Movie Directors Top Films - Page 9

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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Michael Curtiz

1886 - 1962

  1. Casablanca (1942)
  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood [with William Keighley] (1938)
  3. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
  4. Mildred Pierce (1945)
  5. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  6. Captain Blood (1935)
  7. The Sea Hawk (1940)
  8. We're No Angels (1955)
  9. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
10. Life with Father (1947)

Stephen Daldry

1961 -

  1. Billy Elliot (2000)
  2. The Hours (2002)
  3. The Reader (2008)
  4. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
  5. Trash (2014)

Georgiy Daneliya

1930 - 2019

  1. Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963)
  2. Mimino (1977)
  3. Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
  4. Afonya (1975)
  5. Autumn Marathon (1979)
  6. Don't Grieve! (1969)
  7. Seryozha [with Igor Talankin] (1960)
  8. Tears Were Falling (1982)
  9. Thirty Three (1965)
10. The Passport (1990)

Walking the Streets of Moscow movie DVD cover

Tage Danielsson

1928 - 1985

  1. Ronja Robbersdaughter (1984)
  2. The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
  3. Docking the Boat (1965)
  4. The Apple War (1971)
  5. Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975)
  6. The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972)
  7. Herkules Jonssons storverk (1969)
  8. Out of an Old Man's Head [with Per Åhlin] (1968)
  9. Swedish Portraits (1964)
10. SOPOR (1981)

Joe Dante

1946 -

  1. Gremlins (1984)
  2. The Howling (1981)
  3. Matinee (1993)
  4. Innerspace (1987)
  5. Piranha (1978)
  6. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
  7. Explorers (1985)
  8. The Hole (2009)
  9. The 'Burbs (1989)
10. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Frank Darabont

1959 -

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. The Green Mile (1999)
  3. Days Gone Bye [The Walking Dead pilot] (2010)
  4. The Mist (2007)
  5. The Majestic (2001)

Poster for the movie The Shawshank Redemption

Jean-Pierre
& Luc Dardenne

JPD: 1951 - | LD: 1954 -

  1. Rosetta (1999)
  2. The Son (2002)
  3. L'enfant (2005)
  4. The Kid with a Bike (2011)
  5. Two Days, One Night (2014)
  6. La promesse (1996)
  7. Lorna's Silence (2008)
  8. The Unknown Girl (2016)
  9. Young Ahmed (2019)
10. I Think of You (1992)

Jules Dassin

1911 - 2008

  1. Rififi (1955)
  2. Night and the City (1950)
  3. The Naked City (1948)
  4. Brute Force (1947)
  5. Thieves' Highway (1949)
  6. Topkapi (1964)
  7. Never on Sunday (1960)
  8. The Canterville Ghost (1944)
  9. He Who Must Die (1957)
10. The Law (1959)

Delmer Daves

1904 - 1977

  1. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
  2. Broken Arrow (1950)
  3. Dark Passage (1947)
  4. Destination Tokyo (1943)
  5. The Hanging Tree (1959)
  6. A Summer Place (1959)
  7. Jubal (1956)
  8. Cowboy (1958)
  9. Pride of the Marines (1945)
10. Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Terence Davies

1945 -

  1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
  2. The Long Day Closes (1992)
  3. The House of Mirth (2000)
  4. The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
  5. Of Time and the City (2008)
  6. A Quiet Passion (2016)
  7. Sunset Song (2015)
  8. The Neon Bible (1995)
  9. Death and Transfiguration (1983)
10. Children (1976)

DVD cover for the movie Distant Voices, Still Lives

Andrew Davis

1946 -

  1. The Fugitive (1993)
  2. Under Siege (1992)
  3. Holes (2003)
  4. Code of Silence (1985)
  5. Above the Law (1988)
  6. A Perfect Murder (1998)
  7. The Guardian (2006)
  8. The Package (1989)
  9. Chain Reaction (1996)
10. Collateral Damage (2002)

Basil Dearden

1911 - 1971

  1. Victim (1961)
  2. The Blue Lamp (1950)
  3. The League of Gentlemen (1960)
  4. Sapphire (1959)
  5. Khartoum (1966)
  6. The Captive Heart (1946)
  7. The Halfway House (1944)
  8. Pool of London (1951)
  9. The Assassination Bureau (1969)
10. The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)

Roy Del Ruth

1893 - 1961

  1. Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
  2. Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
  3. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
  4. The First Auto (1927)
  5. Blonde Crazy (1931)
  6. Lady Killer (1933)
  7. The Desert Song (1929)
  8. Born to Dance (1936)
  9. The Terror (1928)
10. Taxi! (1932)

Cecil B. DeMille

1881 - 1959

  1. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  2. Cleopatra (1934)
  3. Samson and Delilah (1949)
  4. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
  5. The Cheat (1915)
  6. Union Pacific (1939)
  7. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
  8. The Ten Commandments (1923)
  9. The King of Kings (1927)
10. Male and Female (1919)

DVD cover for the movie The Ten Commandments

Jonathan Demme

1944 - 2017

  1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  2. Stop Making Sense (1984)
  3. Philadelphia (1993)
  4. Melvin and Howard (1980)
  5. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
  6. Something Wild (1986)
  7. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
  8. Swimmimg to Cambodia (1987)
  9. Married to the Mob (1988)
10. Handle with Care (1977)

Poster for the movie The Silence of the Lambs

Jacques Demy

1931 - 1990

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  2. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
  3. Lola (1961)
  4. Bay of Angels (1963)
  5. Donkey Skin (1970)
  6. Model Shop (1969)
  7. Une chambre en ville (1982)
  8. The Pied Piper (1972)
  9. Trois places pour le 26 (1988)
10. Le sabotier du Val de Loire (1956)

DVD cover for the movie The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Claire Denis

1946 -

  1. Beau travail (1999)
  2. Chocolat (1988)
  3. 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
  4. White Material (2009)
  5. Nénette et Boni (1996)
  6. The Intruder (2004)
  7. Trouble Every Day (2001)
  8. Let the Sunshine In (2017)
  9. High Life (2018)
10. Bastards (2013)

Brian De Palma

1940 -

  1. Scarface (1983)
  2. Carrie (1976)
  3. The Untouchables (1987)
  4. Blow Out (1981)
  5. Carlito's Way (1993)
  6. Dressed to Kill (1980)
  7. Mission: Impossible (1996)
  8. Body Double (1984)
  9. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
10. Sisters (1973)

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