Go to the home page Go to the master list sorted by rank Go to the master list sorted alphabetically Go to the top films as determined by each taste Go to the master list sorted by director Go to the master list sorted by actor Go to the master list sorted by year of release Go to the master list sorted by genre Go to the master list sorted by nation of origin Go to more lists of films Find alternate titles of master list films Go to lists of top films as determined by normal film fans Go to the FAQ and other essays Go to the links page Go to the site map

Top Films by Director (C)

Michael Cacoyannis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zorba the Greek 1964 1422

James Cameron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 79
2 Aliens 1986 88
3 The Terminator 1984 110
4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 126
5 The Abyss 1989 731
6 True Lies 1994 1701

Donald Cammell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Performance1 1970 414

1 Collaborated with Nicolas Roeg.

Martin Campbell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mask of Zorro 1998 1804
2 GoldenEye 1995 1860
3 Casino Royale 2006 1869

Jane Campion

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 203
2 An Angel at My Table 1990 998
3 Sweetie 1989 1442

Marcel Camus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Orpheus 1959 891

Laurent Cantet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Time Out 2001 1560

Frank Capra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 13
2 It Happened One Night 1934 53
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 109
4 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 530
5 Lost Horizon 1937 690
6 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 790
7 Meet John Doe 1941 1073
8 You Can't Take It with You 1938 1141
9 The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933 2153
10 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2265

1 Collaborated with Anatole Litvak.

Leos Carax

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 1964

Patricia Cardoso

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Real Women Have Curves 2002 1744

Lewis John Carlino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Santini 1979 2340

Marcel Carné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 108
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 676
3 Port of Shadows 1938 1403

Marc Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 662
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 1270

1 Collaborated with Jean-Marie Jeunet.

Niki Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whale Rider 2002 737

John Carpenter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 160
2 The Thing 1982 276
3 Escape from New York 1981 944
4 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 1353
5 Dark Star 1974 1635
6 Starman 1984 1866
7 The Fog 1980 2082
8 They Live 1988 2409

Thomas Carter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Save the Last Dance 2001 2509

John Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Woman under the Influence 1974 540
2 Faces 1968 706
3 Shadows 1959 742
4 Gloria 1980 1531
5 Love Streams 1984 1774
6 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 2257
7 Opening Night 1977 2316

Nick Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Notebook 2004 1762

Michael Caton-Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Boy's Life 1993 2152

Peter Cattaneo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Full Monty 1997 391

Alberto Cavalcanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 638
2 Went the Day Well? 1942 2016

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

Claude Chabrol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Boucher 1970 780
2 La Femme Infidèle 1969 1347
3 Story of Women 1988 2333
4 La Cérémonie 1995 2494

Gurinder Chadha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 853

Don Chaffey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 609

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 55
2 The Gold Rush 1925 60
3 Modern Times 1936 92
4 The Great Dictator 1940 392
5 The Kid 1921 522
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 669
7 Limelight 1952 1227
8 The Circus 1928 2005

Brenda Chapman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2105

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 1966

Jeremiah S. Chechik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 2357

Kaige Chen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Farewell My Concubine 1993 548
2 Yellow Earth 1984 2091

Patrice Chéreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Queen Margot 1994 1954

Siu-Tung Ching

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 1718

Lisa Cholodenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laurel Canyon 2002 2099

Sylvain Chomet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 1138

Grigori Chukhraj

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 1235

Vera Chytilová

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daisies 1966 1703

Michael Cimino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 72
2 Heaven's Gate 1980 1269

Souleymane Cissé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yeelen 1987 1246

René Clair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À Nous la Liberté 1931 634
2 Le Million 1931 980
3 And Then There Were None 1945 1213
4 An Italian Straw Hat 1928 1678
5 I Married a Witch 1942 2136
6 Under the Roofs of Paris 1930 2298

Bob Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Story 1983 625
2 Black Christmas 1974 1644

Larry Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kids 1995 2360

Jack Clayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Room at the Top 1959 819
2 The Innocents 1961 899

René Clément

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Games 1952 597

Ron Clements

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 724
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 874

1 Collaborated with John Musker.

Edward F. Cline

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bank Dick 1940 380
2 My Little Chickadee 1940 1829
3 Million Dollar Legs 1932 2064

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 2453

Robert Clouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enter the Dragon 1973 583

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 285
2 Diabolique 1955 327
3 Le Corbeau 1943 1583
4 The Mystery of Picasso 1956 2183
5 Quai Des Orfèvres 1947 2452

Jean Cocteau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast 1946 174
2 Orpheus 1950 470
3 The Blood of a Poet 1930 1504
4 The Testament of Orpheus 1960 2447

Fred Coe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Thousand Clowns 1965 2127

Ethan Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Country for Old Men1 2007 1799

1 Collaborated with Joel Coen.

Joel Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 50
2 The Big Lebowski 1998 283
3 Miller's Crossing 1990 478
4 Blood Simple 1984 500
5 Raising Arizona 1987 569
6 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 867
7 Barton Fink 1991 953
8 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 1258
9 No Country for Old Men1 2007 1799
10 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 2158

1 Collaborated with Ethan Coen.

Peter Collinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Italian Job 1969 494

Chris Columbus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 779
2 Home Alone 1990 1162
3 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 1512
4 Stepmom 1998 1647
5 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 2410

Bill Condon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gods and Monsters 1998 1165
2 Kinsey 2004 2436

Jack Conway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Tale of Two Cities 1935 2071
2 Libeled Lady 1936 2345

Barry Cook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2000

1 Collaborated with Tony Bancroft.

Martha Coolidge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Valley Girl 1983 1899
2 Rambling Rose 1991 2467

Merian C. Cooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 47
1 Collaborated with Ernest B. Schoedsack.

Eleanor Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1367
1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.

Francis Ford Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 3
2 The Godfather: Part II 1974 15
3 Apocalypse Now 1979 17
4 The Conversation 1974 176
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 387
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 1401
7 The Outsiders 1983 2004
8 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986 2080
9 Rumble Fish 1983 2206

Sofia Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in Translation 2003 353
2 The Virgin Suicides 1999 1495

Frank Coraci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wedding Singer 1998 1470

Roger Corman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 1931
2 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 2200

Henry Cornelius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Genevieve 1953 1302
2 Passport to Pimlico 1949 1773

Don Coscarelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Phantasm 1979 2402

George P. Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tombstone 1993 1898
2 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 1994

Costa-Gavras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Z 1969 483
2 Missing 1982 1394

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 165

Noel Coward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Which We Serve1 1942 764

1 Collaborated with David Lean.

Alex Cox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Repo Man 1984 1042
2 Sid and Nancy 1986 1414

Wes Craven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scream 1996 305
2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 451
3 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 1670
4 Scream 2 1997 1939
5 The Last House on the Left 1972 1977

Charles Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 378
2 Dead of Night1 1945 638
3 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 653

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

Michael Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Westworld 1973 1643

Donald Crisp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Navigator1 1924 989

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

John Cromwell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 1253

David Cronenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1986 524
2 Dead Ringers 1988 679
3 Videodrome 1983 723
4 Crash 1996 793
5 Naked Lunch 1991 1224
6 The Dead Zone 1983 1499
7 A History of Violence 2005 1514
8 Shivers 1975 2268

Alan Crosland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jazz Singer 1927 528

Cameron Crowe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 308
2 Say Anything… 1989 438
3 Almost Famous 2000 738
4 Singles 1992 2427

Alfonso Cuarón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Y tu mamá también 2001 523
2 Children of Men 2006 1142
3 A Little Princess 1995 1229
4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 1475

George Cukor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Philadelphia Story 1940 81
2 My Fair Lady 1964 150
3 A Star Is Born 1954 224
4 Adam's Rib 1949 270
5 Camille 1936 437
6 Born Yesterday 1950 541
7 The Women 1939 668
8 Gaslight 1944 688
9 Dinner at Eight 1933 692
10 David Copperfield 1935 778
11 Little Women 1933 863
12 Pat and Mike 1952 1024
13 Holiday 1938 1052

Sean S. Cunningham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday the 13th 1980 1034

Richard Curtis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Actually 2003 1147

Michael Curtiz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 2
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 155
3 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 257
4 Mildred Pierce 1945 371
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 898
6 The Sea Hawk 1940 1219
7 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 1321
8 Captain Blood 1935 1324
9 White Christmas 1954 1638
10 Life with Father 1947 1754

1 Collaborated with William Keighley.

Go to the Bs Go to D-E
This page was last modified on February 24, 2008