Movie Directors Top Films - Page 8

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: 2025-03-17

Francis Ford Coppola

1939 -

  1. The Godfather (1972)
  2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  3. The Godfather Part II (1974)
  4. The Conversation (1974)
  5. The Godfather Part III (1990)
  6. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
  7. Rumble Fish (1983)
  8. The Outsiders (1983)
  9. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
10. The Rainmaker (1997)

Sofia Coppola

1971 -

  1. Lost in Translation (2003)
  2. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
  3. Marie Antoinette (2006)
  4. Priscilla (2023)
  5. The Beguiled (2017)
  6. Somewhere (2010)
  7. On the Rocks (2020)
  8. The Bling Ring (2013)
  9. A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
10. Lick the Star (1998)

Poster for the movie Lost in Translation

Sergio Corbucci

1926 - 1990

  1. Django (1966)
  2. The Great Silence (1968)
  3. The Mercenary (1968)
  4. Compañeros (1970)
  5. A Friend Is a Treasure (1981)
  6. The Hellbenders (1967)
  7. The Con Artists (1976)
  8. Odds and Evens (1978)
  9. Navajo Joe (1966)
10. Gli specialisti (1969)

Roger Corman

1926 - 2024

  1. Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
  2. House of Usher (1960)
  3. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
  4. The Wild Angels (1966)
  5. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
  6. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
  7. The Haunted Palace (1963)
  8. The Trip (1967)
  9. The Raven (1963)
10. A Bucket of Blood (1959)

Poster for the 1961 movie Pit and the Pendulum

George P. Cosmatos

1941 - 2005

  1. Tombstone (1993)
  2. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
  3. Cobra (1986)
  4. Leviathan (1989)
  5. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
  6. Escape to Athena (1979)
  7. Massacre in Rome (1973)
  8. Of Unknown Origin (1983)
  9. Sin (1971)
10. Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Pedro Costa

1959 -

  1. In Vanda's Room (2000)
  2. Colossal Youth (2006)
  3. Vitalina Varela (2019)
  4. Horse Money (2014)
  5. Ossos (1997)
  6. O Sangue (1989)
  7. Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? [with Thierry Lounas] (2001)
  8. Casa de Lava (1994)
  9. Change Nothing (2009)
10. The Daughters of Fire (2023)

Poster for the 2000 movie In Vanda's Room

Costa-Gavras

1933 -

  1. Z (1969)
  2. Missing (1982)
  3. The Confession (1970)
  4. State of Siege (1972)
  5. Section spéciale (1975)
  6. Music Box (1989)
  7. The Sleeping Car Murders (1965)
  8. The Ax (2005)
  9. Amen. (2002)
10. Betrayed (1988)

Alex Cox

1954 -

  1. Repo Man (1984)
  2. Sid and Nancy (1986)
  3. Walker (1987)
  4. Straight to Hell (1986)
  5. Highway Patrolman (1991)
  6. Three Businessmen (1998)
  7. Revengers Tragedy (2002)
  8. The Winner (1996)
  9. Death and the Compass (1992)
10. Repo Chick (2009)

Wes Craven

1939 - 2015

  1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  2. Scream (1996)
  3. The Last House on the Left (1972)
  4. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
  5. Red Eye (2005)
  6. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
  7. Scream 2 (1997)
  8. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
  9. The People Under the Stairs (1991)
10. Swamp Thing (1982)

Poster for the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street

Charles Crichton

1910 - 1999

  1. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  2. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  3. Hue and Cry (1947)
  4. The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
  5. Hunted (1952)
  6. The Divided Heart (1954)
  7. The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
  8. The Third Secret (1964)
  9. Against the Wind (1948)
10. Law and Disorder (1958)

DVD cover for the movie A Fish Called Wanda

John Cromwell

1887 - 1979

  1. Since You Went Away (1944)
  2. Of Human Bondage (1934)
  3. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
  4. Caged (1950)
  5. Algiers (1938)
  6. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
  7. The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
  8. Dead Reckoning (1947)
  9. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
10. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Poster for the 1944 movie "Since You Went Away"

David Cronenberg

1943 -

  1. The Fly (1986)
  2. Videodrome (1983)
  3. A History of Violence (2005)
  4. Dead Ringers (1988)
  5. Eastern Promises (2007)
  6. Crash (1996)
  7. Naked Lunch (1991)
  8. Scanners (1981)
  9. The Dead Zone (1983)
10. Shivers (1975)

Cameron Crowe

1957 -

  1. Almost Famous (2000)
  2. Jerry Maguire (1996)
  3. Say Anything... (1989)
  4. Vanilla Sky (2001)
  5. Singles (1992)
  6. We Bought A Zoo (2011)
  7. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
  8. Elizabethtown (2005)
  9. Roadies (2016)
10. Aloha (2015)

Alfonso Cuarón

1961 -

  1. Gravity (2013)
  2. Roma (2018)
  3. Children of Men (2006)
  4. Y tu mamá también (2001)
  5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
  6. A Little Princess (1995)
  7. Disclaimer (2024)
  8. Sólo con tu pareja (1991)
  9. Great Expectations (1998)
10. Believe [with Mark Friedman] (2014)

George Cukor

1899 - 1983

  1. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  2. My Fair Lady (1964)
  3. A Star Is Born (1954)
  4. Gaslight (1944)
  5. Adam's Rib (1949)
  6. Holiday (1938)
  7. The Women (1939)
  8. Dinner at Eight (1933)
  9. Camille (1936)
10. Born Yesterday (1950)

DVD cover for the movie The Philadelphia Story