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Top Films by Director (C)

Michael Cacoyannis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zorba the Greek 1964 1521

James Cameron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 64
2 Aliens 1986 66
3 The Terminator 1984 94
4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 110
5 The Abyss 1989 623
6 True Lies 1994 1953

Donald Cammell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Performance1 1970 341

1 Collaborated with Nicolas Roeg.

Martin Campbell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casino Royale 2006 1279
2 The Mask of Zorro 1998 2038
3 GoldenEye 1995 2106

Jane Campion

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 202
2 An Angel at My Table 1990 1369
3 Sweetie 1989 2092

Marcel Camus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Orpheus 1959 1030

Laurent Cantet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Time Out 2001 1425

Frank Capra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 14
2 It Happened One Night 1934 58
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 136
4 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 589
5 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 738
6 Lost Horizon 1937 891
7 Meet John Doe 1941 1175
8 You Can't Take It with You 1938 1288
9 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2217
10 State of the Union 1948 2224

1 Collaborated with Anatole Litvak.

Leos Carax

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 1666

Patricia Cardoso

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Real Women Have Curves 2002 1985

Marcel Carné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 125
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 810
3 Port of Shadows 1938 1517

John Carney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once 2006 1942

Marc Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 577
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 1124

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Niki Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whale Rider 2002 800

John Carpenter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 138
2 The Thing 1982 233
3 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 974
4 Escape from New York 1981 988
5 Dark Star 1974 1034
6 Starman 1984 1992
7 The Fog 1980 1999
8 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 2201

Shane Carruth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primer 2004 1409

John Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shadows 1959 567
2 A Woman under the Influence 1974 573
3 Faces 1968 678
4 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 1354
5 Love Streams 1984 1549
6 Opening Night 1977 1663
7 Gloria 1980 1934

Nick Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Notebook 2004 1250

Peter Cattaneo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Full Monty 1997 443

Alberto Cavalcanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 673
2 Went the Day Well? 1942 1390

1 Collaborated with Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer.

Claude Chabrol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Boucher 1970 943
2 La Femme Infidèle 1969 1560

Gurinder Chadha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 936

Don Chaffey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 679

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 65
2 The Gold Rush 1925 85
3 Modern Times 1936 90
4 The Great Dictator 1940 387
5 The Kid 1921 514
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 715
7 Limelight 1952 1181
8 The Circus 1928 2255

Brenda Chapman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2023

1 Collaborated with Steve Hickner and Simon Wells.

Larry Charles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 1011

Kaige Chen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Farewell My Concubine 1993 592
2 Yellow Earth 1984 2040

Patrice Chéreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Queen Margot 1994 1912

Siu-Tung Ching

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 1797

Sylvain Chomet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 908

Benjamin Christensen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 1940

Grigori Chukhraj

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 1152

Vera Chytilová

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daisies 1966 1838

Michael Cimino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 73
2 Heaven's Gate 1980 1314

Souleymane Cissé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yeelen 1987 1382

René Clair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À Nous la Liberté 1931 793
2 Le Million 1931 1247
3 And Then There Were None 1945 1544
4 An Italian Straw Hat 1928 1917

Bob Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Story 1983 677
2 Black Christmas 1974 1695

Jack Clayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Innocents 1961 587
2 Room at the Top 1959 866

René Clément

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Games 1952 704
2 Purple Noon 1960 2233

Ron Clements

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 718
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 901

1 Collaborated with John Musker.

Edward F. Cline

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bank Dick 1940 418
2 Million Dollar Legs 1932 1951
3 My Little Chickadee 1940 2059

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 1949

Robert Clouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enter the Dragon 1973 544

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 259
2 Diabolique 1955 301
3 Le Corbeau 1943 1438

Jean Cocteau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast 1946 184
2 Orpheus 1950 523
3 The Blood of a Poet 1930 1464

Ethan Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Country for Old Men1 2007 617

1 Collaborated with Joel Coen.

Joel Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 49
2 The Big Lebowski 1998 210
3 Miller's Crossing 1990 449
4 Blood Simple 1984 481
5 Raising Arizona 1987 496
6 No Country for Old Men1 2007 617
7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 823
8 Barton Fink 1991 923
9 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 1449
10 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 2244

1 Collaborated with Ethan Coen.

Peter Collinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Italian Job 1969 600

Chris Columbus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 692
2 Home Alone 1990 1073
3 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 1300
4 Stepmom 1998 1891
5 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 2008

Bill Condon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gods and Monsters 1998 1389

Barry Cook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2064

1 Collaborated with Tony Bancroft.

Martha Coolidge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Valley Girl 1983 2144

Merian C. Cooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 45
1 Collaborated with Ernest B. Schoedsack.

Eleanor Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1343
1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.

Francis Ford Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 1
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 13
3 Apocalypse Now 1979 16
4 The Conversation 1974 151
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 419
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 1167
7 Rumble Fish 1983 2267

Sofia Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in Translation 2003 280
2 The Virgin Suicides 1999 1379

Frank Coraci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wedding Singer 1998 1578

Roger Corman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 2086
2 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 2190

Henry Cornelius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Genevieve 1953 1443
2 Passport to Pimlico 1949 1573

Don Coscarelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Phantasm 1979 1983

George P. Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tombstone 1993 1442

Costa-Gavras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Z 1969 487
2 Missing 1982 1501

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 183

Noel Coward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Which We Serve1 1942 955

1 Collaborated with David Lean.

Alex Cox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Repo Man 1984 660
2 Sid and Nancy 1986 1401

Wes Craven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scream 1996 312
2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 360
3 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 1653
4 Scream 2 1997 1911
5 The Last House on the Left 1972 1929

Charles Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 344
2 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 651
3 Dead of Night1 1945 673

1 Collaborated with Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer.

Michael Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Westworld 1973 1423

Donald Crisp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Navigator1 1924 1234

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

John Cromwell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 1456

David Cronenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1986 399
2 Videodrome 1983 533
3 Dead Ringers 1988 661
4 Crash 1996 754
5 A History of Violence 2005 990
6 The Dead Zone 1983 1566
7 The Brood 1979 1621
8 Naked Lunch 1991 1849
9 Spider 2002 2263

Alan Crosland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jazz Singer 1927 638

Cameron Crowe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 298
2 Say Anything… 1989 453
3 Almost Famous 2000 603
4 Singles 1992 2272

Alfonso Cuarón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Y tu mamá también 2001 511
2 Children of Men 2006 635
3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 1312
4 A Little Princess 1995 1417

George Cukor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Philadelphia Story 1940 93
2 My Fair Lady 1964 158
3 A Star Is Born 1954 245
4 Adam's Rib 1949 348
5 Camille 1936 596
6 Born Yesterday 1950 654
7 Gaslight 1944 852
8 The Women 1939 855
9 Dinner at Eight 1933 895
10 David Copperfield 1935 953
11 Little Women 1933 1022
12 Holiday 1938 1029
13 Pat and Mike 1952 1242

Sean S. Cunningham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday the 13th 1980 1132

Richard Curtis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Actually 2003 985

Michael Curtiz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 3
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 155
3 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 317
4 Mildred Pierce 1945 415
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 1155
6 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 1448
7 The Sea Hawk 1940 1623
8 White Christmas 1954 1705
9 Captain Blood 1935 1994
10 Life with Father 1947 2072

1 Collaborated with William Keighley.

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