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Top Films by Director (D-E)

Morton DaCosta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Man 1962 1114
2 Auntie Mame 1958 2331

Olivier Dahan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Vie en rose 2007 1215

John Dahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Last Seduction 1994 1047

Stephen Daldry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Billy Elliot 2000 1264
2 The Hours 2002 1334
3 The Reader 2008 2056

Gerard Damiano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deep Throat 1972 2424

Lee Daniels

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 2009 1934

Brian Dannelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saved! 2004 2644

Joe Dante

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gremlins 1984 1146
2 The Howling 1981 2536

Frank Darabont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 52
2 The Green Mile 1999 421
3 The Mist 2007 2002

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 1512
2 The Son1 2002 1852
3 L'Enfant1 2005 2759

1 Collaborated with Luc Dardenne.

Luc Dardenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rosetta1 1999 1512
2 The Son1 2002 1852
3 L'Enfant1 2005 2759

1 Collaborated with Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

Eric Darnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antz1 1998 2155

1 Collaborated with Tim Johnson.

Julie Dash

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Daughters of the Dust 1991 1442

Jules Dassin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rififi 1955 420
2 Night and the City 1950 834
3 The Naked City 1948 1749

Delmer Daves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 3:10 to Yuma 1957 1519
2 Broken Arrow 1950 2475

Terence Davies

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 973
2 The Long Day Closes 1992 1701

Andrew Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fugitive 1993 677
2 Under Siege 1992 2341

Desmond Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clash of the Titans 1981 2277

Peter Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts and Minds 1974 1346

Tamra Davis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Billy Madison 1995 2543

Jonathan Dayton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 607

1 Collaborated with Valerie Faris.

Emile de Antonio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Year of the Pig 1968 2548

Jan de Bont

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Speed 1994 473

Robert De Niro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Bronx Tale 1993 1635

Brian De Palma

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scarface 1983 202
2 Carrie 1976 278
3 The Untouchables 1987 471
4 Carlito's Way 1993 804
5 Blow Out 1981 1035
6 Mission: Impossible 1996 1435
7 Dressed to Kill 1980 1538
8 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 1565
9 Body Double 1984 2346
10 Sisters 1972 2587
11 Casualties of War 1989 2600
12 Femme Fatale 2002 2801

Vittorio De Sica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bicycle Thief 1948 57
2 Umberto D. 1952 445
3 Shoeshine 1946 1715
4 Two Women 1960 1986
5 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 2042
6 Miracle in Milan 1951 2189

André De Toth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Wax 1953 1711
2 Crime Wave 1953 2707

Basil Dearden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead of Night1 1945 882
2 Victim 1961 1846

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

Dean DeBlois

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Train Your Dragon1 2010 502
2 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 1988
3 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 1994
4 Heima 2007 2502

1 Collaborated with Chris Sanders.

Donna Deitch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desert Hearts 1985 2489

Guillermo del Toro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 146
2 The Devil's Backbone 2001 945
3 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008 1966
4 The Shape of Water 2017 2064
5 Blade II 2002 2190
6 Hellboy 2004 2196

Cecil B. DeMille

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ten Commandments 1956 493
2 The Ten Commandments 1923 2796

Jonathan Demme

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 31
2 Stop Making Sense 1984 700
3 Philadelphia 1993 828
4 Something Wild 1986 2086

Ted Demme

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blow 2001 2553

Jacques Demy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 298
2 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 1193
3 Lola 1961 2509

Claire Denis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beau travail 1999 646
2 35 Shots of Rum 2008 2050
3 White Material 2009 2712

Ruggero Deodato

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 1609

Maya Deren

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 713

1 Collaborated with Alexander Hammid.

Arnaud Desplechin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Christmas Tale 2008 2294

Howard Deutch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pretty in Pink 1986 1128

Danny DeVito

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Matilda 1996 1970

Tom DiCillo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Living in Oblivion 1995 2571

William Dieterle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 1656
2 Portrait of Jennie 1948 1802
3 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 1936

Mark Dindal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Emperor's New Groove 2000 2369

Edward Dmytryk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murder, My Sweet 1944 1413
2 The Caine Mutiny 1954 1508
3 Crossfire 1947 2736

Pete Docter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Up 2009 188
2 Monsters, Inc. 2001 397
3 Inside Out 2015 494

Andrew Dominik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 681

Roger Donaldson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The World's Fastest Indian 2005 1957

Stanley Donen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 7
2 On the Town1 1949 706
3 Funny Face 1957 899
4 Charade 1963 1007
5 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 1169
6 Damn Yankees!2 1958 1539
7 Bedazzled 1967 2403
8 The Pajama Game2 1957 2520
9 It's Always Fair Weather1 1955 2579

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

Richard Donner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superman 1978 275
2 The Goonies 1985 444
3 The Omen 1976 637
4 Lethal Weapon 1987 763
5 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 1932
6 Ladyhawke 1985 2614

Gordon Douglas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Them! 1954 1188

Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Earth 1930 841

Robert Drew

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primary 1960 2166

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 123
2 Day of Wrath 1943 610
3 Vampyr 1932 611
4 Gertrud 1964 1015
5 Ordet 1955 366

Julia Ducournau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raw 2016 2152

Troy Duffy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Boondock Saints 1999 1636

Dennis Dugan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happy Gilmore 1996 968

Germaine Dulac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Smiling Madame Beudet 1923 2595

George Dunning

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yellow Submarine 1968 731

Marguerite Duras

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 India song 1975 2151

Guru Dutt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pyaasa 1957 2603

Ava DuVernay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Selma 2014 1589

Julien Duvivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pépé Le Moko 1937 1243

Allan Dwan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 2376

Clint Eastwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Unforgiven 1992 95
2 Million Dollar Baby 2004 331
3 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 558
4 Gran Torino 2008 577
5 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 748
6 Mystic River 2003 759
7 High Plains Drifter 1973 1017
8 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 1347
9 Changeling 2008 1848
10 Pale Rider 1985 1877
11 Flags of Our Fathers 2006 2149
12 Invictus 2009 2215
13 American Sniper 2014 2281
14 Play Misty for Me 1971 2387

Ezra Edelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 O.J.: Made in America 2016 2780

Blake Edwards

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 359
2 The Party 1968 908
3 The Pink Panther 1963 1143
4 Victor/Victoria 1982 1354
5 A Shot in the Dark 1964 1544
6 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 1998

Gareth Edwards

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 2060

Atom Egoyan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 1025
2 Exotica 1994 2467

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 90
2 Ivan the Terrible 1944 618
3 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 760
4 Strike 1925 1176
5 October2 1927 1217
6 Ivan the Terrible, Part II3 1958 1251

1 Collaborated with Dmitriy Vasilyev.
2 Collaborated with Grigoriy Aleksandrov.
3 Collaborated with M. Filimonova.

Adam Elliott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary and Max 2009 837

Stephan Elliott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 1340

Roland Emmerich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Independence Day 1996 588
2 The Patriot 2000 2557
3 Stargate 1994 2739

Cy Endfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zulu 1964 825

Nora Ephron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 738
2 You've Got Mail 1998 1175

Jean Epstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 1186

Rob Epstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 1220
2 The Celluloid Closet1 1995 2284

1 Collaborated with Jeffrey Friedman.

Victor Erice

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 352
2 The Dream of Light 1992 1742
3 El Sur 1983 2494

Jean Eustache

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mother and the Whore 1973 692

David M. Evans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sandlot 1993 1206

Gareth Evans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Raid: Redemption 2011 1331
2 The Raid 2 2014 2020

Heidi Ewing

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jesus Camp1 2006 2623

1 Collaborated with Rachel Grady.

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