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Top Films by Director (J-K)

Mick Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Story 1991 1786

Peter Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 60
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 96
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 123
4 Heavenly Creatures 1994 710
5 Braindead 1992 969
6 King Kong 2005 1075

Wilfred Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 199
2 Lady and the Tramp2 1955 832
3 Cinderella2 1950 941
4 Peter Pan2 1953 999
5 Alice in Wonderland2 1951 1643
6 Song of the South3 1946 2091

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 Clyde Geronimi and Harve Foster.

Steve James

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoop Dreams 1994 292

Miklós Jancsó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red and the White 1968 1933
2 The Round-up 1966 2165

Andrew Jarecki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 1255

Derek Jarman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edward II 1991 2283

Jim Jarmusch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stranger than Paradise 1984 597
2 Dead Man 1995 732
3 Down by Law 1986 792
4 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 1662
5 Mystery Train 1989 2034

Lionel Jeffries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Railway Children 1970 1013

Patty Jenkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monster 2003 2221

Humphrey Jennings

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fires Were Started 1943 1456
2 Listen to Britain1 1942 1559

1 Collaborated with Stewart McAllister.

Vicky Jenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 284

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amélie 2001 182
2 Delicatessen1 1991 563
3 The City of Lost Children1 1995 901
4 Alien: Resurrection 1997 1090

1 Collaborated with Marc Caro.

Norman Jewison

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Heat of the Night 1967 343
2 Moonstruck 1987 445
3 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 881
4 Rollerball 1975 916
5 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 1484
6 The Hurricane 1999 1619
7 A Soldier's Story 1984 2241
8 Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 2353

Zhang Ke Jia

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platform 2000 2024

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Topo 1970 1005
2 The Holy Mountain 1973 2193

Roland Joffé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killing Fields 1984 620
2 The Mission 1986 1355

Rian Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brick 2005 1379

Tim Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antz1 1998 1994

1 Collaborated with Eric Darnell.

Joe Johnston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October Sky 1999 1392
2 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 2053

Chuck Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 2175

Duncan Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moon 2009 2256

L.Q. Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Boy and His Dog 1975 1827

Terry Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 133
2 Life of Brian 1979 147
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 2369

1Collaborated with Terry Gilliam.

Spike Jonze

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Being John Malkovich 1999 319
2 Adaptation. 2002 971

Neil Jordan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crying Game 1992 547
2 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 1412
3 The Butcher Boy 1997 2150
4 Mona Lisa 1986 2374

Mike Judge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Office Space 1999 774

Rupert Julian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 627

Gil Junger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 10 Things I Hate about You 1999 1968

Nathan Juran

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 1228

Ján Kadár

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 956

1 Collaborated with Elmar Klos.

Mikheil Kalatozishvili

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am Cuba 1968 1159
2 The Cranes are Flying 1957 1476

Jeff Kanew

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Revenge of the Nerds 1984 2351

Garson Kanin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Favorite Wife 1940 2332

Jonathan Kaplan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Accused 1988 2254

Shekhar Kapur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Elizabeth 1998 798

Lawrence Kasdan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Body Heat 1981 634
2 The Big Chill 1983 1029
3 The Accidental Tourist 1988 2376

Mathieu Kassovitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hate 1995 743

Lloyd Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2287

1 Collaborated with Michael Herz.

Phillip Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Right Stuff 1983 371
2 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 889
3 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 958
4 Henry & June 1990 2069

Aki Kaurismäki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man Without a Past 2002 2329

Tony Kaye

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American History X 1998 706

Elia Kazan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 40
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 145
3 East of Eden 1955 527
4 Splendor in the Grass 1961 769
5 A Face in the Crowd 1957 972
6 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 1064
7 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 1384
8 Baby Doll 1956 2138
9 America, America 1963 2303

Buster Keaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 45
2 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 261
3 Our Hospitality2 1923 1140
4 The Navigator3 1924 1415
5 Seven Chances 1925 2125

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

William Keighley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 153

1 Collaborated with Michael Curtiz.

Gene Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 6
2 On the Town1 1949 506

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Richard Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 212

Erle C. Kenton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Island of Lost Souls 1932 1877

Irvin Kershner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 43

Mehboob Khan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother India 1957 2238

Abbas Kiarostami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Close Up 1990 762
2 A Taste of Cherry 1997 875
3 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 1161
4 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 1419
5 Through the Olive Trees 1994 1527
6 And Life Goes on 1992 1828
7 Ten 2002 2018

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Colors: Red 1994 232
2 Three Colors: Blue 1993 278
3 The Decalogue 1989 396
4 Three Colors: White 1994 493
5 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 1035
6 A Short Film about Killing 1988 1506

Ki-duk Kim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 1718

Henry King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 1002
2 Carousel 1956 1162
3 The Gunfighter 1950 1203

Takeshi Kitano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sonatine 1993 1079
2 Fireworks 1997 1281

Randal Kleiser

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grease 1978 187

Elem Klimov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Come and See 1985 407

Elmar Klos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 956

1 Collaborted with Ján Kadár.

Steven Kloves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 1396

Masaki Kobayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harakiri 1962 1949

Andrei Konchalovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Runaway Train 1985 1970

Barbara Kopple

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 989
2 American Dream 1990 2132

Alexander Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 1769
2 Marius1 1931 1895

1 Collaborated with Marcel Pagnol.

Zoltan Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Four Feathers 1939 1635

Hirokazu Koreeda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 After Life 1998 1135

Henry Koster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harvey 1950 633
2 The Robe 1953 1645

Ted Kotcheff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 North Dallas Forty 1979 961
2 First Blood 1982 1223

Stanley Kramer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 778
2 The Defiant Ones 1958 1009
3 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 1126
4 Inherit the Wind 1960 1338
5 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 1445
6 On the Beach 1959 1833

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 12
3 A Clockwork Orange 1971 36
4 The Shining 1980 87
5 Paths of Glory 1957 152
6 Spartacus 1960 211
7 Full Metal Jacket 1987 275
8 Barry Lyndon 1975 355
9 The Killing 1956 542
10 Lolita 1962 806
11 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 853

Buzz Kulik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brian's Song 1971 1006

Roger Kumble

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cruel Intentions 1999 1230

Zacharias Kunuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 1215

Akira Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 32
2 Rashômon 1950 84
3 Ran 1985 185
4 Ikiru 1952 331
5 Yojimbo 1961 342
6 Throne of Blood 1957 712
7 Kagemusha 1980 1061
8 High and Low 1963 1074
9 Dersu Uzala 1975 1194
10 The Hidden Fortress 1958 1242
11 Red Beard 1965 1450
12 Stray Dog 1949 2264

Diane Kurys

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Entre Nous 1983 2042

Emir Kusturica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Underground 1995 996
2 Time of the Gypsies 1988 1637

Richard Kwietniowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love and Death on Long Island 1997 2178
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