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Top Films by Director (C)

James Cameron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aliens 1986 50
2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 54
3 The Terminator 1984 80
4 Titanic 1997 96
5 Avatar 2009 149
6 True Lies 1994 1016
7 The Abyss 1989 1045
8 Avatar: The Way of Water 2022 2986

Donald Cammell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Performance1 1970 791

1 Collaborated with Nicolas Roeg.

Juan José Campanella

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 1391

Martin Campbell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casino Royale 2006 358
2 GoldenEye 1995 1635
3 The Mask of Zorro 1998 2710

Robin Campillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 2017 1958

Jane Campion

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Piano 1993 309
2 An Angel at My Table 1990 1593
3 The Power of the Dog 2021 1758
4 Bright Star 2009 1830
5 In the Cut 2003 2425

Marcel Camus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Orpheus 1959 1591

Laurent Cantet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Class 2008 2951

Jonathan Caouette

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarnation 2003 3001

Frank Capra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 46
2 It Happened One Night 1934 99
3 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 362
4 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 656
5 Lost Horizon 1937 1500
6 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 1673
7 You Can't Take It with You 1938 1995

Leos Carax

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Holy Motors 2012 1652
2 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 2248

Marcel Carné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Paradise 1945 216
2 Le Jour se lève 1939 1576
3 Port of Shadows 1938 2827

John Carney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once 2006 886
2 Sing Street 2016 2084

Marc Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 730
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 1041

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Niki Caro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whale Rider 2002 1565

John Carpenter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thing 1982 63
2 Halloween 1978 132
3 Escape from New York 1981 528
4 They Live 1988 815
5 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 1057
6 Dark Star 1974 1286
7 The Fog 1980 1455
8 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 1748
9 Starman 1984 2373
10 In the Mouth of Madness 1994 3036

Shane Carruth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primer 2004 1222

John Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Woman under the Influence 1974 449
2 Shadows 1958 669
3 Faces 1968 1510
4 Opening Night 1977 1634
5 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 1993
6 Love Streams 1984 2105
7 Gloria 1980 2662
8 Husbands 1970 2757

Nick Cassavetes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Notebook 2004 439

Nick Castle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Starfighter 1984 2783

William Castle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House on Haunted Hill 1959 2298

Peter Cattaneo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Full Monty 1997 1233

Alberto Cavalcanti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 787
2 Went the Day Well? 1942 1895

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 1804
2 Winter Sleep 2014 2164

Claude Chabrol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Boucher 1970 1753
2 La Cérémonie 1995 2437

Gurinder Chadha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 676

Don Chaffey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 931

Gordon Chan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fist of Legend 1994 2995

Jackie Chan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Police Story 1985 1553

J.C. Chandor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All Is Lost 2013 3052

Lee Chang-dong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burning 2018 1750
2 Poetry 2010 2883

Park Chan-wook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oldboy 2003 141
2 The Handmaiden 2016 590
3 Lady Vengeance 2005 2215
4 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002 2301
5 Thirst 2009 2901

Charles Chaplin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Lights 1931 40
2 Modern Times 1936 61
3 The Gold Rush 1925 171
4 The Great Dictator 1940 222
5 The Kid 1921 406
6 The Circus 1928 1121
7 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 1658
8 Limelight 1952 1773
9 The Immigrant 1917 2848

Brenda Chapman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brave1 2012 1808
2 The Prince of Egypt2 1998 2446

1 Collaborated with Mark Andrews.
2 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 606

Damien Chazelle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whiplash 2014 391
2 La La Land 2016 484

Stephen Chbosky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 991
2 Wonder 2017 3061

Jeremiah S. Chechik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 2404

Peter Chelsom

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Serendipity 2001 2641

Kaige Chen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Farewell My Concubine 1993 729
2 Yellow Earth 1984 2535

Jimmy Chin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Free Solo1 2018 2149

1 Collaborated with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.

Lisa Cholodenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kids Are All Right 2010 1201
2 High Art 1998 2078

Sylvain Chomet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 646
2 The Illusionist 2010 2498

Aditya Chopra

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Brave Heart Will Take the Bride 1995 2067

Stephen Chow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 897
2 Shaolin Soccer 2001 1945

Benjamin Christensen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 996

Jon M. Chu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crazy Rich Asians 2018 1004
2 In the Heights 2021 2801

Grigoriy Chukhray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 1788

Lee Isaac Chung

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Minari 2020 2989

Vera Chytilová

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daisies 1966 859

Derek Cianfrance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Valentine 2010 1395

Michael Cimino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Deer Hunter 1978 121
2 Heaven's Gate 1980 1107
3 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 2486

Souleymane Cissé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yeelen 1987 1692

René Clair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Million 1931 2424
2 À Nous la Liberté 1931 2526

Bob Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Story 1983 624
2 Black Christmas 1974 1496

Larry Clark

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kids 1995 1080

Alan Clarke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scum 1979 2752

Shirley Clarke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Portrait of Jason 1967 1962

James Clavell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Sir, with Love 1967 2685

Jack Clayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Innocents 1961 444

Jemaine Clement

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What We Do in the Shadows1 2014 1356

1 Collaborated with Taika Waititi.

René Clément

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forbidden Games 1952 1599
2 Purple Noon 1960 2435

Ron Clements

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 427
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 505
3 Moana1 2016 702
4 The Princess and the Frog1 2009 1520
5 Hercules1 1997 1524
6 The Great Mouse Detective1 2 1986 2626

1 Collaborated with John Musker.
2 Collaborated with Burny Mattinson and David Michener.

Edward F. Cline

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bank Dick 1940 1383
2 One Week1 1920 2925

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

George Clooney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 2012

Robert Clouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enter the Dragon 1973 520

Henri-Georges Clouzot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wages of Fear 1953 269
2 Diabolique 1955 295
3 Le Corbeau 1943 1959
4 Quai des Orfèvres 1947 2890

Jean Cocteau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast 1946 201
2 Orpheus 1950 797
3 The Blood of a Poet 1932 1831

Ethan Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Country for Old Men1 2007 101
2 True Grit1 2010 685
3 Inside Llewyn Davis1 2013 1184
4 A Serious Man1 2009 1203
5 Burn after Reading1 2008 2326

1 Collaborated with Joel Coen.

Joel Coen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fargo 1996 67
2 No Country for Old Men1 2007 101
3 The Big Lebowski 1998 104
4 Miller's Crossing 1990 553
5 Raising Arizona 1987 591
6 Blood Simple 1984 609
7 True Grit1 2010 685
8 Barton Fink 1991 905
9 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 1090
10 Inside Llewyn Davis1 2013 1184
11 A Serious Man1 2009 1203
12 Burn after Reading1 2008 2326
13 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 2694
14 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 2858

1 Collaborated with Ethan Coen.

Pierre Coffin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Despicable Me1 2010 1285
2 Despicable Me 21 2013 2600

1 Collaborated with Chris Renaud.

Larry Cohen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 God Told Me To 1976 2513

Rob Cohen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast and the Furious 2001 2408

Kathleen Collins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Losing Ground 1982 2541

Peter Collinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Italian Job 1969 1679

Chris Columbus

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 333
2 Home Alone 1990 618
3 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 731
4 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 1138
5 Stepmom 1998 2794
6 Rent 2005 2973

Bill Condon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dreamgirls 2006 1908
2 Gods and Monsters 1998 2847

Ryan Coogler

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Panther 2018 289
2 Creed 2015 985
3 Fruitvale Station 2013 1283

Barry Cook

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulan1 1998 917

1 Collaborated with Tony Bancroft.

Josh Cooley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 4 2019 1448

Bradley Cooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Star Is Born 2018 1364

Merian C. Cooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 68

1 Collaborated with Ernest B. Schoedsack.

Eleanor Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1268

1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper.

Francis Ford Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 2
2 Apocalypse Now 1979 10
3 The Godfather: Part II 1974 23
4 The Conversation 1974 207
5 The Godfather: Part III 1990 916
6 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 1165
7 The Outsiders 1983 1255
8 Rumble Fish 1983 1784

Sofia Coppola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lost in Translation 2003 172
2 The Virgin Suicides 1999 677
3 Marie Antoinette 2006 1793

Frank Coraci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wedding Singer 1998 1303

Anton Corbijn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Control 2007 2113

Sergio Corbucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Silence 1968 1366
2 Django 1966 1666

Roger Corman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 1816
2 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 2457
3 A Bucket of Blood 1959 2734
4 The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 2864
5 The Fall of the House of Usher 1960 3017

Joe Cornish

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Attack the Block 2011 1628

Don Coscarelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 2599
2 Phantasm 1979 2709

George P. Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tombstone 1993 1213
2 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 2230

Panos Cosmatos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mandy 2018 2522

Costa-Gavras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Z 1969 929
2 Missing 1982 2477

Kevin Costner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dances with Wolves 1990 356
2 Open Range 2003 1776

Noël Coward

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In Which We Serve1 1942 2005

1 Collaborated with David Lean.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blackfish 2013 2065

Alex Cox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Repo Man 1984 658
2 Sid and Nancy 1986 2241

Kelly Fremon Craig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Edge of Seventeen 2016 1823

Wes Craven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 248
2 Scream 1996 310
3 The Last House on the Left 1972 1408
4 New Nightmare 1994 2690
5 Scream 2 1997 2739
6 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 2813

Destin Daniel Cretton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Short Term 12 2013 2667
2 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021 2834

Charles Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 598
2 Dead of Night1 1945 787
3 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 2325

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

Michael Crichton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Westworld 1973 971

Donald Crisp

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Navigator1 1924 2475

1 Collaborated with Buster Keaton.

David Cronenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1986 147
2 Videodrome 1983 421
3 Dead Ringers 1988 725
4 A History of Violence 2005 769
5 Crash 1996 948
6 The Brood 1979 1015
7 Eastern Promises 2007 1266
8 The Dead Zone 1983 1990
9 Scanners 1981 2024
10 Naked Lunch 1991 2227
11 eXistenZ 1999 2564
12 Shivers 1975 2773

Alan Crosland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jazz Singer 1927 1132

Cameron Crowe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jerry Maguire 1996 487
2 Almost Famous 2000 494
3 Say Anything… 1989 615
4 Singles 1992 2618

John Crowley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brooklyn 2015 2272

Gabor Csupo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridge to Terabithia 2007 1905

Alfonso Cuarón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of Men 2006 193
2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 305
3 Gravity 2013 371
4 Y tu mamá también 2001 462
5 Roma 2018 619
6 A Little Princess 1995 2018

George Cukor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Philadelphia Story 1940 126
2 My Fair Lady 1964 348
3 A Star Is Born 1954 453
4 Adam's Rib 1949 880
5 Gaslight 1944 1280
6 The Women 1939 1294
7 Holiday 1938 1702
8 Born Yesterday 1950 1821
9 Dinner at Eight 1933 2186
10 Camille 1936 2264
11 Little Women 1933 2581
12 David Copperfield 1935 2664

Sean S. Cunningham

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday the 13th 1980 738

Richard Curtis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Actually 2003 503
2 About Time 2013 1680

Michael Curtiz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Casablanca 1942 5
2 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 265
3 Mildred Pierce 1945 454
4 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 820
5 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 1586
6 White Christmas 1954 1610
7 Captain Blood 1935 2016
8 Dodge City 1939 2761

1 Collaborated with William Keighley.

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