Movie Directors Top Films - Page 25

Movie directors Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick
Criteria: The movies were ranked according to their influence, their initial and lasting popularity, as well as their initial and lasting acclaim. Most lists rank the director's ten greatest films, while some directors with a particularly small filmography only have five films listed. Feature films, TV films, documentaries, short films, experimental films, essay films, TV miniseries and TV series that were created mainly by the director in question were all eligible.

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Last Updated: 2025-09-03
Jeff Nichols
1978 -
Jeff Nichols movie director
  1. Mud (2012)
  2. Take Shelter (2011)
  3. Loving (2016)
  4. Midnight Special (2016)
  5. The Bikeriders (2023)
Mud movie poster

Mike Nichols
1931 - 2014
Mike Nichols movie director
  1. The Graduate (1967)
  2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
  3. Angels in America (2003)
  4. Silkwood (1983)
  5. The Birdcage (1996)
  6. Catch-22 (1970)
  7. Working Girl (1988)
  8. Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
  9. Carnal Knowledge (1971)
10. Closer (2004)
The Graduate movie poster

Gaspar Noé
1963 -
Gaspar Noé movie director
  1. Irréversible (2002)
  2. Enter the Void (2009)
  3. I Stand Alone (1998)
  4. Vortex (2021)
  5. Climax (2018)
  6. Carne (1991)
  7. Love (2015)
  8. Lux Æterna (2019)
  9. Sodomites (1998)
10. Placebo: Protège-moi (2004)
DVD cover for the movie Irréversible

Christopher Nolan
1970 -
Christopher Nolan movie director
  1. The Dark Knight (2008)
  2. Inception (2010)
  3. Memento (2000)
  4. Oppenheimer (2023)
  5. Interstellar (2014)
  6. Dunkirk (2017)
  7. Batman Begins (2005)
  8. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  9. The Prestige (2006)
10. Tenet (2020)
Poster for the movie The Dark Knight

Chris Noonan
1952 -
Chris Noonan movie director
  1. Babe (1995)
  2. Vietnam [with John Duigan] (1987)
  3. Miss Potter (2006)
  4. The Riddle of the Stinson (1987)
  5. The Cowra Breakout [with Phillip Noyce] (1984)
Babe movie poster

Yuri Norstein
1941 -
Yuriy Norstein movie director
  1. Tale of Tales (1979)
  2. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
  3. The Heron and the Crane (1974)
  4. The Battle of Kerzhenets [with Ivan Ivanov-Vano] (1971)
  5. The Fox and the Hare (1973)
Poster for the movie Tale of Tales

Phillip Noyce
1950 -
Phillip Noyce movie director
  1. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
  2. Clear and Present Danger (1994)
  3. Patriot Games (1992)
  4. Dead Calm (1989)
  5. Salt (2010)
  6. The Quiet American (2002)
  7. The Bone Collector (1999)
  8. Fast Charlie (2023)
  9. The Saint (1997)
10. Newsfront (1978)
DVD cover for the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence

Sidney Olcott
1872 - 1949
Sidney Olcott movie director
  1. From the Manger to the Cross (1912)
  2. Ben Hur [with Frank Oakes Rose] (1907)
  3. Little Old New York (1923)
  4. The Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
  5. Poor Little Peppina (1916)
  6. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
  7. The Green Goddess (1923)
  8. The Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
  9. Madame Butterfly (1915)
10. The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War (1909)
Poster for the movie From the Manger to the Cross

Manoel de Oliveira
1908 - 2015
Manoel de Oliveira movie director
  1. Abraham's Valley (1993)
  2. I'm Going Home (2001)
  3. Aniki-Bóbó (1942)
  4. Francisca (1981)
  5. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
  6. A Talking Picture (2003)
  7. Doomed Love (1979)
  8. Labor on the Douro River (1931)
  9. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990)
10. Rite of Spring (1963)
DVD cover for the movie Abraham's Valley

Laurence Olivier
1907 - 1989
Laurence Olivier movie director
  1. Hamlet (1948)
  2. Henry V (1944)
  3. Richard III (1955)
  4. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
  5. Three Sisters [with John Sichel] (1970)
Poster for the 1948 movie Hamlet

Ermanno Olmi
1931 - 2018
Ermanno Olmi movie director
  1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
  2. Il posto (1961)
  3. The Fiances (1963)
  4. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
  5. Time Stood Still (1959)
  6. The Profession of Arms (2001)
  7. Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
  8. Long Live the Lady! (1987)
  9. One Hundred Nails (2007)
10. Singing Behind Screens (2003)
DVD cover for the movie The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Marcel Ophüls
1927 - 2025
Marcel Ophüls movie director
  1. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
  2. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
  3. The Memory of Justice (1976)
  4. The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime (1994)
  5. Banana Peel (1963)
  6. November Days (1991)
  7. Un voyageur (2013)
  8. A Sense of Loss (1973)
  9. Munich or Peace in Our Time (1967)
10. The Harvest of My Lai (1970)
DVD cover for the movie The Sorrow and the Pity

Max Ophüls
1902 - 1957
Max Ophüls movie director
  1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  2. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
  3. Lola Montès (1955)
  4. La ronde (1950)
  5. Le plaisir (1952)
  6. Liebelei (1933)
  7. The Reckless Moment (1949)
  8. Everybody's Woman (1934)
  9. Caught (1949)
10. There's No Tomorrow (1939)
poster for the movie Letter from an Unknown Woman

Nagisa Ōshima
1932 - 2013
Nagisa Ōshima movie director
  1. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
  2. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
  3. Death by Hanging (1968)
  4. Boy (1969)
  5. Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
  6. The Ceremony (1971)
  7. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
  8. Empire of Passion (1978)
  9. Taboo (1999)
10. Max mon amour (1986)
DVD cover for the movie In the Realm of the Senses

Frank Oz
1944 -
Frank Oz movie director
  1. Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
  2. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
  3. The Dark Crystal [with Jim Henson] (1982)
  4. Bowfinger (1999)
  5. In & Out (1997)
  6. What About Bob? (1991)
  7. The Score (2001)
  8. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
  9. Death at a Funeral (2007)
10. Housesitter (1992)
Little Shop of Horrors movie poster

François Ozon
1967 -
François Ozon movie director
  1. 8 Women (2002)
  2. In the House (2012)
  3. Under the Sand (2000)
  4. Frantz (2016)
  5. Swimming Pool (2003)
  6. Potiche (2010)
  7. The Crime Is Mine (2023)
  8. By the Grace of God (2019)
  9. Young & Beautiful (2013)
10. When Fall Is Coming (2024)
8 Women movie poster

Yasujirō Ozu
1903 - 1963
Yasujirō Ozu movie director
  1. Tokyo Story (1953)
  2. Late Spring (1949)
  3. I Was Born, but... (1932)
  4. Early Summer (1951)
  5. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
  6. Floating Weeds (1959)
  7. The Only Son (1936)
  8. Good Morning (1959)
  9. Equinox Flower (1958)
10. The End of Summer (1961)
DVD cover for the movie In the Tokyo Story

G.W. Pabst
1885 - 1967
G.W. Pabst movie director
  1. Pandora's Box (1929)
  2. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
  3. The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
  4. The Joyless Street (1925)
  5. Kameradschaft (1931)
  6. Westfront 1918 (1930)
  7. The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
  8. The White Hell of Pitz Palu [with Arnold Fanck] (1929)
  9. Secrets of a Soul (1926)
10. The Treasure (1923)
DVD cover for the movie In the Pandora's Box

José Padilha
1967 -
José Padilha movie director
  1. Elite Squad (2007)
  2. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
  3. Bus 174 [with Felipe Lacerda] (2002)
  4. The Mechanism [with Elena Soarez] (2018-2019)
  5. RoboCop (2014)
DVD cover for the movie Elite Squad

Marcel Pagnol
1895 - 1974
Marcel Pagnol movie director
  1. The Baker's Wife (1938)
  2. César (1936)
  3. Heartbeat (1938)
  4. Angèle (1934)
  5. Manon of the Spring (1952)
  6. The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940)
  7. Harvest (1937)
  8. Merlusse (1935)
  9. Jofroi (1933)
10. Topaze (1951)
The Baker's Wife movie poster

Alan J. Pakula
1928 - 1998
Alan J. Pakula movie director
  1. All the President's Men (1976)
  2. Klute (1971)
  3. Sophie's Choice (1982)
  4. The Parallax View (1974)
  5. Presumed Innocent (1990)
  6. The Pelican Brief (1993)
  7. The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
  8. Starting Over (1979)
  9. The Devil's Own (1997)
10. Comes a Horseman (1978)
DVD cover for the movie In the All the President's Men