Re: Movie Directors' Top Films
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Updates for page 25:
Jeff Nichols
1. Mud (2012)
2. Take Shelter (2011)
3. Loving (2016)
4. Midnight Special (2016)
5. The Bikeriders (2023)
Mike Nichols
1. The Graduate (1967)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. Angels in America (2003)
4. Silkwood (1983)
5. The Birdcage (1996)
6. Catch-22 (1970)
7. Working Girl (1988)
8. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
9. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
10. Closer (2004)
Gaspar Noé
1. Irréversible (2002)
2. Enter the Void (2009)
3. I Stand Alone (1998)
4. Vortex (2021)
5. Climax (2018)
6. Carne (1991)
7. Love (2015)
8. Lux Æterna (2019)
9. Sodomites (1998)
10. Placebo: Protège-moi (2004)
Christopher Nolan
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Inception (2010)
3. Memento (2000)
4. Oppenheimer (2023)
5. Interstellar (2014)
6. Dunkirk (2017)
7. Batman Begins (2005)
8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
9. The Prestige (2006)
10. Tenet (2020)
Yuri Norstein
1. Tale of Tales (1979)
2. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
3. The Heron and the Crane (1974)
4. The Battle of Kerzhenets [with Ivan Ivanov-Vano] (1971)
5. The Fox and the Hare (1973)
Change his spelling since this seems to generally be the way his name is transliterated now (except on TSPDT).
Phillip Noyce
1. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
3. Patriot Games (1992)
4. Dead Calm (1989)
5. Salt (2010)
6. The Quiet American (2002)
7. The Bone Collector (1999)
8. Fast Charlie (2023)
9. The Saint (1997)
10. Newsfront (1978)
Sidney Olcott
1. From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
2. Ben Hur [with Frank Oakes Rose] (1907)
3. Little Old New York (1923)
4. The Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
5. Poor Little Peppina (1916)
6. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
7. The Green Goddess (1923)
8. The Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
9. Madame Butterfly (1915)
10. The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War (1909)
Manoel de Oliveira
1. Abraham's Valley (1993)
2. I'm Going Home (2001)
3. Aniki-Bóbó (1942)
4. Francisca (1981)
5. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
6. A Talking Picture (2003)
7. Doomed Love (1978)
8. Labor on the Douro River (1931)
9. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
10. Rite of Spring (1963)
Laurence Olivier
1. Hamlet (1948)
2. Henry V (1944)
3. Richard III (1955)
4. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
5. Three Sisters [with John Sichel] (1970)
Ermanno Olmi
1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
2. Il posto (1961)
3. The Fiances (1963)
4. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
5. Time Stood Still (1959)
6. The Profession of Arms (2001)
7. Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
8. Long Live the Lady! (1987)
9. One Hundred Nails (2007)
10. Singing Behind Screens (2002)
Marcel Ophüls
RIP 1927-2025
Max Ophüls
1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
2. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
3. Lola Montès (1955)
4. La ronde (1950)
5. Le plaisir (1952)
6. Liebelei (1933)
7. The Reckless Moment (1949)
8. Everybody's Woman (1934)
9. Caught (1949)
10. There's No Tomorrow (1939)
Nagisa Ōshima
1. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
2. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
3. Death by Hanging (1968)
4. Boy (1969)
5. Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
6. The Ceremony (1971)
7. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
8. Empire of Passion (1978)
9. Taboo (1999)
10. Max mon amour (1986)
Frank Oz
1. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
3. The Dark Crystal [with Jim Henson] (1982)
4. Bowfinger (1999)
5. In & Out (1997)
6. What About Bob? (1991)
7. The Score (2001)
8. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
9. Death at a Funeral (2007)
10. Housesitter (1992)
François Ozon
1. 8 Women (2002)
2. In the House (2012)
3. Under the Sand (2000)
4. Frantz (2016)
5. Swimming Pool (2003)
6. Potiche (2010)
7. The Crime Is Mine (2023)
8. By the Grace of God (2018)
9. Young & Beautiful (2013)
10. When Fall Is Coming (2024)
Yasujirō Ozu
1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Late Spring (1949)
3. I Was Born, but... (1932)
4. Early Summer (1951)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
6. Floating Weeds (1959)
7. The Only Son (1936)
8. Good Morning (1959)
9. Equinox Flower (1958)
10. The End of Summer (1961)
G. W. Pabst
1. Pandora's Box (1929)
2. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
3. The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
4. The Joyless Street (1925)
5. Kameradschaft (1931)
6. Westfront 1918 (1930)
7. The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
8. The White Hell of Pitz Palu [with Arnold Fanck] (1929)
9. Secrets of a Soul (1926)
10. The Treasure (1923)
José Padilha
4. The Mechanism [with Elena Soarez] (2018-2019)
Marcel Pagnol
1. The Baker's Wife (1938)
2. César (1936)
3. Heartbeat (1938)
4. Angèle (1934)
5. Manon of the Spring (1952)
6. The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
7. Harvest (1937)
8. Merlusse (1935)
9. Jofroi (1933)
10. Topaze (1951)
Alan J. Pakula
1. All the President's Men (1976)
2. Klute (1971)
3. Sophie's Choice (1982)
4. The Parallax View (1974)
5. Presumed Innocent (1990)
6. The Pelican Brief (1993)
7. The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
8. Starting Over (1979)
9. The Devil's Own (1997)
10. Comes a Horseman (1978)
And the new list:
Céline Sciamma (1978-)
1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
2. Petite maman (2021)
3. Tomboy (2011)
4. Girlhood (2014)
5. Water Lilies (2007)
Jeff Nichols
1. Mud (2012)
2. Take Shelter (2011)
3. Loving (2016)
4. Midnight Special (2016)
5. The Bikeriders (2023)
Mike Nichols
1. The Graduate (1967)
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3. Angels in America (2003)
4. Silkwood (1983)
5. The Birdcage (1996)
6. Catch-22 (1970)
7. Working Girl (1988)
8. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
9. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
10. Closer (2004)
Gaspar Noé
1. Irréversible (2002)
2. Enter the Void (2009)
3. I Stand Alone (1998)
4. Vortex (2021)
5. Climax (2018)
6. Carne (1991)
7. Love (2015)
8. Lux Æterna (2019)
9. Sodomites (1998)
10. Placebo: Protège-moi (2004)
Christopher Nolan
1. The Dark Knight (2008)
2. Inception (2010)
3. Memento (2000)
4. Oppenheimer (2023)
5. Interstellar (2014)
6. Dunkirk (2017)
7. Batman Begins (2005)
8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
9. The Prestige (2006)
10. Tenet (2020)
Yuri Norstein
1. Tale of Tales (1979)
2. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
3. The Heron and the Crane (1974)
4. The Battle of Kerzhenets [with Ivan Ivanov-Vano] (1971)
5. The Fox and the Hare (1973)
Change his spelling since this seems to generally be the way his name is transliterated now (except on TSPDT).
Phillip Noyce
1. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
3. Patriot Games (1992)
4. Dead Calm (1989)
5. Salt (2010)
6. The Quiet American (2002)
7. The Bone Collector (1999)
8. Fast Charlie (2023)
9. The Saint (1997)
10. Newsfront (1978)
Sidney Olcott
1. From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
2. Ben Hur [with Frank Oakes Rose] (1907)
3. Little Old New York (1923)
4. The Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
5. Poor Little Peppina (1916)
6. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
7. The Green Goddess (1923)
8. The Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
9. Madame Butterfly (1915)
10. The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War (1909)
Manoel de Oliveira
1. Abraham's Valley (1993)
2. I'm Going Home (2001)
3. Aniki-Bóbó (1942)
4. Francisca (1981)
5. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
6. A Talking Picture (2003)
7. Doomed Love (1978)
8. Labor on the Douro River (1931)
9. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
10. Rite of Spring (1963)
Laurence Olivier
1. Hamlet (1948)
2. Henry V (1944)
3. Richard III (1955)
4. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
5. Three Sisters [with John Sichel] (1970)
Ermanno Olmi
1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
2. Il posto (1961)
3. The Fiances (1963)
4. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
5. Time Stood Still (1959)
6. The Profession of Arms (2001)
7. Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
8. Long Live the Lady! (1987)
9. One Hundred Nails (2007)
10. Singing Behind Screens (2002)
Marcel Ophüls
RIP 1927-2025
Max Ophüls
1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
2. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
3. Lola Montès (1955)
4. La ronde (1950)
5. Le plaisir (1952)
6. Liebelei (1933)
7. The Reckless Moment (1949)
8. Everybody's Woman (1934)
9. Caught (1949)
10. There's No Tomorrow (1939)
Nagisa Ōshima
1. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
2. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
3. Death by Hanging (1968)
4. Boy (1969)
5. Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
6. The Ceremony (1971)
7. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
8. Empire of Passion (1978)
9. Taboo (1999)
10. Max mon amour (1986)
Frank Oz
1. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
3. The Dark Crystal [with Jim Henson] (1982)
4. Bowfinger (1999)
5. In & Out (1997)
6. What About Bob? (1991)
7. The Score (2001)
8. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
9. Death at a Funeral (2007)
10. Housesitter (1992)
François Ozon
1. 8 Women (2002)
2. In the House (2012)
3. Under the Sand (2000)
4. Frantz (2016)
5. Swimming Pool (2003)
6. Potiche (2010)
7. The Crime Is Mine (2023)
8. By the Grace of God (2018)
9. Young & Beautiful (2013)
10. When Fall Is Coming (2024)
Yasujirō Ozu
1. Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Late Spring (1949)
3. I Was Born, but... (1932)
4. Early Summer (1951)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
6. Floating Weeds (1959)
7. The Only Son (1936)
8. Good Morning (1959)
9. Equinox Flower (1958)
10. The End of Summer (1961)
G. W. Pabst
1. Pandora's Box (1929)
2. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
3. The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
4. The Joyless Street (1925)
5. Kameradschaft (1931)
6. Westfront 1918 (1930)
7. The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
8. The White Hell of Pitz Palu [with Arnold Fanck] (1929)
9. Secrets of a Soul (1926)
10. The Treasure (1923)
José Padilha
4. The Mechanism [with Elena Soarez] (2018-2019)
Marcel Pagnol
1. The Baker's Wife (1938)
2. César (1936)
3. Heartbeat (1938)
4. Angèle (1934)
5. Manon of the Spring (1952)
6. The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
7. Harvest (1937)
8. Merlusse (1935)
9. Jofroi (1933)
10. Topaze (1951)
Alan J. Pakula
1. All the President's Men (1976)
2. Klute (1971)
3. Sophie's Choice (1982)
4. The Parallax View (1974)
5. Presumed Innocent (1990)
6. The Pelican Brief (1993)
7. The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
8. Starting Over (1979)
9. The Devil's Own (1997)
10. Comes a Horseman (1978)
And the new list:
Céline Sciamma (1978-)
1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
2. Petite maman (2021)
3. Tomboy (2011)
4. Girlhood (2014)
5. Water Lilies (2007)