Top 1000 Movies of All Time by Director

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Rating
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
855
2016
Denis Villeneuve
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
4.5 Stars
977
2021
Denis Villeneuve
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Epic
USA / Canada
English
5 Stars
198
1998
Thomas Vinterberg
Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen
Drama / Comedy
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
5 Stars
154
1960
Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
5 Stars
227
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
5 Stars
480
1954
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
4.5 Stars
534
1971
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Drama / Period Film
Italy / France
English
4.5 Stars
616
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
817
1948
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso
Drama
Italy
Italian
4.5 Stars
926
1969
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Drama / War
Italy / Switzerland / West Germany
Italian
Rating
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars
278
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
5 Stars
215
1930
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
4.5 Stars
811
1932
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
856
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
984
1930
Josef von Sternberg
Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
Romance / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
246
1924
Erich von Stroheim
Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
367
1996
Lars von Trier
Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway
English
5 Stars
471
2003
Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Gangster
Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK
English
4.5 Stars
727
1998
Lars von Trier
Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby
Comedy / Drama
Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Italy
Danish
4.5 Stars
824
1994
Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Comedy / Cult
Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden
Danish
4.5 Stars
899
2011
Lars von Trier
Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling
Drama / Sci-Fi
Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany
English
4.5 Stars
932
2000
Lars von Trier
Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Musical / Drama
Denmark / Germany / Netherlands / USA / UK / France / Sweden / Finland / Iceland / Norway
English
5 Stars
410
1999
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
5 Stars
465
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
83
1958
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
4.5 Stars
787
1981
Andrzej Wajda
Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda
Drama
Poland
Polish
5 Stars
294
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars
489
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
980
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
5 Stars
499
1985
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
574
1975
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
4.5 Stars
636
2003
Peter Weir
Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall
Action / Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
662
1981
Peter Weir
Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Lathalu Yunipingli
Drama / War
Australia
English
4.5 Stars
692
1998
Peter Weir
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone
Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
1
1941
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
95
1958
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars
252
1942
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
622
1965
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud
Comedy / Drama / War
Spain / Switzerland
English
4.5 Stars
882
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
336
1931
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
5 Stars
379
1943
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
4.5 Stars
631
1937
William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
55
1987
Wim Wenders
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Religion
West Germany / France
German
5 Stars
310
1984
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
UK / France / West Germany / USA
English
5 Stars
438
1977
Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
West Germany / France
German
5 Stars
146
1935
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
269
1931
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
4.5 Stars
914
1936
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
4.5 Stars
951
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
5 Stars
436
1920
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
897
1956
Fred M. Wilcox
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
24
1959
Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien
Comedy / Romance / Music / Family
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
40
1950
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
57
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
79
1960
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
206
1945
Billy Wilder
Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
5 Stars
461
1951
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
4.5 Stars
936
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
194
1965
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
664
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
1000
1949
Robert Wise
Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Film-Noir / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
38
2000
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
4.5 Stars
704
1994
Kar Wai Wong
Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Drama / Mystery / Romance
Hong Kong
Cantonese
4.5 Stars
948
1989
John Woo
Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang, Fui-On Shing
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
Hong Kong
Cantonese
5 Stars
425
1935
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
4.5 Stars
642
1939
Sam Wood
Robert Donat, Greer Garson
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
942
1942
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
652
2007
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
5 Stars
101
1946
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
234
1959
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
5 Stars
328
1936
William Wyler
Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton
Drama / Romance
USA
English
5 Stars
364
1939
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
388
1953
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
5 Stars
452
1938
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
528
1949
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
759
1940
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Pre-Noir
USA
English
4.5 Stars
781
1941
William Wyler
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
828
1956
William Wyler
Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Religion / War
USA
English
4.5 Stars
898
1937
William Wyler
Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
4.5 Stars
975
1968
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
5 Stars
202
2000
Edward Yang
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
Drama
Taiwan / Japan
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
811
1991
Edward Yang
Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Guozhu Zhang, Elaine Jin, Wang Juan, Zhang Han
Drama / Romance
Taiwan
Mandarin
5 Stars
482
1979
Peter Yates
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
Drama / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English
4.5 Stars
514
1983
Peter Yates
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Drama
UK
English
4.5 Stars
678
1968
Peter Yates
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
4.5 Stars
674
1968
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
5 Stars
366
1988
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
5 Stars
416
1994
Robert Zemeckis
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars
442
1985
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
39
1991
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Caifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma, Qi Zhao, Lin Kong, Jin Shuyuan
Drama / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / Taiwan
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
588
2004
Yimou Zhang
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
Action / Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
743
1987
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Liu Jia, Cunhua Ji
Drama / War / Period Film
China
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
834
1992
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
935
1994
Yimou Zhang
You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong, Deng Fei, Tao Guo, Wu Jiang, Zhang Lu
Drama
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
4.5 Stars
967
2002
Yimou Zhang
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / History / Epic
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
5 Stars
464
2020
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
5 Stars
117
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
5 Stars
247
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
5 Stars
360
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
547
1959
Fred Zinnemann
Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch
Drama / Religion
USA
English
Rating
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
755
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
4.5 Stars
832
1977
Fred Zinnemann
Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
858
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
4.5 Stars
940
1998
Erick Zonca
Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
Drama
France
French
4.5 Stars
728
2014
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov
Drama / Documentary
Russia
Russian
4.5 Stars
878
1989
Edward Zwick
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
4.5 Stars
568
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
Rating
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
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