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Top Films by Director (B)

Hector Babenco

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pixote 1981 1298

Lloyd Bacon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42nd Street 1933 393
2 Footlight Parade 1933 1447
3 Knute Rockne, All American 1940 1988
4 It Happens Every Spring 1949 2180

John Badham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night Fever 1977 360
2 The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings 1976 1691

Fax Bahr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1178

1 Collaborated with Eleanor Coppola and George Hickenlooper.

Roy Ward Baker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 1478
2 A Night to Remember 1958 1883

Ralph Bakshi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fritz the Cat 1972 1693
2 The Lord of the Rings 1978 2208

Carroll Ballard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Stallion 1979 1342
2 Fly Away Home 1996 1696

Tony Bancroft

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2140

1 Collaborated with Barry Cook.

Clive Barker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellraiser 1987 1070

Siddiq Barmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Osama 2003 2218

Charles Barton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 857

Mario Bava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Sunday 1960 995

Michael Bay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Armageddon 1998 733
2 The Rock 1996 1058
3 Pearl Harbor 2001 2029

Juan Antonio Bayona

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Orphanage 2007 2236

Warren Beatty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reds 1981 588
2 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1129
3 Bulworth 1998 1727
4 Dick Tracy 1990 2098

1 Collaborated with Buck Henry.

Harry Beaumont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Broadway Melody 1929 1728

Jacques Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casque d'Or 1952 1432
2 Le Trou 1960 1680

Wolfgang Becker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 2106

Ford Beebe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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 669
2 Betty Blue 1986 890

Rémy Belvaux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1201

1 Collaborated with André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

László Benedek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild One 1953 1941

Roberto Benigni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Life Is Beautiful 1997 238

Richard Benjamin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Year 1982 1337

Robert Benton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 535
2 Places in the Heart 1984 1350

Bruce Beresford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 'Breaker' Morant 1980 829
2 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 955
3 Tender Mercies 1983 1526

Peter Berg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1593

1 Collaborated with Josh Pate.

Ludwig Berger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thief of Bagdad1 1940 709

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell and Tim Whelan.

Ingmar Bergman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 119
2 Persona 1966 158
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 208
4 Fanny and Alexander 1982 276
5 Cries and Whispers 1972 443
6 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 760
7 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 979
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 1110
9 Winter Light 1963 1266
10 Hour of the Wolf 1968 1473
11 Shame 1968 1585
12 Autumn Sonata 1978 1911
13 The Silence 1963 2014
14 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 2035

Busby Berkeley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gang's All Here 1943 2314

Alain Berliner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ma Vie en Rose 1997 2253

Joe Berlinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2313

1 Collaborated with Bruce Sinofsky.

Shari Springer Berman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1209

1 Collaborated with Robert Pulcini.

Claude Berri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jean de Florette 1986 386
2 Manon of the Spring 1986 617

Bernardo Bertolucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conformist 1970 169
2 Last Tango in Paris 1972 397
3 The Last Emperor 1987 546
4 1900 1976 970

Luc Besson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Professional 1994 282
2 The Fifth Element 1997 549
3 La Femme Nikita 1990 810

Herbert Biberman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salt of the Earth 1954 1550

Kathryn Bigelow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Near Dark 1987 834
2 Point Break 1991 1077
3 Strange Days 1995 2009
4 The Hurt Locker 2008 2031

Tony Bill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Bodyguard 1980 2295

Brad Bird

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredibles 2004 385
2 The Iron Giant 1999 463
3 Ratatouille 2007 1181

Shane Black

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 2352

Les Blank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burden of Dreams 1982 1609

Jeffrey Blitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spellbound 2002 1401

Neill Blomkamp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 District 9 2009 2070

Don Bluth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret of NIMH 1982 1859

John G. Blystone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Our Hospitality1 1923 1140

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Carl Boese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Golem1 1920 2051

1 Collaborated with Paul Wegener.

Budd Boetticher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Men from Now 1956 1345
2 The Tall T 1957 1893
3 Ride Lonesome 1959 2338

Peter Bogdanovich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Picture Show 1971 325
2 Targets 1968 1132
3 What's Up, Doc? 1972 1188
4 Paper Moon 1973 1579

Sergei Bondarchuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 War and Peace 1967 1019

Joon-ho Bong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Host 2006 2276

Jan de Bont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Speed 1994 370
2 Twister 1996 1601

André Bonzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1201

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and Benoît Poelvoorde.

John Boorman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deliverance 1972 326
2 Point Blank 1967 578
3 Hope and Glory 1987 786
4 Excalibur 1981 1111
5 Hell in the Pacific 1968 1890

Frank Borzage

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seventh Heaven 1927 2282

Rachid Bouchareb

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Days of Glory 2006 2143

John Boulting

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brighton Rock 1947 925
2 I'm All Right Jack 1959 1642

Steve Box

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit1 2005 951

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Danny Boyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trainspotting 1996 117
2 28 Days Later… 2002 648
3 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 872
4 Shallow Grave 1994 1023

Zach Braff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Garden State 2004 1039

Kenneth Branagh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1989 984
2 Hamlet 1996 1386
3 Dead Again 1991 2220
4 Much Ado about Nothing 1993 2289

Marlon Brando

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 1513

Catherine Breillat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fat Girl 2001 2210

Eric Bress

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Butterfly Effect1 2004 2270

1 Collaborated with J. Mackye Gruber.

Robert Bresson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pickpocket 1959 400
2 A Man Escaped 1956 511
3 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 544
4 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 604
5 L'Argent 1983 1141
6 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 1607
7 Mouchette 1967 1837
8 The Ladies of the Bois De Boulogne 1945 2151

Martin Brest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Run 1988 1021
2 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 1073
3 Scent of a Woman 1992 1753

Paul Brickman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Risky Business 1983 870

James Bridges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The China Syndrome 1979 1118

Albert Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in America 1985 1083

James L. Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Terms of Endearment 1983 330
2 Broadcast News 1987 564
3 As Good as It Gets 1997 635

Mel Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Producers 1968 184
2 Blazing Saddles 1974 224
3 Young Frankenstein 1974 260

Richard Brooks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Cold Blood 1967 932
2 Blackboard Jungle 1955 1556
3 The Professionals 1966 2021
4 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 2025
5 Elmer Gantry 1960 2044

Bruce Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Endless Summer 1966 1348

Clarence Brown

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Velvet 1944 657
2 Anna Karenina 1935 1789
3 Angels in the Outfield 1951 2386

Tod Browning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Freaks 1932 289
2 Dracula 1931 399
3 The Unknown 1927 2141

Clyde Bruckman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 45

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

Chris Buck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1500

1 Collaborated with Kevin Lima.

Luis Buńuel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Belle de Jour 1967 274
2 Viridiana 1961 309
3 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 312
4 Los Olvidados 1950 329
5 Un chien andalou 1929 410
6 L'Âge d'or 1930 428
7 The Exterminating Angel 1962 735
8 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 1080
9 Tristana 1970 1191
10 El 1953 1409
11 Land without Bread 1933 2013
12 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 2145

Charles Burnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Killer of Sheep 1981 667
2 To Sleep with Anger 1990 2203

Tim Burton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward Scissorhands 1990 287
2 Batman 1989 451
3 Ed Wood 1994 497
4 Beetlejuice 1988 784
5 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 1093
6 Big Fish 2003 1258
7 Batman Returns 1992 1296
8 Sleepy Hollow 1999 1516
9 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 1975
10 Mars Attacks! 1996 2065

David Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Road to Morocco 1942 1212
2 Calamity Jane 1953 1686

George Butler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1332

1 Collaborated with Robert Fiore.

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