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Top Films by Director (C)

Michael Cacoyannis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zorba the Greek 1964 2569

James Cameron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aliens 1986 61
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 66
3 The Terminator 1984 101
4 Titanic 1997 129
5 Avatar 2009 262
6 The Abyss 1989 952
7 True Lies 1994 1107

Donald Cammell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Performance1 1970 576

1 Collaborated with Nicolas Roeg.

Juan José Campanella

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 1455

Martin Campbell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casino Royale 2006 431
2 GoldenEye 1995 2242

Jane Campion

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 306
2 An Angel at My Table 1990 1680
3 Bright Star 2009 2710

Marcel Camus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Orpheus 1959 2238

Frank Capra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 33
2 It Happened One Night 1934 92
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 303
4 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 533
5 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 1191
6 Lost Horizon 1937 1248
7 You Can't Take It with You 1938 1644

Leos Carax

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 1810
2 Holy Motors 2012 2112

Marcel Carné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 179
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 1124
3 Port of Shadows 1938 1841

John Carney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once 2007 942

Marc Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 654
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 990

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Niki Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whale Rider 2002 1404

John Carpenter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thing 1982 106
2 Halloween 1978 150
3 Escape from New York 1981 624
4 Dark Star 1974 897
5 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 989
6 They Live 1988 1164
7 The Fog 1980 1524
8 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 1699
9 Starman 1984 2074

Shane Carruth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primer 2004 1011

Thomas Carter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Coach Carter 2005 2407

John Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Woman under the Influence 1974 356
2 Shadows 1958 460
3 Faces 1968 938
4 Opening Night 1977 1242
5 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 1402
6 Love Streams 1984 1457
7 Gloria 1980 2560
8 Husbands 1970 2615

Nick Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Notebook 2004 732

Nick Castle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Starfighter 1984 2552

Peter Cattaneo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Full Monty 1997 995

Alberto Cavalcanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 882
2 Went the Day Well? 1942 1551

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

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 2300
2 Winter Sleep 2014 2750

Claude Chabrol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Boucher 1970 1218
2 La Cérémonie 1995 2129
3 La Femme Infidèle 1969 2650

Gurinder Chadha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 1211

Don Chaffey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 877

Gordon Chan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fist of Legend 1994 2555

Jackie Chan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jackie Chan's Police Story 1985 2431

J.C. Chandor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All Is Lost 2013 2754

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 46
2 Modern Times 1936 53
3 The Gold Rush 1925 116
4 The Great Dictator 1940 183
5 The Kid 1921 338
6 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 1092
7 The Circus 1928 1412
8 Limelight 1952 1485
9 The Immigrant 1917 2450

Brenda Chapman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brave1 2012 2463

1 Collaborated with Mark Andrews.

Larry Charles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 458

Damien Chazelle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whiplash 2014 583
2 La La Land 2016 1016

Stephen Chbosky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 1541

Jeremiah S. Chechik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 2170

Kaige Chen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Farewell My Concubine 1993 715
2 Yellow Earth 1984 2079

Siu-Tung Ching

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Chinese Ghost Story 1987 2532

Lisa Cholodenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kids Are All Right 2010 1619
2 High Art 1998 2389

Sylvain Chomet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 601
2 The Illusionist 2010 2356

Stephen Chow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 1070
2 Shaolin Soccer 2001 1990

Benjamin Christensen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 994

Jon M. Chu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 2678

Grigoriy Chukhray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 1371

Vera Chytilová

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daisies 1966 1138

Derek Cianfrance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Valentine 2010 1909

Michael Cimino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 110
2 Heaven's Gate 1980 910
3 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 2734

Souleymane Cissé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yeelen 1987 1342

René Clair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Million 1931 2102
2 À Nous la Liberté 1931 2136
3 The Crazy Ray 1924 2362

Bob Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Story 1983 548
2 Black Christmas 1974 1968

Larry Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kids 1995 922

Shirley Clarke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Portrait of Jason 1967 2496

Jack Clayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Innocents 1961 442
2 Room at the Top 1959 1874

Jemaine Clement

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What We Do in the Shadows1 2014 2688

1 Collaborated with Taika Waititi.

René Clément

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Games 1952 1089
2 Purple Noon 1960 1695

Ron Clements

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 535
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 653
3 Moana1 2016 1804
4 The Princess and the Frog1 2009 2175
5 Hercules1 1997 2549

1 Collaborated with John Musker.

Edward F. Cline

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bank Dick 1940 1028

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 1854

Robert Clouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enter the Dragon 1973 481

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 210
2 Diabolique 1955 305
3 Le Corbeau 1943 1582
4 Quai des Orfèvres 1947 2342

Jean Cocteau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast 1946 237
2 Orpheus 1950 785
3 The Blood of a Poet 1932 1659

Ethan Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Country for Old Men1 2007 189
2 True Grit1 2010 934
3 A Serious Man1 2009 1387
4 Inside Llewyn Davis1 2013 2259

1 Collaborated with Joel Coen.

Joel Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 75
2 The Big Lebowski 1998 108
3 No Country for Old Men1 2007 189
4 Miller's Crossing 1990 466
5 Raising Arizona 1987 476
6 Blood Simple 1984 506
7 Barton Fink 1991 733
8 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 806
9 True Grit1 2010 934
10 A Serious Man1 2009 1387
11 Inside Llewyn Davis1 2013 2259
12 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 2272
13 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 2605

1 Collaborated with Ethan Coen.

Pierre Coffin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Despicable Me1 2010 1324

1 Collaborated with Chris Renaud.

Rob Cohen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast and the Furious 2001 2580

Peter Collinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Italian Job 1969 1447

Chris Columbus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 503
2 Home Alone 1990 822
3 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 1151
4 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 1241
5 Rent 2005 2608

Bill Condon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gods and Monsters 1998 2365
2 Dreamgirls 2006 2609

Bruce Conner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Movie 1958 2618

Barry Cook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 1190

1 Collaborated with Tony Bancroft.

Ryan Coogler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Panther 2018 1372
2 Creed 2015 2231

Merian C. Cooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 51

1 Collaborated with Ernest B. Schoedsack.

Eleanor Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1062

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 8
3 The Godfather: Part II 1974 18
4 The Conversation 1974 162
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 774
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 1350
7 Rumble Fish 1983 1529
8 The Outsiders 1983 1892

Sofia Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in Translation 2003 161
2 The Virgin Suicides 1999 1094
3 Marie Antoinette 2006 2479

Frank Coraci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wedding Singer 1998 1284

Anton Corbijn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Control 2007 1775

Sergio Corbucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Silence 1968 1479
2 Django 1966 1583

Roger Corman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 2268
2 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 2671
3 The Fall of the House of Usher 1960 2768

Henry Cornelius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Passport to Pimlico 1949 2328

Joe Cornish

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Attack the Block 2011 1857

Don Coscarelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Phantasm 1979 2039
2 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 2253

George P. Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tombstone 1993 1023

Costa-Gavras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Z 1969 584
2 Missing 1982 2295

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 318
2 Open Range 2003 1504

Noel Coward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Which We Serve1 1942 1653

1 Collaborated with David Lean.

Alex Cox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Repo Man 1984 657
2 Sid and Nancy 1986 1889

Wes Craven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 342
2 Scream 1996 527
3 The Last House on the Left 1972 1483

Charles Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 446
2 Dead of Night1 1945 882
3 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 1552

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

Michael Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Westworld 1973 909

Donald Crisp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Navigator1 1924 1886

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

David Cronenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1986 223
2 Videodrome 1983 349
3 A History of Violence 2005 509
4 Dead Ringers 1988 674
5 Crash 1996 756
6 The Brood 1979 1132
7 Eastern Promises 2007 1459
8 The Dead Zone 1983 1816
9 Naked Lunch 1991 1875
10 Scanners 1981 2121
11 Shivers 1975 2366
12 eXistenZ 1999 2391

Alan Crosland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jazz Singer 1927 679

Cameron Crowe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 382
2 Say Anything… 1989 526
3 Almost Famous 2000 531
4 Vanilla Sky 2001 2767

Billy Crystal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 61* 2001 2638

Gabor Csupo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridge to Terabithia 2007 2669

Alfonso Cuarón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Men 2006 258
2 Y tu mamá también 2001 426
3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 449
4 Gravity 2013 645
5 A Little Princess 1995 1935
6 Roma 2018 2029

George Cukor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Philadelphia Story 1940 131
2 My Fair Lady 1964 322
3 A Star Is Born 1954 396
4 Adam's Rib 1949 574
5 Holiday 1938 1270
6 Born Yesterday 1950 1276
7 The Women 1939 1294
8 Gaslight 1944 1380
9 Camille 1936 2006
10 Little Women 1933 2096
11 Dinner at Eight 1933 2226
12 David Copperfield 1935 2568
13 Pat and Mike 1952 2646

Sean S. Cunningham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday the 13th 1980 1267

Richard Curtis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Actually 2003 636
2 About Time 2013 2718

Michael Curtiz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 5
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 212
3 Mildred Pierce 1945 440
4 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 687
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 1382
6 White Christmas 1954 1873
7 Captain Blood 1935 2176
8 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936 2493
9 Dodge City 1939 2540
10 The Sea Hawk 1940 2778

1 Collaborated with William Keighley.

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