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Top Films by Director (B)

Hector Babenco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pixote 1981 1162

Lloyd Bacon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42nd Street 1933 355
2 Footlight Parade 1933 1397
3 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 2252

John Badham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night Fever 1977 366
2 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 1850

Fax Bahr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1343

1 Collaborated with Eleanor Coppola and George Hickenlooper.

Roy Ward Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 1628
2 A Night to Remember 1958 1718

Ralph Bakshi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fritz the Cat 1972 1761
2 The Lord of the Rings 1978 2143

Carroll Ballard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Stallion 1979 1180
2 Fly Away Home 1996 1615

Tony Bancroft

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2064

1 Collaborated with Barry Cook.

Clive Barker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellraiser 1987 1009

Paul Bartel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Death Race 2000 1975 2208

Charles Barton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 844

Mario Bava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sunday 1960 954

Michael Bay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Armageddon 1998 722
2 The Rock 1996 1095
3 Pearl Harbor 2001 1962

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reds 1981 480
2 Bulworth 1998 1604
3 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1262
4 Dick Tracy 1990 2029

1 Collaborated with Buck Henry.

Harry Beaumont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Broadway Melody 1929 1751

Jacques Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casque d'Or 1952 1193
2 Le Trou 1960 1598

Ford Beebe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 180

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 725
2 Betty Blue 1986 1134

Rémy Belvaux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1275

1 Collaborated with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

László Benedek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild One 1953 2241

Roberto Benigni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Life Is Beautiful 1997 256

Richard Benjamin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Year 1982 1297

Robert Benton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 456
2 Places in the Heart 1984 1268

Bruce Beresford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 825
2 'Breaker' Morant 1980 856
3 Tender Mercies 1983 1553

Peter Berg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1729

1 Collaborated with Josh Pate.

Ludwig Berger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 649

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell and Tim Whelan.

Ingmar Bergman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 117
2 Persona 1966 161
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 203
4 Fanny and Alexander 1982 287
5 Cries and Whispers 1972 379
6 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 667
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 875
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 1031
9 Winter Light 1962 1226
10 Hour of the Wolf 1968 1422
11 Shame 1968 1524
12 Autumn Sonata 1978 1624
13 The Silence 1963 1950
14 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 1970
15 The Magician 1958 2147

Busby Berkeley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gang's All Here 1943 2215

Shari Springer Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1236

1 Collaborated with Robert Pulcini.

Claude Berri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 424
2 Manon of the Spring 1986 655

Bernardo Bertolucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conformist 1970 179
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 346
3 The Last Emperor 1987 524
4 1900 1976 934
5 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 2247

Luc Besson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Professional 1994 294
2 The Fifth Element 1997 526
3 La Femme Nikita 1990 927

Herbert Biberman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salt of the Earth 1954 1463

Kathryn Bigelow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Near Dark 1987 885
2 Point Break 1991 1380
3 Strange Days 1995 2097

Tony Bill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Bodyguard 1980 2077

Brad Bird

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredibles 2004 428
2 The Iron Giant 1999 478
3 Ratatouille 2007 1142

Les Blank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burden of Dreams 1982 1836

Jeffrey Blitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spellbound 2002 1280

Don Bluth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret of NIMH 1982 1794

John G. Blystone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Our Hospitality1 1923 1206

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Carl Boese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 1741

1 Collaborated with Paul Wegener.

Budd Boetticher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Men from Now 1956 1173
2 The Tall T 1957 1655
3 Ride Lonesome 1959 2232

Peter Bogdanovich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Picture Show 1971 271
2 Targets 1968 1085
3 What's Up, Doc? 1972 1107
4 Paper Moon 1973 1689

Sergei Bondarchuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 War and Peace 1967 997

Jan de Bont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Speed 1994 389
2 Twister 1996 1384

André Bonzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1275

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and Benoît Poelvoorde.

John Boorman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 335
2 Point Blank 1967 588
3 Hope and Glory 1987 848
4 Excalibur 1981 1135
5 Hell in the Pacific 1968 1819

Frank Borzage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seventh Heaven 1927 2188

John Boulting

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brighton Rock 1947 963
2 I'm All Right Jack 1959 1595

Steve Box

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 1002

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Danny Boyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 132
2 28 Days Later… 2002 674
3 Shallow Grave 1994 1043
4 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 1487

Zach Braff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Garden State 2004 1148

Kenneth Branagh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1989 996
2 Hamlet 1996 1483

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 1507

Robert Bresson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pickpocket 1959 407
2 A Man Escaped 1956 494
3 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 552
4 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 608
5 L'Argent 1983 1019
6 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 1537
7 Mouchette 1967 1612
8 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 1656

Martin Brest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 962
2 Midnight Run 1988 1066
3 Scent of a Woman 1992 1957

Paul Brickman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Risky Business 1983 752

James Bridges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The China Syndrome 1979 1074

Zana Briski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids1 2004 2231

1 Collaborated with Ross Kauffman.

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in America 1985 1156

James L. Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Terms of Endearment 1983 288
2 Broadcast News 1987 541
3 As Good as It Gets 1997 615

Mel Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Producers 1968 192
2 Blazing Saddles 1974 208
3 Young Frankenstein 1974 255

Richard Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Cold Blood 1967 874
2 Elmer Gantry 1960 1581
3 Blackboard Jungle 1955 1712
4 The Professionals 1966 2058
5 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 2095

Bruce Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Endless Summer 1966 1435

Clarence Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Velvet 1944 698
2 Anna Karenina 1935 1945
3 The Yearling 1946 2117

Tod Browning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Freaks 1932 306
2 Dracula 1931 392
3 The Unknown 1927 2067

Clyde Bruckman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 44

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Chris Buck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1440

1 Collaborated with Kevin Lima.

Luis Buńuel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Belle de Jour 1967 282
2 Los Olvidados 1950 315
3 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 326
4 Viridiana 1961 328
5 Un chien andalou 1929 414
6 L'Âge d'or 1930 438
7 The Exterminating Angel 1962 697
8 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 1077
9 Tristana 1970 1153
10 El 1953 1284
11 Land without Bread 1933 1955
12 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 2069

Charles Burnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Killer of Sheep 1977 684

Tim Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 308
2 Batman 1989 459
3 Ed Wood 1994 515
4 Beetlejuice 1988 753
5 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 1082
6 Big Fish 2003 1342
7 Sleepy Hollow 1999 1457
8 Batman Returns 1992 1813

David Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Road to Morocco 1942 1203
2 Calamity Jane 1953 1844

George Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1630

1 Collaborated with Robert Fiore.

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