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Top Films by Director (H-I)

Taylor Hackford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 1721
2 Ray 2004 1929
3 The Devil's Advocate 1997 2436

Paul Haggis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crash 2004 1474

Andrew Haigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Weekend 2011 1079
2 45 Years 2015 3029

Don Hall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Hero 61 2014 804
2 Winnie the Pooh2 2011 2804
3 Raya and the Last Dragon3 2021 2920

1 Collaborated with Chris Williams.
2 Collaborated with Stephen J. Anderson.
3 Collaborated with Carlos López Estrada.

Lasse Hallström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 1367
2 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 1540
3 My Life as a Dog 1985 1651
4 Chocolat 2000 2525

Ryűsuke Hamaguchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drive My Car 2021 2261

Robert Hamer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 345
2 Dead of Night1 1945 787

1 Collaborated with Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, and Basil Dearden.

Guy Hamilton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 246
2 Battle of Britain 1969 2918

Alexander Hammid

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 823

1 Collaborated with Maya Deren.

John D. Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 1703

John Lee Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blind Side 2009 1674
2 The Rookie 2002 1919

David Hand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 115
2 Fantasia1 1940 229
3 Bambi 1942 342

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

Jim Handley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Michael Haneke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hidden 2005 501
2 Amour 2012 551
3 The White Ribbon 2009 928
4 Funny Games 1997 1077
5 The Piano Teacher 2001 1697

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 That Thing You Do! 1996 2931

Curtis Hanson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 139
2 8 Mile 2002 2362

Kazuo Hara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on 1987 1792

Catherine Hardwicke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Twilight 2008 2165
2 Thirteen 2003 2622

Robin Hardy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wicker Man 1973 267

Renny Harlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 2 1990 2471
2 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 2557

Mary Harron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Psycho 2000 493

Hal Hartley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trust 1990 2372

Anthony Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion in Winter 1968 1596

Herk Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival of Souls 1962 716

Wojciech Has

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Saragossa Manuscript 1965 2459

Byron Haskin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War of the Worlds 1953 1053

Henry Hathaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 True Grit 1969 1343
2 How the West Was Won1 1962 1519

1 Collaborated with John Ford and George Marshall.

Howard Hawks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 His Girl Friday 1940 98
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 128
3 Rio Bravo 1959 202
4 The Big Sleep 1946 215
5 Red River 1948 319
6 Scarface 1932 665
7 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 673
8 To Have and Have Not 1944 907
9 Sergeant York 1941 1056
10 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 1482
11 Ball of Fire 1941 1960
12 Twentieth Century 1934 2011
13 El Dorado 1966 2643

Todd Haynes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carol 2015 545
2 Safe 1995 1547
3 Far from Heaven 2002 1768
4 Poison 1991 2217
5 I'm Not There. 2007 2282
6 Velvet Goldmine 1998 2524

Michel Hazanavicius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Artist 2011 911

Amy Heckerling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clueless 1995 156
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 640

Sian Heder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 CODA 2021 2530

T. Hee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen.

Victor Heerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Animal Crackers 1930 2224

Brian Helgeland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 42 2013 3056

Marielle Heller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? 20186 2135

Monte Hellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 984
2 The Shooting 1966 1887

Buck Henry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1668

1 Collaborated with Warren Beatty.

Brian Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 1933

Jim Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Labyrinth 1986 611
2 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2100

1 Collaborated with Frank Oz.

Perry Henzell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Harder They Come 1972 1274

Stephen Herek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 1155
2 The Mighty Ducks 1992 1710

Mark Herman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 1481

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kissing Jessica Stein 2001 2212

Rowdy Herrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Road House 1989 3043

Don Hertzfeldt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 1276

Michael Herz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2509

1 Collaborated with Lloyd Kaufman.

Werner Herzog

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 178
2 Grizzly Man 2005 682
3 Fitzcarraldo 1982 712
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 992
5 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 1763
6 Lessons of Darkness 1992 2145
7 Stroszek 1977 2393
8 Rescue Dawn 2006 2514
9 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 2621

Jared Hess

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 535

George Hickenlooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1268

1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and Eleanor Coppola.

Steve Hickner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2446

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman and Simon Wells.

Douglas Hickox

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Theatre of Blood 1973 2569

Scott Hicks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shine 1996 2607

Colin Higgins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nine to Five 1980 1559

George Roy Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 162
2 The Sting 1973 343
3 Slap Shot 1977 841
4 The World According to Garp 1982 2559
5 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 2971

Jack Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Foxy Brown 1974 2520

Walter Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Warriors 1979 666
2 The Long Riders 1980 2722
3 The Driver 1978 2749
4 48 Hrs. 1982 2821

John Hillcoat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Proposition 2005 2050
2 The Road 2009 2118

Arthur Hiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Story 1970 1621
2 The Americanization of Emily 1964 2933

Robert Hiltzik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sleepaway Camp 1983 3049

Rajkumar Hirani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 3 Idiots 2009 1725

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Downfall 2004 526

Alfred Hitchcock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 1
2 Vertigo 1958 15
3 Rear Window 1954 37
4 North by Northwest 1959 49
5 Notorious 1946 148
6 The Birds 1963 226
7 Strangers on a Train 1951 286
8 Rebecca 1940 311
9 The 39 Steps 1935 415
10 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 425
11 The Lady Vanishes 1938 574
12 Rope 1948 856
13 Dial M for Murder 1954 1101
14 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 1465
15 To Catch a Thief 1955 1743
16 Marnie 1964 1785
17 Foreign Correspondent 1940 1813
18 The Lodger 1927 1876
19 Lifeboat 1944 2038
20 Spellbound 1945 2099
21 Frenzy 1972 2254
22 The Trouble with Harry 1955 2426
23 Suspicion 1941 2566
24 The Wrong Man 1956 2707
25 Blackmail 1929 2796

Bong Joon Ho

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Parasite 2019 165
2 Memories of Murder 2003 657
3 The Host 2006 747
4 Snowpiercer 2013 831
5 Mother 2009 1469

Gregory Hoblit

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primal Fear 1996 1711

Mike Hodges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Carter 1971 789
2 Flash Gordon 1980 1508

P.J. Hogan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 1345
2 Muriel's Wedding 1994 1910

Joanna Hogg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Souvenir 2019 2908

Agnieszka Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Europa Europa 1990 1528
2 The Secret Garden 1993 1938

Savage Steve Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Better Off Dead… 1985 2470

Tom Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Child's Play 1988 1738
2 Fright Night 1985 2510

Nicole Holofcener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enough Said 2013 3010

Ishirô Honda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Godzilla 1954 400

Na Hong-jin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wailing 2016 2364

Gavin Hood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tsotsi 2005 2417

Tobe Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 179
2 Poltergeist 1982 398

Tom Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King's Speech 2010 625
2 Les Misérables 2012 1695
3 The Damned United 2009 1724

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy Rider 1969 323

James W. Horne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Way Out West 1937 2205

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A City of Sadness 1989 1443
2 The Puppet Master 1993 2291
3 Flowers of Shanghai 1998 2416
4 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 2597

John Hough

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Legend of Hell House 1973 2786

Ellen Hovde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 654

1 Collaborated with Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer.

Byron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zootopia1 2016 855
2 Tangled2 2010 952
3 Encanto3 2021 2102

1 Collaborated with Rich Moore.
2 Collaborated with Nathan Greno.
3 Collaborated with Jared Bush.

Ron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Beautiful Mind 2001 572
2 Apollo 13 1995 857
3 Rush 2013 1125
4 Cinderella Man 2005 1423
5 Splash 1983 2208
6 Frost/Nixon 2008 2402
7 Willow 1988 2555
8 Cocoon 1985 2996

King Hu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Touch of Zen 1971 1293

Reginald Hudlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House Party 1990 2058
2 Boomerang 1992 2938

Hugh Hudson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chariots of Fire 1981 504

Albert Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1974

1 Collaborated with Allen Hughes.

Allen Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1974

1 Collaborated with Albert Hughes.

John Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 270
2 The Breakfast Club 1985 418
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 979
4 Sixteen Candles 1984 1389

Ken Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 1853

Peter R. Hunt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 2015

Brian Desmond Hurst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scrooge 1951 2178

John Huston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 81
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 142
3 The African Queen 1951 306
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 641
5 The Man Who Would be King 1975 921
6 The Misfits 1961 1311
7 Fat City 1972 1413
8 Key Largo 1948 1486
9 Victory 1981 1901
10 Annie 1982 1935
11 The Dead 1987 2066
12 Moby Dick 1956 2474
13 Prizzi's Honor 1985 2863

Brian G. Hutton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Where Eagles Dare 1968 1133
2 Kelly's Heroes 1970 2396

Peter Hyams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Outland 1981 3059

Armando Iannucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Loop 2009 1475
2 The Death of Stalin 2017 3042

Kon Ichikawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Burmese Harp 1956 1812
2 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 2293
3 Fires on the Plain 1959 2454

Shôhei Imamura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 2190
2 Vengeance Is Mine 1979 2940

Alejandro G. Ińárritu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amores perros 2000 612
2 The Revenant 2015 879
3 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 1140
4 21 Grams 2003 2003
5 Babel 2006 2077

Jűzô Itami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tampopo 1985 1246

James Ivory

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Remains of the Day 1993 999
2 A Room with a View 1985 1043
3 Howards End 1992 1608
4 Maurice 1987 2377
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