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Top Films by Director (D-E)

Morton DaCosta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Man 1962 773
2 Auntie Mame 1958 1839

Olivier Dahan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Vie en rose 2007 2195

John Dahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Seduction 1994 934

Stephen Daldry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Billy Elliot 2000 749
2 The Hours 2002 1085

Gerard Damiano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deep Throat 1972 2002

Joe Dante

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gremlins 1984 1152
2 The Howling 1981 1698

Frank Darabont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 46
2 The Green Mile 1999 560

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 1776
2 La Promesse1 1996 1861

1 Collaborated with Luc Dardenne.

Luc Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 1776
2 La Promesse1 1996 1861

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Eric Darnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antz1 1998 1994

1 Collaborated with Tim Johnson.

Jules Dassin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rififi 1955 521
2 Night and the City 1950 1251
3 Topkapi 1964 2168
4 The Naked City 1948 2252

Terence Davies

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 899
2 The Long Day Closes 1992 1250

Andrew Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fugitive 1993 496

Desmond Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clash of the Titans 1981 2064

Peter Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts and Minds 1974 1774

Jonathan Dayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 851

1 Collaborated with Valerie Faris.

Phillippe de Broca

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King of Hearts 1966 1723

Robert De Niro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Bronx Tale 1993 2071

Brian De Palma

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scarface 1983 239
2 Carrie 1976 269
3 The Untouchables 1987 408
4 Mission: Impossible 1996 963
5 Blow Out 1981 1287
6 Dressed to Kill 1980 1325
7 Carlito's Way 1993 1351
8 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 2045
9 Sisters 1973 2299
10 Casualties of War 1989 2300

Vittorio De Sica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 67
2 Umberto D. 1952 391
3 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 1082
4 Two Women 1960 1262
5 Shoeshine 1946 1524
6 Miracle in Milan 1951 1881

André De Toth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Wax 1953 1746

Basil Dearden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 640
2 Victim 1961 1823

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

Dean DeBlois

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 2231

1 Collaborated with Chris Sanders.

Guillermo del Toro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 353
2 The Devil's Backbone 2001 952

Cecil B. DeMille

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ten Commandments 1956 403
2 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 1583
3 The Ten Commandments 1923 2113
4 Samson and Delilah 1949 2255
5 The Cheat 1915 2371

Jonathan Demme

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 30
2 Philadelphia 1993 898
3 Stop Making Sense 1984 926
4 Melvin and Howard 1980 1824
5 Something Wild 1986 2310

Jacques Demy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 368
2 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 1144
3 Lola 1961 1882

Claire Denis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beau travail 1999 896

Ruggero Deodato

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 1857

Maya Deren

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 1020

1 Collaborated with Alexander Hammid.

Howard Deutch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pretty in Pink 1986 1555

Danny DeVito

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War of the Roses 1989 1784

Tom DiCillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Living in Oblivion 1995 1735

William Dieterle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 1027
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 1102
3 Portrait of Jennie 1948 2196
4 The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 2296

Edward Dmytryk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Caine Mutiny 1954 884
2 Murder, My Sweet 1944 1241

David Dobkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wedding Crashers 2005 1855

Pete Docter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monsters, Inc. 2001 607
2 Up 2009 1065

Andrew Dominik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 1876
2 Chopper 2000 2186

Stanley Donen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 6
2 On the Town1 1949 506
3 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 580
4 Charade 1963 638
5 Funny Face 1957 723
6 Damn Yankees!2 1958 1544
7 The Pajama Game2 1957 1606
8 Bedazzled 1967 2058
9 Two for the Road 1967 2375

1 Collabrated with Gene Kelly.
2 Collabrated with George Abbott.

Richard Donner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superman 1978 272
2 The Omen 1976 739
3 Lethal Weapon 1987 794
4 The Goonies 1985 1036
5 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 2355

Gordon Douglas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Them! 1954 1329

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Earth 1930 552

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 143
2 Ordet 1955 454
3 Day of Wrath 1943 593
4 Vampyr 1932 929
5 Gertrud 1964 942

Dennis Dugan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happy Gilmore 1996 1493

George Dunning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yellow Submarine 1968 903

Marguerite Duras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 India song 1975 2086

Guru Dutt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pyaasa 1957 2361

Robert Duvall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Apostle 1997 1543

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 1418

Clint Eastwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Unforgiven 1992 73
2 Million Dollar Baby 2004 536
3 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 645
4 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 964
5 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 1069
6 Mystic River 2003 1511
7 High Plains Drifter 1973 1542
8 Play Misty for Me 1971 1759
9 Gran Torino 2008 1929
10 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 1944
11 Bird 1988 2263

Blake Edwards

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 203
2 The Pink Panther 1963 820
3 A Shot in the Dark 1964 861
4 Victor/Victoria 1982 1433
5 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 1731
6 The Party 1968 1845
7 10 1979 2197
8 The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976 2367

Atom Egoyan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 512
2 Exotica 1994 1366

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 74
2 Ivan the Terrible 1944 453
3 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 523
4 October2 1928 839
5 Ivan the Terrible, Part II3 1958 930
6 Strike 1925 1086

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 1541

Roland Emmerich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Independence Day 1996 431
2 The Patriot 2000 2239

Cy Endfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zulu 1964 491

Nora Ephron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 652
2 You've Got Mail 1998 1567

Robert Epstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 1798

Victor Erice

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 543
2 The Dream of Light 1992 2039

Jean Eustache

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mother and the Whore 1973 1087

Chris Eyre

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Smoke Signals 1998 2157
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