Movie Directors Top Films - Page 3

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: 2025-02-12

Héctor Babenco

1946 - 2016

  1. Pixote (1981)
  2. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
  3. Carandiru (2003)
  4. Ironweed (1987)
  5. Lúcio Flávio (1977)
  6. At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
  7. King of the Night (1975)
  8. El pasado (2007)
  9. Foolish Heart (1998)
10. My Hindu Friend (2015)

Lloyd Bacon

1889 - 1955

  1. 42nd Street (1933)
  2. Footlight Parade (1933)
  3. Marked Woman (1937)
  4. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
  5. The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
  6. The Singing Fool (1928)
  7. Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
  8. A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
  9. Wonder Bar (1934)
10. Larceny, Inc. (1942)

John Badham

1939 -

  1. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  2. WarGames (1983)
  3. Short Circuit (1986)
  4. Stakeout (1987)
  5. Blue Thunder (1983)
  6. The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
  7. The Hard Way (1991)
  8. Dracula (1979)
  9. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
10. Bird on a Wire (1990)

Poster for the movie Saturday Night Fever

Roy Ward Baker

1916 - 2010

  1. A Night to Remember (1958)
  2. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
  3. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
  4. Asylum (1972)
  5. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
  6. The October Man (1947)
  7. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
  8. Morning Departure (1950)
  9. The One That Got Away (1957)
10. Inferno (1953)

Ralph Bakshi

1938 -

  1. Fritz the Cat (1972)
  2. Heavy Traffic (1973)
  3. The Lord of the Rings (1978)
  4. Coonskin (1975)
  5. Wizards (1977)
  6. American Pop (1981)
  7. Fire and Ice (1983)
  8. Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
  9. The Butter Battle Book (1989)
10. Cool World (1992)

Aleksei Balabanov

1959 - 2013

  1. Brother (1997)
  2. Of Freaks and Men (1998)
  3. Cargo 200 (2007)
  4. Brother 2 (2000)
  5. War (2002)
  6. Morphine (2008)
  7. A Stoker (2010)
  8. Me Too (2012)
  9. Dead Man's Bluff (2005)
10. It Doesn't Hurt Me (2006)

Boris Barnet

1902 - 1965

  1. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
  2. The Girl with the Hat Box (1927)
  3. Okraina (1933)
  4. The House on Trubnaya (1928)
  5. Miss Mend [with Fyodor Otsep] (1926)
  6. Alyonka (1961)
  7. Secret Agent (1947)
  8. The Wrestler and the Clown [with Konstantin Yudin] (1957)
  9. The Old Jockey (1940)
10. Dark Is the Night (1945)

DVD cover for the movie By the Bluest of Seas

Paul Bartel

1938 - 2000

  1. Death Race 2000 (1975)
  2. Eating Raoul (1982)
  3. Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
  4. Private Parts (1972)
  5. Cannonball (1976)
  6. Lust in the Dust (1985)
  7. The Secret Cinema (1968)
  8. The Longshot (1986)
  9. Not for Publication (1984)
10. Naughty Nurse (1969)

Yevgeni Bauer

1865 - 1917

  1. The Dying Swan (1917)
  2. Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913)
  3. After Death (1915)
  4. Child of the Big City (1914)
  5. A Life for a Life (1916)
  6. Daydreams (1915)
  7. For Happiness (1917)
  8. Revolutionary (1917)
  9. Children of the Age (1915)
10. Silent Witnesses (1914)

Noah Baumbach

1969 -

  1. Marriage Story (2019)
  2. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
  3. Frances Ha (2012)
  4. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
  5. While We're Young (2014)
  6. Greenberg (2010)
  7. Mistress America (2015)
  8. Kicking and Screaming (1995)
  9. Margot at the Wedding (2007)
10. White Noise (2022)

Poster for the 2019 movie Marriage Story

Mario Bava

1914 - 1980

  1. Black Sunday (1960)
  2. Black Sabbath (1963)
  3. Blood and Black Lace (1964)
  4. A Bay of Blood (1971)
  5. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
  6. Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
  7. Planet of the Vampires (1965)
  8. Danger: Diabolik (1968)
  9. The Whip and the Body (1963)
10. Rabid Dogs (1974)

Michael Bay

1965 -

  1. Transformers (2007)
  2. Armageddon (1998)
  3. The Rock (1996)
  4. Bad Boys (1995)
  5. Pearl Harbor (2001)
  6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
  7. Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
  8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  9. The Island (2005)
10. Bad Boys II (2003)

Warren Beatty

1937 -

  1. Reds (1981)
  2. Heaven Can Wait [with Buck Henry] (1978)
  3. Dick Tracy (1990)
  4. Bulworth (1998)
  5. Rules Don't Apply (2016)

Jacques Becker

1906 - 1960

  1. Le trou (1960)
  2. Casque d'or (1952)
  3. Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
  4. Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
  5. Edward and Caroline (1951)
  6. Paris Frills (1945)
  7. It Happened at the Inn (1943)
  8. Rendezvous in July (1949)
  9. The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
10. Rue de l'Estrapade (1953)

Marco Bellocchio

1939 -

  1. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
  2. Vincere (2009)
  3. The Traitor (2019)
  4. Good Morning, Night (2003)
  5. My Mother's Smile (2002)
  6. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)
  7. Exterior Night (2022)
  8. China Is Near (1967)
  9. A Leap in the Dark (1980)
10. Devil in the Flesh (1986)

Roberto Benigni

1952 -

  1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
  2. Johnny Stecchino (1991)
  3. The Monster (1994)
  4. Nothing Left to Do but Cry [with Massimo Troisi] (1984)
  5. The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Poster for the 1997 movie Life Is Beautiful

Robert Benton

1932 -

  1. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  2. Places in the Heart (1984)
  3. Nobody's Fool (1994)
  4. Bad Company (1972)
  5. The Late Show (1977)
  6. Still of the Night (1982)
  7. The Human Stain (2003)
  8. Twilight (1998)
  9. Feast of Love (2007)
10. Billy Bathgate (1991)

Bruce Beresford

1940 -

  1. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  2. Tender Mercies (1983)
  3. Breaker Morant (1980)
  4. Black Robe (1991)
  5. Don's Party (1976)
  6. Crimes of the Heart (1986)
  7. Double Jeopardy (1999)
  8. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
  9. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
10. Money Movers (1978)

DVD cover for the movie Driving Miss Daisy

Peter Berg

1964 -

  1. Friday Night Lights (2004)
  2. Lone Survivor (2013)
  3. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
  4. Friday Night Lights [TV series] (2006-2011)
  5. The Kingdom (2007)
  6. Hancock (2008)
  7. Patriots Day (2016)
  8. The Rundown (2003)
  9. Very Bad Things (1998)
10. Battleship (2012)

DVD cover for the movie Friday Night Lights

Ingmar Bergman

1918 - 2007

  1. Persona (1966)
  2. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  3. Wild Strawberries (1957)
  4. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
  5. Cries and Whispers (1972)
  6. The Virgin Spring (1960)
  7. Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
  8. Winter Light (1963)
  9. Autumn Sonata (1978)
10. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

Busby Berkeley

1895 - 1976

  1. Babes in Arms (1939)
  2. For Me and My Gal (1942)
  3. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
  4. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
  5. The Gang's All Here (1943)
  6. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
  7. Strike Up the Band (1940)
  8. Babes on Broadway (1941)
  9. Hollywood Hotel (1937)
10. Comet over Broadway (1938)