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Top Films by Director (J-K)

Mick Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Story 1991 1618

Peter Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 43
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 48
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 67
4 Heavenly Creatures 1994 831
5 King Kong 2005 1027
6 Braindead 1992 1358
7 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 1679
8 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 2198

Wilfred Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266
2 Lady and the Tramp2 1955 811
3 Cinderella2 1950 847
4 Alice in Wonderland2 1951 1310
5 Peter Pan 1953 1396

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.

Luc Jacquet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 March of the Penguins 2005 1252

Steve James

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoop Dreams 1994 284

Miklós Jancsó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red and the White 1967 1939

Andrew Jarecki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 924

Derek Jarman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue 1993 2296
2 Caravaggio 1986 2663

Jim Jarmusch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man 1995 541
2 Stranger than Paradise 1984 578
3 Down by Law 1986 703
4 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 1093
5 Mystery Train 1989 1997

Lionel Jeffries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Railway Children 1970 1546

Barry Jenkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moonlight 2016 741

Patty Jenkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monster 2003 1183
2 Wonder Woman 2017 1453

Humphrey Jennings

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Listen to Britain1 1942 1481
2 Fires Were Started 1943 2185

1 Collaborated with Stewart McAllister.

Vicky Jenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 353

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amélie 2001 119
2 Delicatessen1 1991 654
3 The City of Lost Children1 1995 990
4 A Very Long Engagement 2004 1885

1 Collaborated with Marc Caro.

Norman Jewison

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Heat of the Night 1967 464
2 Moonstruck 1987 770
3 Rollerball 1975 1079
4 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 1277
5 The Hurricane 1999 1646
6 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 2144
7 Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 2622

Zhangke Jia

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platform 2000 1780
2 Still Life 2006 2465

Wen Jiang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Devils on the Doorstep 2000 2534

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Topo 1970 780
2 The Holy Mountain 1973 1202
3 Santa Sangre 1989 2596

Roland Joffé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killing Fields 1984 1085
2 The Mission 1986 1451

Duke Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anomalisa1 2015 2061

1Collaborated with Charlie Kaufman.

Mike Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Corpse Bride1 2005 1989

1Collaborated with Tim Burton.

Rian Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brick 2005 919
2 Looper 2012 1603
3 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi 2017 2072

Tim Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antz1 1998 2155

1Collaborated with Eric Darnell.

Joe Johnston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 October Sky 1999 1611
2 The Rocketeer 1991 2298
3 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 2620

Chuck Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Duck Amuck 1953 1469
2 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 2744

Duncan Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moon 2009 660

L.Q. Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Boy and His Dog 1975 2722

Terry Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 111
2 Life of Brian 1979 156
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1 1983 2019

1Collaborated with Terry Gilliam.

Tommy Lee Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 2325

Spike Jonze

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Being John Malkovich 1999 346
2 Her 2013 840
3 Adaptation. 2002 888
4 Where the Wild Things Are 2009 1655

Neil Jordan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crying Game 1992 958
2 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 1492

Mike Judge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Office Space 1999 570
2 Idiocracy 2006 1953

Rupert Julian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 1020

Gil Junger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 10 Things I Hate about You 1999 1045

Sebastian Junger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Restrepo1 2010 2594

1 Collaborated with Tim Hetherington.

Nathan Juran

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 1785

Ján Kadár

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 1121

1 Collaborated with Elmar Klos.

Mikheil Kalatozishvili

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cranes are Flying 1957 931
2 I Am Cuba 1964 965

Je-gyu Kang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War 2004 2749

Asif Kapadia

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Senna 2010 1127

Jonathan Kaplan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Accused 1988 2721

Shekhar Kapur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Elizabeth 1998 1240

Lawrence Kasdan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Body Heat 1981 702
2 The Big Chill 1983 1429
3 Silverado 1985 1839

Mathieu Kassovitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hate 1995 485

Ross Kauffman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids1 2004 2255

1 Collaborated with Zana Briski.

Charlie Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Synecdoche, New York 2008 1123
2 Anomalisa1 2015 2061

1 Collaborated with Duke Johnson.

Lloyd Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2501

1 Collaborated with Michael Herz.

Phillip Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 483
2 The Right Stuff 1983 603
3 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 1601

Aki Kaurismäki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man without a Past 2002 2379

Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ninja Scroll 1993 2283

Tony Kaye

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American History X 1998 428

Elia Kazan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 64
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 196
3 East of Eden 1955 766
4 A Face in the Crowd 1957 1013
5 Splendor in the Grass 1961 1233
6 Baby Doll 1956 1978
7 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 2150
8 America, America 1963 2421
9 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 2517
10 Wild River 1960 2696

Buster Keaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 49
2 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 198
3 Our Hospitality2 1923 1117
4 Seven Chances 1925 1840
5 The Navigator3 1924 1886

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

Abdellatif Kechiche

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 935

William Keighley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 212

1 Collaborated with Michael Curtiz.

Gene Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 7
2 On the Town1 1949 706
3 It's Always Fair Weather1 1955 2579

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Richard Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 176

Robert Kenner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Food Inc. 2008 2260

Jennifer Kent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Babadook 2014 1682

Erle C. Kenton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Island of Lost Souls 1932 1638

Irvin Kershner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 36

Mehboob Khan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother India 1957 2662

Abbas Kiarostami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Close-Up 1990 469
2 A Taste of Cherry 1997 893
3 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 1297
4 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 1486
5 Through the Olive Trees 1994 1499
6 And Life Goes on 1992 1943
7 Ten 2002 2413

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Colors: Red 1994 282
2 Three Colors: Blue 1993 324
3 The Decalogue 1989 413
4 Three Colors: White 1994 635
5 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 1004
6 A Short Film about Killing 1988 1522
7 A Short Film about Love1 1988 2046

1 Collaborted with Teresa Violetta Buhl and Pawel Rzepkowski.

Jee-woon Kim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 1933

Ki-duk Kim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 1098
2 3-Iron 2004 1969

Henry King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gunfighter 1950 1104
2 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 1185
3 Carousel 1956 2651

Paul King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paddington 2 2017 2202

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Page of Madness 1926 2012

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ménilmontant 1926 2297

Takeshi Kitano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fireworks 1997 1069
2 Sonatine 1993 1726
3 Zatôichi 2003 2550

Randal Kleiser

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grease 1978 365

Elem Klimov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Come and See 1985 277

Elmar Klos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 1121

1 Collaborted with Ján Kadár.

Steven Kloves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 2177

Travis Knight

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 1995

Masaki Kobayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harakiri 1962 754
2 Kwaidan 1964 1161
3 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 1669
4 Samurai Rebellion 1967 1861
5 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 2032
6 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 2367

Satoshi Kon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paprika 2006 1168
2 Perfect Blue 1997 1317
3 Tokyo Godfathers 2003 1869
4 Millennium Actress 2001 2133

Andrei Konchalovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Runaway Train 1985 2090

Yoshifumi Kondo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whisper of the Heart 1995 2004

Barbara Kopple

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 598
2 Shut Up & Sing1 2006 2751

1 Collaborted with Cecilia Peck.

Alexander Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 2445

Hirokazu Koreeda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nobody Knows 2004 2073
2 After Life 1998 2199

Harmony Korine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gummo 1997 1828

Henry Koster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harvey 1950 907
2 The Robe 1953 2065

Ted Kotcheff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 First Blood 1982 775
2 North Dallas Forty 1979 1570
3 Wake in Fright 1971 2561

Stanley Kramer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 1055
2 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 1476
3 Inherit the Wind 1960 1859
4 The Defiant Ones 1958 2010
5 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 2113

John Krasinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Quiet Place 2018 2344

Stanley Kubrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 3
2 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 12
3 A Clockwork Orange 1971 24
4 The Shining 1980 41
5 Paths of Glory 1957 114
6 Full Metal Jacket 1987 226
7 Barry Lyndon 1975 231
8 Spartacus 1960 254
9 The Killing 1956 447
10 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 699
11 Lolita 1962 823

Kurt Kuenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father 2008 2310

Buzz Kulik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brian's Song 1971 1693

Roger Kumble

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cruel Intentions 1999 2103

Zacharias Kunuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 1951

Akira Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Samurai 1954 22
2 Rashômon 1950 72
3 Ran 1985 197
4 Ikiru 1952 256
5 Yojimbo 1961 328
6 Throne of Blood 1957 507
7 High and Low 1963 662
8 Dersu Uzala 1975 1224
9 Red Beard 1965 1225
10 The Hidden Fortress 1958 1238
11 Kagemusha 1980 1416
12 Sanjuro 1962 1921
13 Stray Dog 1949 1965
14 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 2285
15 Drunken Angel 1948 2723

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulse 2001 2593

Karyn Kusama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Girlfight 2000 2270

Emir Kusturica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Underground 1995 1010
2 Time of the Gypsies 1988 1307
3 Black Cat White Cat 1998 2643
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