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Top Films by Director (H-I)

Taylor Hackford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ray 2004 1007
2 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 1134

Paul Haggis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crash 2004 1078

Randa Haines

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Children of a Lesser God 1986 1742

Alexander Hall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Here Comes Mr. Jordan 1941 1283

Lasse Hallström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Life as a Dog 1985 700
2 Chocolat 2000 1114
3 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 1326
4 The Cider House Rules 1999 2139

Robert Hamer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 170
2 Dead of Night1 1945 640

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

Guy Hamilton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Goldfinger 1964 186
2 Battle of Britain 1969 1910

Alexander Hammid

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meshes of the Afternoon1 1943 1020

1 Collaborated with Maya Deren.

John D. Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 1225

John Lee Hancock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rookie 2002 1157

David Hand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 89
2 Bambi 1942 323

Jim Handley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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 836
2 Funny Games 1997 1475
3 The Piano Teacher 2001 1888

Tom Hanks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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 82
2 8 Mile 2002 1508
3 Wonder Boys 2000 1878

Robin Hardy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wicker Man 1973 218

Renny Harlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 2 1990 1819

Robert Harmon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hitcher 1986 1247

Ed Harris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pollock 2000 2312

Mary Harron

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Psycho 2000 2240

Hal Hartley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Trust 1990 1807

Anthony Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion in Winter 1968 848

Herk Harvey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carnival of Souls 1962 824

Byron Haskin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The War of the Worlds 1953 711

Henry Hathaway

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 True Grit 1969 1187
2 Kiss of Death 1947 1312
3 How the West Was Won1 1962 1625

1 Collaborated with John Ford and George Marshall.

Howard Hawks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bringing Up Baby 1938 52
2 His Girl Friday 1940 72
3 The Big Sleep 1946 163
4 Red River 1948 234
5 Rio Bravo 1959 279
6 Scarface 1932 328
7 To Have and Have Not 1944 383
8 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 719
9 Sergeant York 1941 919
10 Ball of Fire 1941 986
11 Twentieth Century 1934 1116
12 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 1154
13 El Dorado 1966 2365

Todd Haynes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Far from Heaven 2002 704
2 Safe 1995 754
3 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1988 1965

Amy Heckerling

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 424
2 Clueless 1995 452

Peter Hedges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pieces of April 2003 1952

T. Hee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199

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 2061

Monte Hellman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 867

Buck Henry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heaven Can Wait1 1978 1129

1 Collaborated with Warren Beatty.

Jim Henson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Labyrinth 1986 1545

Perry Henzell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Harder They Come 1972 909

Stephen Herek

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 1780
2 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 1958

Mark Herman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brassed Off 1996 1704

Michael Herz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2287

1 Collaborated with Lloyd Kaufman.

Werner Herzog

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 188
2 Fitzcarraldo 1982 541
3 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 1025
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 1047
5 Grizzly Man 2005 1390
6 Stroszek 1977 2225

Jared Hess

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 1015

George Hickenlooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1 1991 1178

1 Collaborated with Fax Bahr and Eleanor Coppola.

Steve Hickner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Prince of Egypt1 1998 2185

1 Collaborated with Brenda Chapman and Simon Wells.

Scott Hicks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shine 1996 1022

Colin Higgins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nine to Five 1980 1741

George Roy Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 114
2 The Sting 1973 281
3 Slap Shot 1977 673
4 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 2131
5 The World According to Garp 1982 2384

Walter Hill

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Warriors 1979 1143
2 48 Hrs. 1982 1210
3 The Driver 1978 2298

Stephen Hillenburg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004 2269

Arthur Hiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Story 1970 777
2 The In-Laws 1979 1661
3 Silver Streak 1976 2037
4 The Americanization of Emily 1964 2080

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Downfall 2004 600
2 The Experiment 2001 2233

Alfred Hitchcock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 7
2 Vertigo 1958 11
3 North by Northwest 1959 31
4 Rear Window 1954 34
5 Notorious 1946 104
6 The 39 Steps 1935 206
7 Rebecca 1940 225
8 Strangers on a Train 1951 235
9 The Birds 1963 262
10 The Lady Vanishes 1938 376
11 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 382
12 Foreign Correspondent 1940 1054
13 Rope 1948 1055
14 Dial M for Murder 1954 1176
15 Spellbound 1945 1289
16 Saboteur 1942 1416
17 To Catch a Thief 1955 1517
18 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 1557
19 Marnie 1964 1617
20 Suspicion 1941 1822
21 The Wrong Man 1956 1848
22 Frenzy 1972 1852
23 Blackmail 1929 2304

Mike Hodges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Get Carter 1971 339
2 Flash Gordon 1980 1477
3 Croupier 1998 2275

P.J. Hogan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Muriel's Wedding 1994 960
2 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 1270

Agnieszka Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Europa Europa 1990 1572
2 The Secret Garden 1993 2050

Savage Steve Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Better Off Dead… 1985 2068

Tom Holland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fright Night 1985 1840

Nicole Holofcener

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lovely & Amazing 2001 2266

Ishirô Honda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Godzilla 1954 847

Tobe Hooper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 233
2 Poltergeist 1982 691

Dennis Hopper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Easy Rider 1969 160

James W. Horne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Way Out West 1937 825
2 Big Business1 1929 2227

1 Collaborated with Leo McCarey.

Hsiao-hsien Hou

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Puppet Master 1993 1443
2 A City of Sadness 1989 1761
3 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1986 1797

Ellen Hovde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 1150

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

Leslie Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pygmalion1 1938 1168

1 Collaborated with Anthony Asquith.

Ron Howard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Apollo 13 1995 485
2 A Beautiful Mind 2001 621
3 Splash 1984 1515
4 Cocoon 1985 1578
5 Cinderella Man 2005 1624
6 Parenthood 1989 1812

Harry O. Hoyt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost World 1925 1715

Jan Hrebejk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Divided We Fall 2000 1904

King Hu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Touch of Zen 1971 1206

Hugh Hudson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chariots of Fire 1981 320

Albert Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1632

1 Collaborated with Allen Hughes.

Allen Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Menace II Society1 1993 1632

1 Collaborated with Albert Hughes.

John Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 295
2 The Breakfast Club 1985 346
3 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 1017
4 Sixteen Candles 1984 1173

Ken Hughes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 1112

Peter H. Hunt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 2041

Tim Hunter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 River's Edge 1986 1778

Brian Desmond Hurst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Scrooge 1951 962

John Huston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Maltese Falcon 1941 44
2 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 92
3 The African Queen 1951 120
4 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 558
5 The Man Who Would be King 1975 665
6 Fat City 1972 761
7 The Dead 1987 841
8 Prizzi's Honor 1985 1041
9 Key Largo 1948 1148
10 The Misfits 1961 1549
11 The Red Badge of Courage 1951 1554
12 Beat the Devil 1953 1767
13 Victory 1981 1896
14 Annie 1982 2110
15 Wise Blood 1979 2387

Brian G. Hutton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Where Eagles Dare 1968 1037
2 Kelly's Heroes 1970 1886

Nicholas Hytner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Madness of King George 1994 1721
2 The Crucible 1996 1932

Kon Ichikawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 1570
2 An Actor's Revenge 1963 1722

Shohei Imamura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 1344

Hiroshi Inagaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 2212

Rex Ingram

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 2155

Juzo Itami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tampopo 1985 981

James Ivory

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Room with a View 1985 526
2 The Remains of the Day 1993 594
3 Howards End 1992 933
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