BFI Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll 2002
2860
31
1931
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
1154
31
1987
Stanley Kubrick
Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, R. Lee Ermey
Drama / War
USA
English
2572
31
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1499
31
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
878
31
80
1953
Howard Hawks
Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1980
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2581
31
1995
Barry Sonnenfeld
John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1267
31
74
86
1947
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1932
Oscar Micheaux
Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Juano Hernandez, Bud Harris
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2860
31
1984
Jane Campion
Gabrielle Shornegg, Geraldine Haywood, Marina Knight, John Godden
Short / Drama / Music / Fantasy
Australia
English
2860
31
1976
Larry Cohen
Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney
Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
613
31
1944
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
840
31
1933
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William, Joan Blondell
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
450
31
86
1952
Jean Renoir
Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France / Italy
English
230
31
1964
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
2860
31
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
58
31
72
84
1967
Mike Nichols
Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
768
31
1978
Randal Kleiser
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
2860
31
1974
Werner Herzog
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
595
31
1963
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2860
31
1971
Robert Aldrich
Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
388
31
69
82
1993
Harold Ramis
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance / Family / Cult
USA
English
2644
31
73
1997
Harmony Korine
Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Jacob Reynolds, Lara Tosh
Drama / Experimental
USA
English
573
31
1939
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Comedy / War
USA
English
902
31
1955
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2353
31
1950
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Guy Middleton
Comedy
UK
English
2860
31
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
462
31
1998
Todd Solondz
Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker
Drama / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1131
31
69
74
1997
Kar Wai Wong
Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chen Chang
Drama / Romance
Hong Kong
Mandarin
1143
31
74
84
1971
Hal Ashby
Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Cult
USA
English
2725
31
86
1966
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Rossana Di Rocco
Comedy
Italy
Italian
1775
31
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1359
31
73
80
1980
Michael Cimino
Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Western / Drama / Epic / Cult
USA
English
671
31
87
1984
Edgar Reitz
Marita Breuer, Edgar Reitz, Gudrun Landgrebe
Drama / History / Epic
West Germany
German
492
31
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1692
31
88
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1999
Luis Estrada
Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Mexico
Spanish
2860
31
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
108
31
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2860
31
1934
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
1573
31
1965
Sidney Lumet
Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch
Drama / War
UK
English
2340
31
1978
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
André Heller, Harry Baer, Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern
War / Experimental
West Germany / UK / France
German
1244
31
1938
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1938
Marcel Carné
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Drama
France
French
2724
31
72
77
1968
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, Santiago Álvarez
María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas
Documentary
Argentina
Spanish
2860
31
1985
Suzana Amaral
Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Comedy
Brazil
Portuguese
1812
31
63
1968
Ingmar Bergman
Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Drama / Horror
Sweden
Swedish
312
31
70
85
1941
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2318
31
1947
Charles Crichton
Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2860
31
1954
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1376
31
65
77
1964
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
2822
31
1967
Vilgot Sjöman
Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt
Documentary / Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2860
31
1968
Tai Kato
Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
760
31
84
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
1720
31
68
85
1932
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2860
31
1991
Teresa Villaverde
Ricardo Colares, Teresa Roby, Joaquim de Almeida, Vincent Gallo
Drama
Portugal / Germany
Portuguese
307
31
71
83
1968
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick
Drama / Comedy / Cult
UK
English
2474
31
1955
Federico Fellini
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Comedy / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
1417
31
1959
Roberto Rossellini
Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
1153
31
1994
Michael Radford
Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy / Belgium
Italian
710
31
1967
Richard Brooks
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson
Crime / Drama / Detective
USA
English
2860
31
1978
Guy Debord
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2551
31
2001
Jean-Luc Godard
Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Françoise Verny
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2212
31
1997
Neil LaBute
Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy, Emily Cline
Comedy / Drama
Canada / USA
English
2860
31
1980
Dario Argento
Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Cult
Italy
English
2615
31
88
1913
Victor Sjöström
Hilda Borgström, Aron Lindgren, Erik Lindholm
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2860
31
1963
Shohei Imamura
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
78
31
74
83
1934
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
965
31
87
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2860
31
1938
Abel Gance
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max
Drama / Horror / War
France
French
2104
31
1990
Adrian Lyne
Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1949
31
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2552
31
74
1974
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Drama
France / Belgium
French
687
31
1996
Cameron Crowe
Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
2860
31
1994
Barry Levinson
Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe
Crime / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2590
31
1995
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, Denis Jadót, Elisabeth Kaza
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
France
French
308
31
70
66
1954
Nicholas Ray
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Western / Cult
USA
English
1082
31
1949
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
2860
31
1959
Fritz Lang
Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm
Adventure / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
German
2860
31
1980
Yvonne Rainer
Annette Michelson, Gabor Vernon, Vito Acconci, Yvonne Rainer
Drama / Experimental
USA / UK / West Germany
English
1125
31
1990
Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Li Gong, Wei Li, Baotian Li, Zhang Yi, Ji-an Zheng
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan / China
Mandarin
647
31
1965
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
2565
31
1991
Spike Lee
Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2223
31
1999
Amos Gitai
Yaël Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Meital Barda, Uri Klauzner
Drama / Religion
Israel / France
Hebrew
418
31
63
77
1969
Ken Loach
David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland
Drama
UK
English
2860
31
1993
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Ali Asghar, Subhash Ghai
Action / Crime / Musical / Romance / Fantasy
India
Hindi
1076
31
71
84
1921
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1580
31
67
87
1976
John Cassavetes
Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Robert Phillips
Drama / Crime
USA
English
1858
31
1971
Peter Brook
Paul Scofield, Patrick Magee, Jack MacGowran, Alan Webb
Drama
UK / Denmark
English
295
31
71
82
1982
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1618
31
1950
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Adventure / Romance / Action / Family
USA
English
1148
31
69
88
1976
Wim Wenders
Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
Drama
West Germany
German
936
31
1965
Richard Lester
Rita Tushingham, Ray Brooks II, Michael Crawford
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2860
31
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1961
Ritwik Ghatak
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee
Drama / Romance
India
Bengali
574
31
1991
Jacques Rivette
Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland
French
597
31
68
69
1961
Michelangelo Antonioni
Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
2789
31
1932
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Crime / Mystery / Detective / Drama
France
French
872
31
1950
Max Ophüls
Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2787
31
1964
Roger Vadim
Jane Fonda, Anna Karina, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak
Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
942
31
1923
Abel Gance
Severin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier
Drama
France
French (Silent)
812
31
71
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
535
31
1994
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Drama / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
2752
31
1912
Dorothy G. Shore
Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2849
31
88
1971
Werner Herzog
Heinrich Fleischmann, Vladimir Kokol, Fini Straubinger
Documentary / Biography
West Germany
German
2789
31
1928
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
280
31
88
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2599
31
1966
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster / Caper / Post-Noir
France
French
275
31
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
2103
31
71
88
1952
Max Ophüls
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
205
31
64
78
1967
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
2860
31
1970
Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Gian Maria Volonté, Anne Wiazemsky, Paolo Pozzesi
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2856
31
74
1982
Philippe Garrel
Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer
Drama / Romance
France
French
2860
31
1971
John D. Hancock
Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2087
31
1933
Max Ophüls
Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Germany
German
2860
31
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2462
31
1992
Paul Schrader
Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2820
31
68
87
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
796
31
1983
Bill Forsyth
Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Comedy / Drama / Cult
UK
English
1558
31
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
559
31
1962
Stanley Kubrick
James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers, Gary Cockrell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / UK
English
2298
31
1997
Adrian Lyne
Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Dominique Swain
Drama / Romance
USA / France
English
860
31
87
1996
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1968
Peter Collinson
David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie
Drama / War
UK
English
2844
31
87
1971
Kira Muratova
Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Tatyana Mychko, Yuri Kayurov
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2860
31
1972
Raymundo Gleyzer
Víctor Proncet, Raúl Fraire, Susana Lanteri
Drama / Crime
Argentina
Spanish
2767
31
71
81
1997
David Lynch
Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Crime
France / USA
English
710
31
1939
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1423
31
1975
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu
Comedy / War
USA
English
1312
31
67
70
1984
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel
Drama / Cult
USA
English
1709
31
87
1991
Leos Carax
Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber
Drama / Romance
France
French
2860
31
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2682
31
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2293
31
1969
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
1613
31
83
1931
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
1094
31
1960
John Sturges
Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn
Western / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Family
USA
English
737
31
84
1992
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1293
31
1992
Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert
Horror / Comedy / Crime / Drama
Belgium
French
2850
31
1993
Raoul Peck
Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau
Drama
France / Canada
Haitian
799
31
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1358
31
1958
Anthony Mann
Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord
Romance / Western / Cult
USA
English
188
31
64
84
1979
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1993
Yousry Nasrallah
Zaki Abdel Wahab, Taheya Cariocca, Seif El Dine, Youssra
Drama / Adventure / Romance
Egypt / France
Arabic
1667
31
65
83
1967
Frantisek Vlácil
Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Romance / Drama / Epic / History
Czechoslovakia
Czech
543
31
1964
Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
398
31
72
63
1999
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1961
31
1972
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Biography
Italy
Italian
2551
31
1984
Mike Leigh
Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Pam Ferris, Jeff Robert
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2014
31
87
1963
Jean-Daniel Pollet, Volker Schlöndorff
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
933
31
62
73
1968
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez
Drama
Cuba
Spanish
770
31
61
19
1943
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
367
31
88
1945
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2856
31
74
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
1357
31
1961
John Huston
Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
1545
31
1985
Paul Schrader
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Drama / Biography
USA
Japanese
2844
31
87
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
400
31
81
1958
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy
Italy / France
French
2860
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
962
31
85
2001
Mira Nair
Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome
Drama / Romance / Comedy
India / USA / France / Italy / Germany
Hindi
627
31
86
1979
Terry Jones
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Comedy / Religion / Cult
UK
English
758
31
1957
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
2795
31
1961
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska
Drama / Religion / Period Film
Poland
Polish
2860
31
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1394
31
58
74
1967
Robert Bresson
Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Maria Cardinal
Drama
France
French
408
31
88
2001
Baz Luhrmann
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor
Drama / Musical / Romance
Australia / USA
English
2614
31
88
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
82
31
32
9
2001
David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Experimental / Post-Noir / Cult
France / USA
English
2860
31
1975
Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Drama
Cameroon
French
775
31
1979
Gillian Armstrong
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Australia
English
726
31
1985
Lasse Hallström
Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén
Drama / Comedy / Family
Sweden
Swedish
2860
31
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
406
31
1936
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1320
31
69
86
1962
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
529
31
68
83
1969
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
2860
31
1955
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
1847
31
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
2860
31
1989
Tracey Moffatt
Akira Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle, Agnes Hardwick, Marcia Langton
Short / Drama
Australia
English
2860
31
1991
David Greene
Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid, Amy Bebout, Reid Binion
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
555
31
1982
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
263
31
88
1939
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2850
31
1985
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Grazyna Szapolowska, Maria Pakulnis, Aleksander Bardini
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
1627
31
69
85
1983
Andrei Tarkovsky
Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Drama
Italy / France / Soviet Union
Russian
2860
31
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
1095
31
88
1973
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Drama / Musical / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2860
31
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
491
31
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
2293
31
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1395
31
1961
Billy Wilder
James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
Comedy
USA
English
582
31
66
64
1939
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2760
31
67
82
1977
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell
Drama
USA
English
2860
31
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
1517
31
1998
Don Roos
Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett
Comedy
USA
English
2736
31
1963
Mario Monicelli
Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Crime / Drama
Italy / France / Yugoslavia
Italian
2069
31
1934
King Vidor
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
817
31
83
1923
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2729
31
65
1972
Jacques Rivette
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bulle Ogier, Michel Lonsdale
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Experimental
France
French
960
31
1976
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Western / Drama
USA
English
2551
31
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
1992
31
1977
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Drama
Italy
Italian
858
31
1974
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
326
31
69
69
1984
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
UK / France / West Germany / USA
English
2450
31
74
1968
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin MacLeod, J. Edward McKinley
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2854
31
73
1982
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2789
31
1983
Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
Paul Melchert, Yves Stening, Sean Callinan, David Benton
Short / Drama / Experimental / Comedy / Fantasy
Australia
English
2860
31
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2860
31
1982
Jane Campion
Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Short / Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
751
31
1937
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
2789
31
1978
Eric Rohmer
Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2551
31
1935
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Romance / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
261
31
83
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2380
31
1996
Peter Greenaway
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Drama / Romance / Experimental
France / UK / Netherlands
English
2026
31
1976
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk
Comedy / Crime / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
365
31
1951
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
276
31
1992
Robert Altman
Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1563
31
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
185
31
87
1967
Mel Brooks
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor
Comedy / Musical / Cult
USA
English
2860
31
1970
Manoj Kumar
Ashok Kumar, Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Bharti, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
624
31
73
1985
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2551
31
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
1289
31
1979
Franc Roddam
Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett
Drama / Music / Cult
UK
English
2031
31
1932
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Sergei Bondarchuk, Grigori Aleksandrov
Documentary / Experimental / Romance
Soviet Union / USA / Mexico
Russian (Silent)
252
31
71
83
1952
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
1391
31
1968
Paul Newman
Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons
Drama
USA
English
88
31
74
74
1981
Steven Spielberg
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies
Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English
2595
31
1993
Ken Loach
Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix, Ricky Tomlinson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2792
31
1958
Leo McCarey
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Comedy / War
USA
English
1264
31
1942
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
227
31
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1315
31
88
1949
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2860
31
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
757
31
1987
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Liu Jia, Cunhua Ji
Drama / War / Period Film
China
Mandarin
254
31
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
256
31
74
1965
Roman Polanski
Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Thriller / Horror / Drama
UK
English
1071
31
88
2000
Darren Aronofsky
Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
614
31
72
1992
Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
845
31
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
756
31
1962
Sam Peckinpah
Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan
Western
USA
English
1656
31
1950
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Romance / Western
USA
English
259
31
87
1976
John G. Avildsen
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith
Drama / Romance / Sports / Family
USA
English
2860
31
1977
John Flynn
William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1792
31
1996
Baz Luhrmann
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1422
31
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1978
31
85
1936
Joseph Cornell
Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2681
31
1985
Amir Naderi
Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh
Drama
Iran
Persian
1082
31
67
87
2002
Aleksandr Sokurov
Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Drama / Fantasy / War / Experimental
Russia / Germany
Russian
1206
31
1954
Herbert J. Biberman
Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe
Drama
USA
English
856
31
48
42
1983
Chris Marker
Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2682
31
1936
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
1022
31
39
48
1994
Béla Tarr
Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy
Drama
Hungary / Germany / Switzerland
Hungarian
380
31
1960
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
1569
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2860
31
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
811
31
73
85
1973
Ingmar Bergman
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Anita Wall, Jan Malmsjo
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
255
31
74
83
1996
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Comedy
France / UK
English
500
31
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
667
31
74
85
1963
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Drama / Cult
UK
English
360
31
88
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
593
31
70
85
1965
Sergei Parajanov
Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Ukrainian
2595
31
87
1975
Ramesh Sippy
Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Adventure / Action / Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller
India
Hindi
519
31
68
80
1940
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1192
31
72
87
1988
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Drama / Crime
Poland
Polish
1371
31
72
86
1963
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2860
31
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2860
31
2000
Guy Ritchie
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Alan Ford, Vinnie Jones, Ewen Bremner
Crime / Comedy / Caper / Gangster
UK / USA
English
1265
31
74
80
1958
Vincente Minnelli
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy
Drama
USA
English
2860
31
1990
Ann Hui
Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li
Drama
Hong Kong / Taiwan
Cantonese
1427
31
72
82
2000
Roy Andersson
Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson
Drama / Comedy
Sweden / Norway / Denmark
Swedish
197
31
74
88
1965
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
2860
31
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2088
31
2002
David Cronenberg
Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave
Drama / Mystery
Canada / UK
English
781
31
1970
Bernardo Bertolucci
Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Drama / Mystery
Italy
Italian
92
31
52
50
1973
Víctor Erice
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Drama
Spain
Spanish
2599
31
1968
Federico Fellini
Terence Stamp, Salvo Randone, Anne Tonietti, Marina Yaru, Fabrizio Angeli
Drama / Horror
France / Italy
French
1781
31
62
78
1948
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
1910
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne
Comedy / Drama
France
French
833
31
1992
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
873
31
1999
David Lynch
Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth, Jane Galloway
Drama / Adventure / Cult
France / UK / USA
English
2860
31
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
601
31
72
88
1984
Jim Jarmusch
John Lurie, Eszter Balint
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA / West Germany
English
694
31
1971
Sam Peckinpah
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2211
31
1994
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz
Drama / Comedy
Cuba / Mexico / Spain
Spanish
2849
31
88
1986
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Feliks Stawinski
Short / Experimental
UK
English
2599
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
810
31
1978
Richard Donner
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Crime / Family / Comic
UK
English
2860
31
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1971
John G. Avildsen
Bob Brady, Gordon Felio, Roz Kelly, Nancy Salmon
Romance / Drama
USA
English
463
31
1997
Atom Egoyan
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Drama
Canada
English
331
31
1936
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
918
31
66
79
1931
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2738
31
87
1985
Edward Yang
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wu Nien-Chen, Mei Fang, Tsai Chin, Su-Yun Ko
Drama / Romance
Taiwan
Taiwanese
2805
31
68
86
1979
Yuri Norstein
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Animation / Short / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2065
31
74
1989
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Henxiang Han, Joris Ivens, Guilian Liu, Zhuang Liu, Hong Wang
Documentary / Comedy / Drama
France / UK / West Germany / Netherlands
French
1802
31
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
2520
31
2000
Agnès Jaoui
Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
719
31
2002
Abbas Kiarostami
Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh
Drama / Documentary / Experimental
France / Iran / USA
Persian
620
31
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
2047
31
72
84
1976
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
France / USA
French
486
31
86
1984
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
228
31
86
1991
Ridley Scott
Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2860
31
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2860
31
1981
Peter Bogdanovich
Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Patti Hansen, John Ritter
Comedy / Romance / Detective
USA
English
847
31
73
86
1949
Nicholas Ray
Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Film-Noir / Romance / Drama
USA
English
1135
31
1945
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
2110
31
1974
Robert Altman
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
662
31
67
87
1988
Errol Morris
Randall Adams, David Harris III, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton
Documentary / Crime / Biography
USA
English
293
31
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
1268
31
1993
François Girard
Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands
English
2860
31
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
625
31
1999
David O. Russell
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
War / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Caper
USA
English
1624
31
1957
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
2721
31
87
1918
Louis Feuillade
Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
1634
31
2000
Bahman Ghobadi
Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini
Drama / Crime
Iran
Persian
456
31
1979
Volker Schlöndorff
Mario Adorf, David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
Drama / Period Film / War
West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia
German
980
31
1994
Yimou Zhang
You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong, Deng Fei, Tao Guo, Wu Jiang, Zhang Lu
Drama
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
1997
31
1941
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
841
31
56
46
1973
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Mar me Niang, Magaye Niang, Ousseynou Diop
Drama / Family / Romance
Senegal
Wolof
596
31
1996
Danny Boyle
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
543
31
79
1978
Ermanno Olmi
Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianin
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
1239
31
1962
Orson Welles
Anthony Perkins, Arnoldo Foà, Jess Hahn, Billy Kearns
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
English
485
31
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
1480
31
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
250
31
63
63
1964
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
Drama / Musical / Romance
France / West Germany
French
1554
31
1992
Claude Sautet
Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier
Drama / Romance / Music
France
French
2860
31
1997
John Greyson
Michael Achtman, Matthew Ferguson, Damon D'Oliveira
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Canada
English
2860
31
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
353
31
1995
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
2767
31
1965
Luchino Visconti
Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Michael Craig, Renzo Ricci
Drama
Italy
Italian
2860
31
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
1817
31
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2641
31
73
85
1994
Ming-liang Tsai
Kuei-Mei Yang, Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee
Drama
Taiwan
Mandarin
1360
31
71
82
1950
John Ford
Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
2850
31
1996
Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
1063
31
1956
King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Drama / Romance / War / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
1198
31
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
2685
31
1987
Michel Khleifi
Mohamad Ali El Akili, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khoury
Drama
Israel / France / Belgium
Arabic
1808
31
74
86
1928
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
101
31
83
1961
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Musical / Romance / Drama / Family
USA
English
2456
31
87
1960
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan
Drama
Japan
Japanese
407
31
86
1989
Rob Reiner
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2396
31
1956
Fritz Lang
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1713
31
1961
Bryan Forbes
Bernard Lee, Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Norman Bird
Drama / Religion / Family
UK
English
2474
31
1957
Luchino Visconti
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2860
31
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
59
31
68
76
1987
Wim Wenders
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Religion
West Germany / France
German
1214
31
73
82
1962
Ingmar Bergman
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Drama / Religion
Sweden
Swedish
2860
31
1962
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
2860
31
1978
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama
Poland / France
Polish
218
31
86
1988
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2803
31
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
583
31
71
79
1987
Souleymane Cissé
Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo
Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany
French
949
31
74
88
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
2860
31
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
568
31
72
84
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
189
31
66
78
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2682
31
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2349
68
85
1983
Maurice Pialat
Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Dominique Besnehard, Evelyne Ker
Drama
France
French
2851
88
1993
Manoel de Oliveira
Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Drama / Romance
France / Portugal / Switzerland
Portuguese
1969
74
2012
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Documentary / Crime / History
Denmark / Norway / UK
Indonesian
2753
88
1971
Stan Brakhage
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2839
85
1975
Márta Mészáros
Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried
Drama
Hungary
Hungarian
2410
81
1926
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Family
Germany
German (Silent)
1341
72
81
1957
Leo McCarey
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1458
73
80
1998
Hirokazu Koreeda
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitô, Kyôko Kagawa
Drama / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2832
84
1980
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga, Tarcísio Meira
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / War / Religion / Epic / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese
819
83
1988
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult / Comic
Japan
Japanese
2602
87
1990
Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
243
69
64
1979
Ridley Scott
Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
UK
English
510
85
1986
James Cameron
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Horror / Action
USA / UK
English
429
76
1979
Bob Fosse
Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange
Musical / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
148
81
1976
Alan J. Pakula
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
203
83
1984
Milos Forman
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Drama / Music / Biography / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
183
87
2001
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France / Germany
French
2714
84
2016
Andrea Arnold
Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, McCaul Lombardi, Arielle Holmes, Crystal Ice
Comedy / Drama
UK / USA
English
1066
88
1981
John Landis
David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye
Comedy / Horror / Romance / Thriller
USA / UK
English
453
86
2012
Michael Haneke
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Drama
France / Germany / Austria
French
2751
86
2010
Clio Barnard
Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Monica Dolan, Jimi Mistry, Natalie Gavin
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Experimental
UK
English
672
68
75
1969
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
972
85
2016
Denis Villeneuve
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2752
74
78
2000
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton
Documentary / Biography / Experimental
USA
English
1718
74
59
1976
Larisa Shepitko
Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
271
87
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
1900
88
2015
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Dahong Ni, Yun Zhou
Drama / Action / Period Film
Taiwan / China / Hong Kong / France
Mandarin
1436
85
1989
Kira Muratova
Olga Antonova, Sergei Popov, Galina Zakhurdayeva, Natalya Buzko
Drama / Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian
2718
85
1944
Maya Deren
Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2170
82
2019
Mati Diop
Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Ibrahima Traoré, Aminata Kane
Drama / Romance
France / Senegal / Belgium
Wolof
344
73
1987
Louis Malle
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö
Drama / War
France / West Germany
French
658
74
2009
James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
2754
74
1960
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1463
86
1983
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Aki Takejo, Tonpei Hidari, Seiji Kurasaki
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2842
86
2006
Abderrahmane Sissako
Aïssa Maïga, Tiécoura Traoré
Drama
France / Mali / USA
French
330
86
1942
David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright
Hardie Albright, Donnie Dunagan, Bobby Stewart, Peter Behn, Stan Alexander
Animation / Family / Drama / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
357
70
80
1953
Vincente Minnelli
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Family / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2825
83
1975
Patricio Guzmán
Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Documentary / History
Chile / Cuba
Spanish
2730
87
2008
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Documentary / Biography
France
French
487
50
8
1999
Claire Denis
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Drama
France
French
2174
87
1995
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA / Austria / Switzerland
English
1166
86
2004
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
2598
88
1949
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart
Animation / Short / Music / Experimental
Canada
English (No Dialogue)
350
88
1979
Hal Ashby
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
Drama / Comedy
USA / UK / West Germany / Japan
English
2214
88
1970
Russ Meyer
Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett
Comedy / Music / Cult
USA
English
2742
88
1963
Satyajit Ray
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi
Drama / Comedy
India
Bengali
1047
66
81
1998
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Cult
USA / UK
English
742
80
1972
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes
Drama
West Germany
German
2127
71
56
1966
Ousmane Sembene
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek
Drama
France / Senegal
French
1476
87
2018
Ryan Coogler
Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
2697
87
1984
Billy Woodberry
Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett, Ronald Burnett, Kimberly Burnett
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2848
68
2002
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Kanokporn Tongaram, Min Oo, Jenjira Jansuda, Sa-gnad Chaiyapan, Kanitpat Premkij
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Thailand / France
Thai
1912
80
1981
Brian De Palma
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, Curt May
Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
214
85
1930
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
761
86
2013
Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte
Drama / Comic / Romance
France
French
389
87
1997
Paul Thomas Anderson
Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2780
79
1983
Lizzie Borden
Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, Becky Johnston, Pat Murphy
Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
433
71
1932
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Comedy
France
French
512
80
2014
Richard Linklater
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater
Drama
USA
English
2839
85
1967
Kira Muratova
Nina Ruslanova, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Kira Muratova, Lidiya Bazilskaya, Olga Viklandt
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
569
84
1987
James L. Brooks
William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
179
74
88
2005
Ang Lee
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
1909
88
2018
Chang-dong Lee
Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun, Soo-Kyung Kim, Seung-ho Choi
Drama / Mystery / Crime
South Korea
Korean
164
74
1969
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
Western / Adventure / Crime / Family / Cult
USA
English
119
74
81
1972
Bob Fosse
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper
Musical / Drama
USA
English
538
59
73
2005
Michael Haneke
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Drama / Thriller
France / Austria / Germany / Italy
French
2753
88
1993
Atom Egoyan
Arsinée Khanjian, Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamyan
Drama
Armenia / Canada / Germany
English
1003
87
2017
Luca Guadagnino
Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Drama | Romance
Italy / France / Brazil / USA
English
2466
88
1979
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak
Drama / Comedy
Poland
Polish
2370
88
1993
Brian De Palma
Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1221
82
2015
Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA / France
English
213
69
84
1998
Thomas Vinterberg
Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen
Drama / Comedy
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
2832
84
2015
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Thailand / UK / Germany / France / Malaysia / South Korea / Mexico / USA / Norway
Thai
2735
85
2016
Kelly Reichardt
Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, Jared Harris, James Le Gros
Drama
USA
English
2261
88
2010
Abbas Kiarostami
Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Agathe Natanson
Drama
France / Italy / Belgium
French
1113
88
1963
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2842
86
1976
Mohammad Reza Aslani
Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Akbar Zanjanpour, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Iran
Persian
2328
88
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1368
83
2006
Alfonso Cuarón
Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2006
74
88
1961
Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Jean Rouch, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Marilù Parolini
Documentary
France
French
2835
74
86
1968
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Bob van Asperen, Bernd Weikl
Biography / History / Music / Drama
West Germany / Italy
German
1284
88
2000
Jafar Panahi
Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani
Drama
Iran / Switzerland / Italy
Persian
2435
88
1930
F.W. Murnau
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Anne Shirley
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
137
79
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
2845
87
1984
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Christian Heinisch, Nazzareno Bianconi, Mario Adorf, Laura Betti, Harun Farocki
Drama
West Germany / France
German
2842
86
2010
Christian Marclay
Rosanna Arquette, Bette Davis, Leonardo DiCaprio, William Hurt, Steve McQueen
Drama / Experimental
UK
English
1163
85
1995
Amy Heckerling
Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2491
72
88
2000
Michael Haneke
Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi
Drama / Experimental
France / Germany / Romania
French
955
88
2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
615
56
59
1969
Sergei Parajanov
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
2833
69
88
2006
Pedro Costa
Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso
Drama / Documentary
Portugal / France / Switzerland
Portuguese
575
71
77
1957
Mikhail Kalatozov
Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
1702
78
1996
David Cronenberg
Holly Hunter, James Spader, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Drama / Thriller / Romance
Canada / USA
English
2765
88
1954
André De Toth
Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
124
84
2000
Ang Lee
Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng
Adventure / Drama / Action / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China
Mandarin
2525
82
1997
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Crime / Thriller / Detective
Japan
Japanese
1541
86
1940
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
961
74
88
2000
Lars von Trier
Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Musical / Drama
Denmark / Germany / Netherlands / USA / UK / France / Sweden / Finland / Iceland / Norway
English
661
84
2008
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
1986
48
1991
Julie Dash
Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbara O. Jones, Trula Hoosier
Drama
USA
English
2732
87
2016
Bill Morrison
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O'Farrell, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Documentary / History
USA
English
2762
88
2011
Sang-soo Hong
Jun-Sang Yu, Sang Jung Kim, Seon-mi Song, Bo-kyung Kim
Drama / Comedy
South Korea
Korean
1891
71
86
1991
Kar Wai Wong
Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
Drama
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2778
74
1972
Werner Schroeter
Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling
Musical / Drama / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
West Germany
German
1812
66
84
2005
Cristi Puiu
Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Gabriel Spahiu, Doru Ana, Dana Dogaru
Drama / Comedy
Romania
Romanian
1213
88
1970
Jerzy Skolimowski
John Moulder-Brown, Jane Asher, Peter Martin Urtel, Erika Wackernagel
Drama
Poland / UK / West Germany
English
2839
85
1933
Ernst Lubitsch
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1323
88
1985
Susan Seidelman
Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure / History
USA
English
1859
68
85
1977
Robert Bresson
Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Drama
France
French
2525
87
1964
Jan Nemec
Ladislav Jánsky, Antonín Kumbera, Irma Bischofova, Ivan Asic
Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2855
73
1983
David Perlov
Klaus Kinski, David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Neomi Perlov, Yael Perlov
Documentary
Israel
Hebrew
558
85
1988
John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
Action / Thriller
USA
English
2455
86
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2534
86
2002
Elia Suleiman
Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher
Drama / Romance / War / Comedy
France / Morocco / Germany / Palestine
Arabic
235
88
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
