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Top Films by Director (B)

Jamie Babbit

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 1208

Hector Babenco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pixote 1980 2329
2 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 2789

Lloyd Bacon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42nd Street 1933 734
2 Footlight Parade 1933 2002

John Badham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night Fever 1977 780
2 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 2902

Fax Bahr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1268

1 Collaborated with Eleanor Coppola and George Hickenlooper.

Roy Ward Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 1754
2 A Night to Remember 1958 2742

Sean Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tangerine 2015 1263
2 The Florida Project 2017 1892

Jaume Balagueró

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 [Rec]1 2007 994

1 Collaborated with Paco Plaza.

Carroll Ballard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Stallion 1979 1797

Tony Bancroft

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 917

1 Collaborated with Barry Cook.

Banksy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Exit through the Gift Shop 2010 1682

Max Barbakow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Palm Springs 2020 1922

Clive Barker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellraiser 1987 906

Claude Barras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Life as a Zucchini 2016 2030

Christophe Barratier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Chorus 2004 2680

Drew Barrymore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whip It 2009 3021

Charles Barton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 2220

Jules Bass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Unicorn1 1982 2990

1 Collaborated with Arthur Rankin Jr.

Noah Baumbach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marriage Story 2019 1539
2 Frances Ha 2012 1693
3 The Squid and the Whale 2005 2202

Mario Bava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sunday 1960 1224
2 Blood and Black Lace 1964 1973
3 Black Sabbath 1963 2061
4 Kill, Baby...Kill! 1966 2213
5 A Bay of Blood 1971 2964

Michael Bay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rock 1996 978
2 Bad Boys 1995 1851
3 Armageddon 1998 1903
4 Transformers 2007 1983

J.A. Bayona

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Orphanage 2007 803

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reds 1981 1837
2 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1668
3 Dick Tracy 1990 2969

1 Collaborated with Buck Henry.

Harry Beaumont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Broadway Melody 1929 2682

Jacques Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Trou 1960 1706
2 Casque d'Or 1952 2367
3 Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 2380

Wolfgang Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 1877

Ford Beebe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

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

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Betty Blue 1986 1875
2 Diva 1981 2167

Rémy Belvaux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 2131

1 Collaborated with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

Malik Bendjelloul

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Searching for Sugar Man 2012 1646

László Benedek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild One 1953 2702

Roberto Benigni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Life Is Beautiful 1997 258

Richard Benjamin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Year 1982 2767

Robert Benton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 884

Bruce Beresford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 'Breaker' Morant 1980 2497
2 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 2527

Peter Berg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights 2004 1350

Ludwig Berger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 1359

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell and Tim Whelan.

Ingmar Bergman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 118
2 Persona 1966 122
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 245
4 Fanny and Alexander 1982 253
5 Cries and Whispers 1972 695
6 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 1018
7 The Virgin Spring 1960 1084
8 Autumn Sonata 1978 1400
9 Winter Light 1963 1464
10 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 1663
11 The Silence 1963 1718
12 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 1845
13 Hour of the Wolf 1968 2086
14 Shame 1968 2480
15 Monika 1953 3048

Greg Berlanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love, Simon 2018 1604

Alain Berliner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ma Vie en Rose 1997 2871

Joe Berlinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1 1996 1854
2 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2448
3 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2456

1 Collaborated with Bruce Sinofsky.

Shari Springer Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1420

1 Collaborated with Robert Pulcini.

Ted Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fox and the Hound1 1981 3026

1 Collaborated with Richard Rich and Art Stevens.

Claude Berri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 1504
2 Manon of the Spring 1986 1874

Bryan Bertino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Strangers 2008 2170

Bernardo Bertolucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conformist 1970 287
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 607
3 The Last Emperor 1987 779
4 The Dreamers 2003 1817
5 1900 1976 2059

Luc Besson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Léon: The Professional 1994 259
2 The Fifth Element 1997 529
3 La Femme Nikita 1990 1760

Kathryn Bigelow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hurt Locker 2008 221
2 Point Break 1991 470
3 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 549
4 Near Dark 1987 697
5 Strange Days 1995 1301

Wang Bing

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 1927

Brad Bird

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Iron Giant 1999 173
2 The Incredibles 2004 184
3 Ratatouille 2007 285
4 Incredibles 2 2018 1582
5 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 1615

Shane Black

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 1254
2 Iron Man 3 2013 1934

Les Blank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burden of Dreams 1982 1866

Jeffrey Blitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spellbound 2002 2097

Neill Blomkamp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 District 9 2009 329

Don Bluth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret of NIMH 1982 1156
2 The Land before Time 1988 2136
3 An American Tail 1986 2478
4 Anastasia1 1997 2814

1 Collaborated with Gary Goldman.

John G. Blystone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Our Hospitality1 1923 1649

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

James Bobin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppets 2011/td> 1991

Anna Boden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Captain Marvel1 2019 1871
2 Sugar1 2008 2219

1 Collaborated with Ryan Fleck.

Budd Boetticher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Men from Now 1956 1462
2 Ride Lonesome 1959 2017
3 The Tall T 1957 2107

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 294
2 What's Up, Doc? 1972 967
3 Paper Moon 1973 1192
4 Mask 1985 2949

Sergey Bondarchuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 War and Peace 1965 1787

André Bonzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 2131

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and Benoît Poelvoorde.

Josh Boone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fault in Our Stars 2014 1994

John Boorman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 556
2 Point Blank 1967 727
3 Excalibur 1981 1736
4 Hope and Glory 1987 2101
5 Hell in the Pacific 1968 2737

Lizzie Borden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born in Flames 1983 1759

Frank Borzage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seventh Heaven 1927 2654

Rachid Bouchareb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Days of Glory 2006 2552

John Boulting

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brighton Rock 1948 2048

Steve Box

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 634

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Danny Boyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 197
2 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 403
3 28 Days Later… 2002 409
4 Sunshine 2007 1360
5 127 Hours 2010 1585
6 Shallow Grave 1994 2500

Zach Braff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Garden State 2004 1164

Stan Brakhage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dog Star Man 1964 2133

Marco Brambilla

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Demolition Man 1993 2923

Kenneth Branagh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thor 2011 1732
2 Henry V 1989 1822
3 Hamlet 1996 2444

Marlon Brando

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

Catherine Breillat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fat Girl 2001 2226

Eric Bress

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 1643

1 Collaborated with J. Mackye Gruber.

Robert Bresson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 365
2 A Man Escaped 1956 617
3 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 715
4 Pickpocket 1959 752
5 L'Argent 1983 1257
6 Mouchette 1967 1393

Martin Brest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Run 1988 908
2 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 1143
3 Scent of a Woman 1992 1572

Paul Brickman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Risky Business 1983 1907

James Bridges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The China Syndrome 1979 2287

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in America 1985 1675

James L. Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Broadcast News 1987 765
2 Terms of Endearment 1983 894
3 As Good as It Gets 1997 1150

Mel Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blazing Saddles 1974 232
2 Young Frankenstein 1974 279
3 The Producers 1967 420
4 Spaceballs 1987 2154

Richard Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Cold Blood 1967 1020
2 The Professionals 1966 1501
3 Blackboard Jungle 1955 1942
4 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 2095
5 Elmer Gantry 1960 2616

Bruce Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Endless Summer 1965 1595

Clarence Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Velvet 1944 1388

Tod Browning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Freaks 1932 247
2 Dracula 1931 517
3 The Unknown 1927 2461

Clyde Bruckman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 86

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Chris Buck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frozen1 2013 465
2 Tarzan2 1999 1911

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

Luis Buńuel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 368
2 Belle de Jour 1967 378
3 Un chien andalou 1929 382
4 Viridiana 1961 485
5 Los Olvidados 1950 570
6 The Exterminating Angel 1962 896
7 L'Âge d'or 1930 989
8 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 1848
9 Tristana 1970 2040
10 Land without Bread 1933 2236
11 Nazarín 1959 2508
12 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 2571

Neil Burger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Illusionist 2006 2911

Charles Burnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Killer of Sheep 1978 434
2 To Sleep with Anger 1990 2504

Bo Burnham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eighth Grade 2018 2088

Mark Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaun the Sheep Movie1 2015 2198

1 Collaborated with Richard Starzak.

Tim Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 199
2 Batman 1989 486
3 Batman Returns 1992 560
4 Ed Wood 1994 674
5 Big Fish 2003 694
6 Beetlejuice 1988 748
7 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 998
8 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 1017
9 Sleepy Hollow 1999 1441
10 Corpse Bride1 2005 1665
11 Mars Attacks! 1996 2083
12 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2005 2354
13 Frankenweenie 2012 2760

1 Collaborated with Mike Johnson.

Jared Bush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Encanto1 2021 2102

1 Collaborated with Byron Howard.

Alexandre Bustillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Inside1 2007 2805

1 Collaborated with Julien Maury.

David Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Calamity Jane 1953 2197
2 Road to Morocco 1942 2561

George Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1661

1 Collaborated with Robert Fiore.

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