Movie Directors' Top Films

[ManPerson]

Those all look solid.

[Dubrow555]

Agreed

[pauldrach]

Ten new lists:

Gianni Amelio (1944-)
1. The Stolen Children (1992)
2. Lamerica (1994)
3. Open Doors (1990)
4. The Keys to the House (2004)
5. The Way We Laughed (1998)
6. Lord of the Ants (2022)
7. Blow to the Heart (1982)
8. Battlefield (2024)
9. Tenderness (2017)
10. I ragazzi di via Panisperna (1988)

Larry Cohen (1936-2019)
1. The Stuff (1985)
2. It's Alive (1974)
3. God Told Me To (1976)
4. Black Caesar (1973)
5. Q (1982)
6. Original Gangstas (1996)
7. The Ambulance (1990)
8. Special Effects (1984)
9. Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
10. Bone (1972)

Émile Cohl (1857-1938)
1. Fantasmagorie (1908)
2. Le cauchemar de Fantoche (1908)
3. Le mobilier fidèle (1910)
4. Un drame chez les Fantoches (1908)
5. Le peintre néo-impressionniste (1910)
6. Les joyeux microbes (1909)
7. Le songe d'un garçon de café (1910)
8. Clair de lune espagnol [with Étienne Arnaud] (1909)
9. Le binettoscope (1910)
10. Les douze travaux d'Hercule (1910)

Emilio Fernández (1904-1986)
1. María Candelaria (1944)
2. The Pearl (1947)
3. Enamorada (1946)
4. Victims of Sin (1951)
5. Salón México (1949)
6. Pueblerina (1949)
7. Wild Flower (1943)
8. Rio Escondido (1948)
9. The Abandoned (1945)
10. One Day of Life (1950)

Ruben Fleischer (1974-)
1. Zombieland (2009)
2. Venom (2018)
3. Uncharted (2022)
4. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
5. Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025)
6. Gangster Squad (2013)
7. 30 Minutes or Less (2011)
8. M.I.A.: Galang (2004)
9. DJ Format: We Know Something You Don't Know (2003)
10. Electric Six: Dance Commander (2003)

Marcel L'Herbier (1888-1979)
1. El Dorado (1921)
2. L'homme du large (1920)
3. L'argent (1928)
4. L'inhumaine (1924)
5. Feu Mathias Pascal (1925)
6. Fantastic Night (1942)
7. Le bonheur (1934)
8. Rose-France (1919)
9. Le vertige (1926)
10. The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930)

H. C. Potter (1904-1977)
1. Hellzapoppin' (1941)
2. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
3. Mr. Lucky (1943)
4. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
5. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
6. The Shopworn Angel (1938)
7. The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
8. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
9. Blackmail (1939)
10. Second Chorus (1940)

Gary Ross (1956-)
1. The Hunger Games (2012)
2. Pleasantville (1998)
3. Seabiscuit (2003)
4. Ocean's 8 (2018)
5. Free State of Jones (2016)

Sam Taylor (1895-1958)
1. Safety Last! [with Fred C. Newmeyer] (1923)
2. The Freshman [with Fred C. Newmeyer] (1925)
3. Girl Shy [with Fred C. Newmeyer] (1924)
4. For Heaven's Sake (1926)
5. Why Worry? [with Fred C. Newmeyer] (1923)
6. My Best Girl (1927)
7. Hot Water [with Fred C. Newmeyer] (1924)
8. Coquette (1929)
9. The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
10. Exit Smiling (1926)

Chloé Zhao (1982-)
1. Nomadland (2020)
2. Hamnet (2025)
3. The Rider (2017)
4. Eternals (2021)
5. Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015)

I'll send the previous batch to lew.

[Dubrow555]

Paulo! You forgot an essential director:

Charles Laughton:
1. The Night of the Hunter

[ManPerson]

Movie Directors' Top Film

[pauldrach]

That means we have to change the criteria:

Most lists rank the director's ten greatest films, while some directors with a particularly small filmography only have five films listed and one director with only one film has only one film listed.

[Dubrow555]

LOL

[pauldrach]

Sent the last batch to lew. Not the Laughton, sorry Dubrow, though I appreciate the work you put into it.

[Dubrow555]

Fair enough (was a simple April Fools joke LOL)

[Tim]

Gérard Oury (1919–2006)
1. La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
2. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
3. The Sucker (1965)
4. The Brain (1969)
5. Ace of Aces (1982)
6. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
7. The Umbrella Coup (1980)
8. Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
9. La Carapate (1978)
10. La Soif de l'or (1993)

[pauldrach]

Gérard Oury (1919–2006)
1. La Grande Vadrouille (1966)
2. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
3. The Sucker (1965)
4. The Brain (1969)
5. Ace of Aces (1982)
6. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
7. The Umbrella Coup (1980)
8. Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
9. La Carapate (1978)
10. La Soif de l'or (1993)

"The Sucker" probably wins both initial popularity and influence (for being the first of the beloved de Funès-Bourvil pairings) against "The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob" while TMAoRJ's wins in lasting popularity and acclaim are much smaller. So, I'd swap them.

Then, "Delusions of Grandeur" should certainly be ahead of "Ace of Aces", probably ahead of "The Brain" as it appears to be the most popular and acclaimed film of the group.

No one cares for "Crime Does Not Pay" while his later films were still largely super-popular. So, I'd scrap that and add "The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent" at the bottom instead.

1. La grande vadrouille (1966)
2. The Sucker (1965)
3. The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
4. Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
5. The Brain (1969)
6. Ace of Aces (1982)
7. The Umbrella Coup (1980)
8. La carapate (1978)
9. La soif de l'or (1993)
10. The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)

[pauldrach]

Ten new lists:

John Brahm (1893-1982)
1. The Lodger (1944)
2. Hangover Square (1945)
3. The Locket (1946)
4. The Mad Magician (1954)
5. Guest in the House (1944)
6. The Brasher Doubloon (1947)
7. Singapore (1947)
8. Hot Rods to Hell (1966)
9. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
10. The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)

Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
1. A Movie (1958)
2. Report (1967)
3. Cosmic Ray (1962)
4. Breakaway (1966)
5. Crossroads (1976)
6. Devo: Mongoloid (1978)
7. Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976)
8. Valse triste (1977)
9. Looking for Mushrooms (1967)
10. Looking for Mushrooms (1996)

James Cruze (1884-1942)
1. The Covered Wagon (1923)
2. Old Ironsides (1926)
3. Hollywood (1923)
4. The Roaring Road (1919)
5. One Glorious Day (1922)
6. Beggar on Horseback (1925)
7. Merton of the Movies (1924)
8. The Mating Call (1928)
9. The Great Gabbo (1929)
10. The Valley of the Giants (1919)

Sidney J. Furie (1933-)
1. The Ipcress File (1965)
2. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
3. The Entity (1982)
4. The Boys in Company C (1978)
5. The Leather Boys (1964)
6. Iron Eagle (1986)
7. The Young Ones (1961)
8. Hit! (1973)
9. Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
10. The Appaloosa (1966)

Tay Garnett (1894-1977)
1. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
2. One Way Passage (1932)
3. The Valley of Decision (1945)
4. Bataan (1943)
5. Her Man (1930)
6. China Seas (1935)
7. Mrs. Parkington (1944)
8. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
9. Stand-In (1937)
10. Seven Sinners (1940)

Raoul Peck (1953-)
1. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
2. Lumumba (2000)
3. Sometimes in April (2005)
4. Exterminate All the Brutes (2021)
5. The Young Karl Marx (2017)
6. Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
7. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)
8. Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991)
9. Silver Dollar Road (2023)
10. Moloch Tropical (2009)

Sally Potter (1949-)
1. Orlando (1992)
2. The Party (2017)
3. Ginger & Rosa (2012)
4. The Tango Lesson (1997)
5. Yes (2004)
6. The Gold Diggers (1983)
7. The Roads Not Taken (2020)
8. The Man Who Cried (2000)
9. Thriller (1979)
10. Rage (2009)

Masahiro Shinoda (1931-2025)
1. Pale Flower (1964)
2. Double Suicide (1969)
3. Himiko (1974)
4. Assassination (1964)
5. Demon Pond (1979)
6. Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
7. Silence (1971)
8. Ballad of Orin (1977)
9. Samurai Spy (1965)
10. Childhood Days (1990)

István Szabó (1938-)
1. Mephisto (1981)
2. Sunshine (1999)
3. Confidence (1980)
4. Colonel Redl (1985)
5. Father (1966)
6. Hanussen (1988)
7. Lovefilm (1970)
8. Being Julia (2004)
9. Taking Sides (2001)
10. Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (1992)

Marc Webb (1974-)
1. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
2. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
4. My Chemical Romance: Helena (2004)
5. Gifted (2017)
6. My Chemical Romance: The Ghost of You (2005)
7. Zayn feat. Sia: Dusk till Dawn (2017)
8. Snow White (2025)
9. Evanescence: Call Me When You're Sober (2006)
10. Daniel Powter: Bad Day (2005)

[ManPerson]

Looks good.

[Dubrow555]

Nice! Well done (still cannot believe to this today that Marc WEBB got to direct Spider-man movies...)