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Top Films by Director (F-G)

Peter Faiman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crocodile Dundee 1986 1453

Valerie Faris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 1645

1 Collaborated with Jonathan Dayton.

Bobby Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 411
2 Kingpin1 1996 1418

1 Collaborated with Peter Farrelly.

Peter Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 411
2 Kingpin1 1996 1418
3 Dumb & Dumber 1994 1676

1 Collaborated with Bobby Farrelly.

Forugh Farrokhzad

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The House Is Black 1963 2407

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 512
2 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 675
3 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 1204
4 Fox and His Friends 1975 1399
5 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 1598
6 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 1699

Federico Fellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 82
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 134
3 La Strada 1954 209
4 Amarcord 1973 291
5 Nights of Cabiria 1957 425
6 I Vitelloni 1953 1360
7 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 1466
8 Fellini Satyricon 1969 1532

Norman Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.

Abel Ferrara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bad Lieutenant 1992 1154
2 King of New York 1990 2068

Louis Feuillade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Vampires 1915 697
2 Fantomas 1913 1971

Jacques Feyder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival in Flanders 1935 2479

Todd Field

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Bedroom 2001 1808

Mike Figgis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 601

M. Filimonova

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part II1 1958 786

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

David Fincher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 118
2 Seven 1995 143
3 Alienł 1992 1071
4 The Game 1997 1377

Robert Fiore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1445

1 Collaborated with George Butler.

Terrence Fisher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Horror of Dracula 1958 758
2 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 2312

George Fitzmaurice

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Son of the Sheik 1926 2324

Robert J. Flaherty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nanook of the North 1922 339
2 Louisiana Story 1948 1027
3 Man of Aran 1934 1603

Richard Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 654
2 Fantastic Voyage 1966 1123
3 Soylent Green 1973 1299
4 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1832
5 The Narrow Margin 1952 1946

1 Collaborated with Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda.

Victor Fleming

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 6
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 11
3 Captains Courageous 1937 865
4 Red Dust 1932 1816

James Foley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 700

Bryan Forbes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stepford Wives 1975 1615
2 Whistle Down the Wind 1961 1945
3 Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 2232

John Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 23
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 68
3 Stagecoach 1939 76
4 My Darling Clementine 1946 211
5 The Quiet Man 1952 236
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 294
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 342
8 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 659
9 Mister Roberts1 1955 681
10 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 842
11 They Were Expendable 1945 1129
12 The Informer 1935 1133
13 Fort Apache 1948 1374
14 How the West Was Won2 1962 1489
15 Rio Grande 1950 1985
16 The Iron Horse 1924 2024
17 The Long Voyage Home 1940 2095

1 Collaborated with Mervyn LeRoy.
2 Collaborated with Henry Hathaway and George Marshall.

Milos Forman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 37
2 Amadeus 1984 141
3 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 1329
4 The Firemen's Ball 1967 1381
5 Loves of a Blonde 1965 1447
6 Hair 1979 1479

Marc Forster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Neverland 2004 1613
2 Monster’s Ball 2001 2193

Bill Forsyth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Local Hero 1983 439
2 Gregory's Girl 1981 642
3 Housekeeping 1987 1854

Bob Fosse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 148
2 All That Jazz 1979 732
3 Lenny 1974 1508
4 Sweet Charity 1969 2147

Harve Foster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Song of the South1 1946 2108

1 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson.

Jodie Foster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Home for the Holidays 1995 2122

Jonathan Frakes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 1589

Georges Franju

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eyes without a Face 1960 756

Melvin Frank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 959

1 Collaborated with Norman Panama.

David Frankel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

1 Collaborated with Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

John Frankenheimer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 93
2 Seconds 1966 1068
3 The Train 1964 1197
4 Seven Days in May 1964 1419
5 Ronin 1998 1460

Carl Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One False Move 1992 1305
2 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 1856
3 One True Thing 1998 2390

Sidney Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Earth 1937 1448

James Frawley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Movie 1979 1787

Stephen Frears

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 573
2 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 637
3 High Fidelity 2000 730
4 The Grifters 1990 771
5 The Snapper 1993 1672
6 Dirty Pretty Things 2002 2208
7 The Queen 2006 2369

Charles Frend

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cruel Sea 1953 1724

Karl Freund

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1932 767

Ron Fricke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baraka 1992 2096

William Friedkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 102
2 The French Connection 1971 153
3 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 1925

Robert Fuest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 2450

Kinji Fukasaku

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Battle Royale 2000 1726
2 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1832

1 Collaborated with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda.

Samuel Fuller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Red One 1980 575
2 Pickup on South Street 1953 656
3 Shock Corridor 1963 913
4 The Steel Helmet 1951 1953
5 The Naked Kiss 1964 2463

Antoine Fuqua

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Training Day 2001 1841

Sidney J. Furie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ipcress File 1965 880

Vincent Gallo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Buffalo '66 1998 1777

Abel Gance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoléon 1927 194
2 La Roue 1923 1326

Christophe Gans

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brotherhood of the Wolf 2001 2328

Tay Garnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 633

Leon Gast

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When We Were Kings 1996 752

Terry George

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hotel Rwanda 2004 1028

Pietro Germi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 1568

Clyde Geronimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lady and the Tramp1 1955 803
2 Cinderella1 1950 919
3 Peter Pan1 1953 1031
4 One Hundred and One Dalmatians2 1961 1187
5 Alice in Wonderland1 1951 1433
6 Sleeping Beauty 1959 1545

1 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske.
2 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman.

Octavio Getino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1685

1 Collaborated with Fernando E. Solanas and Santiago Álvarez.

Ritwik Ghatak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 1675

Cedric Gibbons

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 1963

Brian Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 1402

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 94
2 The Passion of the Christ 2004 1292

Lewis Gilbert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alfie 1966 1098
2 Educating Rita 1983 1655
3 You Only Live Twice 1967 2237

Jim Gillespie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Know What You Did Last Summer 1997 2459

Terry Gilliam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brazil 1985 97
2 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 149
3 Twelve Monkeys 1995 394
4 The Fisher King 1991 1182
5 Time Bandits 1981 1306
6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 1753
7 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 1887

1 Collaborated with Terry Jones.

Sidney Gilliat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Green for Danger 1946 1894

Marco Tullio Giordana

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best of Youth 2003 1611

François Girard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 1488

Jonathan Glazer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sexy Beast 2000 1152

Francis Glebas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

Peter Glenville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Becket 1964 2081

Jean-Luc Godard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 77
2 Contempt 1963 373
3 Pierrot le Fou 1965 521
4 Week End 1967 552
5 Alphaville 1965 873
6 My Life to Live 1962 966
7 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 1243
8 Masculine Feminine 1966 1312
9 Band of Outsiders 1964 1449
10 Histoire(s) du cinéma 2229

Eric Goldberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia/20001 1999 2253

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Don Hahn, and Pixote Hunt.

Tony Goldwyn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Walk on the Moon 1999 2189

Michael Gondry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 278

Alejandro González Ińárritu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amores perros 2000 776
2 21 Grams 2003 1696
3 Babel 2006 2215

Keith Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Midnight Clear 1992 1328

Michael Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pillow Talk 1959 774
2 Cyrano de Bergerac 1950 2118

Steve Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arthur 1981 1160

Stuart Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Re-Animator 1985 896

Serif Gören

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 1831

1 Collaborated with Yilmaz Güney.

Marleen Gorris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antonia's Line 1995 1126

Raja Gosnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Never Been Kissed 1999 1914

Edmund Goulding

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grand Hotel 1932 677
2 Dark Victory 1939 824

Ashutosh Gowariker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 2374

F. Gary Gray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday 1995 2422

Alfred E. Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baby Face 1933 1793

David Gordon Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 George Washington 2000 1974

Peter Greenaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 1106
2 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 1245
3 The Pillow Book 1996 2285

Paul Greengrass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bloody Sunday 2002 2391

Maggie Greenwald

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ballad of Little Jo 1993 2442

D.W. Griffith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Birth of a Nation 1915 112
2 Intolerance 1916 133
3 Broken Blossoms 1919 501
4 Way Down East 1920 1294
5 Orphans of the Storm 1921 2323

Ulu Grosbard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Straight Time 1978 2155

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Best in Show 2000 995
2 Waiting for Guffman 1996 1057

John Guillermin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 1265

1 Collaborated with Irwin Allen.

Sacha Guitry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Story of a Cheat 1936 1600

Yilmaz Güney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 1831

1 Collaborated with Serif Gören.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 1132
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