Movie Directors Top Films - Page 12

Movie directors Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick
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.

Last Updated: 2020-05-07
Terence Fisher
1904 - 1980
Terence Fisher movie director
  1. Dracula (1958)
  2. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
  3. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
  4. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
  5. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
  6. The Mummy (1959)
  7. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
  8. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
  9. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
10. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Poster for the movie Dracula

Robert J. Flaherty
1884 - 1951
Robert J. Flaherty movie director
  1. Nanook of the North (1922)
  2. Man of Aran (1934)
  3. Moana (1926)
  4. Louisiana Story (1948)
  5. Elephant Boy [with Zoltan Korda] (1937)
  6. The Land (1942)
  7. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo [with Richard Lyford & Curt Oertel] (1950)
  8. The Twenty-Four-Dollar Island (1927)
  9. Industrial Britain [with Arthur Elton & Basil Wright] (1933)
10. The Pottery Maker (1925)
DVD cover for the movie Nanook of the North

Dave Fleischer
1894 - 1979
Dave Fleischer movie director
  1. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
  2. Snow-White (1933)
  3. Superman (1941)
  4. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
  5. Popeye the Sailor (1933)
  6. Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
  7. Let's All Go to the Lobby (1953)
  8. Dizzy Dishes (1930)
  9. Gulliver's Travels (1939)
10. Ko-Ko's Earth Control (1928)
DVD cover for the movie Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Richard Fleischer
1916 - 2006
Richard Fleischer movie director
  1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
  2. Soylent Green (1973)
  3. Fantastic Voyage (1966)
  4. The Narrow Margin (1952)
  5. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  6. Compulsion (1959)
  7. The Vikings (1958)
  8. The Boston Strangler (1968)
  9. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
10. Barabbas (1961)
Poster for the movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Victor Fleming
1889 - 1949
Victor Fleming movie director
  1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  2. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  3. Captains Courageous (1937)
  4. Red Dust (1932)
  5. Bombshell (1933)
  6. The Virginian (1929)
  7. Treasure Island (1934)
  8. Mantrap (1926)
  9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
10. Test Pilot (1938)
Poster for the movie The Wizard of Oz

Bryan Forbes
1926 - 2013
Bryan Forbes movie director
  1. Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
  2. Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
  3. The Stepford Wives (1975)
  4. The L-Shaped Room (1962)
  5. King Rat (1965)
  6. The Wrong Box (1966)
  7. The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
  8. The Whisperers (1967)
  9. The Raging Moon (1971)
10. Deadfall (1968)
Whistle Down the Wind movie DVD

John Ford
1894 - 1973
John Ford movie director
  1. The Searchers (1956)
  2. Stagecoach (1939)
  3. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  5. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  6. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  7. The Quiet Man (1952)
  8. Fort Apache (1948)
  9. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
10. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Poster for the movie The Searchers

Miloš Forman
1932 - 2018
Miloš Forman movie director
  1. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  2. Amadeus (1984)
  3. Loves of a Blonde (1965)
  4. Man on the Moon (1999)
  5. The Firemen's Ball (1967)
  6. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
  7. Taking Off (1971)
  8. Hair (1979)
  9. Ragtime (1981)
10. Valmont (1989)
Poster for the movie One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Marc Forster
1969 -
Marc Forster movie director
  1. Finding Neverland (2004)
  2. Monster's Ball (2001)
  3. Stranger than Fiction (2006)
  4. The Kite Runner (2007)
  5. World War Z (2013)
  6. Christopher Robin (2018)
  7. Quantum of Solace (2008)
  8. Stay (2005)
  9. Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
10. Everything Put Together (2000)
Finding Neverland 2004 movie poster

Bill Forsyth
1946 -
Bill Forsyth movie director
  1. Local Hero (1983)
  2. Gregory's Girl (1980)
  3. Housekeeping (1987)
  4. Comfort and Joy (1984)
  5. That Sinking Feeling (1979)
  6. Breaking In (1989)
  7. Being Human (1994)
  8. Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
  9. Andrina (1981)
10. Islands of the West (1972)
Local Hero movie poster

Bob Fosse
1927 - 1987
Bob Fosse movie director
  1. Cabaret (1972)
  2. All That Jazz (1979)
  3. Lenny (1974)
  4. Star 80 (1983)
  5. Sweet Charity (1969)
Poster for the movie Cabaret

Hollis Frampton
1936 - 1984
Hollis Frampton movie director
  1. Zorns Lemma (1970)
  2. Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) (1971)
  3. Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (1972)
  4. Process Red (1966)
  5. Artificial Light (1969)
  6. Straits of Magellan (1974-1975)
  7. Surface Tension (1968)
  8. Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass (1971)
  9. Palindrome (1969)
10. Lemon (1969)
Zorns Lemma movie poster

Georges Franju
1912 - 1987
Georges Franju movie director
  1. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
  2. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
  3. Judex (1963)
  4. Head Against the Wall (1959)
  5. Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
  6. Thérèse Desqueyroux (1962)
  7. Thomas the Impostor (1965)
  8. Nuits rouges (1974)
  9. La première nuit (1958)
10. Le grand Méliès (1952)
Poster for the movie Eyes Without a Face

John Frankenheimer
1930 - 2002
John Frankenheimer movie director
  1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  2. Seconds (1966)
  3. The Train (1964)
  4. Seven Days in May (1964)
  5. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
  6. The Iceman Cometh (1973)
  7. Grand Prix (1966)
  8. Ronin (1998)
  9. The Fixer (1968)
10. French Connection II (1975)
DVD cover for the movie The Manchurian Candidate

Stephen Frears
1941 -
Stephen Frears movie director
  1. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  2. The Queen (2006)
  3. High Fidelity (2000)
  4. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
  5. Philomena (2013)
  6. The Grifters (1990)
  7. Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
  8. The Hit (1984)
  9. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
10. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Poster for the movie Dangerous Liaisons

Friz Freleng
1906 - 1995
Friz Freleng movie director
  1. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
  2. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
  3. Birds Anonymous (1957)
  4. Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
  5. The Pink Phink (1964)
  6. Tweetie Pie (1947)
  7. Speedy Gonzales (1955)
  8. Baseball Bugs (1946)
  9. I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
10. Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
Poster for the film You Ought to Be in Pictures

William Friedkin
1935 - 2023
William Friedkin movie director
  1. The Exorcist (1973)
  2. The French Connection (1971)
  3. Sorcerer (1977)
  4. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
  5. The Boys in the Band (1970)
  6. Killer Joe (2011)
  7. Cruising (1980)
  8. 12 Angry Men (1997)
  9. Bug (2006)
10. Rampage (1987)
Poster for the movie The Exorcist

Toshiya Fujita
1932 - 1997
Toshiya Fujita movie director
  1. Lady Snowblood (1973)
  2. Wet Sand in August (1971)
  3. Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
  4. Kaerazaru hibi (1978)
  5. Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970)
  6. So Soft, So Cunning (1979)
  7. The Red Lantern (1974)
  8. Play It, Boogie-Woogie (1981)
  9. Stray Cat Rock: Crazy Rider '71 (1971)
10. The Miracle of Joe Petrel (1984)
Poster for the movie Lady Snowblood

Kinji Fukasaku
1930 - 2003
Kinji Fukasaku movie director
  1. Battle Royale (2000)
  2. The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
  3. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
  4. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
  5. The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Hiroshima Deathmatch (1973)
  6. Shogun's Samurai (1978)
  7. Fall Guy (1982)
  8. The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 3: Proxy War (1973)
  9. Black Lizard (1968)
10. House on Fire (1986)
Poster for the movie Battle Royale

Cary Joji Fukunaga
1977 -
Cary Joji Fukunaga movie director
  1. True Detective [Season 1] (2014)
  2. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
  3. Sin nombre (2009)
  4. Jane Eyre (2011)
  5. Victoria para chino (2004)
True Detective Season 1 DVD cover

Lucio Fulci
1927 - 1996
Lucio Fulci movie director
  1. Zombi 2 (1979)
  2. The Beyond (1981)
  3. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
  4. City of the Living Dead (1980)
  5. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
  6. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
  7. The Psychic (1977)
  8. The New York Ripper (1982)
  9. Perversion Story (1969)
10. Massacre Time (1966)
DVD cover for the movie Zombi 2

Samuel Fuller
1912 - 1997
Samuel Fuller movie director
  1. Pickup on South Street (1953)
  2. Shock Corridor (1963)
  3. The Big Red One (1980)
  4. The Naked Kiss (1964)
  5. Forty Guns (1957)
  6. The Steel Helmet (1951)
  7. White Dog (1982)
  8. House of Bamboo (1955)
  9. Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
10. Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Poster for the movie Pickup on South Street