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Top Films by Director (B)

Hector Babenco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pixote 1981 1004
2 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 1983

Lloyd Bacon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42nd Street 1933 290
2 Footlight Parade 1933 1054
3 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 2201
4 It Happens Every Spring 1949 2299

John Badham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night Fever 1977 346
2 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 1760

Fax Bahr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1367

1 Collaborated with Eleanor Coppola and George Hickenlooper.

Roy Ward Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Night to Remember 1958 1474
2 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 2424

Ralph Bakshi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fritz the Cat 1972 2040

Carroll Ballard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Stallion 1979 1111
2 Fly Away Home 1996 1393
3 Never Cry Wolf 1983 2195

Tony Bancroft

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2000

1 Collaborated with Barry Cook.

Clive Barker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellraiser 1987 1212

Paul Bartel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Death Race 2000 1975 2216

Charles Barton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 878

Mario Bava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sunday 1960 1014

Michael Bay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Armageddon 1998 712
2 The Rock 1996 943
3 Pearl Harbor 2001 1747

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reds 1981 452
2 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1439
3 Bulworth 1998 1755
4 Dick Tracy 1990 2034

1 Collaborated with Buck Henry.

Harry Beaumont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Broadway Melody 1929 1877

Jacques Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casque d'Or 1952 1349
2 Le Trou 1960 2295

Wolfgang Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 2475

Ford Beebe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Diva 1981 788
2 Betty Blue 1986 1206

Rémy Belvaux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1735

1 Collaborated with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

László Benedek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild One 1953 2013
2 Death of a Salesman 1951 2455

Roberto Benigni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Life Is Beautiful 1997 248

Richard Benjamin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Year 1982 1119

Compton Bennett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Solomon's Mines1 1950 2142

1 Collaborated with Andrew Marton.

Robert Benton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 448
2 Places in the Heart 1984 1193

Bruce Beresford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 652
2 'Breaker' Morant 1980 815
3 Tender Mercies 1983 1297
4 Black Robe 1991 2076

Peter Berg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1612

1 Collaborated with Josh Pate.

Ludwig Berger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 627

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell and Tim Whelan.

Ingmar Bergman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 98
2 Persona 1966 151
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 182
4 Fanny and Alexander 1982 247
5 Cries and Whispers 1972 365
6 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 635
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 799
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 901
9 Shame 1968 1194
10 Autumn Sonata 1978 1561
11 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 1706
12 The Magician 1958 1772
13 Hour of the Wolf 1968 1908
14 Winter Light 1962 2047
15 The Silence 1963 2164

Busby Berkeley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gang's All Here 1943 1959
2 Babes in Arms 1939 2404

Alain Berliner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ma Vie en Rose 1997 2043

Joe Berlinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2052

1 Collaborated with Bruce Sinofsky.

Shari Springer Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1537

1 Collaborated with Robert Pulcini.

Claude Berri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 385
2 Manon of the Spring 1986 572

Bernardo Bertolucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conformist 1970 184
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 271
3 The Last Emperor 1987 504
4 1900 1976 814
5 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 1628
6 Stealing Beauty 1996 2300

Luc Besson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Professional 1994 312
2 The Fifth Element 1997 579
3 La Femme Nikita 1990 1174

Herbert Biberman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salt of the Earth 1954 1228

Kathryn Bigelow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Near Dark 1987 848
2 Point Break 1991 1743
3 Strange Days 1995 1984

Tony Bill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Bodyguard 1980 1937

Brad Bird

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Iron Giant 1999 598
2 The Incredibles 2004 657
3 Ratatouille 2007 2431

Les Blank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burden of Dreams 1982 1929

Bertrand Blier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978 2383

Jeffrey Blitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spellbound 2002 1407

Don Bluth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret of NIMH 1982 2042

John G. Blystone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Our Hospitality1 1923 1100

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Carl Boese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 2184

1 Collaborated with Paul Wegener.

Budd Boetticher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tall T 1957 1926
2 Seven Men from Now 1956 2329

Peter Bogdanovich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Picture Show 1971 239
2 What's Up, Doc? 1972 1056
3 Targets 1968 1254
4 Paper Moon 1973 1817
5 Mask 1985 2361

Richard Boleslawski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Misérables 1935 2425

Sergei Bondarchuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 War and Peace 1967 734

Jan de Bont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Speed 1994 390
2 Twister 1996 1461

André Bonzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1735

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and Benoît Poelvoorde.

John Boorman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 343
2 Point Blank 1967 710
3 Excalibur 1981 976
4 Hope and Glory 1987 994
5 Hell in the Pacific 1968 2288

Frank Borzage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seventh Heaven 1927 1563
2 Three Comrades 1938 2477

John Boulting

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brighton Rock 1947 1198
2 I'm All Right Jack 1959 1547

Steve Box

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 1618

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Danny Boyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 128
2 Shallow Grave 1994 821
3 28 Days Later… 2002 876

Zach Braff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Garden State 2004 1260

Kenneth Branagh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1989 822
2 Hamlet 1996 1430
3 Much Ado about Nothing 1993 2258

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 1952

Robert Bresson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pickpocket 1959 447
2 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 519
3 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 562
4 A Man Escaped 1956 565
5 L'Argent 1983 969
6 Mouchette 1967 1293
7 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 1335
8 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 1741

Martin Brest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 1080
2 Midnight Run 1988 1365
3 Scent of a Woman 1992 1871

Paul Brickman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Risky Business 1983 1009

James Bridges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The China Syndrome 1979 1000

Gaëtan Brizzi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

Paul Brizzi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in America 1985 945
2 Defending Your Life 1991 2411
3 Real Life 1979 2423

James L. Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Terms of Endearment 1983 268
2 Broadcast News 1987 476
3 As Good as It Gets 1997 554

Mel Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Producers 1968 217
2 Blazing Saddles 1974 264
3 Young Frankenstein 1974 274

Richard Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Cold Blood 1967 781
2 Elmer Gantry 1960 1565
3 Blackboard Jungle 1955 1607
4 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 1837
5 The Professionals 1966 2230

Bruce Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Endless Summer 1966 1370

Clarence Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Velvet 1944 629
2 Anna Karenina 1935 1530
3 The Yearling 1946 1586
4 Intruder in the Dust 1949 2074
5 Angels in the Outfield 1951 2180
6 Flesh and the Devil 1926 2325

Tod Browning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Freaks 1932 306
2 Dracula 1931 340
3 The Unknown 1927 1980

Clyde Bruckman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1927 42

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Chris Buck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1373

1 Collaborated with Kevin Lima.

Luis Buńuel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Belle de Jour 1967 261
2 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 266
3 L'Âge d'or 1930 301
4 Los Olvidados 1950 303
5 Viridiana 1961 304
6 Un chien andalou 1929 369
7 The Exterminating Angel 1962 655
8 Tristana 1970 935
9 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 1153
10 El 1953 1323
11 Land without Bread 1933 1596
12 Phantom of Liberty 1974 2370
13 Nazarín 1959 2456

Charles Burnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Killer of Sheep 1977 1022
2 To Sleep with Anger 1990 2066

Ken Burns

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Civil War 1990 2204
2 Baseball 1994 2396

Tim Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 354
2 Batman 1989 493
3 Ed Wood 1994 615
4 Beetlejuice 1988 749
5 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 1177
6 Big Fish 2003 1473
7 Sleepy Hollow 1999 1519
8 Planet of the Apes 2001 2225
9 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 2334

David Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Road to Morocco 1942 872
2 Calamity Jane 1953 2030

George Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1445

1 Collaborated with Robert Fiore.

Hendel Butoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

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