**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | All Quiet on the Western Front** | Lewis Milestone | 225 |
2 | The Blue Angel | Josef von Sternberg | 643 |
3 | L'Âge d'or | Luis Buñuel | 665 |
4 | Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 841 |
5 | Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1642 |
6 | Animal Crackers | Victor Heerman | 2104 |
7 | People on Sunday | Curt and Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann | 2392 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 46 |
2 | M | Fritz Lang | 69 |
3 | Frankenstein | James Whale | 152 |
4 | Dracula | Tod Browning | 530 |
5 | The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | 753 |
6 | Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | 983 |
7 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | 1134 |
8 | Tabu | F.W. Murnau | 1667 |
9 | La Chienne | Jean Renoir | 2082 |
10 | Le Million | René Clair | 2102 |
11 | À Nous la Liberté | René Clair | 2136 |
12 | Monkey Business | Norman Z. McLeod | 2234 |
13 | Maedchen in Uniform | Leontine Sagan | 2800 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | Freaks | Tod Browning | 235 |
2 | Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 381 |
3 | Scarface | Howard Hawks | 534 |
4 | Vampyr | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 611 |
5 | Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | 845 |
6 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* | Mervyn LeRoy | 1100 |
7 | Grand Hotel** | Edmund Goulding | 1274 |
8 | I Was Born, But... | Yasujirô Ozu | 1392 |
9 | The Mummy | Karl Freund | 1527 |
10 | Horse Feathers | Norman Z. McLeod | 1533 |
11 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Jean Renoir | 1628 |
12 | Island of Lost Souls | Erle C. Kenton | 1638 |
13 | The Blood of a Poet | Jean Cocteau | 1659 |
14 | The Music Box | James Parrott | 1691 |
15 | Shanghai Express* | Josef von Sternberg | 1741 |
16 | The Old Dark House | James Whale | 1797 |
17 | One Hour with You* | Ernst Lubitsch | 2399 |
18 | Blonde Venus | Josef von Sternberg | 2785 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | King Kong | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
2 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 85 |
3 | 42nd Street* | Lloyd Bacon | 664 |
4 | The Invisible Man | James Whale | 743 |
5 | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 981 |
6 | Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | 1066 |
7 | Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | 1071 |
8 | Queen Christina | Rouben Mamoulian | 1462 |
9 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1521 |
10 | Footlight Parade | Lloyd Bacon | 1584 |
11 | Land without Bread | Luis Buñuel | 1602 |
12 | She Done Him Wrong* | Lowell Sherman | 2069 |
13 | Little Women* | George Cukor | 2096 |
14 | Dinner at Eight | George Cukor | 2226 |
15 | Ecstasy | Gustav Machatý | 2410 |
16 | The Private Life of Henry VIII* | Alexander Korda | 2445 |
17 | Design for Living | Ernst Lubitsch | 2451 |
18 | Baby Face | Alfred E. Green | 2551 |
19 | Liebelei | Max Ophüls | 2746 |
Rank | Title | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | It Happened One Night** | Frank Capra | 92 |
2 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 219 |
3 | The Thin Man* | W.S. Van Dyke | 568 |
4 | The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | 913 |
5 | It's a Gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 1068 |
6 | The Black Cat | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1518 |
7 | Twentieth Century | Howard Hawks | 1709 |
8 | Man of Aran | Robert J. Flaherty | 1980 |
9 | The Merry Widow | Ernst Lubitsch | 2030 |
10 | The Gay Divorcee* | Mark Sandrich | 2348 |
11 | The Man Who Knew Too Much | Alfred Hitchcock | 2674 |
**—Won Academy Award for Best Picture.
*—Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.