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1
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Comedy Drama • Comedy • Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
3
Frank Capra • Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Comedy • Newspaper Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
4
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin
Comedy • Satire • Silent Film
5
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film
6
Jean Renoir • Starring: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parely
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
7
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
8
Victor Fleming • Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
9
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
10
Howard Hawks • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
11
Leo McCarey • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
12
James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Gothic Film • Horror • Monster Film
13
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
14
Gregory La Cava • Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Romance
15
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
16
Sam Wood • Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
17
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Chase Movie • Escape Film
18
James Whale • Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
19
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley • Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fairy Tales and Legends
20
Mark Sandrich • Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical Romance
21
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
22
Tod Browning • Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Drama • Horror • Melodrama
23
James Whale • Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Horror • Sci-Fi Horror
24
Victor Heerman • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
25
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Raymond Smith, George "Slim" Summerville, Lew Ayres
Action • Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
26
Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
Comedy • Screwball Comedy
27
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
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Jean Vigo • Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté
Adventure Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
29
Tod Browning • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Gothic Film
30
Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
31
George Cukor • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Domestic Comedy
32
Frank Capra • Starring: George Bancroft, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Americana • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
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Frank Capra • Starring: Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, James Stewart
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
35
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Sports Comedy
36
Howard Hawks • Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess
Adventure • Buddy Film • Romance
37
William A. Wellman • Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Action • Crime Drama • Crime
38
Merian C. Cooper • Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
39
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
40
George Stevens • Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
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Leo McCarey • Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Drama • Marriage Drama
42
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson • Starring: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, George Raft
43
David Hand • Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Billy Gilbert
Animated Musical • Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
44
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
45
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
46
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Horror
48
Sam Wood • Starring: Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Slapstick
49
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Ward Bond
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
50
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story
51
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
52
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Drama • Erotic Drama • Foreign Language Film
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George Marshall • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Comedy Western • Comedy • Western
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Jeffrey Lynn, Priscilla Lane
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
55
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
56
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
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James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Gothic Film
58
Fritz Lang • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
59
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
60
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Aline MacMahon
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
62
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
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Karl Freund • Starring: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Horror • Monster Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
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George Melford • Starring: Barry Norton, Lupita Tovar, Eduardo Arozamena
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
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William Wyler • Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Jack Conway • Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
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George Cukor • Starring: Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Ensemble Film
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Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
70
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack • Starring: Joel McCrea, Hale Hamilton, Dutch Hendrian
Chase Movie • Psychological Thriller • Survival Film
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William Wyler • Starring: Mary Astor, Walter Huston, Maria Ouspenskaya
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romance
72
Gregory La Cava • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
73
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard • Starring: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
74
Rowland V. Lee • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Costume Horror • Drama • Gothic Film
75
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki, Mitsuko Yoshikawa
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Domestic Comedy
76
Frank Capra • Starring: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton
Adventure • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
77
George Stevens • Starring: Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Adventure • War • War Adventure
78
Victor Fleming • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Childhood Drama
79
Julien Duvivier • Starring: Jean Gabin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre
Crime • Drama • Foreign Language Film
80
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Drama
81
Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Adventure • Crime Thriller • Crime
82
Archie Mayo • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
83
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
84
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
85
Musical Comedy • Romantic Comedy • Comedy
86
Marcel Carné • Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan
87
William Dieterle • Starring: Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
88
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: John Loder, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Spy Film
89
Sam Wood • Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Lyn Harding
Costume Romance • Drama • Marriage Drama
90
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
91
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
Drama • Medical Drama • Romance
92
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
Action • Drama • Epic
93
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
94
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux
95
Jean Cocteau • Starring: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Jean Renoir • Starring: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
97
Sidney Lanfield • Starring: Richard Greene, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
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Jean Vigo • Starring: Léon Larive, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon
Childhood Drama • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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William Wyler • Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
Costume Romance • Drama • Period Film
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