Movie Directors Top Films - Page 16

Ron Howard

1954 -

  1. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  2. Apollo 13 (1995)
  3. Rush (2013)
  4. Frost/Nixon (2008)
  5. Cinderella Man (2005)
  6. Cocoon (1985)
  7. Splash (1984)
  8. Parenthood (1989)
  9. Willow (1988)
10. Ransom (1996)

King Hu

1931 - 1997

  1. A Touch of Zen (1971)
  2. Dragon Inn (1967)
  3. Come Drink with Me (1966)
  4. Raining in the Mountain (1979)
  5. Legend of the Mountain (1979)
  6. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
  7. The Valiant Ones (1975)
  8. The Swordsman (1990)
  9. All the King's Men (1983)
10. Sons of the Good Earth (1965)

John Hughes

1950 - 2009

  1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  2. The Breakfast Club (1985)
  3. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
  4. Sixteen Candles (1984)
  5. Uncle Buck (1989)

Ann Hui

1947 -

  1. Boat People (1982)
  2. A Simple Life (2011)
  3. Song of the Exile (1990)
  4. Summer Snow (1995)
  5. The Secret (1979)
  6. The Golden Era (2014)
  7. The Way We Are (2008)
  8. Ordinary Heroes (1999)
  9. July Rhapsody (2002)
10. Our Time Will Come (2017)

John Huston

1906 - 1987

  1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  3. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  4. The African Queen (1951)
  5. The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  6. Key Largo (1948)
  7. The Dead (1987)
  8. Fat City (1972)
  9. The Misfits (1961)
10. Moby Dick (1956)

Kon Ichikawa

1915 - 2008

  1. The Burmese Harp (1956)
  2. Fires on the Plain (1959)
  3. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
  4. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
  5. Enjō (1958)
  6. Odd Obsession (1959)
  7. The Makioka Sisters (1983)
  8. Her Brother (1960)
  9. The Inugami Family (1976)
10. The Heart (1955)

Álex de la Iglesia

1965 -

  1. The Day of the Beast (1995)
  2. The Last Circus (2010)
  3. Crimen Ferpecto (2004)
  4. Common Wealth (2000)
  5. Witching & Bitching (2013)
  6. Acción mutante (1993)
  7. The Bar (2017)
  8. Perfect Strangers (2017)
  9. The Oxford Murders (2008)
10. Perdita Durango (1997)

Shōhei Imamura

1926 - 2006

  1. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
  2. Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
  3. Black Rain (1989)
  4. Intentions of Murder (1964)
  5. The Insect Woman (1963)
  6. Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
  7. Pigs and Battleships (1961)
  8. The Eel (1997)
  9. The Pornographers (1966)
10. A Man Vanishes (1967)

Hiroshi Inagaki

1905 - 1980

  1. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
  2. Chūshingura (1962)
  3. Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
  4. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
  5. The Rickshaw Man (1958)
  6. Machibuse (1970)
  7. The Life of Matsu the Untamed (1943)
  8. Samurai Banners (1969)
  9. Samurai Saga (1959)
10. The Birth of Japan (1959)

Rex Ingram

1892 - 1950

  1. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
  2. Scaramouche (1923)
  3. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
  4. Mare nostrum (1926)
  5. The Conquering Power (1921)
  6. The Magician (1926)
  7. The Garden of Allah (1927)
  8. Trifling Women (1922)
  9. The Arab (1924)
10. Black Orchids (1917)

Jūzō Itami

1933 - 1997

  1. Tampopo (1985)
  2. A Taxing Woman (1987)
  3. The Funeral (1984)
  4. Minbo (1992)
  5. A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)
  6. Supermarket Woman (1996)
  7. Tales of a Golden Geisha (1990)
  8. Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
  9. The Last Dance (1993)
10. A Quiet Life (1995)

Ivan Ivanov-Vano

1900 - 1987

  1. The Humpbacked Horse (1947)
  2. The Twelve Months [with Mikhail Botov] (1956)
  3. The Battle of Kerzhenets [with Yuriy Norshteyn] (1971)
  4. The Adventures of Buratino [with Dmitriy Babichenko & Mikhail Botov] (1960)
  5. The Humpbacked Horse [with Boris Butakov] (1975)
  6. The Seasons of the Year [with Yuriy Norshteyn] (1969)
  7. The Snow Maiden [with Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya] (1952)
  8. The Tale of Tsar Saltan [with Lev Milchin] (1984)
  9. Black and White [with Leonid Amalrik] (1932)
10. Left-Hander [with Vladimir Danilevich] (1964)

Joris Ivens

1898 - 1989

  1. Rain [with Mannus Franken] (1929)
  2. A Tale of the Wind (1988)
  3. Valparaiso (1965)
  4. The Spanish Earth (1937)
  5. De brug (1928)
  6. Misère au Borinage [with Henri Storck] (1933)
  7. The Seine Meets Paris (1957)
  8. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War [with Marceline Loridan] (1968)
  9. How Yukong Moved the Mountains [with Marceline Loridan Ivens] (1976)
10. Pour le mistral (1966)

James Ivory

1928 -

  1. The Remains of the Day (1993)
  2. A Room with a View (1985)
  3. Howards End (1992)
  4. Maurice (1987)
  5. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
  6. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
  7. The Europeans (1979)
  8. Heat and Dust (1983)
  9. Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
10. The White Countess (2005)

Peter Jackson

1961 -

  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  4. Braindead (1992)
  5. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
  6. King Kong (2005)
  7. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
  8. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
  9. Bad Taste (1987)
10. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Wilfred Jackson

1906 - 1988

  1. The Old Mill (1937)
  2. The Band Concert (1935)
  3. Song of the South [with Harve Foster] (1946)
  4. The Wise Little Hen (1934)
  5. The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
  6. The Goddess of Spring (1934)
  7. The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934)
  8. Music Land (1935)
  9. The Country Cousin (1936)
10. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
See also: Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske

Ken Jacobs

1933 - 2025

  1. Star Spangled to Death (2004)
  2. Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
  3. Little Stabs at Happiness (1960)
  4. Blonde Cobra (1963)
  5. Capitalism: Child Labor (2006)
  6. Perfect Film (1986)
  7. Capitalism: Slavery (2007)
  8. Orchard Street (1955)
  9. The Sky Socialist (1968)
10. Window (1964)

Steve James

1953 -

  1. Hoop Dreams (1994)
  2. Life Itself (2014)
  3. The Interrupters (2011)
  4. Stevie (2002)
  5. Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)
  6. No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010)
  7. America to Me (2018)
  8. City So Real (2020)
  9. At the Death House Door [with Peter Gilbert] (2008)
10. Head Games (2012)

Miklós Jancsó

1921 - 2014

  1. The Round-Up (1966)
  2. The Red and the White (1967)
  3. Red Psalm (1972)
  4. My Way Home (1965)
  5. Silence and Cry (1968)
  6. Electra, My Love (1974)
  7. The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)
  8. The Confrontation (1969)
  9. Cantata (1963)
10. Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)

Derek Jarman

1942 - 1994

  1. Blue (1993)
  2. Caravaggio (1986)
  3. Jubilee (1978)
  4. Edward II (1991)
  5. Sebastiane [with Paul Humfress] (1976)
  6. The Last of England (1988)
  7. Wittgenstein (1993)
  8. The Garden (1990)
  9. The Angelic Conversation (1985)
10. The Tempest (1979)

Jim Jarmusch

1953 -

  1. Stranger than Paradise (1984)
  2. Down by Law (1986)
  3. Dead Man (1995)
  4. Paterson (2016)
  5. Night on Earth (1991)
  6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
  7. Mystery Train (1989)
  8. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
  9. Broken Flowers (2005)
10. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Barry Jenkins

1979 -

  1. Moonlight (2016)
  2. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
  3. The Underground Railroad (2021)
  4. Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
  5. Medicine for Melancholy (2008)

Humphrey Jennings

1907 - 1950

  1. Listen to Britain [with Stewart McAllister] (1942)
  2. Fires We Started (1943)
  3. A Diary for Timothy (1945)
  4. London Can Take It! [with Harry Watt] (1940)
  5. Spare Time (1939)
  6. The Silent Village (1943)
  7. Words for Battle (1941)
  8. Family Portrait (1950)
  9. The First Days [with Pat Jackson & Harry Watt] (1939)
10. The Heart of Britain (1941)

Anders Thomas Jensen

1972 -

  1. Riders of Justice (2020)
  2. Adam's Apples (2005)
  3. Flickering Lights (2000)
  4. The Green Butchers (2003)
  5. Men & Chicken (2015)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

1953 -

  1. Amélie (2001)
  2. Delicatessen [with Marc Caro] (1991)
  3. The City of Lost Children [with Marc Caro] (1995)
  4. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
  5. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
  6. Micmacs (2009)
  7. The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet (2013)
  8. BigBug (2022)
  9. Things I Like, Things I Don't Like (1989)
10. The Bunker of the Last Gunshots [with Marc Caro] (1981)