Movie Directors Top Films - Page 20

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.

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Last Updated: 2025-07-19

Mervyn LeRoy

1900 - 1987

  1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
  2. Little Caesar (1931)
  3. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
  4. Random Harvest (1942)
  5. Quo Vadis (1951)
  6. Mister Roberts [with John Ford] (1955)
  7. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
  8. Waterloo Bridge (1940)
  9. The Bad Seed (1956)
10. Five Star Final (1931)

Poster for the movie I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Richard Lester

1932 -

  1. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
  2. Superman II (1980)
  3. Help! (1965)
  4. The Three Musketeers (1973)
  5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
  6. Petulia (1968)
  7. The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
  8. Robin and Marian (1976)
  9. The Four Musketeers (1974)
10. Juggernaut (1974)

Barry Levinson

1942 -

  1. Rain Man (1988)
  2. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
  3. Diner (1982)
  4. The Natural (1984)
  5. Bugsy (1991)
  6. Wag the Dog (1997)
  7. Avalon (1990)
  8. Sleepers (1996)
  9. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
10. Disclosure (1994)

Shawn Levy

1968 -

  1. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
  2. Free Guy (2021)
  3. Night at the Museum (2006)
  4. Real Steel (2011)
  5. The Adam Project (2022)
  6. Date Night (2010)
  7. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
  8. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
  9. The Internship (2013)
10. Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

Herschell Gordon Lewis

1929 - 2016

  1. Blood Feast (1963)
  2. Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
  3. The Wizard of Gore (1970)
  4. The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
  5. Color Me Blood Red (1965)
  6. The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
  7. She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
  8. Something Weird (1967)
  9. A Taste of Blood (1967)
10. Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)

Jerry Lewis

1926 - 2017

  1. The Nutty Professor (1963)
  2. The Ladies Man (1961)
  3. The Bellboy (1960)
  4. The Errand Boy (1961)
  5. The Patsy (1964)
  6. The Family Jewels (1965)
  7. The Big Mouth (1967)
  8. Three on a Couch (1966)
  9. Cracking Up (1983)
10. Hardly Working (1980)

DVD cover for the movie The Nutty Professor

Joseph H. Lewis

1907 - 2000

  1. Gun Crazy (1950)
  2. The Big Combo (1955)
  3. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
  4. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
  5. So Dark the Night (1946)
  6. The Undercover Man (1949)
  7. A Lawless Street (1955)
  8. A Lady Without Passport (1950)
  9. Retreat, Hell! (1952)
10. Boys of the City (1940)

Doug Liman

1965 -

  1. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  2. The Bourne Identity (2002)
  3. Swingers (1996)
  4. Go (1999)
  5. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
  6. American Made (2017)
  7. Fair Game (2010)
  8. Road House (2024)
  9. Jumper (2008)
10. Chaos Walking (2021)

Richard Linklater

1960 -

  1. Boyhood (2014)
  2. Before Sunrise (1995)
  3. Dazed and Confused (1993)
  4. Before Sunset (2004)
  5. Slacker (1990)
  6. Before Midnight (2013)
  7. Waking Life (2001)
  8. School of Rock (2003)
  9. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
10. Hit Man (2023)

Anatole Litvak

1902 - 1974

  1. The Snake Pit (1948)
  2. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
  3. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
  4. Decision Before Dawn (1951)
  5. Anastasia (1956)
  6. City for Conquest (1940)
  7. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
  8. Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia [with Frank Capra] (1943)
  9. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
10. The Night of the Generals (1967)

Liu Chia-Liang

1936 - 2013

  1. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
  2. Drunken Master II (1994)
  3. Heroes of the East (1978)
  4. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
  5. Dirty Ho (1979)
  6. Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
  7. Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
  8. Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
  9. Tiger on Beat (1988)
10. Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)

DVD cover for the movie The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

Frank Lloyd

1886 - 1960

  1. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  2. Cavalcade (1933)
  3. The Sea Hawk (1924)
  4. Oliver Twist (1922)
  5. Blood on the Sun (1945)
  6. If I Were King (1938)
  7. Children of Divorce (1927)
  8. A Tale of Two Cities (1917)
  9. The Divine Lady (1929)
10. Berkeley Square (1933)

DVD cover for the movie Mutiny on the Bounty

Ken Loach

1936 -

  1. Kes (1969)
  2. I, Daniel Blake (2016)
  3. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
  4. Land and Freedom (1995)
  5. My Name Is Joe (1998)
  6. Riff-Raff (1991)
  7. Cathy Come Home (1966)
  8. Raining Stones (1993)
  9. Sorry We Missed You (2019)
10. Sweet Sixteen (2002)

Joshua Logan

1908 - 1988

  1. Picnic (1955)
  2. South Pacific (1958)
  3. Sayonara (1957)
  4. Bus Stop (1956)
  5. Paint Your Wagon (1969)
  6. Fanny (1961)
  7. Camelot (1967)
  8. Tall Story (1960)
  9. Ensign Pulver (1964)
10. I Met My Love Again [with Arthur Ripley] (1938)

Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

PL: 1975- | CM: 1975-

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller movie director

  1. The Lego Movie (2014)
  2. 21 Jump Street (2012)
  3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
  4. 22 Jump Street (2014)
  5. Clone High [with Bill Lawrence] (2002-2003)

Joseph Losey

1909 - 1984

  1. The Servant (1963)
  2. The Go-Between (1970)
  3. Mr. Klein (1976)
  4. Accident (1967)
  5. The Prowler (1951)
  6. The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
  7. King & Country (1964)
  8. M (1951)
  9. The Damned (1963)
10. Time Without Pity (1957)