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Top Films by Director (F-G)

Peter Faiman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crocodile Dundee 1986 1529

Valerie Faris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Miss Sunshine1 2006 924

1 Collaborated with Jonathan Dayton.

Bobby Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 430
2 Kingpin1 1996 1045

1 Collaborated with Peter Farrelly.

Peter Farrelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 There's Something about Mary1 1998 430
2 Kingpin1 1996 1045
3 Dumb & Dumber 1994 1166

1 Collaborated with Bobby Farrelly.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 539
2 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 646
3 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 1174
4 Fox and His Friends 1975 1534
5 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 1824
6 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 1834
7 Lola 1981 2197

Federico Fellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 8 1/2 1963 84
2 La Dolce Vita 1960 144
3 La Strada 1954 224
4 Amarcord 1973 333
5 Nights of Cabiria 1957 427
6 I Vitelloni 1953 1313
7 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 1494
8 Fellini Satyricon 1969 1664

Norman Ferguson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 180

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 1272
2 King of New York 1990 1358

Louis Feuillade

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Les Vampires 1915 787
2 Fantomas 1913 1842

Jacques Feyder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival in Flanders 1935 2075

Todd Field

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Bedroom 2001 1574
2 Little Children 2006 2245

Mike Figgis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 683

M. Filimonova

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part II1 1958 876

1 Collaborated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

David Fincher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 91
2 Seven 1995 118
3 Alienł 1992 1128
4 The Game 1997 1485

Robert Fiore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pumping Iron1 1977 1630

1 Collaborated with George Butler.

Terrence Fisher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Horror of Dracula 1958 714
2 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 1943

Robert J. Flaherty

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nanook of the North 1922 372
2 Louisiana Story 1948 1329
3 Man of Aran 1934 1679

Richard Fleischer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 721
2 Soylent Green 1973 1141
3 Fantastic Voyage 1966 1216
4 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1801

1 Collaborated with Kinji Fukasaku and Toshio Masuda.

Victor Fleming

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wizard of Oz 1939 7
2 Gone with the Wind 1939 15
3 Captains Courageous 1937 1116

James Foley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 609

Bryan Forbes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stepford Wives 1975 1789
2 Whistle Down the Wind 1961 2063

John Ford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 25
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 80
3 Stagecoach 1939 97
4 My Darling Clementine 1946 247
5 The Quiet Man 1952 267
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 272
7 How Green Was My Valley 1941 353
8 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 668
9 Mister Roberts1 1955 762
10 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 1008
11 They Were Expendable 1945 1248
12 Fort Apache 1948 1352
13 The Informer 1935 1394
14 How the West Was Won2 1962 1775
15 Rio Grande 1950 2074

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 34
2 Amadeus 1984 128
3 Loves of a Blonde 1965 1348
4 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 1638
5 The Firemen's Ball 1967 1730
6 Hair 1979 1874

Marc Forster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Finding Neverland 2004 1304

Bill Forsyth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Local Hero 1983 447
2 Gregory's Girl 1981 662

Bob Fosse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabaret 1972 146
2 All That Jazz 1979 605
3 Lenny 1974 1915

Jonathan Frakes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 1579

Georges Franju

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eyes without a Face 1960 656

Melvin Frank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1042

1 Collaborated with Norman Panama.

David Frankel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1857

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 106
2 Seconds 1966 1001
3 The Train 1964 1293
4 Seven Days in May 1964 1634
5 Ronin 1998 1685

Carl Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One False Move 1992 1368
2 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 1665

Sidney Franklin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good Earth 1937 2035

James Frawley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Movie 1979 1531

Stephen Frears

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 627
2 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 686
3 High Fidelity 2000 713
4 The Grifters 1990 783
5 The Queen 2006 1650

Charles Frend

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cruel Sea 1953 1805

Karl Freund

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1932 785

Ron Fricke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baraka 1992 2090

William Friedkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Exorcist 1973 87
2 The French Connection 1971 147
3 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 1466

Kinji Fukasaku

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Battle Royale 2000 1337
2 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1801

1 Collaborated with Richard Fleischer and Toshio Masuda.

Samuel Fuller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Red One 1980 591
2 Pickup on South Street 1953 614
3 Shock Corridor 1963 950
4 Forty Guns 1957 2007
5 The Steel Helmet 1951 2116
6 The Naked Kiss 1964 2171

Antoine Fuqua

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Training Day 2001 1973

Sidney J. Furie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ipcress File 1965 796

Vincent Gallo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Buffalo '66 1998 1465

Abel Gance

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoléon 1927 227
2 La Roue 1923 2070

Tay Garnett

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 777

Leon Gast

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 When We Were Kings 1996 653

Terry George

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hotel Rwanda 2004 1028

Pietro Germi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 2157

Clyde Geronimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lady and the Tramp1 1955 877
2 Cinderella1 1950 880
3 Peter Pan1 1953 986
4 One Hundred and One Dalmatians2 1961 1013
5 Sleeping Beauty 1959 1462
6 Alice in Wonderland1 1951 1641

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 2048

1 Collaborated with Fernando E. Solanas and Santiago Álvarez.

Ritwik Ghatak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 1587

Cedric Gibbons

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan and His Mate 1934 2098

Brian Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 1399

Mel Gibson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Braveheart 1995 111
2 The Passion of the Christ 2004 1476

Lewis Gilbert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alfie 1966 1046
2 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 2004
3 Educating Rita 1983 2087

Terry Gilliam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brazil 1985 86
2 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 135
3 Twelve Monkeys 1995 338
4 Time Bandits 1981 1190
5 The Fisher King 1991 1351
6 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 1649
7 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 2269

1 Collaborated with Terry Jones.

Marco Tullio Giordana

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Best of Youth 2003 1633

François Girard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 1697

Jonathan Glazer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sexy Beast 2000 1006

Peter Glenville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Becket 1964 2149

Jean-Luc Godard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breathless 1960 89
2 Contempt 1963 421
3 Pierrot le Fou 1965 542
4 Week End 1967 619
5 Alphaville 1965 702
6 My Life to Live 1962 983
7 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 1305
8 Band of Outsiders 1964 1310
9 Masculine Feminine 1966 1385
10 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1861

Tony Goldwyn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Walk on the Moon 1999 1754

Michael Gondry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 199

Alejandro González Ińárritu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amores perros 2000 728
2 21 Grams 2003 1606
3 Babel 2006 1882

Keith Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Midnight Clear 1992 1481

Michael Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pillow Talk 1959 945

Steve Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arthur 1981 1113

Stuart Gordon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Re-Animator 1985 854

Serif Gören

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2066

1 Collaborated with Yilmaz Güney.

Marleen Gorris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antonia's Line 1995 1241

Raja Gosnell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Never Been Kissed 1999 2164

Edmund Goulding

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grand Hotel 1932 794
2 Dark Victory 1939 1067

Ashutosh Gowariker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 2065

Alfred E. Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Baby Face 1933 2031

David Gordon Green

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 George Washington 2000 1821

Peter Greenaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 1114
2 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 1361
3 The Pillow Book 1996 2213

Paul Greengrass

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 1065
2 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 1356
3 United 93 2006 1365
4 Bloody Sunday 2002 2154

Tom Gries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Will Penny 1968 2182

D.W. Griffith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Birth of a Nation 1915 145
2 Intolerance 1916 160
3 Broken Blossoms 1919 568
4 Way Down East 1920 1373

Ulu Grosbard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Straight Time 1978 2148

Christopher Guest

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Best in Show 2000 851
2 Waiting for Guffman 1996 1047

John Guillermin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Towering Inferno1 1974 1307

1 Collaborated with Irwin Allen.

Sacha Guitry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Story of a Cheat 1936 1309

Yilmaz Güney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yol1 1982 2066

1 Collaborated with Serif Gören.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 1200
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