Movie Directors Top Films - Page 3

Criteria: The movies were ranked according to their influence, their initial and lasting popularity, as well as their initial and lasting acclaim. Most lists rank the director's ten greatest films, while some directors with a particularly small filmography only have five films listed. Feature films, TV films, documentaries, short films, experimental films, essay films, TV miniseries and TV series that were created mainly by the director in question were all eligible.

Héctor Babenco
1946 - 2016
 
  1. Pixote (1981)
  2. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
  3. Carandiru (2003)
  4. Ironweed (1987)
  5. Lúcio Flávio (1977)
  6. At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
  7. King of the Night (1975)
  8. El pasado (2007)
  9. Foolish Heart (1996)
10. My Hindu Friend (2016)
Lloyd Bacon
1889 - 1955
 
  1. 42nd Street (1933)
  2. Footlight Parade (1933)
  3. Marked Woman (1937)
  4. Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
  5. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
  6. Wonder Bar (1934)
  7. It Happens Every Spring (1949)
  8. The Singing Fool (1928)
  9. Brother Orchid (1940)
10. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
John Badham
1939 -
 
  1. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  2. WarGames (1983)
  3. Short Circuit (1986)
  4. Stakeout (1987)
  5. Blue Thunder (1983)
  6. The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
  7. The Hard Way (1991)
  8. Dracula (1979)
  9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
10. Bird on a Wire (1990)
Roy Ward Baker
1916 - 2010
 
  1. A Night to Remember (1958)
  2. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
  3. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
  4. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
  5. Asylum (1972)
  6. Inferno (1953)
  7. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
  8. Morning Departure (1950)
  9. The October Man (1947)
10. The Vault of Horror (1973)
Ralph Bakshi
1938 -
 
  1. Fritz the Cat (1972)
  2. Heavy Traffic (1973)
  3. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
  4. Coonskin (1975)
  5. Wizards (1977)
  6. American Pop (1981)
  7. Fire and Ice (1983)
  8. Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
  9. The Butter Battle Book (1989)
10. Cool World (1992)
Aleksei Balabanov
1959 - 2013
 
  1. Brother (1997)
  2. Of Freaks and Men (1998)
  3. Cargo 200 (2007)
  4. Brother 2 (2000)
  5. War (2002)
  6. Morphine (2008)
  7. A Stoker (2010)
  8. Me Too (2012)
  9. Dead Man's Bluff (2005)
10. It Doesn't Hurt Me (2006)
Boris Barnet
1902 - 1965
 
  1. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
  2. Okraina (1933)
  3. The House on Trubnaya (1928)
  4. Miss Mend [with Fyodor Otsep] (1926)
  5. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)
  6. Secret Agent (1947)
  7. Staryy naezdnik (1959)
  8. The Wrestler and the Clown [with Konstantin Yudin] (1957)
  9. Alyonka (1961)
10. Bountiful Summer (1950)
Paul Bartel
1938 - 2000
 
  1. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  2. Eating Raoul (1982)
  3. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
  4. Private Parts (1972)
  5. Cannonball (1976)
  6. Lust in the Dust (1985)
  7. The Secret Cinema (1968)
  8. The Longshot (1986)
  9. Not for Publication (1984)
10. Naughty Nurse (1969)
Yevgeni Bauer
1865 - 1917
 
  1. The Dying Swan (1917)
  2. After Death (1915)
  3. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913)
  4. Child of the Big City (1914)
  5. A Life for a Life (1916)
  6. Revolutionary (1917)
  7. Silent Witnesses (1914)
  8. Daydreams (1915)
  9. For Happiness (1917)
10. Children of the Age (1915)
Noah Baumbach
1969 -
 
  1. Marriage Story (2019)
  2. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
  3. Frances Ha (2012)
  4. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
  5. Greenberg (2010)
  6. Mistress America (2015)
  7. While We're Young (2014)
  8. Margot at the Wedding (2007)
  9. Kicking and Screaming (1995)
10. De Palma [with Jake Paltrow] (2015)
Mario Bava
1914 - 1980
 
  1. Black Sunday (1960)
  2. Black Sabbath (1963)
  3. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
  4. A Bay of Blood (1971)
  5. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
  6. Rabid Dogs (1974)
  7. Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
  8. The Whip and the Body (1963)
  9. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
10. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
Michael Bay
1965 -
 
  1. Transformers (2007)
  2. Armageddon (1998)
  3. The Rock (1996)
  4. Pearl Harbor (2001)
  5. Bad Boys (1995)
  6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
  7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  8. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
  9. Bad Boys II (2003)
10. The Island (2005)
Warren Beatty
1937 -
 
  1. Reds (1981)
  2. Heaven Can Wait [with Buck Henry] (1978)
  3. Dick Tracy (1990)
  4. Bulworth (1998)
  5. Rules Don't Apply (2016)
Jacques Becker
1906 - 1960
 
  1. Casque d'or (1952)
  2. Le trou (1960)
  3. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
  4. Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
  5. It Happened at the Inn (1943)
  6. Edward and Caroline (1951)
  7. Rendezvous in July (1949)
  8. The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
  9. Paris Frills (1945)
10. The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
Marco Bellocchio
1939 -
 
  1. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
  2. China Is Near (1967)
  3. Vincere (2009)
  4. My Mother's Smile (2002)
  5. The Traitor (2019)
  6. Good Morning, Night (2003)
  7. Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
  8. Dormant Beauty (2012)
  9. Devil in the Flesh (1986)
10. In the Name of the Father (1971)
Roberto Benigni
1952 -
 
  1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  2. Johnny Stecchino (1991)
  3. The Monster (1994)
  4. Nothing Left to Do but Cry [with Massimo Troisi] (1984)
  5. The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Robert Benton
1932 -
 
  1. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  2. Places in the Heart (1984)
  3. Nobody's Fool (1994)
  4. Bad Company (1972)
  5. The Late Show (1977)
  6. Still of the Night (1982)
  7. The Human Stain (2003)
  8. Twilight (1998)
  9. Feast of Love (2007)
10. Billy Bathgate (1991)
Bruce Beresford
1940 -
 
  1. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  2. Breaker Morant (1980)
  3. Tender Mercies (1983)
  4. Black Robe (1991)
  5. Don's Party (1976)
  6. Crimes of the Heart (1986)
  7. Double Jeopardy (1999)
  8. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
  9. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
10. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Peter Berg
1964 -
 
  1. Friday Night Lights (2004)
  2. Lone Survivor (2013)
  3. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
  4. Friday Night Lights [TV series] (2006-2011)
  5. The Kingdom (2007)
  6. Hancock (2008)
  7. Patriots Day (2016)
  8. The Rundown (2003)
  9. Very Bad Things (1998)
10. Battleship (2012)
Ingmar Bergman
1918 - 2007
 
  1. Persona (1966)
  2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  3. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  4. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
  6. The Virgin Spring (1960)
  7. Winter Light (1963)
  8. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
  9. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
10. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Busby Berkeley
1895 - 1976
 
  1. Babes in Arms (1939)
  2. For Me and My Gal (1942)
  3. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  4. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
  5. The Gang's All Here (1943)
  6. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
  7. Strike Up the Band (1940)
  8. Babes on Broadway (1941)
  9. Hollywood Hotel (1937)
10. Comet over Broadway (1938)

Last Updated: 2020-05-04