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Leo McCarey • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
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James Whale • Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Horror • Sci-Fi Horror
3
Merian C. Cooper • Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
4
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Horror
5
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Joan Blondell, Ginger Rogers, Aline MacMahon
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
6
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
7
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
8
Alfred E. Green • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Jean Vigo • Starring: Léon Larive, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon
Childhood Drama • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
10
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Guy Kibbee, James Cagney, Joan Blondell
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George Cukor • Starring: Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
12
Ted Eshbaugh
Adventure • Animated Musical • Animation
13
George Cukor • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Drama
14
William A. Seiter • Starring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Buddy Film • Comedy • Odd Couple Film
15
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: John Gilbert, Elizabeth Young, Greta Garbo
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
16
Alexander Korda • Starring: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gothic Film
18
Frank Capra • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori
Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
19
Frank Capra • Starring: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
20
Burt Gillett • Starring: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
21
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
22
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Culture and Society • Documentary • Essay Film
23
Michael Curtiz • Starring: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
24
Thornton Freeland • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
25
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Gary Cooper
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
26
Frank R. Strayer • Starring: Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne
Horror • Monster Film • Mystery
27
Dave Fleischer • Starring: Cab Calloway, Mae Questel
28
Ernest B. Schoedsack • Starring: Helen Mack, Victor Wong, Frank Reicher
Adventure • Fantasy • Horror
29
Victor Fleming • Starring: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
30
David Hand • Starring: Walt Disney, Pinto Colvi
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Howard Bretherton, William Keighley • Starring: Preston S. Foster, Dorothy Burgess, Robert McWade
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
32
Wesley Ruggles • Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
33
Gustav Machatý • Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Erotic Drama
34
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Margaret Lindsay, James Cagney, Leslie Fenton
35
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Takeshi Sakamoto, Nobuko Fushimi, Den Obinata
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
36
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford
Comedy Drama • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
37
Frank Borzage • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
38
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke
Comedy • Crime • Mystery
39
Henry King • Starring: Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres
Americana • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy
40
Archie Mayo • Starring: Frankie Darro, James Cagney, Madge Evans
Crime • Drama • Gangster Film
41
Stephen Roberts • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
42
Dave Fleischer • Starring: William Costello, William Pennell, Bonnie Poe
Animation • Based-on-Comics • Cartoon
43
William A. Wellman • Starring: Frankie Darro, Dorothy Coonan, Rochelle Hudson
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
44
Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
45
Wilfred Jackson
Animation • Cartoon • Holiday Film
46
Robert N. Bradbury • Starring: Al St. John, Earl Dwire, Hal Price
Western • Musical Western
47
Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker
Animation • Foreign Language Film • Short Film
48
Lowell Sherman • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou
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Lloyd French • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Comedy • Short Film • Slapstick
50
Animation • Cartoon • Fairy Tales and Legends
51
Mikio Naruse • Starring: Jun Arai, Chôko Iida, Teruko Kojima
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T. Hayes Hunter • Starring: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger
Gothic Film • Horror • Supernatural Horror
53
William A. Wellman • Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young
Drama • Melodrama • Message Movie
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David Hand
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John Ford • Starring: Henrietta Crosman, Heather Angel, Norman Foster
Drama • Psychological Drama
56
Hiroshi Shimizu • Starring: Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
57
Robert F. Hill • Starring: Jacqueline Wells, E. Alyn Warren, Mischa Auer
Action • Adventure • Jungle Film
58
Dave Fleischer
59
Hal Roach, Charley Rogers • Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King
60
Mack V. Wright • Starring: Ruth Hall, Francis Ford, Horse: Duke
Western • B-Western
61
Armand Schaefer • Starring: Hank Bell, Earl Dwire, Hal Price
62
Burt Gillett • Starring: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
63
Max Ophüls • Starring: Paul Hörbiger, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
64
Clyde Bruckman • Starring: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Reunion Films
65
Mikio Naruse • Starring: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono, Sumiko Mizukubo
66
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Alice White, Ralph Bellamy, Ralf Harolde
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Crime Drama
67
Victor Halperin • Starring: Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivian Osborne
Drama • Horror • Mystery
68
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Martín Hernández, Isabel Villaseñor, Félix Balderas
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social History
69
Rowland Brown • Starring: Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Ann Brody
Adventure • Crime
70
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Thomy Bourdelle, Karl Meixner
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
71
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson
72
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor
Based-on-Theatre • Costume Romance • Fantasy
73
A. Edward Sutherland • Starring: Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick
Crime Thriller • Crime • Horror
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Romance
77
Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson • Starring: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
78
John Cromwell • Starring: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
79
Arthur Ripley • Starring: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Elise Cavanna
80
Frank Lloyd • Starring: Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard
Costume Romance • Drama • Family Drama
81
Gregory La Cava • Starring: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
82
Archie Mayo • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy
Action • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
83
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan
Comedy
84
William A. Wellman • Starring: Loretta Young, Ricardo Cortez, Franchot Tone
85
Dudley Murphy • Starring: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Pre-Code Hollywood
86
Sam Wood • Starring: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Stuart Erwin
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
87
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka
88
Dorothy Arzner • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Romance
89
Rudolf Ising
Animated Musical • Animation • Cartoon
90
Burt Gillett
91
Comedy • Police Comedy • Short Film
92
Stuart Walker • Starring: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie
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Phil Whitman • Starring: John Wayne, Evalyn Knapp, Reginald Barlow
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
95
Wladyslaw Starewicz • Starring: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Animation • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
96
Boris Barnet • Starring: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
97
A. Edward Sutherland • Starring: W.C. Fields, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Farce
98
William K. Howard • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan
99
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Joji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo
100
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