isobel Elsom, Leslie Brooks
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2731
2236
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2719
2227
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2653
2177
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2636
2166
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
585
520
1974
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
1532
1291
1967
Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda
Gene Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris
Musical / Comedy / Romance
France
French
2613
2147
1979
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Poland / France
Polish
2731
2236
1988
Christopher Cain
Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Action / Drama / Western / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
1930
1611
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1391
1168
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2643
2170
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
573
510
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2161
1796
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2724
2231
1995
Benjamin Ross
Tobias Arnold, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Hugh O'Conor, Norman Caro
Crime / Drama / Comedy
UK / Germany / France
English
2731
2236
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2636
2166
1985
Barry Levinson
Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Detective / Drama
USA
English
2691
2203
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2731
2236
1987
Bill Plympton
Maureen McElheron
Animation / Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2703
2211
1998
Neil LaBute
Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2597
2137
1973
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2381
1977
1966
Francis Ford Coppola
Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2150
1787
1928
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2731
2236
1955
Norman Taurog
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch, Raymond Burr, Mitzi McCall
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2597
2137
1934
Erle C. Kenton
W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames, Louise Carter
Comedy
USA
English
2551
2107
1968
Melville Shavelson
Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Comedy / Family / Drama
USA
English
2636
2166
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2653
2177
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
277
261
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
1349
1130
1970
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Drama
USA
English
2636
2166
1930
Francisco Camacho
Pio Baroja, Ricardo Baroja, Maria Luz Callejo, Andrés Carranque de los Rios
Action / Adventure
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2650
2176
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
1841
1540
1960
Louis Malle
Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marli
Comedy
France / Italy
French
1764
1475
1983
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Patrick Horgan
Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
189
178
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2724
2231
1998
Jake Kasdan
Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone
Comedy / Thriller / Mystery / Romance / Detective
USA
English
2731
2236
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2313
1923
1995
Hans Petter Moland
Stellan Skarsgård, Gard B. Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
2744
2245
1993
John Greyson
John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas
Musical / Fantasy / Comedy
Canada
English
2055
1711
1946
Vincente Minnelli, Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, Robert Lewis, Eugene Loring, George Sidney, Charles Walters, Norman Taurog
Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland
Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
2286
1900
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2472
2052
1981
Luis Valdez
Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
1297
1088
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
2731
2236
1939
John English, William Witney
Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova, Edmund Cobb
Western / Adventure / Action / Cult / Serial / Family
USA
English
2528
2090
1983
Hark Tsui
Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Brigitte Lin, Damian Lau
Horror / Adventure / Action / Fantasy
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1826
1528
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2636
2166
1979
Douglas Hickox
Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, John Mills, Bob Hoskins, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War
USA / South Africa / Netherlands
English
2631
2163
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2653
2177
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
