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Top Films by Director (C)

Michael Cacoyannis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zorba the Greek 1964 1503

James Cameron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Titanic 1997 63
2 Aliens 1986 65
3 The Terminator 1984 95
4 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 98
5 The Abyss 1989 661
6 Avatar 2009 1376
7 True Lies 1994 1411

Donald Cammell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Performance1 1970 317

1 Collaborated with Nicolas Roeg.

Martin Campbell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casino Royale 2006 917
2 GoldenEye 1995 1788
3 The Mask of Zorro 1998 2228

Jane Campion

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 247
2 An Angel at My Table 1990 1265
3 Sweetie 1989 2163

Marcel Camus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Orpheus 1959 1103

Laurent Cantet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Time Out 2001 1481

Frank Capra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 16
2 It Happened One Night 1934 69
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 156
4 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 654
5 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 686
6 Lost Horizon 1937 1128
7 Meet John Doe 1941 1231
8 You Can't Take It with You 1938 1389
9 State of the Union 1948 2081
10 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2316

1 Collaborated with Anatole Litvak.

Leos Carax

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 1758

Patricia Cardoso

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Real Women Have Curves 2002 2153

Marcel Carné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 129
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 965
3 Port of Shadows 1938 1708

John Carney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once 2006 1604

Marc Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 563
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 901

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Niki Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whale Rider 2002 816

John Carpenter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Halloween 1978 131
2 The Thing 1982 210
3 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 862
4 Escape from New York 1981 974
5 Dark Star 1974 1000
6 The Fog 1980 2047
7 Starman 1984 2121
8 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 2173
9 They Live 1988 2189

Shane Carruth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primer 2004 1395

John Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Woman under the Influence 1974 557
2 Shadows 1959 611
3 Faces 1968 758
4 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 1413
5 Love Streams 1984 1677
6 Opening Night 1977 1749
7 Gloria 1980 1752

Nick Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Notebook 2004 1285

Peter Cattaneo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Full Monty 1997 366

Alberto Cavalcanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 640
2 Went the Day Well? 1942 1520

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

Claude Chabrol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Boucher 1970 1030
2 La Femme Infidèle 1969 1628
3 La Cérémonie 1995 2094

Gurinder Chadha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 845

Don Chaffey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 715

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 68
2 The Gold Rush 1925 97
3 Modern Times 1936 108
4 The Great Dictator 1940 369
5 The Kid 1921 502
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 755
7 Limelight 1952 1117
8 The Circus 1928 1687

Brenda Chapman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2185

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 905

Jeremiah S. Chechik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 2114

Kaige Chen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Farewell My Concubine 1993 601
2 Yellow Earth 1985 2118

Patrice Chéreau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Queen Margot 1994 2095

Siu-Tung Ching

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 1863

Sylvain Chomet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 882

Benjamin Christensen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 1887

Grigori Chukhraj

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 997

Vera Chytilová

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daisies 1966 1912

Michael Cimino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 85
2 Heaven's Gate 1980 1410

Souleymane Cissé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yeelen 1987 1328

René Clair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À Nous la Liberté 1931 937
2 Le Million 1931 1514
3 And Then There Were None 1945 1613

Bob Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Story 1983 642
2 Black Christmas 1974 1782

Larry Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kids 1995 1472

Jack Clayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Innocents 1961 583
2 Room at the Top 1959 877

René Clément

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Games 1952 766
2 Purple Noon 1960 1998

Ron Clements

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 750
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 928

1 Collaborated with John Musker.

Edward F. Cline

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bank Dick 1940 429
2 Million Dollar Legs 1932 2006
3 My Little Chickadee 1940 2130

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 1901

Robert Clouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enter the Dragon 1973 490

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 230
2 Diabolique 1955 294
3 Le Corbeau 1943 1815

Jean Cocteau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast 1946 179
2 Orpheus 1950 561
3 The Blood of a Poet 1930 1528

Ethan Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Country for Old Men1 2007 589

1 Collaborated with Joel Coen.

Joel Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 49
2 The Big Lebowski 1998 173
3 Miller's Crossing 1990 460
4 Blood Simple 1984 479
5 Raising Arizona 1987 528
6 No Country for Old Men1 2007 589
7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 776
8 Barton Fink 1991 907
9 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 1435

1 Collaborated with Ethan Coen.

Peter Collinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Italian Job 1969 586

Chris Columbus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 692
2 Home Alone 1990 1158
3 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 1388
4 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 1909
5 Stepmom 1998 2073

Bill Condon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gods and Monsters 1998 1369

Barry Cook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 2140

1 Collaborated with Tony Bancroft.

Martha Coolidge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Valley Girl 1983 2211

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 1178
1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.

Francis Ford Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 1
2 Apocalypse Now 1979 13
3 The Godfather: Part II 1974 14
4 The Conversation 1974 155
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 432
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 1320
7 Rumble Fish 1983 1974
8 The Outsiders 1983 2182

Sofia Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in Translation 2003 254
2 The Virgin Suicides 1999 1330

Frank Coraci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wedding Singer 1998 1779

Roger Corman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 2161
2 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 2281

Henry Cornelius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Genevieve 1953 1532
2 Passport to Pimlico 1949 1697

Don Coscarelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 1905
2 Phantasm 1979 2048

George P. Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tombstone 1993 1573
2 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 2146

Costa-Gavras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Z 1969 489
2 Missing 1982 1676

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 213

Noel Coward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Which We Serve1 1942 978

1 Collaborated with David Lean.

Alex Cox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Repo Man 1984 629
2 Sid and Nancy 1986 1196

Wes Craven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scream 1996 324
2 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 345
3 The Last House on the Left 1972 1591
4 Scream 2 1997 1726
5 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 1736

Charles Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 334
2 Dead of Night1 1945 640
3 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 677

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

Michael Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Westworld 1973 1568

Donald Crisp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Navigator1 1924 1415

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

John Cromwell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prisoner of Zenda 1937 1519

David Cronenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1986 349
2 Videodrome 1983 455
3 Crash 1996 655
4 Dead Ringers 1988 707
5 A History of Violence 2005 994
6 The Brood 1979 1577
7 Naked Lunch 1991 1618
8 The Dead Zone 1983 1714
9 Shivers 1975 2019
10 Spider 2002 2366

Alan Crosland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jazz Singer 1927 666

Cameron Crowe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 304
2 Say Anything… 1989 448
3 Almost Famous 2000 571
4 Vanilla Sky 2001 2317
5 Singles 1992 2372

Billy Crystal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 61* 2001 2359

Alfonso Cuarón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Y tu mamá también 2001 457
2 Children of Men 2006 609
3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 1123
4 A Little Princess 1995 1464

George Cukor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Philadelphia Story 1940 109
2 My Fair Lady 1964 164
3 A Star Is Born 1954 250
4 Adam's Rib 1949 358
5 Camille 1936 681
6 Born Yesterday 1950 690
7 The Women 1939 835
8 Dinner at Eight 1933 922
9 Gaslight 1944 923
10 Holiday 1938 1034
11 Little Women 1933 1053
12 David Copperfield 1935 1062
13 Pat and Mike 1952 1105

Sean S. Cunningham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday the 13th 1980 1156

Richard Curtis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Actually 2003 1024

Michael Curtiz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 3
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 153
3 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 338
4 Mildred Pierce 1945 388
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 1145
6 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 1323
7 White Christmas 1954 1580
8 The Sea Hawk 1940 1702
9 Captain Blood 1935 1800
10 Life with Father 1947 2148

1 Collaborated with William Keighley.

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