Top Ten Movies of the Year by Year
70
1975
2
Milos Forman
Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
102
1975
3
Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Adventure / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
115
1975
4
Stanley Kubrick
Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
165
1975
5
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
Drama / Experimental
Belgium / France
French
213
1975
6
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
553
1975
7
Andrei Tarkovsky
Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
573
1975
8
Peter Weir
Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
Drama / Mystery / Period Film
Australia
English
749
1975
9
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Cult
UK
English
998
1975
10
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Drama
France / Italy / USA / Spain
English
27
1974
1
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
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34
1974
2
Francis Ford Coppola
Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
105
1974
3
Francis Ford Coppola
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
293
1974
4
Jacques Rivette
Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
437
1974
6
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa
Drama / Romance
West Germany
German
518
1974
7
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
533
1974
8
Louis Malle
Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément
Drama / War / Romance
France / West Germany / Italy
French
580
1974
9
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
584
1974
10
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
82
1973
1
Víctor Erice
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Drama
Spain
Spanish
139
1973
2
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
187
1973
3
George Lucas
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
199
1973
4
Federico Fellini
Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
208
1973
5
William Friedkin
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Religion / Cult
USA
English
224
1973
6
Nicolas Roeg
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Italy / UK
English
239
1973
8
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA
English
395
1973
9
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
501
1973
10
Jean Eustache
Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Drama
France
French
5
1972
1
Francis Ford Coppola
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
47
1972
2
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
Adventure / Drama / History / Epic / Cult
West Germany / Peru / Mexico
German
58
1972
3
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France / Italy / Spain
French
127
1972
4
Bob Fosse
Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper
Musical / Drama
USA
English
129
1972
5
Andrei Tarkovsky
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Drama / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Cult
Soviet Union
Russian
233
1972
6
John Boorman
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
248
1972
7
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
392
1972
8
Bernardo Bertolucci
Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
Drama / Romance / Adult
Italy / France
English
673
1972
9
John Huston
Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark
Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
684
1972
10
Alfred Hitchcock
Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK
English
133
1971
1
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective
USA
English
138
1971
2
Peter Bogdanovich
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman
Drama
USA
English
163
1971
3
Stanley Kubrick
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Cult
UK
English
286
1971
4
Robert Altman
Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
Drama / Western
USA
English
329
1971
5
Louis Malle
Lea Massari, Benoît Ferreux, Daniel Gélin, Michael Lonsdale
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany
French
432
1971
6
Don Siegel
Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Detective
USA
English
441
1971
7
Nicolas Roeg
Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon, Robert McDarra, Peter Carver
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
478
1971
8
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
Romance / Drama / Period Film
France
French
532
1971
9
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci
Drama / Period Film
Italy / France
English
548
1971
10
Joseph Losey
Julie Christie, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
28
1970
1
Bernardo Bertolucci
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Drama
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
130
1970
2
Robert Altman
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
188
1970
3
Bob Rafelson
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers
Drama / Music
USA
English
195
1970
4
Luis Buñuel
Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas
Drama
France / Italy / Spain
Spanish
263
1970
5
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
Drama / Thriller / Horror
France / Italy
French
308
1970
6
Franklin J. Schaffner
George C. Scott, Karl Malden
Drama / War / Epic / Biography
USA
English
408
1970
7
Vittorio De Sica
Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda
Drama / War
Italy / West Germany
Italian
465
1970
8
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
609
1970
9
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
703
1970
10
Arthur Penn
Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan
Comedy / Drama / Western / Adventure / War / Epic
USA
English
97
1969
1
Sam Peckinpah
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
Action / Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
173
1969
3
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
Western / Adventure / Crime / Family / Cult
USA
English
266
1969
4
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
277
1969
5
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
411
1969
6
Ken Loach
David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland
Drama
UK
English
522
1969
7
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
539
1969
8
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
621
1969
9
Sergei Parajanov
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
645
1969
10
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
3
1968
1
Stanley Kubrick
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter
Sci-Fi / Adventure / Experimental / Epic / Cult
UK / USA
English
175
1968
2
Sergio Leone
Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Western / Drama / Epic / Cult
Italy / USA
English
306
1968
3
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick
Drama / Comedy / Cult
UK
English
325
1968
5
John Cassavetes
John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel
Drama
USA
English
326
1968
6
George A. Romero
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
349
1968
7
Roman Polanski
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Horror / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
470
1968
8
Franklin J. Schaffner
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore
Action / Drama / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
561
1968
9
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
31
1967
1
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
51
1967
2
Luis Buñuel
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Drama
France / Italy
French
60
1967
3
Mike Nichols
Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
87
1967
4
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly, France Delahalle
Comedy / Drama
France / Italy
French
196
1967
5
Mel Brooks
Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor
Comedy / Musical / Cult
USA
English
204
1967
6
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
223
1967
7
Norman Jewison
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Timothy Scott
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
236
1967
8
Jean-Luc Godard
Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valérie Lagrange
Drama / Comedy / Experimental
Italy / France
French
472
1967
9
Stuart Rosenberg
Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio
Drama
USA
English
497
1967
10
John Boorman
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
16
1966
1
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
104
1966
2
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
116
1966
3
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
164
1966
4
Sergio Leone
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
Action / Western / Drama / Epic
Italy / Spain
English
185
1966
5
Jirí Menzel
Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský
Comedy / Drama / War
Czechoslovakia
Czech
235
1966
6
Robert Bresson
Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin
Drama
France / Sweden
French
268
1966
7
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
360
1966
8
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
531
1966
9
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
626
1966
10
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert
Drama
France / Sweden
French
71
1965
1
Gillo Pontecorvo
Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti
Drama / War
Algeria / Italy
French
194
1965
2
Robert Wise
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
Musical / Family / Drama / Romance / Cult
USA
English
232
1965
3
Roman Polanski
Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Thriller / Horror / Drama
UK
English
242
1965
4
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
281
1965
5
Milos Forman
Hana Brejchová, Vladimír Pucholt
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech
289
1965
6
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Drama / Crime / Experimental / Romance
France / Italy
French
542
1965
7
Sergei Parajanov
Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Soviet Union
Ukrainian
622
1965
9
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud
Comedy / Drama / War
Spain / Switzerland
English
630
1965
10
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
42
1964
1
Stanley Kubrick
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
Comedy / War / Drama / Cult
UK
English
128
1964
2
Richard Lester
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Comedy / Musical / Family / Cult
UK
English
140
1964
3
George Cukor
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Drama
USA
English
141
1964
4
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Drama / Religion
France / Italy
Italian
231
1964
5
Jacques Demy
Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner
Drama / Musical / Romance
France / West Germany
French
244
1964
6
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
392
1964
7
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe
Drama
Denmark
Danish
404
1964
8
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida
Drama / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
538
1964
9
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
552
1964
10
Robert Stevenson
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Family / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
9
1963
1
Federico Fellini
Anouk Aimée, Marcello Mastroianni, Bruno Agostini, Guido Alberti
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
106
1963
2
Jean-Luc Godard
Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Fritz Lang
Drama
France / Italy
French
227
1963
3
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
230
1963
4
Tony Richardson
Albert Finney, Susannah York
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
381
1963
5
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
398
1963
6
Martin Ritt
Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde, Whit Bissell
Drama / Western / Action
USA
English
537
1963
7
Samuel Fuller
Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Drama / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
601
1963
8
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
685
1963
9
Lindsay Anderson
Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, William Hartnell
Drama / Sports
UK
English
705
1963
10
Joseph Losey
Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Drama / Cult
UK
English
30
1962
1
David Lean
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif
Adventure / War / Drama / Epic
UK
English
41
1962
2
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino, Boris Bassiak
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
123
1962
3
John Frankenheimer
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
263
1962
4
Robert Mulligan
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Drama / Family
USA
English
284
1962
5
Roman Polanski
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
Drama / Thriller
Poland
Polish
330
1962
7
Michelangelo Antonioni
Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone, Rossana Rory
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
410
1962
8
Jean-Luc Godard
Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe
Drama
France
French
460
1962
9
Agnès Varda
Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray
Drama
France / Italy
French
483
1962
10
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
100
1961
1
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
Musical / Romance / Drama / Family
USA
English
134
1961
2
Luis Buñuel
Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano
Drama / Religion / Comedy
Mexico / Spain
Spanish
156
1961
3
Alain Resnais
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Experimental
France / Italy
French
384
1961
5
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Harriet Andersson
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
386
1961
6
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
490
1961
7
Michelangelo Antonioni
Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
535
1961
8
Jacques Demy
Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott, Elina Labourdette
Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
635
1961
9
Blake Edwards
Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
641
1961
10
Tony Richardson
Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah
Drama
UK
English
12
1960
1
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster
France
French
15
1960
2
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
18
1960
3
Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
32
1960
4
Michelangelo Antonioni
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
79
1960
5
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
154
1960
6
Luchino Visconti
Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
265
1960
7
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
393
1960
8
Karel Reisz
Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts
Drama
UK
English
435
1960
9
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
574
1960
10
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
13
1959
1
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama
France
French
24
1959
2
Billy Wilder
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien
Comedy / Romance / Music / Family
USA
English
48
1959
3
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee
Drama
India
Bengali
65
1959
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Adventure / Thriller / Mystery / Spy / Romance / Family
USA
English
234
1959
5
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
254
1959
6
Alain Resnais
Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
Drama / Romance / War
France / Japan
French
275
1959
8
Howard Hawks
John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
Western / Romance / Drama
USA
English
318
1959
9
Robert Bresson
Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Crime / Drama
France
French
2
1958
1
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Film-Noir
USA
English
83
1958
2
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Drama / War
Poland
Polish
95
1958
3
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
285
1958
4
Vincente Minnelli
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
398
1958
5
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy
Italy / France
French
440
1958
6
Stanley Kramer
Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
Drama / Action / Crime
USA
English
668
1958
7
Richard Brooks
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Drama
USA
English
691
1958
8
Roy Ward Baker
Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman
Action / Drama
UK
English
1026
1958
9
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
64
1957
1
Ingmar Bergman
Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Period Film
Sweden
Swedish
88
1957
2
David Lean
William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald
Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
168
1957
4
Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
174
1957
5
Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
186
1957
7
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
279
1957
8
Federico Fellini
Giulietta Masina, François Périer
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
544
1957
9
Elia Kazan
Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
Drama
USA
English
555
1957
10
Stanley Donen
Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair
Romance / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
14
1956
1
John Ford
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood
Western / Drama / Epic
USA
English
114
1956
2
Satyajit Ray
Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Drama
India
Bengali
212
1956
3
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
368
1956
5
Robert Bresson
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Adventure / Drama / War
France
French
458
1956
6
Kon Ichikawa
Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
568
1956
8
Jean-Pierre Melville
Isabelle Corey, Roger Duchesne, Daniel Cauchy, Howard Vernon, Guy Decomble
Crime / Drama / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir / Detective
France
French
638
1956
9
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
754
1956
10
Stanley Kubrick
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
36
1955
1
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
91
1955
2
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
167
1955
3
Ingmar Bergman
Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlqvist
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
172
1955
4
Nicholas Ray
James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen
Drama / Cult
USA
English
200
1955
5
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
292
1955
7
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Emil Hass Christensen
Drama / Religion
Denmark
Danish
311
1955
8
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
315
1955
9
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
329
1955
10
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
8
1954
1
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Action / Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
46
1954
2
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint
Crime / Romance / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
92
1954
3
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
103
1954
4
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
119
1954
5
Federico Fellini
Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere
Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
312
1954
6
Nicholas Ray
Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Western / Cult
USA
English
370
1954
7
George Cukor
Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan
Drama / Musical
USA
English
380
1954
8
Stanley Donen
Jane Powell, Howard Keel
Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
479
1954
9
Luchino Visconti
Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli
Drama / War / Romance / Period Film
Italy
English
759
1954
10
Otto Preminger
Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte
Musical / Drama / Romance
USA
English
4
1953
1
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
75
1953
2
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
151
1953
3
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
159
1953
4
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault
Comedy
France
French
207
1953
6
Max Ophüls
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy
French
247
1953
7
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
377
1953
8
Vincente Minnelli
Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
Family / Comedy / Musical
USA
English
387
1953
9
William Wyler
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
455
1953
10
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
10
1952
1
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell
Musical / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
53
1952
2
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Drama
Japan
Japanese
117
1952
3
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
162
1952
4
René Clément
Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Drama / War
France
French
250
1952
5
John Ford
John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
303
1952
6
Vittorio De Sica
Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea
Drama
Italy
Italian
451
1952
7
Vincente Minnelli
Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
453
1952
8
Jean Renoir
Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Dante
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France / Italy
English
496
1952
9
Roberto Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina
Drama
Italy
Italian
832
1952
10
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
113
1951
1
Elia Kazan
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond
Drama
USA
English
118
1951
2
Robert Bresson
Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre, André Guibert, Rachel Bérendt
Drama / Religion
France
French
205
1951
3
Vincente Minnelli
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Musical / Romance
USA
English
221
1951
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
262
1951
5
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn
Adventure / Romance / War / Comedy
UK / USA
English
346
1951
6
Charles Crichton
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass
Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
371
1951
7
George Stevens
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
461
1951
8
Billy Wilder
Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady
Drama / Film-Noir / Comedy
USA
English
658
1951
9
Jean Renoir
Nora Swinburne, Patricia Walters, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee
Drama / Romance
France / India / USA
English
664
1951
10
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
11
1950
1
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
40
1950
2
Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Drama / Film-Noir
USA
English
44
1950
3
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Drama
USA
English
192
1950
4
Luis Buñuel
Alfonso Mejía, Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán
Drama / Experimental
Mexico
Spanish
219
1950
5
Jean Cocteau
Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Experimental
France
French
276
1950
6
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
309
1950
7
Nicholas Ray
Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
541
1950
8
George Cukor
Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
647
1950
9
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
669
1950
10
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Western
USA
English
78
1949
1
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
181
1949
2
Robert Hamer
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness
Comedy / Drama / Crime
UK
English
294
1949
3
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
465
1949
5
Yasujiro Ozu
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
520
1949
6
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Musical / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
526
1949
7
William Wyler
Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, Miriam Hopkins
Drama / Romance
USA
English
695
1949
8
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, Dean Jagger
Drama / War
USA
English
764
1949
10
Alexander Mackendrick
Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Wylie Watson
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
7
1948
1
Vittorio De Sica
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda
Drama
Italy
Italian
98
1948
2
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
170
1948
3
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Léonide Massine
Drama / Romance / Music
UK
English
197
1948
4
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
John Wayne, Montgomery Clift
Western / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
385
1948
5
Max Ophüls
Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet, Art Smith
Drama / Period Film / Romance
USA
English
491
1948
6
Abraham Polonsky
John Garfield, Thomas Gomez
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Cult
USA
English
612
1948
7
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
621
1948
8
Anatole Litvak
Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn
Drama
USA
English
686
1948
9
David Lean
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
709
1948
10
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
228
1947
1
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
397
1947
2
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
474
1947
3
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Drama / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
502
1947
4
Edward Dmytryk
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
671
1947
5
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis, Audrey Betz
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
863
1947
6
George Seaton
Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
882
1947
7
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
954
1947
8
Elia Kazan
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1304
1947
9
Elia Kazan
Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
1315
1947
10
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Fantasy / Romance
USA
English
61
1946
1
Frank Capra
James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Drama / Fantasy / Family / Romance / Religion / Cult
USA
English
96
1946
2
Jean Cocteau, René Clément
Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Paré, ly, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Romance
France / Luxembourg
French
101
1946
3
William Wyler
Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Romance
USA
English
118
1946
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
216
1946
5
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature, Cathy Downs, Walter Brennan
Western
USA
English
217
1946
6
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Fantasy / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
226
1946
7
David Lean
John Mills, Anthony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Family
UK
English
251
1946
8
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
419
1946
9
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
72
1945
1
Marcel Carné
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
94
1945
2
Roberto Rossellini
Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Nando Bruno
Drama / War
Italy
Italian
214
1945
4
David Lean
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Romance / Drama
UK
English
401
1945
5
Michael Curtiz
Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime
USA
English
409
1945
6
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
644
1945
8
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney, Pamela Brown
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English
744
1945
9
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
752
1945
10
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
57
1944
1
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
220
1944
2
Vincente Minnelli
Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Musical / Family / Romance
USA
English
299
1944
3
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
300
1944
4
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
575
1944
5
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Comedy
USA
English
611
1944
6
Leo McCarey
Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy / Drama / Religion / Musical
USA
English
666
1944
7
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
720
1944
8
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
722
1944
9
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Comedy / War
USA
English
918
1944
10
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
320
1943
1
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
378
1943
2
William A. Wellman
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Drama / Western
USA
English
385
1943
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
616
1943
4
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
651
1943
5
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam
Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
697
1943
6
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Short / Fantasy / Experimental
USA
English
865
1943
7
Jacques Tourneur
Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Horror / Drama
USA
English
1085
1943
8
Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Bette Davis, Paul Lukas
Drama / Spy / War
USA
English
1107
1943
9
George Stevens
Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Richard Gaines
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1115
1943
10
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
20
1942
1
Michael Curtiz
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Drama / Romance
USA
English
252
1942
2
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
267
1942
3
Ernst Lubitsch
Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English
332
1942
4
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
340
1942
5
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
394
1942
7
Preston Sturges
Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Sig Arno
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
600
1942
8
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
676
1942
9
George Stevens
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
942
1942
10
Sam Wood
Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1
1941
1
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins
Drama / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Film-Noir
USA
English
84
1941
2
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane
Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Detective
USA
English
120
1941
3
Preston Sturges
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
160
1941
4
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
319
1941
5
John Ford
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Drama / Romance
USA
English
354
1941
6
Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts
Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Drama / Family / Animation / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
742
1941
7
Alexander Hall
Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
829
1941
9
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
979
1941
10
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
222
1940
3
Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Christian Rub, Dickie Jones, Cliff Edwards, Mel Blanc, Evelyn Venable
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
237
1940
4
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
274
1940
5
George Cukor
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
302
1940
6
Edward F. Cline
W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio, Jessie Ralph
Comedy / Crime / Family
USA
English
356
1940
7
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
439
1940
8
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / War
USA
English
528
1940
9
Ernst Lubitsch
James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
570
1940
10
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
6
1939
1
Jean Renoir
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Julien Carette, Tony Corteggiani
Comedy / Drama
France
French
45
1939
2
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
50
1939
3
Victor Fleming
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell
Drama / War / Romance / Epic
USA
English
136
1939
4
John Ford
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell
Action / Western / Drama / Romance
USA
English
177
1939
5
Frank Capra
Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee
Drama / Comedy / Family
USA
English
271
1939
6
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
280
1939
7
Ernst Lubitsch
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
364
1939
8
William Wyler
Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
529
1939
9
George Cukor
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
572
1939
10
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
89
1938
1
Howard Hawks
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett, Barry Fitzgerald
Family / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
155
1938
2
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles
Action / Adventure / Romance / Family
USA
English
507
1938
4
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
523
1938
5
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
562
1938
6
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller
Drama / Comedy / Romance
UK
English
565
1938
7
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
725
1938
8
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
767
1938
9
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
846
1938
10
Marcel Pagnol
Raimu, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Vattier, Robert Bassac
Comedy / Drama
France
French
52
1937
1
Jean Renoir
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Julien Carette
Drama / War / Adventure / Comedy
France
French
125
1937
2
David Hand
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Billy Gilbert
Animation / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA
English
331
1937
3
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
563
1937
5
Leo McCarey
Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell, Porter Hall
Drama
USA
English
615
1937
6
Victor Fleming, Sidney Franklin, Gustav Machatý
Paul Muni, Luise Rainer
Drama / Epic
USA
English
631
1937
8
William A. Wellman, Jack Conway
Janet Gaynor, Fredric March
Drama / Romance
USA
English
734
1937
9
Victor Fleming
Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
783
1937
10
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Family
USA
English
157
1936
1
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Comedy / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
339
1936
3
George Stevens
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
358
1936
4
Frank Capra
Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
430
1936
5
Gregory La Cava
William Powell, Carole Lombard
Romance / Comedy
USA
English
485
1936
6
George Cukor
Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Daniell, Elizabeth Allan
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
624
1936
7
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis
Drama / Pre-Noir / Crime
USA
English
701
1936
8
Jean Renoir
Sylvia Bataille, Georges D'Arnoux, Jane Marken
Drama / Short / Romance / Comedy
France
French
904
1936
9
W.S. Van Dyke
Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English
914
1936
10
James Whale
Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan
Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
126
1935
1
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
146
1935
2
James Whale
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
316
1935
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
343
1935
4
Frank Lloyd
Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
425
1935
6
Sam Wood
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Comedy / Family / Romance / Musical
USA
English
476
1935
7
George Cukor
Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
USA
English
495
1935
8
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
737
1935
10
Richard Boleslawski
Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
67
1934
1
Jean Vigo
Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
France
French
86
1934
2
Frank Capra
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Jameson Thomas
Romance / Comedy / Family
USA
English
286
1934
3
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
511
1934
4
Norman Z. McLeod
W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison, Tommy Bupp
Comedy / Family
USA
English
856
1934
5
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
974
1934
6
Howard Hawks
John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1068
1934
7
Rowland V. Lee, Wilfred Lucas
Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1127
1934
8
Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1172
1934
9
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
1231
1934
10
Edgar G. Ulmer
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Horror / Crime / Adventure
USA
English
80
1933
1
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
143
1933
2
Leo McCarey
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
189
1933
3
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
282
1933
4
Lloyd Bacon
Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee
Musical / Romance / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
581
1933
6
Lowell Sherman
Mae West, Cary Grant
Comedy / Western / Crime
USA
English
605
1933
7
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
738
1933
8
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
759
1933
9
George Cukor
Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
884
1933
10
Mervyn LeRoy
Warren William, Joan Blondell
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
122
1932
1
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Comedy / Romance / Crime
USA
English
365
1932
2
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
424
1932
3
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia
Comedy
France
French
467
1932
4
Mervyn LeRoy
Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama
USA
English
486
1932
5
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz, Jan Hieronimko
Horror
France / Germany
German
689
1932
6
Rouben Mamoulian
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth
Musical / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
723
1932
7
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
811
1932
8
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1009
1932
9
Edmund Goulding
Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1056
1932
10
George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
23
1931
1
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
93
1931
2
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
269
1931
3
James Whale
Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
272
1931
4
René Clair
Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly
Comedy / Musical
France
French
336
1931
5
William A. Wellman
James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
363
1931
6
René Clair
Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert, Paul Ollivier
Musical / Comedy
France
French
446
1931
7
Jean Renoir
Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Drama
France
French
503
1931
9
Mervyn LeRoy
Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
785
1931
10
Rouben Mamoulian
Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English
215
1930
1
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers
Drama / Musical
Germany
German
238
1930
2
Luis Buñuel
Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
253
1930
3
Lewis Milestone
Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
War / Drama / Epic
USA
English
307
1930
4
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1598
1930
6
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, Charles Bickford, George F. Marion, Marie Dressler, James T. Mack
Drama / Romance
USA
English
1688
1930
7
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Frank Clarke
Drama / War / Adventure
USA
English
1750
1930
8
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1822
1930
9
René Clair
Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry
Drama / Romance
France
French
1880
1930
10
Victor Heerman
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont
Comedy / Family
USA
English
74
1929
1
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
210
1929
2
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
894
1929
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1262
1929
4
Rouben Mamoulian
Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Drama / Musical
USA
English
1263
1929
5
King Vidor
Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
1353
1929
6
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1412
1929
7
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1698
1929
8
James W. Horne, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1717
1929
9
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1781
1929
10
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
66
1928
1
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
147
1928
2
Luis Buñuel
Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Short / Fantasy / Experimental / Cult
France
French (Silent)
841
1928
5
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
943
1928
6
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1052
1928
7
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1299
1928
8
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
1325
1928
9
René Clair
Marise Maia, Olga Tschechowa, Albert Prejean, Paul Olivier
Comedy / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
1402
1928
10
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
25
1927
1
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
49
1927
2
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
218
1927
3
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
793
1927
4
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer
Drama / Music
USA
English
1149
1927
5
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1245
1927
6
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
1501
1927
7
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1568
1927
8
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1638
1927
9
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1645
1927
10
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
111
1926
1
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom
Comedy / Romance / War / Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1169
1926
2
Albert Parker
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse
Adventure / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1370
1926
3
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1523
1926
4
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
1607
1926
5
Clarence Brown
John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, William Orlamond
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1758
1926
6
George Fitzmaurice
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, George Fawcett
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2000
1926
7
Raoul Walsh
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2019
1926
8
Henry King
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, E.J. Ratcliffe
Drama / Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2081
1926
9
King Vidor
Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2113
1926
10
Robert J. Flaherty
Fa'amgase, Pe'a, Ta'avale, T'ugaita
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
62
1925
1
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
193
1925
2
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite
Comedy / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
