My top 100 directors (+Runner-ups)
by Gloede_The_Saint | created - 26 May 2011 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicMy favorite directors of all time! If you are interested in my favorite current directos follow this link: http://www.imdb.com/list/G_XQREQlby4/
Sorry for the overuse of decimals. These ratings are copied from my personal archives where I like to have an indicator as of how strong my individual ratings are, but I guess that could be of some use to you as well.
1. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Hélas pour moi / Oh, Woe is Me (1993) 10.0
2. Prénom Carmen (1983) 9.9
3. Le Mepris (1963) 9.9
4. Pierrot le fou (1965) 9.9
5. Alphaville (1965) 9.8
6. Détective (1985) 9.8
7. Week End (1967) 9.7
8. A Woman is a Woman (1961) 9.6
9. Bande à part (1964) 9.8
10. Adieu au langage (2014) 9.6
11. La Chinoise (1967) 9.5
12. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962) 9.4
13. Le Petit soldat (1963) 9.4
14. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967) 9.3
15. King Lear (1987) 9.2
16. Le vent d'est / Wind from the East (1970) 9.1
17. Vladimir et Rosa (1970) 9.0
18. Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (1966) 9.0
19. Sympathy for the Devil (1968) 8.8
20. Tout va bien (1972) 8.8
21. Je vous salue, Marie' (1985) 8.7
22. Numéro deux (1975) 8.6
23. Soigne ta droite (1987) 8.6
24. Éloge de l'amour (2001) 8.5
25. Ici et ailleurs (1976) 8.5
26. Made in U.S.A. (1966) 8.5
27. Lotte in Italia / Struggle in Italy (1971) 8.5
28. Sauve qui peut (la vie) / Slow Motion (1980) 8.3
29. Passion (1982) 8.2
30. Notre musique (2004) 8.0
31. Le gai savoir / The Joy of Learning (1969) 8.0
32. Scénario du film 'Passion' (1982) 7.9
33. À bout de souffle (1960) 7.5
34. Las Carabiniers (1963) 7.5
35. A Married Woman (1964) 7.4
36. Comment ça va? (1978) 7.2
37. 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995) 7.2
38. Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-1998) 7.1
39. Nouvelle vague (1990) 7.0
40. 1 P.M. (1972) 7.0
41. Film socialisme (2010) 6.8
42. For Ever Mozart (1996) 6.7
43. Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972) 6.0
44. British Sounds (1970) 6.0
45. Un film comme les autres / A Film Like Any Other (1968) 6.0
46. Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (1991) 6.0
47. Soft and Hard (1986) 5.6
48. Pravda (1970) 4.0
2. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
How I rate/rank his filmography:
1. Belle de jour (1967) 9.8
2. Le Fantôme de la liberté / The Phantom of Liberty (1974) 9.8
3. Los Olvidados (1950) 9.8
4. Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) 9.7
5. Tristana (1970) 9.5
6. El Ángel exterminador (1962) 9.4
7. La Voie lactée (1969) 9.4
8. L'Âge d'or (1930) 9.3
9. Nazarín (1959) 9.2
10. Le journal d'une femme de chambre / Diary of a Chamber Girl (1964) 9.1
11. Viridiana (1961) 9.1
12. Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) 9.0
13. The Young One (1960) 8.8
14. La Mort en ce jardin (1956) 8.7
15. Simón del desierto (1965) 8.5
16. El (1953) 8.2
17. El gran Calavera / The Great Madcap (1949) 8.1
18. El Río y la muerte / The River and Death (1955) 8.0
19. La Ilusión viaja en tranvía / Illusions Travel by Streetcar (1954) 8.0
20. El Bruto / The Brute (1953) 7.8
21. La fièvre monte à El Pao / Fever Rises In El Pao (1959) 7.3
22. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) 7.0
23. Susana (1951) 7.0
24. Robinson Crusoe (1954) 6.0
25. Una Mujer sin amor (1952) 6.0
26. Gran Casino (Tampico) (1947) 5.0
3. Agnès Varda
Director | Cléo de 5 à 7
Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.
How I rank/rate her films:
1. Le Bonheur / Happiness (1965) 9.8
2. Jane B. par Agnès V. / Jane B. for Agnes V (1988) 9.6
3. Les plages d'Agnès / The Beaches of Agnès (2008) 9.2
4. Kung-fu master! (1988) 9.2
5. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners & I (2000) 9.0
6. Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985) 9.0
7. Nausicaa (1970) 8.8
8. L'une chante, l'autre pas / One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 8.7
9. Documenteur (1981) 8.6
10. Cléo de 5 à 7 / Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) 8.4
11. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après / The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002) 8.4
12. Mur murs (1981) 8.2
13. Jacquot de Nantes (1991) 8.0
14. Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995) 8.0
15. L'univers de Jacques Demy (1995) 7.8
16. Lions Love (1969) 7.2
17. Les creatures / The Creatures (1966) 7.0
18. La Pointe-Courte (1955) 6.4
19. Daguerréotypes (1976) 5.0
4. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Persona (1966) 9.8
2. Såsom i en spegel / Through A Glass Darkly (1961) 9.8
3. Det Sjunde inseglet / The Seventh Seal (1957) 9.8
4. Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes From A Marriage (1973) 9.8
5. Tystnaden / The Silence (1963) 9.7
6. Fanny och Alexander (1982) 9.5
7. Höstsonaten / Autumn Sonata (1978) 9.5
8. Ansikte mot ansikte / Face to Face (1976) 9.4
9. Ansiktet / The Magician (1958) 9.4
10. Sommarlek / Summer Interlude (1951) 9.3
11. Jungfrukällan (1960) 9.2
12. Gycklarnas afton (1953) 9.1
13. Smultronstället (1957) 8.8
14. Nattvardsgästerna (1962) 8.6
15. Det regnar på vår kärlek / It Rains on Our Love (1946) 8.6
16. Skammen (1968) 8.2
17. Sommaren med Monika (1953) 8.2
18. Vargtimmen (1968) 8.1
19. Kvinnors väntan (1952) 8.0
20. The Serpent's Egg (1977) 8.0
21. Sommarnattens leende (1955) 8.0
22. Kvinnodröm (1955) 8.0
23. Musik i mörker (1948) 7.9
24. Kris (1946) 7.8
25. Viskningar och rop (1972) 7.6
26. Djävulens öga (1960) 7.4
27. Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (1980) 7.3
28. Nära livet (1958) 7.1
29. Hamnstad / Port of Call (1948) 7.1
30. Lektion i kärlek, En (1954) 7.0
31. Till glädje / To Joy (1950) 7.0
32. För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor (1964) 7.0
33. Törst (1949) 7.0
34. Fängelse (1949) 7.0
35. En Passion (1969) 6.9
36. Fårö dokument (1970) 6.9
37. Riten (1969) 6.5
38. Beröringen / The Touch (1971) 6.4
39. Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) 6.2
40. Sånt händer inte här (1950) 6.0
41. Trollflöjten / The Magic Flute (1975) 6.0
42. Skepp till India land (1947) 6.0
43. Herr Sleeman kommer (1957) 5.8
5. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 9.9
2. Ran (1985) 9.9
3. Dersu Uzala (1975) 9.8
4. Hakuchi / The Idiot (1951) 9.4
5. Tengoku to jigoku / High and Low (1963) 9.4
6. Yojimbo (1961) 9.3
7. Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai (1954) 9.2
8. Ikimono no kiroku / I Live in Fear (1955) 9.1
9. Ikiru (1952) 9.0
10. Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / Hidden Fortress(1958) 8.8
11. Waga seishun ni kuinashi / No Regret for Our Youth (1946) 8.7
12. Dodesukaden (1970) 8.6
13. Subarashiki nichiyobi / One Wonderful Sunday (1947) 8.5
14. Yoidore tenshi / Drunken Angel (1948) 8.5
15. Kumonosu jô / Throne of Blood (1957) 8.4
16. Donzoko / The Lower Depths (1957) 8.4
17. Akahige / Red Beard (1965) 8.3
18. Nora inu / Stray Dogs (1949) 8.4
19. Rashômon (1950) 8.3
20. Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962) 8.2
21. Madadayo (1993) 8.0
22. Shubun / Scandal (1950) 7.9
23. Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku / Rhapsody in August (1991) 7.5
24. Dreams (1990) 7.2
25. Shizukanaru ketto / A Silent Duel (1949) 7.0
26. Kagemusha / Shadow Warrior (1980) 6.4
27. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) 6.4
28. Sugata Sanshiro / Judo Saga (1943) 6.2
29. Ichiban utsukushiku / The Most Beautiful (1944) 5.2
30. Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (1945) 5.0
6. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
7. Yoshishige Yoshida
Director | Ningen no yakusoku
Yoshishige Yoshida was born on February 16, 1933 in Fukui, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for A Promise (1986), Akitsu Springs (1962) and Wuthering Heights (1988). He was married to Mariko Okada. He died on December 8, 2022 in Japan.
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Rengoku eroica / Heroic Purgatory (1970) 9.9
2. Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu / Eros Plus Massacre (1969) 9.7
3. Kagami no onnatachi / Women in the Mirror (2002) 9.4
4. Kaigenrei / Coup D'Etat (1973) 9.3
5. Onna no mizûmi / Woman of the Lake (1966) 9.2
6. Mizu de kakareta monogatari / A Story Written with Water (1965) 9.0
7. Honô to onna / Flame and Women (1967) 9.0
8. Saraba natsu no hikari / Farewell to the Summer Light (1968) 8.9
9. Akitsu onsen / Akitsu Springs (1962) 8.8
10. Arashi ga oka / Wuthering Heights (1988) 8.5
11. Jôen / The Affair (1967) 8.4
12. Kokuhakuteki joyûron / Confessions Among Actresses (1971) 8.4
13. Rokudenashi / Good-for-Nothing (1960) 8.2
14. Ningen no yakusoku / A Promise (1986) 8.1
15. Arashi o yobu juhachi-nin / 18 Roughs (1963) 8.0
16. Amai yoru no hate / Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961) 8.0
17. Juhyô no yoromeki / Affair in the Snow (1968) 7.9
18. Nihon dasshutsu / Escape from Japan (1964) 7.7
19. Chi wa kawaiteru / Blood Is Dry (1960) 7.1
8. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Salo (1975) 9.9
2. Teorema (1968) 9.9
3. Edipo re / Oedipus Rex (1967/I) 9.8
4. Medea (1969) 9.4
5. Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) 9.4
6. Mamma Roma (1962) 9.3
7. Uccellacci e uccellini / The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966) 9.1
8. Accattone (1961) 8.8
9. I Racconti di Canterbury (1972) 8.7
10. Comizi d'amore / Love Meetings (1965) 8.6
11. Il Decameron (1971) 8.2
12. Arabian Nights (1974) 8.0
13. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970) 8.0
14. Porcile (1969) 7.8
15. Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo (1965) 6.0
9. Guy Maddin
Director | The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Brand Upon the Brain (2006) 10.0
2. Careful (1992) 9.8
3. My Winnipeg (2007) 9.7
4. Keyhole (2011) 9.5
5. The Saddest Music in the World (2003) 9.4
6. Cowards Bend The Knee or The Blue Hands (2003) 9.3
7. The Forbidden Room (2015) 8.7
8. Archangel (1990) 8.0
9. Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002) 7.0
10. Tales From the Gimli Hospital (1988) 6.0
11. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) 6.0
10. Éric Rohmer
Director | Ma nuit chez Maud
Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. La femme de l'aviateur (1981) 9.1
2. Les rendez-vous de Paris (1995) 9.0
3. La collectionneuse (1967) 8.7
4. Conte d'hiver (1992) 8.6
5. Perceval le Gallois (1978) 8.5
6. Conte d'été (1996) 8.3
7. Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) 8.2
8. Les nuits de la pleine lune (1984) 8.2
9. Conte de printemps (1990) 8.1
10. 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987) 8.0
11. Conte d'automne (1998) 8.0
12. L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993) 7.9
13. La carrière de Suzanne (1963) 7.8
14. Pauline à la plage / Pauline at the Beach (1983) 7.0
15. Le genou de Claire (1970) 7.0
16. Le rayon vert / The Green Ray (1986) 6.5
17. L'amour l'après-midi / Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 6.2
18. Le signe du lion (1962) 6.1
19. Die Marquise von O... (1976) 6.0
20. Louis Lumière (1968)
21. Le beau mariage (1982) 5.0
11. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The White Ribbon (2009) 9.9
2. The Piano Teacher (2001) 9.9
3. Funny Games (1997) 9.6
4. The Time of the Wolf (2003) 9.2
5. Amour (2012) 9.1
6. The Seventh Continent (1989) 8.6
7. Benny's Video (1992) 8.6
8. Caché (2005) 8.3
9. Code Unknown (2000) 8.2
10. Three Paths to the Lake (1976) 7.5
11. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) 7.0
12. Wer war Edgar Allan? / Who Was Edgar Allan? (1985) 6.5
12. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926) 9.8
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 9.8
3. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) 9.7
4. Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (1924) 9.4
5. Der Brennende Acker / Burning Soil (1922) 9.1
6. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8.6
7. City Girl (1930) 8.4
8. Schloß Vogeloed / The Haunted Castle (1921) 7.9
9. Phantom (1922) 7.4
10. Herr Tartüff (1925) 7.0
11. Die Finanzen des Großherzogs / The Grand Duke's Finances (1924) 7.0
12. Der Gang in die Nacht / Journey Into the Night (1921) 6.8
13. Alain Resnais
Director | Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961) 10.0
2. Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) 9.9
3. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) 9.8
4. Providence (1977) 9.7
5. Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) 9.3
6. Smoking/No Smoking (1993) 8.9
7. Stavisky... (1974) 8.0
8. Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour (1963) 7.5
9. La guerre est finie (1966) 7.0
10. Mélo (1986) 7.0
11. L'amour à mort (1984) 6.8
12. Les herbes folles / Wild Grass (2009) 6.5
14. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Stalker (1979) 10.0
2. Zerkalo (1975) 9.8
3. Offret (1986) 9.5
4. Ivanovo detstvo (1962) 9.0
5. Andrey Rublyov (1969) 9.0
6. Katok i skripka / The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) 8.9
7. Solyaris (1972) 8.0
8. Nostalghia (1983) 7.0
15. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Touch of Evil (1958) 9.8
2. Le Procès / The Trial (1962) 9.8
3. Campanadas a medianoche / Chimes at Midnight (1965) 9.7
4. Citizen Kane (1941) 9.6
5. The Stranger (1946) 8.4
6. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 8.1
7. Mr. Arkadin (1955) 8.0
8. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952) 7.8
9. Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992) 7.8
10. Macbeth (1948) 7.7
11. Vérités et mensonges / F For Fake (1973, Orson Welles) 7.6
12. The Immortal Story (1968) 7.1
13. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 7.0
16. Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writer | Un bruit qui rend fou
Born in Brest, France, in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945 and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France. Then at age 30 he ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. L'éden et après / Eden and After (1970) 9.9
2. La belle captive (1983) 9.8
3. Glissements progressifs du plaisir / Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) 9.1
4. L'immortelle (1963) 9.0
5. L'homme qui ment / The Man Who Lies (1968) 8.7
6. Trans-Europ-Express (1967) 8.4
7. Le jeu avec le feu / Playing with Fire (1975) 8.2
8. Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) (2006) 7.9
9. Un bruit qui rend fou / The Blue Villa (1995) 7.9
10. N. a pris les dés... (1971) 7.3
17. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Goodfellas (1990) 9.8
2. Raging Bull (1980) 9.8
3. Taxi Driver (1976) 9.7
4. The King of Comedy (1983) 9.6
5. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 9.6
6. After Hours (1985) 9.4
7. Casino (1995) 9.4
8. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 9.2
9. Age of Innocence (1993) 9.1
10. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) 9.0
11. Mean Streets (1973) 8.8
12. Gangs of New York (2002) 8.6
13. Kundun (1997) 8.4
14. New York, New York (1977) 8.4
15. Shutter Island (2010) 8.3
16. Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 8.1
17. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) 8.1
18. Hugo (2011) 8.1
19. Departed (2006) 8.0
20. Aviator (2004) 8.0
21. The Color of Money (1986) 7.7
22. Boxcar Bertha (1972) 7.6
23. Cape Fear (1991) 7.4
24. American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978) 7.2
25. The Last Waltz (1978) 7.0
26. I Call First (1967) 6.1
18. Kihachi Okamoto
Director | Nikudan
Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Elegant Life Of Mr. Everyman (1963) 9.9
2. Aa bakudan / Oh, Bomb! (1964) 9.8
3. Dai-bosatsu tôge / The Sword of Doom (1966) 9.6
4. Nikudan / The Human Bullet (1968) 9.5
5. Akage / Red Lion (1969) 9.1
6. Satsujin kyo jidai / The Age of Assassins / Epoch of Murder Madness (1967) 9.0
7. Nihon no ichiban nagai hi / Japan's Longest Day (1967) 8.9
8. Samurai / Samurai Assassin (1965) 8.8
9. Dokuritsu gurentai / Desperado Outpost (1959) 8.4
10. Ankokugai no taiketsu / The Last Gunfight (1960) 8.2
11. Chi to suna / Fort Graveyard (1965) 8.2
12. Dokuritsu gurentai nishi-e / Westward Desperado (1960) 8.2
13. Ankokugai no kaoyaku / Boss of the Underworld (1959) 8.1
14. Kiru / Kill! (1968) 8.0
15. Tokkan / Battle Cry (1975) 8.0
16. Sukedachi-ya Sukeroku / Vengeance for Sale (2001) 7.4
17. Sengoku yaro / Warring Clans (1963) 7.3
18. Daiyukai / Rainbow Kids (1991) 7.2
19. Ankokugai no dankon / Blueprint of Murder (1961) 7.0
20. Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen / Battle of Okinawa (1971) 7.0
21. Zatôichi to Yôjinbô / Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970) 6.8
19. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Metropolis (1927) 9.9
2. M (1931) 9.8
3. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922) 9.7
4. Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) 9.3
5. Scarlet Street (1945) 9.2
6. You Only Live Once (1937) 9.2
7. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Revenge (1924) 9.1
8. Spione (1928) 9.0
9. Clash by Night (1952) 8.8
10. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) 8.6
11. Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (1960) 8.6
12. Frau im Mond (1929) 8.5
13. House by the River (1950) 8.5
14. Liliom (1934) 8.5
15. Fury (1936) 8.5
16. Hangmen Also Die! (1943) 8.4
17. Das Indische Grabmal (1959) 8.2
18. Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1959) 8.2
19. Müde Tod, Der (1921) 8.0
20. The Woman in the Window (1944) 8.0
21. You and Me (1938) 8.0
22. Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See (1919) 7.8
23. While the City Sleeps (1956) 7.8
24. Man Hunt (1941) 7.8
25. Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff (1920) 7.5
26. Ministry of Fear (1944) 7.2
27. The Big Heat (1953) 7.1
28. The Return of Frank James (1940) 7.0
29. Human Desire (1954) 6.5
30. Moonfleet (1955) 6.5
31. Secret Beyond the Door... (1948) 6.0
32. The Blue Gardenia (1953) 6.0
33. Rancho Notorious (1952) 6.0
34. Western Union (1941) 6.0
35. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 6.0
36. Vier um die Frau / Four Around A Woman (1921) 5.9
37. Das Wandernde Bild (1920) 5.2
20. Tsai Ming-liang
Director | Qingshaonian Nuozha
Born in Kuching, Malaysia, he graduated from the Drama and Cinema Department of the Chinese Cultural University of Taiwan and worked as a theatrical producer and TV director. His second feature film, Vive L'Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion (best picture) at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. His ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Qing shao nian nuo zha / Rebels of the Neon God (1992) 9.8
2. Bu san / Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003) 9.7
3. Ai qing wan sui / Vive L'Amour (1994) 9.6
4. Jiao you / Stray Dogs (2013) 9.4
5. Dong / The Hole (1998) 9.0
6. Tian bian yi duo yun / The Wayward Cloud (2005) 8.6
7. He liu / The River (1997) 8.1
8. Ni na bian ji dian / What Time is It There? (2001) 7.9
9. Xi you / Journey to the West (2014) 6.9
21. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Chinesisches Roulette (1976) 9.9
2. Angst essen Seele auf (1974) 9.6
3. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) 9.4
4. Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972) 9.4
5. Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (1973) 9.4
6. In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) 9.3
7. Die Dritte Generation / The Third Generation (1979) 9.2
8. Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) 9.2
9. Lili Marleen (1981) 8.8
10. Angst vor der Angst / Fear of Fear (1975) 8.7
11. Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (1975) 8.5
12. Lola (1981) 8.4
13. Wildwechsel / Jail-Bait (1973) 8.2
14. Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969) 8.2
15. Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht / Like a Bird on a Wire (1975) 8.1
16. Despair (1978) 8.0
17. Whity (1971) 7.8
18. Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt (1976) 7.8
19. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982) 7.4
20. Martha (1974) 7.4
21. Satansbraten (1976) 7.4
22. Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1972) 7.2
23. Fontane - Effi Briest (1974) 7.2
24. Katzelmacher (1969) 7.1
25. "Berlin Alexanderplatz" 7.0
26. Bolwieser / The Stationmaster's Wife (1977) 7.0
27. Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971) 6.8
28. Götter der Pest / Gods of the Plague (1970) 6.6
29. Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (1970) 6.5
30. Bremer Freiheit (1972) 6.0
31. Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte / Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) 5.8
32. Amerikanische Soldat, Der (1970) 4.9
22. Robert Altman
Director | Gosford Park
Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. 3 Women (1977) 9.8
2. Nashville (1975) 9.8
3. California Split (1974) 9.4
4. The Player (1992) 9.4
5. Short Cuts (1993) 9.3
6. Brewster McCloud (1970) 9.2
7. Images (1972) 9.2
8. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) 9.0
9. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) 8.8
10. The Long Goodbye (1973) 8.6
11. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) 8.4
12. The Company (2003) 8.3
13. Secret Honor (1984) 8.2
14. Quintet (1979) 8.1
15. MASH (1970) 8.0
16. Gosford Park (2001) 7.8
17. Streamers (1983) 7.5
18. Thieves Like Us (1974) 7.5
19. Kansas City (1996) 7.2
20. A Wedding (1978) 7.0
21. The Gingerbread Man (1998) 6.5
22. Popeye (1980) 6.0
23. Michael Powell
Director | Peeping Tom
The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 9.8
2. Peeping Tom (1960) 9.7
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) 9.6
4. The Red Shoes (1948) 9.4
5. A Canterbury Tale (1944) 9.2
6. Black Narcissus (1947) 9.0
7. The Small Back Room (1949) 8.7
8. The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 8.4
9. Herzog Blaubarts Burg (1964) 8.0
10. They're a Weird Mob (1966) 8.0
11. Age of Consent (1969) 8.0
12. Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) 8.0
13. Gone to Earth (1950) 7.5
14. The Spy in Black (1939) 7.0
15. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) 7.0
16. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) 6.8
17. I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) 6.5
18. The Battle of the River Plate (1956) 6.0
19. 49th Parallel (1941) 5.8
20. The Edge of the World (1937) 5.0
24. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Lost Highway (1997) 9.7
2. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 9.6
3. Blue Velvet (1986) 9.5
4. Eraserhead (1977) 9.0
5. Rabbits (2002) 8.7
6. The Elephant Man (1980) 8.4
7. Inland Empire (2006) 8.4
8. The Straight Story (1999) 8.1
9. Wild at Heart (1990) 8.0
10. Dune (1984) 6.0
11. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) 5.5
25. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Tôkyô monogatari / Tokyo Story (1953) 9.4
2. Kohayagawa-ke no aki / The End of Summer (1961) 9.2
3. Akibiyori / Late Autumn (1960) 9.1
4. Banshun / Late Spring (1949) 9.0
5. Nagaya shinshiroku / The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) 8.8
6. Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo / I Was Born, But... (1932) 8.5
7. Sono yo no tsuma / That Night's Wife (1930) 8.4
8. Hijosen no onna / Dragnet Girl (1933) 8.1
9. Hitori musuko / The Only Son (1936) 8.0
10. Tôkyô no onna / Women of Tokyo (1933) 7.8
11. Hogaraka ni ayume / Walk Cheerfully (1930) 7.5
12. Ukikusa monogatari / A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) 7.4
13. Higanbana (1958) 7.2
14. Bakushû / Early Summer (1951) 7.2
15. Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka / What Did the Lady Forget? (1937) 7.0
16. Ohayô / Good Morning (1959) 7.0
17. Tôkyô boshoku / Tokyo Twilight (1957) 7.0
18. Chichi ariki / There Was a Father (1942) 7.0
19. Tôkyô no yado / An Inn in Tokyo (1935) 7.0
20. Dekigokoro / Passing Fancy (1933) 6.4
21. Todake no kyodai (1941) 6.3
22. Ochazuke no aji / Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) 6.2
23. Sanma no aji / An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 6.0
24. Munekata kyoudai / The Munekata Sisters (1950) 6.0
25. Ukigusa / Floating Weeds (1959) 6.0
26. Haha wo kowazuya / A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) 6.0
27. Tôkyô no kôrasu / Tokyo Chorus (1931) 6.0
28. Kaze no naka no mendori / A Hen in the Wind (1948) 6.0
29. Rakudai wa shitakeredo / I Failed But... (1930) 6.0
30. Seishun no yume imaizuko / Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932) 5.0
31. Gakusei romance: Wakaki hi / Days of Youth (1929) 5.0
26. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. One from the Heart (1982) 9.9
2. The Godfather (1972) 9.8
3. The Godfather: Part II (1974) 9.7
4. The Conversation (1974) 9.4
5. Apocalypse Now (1979) 9.1
6. Youth Without Youth (2007) 8.8
7. Tetro (2009) 8.3
8. The Godfather: Part III (1990) 8.1
9. Rumble Fish (1983) 8.1
10. The Cotton Club (1984) 8.0
11. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) 7.9
12. Gardens of Stone (1987) 7.8
13. Dracula (1992) 7.5
14. The Rainmaker (1997) 7.2
15. Twixt (2011) 7.0
16. The Rain People (1969) 7.0
17. The Outsiders (1983) 6.8
18. Dementia 13 (1963) 6.0
19. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 6.0
27. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. La dolce vita (1960) 9.9
2. I Vitelloni (1953) 9.6
3. 8½ (1963) 9.4
4. Il bidone (1955) 9.3
5. Amarcord (1973) 9.2
6. Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) 8.5
7. Le notti di Cabiria (1957) 8.4
8. La strada (1954) 8.4
9. E la nave va / And the Ship Sails On (1983) 8.0
10. Lo sceicco bianco / The White Sheik (1952) 8.0
11. Roma (1972) 7.2
12. Giulietta degli spiriti / Juliet of the Spirits (1965) 7.1
13. Luci del varietà / Variet Lights (1950) 7.0
14. Fellini - Satyricon (1969) 6.8
15. Prova d'orchestra (1978) 6.5
28. Terrence Malick
Writer | Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Knight of Cups (2015) 9.8
2. Badlands (1973) 9.6
3. Tree of Life (2011) 9.3
4. The Thin Red Line (1998) 9.2
5. Days of Heaven (1978) 9.0
6. Song to Song (2017) 8.9
7. To the Wonder (2012) 8.7
8. The New World (2005) 6.0
29. Marcel Carné
Director | Le quai des brumes
Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936). Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Les enfants du paradis / Children of Paradise (1945) 10.0
2. Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux / Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) 9.1
3. Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (1938) 9.0
4. Le jour se lève / Daybreak (1939) 8.8
5. Les tricheurs / The Cheaters (1958) 8.6
6. Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960) 8.4
7. Les visiteurs du soir / The Devil's Envoys (1942) 8.3
8. Juliette ou La clef des songes / Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951) 8.2
9. Trois chambres à Manhattan / Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965) 8.0
10. Jenny (1936) 8.0
11. Les portes de la nuit / Gates of the Night (1946) 8.0
12. La Marie du port (1950) 8.0
13. Hôtel du Nord (1938) 7.5
14. Thérèse Raquin / The Adultress (1953) 7.0
15. L'air de Paris / Air of Paris (1954) 7.0
16. La merveilleuse visite / The Marvelous Visit (1974) 6.8
17. Les assassins de l'ordre / Law Breakers (1971) 6.2
30. Kenji Mizoguchi
Director | Ugetsu monogatari
Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Saikaku ichidai onna / The Life of Oharu (1952) 9.4
2. Sanshô dayû / Sansho the Bailiff (1954) 9.3
3. Five Women Around Utamaro (1946) 9.2
4. Gion bayashi / A Geisha (1953) 9.2
5. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) 8.9
6. Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (1936) 8.8
7. Akasen chitai / Street of Shame (1956) 8.7
8. Oyû-sama / Miss Oyu (1951) 8.6
9. Ugetsu monogatari (1953) 8.4
10. Chikamatsu monogatari / The Crucified Lovers (1954) 8.3
11. Yôkihi / Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) 8.2
12. Genroku Chûshingura / The 47 Ronin (1941) 8.1
13. Uwasa no onna / The Woman in the Rumor (1954) 8.0
14. Musashino fujin / The Lady of Musashino (1951) 8.0
15. Shin heike monogatari / The Taira Clan (1955) 7.4
16. Orizuru Osen (1935) 7.4
17. Waga koi wa moenu / Flame of My Love (1949) 7.0
18. Naniwa erejî (1936) 7.0
19. Aien kyo (1937) 7.0
20. Yoru no onnatachi / Women of the Night (1948) 7.0
21. Meitô bijomaru / The Sword (1945) 6.0
22. Joyû Sumako no koi / The Love of Sumako the Actress (1947) 6.0
23. Furusato no uta (1925) 6.0
24. Taki no shiraito (1933) 4.3
31. Chantal Akerman
Director | Les rendez-vous d'Anna
Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, France.
How I rank/rate her filmography:
1. News from Home (1977)
2. Almayer's Folly (2011)
3. No Home Movie (2015)
4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
5. Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels (1994)
6. Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
7. Toute une nuit (1982)
8. Je, tu, il, elle (1974)
9. Golden Eighties (1986)
10. D'est (From the East) (1993)
11. Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989) 8.0
12. Nuit et jour / Night and Day (1991) 7.9
13. Letters Home (1986) 7.8
14. Sud (South) (1999) 7.5
15. Dis-moi / Tell Me (1980) 7.4
16. Là-bas / Down There (2006) 7.4
17. De l'autre côté / From the Other Side (2002) 7.1
18. Demain on déménage / Tomorrow We Move (2004) 7.0
19. Les années 80 (1983) 6.5
20. Le Captive (2005) 5.0
21. Hotel Monterey (1972) 5.0
32. Sergei Eisenstein
Director | Ivan Groznyy
The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) 9.9
2. Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938) 9.8
3. Ivan Groznyy I (1944) 9.7
4. ¡Que Viva Mexico! - Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! (1979) 9.2
5. Stachka (1925) 8.7
6. Oktyabr (1928) 7.0
7. Staroye i novoye / The General Line (1929) 7.0
8. Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor (1946) 6.0
33. Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer | Le Samouraï
The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Le samouraï (1967) 9.8
2. L'armée des ombres (1969) 9.8
3. Les enfants terribles (1950) 9.5
4. Bob le flambeur (1956) 9.0
5. Léon Morin, prêtre (1961) 8.7
6. Un flic (1972) 8.5
7. Le Cercle rouge (1970) 8.4
8. Le deuxième souffle / Second Breath (1966) 8.3
9. Le doulos (1962) 8.2
10. Le silence de la Mer (1949) 7.5
11. L'aîné des Ferchaux (1963) 7.0
12. Deux hommes dans Manhattan (1959) 5.0
34. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9.9
2. Barry Lyndon (1975) 9.8
3. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 9.7
4. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8.9
5. The Shining (1980) 8.8
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8.6
7. Spartacus (1960) 8.4
8. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 8.3
9. The Killing (1956) 8.2
10. Paths of Glory (1957) 8.0
11. Lolita (1962) 6.2
12. Fear and Desire (1953) 5.0
13. Killer's Kiss (1955) 5.0
35. Zoltán Fábri
Director | Húsz óra
He was born in 1917 and between the two World War he finished his primary and secondary school. After them he graduated in the College of Fine Arts, which helped him later to be a production-designer. He liked to learn and joined the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. He bacame a director and actor....
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Isten hozta örnagy úr / The Toth Family (1969) 9.2
2. Édes Anna (1958) 9.0
3. Az ötödik pecsét / The Fifth Zeal (1976) 9.0
4. A Pál utcai fiúk / The Boys of Paul Street (1968) 8.9
5. Dúvad (1961) 8.6
6. 141 perc a befejezetlen mondatból (1975) 8.5
7. Hannibál tanár úr (1956) 8.4
8. Körhinta (1956) 8.1
9. Két félidö a pokolban / Two Half-Times in Hell (1961) 8.0
10. Requiem (1982) 7.9
11. Magyarok / The Hungarians (1978) 7.8
36. Elia Kazan
Director | On the Waterfront
Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...
How I rate/rank his filmography. Seen all:
1. A Face in the Crowd (1957) 9.8
2. East of Eden (1955) 9.8
3. On the Waterfront (1954) 9.4
4. Viva Zapata! (1952) 9.2
5. America, America (1963) 8.9
6. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 8.7
7. Man on a Tightrope (1953) 8.5
8. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) 8.5
9. The Arrangement (1969) 8.3
10. Wild River (1960) 8.2
11. Baby Doll (1956) 8.1
12. Splendor in the Grass (1961) 8.0
13. Panic in the Streets (1950) 8.0
14. The Visitors (1972) 8.0
15. Pinky (1949) 7.9
16. The Last Tycoon (1976) 7.9
17. Boomerang! (1947) 7.5
18. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 7.2
19. The Sea of Grass (1947) 6.2
37. Radu Jude
Director | Toata lumea din familia noastra
Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. In 2003, he graduated from the Media University of Bucharest (Film Directing Department). Jude worked as an assistant director on Amen. (2002), directed by Costa-Gavras, and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), directed by Cristi Puiu. He ...
1. I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) 9.6 2. Scarred Hearts (2016) 9.2 3. Uppercase Print (2020) 9.2 4. Cea mai fericitã fatã din lume / The Happiest Girl in the World (2009) 8.6 5. Toata lumea din familia noastra / Everyone in Our Family (2012) 8.4 6. Aferim! (2015) 8.1 7. The Dead Nation (2017) 7.0
38. Juraj Jakubisko
Director | Bathory
Juraj Jakubisko was born on April 30, 1938 in Kojsov, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and writer, known for Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008), Kristove roky (1967) and Perinbaba (1985). He was married to Deana Horváthová. He died on February 24, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.
39. Milos Forman
Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 9.5
2. Ragtime (1981) 9.4
3. Amadeus (1984) 9.0
4. Taking Off (1971) 8.9
5. Man on the Moon (1999) 8.7
6. The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) 8.5
7. Goya's Ghosts (2006) 8.0
8. Valmont (1989) 8.0
9. Hair (1979) 7.0
10. Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde (1965) 7.0
11. Horí, má panenko (1967) 5.5
40. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 9.5
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 9.4
3. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 9.4
4. Rushmore (1998) 9.2
5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) 9.2
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 9.1
7. Bottle Rocket (1996) 8.5
8. The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 8.0
41. Kar-Wai Wong
Director | Yi dai zong shi
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. 2046 (2004) 9.9
2. Chung Hing sam lam / Chunking Express (1994) 9.9
3. Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (2000) 9.8
4. Dung che sai duk / Ashes of Time: Redux (1994) 9.0
5. Duo luo tian shi / Fallen Angels (1995) 8.9
6. Chun gwong cha sit / Happy Together (1997) 8.4
7. A Fei zheng chuan / Days of Being Wild (1990) 8.3
8. Wong gok ka moon / As Tears Go By (1988) 8.0
9. Yi dai zong shi / The Grandmaster (2013) 7.9
42. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer | El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...
43. Peter Greenaway
Director | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Peter Greenaway trained as a painter and began working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information in 1965. Shortly afterwards he started to make his own films. He has produced a wealth of short and feature-length films, but also paintings, novels and other books. He has held several ...
How I rank/rate his films:
1. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) 9.4
2. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) 9.1
3. A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) 8.6
4. Prospero's Books (1991) 8.3
5. The Baby of Mâcon (1993) 8.1
6. The Falls (1980) 8.0
7. Drowning by Numbers (1988) 8.0
8. The Belly of an Architect (1987) 8.0
9. A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1979) 8.0
10. Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) 7.9
11. Vertical Features Remake (1978) 6.4
44. István Szabó
Director | Sunshine
István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence....
How I rank/rate her filmography:
1. Szerelmesfilm (1970) 9.5
2. Budapesti mesék / Budapest Tales (1977) 9.5
3. Mephisto (1981) 8.8
4. Apa (1966) 8.4
5. Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok (1992) 8.2
6. Oberst Redl (1985) 8.2
7. Bizalom / Confidence (1980) 8.1
8. Hanussen (1988) 8.0
9. Álmodozások kora (Felnott kamaszok) (1965) 7.8
10. Tüzoltó utca 25. (1973) 7.4
45. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Dogville (2003) 9.9
2. Melancholia (2011) 9.3
3. Idioterne (1998) 9.3
4. Dancer in the Dark (2000) 8.9
5. Antichrist (2009) 8.8
6. Breaking the Waves (1996) 8.7
7. "Riget II" (1997) 8.5
8. Manderlay (2005) 8.4
9. Medea (1988) 8.3
10. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013) 8.2
11. "Riget" (1994) 8.2
12. Europa / Zentropa (1991) 8.1
13. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) 8.0
14. Forbrydelsens element / The Element of Crime (1984) 8.0
46. Vera Chytilová
Director | O necem jiném
Vera Chytilová was born on February 2, 1929, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). She studied philosophy and architecture in Brno for two years, then worked as a technical draftsman, a designer, a fashion model, a photo re-toucher, then worked as a clapper girl for Barrandov Film ...
47. Jan Svankmajer
Director | Otesánek
After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Otesánek / Little Otik (2000) 9.2
2. Neco z Alenky / Alice (1988) 9.0
3. Sílení / Lunacy (2005) 8.8
4. Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) / Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010) 8.6
5. Spiklenci slasti / Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) 8.3
6. Faust (1994) 8.1
48. William Wyler
Director | The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Little Foxes (1941) 9.5
2. The Children’s Hour (1961) 9.4
3. The Collector (1965) 9.4
4. Jezebel (1938) 9.3
5. The Letter (1940) 9.2
6. Mrs. Miniver (1942) 9.1
7. The Big Country (1958) 9.0
8. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 8.9
9. Friendly Persuasion (1956) 8.7
10. Dead End (1937) 8.7
11. Dodsworth (1936) 8.5
12. The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) 8.4
13. The Desperate Hours (1955) 8.3
14. Counsellor at Law (1933) 8.2
15. How to Steal a Million (1966) 8.2
16. The Heiress (1949) 8.1
17. The Good Fairy (1935) 8.1
18. Wuthering Heights (1939) 8.0
19. Carrie (1952) 7.8
20. Detective Story (1951) 7.5
21. Ben-Hur (1959) 7.2
22. Roman Holiday (1953) 7.2
23. These Three (1936) 7.2
24. Funny Girl (1968) 7.0
25. The Westerner (1940) 6.0
26. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944) 5.0
49. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Wise Blood (1979) 9.9
2. Fat City (1972) 9.8
3. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 9.6
4. The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 9.4
5. Moulin Rouge (1952) 9.4
6. The Night of the Iguana (1964) 9.2
7. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 8.3
8. The Red Badge of Courage (1951) 8.2
9. Key Largo (1948) 8.1
10. The Unforgiven (1960) 8.1
11. The Dead (1987) 8.0
12. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) 8.0
13. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 8.0
14. The African Queen (1951) 7.9
15. In This Our Life (1942) 7.5
16. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) 7.3
17. Under the Volcano (1984) 7.3
18. Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) 7.2
19. The Misfits (1961) 7.2
20. Prizzi's Honor (1985) 6.8
21. Moby Dick (1956) 6.7
22. Beat the Devil (1953) 6.0
23. The Kremlin Letter (1970) 3.5
50. Harun Farocki
Director | Memories
The German film director, screenwriter and media artist Harun Farocki was born on the 9th January 1944 in Nový Jicín [Neutitschein], at that time a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by the Third Reich. He was the son of an immigrated Indian doctor and a German woman. Farocki first studied Theatre, ...
51. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Fitzcarraldo (1982) 9.8
2. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974) 9.7
3. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) 9.7
4. Stroszek (1977) 9.6
5. Rescue Dawn (2006) 9.3
6. Herz aus Glas / Heart of Glass (1976) 8.6
7. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009) 8.5
8. Lektionen in Finsternis (1992) 8.2
9. Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (1971) 8.2
10. Lebenszeichen (1968) 8.1
11. Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg (1985) 8.0
12. Behinderte Zukunft? (1971) 8.0
13. Encounters at the End of the World (2007) 7.9
14. Woyzeck (1979) 7.5
15. The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) 7.0
16. Grizzly Man (2005) 7.0
17. Invincible (2001) 7.0
18. The White Diamond (2004) 7.0
19. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) 6.5
20. Fata Morgana (1971) 6.2
21. Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (1970) 6.2
22. Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) 6.0
23. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) 5.5
24. Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (1974) 5.0
52. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. There Will Be Blood (2007) 9.8
2. The Master (2012) 9.7
3. Boogie Nights (1997) 9.6
4. Inherent Vice (2014) 9.4
5. Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 9.2
6. Magnolia (1999) 8.9
7. Sydney (1995) 8.0
53. Karel Kachyna
Director | Ucho
Karel Kachyna was born on May 1, 1924 in Vyskov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Ear (1970), Nadeje (1964) and The High Wall (1964). He was married to Alena Mihulová. He died on March 12, 2004 in Prague, Czech Republic.
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Kocár do Vídne / Carriage to Vienna (1966) 9.2
2. Noc nevesty / The Nun's Night (1967) 8.7
3. Malá morská víla / The Little Mermaid (1976) 8.1
4. At' zije Republika (1965) 8.1
5. Poslední motýl / The Last Butterfly (1991) 8.0
6. Láska (1973) 8.0
7. Prace (1960) 8.0
8. Uz zase skácu pres kaluze / Jumping Over Puddles (1971) 7.9
9. Vysoká zed (1964) 7.8
10. Ucho / The Ear (1970) 7.4
11. Závrat (1963) 7.3
54. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Tenant (1976) 9.6
2. Chinatown (1974) 9.6
3. Rosemary's Baby (1968) 9.0
4. The Pianist (2002) 8.4
5. The Ghost Writer (2010) 8.2
6. Dance of the Vampires (1967) 8.0
7. Repulsion (1965) 8.0
8. Cul-de-sac (1966) 8.0
9. La Vénus à la fourrure (2013) 8.0
10. Nóz w wodzie (1962) 7.8
11. Carnage (2011) 7.8
12. Tess (1979) 7.5
13. Death and the Maiden (1994) 7.2
14. The Ninth Gate (1999) 7.2
15. Oliver Twist (2005) 7.0
16. The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971) 6.5
17. Bitter Moon (1992) 6.0
18. What? (1972) 5.0
19. Frantic (1988) 5.0
55. Ken Russell
Director | The Devils
Ken Russell tried several professions before choosing to become a film director; he was a still photographer and a dancer and he even served in the Army, but film was his destiny. He began by making several short films which paved the way for his brilliant television films of the 1960s that are ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Devils (1971) 9.6
2. Mahler (1974) 9.2
3. The Boy Friend (1971) 8.9
4. Savage Messiah (1972) 8.7
5. Salome's Last Dance (1988) 8.4
6. Lady Chatterley (1993) 8.4
7. A British Picture (1989) 8.3
8. Women in Love (1969) 8.2
9. The Lair of the White Worm (1988) 8.1
10. Tommy (1975) 8.1
11. Altered States (1980) 8.0
12. Gothic (1986) 7.6
13. Lisztomania (1975) 7.4
14. Billion Dollar Brain (1967) 7.0
15. Crimes of Passion (1984) 6.0
56. Frantisek Vlácil
Director | Marketa Lazarová
Frantisek Vlácil was born on February 19, 1924 in Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic. He was a director and writer, known for Marketa Lazarová (1967), The Valley of the Bees (1968) and Adelheid (1969). He died on January 28, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Dáblova past / The Devil's Trap (1962) 9.0
2. Údolí vcel / Valley of the Bees (1968) 8.8
3. Marketa Lazarová (1967) 8.4
4. Holubice / The White Dove (1960) 8.1
5. Dým bramborové nate / Shadows of a Hot Summer (1977) 6.4
57. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Black Swan (2010) 9.6
2. The Wrestler (2008) 9.3
3. The Fountain (2006) 8.7
4. Pi (1998) 8.5
5. Requiem For A Dream (2000) 8.3
58. Kim Ki-duk
Writer | Bin-jip
He studied fine arts in Paris in 1990-1992. In 1993 he won the award for Best Screenplay from the Educational Institute of Screenwriting with "A Painter and A Criminal Condemned to Death". After two more screenplay awards, he made his directorial debut with Crocodile (1996) ("Crocodile"). Then he ...
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) 9.9
2. Hwal / The Bow (2005) 9.3
3. Bin-jip / 3-Iron (2004) 9.1
4. Seom / The Isle (2000) 9.0
5. Samaria (2004) 8.7
6. Hae anseon / The Coast Guard (2002) 8.5
7. Paran daemun / Birdcage Inn (1998) 8.4
8. Arirang (2011) 8.4
9. Shi gan / Time (2006) 8.3
10. Soom / Breath (2007) 8.2
11. Suchwiin bulmyeong / Address Unknown (2001) 8.2
12. Pieta (2012) 8.0
13. Nabbeun namja / Bad Guy (2001) 8.0
14. Bi-mong / Dream (2008) 7.0
15. Shilje sanghwang / Real Fiction (2000) 6.4
16. Ag-o / Crocodile (1996) 6.3
17. Yasaeng dongmul bohoguyeog / Wild Animals (1997) 6.0
59. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Kaze tachinu / The Wind Rises (2013) 9.3
2. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away (2001) 9.0
3. Mononoke-hime (1997) 9.0
4. Kurenai no buta / Porco Rosso (1992) 8.8
5. Kaze no tani no Naushika / Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 8.6
6. Tonari no Totoro / My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 8.0
7. Gake no ue no Ponyo / Ponyo on the Cliff (2008) 8.0
8. Hauru no ugoku shiro / Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 7.8
9. Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta / Castle in the Sky (1986) 7.5
10. Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (1979) 7.0
11. Majo no takkyûbin / Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 6.5
60. Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer | Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Il Conformista (1970) 9.9
2. Novecento (1976) 9.4
3. The Last Emperor (1987) 9.2
4. La commare secca / The Grim Reaper (1962) 8.4
5. Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) 8.3
6. Io e te (2012) 8.0
7. La luna (1979) 8.0
8. Prima della rivoluzione (1964) 6.4
9. Strategia del ragno / The Spider's Stratagem (1970) 6.0
61. Howard Hawks
Director | Red River
What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. His Girl Friday (1940) 9.6
2. Rio Bravo (1959) 9.2
3. The Big Sky (1952) 9.2
4. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) 9.2
5. Ball of Fire (1941) 9.0
6. To Have and Have Not (1944) 8.8
7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 8.4
8. Red River (1948) 8.2
9. Twentieth Century (1934) 8.0
10. Air Force (1943) 8.0
11. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 8.0
12. The Dawn Patrol (1930) 7.8
13. The Big Sleep (1946) 7.4
14. Scarface (1932) 7.2
15. Come and Get It (1936) 7.2
16. El Dorado (1966) 7.0
17. Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) 7.0
18. Sergeant York (1941) 6.8
19. I Was a Male War Bride (1949) 6.8
20. A Girl in Every Port (1928) 6.8
21. Monkey Business (1952) 6.0
62. Marguerite Duras
Writer | Le camion
Ms. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season's flooding. The disaster killed her mother as a result. After high school in Saigon, Ms. Duras left Indochina to...
63. Masaki Kobayashi
Director | Seppuku
Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Kaidan(1964) 9.6
2. Ningen no jôken / The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) 9.2
3. Ningen no jôken / The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) 8.9
4. Karami-ai / The Inheritance (1964) 8.5
5. Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu / Samurai Rebellion (1967) 8.4
6. Ningen no jôken / The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) 8.4
7. Inochi bô ni furô / Inn of Evil (1971) 8.2
8. Kuroi kawa / Black River (1957) 8.1
9. Musuko no seishun / Youth of the Son (1952) 8.0
10. Seppuku / Harakiri (1962) 7.4
11. Kabe atsuki heya / The Thick-Walled Room (1953) 7.3
12. Anata kaimasu / I Will Buy You (1956) 7.2
13. Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Under the Broad Sky (1954) 7.0
14. Uruwashiki saigetsu / Beautiful Days (1955) 7.0
15. Magokoro / Sincere Heart (1953) 7.0
16. Izumi / Fountainhead (1956) 6.0
64. André Téchiné
Writer | Les roseaux sauvages
André Téchiné was born on March 13, 1943 in Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Wild Reeds (1994), Rendez-vous (1985) and Being 17 (2016).
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Les voleurs (1996) 9.2
2. Le lieu du crime / Scene of the Crime (1986) 9.0
3. Les innocents (1987) 8.9
4. Les roseaux sauvages / Wild Reed (1994) 8.8
5. J'embrasse pas / I Don't Kiss (1991) 8.5
6. Les témoins / The Witnesses (2007) 8.6
7. Les égarés / Strayed (2003) 8.4
8. Barocco (1976) 8.4
9. Ma saison préférée / My Favorite Season (1993) 8.2
10. Les soeurs Brontë / The Bronte Sisters (1979) 8.2
11. Rendez-vous (1985) 8.0
12. Hôtel des Amériques (1981) 8.0
13. La fille du RER / The Girl on the Train (2009) 7.1
14. Impardonnables / Unforgivable (2011) 6.9
15. Les temps qui changent / Changing Times (2004) 6.4
16. Alice et Martin (1998) 6.0
65. Louis Malle
Director | Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Pretty Baby (1978) 9.7
2. Atlantic City (1980) 9.4
3. Au revoir les enfants (1987) 8.9
4. Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows (1958) 8.8
5. Zazie dans le métro (1960) 8.8
6. My Dinner with Andre (1981) 8.6
7. Le Souffle au Coeur / Murmur of the Heart (1971) 8.4
8. LeFeu follet (1963) 7.7
9. Lacombe Lucien (1974) 7.4
10. Les Amants (1958) 6.8
66. François Truffaut
Writer | La nuit américaine
French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Tirez sur le pianiste / Shoot the Piano Player (1960) 9.5
2. La nuit américaine (1973) 9.3
3. Jules et Jim (1962) 9.2
4. The Man Who Loved Women (1977) 9.2
5. Fahrenheit 451 (1966) 8.9
6. Baisers volés / Stolen Kisses (1968) 8.8
7. Domicile conjugal / Bead & Board (1970) 8.7
8. Les Quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows (1959) 8.4
9. Le Dernier métro / The Last Metro (1980) 8.3
10. La sirène du Mississipi (1969) 7.9
11. L'argent de poche / Pocket Money / Small Change (1976) 7.8
12. La Chambre verte / The Green Room (1978) 7.7
13. La Mariée était en / The Bride Wore Black (1968) 7.0
14. L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975) 7.0
15. La Femme d'à côté / The Woman Next Door (1981) 6.5
16. L'amour en fuite / Love on the Run (1979) 6.0
17. L'Enfant sauvage / The Wild Child (1970) 6.0
18. La Peau douce / The Soft Skin (1964) 5.2
19. Les deux anglaises et le continent (1971) 5.0
67. Michael Curtiz
Director | Casablanca
Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) 9.3
2. The Sea Wolf (1941) 9.2
3. Casablanca (1942) 9.2
4. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) 9.2
5. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) 9.1
6. Young Man with a Horn (1950) 8.8
7. Dodge City (1939) 8.6
8. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) 8.6
9. Mildred Pierce (1945) 8.4
10. White Christmas (1954) 8.4
11. Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951) 8.3
12. Life with Father (1947) 8.2
13. We're No Angels (1955) 8.2
14. The Sea Hawk (1940) 8.1
15. Flamingo Road (1949) 8.1
16. The Unsuspected (1947) 8.0
17. The Breaking Point (1950) 8.0
18. Passage to Marseille (1944) 8.0
19. Captain Blood (1935) 8.0
20. Kid Galahad (1937) 8.0
21. Four Daughters (1938) 7.9
22. Mission to Moscow (1943) 7.9
23. The Egyptian (1954) 7.9
24. Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) 7.8
25. Female (1933) 7.5
26. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) 7.5
27. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) 7.3
28. Virginia City (1940) 7.2
29. Front Page Woman (1935) 7.2
30. Jimmy the Gent (1934) 7.2
31. The Comancheros (1961) 7.2
32. The Hangman (1959) 7.0
33. Die Lawine (1923) 7.0
34. Labyrinth des Grauens / Labyrinth of Horror (1921) 7.0
35. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) 6.7
36. My Dream Is Yours (1949) 6.4
37. The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) 6.0
38. Die Sklavenkönigin / Moon of Israel (1924) 6.0
39. Doctor X (1932) 5.9
40. Sodom und Gomorrha (1922) 5.0
41. Santa Fe Trail (1940) 4.1
68. Wim Wenders
Director | Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Paris, Texas (1984) 9.8
2. Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) 9.7
3. Der Amerikanische Freund (1977) 9.4
4. Alice in den Städten (1974) 8.6
5. Falsche Bewegung (1975) 8.4
6. Land of Plenty (2004) 8.0
7. Im Lauf der Zeit / Kings of the Road (1976) 7.4
8. Hammett (1982) 7.2
9. Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (1972) 6.9
10. Lightning Over Water (1980) 6.2
69. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Abhijaan / The Expedition (1962) 9.0
2. Jana Aranya / The Middleman (1976) 8.9
3. Pratidwandi / The Adversary (1971) 8.6
4. Apur Sansar / The World of Apu (1959) 8.6
5. Pather Panchali (1955) 8.5
6. Nayak / The Hero (1966) 8.5
7. Agantuk / The Visitor (1991) 8.4
8. Kapurush / The Coward (1965) 8.4
9. Aparajito / The Unvanquished (1956) 8.4
10. Ganashatru / An Enemy of the People (1989) 8.3
11. Devi / The Goddess (1960) 8.2
12. Ghare-Baire / The Home and the World (1984) 8.2
13. Sonar Kella / The Golden Fortress (1974) 8.1
14. Seemabaddha / Company Limited (1974) 8.1
15. Shakha Proshakha / Branches of the Tree (1990) 8.1
16. Shatranj Ke Khilari / The Chess Players (1977) 8.0
17. Teen Kanya / Three Daughters (1961) 8.0
18. Sikkim (1971) 8.0
19. Rabindranath Tagore (1961) 7.8
20. Mahanagar / The Big City (1964) 7.4
21. Sadgati / Deliverance (1984) 7.3
22. Jalsaghar / The Music Room (1958) 7.0
23. Kanchenjungha (1962) 7.0
24. Joi Baba Felunath / The Elephant God (1979) 7.0
25. Aranyer Din Ratri / Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) 6.9
26. Charulata / The Lonely Wife (1964) 6.4
27. Mahapurush / The Holy Man (1965) 6.0
28. Ashani Sanket / Distant Thunder (1973) 6.0
29. Chiriyakhana / The Zoo (1967) 6.0
30. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) 5.8
31. Heerak Rajar Deshe / The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980) 5.0
32. Parash Pathar / The Philosopher's Stone (1958) 5.0
70. Sion Sono
Director | Ai no mukidashi
Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Jigoku de naze warui / Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013) 9.4
2. Ai no mukidashi / Love Exposure (2008) 9.3
3. Jisatsu sâkuru / Suicide Club (2001) 9.2
4. Kibô no kuni / The Land of Hope (2012) 8.7
5. Tsumetai nettaigyo / Cold Fish (2010) 8.6
6. Kimyô na sâkasu / Strange Circus (2005) 8.4
7. Noriko no shokutaku / Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) 8.3
8. Koi no tsumi / Guilty of Romance (2011) 8.3
9. Heya / The Room (1992) 8.0
71. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Naked Lunch (1991) 9.6
2. Cosmopolis (2012) 9.4
3. Dead Ringers (1988) 9.2
4. Maps to the Stars (2014) 9.0
5. eXistenZ (1999) 8.6
6. Eastern Promises (2007) 8.4
7. The Brood (1979) 8.3
8. Videodrome (1983) 8.2
9. Crash (1996/I) 8.2
10. M. Butterfly (1993) 8.1
11. The Dead Zone (1983) 8.0
12. A History of Violence (2005) 7.5
13. Rabid (1977) 7.5
14. Stereo (1969) 7.0
15. Spider (2002) 7.0
16. The Fly (1986) 6.8
17. Scanners (1981) 6.5
18. Shivers (1975) 6.0
72. Céline Sciamma
Writer | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma was born on November 12, 1978 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France. She is a writer and director, known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Petite Maman (2021) and Tomboy (2011).
73. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Vertigo (1958) 9.4
2. Notorious (1946) 9.3
3. Rear Window (1954) 9.2
4. The Wrong Man (1956) 8.9
5. Spellbound (1945) 8.8
6. The Birds (1963) 8.6
7. Psycho (1960) 8.5
8. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 8.4
9. Frenzy (1972) 8.5
10. Foreign Correspondent (1940) 8.5
11. Strangers on a Train (1951) 8.4
12. North by Northwest (1959) 8.3
13. Under Capricorn (1949) 8.3
14. Sabotage (1936) 8.2
15. Stage Fright (1950) 8.0
16. Rebecca (1940) 8.1
17. Rope (1948) 8.0
18. Lifeboat (1944) 7.9
19. Saboteur (1942) 7.9
20. To Catch a Thief (1955) 7.8
21. The Lady Vanishes (1938) 7.8
22. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) 7.8
23. Jamaica Inn (1939) 7.8
24. The Manxman (1929) 7.5
25. Suspicion (1941) 7.5
26. The 39 Steps (1935) 7.3
27. Blackmail (1929) 7.0
28. Secret Agent (1936) 7.0
29. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) 6.5
30. Topaz (1969) 6.0
31. The Paradine Case (1947) 6.0
32. Torn Curtain (1966) 6.0
33. Marnie (1964) 6.0
34. Dial M for Murder (1954) 6.0
35. Family Plot (1976) 5.0
36. Young and Innocent (1937) 5.0
37. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 5.0
38. The Trouble with Harry (1955) 5.0
39. I Confess (1953) 5.0
40. Murder! (1930) 4.0
74. Jerry Schatzberg
Director | Scarecrow
Jerry Schatzberg was born on June 26, 1927 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Scarecrow (1973), The Panic in Needle Park (1971) and Sweet Revenge (1976).
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Scarecrow (1973) 9.9
2. The Panic in Needle Park (1971) 9.9
3. Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) 8.9
4. Street Smart (1987) 8.3
5. Sweet Revenge (1976) 8.0
6. Honeysuckle Rose (1980) 8.0
7. Reunion (1989) 7.5
8. The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979) 7.2
9. No Small Affair (1984) 7.0
10. Clinton and Nadine (1988) 6.0
75. Sam Peckinpah
Writer | The Wild Bunch
"If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael. That ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) 9.7
2. The Wild Bunch (1969) 9.3
3. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) 9.2
4. Ride the High Country (1962) 8.9
5. Cross of Iron (1977) 8.6
6. Straw Dogs (1971) 8.4
7. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) 8.0
8. The Getaway (1972) 7.5
9. Junior Bonner (1972) 7.0
10. Major Dundee (1965) 6.4
11. Convoy (1978) 6.0
76. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) 9.7
2. Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (1948) 9.6
3. Umberto D. (1952) 9.0
4. La ciociara / Two Women (1960) 8.5
5. La porta del cielo / The Children Are Watching Us (1945) 8.4
6. Sciuscià / Shoe-Shine (1946) 8.1
7. Una breve vacanza / A Brief Vacation (1973) 8.0
8. Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan (1951) 7.0
9. Il tetto/ The Roof (1956) 7.0
10. I girasoli / Sunflower (1970) 6.2
77. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Vredens dag / Day of Wrath (1943) 9.4
2. Prästänkan / The Parson's Widow (1920) 9.2
3. Blade af Satans bog / Leaves Out of the Book of Satan (1921) 9.0
4. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc / The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 8.6
5. Du skal ære din hustru / Master of the House (1925) 8.4
6. Gertrud (1964) 8.2
7. Die Gezeichneten / Love One Another (1922) 8.2
8. Der var engang / One Upon a Time (1922) 8.0
9. Præsidenten / The President (1919) 7.8
10. Glomdalsbruden / The Bride of Glomdal (1926) 7.2
11. Michael (1924) 7.0
12. Ordet (1955) 6.4
13. Vampyr (1932) 5.0
78. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Interiors (1978) 9.4
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) 9.2
3. Radio Days (1987) 8.9
4. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) 8.9
5. Another Woman (1988) 8.7
6. Annie Hall (1977) 8.6
7. Sleeper (1973) 8.6
8. Deconstructing Harry (1997) 8.5
9. Stardust Memories (1980) 8.4
10. Love and Death (1975) 8.4
11. Shadows and Fog (1992) 8.4
12. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) 8.3
13. Take the Money and Run (1969) 8.3
14. Zelig (1983) 8.3
15. Manhattan (1979) 8.2
16. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 8.2
17. Husbands and Wives (1992) 8.2
18. Whatever Works (2009) 8.1
19. Sweet and Lowdown (1999) 8.1
20. Match Point (2005) 8.0
21. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8.1
22. Mighty Aphrodite (1995) 8.1
23. Midnight in Paris (2011) 7.9
24. Bullets Over Broadway (1994) 7.8
25. Broadway Danny Rose (1984) 7.6
26. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) 7.2
27. Cassandra's Dream (2007) 7.1
28. Hollywood Ending (2002) 7.0
29. Bananas (1971) 7.0
30. Small Time Crooks (2000) 7.0
31. Anything Else (2003) 6.8
32. September (1987) 6.5
33. Celebrity (1998) 6.4
34. Don't Drink the Water (1994) 6.2
35. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) 5.9
36. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) 5.8
37. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) 5.4
38. Alice (1990) 5.0
39. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) 4.5
40. Scoop (2006) 4.5
41. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) 4.0
42. Melinda and Melinda (2004) 4.0
79. Carol Reed
Director | The Third Man
Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Odd Man Out (1947) 9.7
2. The Third Man (1949) 9.5
3. The Man Between (1953) 8.7
4. Trapeze (1956) 8.6
5. The Fallen Idol (1948) 7.8
6. Night Train to Munich (1940) 7.5
7. The Way Ahead (1944) 7.0
8. Oliver! (1968) 6.0
9. The Stars Look Down (1940) 5.0
80. Kon Ichikawa
Director | Inugami-ke no ichizoku
Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Nobi / Fires on the Plain (1959) 9.7
2. Kokoro / The Heart (1955) 9.2
3. Yukinojo henge / An Actor's Revenge (1963) 8.5
4. Kagi / Odd Obsession (1959) 8.4
5. Shokei no heya / Punishment Room (1956) 8.4
6. Tôkyô orimpikku / Tokyo Olympiad (1965) 8.3
7. Enjo / Conflagration (1958) 8.2
8. Taiheiyô hitoribocchi / Alone on the Pacific (1963) 8.2
9. Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp (1956) 7.4
10. Watashi wa nisai / Being Two Isn't Easy (1962) 6.4
11. Sasame-yuki / The Makioka Sisters (1983) 7.0
12. Otouto / Her Brother (1960) 7.0
13. Hakai / The Outcast (1962) 7.2
14. Akuma no temari-uta / The Devil's Ballad (1977) 6.0
81. Kira Muratova
Director | Nastroyshchik
Kira Muratova was born on November 5, 1934 in Soroca, Romania [now Moldova]. She was a director and writer, known for Nastroyshchik (2004), Vtorostepennye lyudi (2001) and The Asthenic Syndrome (1989). She was married to Aleksandr Muratov and Yevgeni Golubenko. She died on June 6, 2018 in Odessa, ...
82. Bertrand Blier
Writer | Le bruit des glaçons
Bertrand Blier was born on March 14, 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He is a writer and director, known for The Clink of Ice (2010), Too Beautiful for You (1989) and 1, 2, 3, Freeze (1993).
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Buffet froid (1979) 9.6
2. Préparez vos mouchoirs / Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) 9.4
3. Les valseuses / Going Places(1974) 8.9
4. Tenue de soirée / Ménage (1986) 8.8
5. Calmos (1976) 8.4
6. Le bruit des glaçons / The Clink of Ice (2010) 8.2
7. La femme de mon pote / My Best Friend's Girl (1983) 7.5
8. Beau-père (1981) 7.3
9. Trop belle pour toi / Too Beautiful for You (1989) 7.1
83. Julien Duvivier
Writer | Panique
Revered by such legendary fellow directors as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier is one of the most legendary figures in the history of French cinema. He is perhaps the most neglected of the "Big Five" of classic French cinema (the other four being Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Jacques ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Pépé le Moko (1937) 9.7
2. David Golder (1931) 9.1
3. Tales of Manhattan (1942) 9.0
4. Voici le temps des assassins... / Deadlier Than the Male (1956) 8.4
5. Au bonheur des dames (1930) 8.2
6. Panique / Panic (1946) 8.2
7. Boulevard (1960) 8.1
8. Poil de carotte / The Red Head (1932) 8.0
9. Poil de carotte (1925) 8.0
10. La bandera / Escape from Yesterday (1935) 8.0
11. La belle équipe / They Were Five (1936) 7.8
12. La fin du jour / The End of the Day (1939) 7.2
13. Flesh and Fantasy (1943) 7.1
14. Le mystère de la tour Eiffel (1927) 7.0
15. Maman Colibri (1929) 7.0
16. The Great Waltz (1938) 6.0
17. Don Camillo (1952) 5.0
18. La tête d'un home / A Man's Neck (1933) 5.0
84. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Director | Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg was born on December 8, 1935 in Nossendorf, Pomerania, Prussia [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern], Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Ludwig - Requiem for a Virgin King (1972), Die Nacht (1985) and Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch? (1969).
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Karl May (1974) 9.3
2. Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1977) 8.9
3. Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König (1972) 8.5
4. Hitler, ein Film aus Deutschland (1977) 8.4
5. Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird (1972) 8.4
6. San Domingo (1970) 6.4
85. Claire Denis
Director | High Life
The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...
How I rank/rate her filmography:
1. US Go Home (1994) 8.9
2. Beau travail (1999) 8.8
3. White Material (2009) 8.5
4. 35 rhums / 35 Shots of Rum (2008) 8.3
5. Chocolat (1988) 8.2
6. S'en fout la mort / No Fear, No Die (1990) 8.2
7. Trouble Every Day (2001) 8.1
8. Nénette et Boni (1996) 7.8
9. Vendredi soir / Friday Night (2002) 7.2
10. L'intrus / The Intruder (2004) 7.1
11. J'ai pas sommeil / I Can’t Sleep (1994) 7.0
12. Vers Mathilde (2005) 6.4
13. Les salauds (2013) 6.2
86. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
How I rank/rate their filmography:
1. No Country for Old Men (2007) 9.4
2. The Big Lebowski (1998) 9.3
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 9.2
4. Fargo (1996) 9.2
5. Barton Fink (1991) 9.0
6. A Serious Man (2009) 8.8
7. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 8.6
8. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 8.4
9. Blood Simple. (1984) 8.3
10. Miller's Crossing (1990) 8.2
11. True Grit (2010) 8.1
12. Raising Arizona (1987) 8.0
13. Hail, Caesar! (2016) 8.0
14. Burn After Reading (2008) 8.0
15. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 8.0
16. The Ladykillers (2004) 6.5
17. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 6.0
87. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 9.8
2. Tobacco Road (1941) 9.0
3. My Darling Clementine (1946) 8.8
4. The Long Voyage Home (1940) 8.6
5. 3 Bad Men (1926) 8.6
6. The Informer (1935) 8.5
7. The Iron Horse (1924) 8.5
8. Stagecoach (1939) 8.4
9. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) 8.4
10. Just Pals (1920) 8.3
11. The Quiet Man (1952) 8.3
12. The Searchers (1956) 8.3
13. The Horse Soldiers (1959) 8.2
14. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 8.2
15. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 8.1
16. They Were Expendable (1945) 8.0
17. Sergeant Rutledge (1960) 8.0
18. Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 7.8
19. The Lost Patrol (1934) 7.8
20. 3 Godfathers (1948) 7.6
21. The Whole Town's Talking (1935) 7.4
22. Up the River (1930) 7.4
23. Fort Apache (1948) 7.0
24. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 7.0
25. Two Rode Together (1961) 7.0
26. Arrowsmith (1931) 7.0
27. Mister Roberts (1955) 6.9
28. Rio Grande (1950) 6.8
29. Pilgrimage (1933) 6.7
30. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) 6.4
31. 7 Women (1966) 6.3
32. The Sun Shines Bright (1953) 6.3
33. Cheyenne Autumn (1964) 6.2
34. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) 6.0
35. Mary of Scotland (1936) 6.0
36. The Fugitive (1947) 5.0
37. Wagon Master (1950) 5.0
38. Mogambo (1953) 5.0
39. Four Sons (1928) 5.0
40. Riley the Cop (1928) 5.0
41. Hangman's House (1928) 4.0
42. Judge Priest (1934) 4.0
88. John Frankenheimer
Director | The Manchurian Candidate
Born in New York and raised in Queens, John Frankenheimer wanted to become a professional tennis player. He loved movies and his favorite actor was Robert Mitchum. He decided he wanted to be an actor but then he applied for and was accepted in the Motion Picture Squadron of the Air Force where he ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Seconds (1966) 9.5
2. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 8.9
3. The Horsemen (1971) 8.7
4. The Young Savages (1961) 8.6
5. The Train (1964) 8.5
6. Grand Prix (1966) 8.4
7. Black Sunday (1977) 8.2
8. Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) 8.1
9. 52 Pick-Up (1986) 8.0
10. Seven Days in May (1964) 8.0
11. Ronin (1998) 7.1
12. French Connection II (1975) 6.0
89. Hal Hartley
Director | Trust
Hal Hartley is an American filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and composer who has made twelve feature films since 1988. Popularly associated with the American independent filmmaking scene of the early nineties, he went on to write and direct such films as No Such Thing (2001) for United ...
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Trust (1990) 9.0
2. Henry Fool (1997) 8.9
3. Ned Rifle (2014) 8.7
4. Simple Men (1992) 8.8
5. The Unbelievable Truth (1989) 8.2
6. Fay Grim (2006) 8.0
7. Surviving Desire (1993) 8.0
8. Meanwhile (2011) 8.0
9. Amateur (1994) 7.4
90. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Stalag 17 (1953) 9.4
2. Double Indemnity (1944) 9.1
3. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) 8.7
4. The Apartment (1960) 9.1
5. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 9.0
6. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) 8.4
7. The Seven Year Itch (1955) 8.4
8. One, Two, Three (1961) 8.4
9. Ace in the Hole (1951) 8.3
10. Some Like It Hot (1959) 8.3
11. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) 8.1
12. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 8.1
13. The Major and the Minor (1942) 8.0
14. Avanti! (1972) 8.0
15. The Lost Weekend (1945) 7.9
16. Sabrina (1954) 7.4
17. The Front Page (1974) 7.4
18. Love in the Afternoon (1957) 7.0
19. A Foreign Affair (1948) 6.5
91. Frank Capra
Director | It's a Wonderful Life
One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. It Happened One Night (1934) 9.4
2. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 9.4
3. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 9.0
4. Lost Horizon (1937) 8.9
5. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 8.7
6. American Madness (1932) 8.5
7. The Miracle Woman (1931) 8.4
8. Lady for a Day (1933) 8.2
9. Ladies of Leisure (1930) 8.2
10. You Can't Take It with You (1938) 8.0
11. Meet John Doe (1941) 7.9
12. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 7.9
13. Platinum Blonde (1931) 7.8
14. The Matinee Idol (1928) 7.0
15. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 6.1
16. The Power of the Press (1928) 5.9
92. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Oldboy (2003) 9.4
2. Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) 9.2
3. Stoker (2013) 9.2
4. Saibogujiman kwenchana / I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006) 8.8
5. Boksuneun naui geot / Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) 8.6
6. Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA / JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) 8.4
7. Ah-ga-ssi / The Handmaiden (2016) 8.0
8. Thirst (2009) 7.5
93. Sidney Lumet
Director | 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Network (1976) 9.8
2. Fail-Safe (1964) 9.2
3. 12 Angry Men (1957) 9.0
4. Equus (1977) 9.0
5. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) 8.8
6. Prince of the City (1981) 8.7
7. The Verdict (1982) 8.5
8. Serpico (1973) 8.5
9. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) 8.3
10. The Hill (1965) 8.3
11. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 8.2
12. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) 8.2
13. The Fugitive Kind (1959) 8.1
14. The Pawnbroker (1964) 8.0
15. Running on Empty (1988) 8.0
16. Deathtrap (1982) 8.0
17. Daniel (1983) 7.9
18. Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) 7.8
19. The Anderson Tapes (1971) 7.5
20. The Deadly Affair (1966) 7.5
21. Stage Struck (1958) 7.2
22. The Offence (1972) 7.2
23. The Group (1966) 6.8
24. That Kind of Woman (1959) 6.7
25. Bye Bye Braverman (1968) 6.6
26. The Sea Gull (1968) 6.5
27. Q & A (1990) 6.2
28. Child's Play (1972) 5.8
29. Vu du pont / A View From the Bridge (1961) 5.7
30. Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) 5.5
31. Find Me Guilty (2006) 5.0
32. The Wiz (1978) 4.5
94. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer | All About Eve
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Sleuth (1972) 9.6
2. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 9.5
3. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) 9.0
4. No Way Out (1950) 8.8
5. There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) 8.6
6. 5 Fingers (1952) 8.6
7. All About Eve (1950) 8.5
8. The Barefoot Contessa (1954) 8.4
9. Dragonwyck (1946) 7.8
10. A Letter to Three Wives (1949) 7.2
11. Julius Caesar (1953) 7.0
12. Escape (1948) 6.7
13. Somewhere in the Night (1946) 6.5
14. House of Strangers (1949) 6.4
95. Yasuzô Masumura
Director | Daichi no komoriuta
Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined ...
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Kuchizuke / Kisses (1957) 9.1
2. Môjû / Blind Beast (1969) 9.0
3. Akai tenshi / Red Angel (1966) 8.9
4. Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses (1961) 8.6
5. Irezumi (1966) 8.4
6. Kyojin to gangu / Giants & Toys (1958) 8.4
7. Ao-zora Musume / The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) 8.2
8. Koshoku ichidai otoko / A Lustful Man (1961) 8.0
9. Manji (1964) 8.0
10. Seisaku no tsuma / Seisaku's Wife (1965) 8.0
11. Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma / The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967) 7.3
12. Chijin no ai / Love for an Idiot (1967) 7.2
13. Kuro no tesuto kaa / The Black Test Car (1962) 7.0
14. Karakkaze yarô / Afraid to Die (1960) 6.4
15. Sonezaki shinju / Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) 6.2
16. Asobi / Play (1971) 6.0
17. Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme / Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973) 6.0
18. Ongaku / The Music (1972) 5.9
19. Nise daigakusei / A False Student (1960) 5.0
96. Costa-Gavras
Director | Z
Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.
How I rank/rate his filmography:
1. Z (1969) 9.8
2. Music Box (1989) 8.9
3. État de siège / State of Siege (1972) 8.7
4. Missing (1982) 8.2
5. L'aveu / The Confession (1970) 8.1
6. Mad City (1997) 8.0
97. Peter Watkins
Director | The War Game
Peter Watkins began his career in advertising as an assistant producer and turned to amateur filmmaking in the late 1950s. In the mid-'60s he was commissioned by BBC-TV to make two feature-length docudramas incorporating a quasi-newsreel style and nonprofessional actors. The second of these, The ...
How I rank/rate his films:
1. La commune (Paris, 1871) (2000) 9.1
2. Privilege (1967) 8.9
3. Punishment Park (1971) 8.6
4. Aftenlandet (1977) 8.4
5. Edvard Munch (1974) 8.1
6. The War Game (1965) 8.0
7. Gladiatorerna (1969) 7.7
8. Culloden (1964) 4.2
98. Shunji Iwai
Writer | Love Letter
Having received his education at Yokohama National University, Shunji Iwai started out in the entertainment industry by directing music videos and television dramas, including the likes of Maria, Lunatic Love and Fireworks, for which he received the award for Best Newcomer from the Japanese ...
99. Xavier Dolan
Actor | J'ai tué ma mère
Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).
How I rank/rate his films:
1. Juste la fin du monde / It's Only the End of the World (2016) 9.3
2. Laurence Anyways (2012) 9.3
3. J'ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother (2009) 8.6
4. Tom à la ferme (2013) 8.1
5. Les amours imaginaires / Heartbeats (2010) 8.0
6. Mommy (2014) 7.3
100. Yvonne Rainer
Director | Privilege
Yvonne Rainer was born on November 24, 1934 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a director and editor, known for Privilege (1990), MURDER and murder (1996) and Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980).
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