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Top Films by Director (H-I)

Taylor Hackford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ray 2004 1239
2 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 1664
3 The Devil's Advocate 1997 2337

Paul Haggis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crash 2004 1054

Andrew Haigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Weekend 2011 1572

Don Hall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Hero 61 2014 1315

1 Collaborated with Chris Williams.

Lasse Hallström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 1299
2 My Life as a Dog 1985 1345
3 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 1490
4 Chocolat 2000 2077

Robert Hamer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 207
2 Dead of Night1 1945 882

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

Guy Hamilton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 244
2 Battle of Britain 1969 2262

Alexander Hammid

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

1 Collaborated with Maya Deren.

John D. Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 1554

John Lee Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blind Side 2009 1681
2 The Rookie 2002 1898

David Hand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 104
2 Bambi 1942 311

Jim Handley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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

Michael Haneke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hidden 2005 409
2 Amour 2012 725
3 The White Ribbon 2009 946
4 Funny Games 1997 1080
5 The Piano Teacher 2001 1445

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591

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

Curtis Hanson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Confidential 1997 127

Kazuo Hara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Emperor's Naked Army Marches on 1987 2085

Catherine Hardwicke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Twilight 2008 2521

Robin Hardy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wicker Man 1973 255

Renny Harlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 2 1990 2022
2 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 2130

Robert Harmon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hitcher 1986 2173

Mary Harron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Psycho 2000 855

Hal Hartley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trust 1990 2203

Anthony Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion in Winter 1968 1568

Herk Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival of Souls 1962 887

Wojciech Has

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Saragossa Manuscript 1965 2291

Byron Haskin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War of the Worlds 1953 871

Henry Hathaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 True Grit 1969 1293
2 How the West Was Won1 1962 1530
3 Kiss of Death 1947 1555

1 Collaborated with John Ford and George Marshall.

Howard Hawks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 His Girl Friday 1940 87
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 91
3 Rio Bravo 1959 175
4 The Big Sleep 1946 177
5 Red River 1948 271
6 Scarface 1932 534
7 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 595
8 To Have and Have Not 1944 683
9 Sergeant York 1941 1133
10 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 1142
11 Ball of Fire 1941 1446
12 Twentieth Century 1934 1709
13 El Dorado 1967 2172

Todd Haynes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safe 1995 1021
2 Far from Heaven 2002 1099
3 Carol 2015 1279
4 I'm Not There. 2007 2008
5 Poison 1991 2076
6 Velvet Goldmine 1998 2307
7 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1988 2374

Michel Hazanavicius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Artist 2011 885

Amy Heckerling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clueless 1995 333
2 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 536

T. Hee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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

Victor Heerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Animal Crackers 1930 2104

William Heise

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Kiss 1896 2709

Monte Hellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 716
2 The Shooting 1966 1958

Buck Henry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1262

1 Collaborated with Warren Beatty.

Brian Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 2527

Jim Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Labyrinth 1986 876
2 The Dark Crystal1 1982 2212

1 Collaborated with Frank Oz.

Perry Henzell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Harder They Come 1972 1460

Stephen Herek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 2016
2 The Mighty Ducks 1992 2567

Mark Herman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 1971

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kissing Jessica Stein 2001 2377

Don Hertzfeldt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 1783

Michael Herz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2501

Werner Herzog

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 151
2 Fitzcarraldo 1982 465
3 Grizzly Man 2005 629
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 966
5 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 1141
6 Stroszek 1977 2138
7 Lessons of Darkness 1992 2287
8 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 2340

Jared Hess

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 690

Tim Hetherington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Restrepo1 2010 2594

1 Collaborated with Sebastian Junger.

George Hickenlooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1062

1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and Eleanor Coppola.

Scott Hicks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shine 1996 1838

Colin Higgins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nine to Five 1980 1731

George Roy Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 136
2 The Sting 1973 294
3 Slap Shot 1977 801
4 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 2286
5 The World According to Garp 1982 2411

Jack Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Foxy Brown 1974 2512

Walter Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Warriors 1979 720
2 48 Hrs. 1982 1919
3 The Long Riders 1980 1944
4 The Driver 1978 1959

John Hillcoat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Proposition 2005 1878
2 The Road 2009 2326

Arthur Hiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Story 1970 1209
2 The In-Laws 1979 2584
3 Silver Streak 1976 2791

Rajkumar Hirani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 3 Idiots 2009 1750

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Downfall 2004 424

Alfred Hitchcock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 2
2 Vertigo 1958 13
3 Rear Window 1954 34
4 North by Northwest 1959 40
5 Notorious 1946 126
6 The Birds 1963 251
7 Strangers on a Train 1951 263
8 Rebecca 1940 299
9 The 39 Steps 1935 355
10 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 432
11 The Lady Vanishes 1938 523
12 Rope 1948 669
13 Dial M for Murder 1954 826
14 Marnie 1964 1401
15 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 1463
16 The Lodger 1927 1532
17 To Catch a Thief 1955 1756
18 Spellbound 1945 1987
19 Frenzy 1972 2062
20 Blackmail 1929 2125
21 The Wrong Man 1956 2165
22 Foreign Correspondent 1940 2232
23 Sabotage 1936 2257
24 Suspicion 1941 2312
25 Saboteur 1942 2562
26 The Trouble with Harry 1955 2578
27 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 2674

Bong Joon Ho

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memories of Murder 2003 852
2 The Host 2006 1298
3 Snowpiercer 2013 2380
4 Parasite 2019 2601

Gregory Hoblit

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Primal Fear 1996 1558

Mike Hodges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Carter 1971 564
2 Flash Gordon 1980 1302

P.J. Hogan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Muriel's Wedding 1994 1640
2 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 2040

Agnieszka Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Europa Europa 1990 1708
2 The Secret Garden 1993 2237

Savage Steve Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Better Off Dead… 1985 1960

Tom Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fright Night 1985 2695

Nicole Holofcener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Walking and Talking 1996 2632

Ishirô Honda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Godzilla 1954 580

Gavin Hood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tsotsi 2005 2573

Tobe Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 216
2 Poltergeist 1982 560

Tom Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King's Speech 2010 696
2 Les Misérables 2012 2067
3 The Damned United 2009 2245

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy Rider 1969 181

James W. Horne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Way Out West 1937 1109

Mamoru Hosoda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 2053

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A City of Sadness 1989 1388
2 The Puppet Master 1993 1665
3 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 1725

Ellen Hovde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 670

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

Byron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zootopia1 2016 1039
2 Tangled2 2010 1129

1 Collaborated with Rich Moore.
2 Collaborated with Nathan Greno.

Leslie Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1940

1 Collaborated with Anthony Asquith.

Ron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Beautiful Mind 2001 524
2 Apollo 13 1995 776
3 Cinderella Man 2005 1126
4 Rush 2013 1487
5 Cocoon 1985 2400
6 Parenthood 1989 2428
7 Splash 1984 2476
8 Frost/Nixon 2008 2692

Harry O. Hoyt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost World 1925 2280

King Hu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Touch of Zen 1971 1265

Hugh Hudson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chariots of Fire 1981 450

Albert Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1586

1 Collaborated with Allen Hughes.

Allen Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1586

1 Collaborated with Albert Hughes.

John Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 334
2 The Breakfast Club 1985 456
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 726
4 Sixteen Candles 1984 1057

Ken Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 1622

Peter H. Hunt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 2320

Tim Hunter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 River's Edge 1986 2565

Brian Desmond Hurst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scrooge 1951 1914

John Huston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 68
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 134
3 The African Queen 1951 286
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 562
5 The Man Who Would be King 1975 764
6 Fat City 1972 964
7 The Misfits 1961 1286
8 Key Largo 1948 1337
9 The Dead 1987 1406
10 Victory 1981 1809
11 Annie 1982 2097
12 Prizzi's Honor 1985 2101

Brian G. Hutton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Where Eagles Dare 1968 1033
2 Kelly's Heroes 1970 2135

Peter Hyams

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Outland 1981 2687

Armando Iannucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Loop 2009 1311

Kon Ichikawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Burmese Harp 1956 1732
2 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 2122
3 Fires on the Plain 1959 2243

Shôhei Imamura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 1670

Alejandro G. Ińárritu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amores perros 2000 457
2 Babel 2006 1420
3 21 Grams 2003 1426
4 The Revenant 2015 1550
5 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 1567

Rex Ingram

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 2222

Juzo Itami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tampopo 1985 1579

James Ivory

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Room with a View 1985 863
2 The Remains of the Day 1993 956
3 Howards End 1992 1620
4 Maurice 1987 1894
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