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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
James Whale • Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
4
Tod Browning • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Gothic Film
5
William A. Wellman • Starring: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Action • Crime Drama • Crime
6
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
7
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
8
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
9
George Melford • Starring: Barry Norton, Lupita Tovar, Eduardo Arozamena
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
10
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
11
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Docudrama
12
René Clair • Starring: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France
Comedy • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
13
René Clair • Starring: René Lefèvre, Paul Ollivier, Annabella
Chase Movie • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
14
King Vidor • Starring: Jackie Cooper, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy
Drama • Melodrama • Sports Drama
15
Jean Renoir • Starring: Michel Simon, Janie Marese, Georges Flamant
Drama • Foreign Language Film
16
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
17
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable, Joan Blondell
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
18
Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
19
Frank Capra • Starring: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
20
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Media Satire
21
Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich • Starring: Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda
Based-on-Theatre • Coming-of-Age • Drama
22
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Mae Questel
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
23
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Tatsuo Saito, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo
24
James Whale • Starring: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd
Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
25
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Warner Oland
Action • Drama • Romance
26
Clarence Brown • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Wallace Ford
27
Alexander Korda • Starring: Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
28
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Louis Calhern
Comedy • Crime • Drama
29
George Fitzmaurice • Starring: Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro, Lionel Barrymore
Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-a-True-Story
30
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
Drama • Religious Drama
31
Wilfred Jackson • Starring: Florence Gill
Animation • Coming-of-Age • Fairy Tales and Legends
32
Clarence Brown • Starring: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore
33
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner
Drama • Media Satire • Melodrama
34
Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
35
Alfred E. Green • Starring: Noel Francis, Evalyn Knapp, Edward G. Robinson
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Wesley Ruggles • Starring: William Collier, Jr., Irene Dunne, Richard Dix
Drama • Ensemble Film • Epic
37
Sidney Franklin • Starring: Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Romance
38
King Vidor • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Beulah Bondi, Walter Miller
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
39
Archie Mayo • Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
40
James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Short Film • Slapstick
41
Mario Peixoto • Starring: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
42
Jean Vigo • Starring: Jean Taris
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Short Film
43
James Parrott • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin
Comedy • Odd Couple Film • Short Film
44
James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr
45
Mikio Naruse • Starring: Shizue Akiyama, Seiichi Kato, Tomoko Naniwa
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
46
Edgar Selwyn • Starring: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton
Drama • Melodrama
47
John Ford • Starring: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett
Drama • Medical Drama • Melodrama
48
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
49
Burt Gillett
50
Frank Borzage • Starring: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Minna Gombell
51
Lionel Barrymore • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley
52
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Elsie Randolph, Percy Marmont, Henry Kendall
Adventure • Comedy • Romance
53
James Parrott • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Long
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
54
William Dieterle • Starring: Richard Barthelmess, David Manners, Johnny Mack Brown
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
55
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee
56
Dave Fleischer
57
William A. Wellman • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Drama
58
James. W Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Short Film
59
Rudolf Ising
Animated Musical • Animation • Cartoon
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Edward Sedgwick • Starring: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
62
Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Huston, Boris Karloff, Phillips Holmes
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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64
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond
Drama • Social Problem Film
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Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising • Starring: Johnny Murray, Rochelle Hudson
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Abel Gance • Starring: Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance
Apocalyptic Film • Disaster Film • Foreign Language Film
69
Harry Beaumont • Starring: Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards
70
Jay Leyda
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film • Silent Film
71
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt
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73
Leslie S. Hiscott • Starring: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film
74
Arnold Fanck • Starring: Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Rudi Matt
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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Comedy • Farce • Short Film
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Hamilton MacFadden • Starring: Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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James W. Horne • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch
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82
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth
Drama • Horror • Romance
89
Phil Jutzi • Starring: Heinrich George, Maria Bard, Margarete Schlegel
90
John G. Adolfi • Starring: George Arliss, Florence Arliss, David Manners
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
91
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Chôko Iida
Foreign Language Film • Romance • Silent Film
92
Jean Renoir • Starring: Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon
Comedy • Foreign Language Film
93
Henwar Rodakiewicz
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary • Silent Film
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George W. Hill • Starring: Clark Gable, Conrad Nagel, Marie Prevost
Action • Adventure • War
97
Wilfred Jackson
98
Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising • Starring: Carman Maxwell
99
Paul Sloane • Starring: Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, John Halliday
100
Animation • Cartoon • Musical
101
Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising • Starring: Johnny Murray
102
103
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, Paul Gregory
Comedy
104
Oswell Blakeston, Francis Bruguière
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
105
George Cukor • Starring: Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, Lilyan Tashman
106
D. Ross Lederman • Starring: Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming
Mystery • Romance • Western
107
Richard Wallace • Starring: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
108
Zion Myers, Jules White • Starring: Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Cliff Edwards
Comedy • Slapstick • Urban Comedy
109
George B. Seitz • Starring: Laura La Plante, John Wayne, June Clyde
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
110
Hal Roach • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Thelma Todd, John Loder
111
Jack Conway • Starring: Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
112
Harry Beaumont • Starring: John Gilbert, El Brendel, Lois Moran
Drama
113
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
114
Zion Myers, Jules White • Starring: Zion Myers, Jules White
Animal Picture • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
115
116
David Butler • Starring: Will Rogers, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Fantasy
117
Harry Beaumont • Starring: Joan Crawford, Neil Hamilton, Clark Gable
118
119
William Wyler • Starring: Walter Huston, Douglass Montgomery, Helen Chandler
120
Erik Charell • Starring: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg
Comedy • Costume Romance • Foreign Language Film
121
122
Leo McCarey • Starring: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Monroe Owsley
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical
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124
Jacques Feyder • Starring: Ramon Novarro, Jean Hersholt, C. Aubrey Smith
125
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
126
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young, Fred Kohler
127
Jack Conway • Starring: William Haines, Irene Purcell, C. Aubrey Smith
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
128
John Francis Dillon • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
129
William A. Wellman • Starring: Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
130
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
131
Tomsie Sze • Starring: Yeh Chuen Chuen, V.K. Chung, Kao Chien Fei
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
132
Rudolf Ising • Starring: Johnny Murray, Rochelle Hudson
133
John Ford • Starring: George O'Brien, Marion Lessing, Mona Maris
Action • Drama • Spy Film
134
Ralph Steiner
Short Film • Silent Film
135
Zion Myers, Jules White • Starring: Billy Bletcher, Pete Smith
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Animal Picture
136
Edward F. Cline • Starring: Alice White, Paul Page, Myrna Loy
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
137
Charles Brabin • Starring: Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans
138
Jack Raymond • Starring: Raymond Massey, Athole Stewart, Lyn Harding
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
139
William K. Howard • Starring: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, John Halliday
140
George Archainbaud • Starring: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery
141
Hugh Harman • Starring: Carman Maxwell
142
Marie-Louise Iribe • Starring: Joë Hamman, Mary Costes, Rosa Bertens
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
143
William C. McGann • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Henry Kolker
144
Charles Reisner • Starring: Bert Lahr, Charlotte Greenwood, Pat O'Brien
145
Archie Mayo • Starring: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey
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Lowell Sherman • Starring: Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
149
Gregory La Cava • Starring: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
150
John S. Robertson • Starring: John Gilbert, Leila Hyams, Lewis Stone
Drama • Mystery
151
152
Heinosuke Gosho • Starring: Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura
153
Clarence G. Badger • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, Dorothy Peterson
Comedy Drama • Drama
154
Wancang Bu • Starring: Lingyu Ruan, Yan Jin, Lili Zhou
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
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156
Rudolf Ising • Starring: Rudolf Ising
157
Carl Lamac, Martin Fric • Starring: Lissy Arna, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Fritz Rasp
Crime • Crime Thriller • Foreign Language Film
158
Charles Dorian • Starring: Pete Smith
Documentary • Short Film
159
Fred Niblo • Starring: William Boyd, James Gleason, Warner Oland
160
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans
Crime Thriller • Crime • Pre-Code Hollywood
161
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray
162
163
George Abbott • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Harry Davenport
164
George W. Hill • Starring: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Crime • Mystery
165
Clarence G. Badger • Starring: Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Walter Pidgeon
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
166
167
Hugh Harman, Rudolph Ising • Starring: Johnny Murray, Rochelle Hudson
168
George Abbott • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, Harvey Stephens, Irving Pichel
169
George Abbott • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Georges Metaxa
170
171
Wancang Bu • Starring: Lingyu Ruan, Cho-cho Lam, Cilong Wang
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Foreign Language Film
172
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Dorothy Mackaill, Joel McCrea, Ned Sparks
Drama • Marriage Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
173
Sam Taylor • Starring: Will Rogers, Marguerite Churchill, Greta Nissen
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Satire
174
William A. Seiter • Starring: Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
175
176
William A. Seiter • Starring: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee
177
Louis King • Starring: Barbara Bedford, Douglas Gilmore, Ed Brady
Action • Romance • Western
178
Alessandro Blasetti • Starring: Daniele Crespi, Lia Franca, Venera Alexandescu
179
180
Sam Wood • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Charlotte Greenwood, Irene Purcell
Based-on-Theatre • Romance
181
Robert F. McGowan • Starring: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Family
182
Albert S. Rogell • Starring: William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • War
183
Stuart Paton • Starring: Robert Frazer, Blanche Mehaffey, Buzz Barton
Action • Adventure • Serial
184
Harry A. Pollard • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Jordan
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
185
Alfred E. Green • Starring: William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh
186
George Abbott • Starring: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louis Calhern
187
Louis Wolheim • Starring: Louis Wolheim, Mary Astor, Ian Keith
188
Edward Sloman • Starring: William Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Irving Pichel
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Horror
189
Charles Reisner • Starring: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page
Comedy • Slapstick
190
Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Warner Baxter, Lupe Velez, Eleanor Boardman
Addiction Drama • Adventure • Pre-Code Hollywood
191
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Lewis Stone, Ben Lyon
192
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
193
Gregory La Cava • Starring: Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
194
William A. Wellman • Starring: Sally Blane, Walter Huston, Grant Mitchell
Drama • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
195
Richard Boleslawski • Starring: Ivan Lebedeff, Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson
Adventure • Romance • Romantic Adventure
196
Clyde Bruckman • Starring: Robert Woolsey, Anita Louise, John Darrow
197
Howard Higgin • Starring: William Boyd, Helen Twelvetrees, William Farnum
Western
198
Mack Sennett • Starring: Harry Gribbon, Andy Clyde, Marjorie Beebe
Comedy • Haunted House Film • Horror Comedy
199
Victor Schertzinger • Starring: Lili Damita, Lester Vail, O.P. Heggie
Based-on-Theatre • Drama
200
F.W. Thring • Starring: Pat Hanna, George Moon, Norman French
201
Norman Taurog • Starring: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green
Animal Picture • Based-on-Comics • Childhood Drama
202
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell
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204
William Nigh • Starring: Alan Hale, Laura La Plante, Clarence Wilson
Adventure • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
205
Dziga Vertov