BFI Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll by Year
465
31
1959
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
592
30
70
1959
John Cassavetes
Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni
Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
1417
31
1959
Roberto Rossellini
Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli
Drama / War
Italy / France
Italian
2177
74
88
1959
Luis Buñuel
Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Drama / Religion
Mexico
Spanish
2344
84
1959
Yasujiro Ozu
Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2675
30
1959
William Castle
Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Patricia Cutts
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2776
73
1959
Fritz Lang
Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm
Adventure / Romance / Drama
West Germany / France / Italy
German
2826
29
84
1959
Guru Dutt
Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Naaz, Johnny Walker, Mahesh Kaul
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Hindi
2839
85
1959
Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1959
Fritz Lang
Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm
Adventure / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
German
2
2
1
2
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Film-Noir
USA
English
91
29
67
84
1958
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
93
15
38
58
1958
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
400
31
81
1958
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy
Italy / France
French
965
31
87
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1265
31
74
80
1958
Vincente Minnelli
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy
Drama
USA
English
1308
28
67
85
1958
Satyajit Ray
Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi, Pinaki Sengupta, Gangapada Basu
Drama
India
Bengali
1358
31
1958
Anthony Mann
Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur O'Connell, Jack Lord
Romance / Western / Cult
USA
English
1654
30
1958
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Epic
Japan
Japanese
2109
31
74
83
1958
Youssef Chahine
Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Drama / Thriller
Egypt
Arabic
2180
31
1958
Richard Brooks
Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
Drama
USA
English
2792
31
1958
Leo McCarey
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Jack Carson
Comedy / War
USA
English
2857
74
1958
Yasujirô Ozu
Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1958
Ingmar Bergman
Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
64
20
53
62
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
85
29
1957
David Lean
William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
158
25
66
85
1957
Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
182
23
54
56
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
191
28
70
81
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
273
30
68
77
1957
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
575
71
77
1957
Mikhail Kalatozov
Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksei Batalov
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
758
31
1957
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
1341
72
81
1957
Leo McCarey
Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
1624
31
1957
Delmer Daves
Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana, Henry Jones
Western
USA
English
1978
29
70
72
1957
Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Rehman
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2474
31
1957
Luchino Visconti
Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2682
31
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2743
86
1957
John Ford
John Wayne, Dan Dailey, Maureen O'Hara, Ward Bond, Ken Curtis
Drama / Biography / War
USA
English
2838
71
88
1957
Michelangelo Antonioni
Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Betsy Blair, Gabriella Pallotta, Dorian Gray
Drama
Italy / USA
Italian
13
12
8
18
1956
John Ford
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood
Western / Drama / Epic
USA
English
117
29
82
1956
Satyajit Ray
Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Drama
India
Bengali
323
29
74
83
1956
Douglas Sirk
Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall
Drama / Romance
USA
English
387
28
42
49
1956
Robert Bresson
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Adventure / Drama / War
France
French
539
30
1956
Jean-Pierre Melville
Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy, Howard Vernon, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir / Detective
France
French
620
31
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
885
30
1956
Elia Kazan
Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / Comedy
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
1405
30
87
1956
Nicholas Ray
James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon
Drama
USA
English
2396
31
1956
Fritz Lang
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2860
31
1956
Fritz Lang
Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
2860
31
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
37
18
37
21
1955
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
94
26
40
24
1955
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
300
31
1955
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
319
23
23
32
1955
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
336
74
83
1955
Robert Aldrich
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
341
73
81
1955
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
763
30
71
71
1955
Douglas Sirk
Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Romance
USA
English
836
68
82
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
845
31
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
902
31
1955
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1025
31
71
87
1955
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
Comedy / Musical / Drama / Romance
France / Italy
French
1480
31
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1563
31
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1930
31
1955
Frank Tashlin
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2450
28
68
1955
Mikio Naruse
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada, Isao Yamagata
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2474
31
1955
Federico Fellini
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Drama / Comedy / Crime
Italy / France
Italian
2778
74
1955
Fritz Lang
Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors
Adventure
USA
English
2832
84
1955
Kinuyo Tanaka
Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryôji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto, Hiroko Kawasaki
Biography / Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1955
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
8
8
19
15
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
42
24
73
84
1954
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint
Crime / Romance / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
89
25
40
39
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
103
26
50
55
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
125
24
55
66
1954
Federico Fellini
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
308
31
70
66
1954
Nicholas Ray
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Western / Cult
USA
English
349
29
74
86
1954
George Cukor
Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan
Drama / Musical
USA
English
500
31
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
797
31
1954
Otto Preminger
Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
800
26
38
51
1954
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Leslie Daniels, Natalia Ray
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
1206
31
1954
Herbert J. Biberman
Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe
Drama
USA
English
2037
74
1954
Jacques Becker
Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
France / Italy
French
2111
74
1954
Mikio Naruse
Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa, Yûko Mochizuki
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2145
31
1954
Josef von Sternberg
Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
Drama / War / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
2328
88
1954
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô, Eitarô Ozawa
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
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
2860
31
1954
Allan Dwan
Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller
Western
USA
English
2860
31
1954
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2860
31
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
6
7
3
5
1953
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
80
21
41
52
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
155
29
72
86
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
157
29
74
87
1953
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault
Comedy
France
French
223
27
60
57
1953
Max Ophüls
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
357
70
80
1953
Vincente Minnelli
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Family / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
427
31
74
1953
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
878
31
80
1953
Howard Hawks
Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1303
30
74
1953
Federico Fellini
Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
Italian
1569
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
1923
86
1953
John Ford
Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, Stepin Fetchit, John Russell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2572
31
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2599
31
1953
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
2710
88
1953
Ida Lupino
Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
9
10
26
12
1952
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
54
26
60
64
1952
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
108
31
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
173
31
1952
René Clément
Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Drama / War
France
French
252
31
71
83
1952
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
294
28
67
81
1952
Vittorio De Sica
Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea
Drama
Italy
Italian
450
31
86
1952
Jean Renoir
Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France / Italy
English
526
31
72
75
1952
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina
Drama
Italy
Italian
801
30
74
88
1952
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
849
29
66
78
1952
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
1052
31
1952
Jacques Becker
Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Claude Dauphin
Crime / Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
1607
27
72
82
1952
Luis Buñuel
Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker,
Drama / Comedy
Mexico
Spanish
1957
73
1952
Nicholas Ray
Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur Hunnicutt
Action / Drama / Western
USA
English
2103
31
71
88
1952
Max Ophüls
Claude Dauphin, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
2860
31
1952
Vijay Bhatt
Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, Surendra, B.M. Vyas
Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2860
31
1952
Sidney Salkow
George Montgomery, Helena Carter, Jay Silverheels, Walter Kingsford
Western / Action / Adventure
USA
English
126
31
64
83
1951
Robert Bresson
Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, André Guibert, Rachel Bérendt
Drama / Religion
France
French
209
30
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
248
30
1951
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Adventure / Romance / War / Comedy
UK / USA
English
365
31
1951
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
449
31
86
1951
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
666
59
72
1951
Jean Renoir
Nora Swinburne, Patricia Walters, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee
Drama / Romance
France / India / USA
English
799
31
1951
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
1104
30
1951
Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1108
30
84
1951
Vittorio De Sica
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano
Drama / Fantasy / Comedy
Italy
Italian
1757
71
85
1951
Yasujiro Ozu
Setsuko Hara, Chishu Ryu, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
1802
31
1951
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
Adventure / Romance / Fantasy / Musical
UK
English
2844
31
87
1951
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Yuji Hori, Kiyoko Hirai, Reiko Kondo
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1951
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Drama / Family / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
11
9
22
27
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
38
17
45
48
1950
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
44
28
69
72
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Drama
USA
English
181
28
55
70
1950
Luis Buñuel
Alfonso Mejía, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Drama / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
220
30
72
86
1950
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Experimental
France
French
271
87
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
299
66
75
1950
Nicholas Ray
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
872
31
1950
Max Ophüls
Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Drama / Comedy
France
French
1360
31
71
82
1950
John Ford
Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Western
USA
English
1618
31
1950
Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton
Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Adventure / Romance / Action / Family
USA
English
1626
70
82
1950
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Drama
Italy
Italian
1656
31
1950
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr.
Romance / Western
USA
English
1847
31
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
2109
88
1950
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack, Sybil Thorndike, Edward Chapman
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2237
88
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Drama / Western / Religion
USA
English
2353
31
1950
Frank Launder
Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Guy Middleton
Comedy
UK
English
2393
72
83
1950
Roberto Rossellini
Aldo Fabrizi, Brother Nazario Gerardi, Arabella Lemaitre
Drama / Religion / Biography
Italy
Italian
2737
31
1950
Jacques Becker
Daniel Gélin, Anne Vernon, Betty Stockfeld
Comedy / Romance
France
French
75
21
50
49
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
179
29
65
82
1949
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
272
30
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
492
31
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
498
28
27
23
1949
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
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
897
30
1949
John Ford
John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson
Western / Romance
USA
English
1082
31
1949
Jacques Tati
Guy Decomble, Jacques Tati, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Comedy
France
French
1315
31
88
1949
Max Ophüls
James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
1835
30
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2551
31
1949
King Vidor
Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith
Drama
USA
English
2598
88
1949
Norman McLaren, Evelyn Lambart
Animation / Short / Music / Experimental
Canada
English (No Dialogue)
2778
74
1949
Georges Franju
Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral
Documentary / Short / Drama
France
French
2860
31
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
31
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2860
31
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
7
14
21
27
1948
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
99
27
73
86
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
170
29
62
47
1948
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
193
28
68
86
1948
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
383
27
61
75
1948
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
691
31
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
765
74
86
1948
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
1422
31
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1601
86
1948
William Dieterle
Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery
USA
English
1781
31
62
78
1948
Mu Fei
Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi, Wei Wei, Hongmei Zhang
Drama / Romance
China
Mandarin
1784
30
65
80
1948
Roberto Rossellini
Edmund Moeschke, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger
Drama / War
Italy / Germany / France
German
2163
31
1948
Joseph Losey
Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell
Family / Drama
USA
English
200
29
66
72
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
364
30
88
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
473
27
62
73
1947
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
637
29
72
88
1947
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
812
31
71
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1267
31
74
86
1947
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
2318
31
1947
Charles Crichton
Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler, Douglas Barr, Joan Dowling
Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2551
31
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2682
31
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
57
27
66
63
1946
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
98
28
72
85
1946
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
100
29
69
81
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
110
27
66
66
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
196
27
66
78
1946
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
208
27
58
52
1946
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
224
30
1946
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
236
31
68
80
1946
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
70
19
53
68
1945
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
90
28
64
76
1945
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
202
28
64
74
1945
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
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
378
22
60
82
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
474
31
74
1945
Edgar G. Ulmer
Tom Neal, Ann Savage
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Cult
USA
English
586
69
76
1945
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
1135
31
1945
John Ford, Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Drama / War
USA
English
2333
30
1945
Robert Bresson
Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
53
27
71
74
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
204
29
63
78
1944
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
280
31
88
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
573
29
74
88
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
613
31
1944
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
706
88
1944
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
1949
31
1944
Robert Stevenson
Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1982
28
63
80
1944
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet
Drama / Mystery / War / Comedy
UK
English
2718
85
1944
Maya Deren
Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
328
29
57
75
1943
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
360
31
88
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
602
88
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
629
30
66
85
1943
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
760
31
84
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
770
31
61
19
1943
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
1218
88
1943
Mark Robson
Tom Conway, Kim Hunter, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Horror / Drama
USA
English
1942
30
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2730
85
1943
Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Action / Drama
Germany
German
2860
31
1943
Andrew L. Stone
Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Comedy
USA
English
17
21
54
50
1942
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
239
25
54
73
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
255
30
61
61
1942
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
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
368
29
88
1942
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
590
31
88
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1264
31
1942
Mervyn LeRoy
Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1499
31
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1682
88
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
2820
31
68
87
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
1
1
2
3
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
76
30
74
87
1941
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
114
27
59
85
1941
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
151
29
71
77
1941
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
312
31
70
85
1941
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1692
31
88
1941
H.C. Potter
Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1997
31
1941
John Ford
Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney, William Tracy
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2603
87
1941
Jean Grémillon
Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Michèle Morgan, Charles Blavette, Jean Marchat
Drama / Romance
France
French
180
27
67
65
1940
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
212
84
1940
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
227
31
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
261
31
83
1940
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
345
31
83
1940
James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Corey Burton, Walt Disney
Family / Animation / Fantasy / Musical / Cult
USA
English
423
29
62
83
1940
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
519
31
68
80
1940
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
527
30
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
1541
86
1940
Dorothy Arzner
Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
USA
English
5
3
5
14
1939
Jean Renoir
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette, Tony Corteggiani
Comedy / Drama
France
French
40
25
64
62
1939
Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy
Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Musical / Cult
USA
English
41
27
69
84
1939
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / War / Romance / Epic
USA
English
122
27
71
87
1939
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
263
31
88
1939
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
275
31
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
568
31
72
84
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
573
31
1939
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure / Comedy / War
USA
English
582
31
66
64
1939
Howard Hawks
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
710
31
1939
Leo McCarey
Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1161
24
66
79
1939
Kenji Mizoguchi
Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2293
31
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
79
30
62
63
1938
Howard Hawks
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Family / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
478
28
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
491
31
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
703
30
88
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
755
31
1938
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
920
73
1938
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan
Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster / Pre-Noir
France
French
1244
31
1938
George Cukor
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2185
31
1938
John G. Blystone
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell
Comedy / War / Family
USA
English
2860
31
1938
Marcel Carné
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Drama
France
French
2860
31
1938
Abel Gance
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max
Drama / Horror / War
France
French
51
19
46
67
1937
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
Drama / War / Adventure / Comedy
France
French
111
88
1937
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
560
30
71
85
1937
Leo McCarey
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall
Drama
USA
English
751
31
1937
Julien Duvivier
Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
2843
30
87
1937
Ernst Lubitsch
Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2860
31
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
147
24
38
48
1936
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
331
31
1936
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
406
31
1936
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
674
30
58
68
1936
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
1369
29
71
86
1936
Jean Renoir
René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
1910
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Marguerite Moreno, Jacqueline Delubac, Roger Duchesne
Comedy / Drama
France
French
1978
31
85
1936
Joseph Cornell
Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2273
74
87
1936
Yasujiro Ozu
Chouko Iida, Shinichi Himori, Masao Hayama, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2563
88
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2682
31
1936
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
2731
31
71
78
1936
Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin
Yelena Kuzmina, Lev Sverdlin, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Semen Svashenko
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
2860
31
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
31
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
120
74
1935
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
132
30
87
1935
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
293
31
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
485
31
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
966
31
1935
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
1569
88
1935
Jean Renoir
Charles Blavette, Celia Montalvan, Jenny Hélia
Drama / Crime
France
French
2189
31
1935
Rouben Mamoulian, Lowell Sherman
Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2551
31
1935
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, Ann Harding, John Halliday, Ida Lupino
Romance / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2860
31
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
66
17
14
30
1934
Jean Vigo
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
78
31
74
83
1934
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
813
30
86
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2069
31
1934
King Vidor
Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1934
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
73
28
66
80
1933
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
129
28
69
75
1933
Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
189
31
66
78
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
840
31
1933
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William, Joan Blondell
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1212
70
85
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
2001
73
88
1933
Luis Buñuel
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Short / Documentary / Drama / Experimental
Spain
French
2087
31
1933
Max Ophüls
Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich, Gustaf Gründgens
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Germany
German
2551
31
1933
Boris Barnet
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama / War / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2839
85
1933
Ernst Lubitsch
Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, Jane Darwell
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2860
31
1933
Yu Sun
Zhanfei Gao, Li-li Li, Juanjuan Ye, Congmei Yuan
Drama
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2860
31
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
115
29
59
71
1932
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
433
71
1932
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Comedy
France
French
507
30
63
70
1932
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko
Horror
France / Germany
German
648
72
85
1932
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
649
30
73
1932
Rouben Mamoulian
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
777
87
1932
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1720
31
68
85
1932
Yasujiro Ozu
Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Hideo Sugawara
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2031
31
1932
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Sergei Bondarchuk, Grigori Aleksandrov
Documentary / Experimental / Romance
Soviet Union / USA / Mexico
Russian (Silent)
2789
31
1932
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried
Crime / Mystery / Detective / Drama
France
French
2860
31
1932
Oscar Micheaux
Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Juano Hernandez, Bud Harris
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2860
31
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
23
23
44
37
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
95
19
36
31
1931
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
240
88
1931
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
918
31
66
79
1931
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1613
31
83
1931
Leontine Sagan
Emilia Unda, Dorothea Wieck, Hedwig Schlichter, Hertha Thiele
Drama / Romance
Germany
German
2049
88
1931
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy / Romance / Musical
USA
English
2455
86
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Drama / War / Spy / Action / Romance
USA
English
2772
78
1931
Mario Peixoto
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Iolanda Bernardes
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese (Silent)
2860
31
1931
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
214
85
1930
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
241
25
57
84
1930
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
244
31
88
1930
Lewis Milestone
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
316
28
66
79
1930
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1883
84
1930
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2435
88
1930
F.W. Murnau
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke, Anne Shirley
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
81
25
11
10
1929
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
222
30
68
79
1929
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
2803
31
1929
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
69
14
12
19
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
154
28
54
68
1928
Luis Buñuel
Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Short / Fantasy / Experimental / Cult
France
French (Silent)
615
30
74
83
1928
Victor Sjöström
Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
837
30
73
1928
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
958
31
74
1928
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1018
30
70
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1565
88
1928
Jean Epstein
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Drama / Horror
France / USA
French (Silent)
1672
31
1928
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker
Comedy / Family / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1808
31
74
86
1928
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2007
74
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2682
31
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2789
31
1928
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
25
22
40
52
1927
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
49
11
6
11
1927
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
232
25
62
74
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
1253
74
1927
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
1558
31
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1739
85
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George
Drama / Horror / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1908
31
1927
Walter Ruttmann
Documentary / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
106
18
36
58
1926
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1523
31
73
87
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2410
81
1926
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Family
Germany
German (Silent)
2695
83
1926
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Masao Inoue, Yoshi Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima, Kyosuki Takamatsu
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
60
10
18
42
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
184
25
60
80
1925
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite
Comedy / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
401
30
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
880
86
1925
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer
Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
153
27
52
46
1924
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English (Silent)
542
30
61
79
1924
F.W. Murnau
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1027
30
1924
Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1775
31
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
817
31
83
1923
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
942
31
1923
Abel Gance
Severin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2137
73
1923
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
61
27
62
74
1922
F.W. Murnau
Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach
Horror / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
393
72
86
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
633
30
69
85
1922
Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
1076
31
71
84
1921
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1852
85
1921
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Drama / Fantasy
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
422
29
69
83
1920
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
1833
87
1920
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1890
88
1920
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
803
29
72
1919
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2637
74
1919
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Clarine Seymour, Carol Dempster
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2721
31
87
1918
Louis Feuillade
Mary Harald, René Cresté, Georges Biscot
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy
France
French (Silent)
2657
74
1917
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, August Falck, Bergliot Husberg
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
195
23
58
77
1916
D.W. Griffith
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis
Drama / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
2477
85
1916
Lois Weber
Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting, Jessie Arnold, William V. Mong
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
231
30
73
1915
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
1065
30
74
87
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2615
31
88
1913
Victor Sjöström
Hilda Borgström, Aron Lindgren, Erik Lindholm
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2644
84
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2752
31
1912
Dorothy G. Shore
Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2860
31
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1203
67
86
1902
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Farjaut, Kelm
Sci-Fi / Short / Adventure / Fantasy / Action / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2580
74
1895
Louis Lumière
Documentary / Short
France
French (Silent)
