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 year of release

Go to the master list sorted by nation of origin

Find alternate titles of master list films

Go to lists of top films as determined by normal film fans

Top Films by Director (D-E)

Morton DaCosta

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Music Man	1962	825
2	Auntie Mame	1958	1719

John Dahl

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Last Seduction	1994	1250

Stephen Daldry

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Billy Elliot	2000	826
2	The Hours	2002	1044

Joe Dante

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Gremlins	1984	1003
2	The Howling	1981	1815

Frank Darabont

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	48
2	The Green Mile	1999	568

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Rosetta¹	1999	1592
2	La Promesse¹	1996	1801

¹ Collaborated with Luc Dardenne.

Luc Dardenne

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Rosetta¹	1999	1592
2	La Promesse¹	1996	1801

¹ Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Eric Darnell

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Antz¹	1998	1873

¹ Collaborated with Tim Johnson.

Julie Dash

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Daughters of the Dust	1991	2386

Jules Dassin

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Rififi	1955	623
2	Topkapi	1964	1597
3	The Naked City	1948	1785
4	Night and the City	1950	1934
5	Never on Sunday	1960	2044

Terence Davies

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Distant Voices, Still Lives	1988	1002
2	The Long Day Closes	1992	1698

Andrew Davis

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Fugitive	1993	446

Desmond Davis

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Clash of the Titans	1981	2434

Jonathan Dayton

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Little Miss Sunshine¹	2006	1645

¹ Collaborated with Valerie Faris.

Phillippe de Broca

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	King of Hearts	1966	1570

Robert De Niro

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	A Bronx Tale	1993	1989

Brian De Palma

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Scarface	1983	260
2	Carrie	1976	275
3	The Untouchables	1987	379
4	Blow Out	1981	1210
5	Mission: Impossible	1996	1298
6	Dressed to Kill	1980	1456
7	Carlito's Way	1993	1880
8	Casualties of War	1989	2028

Vittorio De Sica

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Bicycle Thief	1948	63
2	Umberto D.	1952	334
3	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	1970	942
4	Shoeshine	1946	1158
5	Two Women	1960	1351
6	Miracle in Milan	1951	2041
7	Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow	1963	2290

André De Toth

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	House of Wax	1953	1710

Basil Dearden

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Dead of Night¹	1945	638
2	Victim	1961	1555

¹ Collaborated with Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, and Robert Hamer.

Dean DeBlois

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Lilo & Stitch¹	2002	2062

¹ Collaborated with Chris Sanders.

Guillermo del Toro

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Pan's Labyrinth	2006	894
2	The Devil's Backbone	2001	1443

Cecil B. DeMille

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Ten Commandments	1956	323
2	The Greatest Show on Earth	1952	1459
3	The Cheat	1915	1752
4	The Ten Commandments	1923	2231
5	Samson and Delilah	1949	2255
6	The Sign of the Cross	1932	2473

Jonathan Demme

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	39
2	Philadelphia	1993	777
3	Stop Making Sense	1984	1130
4	Melvin and Howard	1980	1322
5	Something Wild	1986	2157

Ted Demme

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Ref	1994	2198

Jacques Demy

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	1964	377
2	Lola	1961	1215
3	The Young Girls of Rochefort	1967	1331

Claire Denis

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Beau travail	1999	1047

Maya Deren

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Meshes of the Afternoon¹	1943	906

¹ Collaborated with Alexander Hammid.

Howard Deutch

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Pretty in Pink	1986	1599

Danny DeVito

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The War of the Roses	1989	1646

Mark Dindal

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Tom DiCillo	1995	1828

William Dieterle

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1939	759
2	The Life of Emile Zola	1937	871
3	Portrait of Jennie	1948	1850
4	The Devil and Daniel Webster	1941	1890

Mark Dindal

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Emperor's New Groove	2000	2343

Edward Dmytryk

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Caine Mutiny	1954	577
2	Murder, My Sweet	1944	991
3	Crossfire	1947	1930

David Dobkin

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Wedding Crashers	2005	1674

Peter Docter

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Monsters, Inc.	2001	580

Jacques Doillon

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Ponette	1996	2222

Andrew Dominik

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Chopper	2000	2219

Stanley Donen

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Singin' in the Rain¹	1952	5
2	On the Town¹	1949	471
3	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	1954	555
4	Charade	1963	582
5	Funny Face	1957	711
6	Two for the Road	1967	1143
7	Bedazzled	1967	1682
8	The Pajama Game²	1957	1764
9	Damn Yankees!²	1958	2079
10	Royal Wedding	1951	2372

¹ Collabrated with Gene Kelly.

² Collabrated with George Abbott.

Richard Donner

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Superman	1978	314
2	Lethal Weapon	1987	807
3	The Omen	1976	840
4	The Goonies	1985	1541

Mark Donskoy

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Childhood of Maxim Gorky	1938	2209

Gordon Douglas

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Them!	1954	1471

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Earth	1930	465

Robert Drew

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Primary	1960	2270

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	139
2	Ordet	1955	406
3	Day of Wrath	1943	607
4	Gertrud	1964	689
5	Vampyr	1932	834

Troy Duffy

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Boondock Saints	1999	2416

Dennis Dugan

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Happy Gilmore	1996	2061

John Duigan

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Flirting	1991	2006

George Dunning

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Yellow Submarine	1968	924

Ewald André Dupont

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Varieté	1925	2119

Marguerite Duras

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	India song	1975	2256

Guru Dutt

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Pyaasa	1957	2365

Robert Duvall

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Apostle	1997	1539

Julien Duvivier

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Pépé Le Moko	1937	1256

Allan Dwan

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Sands of Iwo Jima	1949	1046

Clint Eastwood

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Unforgiven	1992	80
2	Million Dollar Baby	2004	674
3	The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976	733
4	The Bridges of Madison County	1995	962
5	High Plains Drifter	1973	1413
6	Letters from Iwo Jima	2006	1482
7	Mystic River	2003	1487
8	Bird	1988	2100
9	Play Misty for Me	1971	2433
10	Pale Rider	1985	2511

Blake Edwards

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Breakfast at Tiffany's	1961	163
2	A Shot in the Dark	1964	763
3	The Pink Panther	1963	838
4	Victor/Victoria	1982	1104
5	Days of Wine and Roses	1962	1336
6	10	1979	1916
7	The Party	1968	2097

Atom Egoyan

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Sweet Hereafter	1997	576
2	Exotica	1994	1271

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Battleship Potemkin	1925	65
2	Ivan the Terrible	1944	363
3	Alexander Nevsky¹	1938	383
4	October²	1928	766
5	Ivan the Terrible, Part II³	1958	786
6	Strike	1925	858
7	¡Que viva Mexico!²	1932	2350

¹ Collaborated with Dmitri Vasilyev.
² Collaborated with Grigori Aleksandrov.
³ Collaborated with M. Filimonova.

Stephan Elliott

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	1994	1668

Roland Emmerich

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Independence Day	1996	398
2	The Patriot	2000	2181

Cy Endfield

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Zulu	1964	407

Nora Ephron

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Sleepless in Seattle	1993	539
2	You've Got Mail	1998	1358

Robert Epstein

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Times of Harvey Milk	1984	2306

Victor Erice

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Spirit of the Beehive	1973	612
2	The Dream of Light	1992	2128

Jean Eustache

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	The Mother and the Whore	1973	1017

Chris Eyre

Rank	Title	Year	Overall Rank
1	Smoke Signals	1998	2027

Top Films by Director (D-E)

Morton DaCosta

John Dahl

Stephen Daldry

Joe Dante

Frank Darabont

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Luc Dardenne

Eric Darnell

Julie Dash

Jules Dassin

Terence Davies

Andrew Davis

Desmond Davis

Jonathan Dayton

Phillippe de Broca

Robert De Niro

Brian De Palma

Vittorio De Sica

André De Toth

Basil Dearden

Dean DeBlois

Guillermo del Toro

Cecil B. DeMille

Jonathan Demme

Ted Demme

Jacques Demy

Claire Denis

Maya Deren

Howard Deutch

Danny DeVito

Mark Dindal

William Dieterle

Mark Dindal

Edward Dmytryk

David Dobkin

Peter Docter

Jacques Doillon

Andrew Dominik

Stanley Donen

Richard Donner

Mark Donskoy

Gordon Douglas

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Robert Drew

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Troy Duffy

Dennis Dugan

John Duigan

George Dunning

Ewald André Dupont

Marguerite Duras

Guru Dutt

Robert Duvall

Julien Duvivier

Allan Dwan

Clint Eastwood

Blake Edwards

Atom Egoyan

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Stephan Elliott

Roland Emmerich

Cy Endfield

Nora Ephron

Robert Epstein

Victor Erice

Jean Eustache

Chris Eyre

This page was last modified on April 7, 2008