Movie Directors Top Films - Page 11

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.

Sergei M. Eisenstein
1898 - 1948
 
  1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  2. Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1958)
  3. Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)
  4. Alexander Nevsky [with Dmitri Vasilyev] (1938)
  5. Strike (1925)
  6. October: Ten Days That Shook the World [with Grigori Aleksandrov] (1928)
  7. ¡Que viva México! (1932)
  8. The General Line [with Grigori Aleksandrov] (1929)
  9. Romance sentimentale [with Grigori Aleksandrov] (1930)
10. Bezhin Meadow (1937)
Roland Emmerich
1955 -
 
  1. Independence Day (1996)
  2. Stargate (1994)
  3. 2012 (2009)
  4. The Patriot (2000)
  5. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
  6. White House Down (2013)
  7. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
  8. Godzilla (1998)
  9. 10,000 BC (2008)
10. Anonymous (2011)
Cy Endfield
1914 - 1995
 
  1. Zulu (1964)
  2. Mysterious Island (1961)
  3. The Sound of Fury (1950)
  4. Hell Drivers (1957)
  5. The Underworld Story (1950)
  6. Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
  7. Jet Storm (1959)
  8. The Argyle Secrets (1948)
  9. The Limping Man (1953)
10. Sea Fury (1958)
Nora Ephron
1941 - 2012
 
  1. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
  2. Julie & Julia (2009)
  3. You've Got Mail (1998)
  4. Michael (1996)
  5. This Is My Life (1992)
Jean Epstein
1897 - 1953
 
  1. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
  2. Cœur fidèle (1923)
  3. La glace à trois faces (1927)
  4. Le tempestaire (1947)
  5. Finis terræ (1929)
  6. Chanson d'Armor (1934)
  7. L'auberge rouge (1923)
  8. Mauprat (1926)
  9. La belle Nivernaise (1924)
10. Mor vran (1931)
Víctor Erice
1940 -
 
  1. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
  2. El sur (1983)
  3. The Quince Tree Sun (1992)
  4. La morte rouge (2006)
  5. Sea-Mail (2006)
Jean Eustache
1938 - 1981
 
  1. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
  2. My Little Loves (1974)
  3. A Dirty Story (1977)
  4. Numéro zéro (1971)
  5. Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)
  6. Le cochon [with Jean-Michel Barjol] (1970)
  7. Les photos d'Alix (1980)
  8. Bad Company (1963)
  9. Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights (1980)
10. The Virgin of Pessac (1968)
Asghar Farhadi
1972 -
 
  1. A Separation (2011)
  2. About Elly (2009)
  3. The Past (2013)
  4. The Salesman (2016)
  5. Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Bobby & Peter Farrelly
BF: 1958 - | PF: 1956 -
 
  1. Dumb & Dumber (1994)
  2. There's Something About Mary (1998)
  3. Green Book [PF] (2018)
  4. Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
  5. Stuck on You (2003)
  6. Kingpin (1996)
  7. Fever Pitch (2005)
  8. Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
  9. Shallow Hal (2001)
10. The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
John Farrow
1904 - 1963
 
  1. The Big Clock (1948)
  2. Wake Island (1942)
  3. Hondo (1953)
  4. His Kind of Woman [with Richard Fleischer] (1951)
  5. Five Came Back (1939)
  6. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
  7. Where Danger Lives (1950)
  8. The Sea Chase (1955)
  9. Alias Nick Beal (1949)
10. Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1945 - 1982
 
  1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
  3. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
  4. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
  5. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
  6. Veronika Voss (1982)
  7. Fox and His Friends (1975)
  8. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
  9. World on a Wire (1973)
10. Love Is Colder than Death (1969)
Jon Favreau
1966 -
 
  1. Iron Man (2008)
  2. The Jungle Book (2016)
  3. Elf (2003)
  4. The Mandalorian (2019-)
  5. Iron Man 2 (2010)
  6. Chef (2014)
  7. The Lion King (2019)
  8. Zathura (2005)
  9. The Chef Show (2019-)
10. Made (2001)
Paul Feig
1962 -
 
  1. Bridesmaids (2011)
  2. Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
  3. Spy (2015)
  4. The Heat (2013)
  5. A Simple Favor (2018)
  6. Ghostbusters (2016)
  7. Other Space (2015)
  8. Last Christmas (2019)
  9. I Am David (2003)
10. Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Federico Fellini
1920 - 1993
 
  1.(1963)
  2. La dolce vita (1960)
  3. La strada (1954)
  4. Amarcord (1973)
  5. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  6. I vitelloni (1953)
  7. Fellini Satyricon (1969)
  8. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
  9. Fellini's Roma (1972)
10. Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Abel Ferrara
1951 -
 
  1. Bad Lieutenant (1992)
  2. King of New York (1990)
  3. The Addiction (1995)
  4. The Funeral (1996)
  5. Ms. 45 (1981)
  6. Body Snatchers (1993)
  7. The Driller Killer (1979)
  8. Welcome to New York (2014)
  9. Go Go Tales (2007)
10. Pasolini (2014)
Marco Ferreri
1928 - 1997
 
  1. La grande bouffe (1973)
  2. Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
  3. Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
  4. Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
  5. El cocechito (1960)
  6. El pisito [with Isidoro M. Ferry] (1959)
  7. The Ape Woman (1964)
  8. L'udienza (1972)
  9. The Last Woman (1976)
10. The Conjugal Bed (1963)
Louis Feuillade
1873 - 1925
 
  1. Les Vampires (1915-1916)
  2. Fantômas (1913-1914)
  3. Judex (1917)
  4. Tih Minh (1919)
  5. Barrabas (1920)
  6. La vie telle qu'elle est (1911)
  7. Bébé (1910-1912)
  8. Bout de Zan (1912-1916)
  9. Vendémiaire (1919)
10. Parisette (1922)
David Fincher
1962 -
 
  1. Fight Club (1999)
  2. Se7en (1995)
  3. The Social Network (2010)
  4. Zodiac (2007)
  5. Gone Girl (2014)
  6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  8. The Game (1997)
  9. Vogue (1990)
10. Express Yourself (1989)

Last Updated: 2020-05-06