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Top Films by Director (B)

Jamie Babbit

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 1952

Hector Babenco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pixote 1981 1793
2 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 2361

Lloyd Bacon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42nd Street 1933 664
2 Footlight Parade 1933 1584
3 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 2630

John Badham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night Fever 1977 587
2 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 2373

Fax Bahr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1062

1 Collaborated with Eleanor Coppola and George Hickenlooper.

Roy Ward Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 1650
2 A Night to Remember 1958 2697

Sean Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tangerine 2015 2158
2 The Florida Project 2017 2452

Ralph Bakshi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fritz the Cat 1972 1782
2 The Lord of the Rings 1978 2599

Jaume Balagueró

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 [Rec]1 2007 1444

1 Collaborated with Paco Plaza.

Carroll Ballard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Stallion 1979 1763

Tony Bancroft

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 1190

1 Collaborated with Barry Cook.

Banksy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Exit through the Gift Shop 2010 1723

Clive Barker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellraiser 1987 1198

Christophe Barratier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Chorus 2004 1941

Charles Barton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 1751

Noah Baumbach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Squid and the Whale 2005 1696
2 Frances Ha 2012 2745

Mario Bava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sunday 1960 1246
2 Kill, Baby...Kill! 1966 2250
3 Blood and Black Lace 1964 2531
4 Black Sabbath1 1963 2564
5 Danger: Diabolik 1968 2660

1 Collaborated with Salvatore Billitteri.

Michael Bay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rock 1996 927
2 Armageddon 1998 1748
3 Bad Boys 1995 1779
4 Transformers 2007 2309

J.A. Bayona

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Orphanage 2007 1131

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reds 1981 1204
2 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1262

1 Collaborated with Buck Henry.

Harry Beaumont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Broadway Melody 1929 2590

Jacques Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Trou 1960 1352
2 Casque d'Or 1952 1360
3 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 2414

Wolfgang Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 1596

Ford Beebe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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 Betty Blue 1986 1458
2 Diva 1981 1523

Marco Bellocchio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fist in His Pocket 1965 2081

Rémy Belvaux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1353

1 Collaborated with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

László Benedek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild One 1953 2382

Roberto Benigni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Life Is Beautiful 1997 250

Richard Benjamin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Year 1982 2453

Robert Benton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 714

Bruce Beresford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 1945
2 'Breaker' Morant 1980 2038
3 Tender Mercies 1983 2698

Peter Berg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1249

1 Collaborated with Josh Pate.

Ludwig Berger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 1090

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell and Tim Whelan.

Ingmar Bergman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 93
2 Persona 1966 105
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 170
4 Fanny and Alexander 1982 215
5 Cries and Whispers 1972 550
6 Winter Light 1963 872
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 950
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 1003
9 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 1108
10 The Silence 1963 1318
11 Autumn Sonata 1978 1409
12 Hour of the Wolf 1968 1547
13 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 1770
14 Shame 1968 2355

Greg Berlanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love, Simon 2018 2807

Alain Berliner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ma Vie en Rose 1997 2634

Joe Berlinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1 1996 1712
2 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2302
3 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2420

1 Collaborated with Bruce Sinofsky.

Shari Springer Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1258

1 Collaborated with Robert Pulcini.

Claude Berri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 881
2 Manon of the Spring 1986 1503

Bernardo Bertolucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conformist 1970 229
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 451
3 The Last Emperor 1987 651
4 1900 1976 1600
5 The Dreamers 2003 1899

Luc Besson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Professional 1994 253
2 The Fifth Element 1997 599
3 La Femme Nikita 1990 1309

Herbert Biberman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salt of the Earth 1954 2572

Fabián Bielinsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nine Queens 2000 2797

Kathryn Bigelow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hurt Locker 2008 399
2 Point Break 1991 661
3 Near Dark 1987 998
4 Strange Days 1995 1417
5 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 1419

Salvatore Billitteri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sabbath1 1963 2564

1 Collaborated with Mario Bava.

Brad Bird

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredibles 2004 205
2 The Iron Giant 1999 296
3 Ratatouille 2007 412
4 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 2080
5 Incredibles 2 2018 2505

Shane Black

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 1101
2 Iron Man 3 2013 2583

Les Blank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burden of Dreams 1982 1323

Jeffrey Blitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spellbound 2002 1351

Neill Blomkamp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 District 9 2009 518

Don Bluth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret of NIMH 1982 1203
2 The Land before Time 1988 2120
3 An American Tail 1986 2406
4 Anastasia1 1997 2530

1 Collaborated with Gary Goldman.

John G. Blystone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Our Hospitality1 1923 1117

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Anna Boden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sugar1 2008 2316

1 Collaborated with Ryan Fleck.

Carl Boese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 1728

1 Collaborated with Paul Wegener.

Budd Boetticher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Men from Now 1956 1201
2 The Tall T 1957 1853
3 Ride Lonesome 1959 2197

Paul Bogart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 2665

Peter Bogdanovich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Picture Show 1971 287
2 What's Up, Doc? 1972 1038
3 Paper Moon 1973 1200
4 Targets 1968 2188

Sergey Bondarchuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 War and Peace 1966 1776

André Bonzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1353

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and Benoît Poelvoorde.

John Boorman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 404
2 Point Blank 1967 489
3 Hope and Glory 1987 1423
4 Excalibur 1981 1923
5 Hell in the Pacific 1968 2338

Lizzie Borden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born in Flames 1983 2070

Frank Borzage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seventh Heaven 1927 1928

Rachid Bouchareb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Days of Glory 2006 2626

John Boulting

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brighton Rock 1948 1301

Steve Box

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 563

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Danny Boyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 167
2 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 394
3 28 Days Later… 2002 553
4 Sunshine 2007 1438
5 127 Hours 2010 1738
6 Shallow Grave 1994 2537

Zach Braff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Garden State 2004 1112

Stan Brakhage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Prelude: Dog Star Man 1962 2241
2 Dog Star Man: Part IV 1964 2368
3 Dog Star Man: Part II 1963 2482
4 Dog Star Man: Part I 1962 2499
5 Dog Star Man: Part III 1964 2506

Kenneth Branagh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1989 1397
2 Thor 2011 1864
3 Hamlet 1996 2652

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 1319

Catherine Breillat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fat Girl 2001 1967

Eric Bress

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 1405

1 Collaborated with J. Mackye Gruber.

Robert Bresson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 348
2 Pickpocket 1959 427
3 A Man Escaped 1956 443
4 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 545
5 Mouchette 1967 1036
6 L'Argent 1983 1495

Martin Brest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Run 1988 773
2 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 1119
3 Scent of a Woman 1992 1260

Paul Brickman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Risky Business 1983 1044

James Bridges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The China Syndrome 1979 2588

Zana Briski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids1 2004 2255

1 Collaborated with Ross Kauffman.

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in America 1985 1365
2 Defending Your Life 1991 2539

James L. Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 As Good as It Gets 1997 791
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 905
3 Broadcast News 1987 972

Mel Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blazing Saddles 1974 192
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 268
3 The Producers 1967 309
4 Spaceballs 1987 1931

Richard Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Cold Blood 1967 1250
2 The Professionals 1966 1480
3 Blackboard Jungle 1955 1623
4 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 1926
5 Elmer Gantry 1960 2148

Bruce Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Endless Summer 1965 1765

Clarence Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Velvet 1944 1019

Tod Browning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Freaks 1932 235
2 Dracula 1931 530
3 The Unknown 1927 1979

Clyde Bruckman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 49

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Chris Buck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frozen1 2013 940
2 Tarzan2 1999 2288

1 Collaborated with Jennifer Lee.
2 Collaborated with Kevin Lima.

Teresa Violetta Buhl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Short Film about Love1 1988 2046

1 Collaborated with Krzysztof Kieslowski and Pawel Rzepkowski.

Luis Buńuel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Un chien andalou 1929 304
2 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 316
3 Belle de Jour 1967 317
4 Viridiana 1961 332
5 Los Olvidados 1950 387
6 The Exterminating Angel 1962 613
7 L'Âge d'or 1930 665
8 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 1273
9 Land without Bread 1933 1602
10 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 1799
11 El 1953 2159
12 Nazarín 1959 2169
13 Tristana 1970 2224

Neil Burger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Illusionist 2006 2771

Charles Burnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Killer of Sheep 1978 370

Tim Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 203
2 Ed Wood 1994 435
3 Batman 1989 462
4 Batman Returns 1992 698
5 Big Fish 2003 711
6 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 873
7 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 1006
8 Beetlejuice 1988 1072
9 Sleepy Hollow 1999 1764
10 Mars Attacks! 1996 1807
11 Corpse Bride1 2005 1989
12 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 2179

1 Collaborated with Mike Johnson.

David Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Calamity Jane 1953 1947
2 Road to Morocco 1942 2208

George Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1617

1 Collaborated with Robert Fiore.

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