Movie Directors Top Films - Page 33

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.

John Sturges
1910 - 1992
 
  1. The Great Escape (1963)
  2. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  3. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  4. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
  5. Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
  6. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
  7. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
  8. The Law and Jake Wade (1958)
  9. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
10. Backlash (1956)
Preston Sturges
1898 - 1959
 
  1. The Lady Eve (1941)
  2. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  4. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
  5. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
  6. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  7. The Great McGinty (1940)
  8. Christmas in July (1940)
  9. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
10. The Great Moment (1944)
Seijun Suzuki
1923 - 2017
 
  1. Branded to Kill (1967)
  2. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
  3. Youth of the Beast (1963)
  4. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
  5. Fighting Elegy (1966)
  6. Gate of Flesh (1964)
  7. Tattooed Life (1965)
  8. Underworld Beauty (1958)
  9. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
10. Pistol Opera (2001)
Jan Švankmajer
1934 -
 
  1. Alice (1988)
  2. Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
  3. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1990)
  4. Faust (1994)
  5. Food (1993)
  6. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
  7. Lunacy (2005)
  8. Little Otik (2000)
  9. The Flat (1968)
10. The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1984)
Isao Takahata
1935 - 2018
 
  1. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
  2. Only Yesterday (1991)
  3. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
  4. Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)
  5. Pom Poko (1994)
  6. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
  7. Anne of Green Gables [with others] (1979)
  8. Hols: Prince of the Sun (1968)
  9. Panda! Go, Panda! (1972)
10. 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976)
Quentin Tarantino
1963 -
 
  1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  2. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  4. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
  5. Django Unchained (2012)
  6. Once upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
  7. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
  8. Jackie Brown (1997)
  9. The Hateful Eight (2015)
10. Death Proof (2007)
Andrei Tarkovsky
1932 - 1986
 
  1. Andrei Rublev (1966)
  2. Stalker (1979)
  3. The Mirror (1975)
  4. Solaris (1972)
  5. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
  6. The Sacrifice (1986)
  7. Nostalghia (1983)
  8. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
  9. The Killers (1956)
10. Voyage in Time (1983)
Béla Tarr
1955 -
 
  1. Sátántangó (1994)
  2. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
  3. The Turin Horse (2011)
  4. Damnation (1988)
  5. The Man from London (2007)
  6. Almanac of Fall (1984)
  7. The Prefab People (1982)
  8. Family Nest (1979)
  9. The Outsider (1982)
10. Macbeth (1982)
Frank Tashlin
1913 - 1972
 
  1. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
  2. The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
  3. Son of Paleface (1952)
  4. Artists and Models (1955)
  5. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
  6. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
  7. Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
  8. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
  9. Porky Pig's Feat (1943)
10. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
Jacques Tati
1907 - 1982
 
  1. Playtime (1967)
  2. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  3. Mon oncle (1958)
  4. Jour de fête (1949)
  5. Trafic (1971)
Norman Taurog
1899 - 1981
 
  1. Boys Town (1938)
  2. Skippy (1931)
  3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
  4. G.I. Blues (1960)
  5. Mad About Music (1938)
  6. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
  7. Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
  8. Rhythm on the Range (1936)
  9. The Caddy (1953)
10. Blue Hawaii (1961)
Bertrand Tavernier
1941 -
 
  1. A Sunday in the Country (1984)
  2. Round Midnight (1986)
  3. Coup de torchon (1981)
  4. The Clockmaker (1974)
  5. Life and Nothing But (1989)
  6. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
  7. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
  8. The Bait (1995)
  9. It All Starts Today (1999)
10. Capitaine Conan (1996)
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
PT: 1931 - | VT: 1929 - 2018
 
  1. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
  2. Padre padrone (1977)
  3. Kaos (1984)
  4. Caesar Must Die (2012)
  5. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
  6. Allonsanfàn (1974)
  7. A Man for Burning [with Valentino Orsini] (1962)
  8. Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
  9. Fiorile (1993)
10. The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990)
Julie Taymor
1952 -
 
  1. Frida (2002)
  2. Across the Universe (2007)
  3. Titus (1999)
  4. The Tempest (2010)
  5. Fool's Fire (1992)
André Téchiné
1943 -
 
  1. Wild Reeds (1994)
  2. My Favorite Season (1993)
  3. Thieves (1996)
  4. Rendez-vous (1985)
  5. Being 17 (2016)
  6. The Witnesses (2007)
  7. I Don't Kiss (1991)
  8. Strayed (2003)
  9. Barocco (1976)
10. Loin (2001)
Shūji Terayama
1935 - 1983
 
  1. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
  2. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
  3. Grass Labyrinth (1979)
  4. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
  5. Farewell to the Ark (1984)
  6. The Cage (1964)
  7. Labyrinth Tale (1975)
  8. Fruits of Passion (1981)
  9. Butterfly Dress Pledge (1974)
10. A Woman with Two Heads: Shadow Film (1977)
Hiroshi Teshigahara
1927 - 2001
 
  1. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
  2. The Face of Another (1966)
  3. Pitfall (1962)
  4. Antonio Gaudi (1984)
  5. Rikyu (1989)
  6. The Man Without a Map (1968)
  7. White Morning (1965)
  8. Hokusai (1953)
  9. Ikebana (1956)
10. Basara – The Princess Goh (1992)
Betty Thomas
1948 -
 
  1. Private Parts (1997)
  2. The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
  3. Dr. Dolittle (1998)
  4. The Late Shift (1996)
  5. John Tucker Must Die (2006)
  6. 28 Days (2000)
  7. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
  8. I Spy (2002)
  9. My Breast (1994)
10. Only You (1992)
J. Lee Thompson
1914 - 2002
 
  1. Cape Fear (1962)
  2. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  3. Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
  4. Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
  5. Tiger Bay (1959)
  6. Yield to the Night (1956)
  7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  8. North West Frontier (1959)
  9. What a Way to Go! (1964)
10. Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Richard Thorpe
1896 - 1991
 
  1. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
  2. Ivanhoe (1952)
  3. The Great Caruso (1951)
  4. The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
  5. Night Must Fall (1937)
  6. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
  7. Thrill of a Romance (1945)
  8. Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
  9. The Student Prince (1954)
10. All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Johnnie To
1955 -
 
  1. Election (2005)
  2. Exiled (2006)
  3. The Mission (1999)
  4. Mad Detective [with Wai Ka-Fai] (2007)
  5. Drug War (2012)
  6. Election 2 (2006)
  7. PTU (2003)
  8. Breaking News (2004)
  9. Sparrow (2008)
10. Running on Karma [with Wai Ka-Fai] (2003)
Giuseppe Tornatore
1956 -
 
  1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  2. A Pure Formality (1994)
  3. Everybody's Fine (1990)
  4. The Star Maker (1995)
  5. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
  6. The Best Offer (2013)
  7. The Unknown Woman (2006)
  8. Malèna (2000)
  9. The Professor (1986)
10. Baarìa (2009)

Last Updated: 2020-05-107