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Top Films by Director (J-K)

Mick Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Story 1991 1398

Peter Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 104
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 166
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 191
4 Heavenly Creatures 1994 691
5 Braindead 1992 1103
6 King Kong 2005 1364

Wilfred Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158
2 Lady and the Tramp2 1955 803
3 Cinderella2 1950 919
4 Peter Pan2 1953 1031
5 Alice in Wonderland2 1951 1433
6 Song of the South3 1946 2108

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.
2 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske.
3 Collaborated with Harve Foster.

Just Jaeckin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Emmanuelle 1974 2481

Steve James

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoop Dreams 1994 359

Miklós Jancsó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red and the White 1967 1491
2 The Round-up 1966 1661

Andrew Jarecki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 1904

Derek Jarman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward II 1991 2233

Jim Jarmusch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stranger than Paradise 1984 537
2 Dead Man 1995 782
3 Down by Law 1986 881
4 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 1782
5 Night on Earth 1991 2084

Lionel Jeffries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Railway Children 1970 1051

Humphrey Jennings

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fires Were Started 1943 1480
2 Listen to Britain1 1942 1838

1 Collaborated with Stewart McAllister.

Vicky Jenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 289

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson.

Jean-Marie Jeunet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Delicatessen1 1991 662
2 The City of Lost Children1 1995 1270

1 Collaborated with Marc Caro.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amélie 2001 230
2 Alien: Resurrection 1997 997

Norman Jewison

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Heat of the Night 1967 319
2 Moonstruck 1987 349
3 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 783
4 Rollerball 1975 1091
5 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 1247
6 The Hurricane 1999 1745
7 A Soldier's Story 1984 1791
8 Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 2146

Zhang Ke Jia

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platform 2000 2286

Neal Jimenez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Waterdance1 1992 2337

1 Collaborated with Michael Steinberg.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Topo 1970 889
2 The Holy Mountain 1973 2182

Roland Joffé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killing Fields 1984 544
2 The Mission 1986 1623

Rian Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brick 2005 2104

Tim Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antz1 1998 1873

1 Collaborated with Eric Darnell.

Joe Johnston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October Sky 1999 1396
2 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 1924

Chuck Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 2241

L.Q. Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Boy and His Dog 1975 1610

Terry Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 149
2 Life of Brian 1979 180
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 1887

1Collaborated with Terry Gilliam.

Spike Jonze

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Being John Malkovich 1999 356
2 Adaptation. 2002 1181

Neil Jordan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crying Game 1992 503
2 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 1183
3 The Butcher Boy 1997 2045
4 The End of the Affair 1999 2252
5 The Company of Wolves 1984 2387

Mike Judge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Office Space 1999 1037

Rupert Julian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 463

Gil Junger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 10 Things I Hate about You 1999 2277

Nathan Juran

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 1122

Ján Kadár

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 916

1 Collaborated with Elmar Klos.

Mikheil Kalatozishvili

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am Cuba 1964 1548
2 The Cranes are Flying 1957 1736

Jeff Kanew

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Revenge of the Nerds 1984 2260

Jonathan Kaplan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Accused 1988 1847

Shekhar Kapur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Elizabeth 1998 1039

Lawrence Kasdan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Body Heat 1981 639
2 The Big Chill 1983 886
3 The Accidental Tourist 1988 2072

Mathieu Kassovitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hate 1995 1064

Phillip Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Right Stuff 1983 364
2 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 845
3 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 932
4 Henry & June 1990 1976

Aki Kaurismäki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man Without a Past 2002 1967

Tony Kaye

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American History X 1998 868

Elia Kazan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 29
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 99
3 East of Eden 1955 413
4 Splendor in the Grass 1961 640
5 A Face in the Crowd 1957 843
6 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 1081
7 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 1319
8 Baby Doll 1956 1518
9 Viva Zapata! 1952 1911
10 America, America 1963 2496

Buster Keaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1927 42
2 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 226
3 The Navigator2 1924 989
4 Our Hospitality3 1923 1100

1 Collaborated with Clyde Bruckman.
2 Collaborated with Donald Crisp.
3 Collaborated with John G. Blystone.

William Keighley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 155
2 The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942 2194

1 Collaborated with Michael Curtiz.

Gene Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 5
2 On the Town1 1949 471

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Richard Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 269

Erle C. Kenton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Island of Lost Souls 1932 1903
2 The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942 2485

Irvin Kershner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 46

Mehboob Khan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother India 1957 2213

Abbas Kiarostami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Close Up 1990 736
2 A Taste of Cherry 1997 911
3 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 1114
4 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 1485
5 Through the Olive Trees 1994 1490
6 And Life Goes on 1991 1823

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Colors: Red 1994 231
2 Three Colors: Blue 1993 277
3 The Decalogue 1989 376
4 Three Colors: White 1994 542
5 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 952
6 A Short Film about Killing 1988 1149

Ki-duk Kim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 2246

Henry King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 704
2 Carousel 1956 1075
3 The Gunfighter 1950 1115
4 The Song of Bernadette 1943 1853
5 Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938 2332
6 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing 1955 2469

Takeshi Kitano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sonatine 1993 1239
2 Fireworks 1997 1261

Randal Kleiser

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grease 1978 201

Elem Klimov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Come and See 1985 570

Elmar Klos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 916

1 Collaborted with Ján Kadár.

Steven Kloves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 1594

Masaki Kobayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harakiri 1962 2218
2 Kwaidan 1964 2224

Andrei Konchalovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Runaway Train 1985 2015

Barbara Kopple

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 1139
2 American Dream 1990 2217

Alexander Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marius1 1931 1454
2 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 1550

1 Collaborated with Marcel Pagnol.

Zoltan Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Four Feathers 1939 1156

Hirokazu Koreeda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 After Life 1998 1048

Henry Koster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harvey 1950 602
2 The Robe 1953 1606
3 The Bishop's Wife 1947 2190

Ted Kotcheff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 North Dallas Forty 1979 1161
2 First Blood 1982 1551
3 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 2317

Stanley Kramer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 564
2 The Defiant Ones 1958 900
3 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 920
4 Inherit the Wind 1960 1094
5 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 1372
6 On the Beach 1959 1620
7 Ship of Fools 1965 2214

Stanley Kubrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 4
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 14
3 A Clockwork Orange 1971 43
4 The Shining 1980 129
5 Paths of Glory 1957 144
6 Spartacus 1960 198
7 Full Metal Jacket 1987 302
8 Barry Lyndon 1975 423
9 The Killing 1956 550
10 Lolita 1962 695
11 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 877

Buzz Kulik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brian's Song 1971 1150

Roger Kumble

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cruel Intentions 1999 1510

Zacharias Kunuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 1408

Akira Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 36
2 Rashômon 1950 91
3 Ran 1985 177
4 Ikiru 1952 316
5 Yojimbo 1961 384
6 Throne of Blood 1957 581
7 The Hidden Fortress 1958 987
8 Kagemusha 1980 1007
9 Dersu Uzala 1975 1092
10 High and Low 1963 1251
11 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 1619
12 Stray Dog 1949 1998
13 Sanjuro 1962 2008
14 Red Beard 1965 2326

Diane Kurys

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Entre Nous 1983 1731

Karyn Kusama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Girlfight 2000 2037

Emir Kusturica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Underground 1995 950
2 Time of the Gypsies 1988 1686

Jae-young Kwak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Sassy Girl 2001 2389
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