Movie Directors Top Films - Page 15

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.

Howard Hawks
1896 - 1977
 
  1. Rio Bravo (1959)
  2. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  3. The Big Sleep (1946)
  4. His Girl Friday (1940)
  5. Scarface (1932)
  6. Red River (1948)
  7. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
  8. To Have and Have Not (1944)
  9. The Thing from Another World [with Christian Nyby] (1951)
10. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Todd Haynes
1961 -
 
  1. Safe (1995)
  2. Carol (2015)
  3. Far from Heaven (2002)
  4. I'm Not There (2007)
  5. Poison (1991)
  6. Dark Waters (2019)
  7. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
  8. Mildred Pierce (2011)
  9. Velvet Goldmine (1998)
10. Wonderstruck (2017)
Amy Heckerling
1954 -
 
  1. Clueless (1995)
  2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
  3. Look Who's Talking (1989)
  4. National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
  5. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
  6. Johnny Dangerously (1984)
  7. Loser (2000)
  8. Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
  9. Vamps (2012)
10. Fast Times [with Neal Israel and others] (1986)
Monte Hellman
1932 -
 
  1. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
  2. The Shooting (1966)
  3. Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)
  4. Cockfighter (1974)
  5. Road to Nowhere (2010)
  6. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
  7. Iguana (1988)
  8. Back Door to Hell (1964)
  9. Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! (1989)
10. Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Cecil Hepworth
1874 - 1953
 
  1. Rescued by Rover [with Lewin Fitzhamon] (1905)
  2. Alice in Wonderland [with Percy Stow] (1903)
  3. Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
  4. How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900)
  5. Alf's Button (1920)
  6. Helen of Four Gates (1920)
  7. Tansy (1921)
  8. The Beggar's Deceit (1900)
  9. The Narrow Valley (1921)
10. Funeral of Queen Victoria (1901)
Werner Herzog
1942 -
 
  1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
  2. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  3. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
  4. Grizzly Man (2005)
  5. Stroszek (1977)
  6. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
  7. Lessons of Darkness (1992)
  8. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
  9. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
10. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
George Roy Hill
1921 - 2002
 
  1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  2. The Sting (1973)
  3. The World According to Garp (1982)
  4. Slap Shot (1977)
  5. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
  6. The World of Henry Orient (1964)
  7. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
  8. A Little Romance (1979)
  9. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
10. Funny Farm (1988)
Jack Hill
1933 -
 
  1. Coffy (1973)
  2. Spider Baby (1968)
  3. Foxy Brown (1974)
  4. The Big Doll House (1971)
  5. Switchblade Sisters (1975)
  6. The Big Bird Cage (1972)
  7. Blood Bath [with Stephanie Rothman] (1966)
  8. Pit Stop (1969)
  9. Mondo Keyhole (1966)
10. The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
Walter Hill
1942 -
 
  1. The Warriors (1979)
  2. 48 Hrs. (1982)
  3. The Driver (1978)
  4. Southern Comfort (1981)
  5. The Long Riders (1980)
  6. Hard Times (1975)
  7. Crossroads (1986)
  8. Last Man Standing (1996)
  9. Streets of Fire (1984)
10. Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Arthur Hiller
1923 - 2016
 
  1. Love Story (1970)
  2. The Hospital (1971)
  3. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
  4. Silver Streak (1976)
  5. The In-Laws (1979)
  6. The Out-of-Towners (1970)
  7. Plaza Suite (1971)
  8. Outrageous Fortune (1987)
  9. Man of La Mancha (1972)
10. Popi (1969)
Oliver Hirschbiegel
1957 -
 
  1. Downfall (2004)
  2. The Experiment (2001)
  3. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
  4. 13 Minutes (2015)
  5. The Invasion (2007)
Alfred Hitchcock
1899 - 1980
 
  1. Psycho (1960)
  2. Vertigo (1958)
  3. Rear Window (1954)
  4. North by Northwest (1959)
  5. The Birds (1963)
  6. Notorious (1946)
  7. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  8. Rebecca (1940)
  9. The 39 Steps (1935)
10. Rope (1948)
Agnieszka Holland
1948 -
 
  1. Europa Europa (1990)
  2. The Secret Garden (1993)
  3. In Darkness (2011)
  4. A Lonely Woman (1981)
  5. Olivier, Olivier (1992)
  6. Angry Harvest (1985)
  7. Provincial Actors (1979)
  8. Burning Bush (2013)
  9. Spoor (2017)
10. Fever (1981)
Ishirō Honda
1911 - 1993
 
  1. Godzilla (1954)
  2. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
  3. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
  4. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
  5. Mothra (1961)
  6. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
  7. Rodan (1956)
  8. King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
  9. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
10. Atragon (1963)
Hong Sang-Soo
1960 -
 
  1. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
  2. The Woman on the Beach (2006)
  3. Night and Day (2008)
  4. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (2002)
  5. The Day He Arrives (2011)
  6. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
  7. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
  8. The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996)
  9. The Day After (2017)
10. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
Tobe Hooper
1943 - 2017
 
  1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  2. Poltergeist [with Steven Spielberg] (1982)
  3. Salem's Lot (1979)
  4. Lifeforce (1985)
  5. The Funhouse (1981)
  6. Invaders from Mars (1986)
  7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
  8. Toolbox Murders (2004)
  9. Eaten Alive (1977)
10. The Mangler (1995)
Tom Hooper
1972 -
 
  1. The King's Speech (2010)
  2. Les Misérables (2012)
  3. John Adams (2008)
  4. Elizabeth I (2005)
  5. The Danish Girl (2015)
  6. Longford (2006)
  7. The Damned United (2009)
  8. Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (2003)
  9. Daniel Deronda (2002)
10. Cats (2019)
Dennis Hopper
1936 - 2010
 
  1. Easy Rider (1969)
  2. Out of the Blue (1980)
  3. Colors (1988)
  4. The Last Movie (1971)
  5. The Hot Spot (1990)
Mamoru Hosoda
1967 -
 
  1. Wolf Children (2012)
  2. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
  3. Summer Wars (2009)
  4. The Boy and the Beast (2015)
  5. Mirai (2018)
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1947 -
 
  1. A City of Sadness (1989)
  2. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)
  3. The Puppetmaster (1993)
  4. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
  5. Dust in the Wind (1987)
  6. Millennium Mambo (2001)
  7. Café Lumière (2003)
  8. Three Times (2005)
  9. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
10. The Assassin (2015)

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