Movie Directors Top Films - Page 19

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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Gregory La Cava

1892 - 1952

  1. My Man Godfrey (1936)
  2. Stage Door (1937)
  3. So's Your Old Man (1926)
  4. 5th Ave Girl (1939)
  5. Primrose Path (1940)
  6. Gabriel over the White House (1933)
  7. Running Wild (1927)
  8. Bed of Roses (1933)
  9. Symphony of Six Million (1932)
10. The Half-Naked Truth (1932)

René Laloux

1929 - 2004

  1. Fantastic Planet (1973)
  2. Time Masters (1982)
  3. Gandahar (1988)
  4. The Snails (1965)
  5. How Wang-Fo Was Saved (1987)
  6. Dead Times (1964)
  7. Monkey's Teeth (1960)
  8. The Captive [with Philippe Caza] (1988)
  9. Tick-Tock (1957)
10. Les achalunés (1958)

DVD cover for the animated film Fantastic Planet

Ringo Lam

1955 - 2018

  1. City on Fire (1987)
  2. Full Contact (1992)
  3. Prison on Fire (1987)
  4. Full Alert (1997)
  5. Prison on Fire II (1991)
  6. Twin Dragons [with Tsui Hark] (1992)
  7. Burning Paradise (1994)
  8. Maximum Risk (1996)
  9. Victim (1999)
10. School on Fire (1988)

John Landis

1950 -

  1. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
  2. The Blues Brothers (1980)
  3. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  4. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983)
  5. Trading Places (1983)
  6. Coming to America (1988)
  7. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
  8. Spies Like Us (1985)
  9. ¡Three Amigos! (1986)
10. Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007)

Poster for National Lampoon's Animal House movie

Fritz Lang

1890 - 1976

  1. Metropolis (1927)
  2. M (1931)
  3. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
  4. The Big Heat (1953)
  5. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  6. Scarlet Street (1945)
  7. The Woman in the Window (1944)
  8. Fury (1936)
  9. Destiny (1921)
10. Die Nibelungen (1924)

Walter Lang

1896 - 1972

  1. The King and I (1956)
  2. State Fair (1945)
  3. Sitting Pretty (1948)
  4. Desk Set (1957)
  5. The Little Princess (1939)
  6. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
  7. With a Song in My Heart (1952)
  8. Call Me Madam (1953)
  9. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
10. Mother Wore Tights (1947)

Yorgos Lanthimos

1973-

  1. Poor Things (2023)
  2. The Favourite (2018)
  3. Dogtooth (2009)
  4. The Lobster (2015)
  5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Claude Lanzmann

1925 - 2018

  1. Shoah (1985)
  2. The Last of the Unjust (2013)
  3. Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)
  4. Shoah: Four Sisters (2018)
  5. Israel, Why (1973)
  6. Tsahal (1994)
  7. A Visitor from the Living (1999)
  8. The Karski Report (2010)
  9. Napalm (2017)
10. Lights and Shadows (2008)

John Lasseter

1957 -

  1. Toy Story (1995)
  2. Toy Story 2 (1999)
  3. A Bug's Life (1998)
  4. Luxo Jr. (1986)
  5. Cars (2006)
  6. Tin Toy (1988)
  7. Knick Knack (1989)
  8. Cars 2 (2011)
  9. Red's Dream (1987)
10. Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)

Francis Lawrence

1971 -

  1. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
  2. I Am Legend (2007)
  3. Lady Gaga: Bad Romance (2009)
  4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
  5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
  6. Constantine (2005)
  7. Jennifer Lopez: Waiting For Tonight (1999)
  8. Justin Timberlake: Cry Me A River (2002)
  9. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbird & Snakes (2022)
10. Red Sparrow (2018)

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire DVD cover

David Lean

1908 - 1991

  1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  3. Brief Encounter (1945)
  4. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  5. Great Expectations (1946)
  6. Oliver Twist (1948)
  7. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
  8. In Which We Serve [with Noël Coward] (1942)
  9. A Passage to India (1984)
10. Hobson's Choice (1954)

Patrice Leconte

1947 -

  1. Monsieur Hire (1989)
  2. The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
  3. Girl on the Bridge (1999)
  4. French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
  5. Ridicule (1996)
  6. French Fried Vacation (1978)
  7. The Man on the Train (2002)
  8. The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
  9. Intimate Strangers (2004)
10. Tandem (1987)

Mimi Leder

1952 -

  1. Deep Impact (1998)
  2. On the Basis of Sex (2018)
  3. Pay It Forward (2000)
  4. The Peacemaker (1997)
  5. Thick as Thieves (2009)
  6. A Little Piece of Heaven (1991)
  7. House of Secrets (1993)
  8. There Was a Little Boy (1993)
  9. Woman with a Past (1992)
10. The Innocent (1994)

Ang Lee

1954 -

  1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  2. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
  3. Life of Pi (2012)
  4. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
  5. The Ice Storm (1997)
  6. Lust, Caution (2007)
  7. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
  8. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
  9. Hulk (2003)
10. Ride with the Devil (1999)

Poster for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Lee Chang-Dong

1954 -

  1. Burning (2018)
  2. Poetry (2010)
  3. Oasis (2002)
  4. Peppermint Candy (1999)
  5. Secret Sunshine (2007)

Spike Lee

1957 -

  1. Do the Right Thing (1989)
  2. Malcolm X (1992)
  3. BlacKkKlansman (2018)
  4. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
  5. 25th Hour (2002)
  6. Inside Man (2006)
  7. Da 5 Bloods (2020)
  8. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
  9. David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)
10. Crooklyn (1994)

Mike Leigh

1943 -

  1. Naked (1993)
  2. Secrets & Lies (1996)
  3. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
  4. Life Is Sweet (1990)
  5. Vera Drake (2004)
  6. Another Year (2010)
  7. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
  8. Mr. Turner (2014)
  9. Meantime (1983)
10. High Hopes (1988)

Mitchell Leisen

1898 - 1972

  1. Midnight (1939)
  2. Easy Living (1937)
  3. Remember the Night (1940)
  4. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
  5. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
  6. To Each His Own (1946)
  7. Hands Across the Table (1935)
  8. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
  9. The Mating Season (1951)
10. No Man of Her Own (1950)

Claude Lelouch

1937 -

  1. A Man and a Woman (1966)
  2. Les misérables (1995)
  3. And Now My Love (1974)
  4. Les uns et les autres (1981)
  5. C'était un rendez-vous (1976)
  6. Live for Life (1967)
  7. L'aventure, c'est l'aventure (1972)
  8. Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
  9. Roman de gare (2007)
10. La bonne année (1973)

Kasi Lemmons

1961 -

  1. Eve's Bayou (1997)
  2. Talk to Me (2007)
  3. Harriet (2019)
  4. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker [with DeMane Davis] (2020)
  5. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

Umberto Lenzi

1931 - 2017

  1. Cannibal Ferox (1981)
  2. Almost Human (1974)
  3. Man from Deep River (1972)
  4. Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
  5. Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976)
  6. Eaten Alive! (1980)
  7. Orgasmo (1969)
  8. Nightmare City (1980)
  9. Violent Naples (1976)
10. Eyeball (1975)

Robert Z. Leonard

1889 - 1968

  1. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
  2. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
  3. The Divorcee (1930)
  4. Dancing Lady (1933)
  5. Naughty Marietta [with W.S. Van Dyke] (1935)
  6. Maytime (1937)
  7. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
  8. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
  9. April Folly (1920)
10. The Delicious Little Devil (1919)

Sergio Leone

1929 - 1989

  1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
  2. Once upon a Time in the West (1968)
  3. A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
  4. Once upon a Time in America (1984)
  5. For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Poster for the western movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly