Movie Directors Top Films - Page 33

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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John Sturges

1910 - 1992

  1. The Great Escape (1963)
  2. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  3. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  4. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
  5. Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
  6. The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
  7. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
  8. Mystery Street (1950)
  9. Ice Station Zebra (1968)
10. The Law and Jake Wade (1958)

Preston Sturges

1898 - 1959

  1. The Lady Eve (1941)
  2. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  3. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  4. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
  5. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  6. The Great McGinty (1940)
  7. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
  8. Christmas in July (1940)
  9. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
10. The Great Moment (1944)

Seijun Suzuki

1923 - 2017

  1. Branded to Kill (1967)
  2. Tokyo Drifter (1966)
  3. Youth of the Beast (1963)
  4. Zigeunerweisen (1980)
  5. Gate of Flesh (1964)
  6. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
  7. Tattooed Life (1965)
  8. Fighting Elegy (1966)
  9. Kagero-za (1981)
10. Everything Goes Wrong (1960)

Jan Švankmajer

1934 -

  1. Alice (1988)
  2. Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
  3. Little Otik (2000)
  4. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1990)
  5. Faust (1994)
  6. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
  7. Lunacy (2005)
  8. Food (1992)
  9. The Flat (1968)
10. Surviving Life (2010)

Isao Takahata

1935 - 2018

  1. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
  2. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
  3. Only Yesterday (1991)
  4. Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974)
  5. Pom Poko (1994)
  6. Anne of Green Gables [with others] (1979)
  7. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
  8. The Great Adventure of Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968)
  9. 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976)
10. Panda! Go, Panda! (1972)

Poster for the movie Grave of the Fireflies

Quentin Tarantino

1963 -

  1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  2. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  3. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
  4. Django Unchained (2012)
  5. Once upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
  6. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
  7. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
  8. Jackie Brown (1997)
  9. The Hateful Eight (2015)
10. Death Proof (2007)

Andrei Tarkovsky

1932 - 1986

  1. Stalker (1979)
  2. Andrei Rublev (1966)
  3. Solaris (1972)
  4. The Mirror (1975)
  5. The Sacrifice (1986)
  6. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
  7. Nostalghia (1983)
  8. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
  9. The Killers [with Marika Beiku & Alexander Gordon] (1956)
10. Voyage in Time [with Tonino Guerra] (1983)

Béla Tarr

1955 - 2026

  1. Sátántangó (1994)
  2. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
  3. The Turin Horse [with Ágnes Hranitzky] (2011)
  4. Damnation (1988)
  5. Family Nest (1979)
  6. The Prefab People (1982)
  7. Almanac of Fall (1984)
  8. The Man from London (2007)
  9. Macbeth (1982)
10. The Outsider (1981)

Frank Tashlin

1913 - 1972

  1. The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
  2. Artists and Models (1955)
  3. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
  4. Son of Paleface (1952)
  5. Hollywood or Bust (1956)
  6. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
  7. Porky Pig's Feat (1943)
  8. Say One for Me (1959)
  9. Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
10. The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)

Poster for the movie The Girl Can't Help It

Jacques Tati

1907 - 1982

  1. Playtime (1967)
  2. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  3. Mon oncle (1958)
  4. Jour de fête (1949)
  5. Trafic (1971)

Norman Taurog

1899 - 1981

  1. Boys Town (1938)
  2. Girl Crazy [with Busby Berkeley] (1943)
  3. Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
  4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
  5. The Stooge (1951)
  6. Skippy (1931)
  7. Living It Up (1954)
  8. Blue Hawaii (1961)
  9. Room for One More(1952)
10. The Caddy (1953)

Bertrand Tavernier

1941 - 2021

  1. A Sunday in the Country (1984)
  2. Round Midnight (1986)
  3. Coup de torchon (1981)
  4. The Clockmaker (1974)
  5. Life and Nothing But (1989)
  6. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
  7. Capitaine Conan (1996)
  8. The Bait (1995)
  9. L.627 (1992)
10. It All Starts Today (1999)

DVD cover for the movie A Sunday in the Country

Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

PT: 1931 - 2024 | VT: 1929 - 2018

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani movie directors

  1. The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
  2. Padre padrone (1977)
  3. Kaos (1984)
  4. Caesar Must Die (2012)
  5. St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)
  6. Allonsanfàn (1974)
  7. A Man for Burning [with Valentino Orsini] (1962)
  8. Good Morning, Babylon (1987)
  9. Fiorile (1993)
10. The Sun Also Shines at Night (1990)

The Night of the Shooting Stars movie poster

Julie Taymor

1952 -

  1. Frida (2002)
  2. Across the Universe (2007)
  3. Titus (1999)
  4. The Tempest (2010)
  5. The Glorias (2020)

André Téchiné

1943 -

  1. Wild Reeds (1994)
  2. My Favorite Season (1993)
  3. Thieves (1996)
  4. Rendez-vous (1985)
  5. Being 17 (2016)
  6. The Witnesses (2007)
  7. I Don't Kiss (1991)
  8. Strayed (2003)
  9. Barocco (1976)
10. Loin (2001)

Shūji Terayama

1935 - 1983

  1. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
  2. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
  3. Grass Labyrinth (1979)
  4. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
  5. Farewell to the Ark (1984)
  6. The Cage (1964)
  7. Labyrinth Tale (1975)
  8. Fruits of Passion (1981)
  9. Butterfly Dress Pledge (1974)
10. A Woman with Two Heads: Shadow Film (1977)

Poster for the movie Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Hiroshi Teshigahara

1927 - 2001

  1. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
  2. The Face of Another (1966)
  3. Pitfall (1962)
  4. Antonio Gaudi (1984)
  5. Rikyu (1989)
  6. The Man Without a Map (1968)
  7. White Morning (1965)
  8. Hokusai (1953)
  9. Ikebana (1956)
10. Basara – The Princess Goh (1992)

DVD cover for the movie Woman in the Dunes

Betty Thomas

1948 -

  1. Private Parts (1997)
  2. Dr. Dolittle (1998)
  3. The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
  4. John Tucker Must Die (2006)
  5. The Late Shift (1996)
  6. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
  7. 28 Days (2000)
  8. I Spy (2002)
  9. Only You (1992)
10. My Breast (1994)

J. Lee Thompson

1914 - 2002

  1. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  2. Cape Fear (1962)
  3. Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
  4. Tiger Bay (1959)
  5. What a Way to Go! (1964)
  6. North West Frontier (1959)
  7. Mackenna's Gold (1969)
  8. Yield to the Night (1956)
  9. Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
10. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Richard Thorpe

1896 - 1991

  1. Jailhouse Rock (1957)
  2. Ivanhoe (1952)
  3. The Great Caruso (1951)
  4. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
  5. Night Must Fall (1937)
  6. Thrill of a Romance (1945)
  7. The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
  8. Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
  9. Knights of the Round Table (1953)
10. Double Wedding (1937)

Johnnie To

1955 -

  1. Exiled (2006)
  2. The Mission (1999)
  3. Election 2 (2006)
  4. Election (2005)
  5. Drug War (2012)
  6. Mad Detective [with Wai Ka-Fai] (2007)
  7. Running Out of Time (1999)
  8. PTU (2003)
  9. Breaking News (2004)
10. All About Ah-Long (1989)

Giuseppe Tornatore

1956 -

  1. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
  2. Malèna (2000)
  3. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
  4. The Best Offer (2013)
  5. The Unknown Woman (2006)
  6. The Star Maker (1995)
  7. A Pure Formality (1994)
  8. Ennio (2021)
  9. Everybody's Fine (1990)
10. Baarìa (2009)