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Top Films by Director (J-K)

Mick Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L.A. Story 1991 2051
2 Threads 1984 3054

Peter Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 35
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 52
3 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 58
4 King Kong 2005 1038
5 Heavenly Creatures 1994 1086
6 Braindead 1992 1235
7 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 1281
8 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 1850
9 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014 2961
10 Bad Taste 1987 3051

Wilfred Jackson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 229
2 Cinderella2 1950 817
3 Lady and the Tramp2 1955 836
4 Alice in Wonderland2 1951 1127
5 Peter Pan2 1953 1290

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen.
2 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske.

Luc Jacquet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 March of the Penguins 2005 1385

Steve James

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hoop Dreams 1994 250

Miklós Jancsó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red and the White 1967 2352
2 The Round-up 1966 2849

Andrew Jarecki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 1031

Derek Jarman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue 1993 2218

Jim Jarmusch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man 1995 679
2 Stranger than Paradise 1984 809
3 Down by Law 1986 961
4 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 1241
5 Mystery Train 1989 2257
6 Only Lovers Left Alive 2013 2357
7 Night on Earth 1991 2914
8 Paterson 2016 2962

Kim Jee-woon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 1842
2 I Saw the Devil 2010 2759

Lionel Jeffries

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Railway Children 1970 1882

Barry Jenkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moonlight 2016 176
2 If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 1313

Patty Jenkins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wonder Woman 2017 643
2 Monster 2003 1379

Humphrey Jennings

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fires Were Started 1943 2537
2 Listen to Britain1 1942 2549

1 Collaborated with Stewart McAllister.

Vicky Jenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek1 2001 338

1 Collaborated with Andrew Adamson.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Amélie 2001 119
2 Delicatessen1 1991 730
3 The City of Lost Children1 1995 1041
4 A Very Long Engagement 2004 1963

1 Collaborated with Marc Caro.

Norman Jewison

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Heat of the Night 1967 437
2 Moonstruck 1987 498
3 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 1067
4 Rollerball 1975 1371
5 The Hurricane 1999 1977
6 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 2699
7 Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 2907

Wen Jiang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Devils on the Doorstep 2000 2862

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Topo 1970 946
2 The Holy Mountain 1973 1352
3 Santa Sangre 1989 2469

Roland Joffé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killing Fields 1984 930
2 The Mission 1986 2060

Duke Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anomalisa1 2015 2247

1Collaborated with Charlie Kaufman.

Kirsten Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cameraperson 2016 2965

Mike Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Corpse Bride1 2005 1665

1Collaborated with Tim Burton.

Rian Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Looper 2012 800
2 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi 2017 938
3 Knives Out 2019 1135
4 Brick 2005 1230

Susan Johnson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2018 1444

Joe Johnston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rocketeer 1991 1324
2 Captain America: The First Avenger 2011 1473
3 Jumanji 1995 1567
4 October Sky 1999 1833
5 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 2568

Chuck Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Duck Amuck 1953 1783
2 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 2825
3 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1966 2870

Duncan Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moon 2009 495
2 Source Code 2011 2499

L.Q. Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Boy and His Dog 1975 2674

Terry Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monty Python and the Holy Grail1 1975 105
2 Life of Brian 1979 194
3 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 2375

1Collaborated with Terry Gilliam.

Tommy Lee Jones

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 2781

Spike Jonze

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Her 2013 422
2 Being John Malkovich 1999 451
3 Adaptation. 2002 1050
4 Where the Wild Things Are 2009 1880

Neil Jordan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crying Game 1992 924
2 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 1334
3 The Company of Wolves 1984 2698

JR

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Faces Places1 2017 2617

1 Collaborated with Agnčs Varda.

Mike Judge

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Office Space 1999 620
2 Idiocracy 2006 1761

Rupert Julian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 1003

Isaac Julien

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Looking for Langston 1989 2913

Miranda July

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005 2793

Gil Junger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 10 Things I Hate about You 1999 557

Nathan Juran

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 1958 2397

Ján Kadár

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 1980

1 Collaborated with Elmar Klos.

Thomas Kail

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hamilton 2020 2199

Mikheil Kalatozov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cranes are Flying 1957 1030
2 I Am Cuba 1964 1072

Asif Kapadia

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Senna 2010 949
2 Amy 2015 2274

Jonathan Kaplan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Over the Edge 1979 2565

Shekhar Kapur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Elizabeth 1998 2034

Jake Kasdan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 2017 2841

Lawrence Kasdan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Body Heat 1981 957
2 The Big Chill 1983 1656
3 Silverado 1985 1881

Anurag Kashyap

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gangs of Wasseypur 2012 1857

Mathieu Kassovitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hate 1995 442

Charlie Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Synecdoche, New York 2008 1078
2 Anomalisa1 2015 2247

1 Collaborated with Duke Johnson.

Lloyd Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Toxic Avenger1 1984 2509

1 Collaborated with Michael Herz.

Phillip Kaufman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 349
2 The Right Stuff 1983 589
3 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 1878

Aki Kaurismäki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man without a Past 2002 3020

Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ninja Scroll 1993 2574

Tony Kaye

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American History X 1998 458

Elia Kazan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On the Waterfront 1954 79
2 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 237
3 East of Eden 1955 830
4 A Face in the Crowd 1957 1006
5 Splendor in the Grass 1961 1189
6 Baby Doll 1956 2517
7 America, America 1963 2546
8 Wild River 1960 2719
9 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 2787

Buster Keaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The General1 1926 86
2 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 281
3 Our Hospitality2 1923 1649
4 The Navigator3 1924 2475
5 Seven Chances 1925 2712
6 One Week4 1920 2925

1 Collaborated with Clyde Bruckman.
2 Collaborated with John G. Blystone.
3 Collaborated with Donald Crisp.
4 Collaborated with Edward F. Cline.

Abdellatif Kechiche

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 708

William Keighley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Robin Hood1 1938 265

1 Collaborated with Michael Curtiz.

Gene Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Singin' in the Rain1 1952 7
2 On the Town1 1949 1023
3 It's Always Fair Weather1 1955 2645

1 Collaborated with Stanley Donen.

Richard Kelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Donnie Darko 2001 136

Robert Kenner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Food Inc. 2008 2905

Jennifer Kent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Babadook 2014 581

Erle C. Kenton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Island of Lost Souls 1932 1735

Irvin Kershner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 29

Mehboob Khan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mother India 1957 2700

Abbas Kiarostami

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Close-Up 1990 531
2 A Taste of Cherry 1997 891
3 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 1170
4 Through the Olive Trees 1994 1267
5 And Life Goes on 1992 2195
6 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 2808

Kim Ki-duk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 1064
2 3-Iron 2004 2020

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Colors: Red 1994 208
2 Three Colors: Blue 1993 322
3 The Decalogue 1989 508
4 Three Colors: White 1994 600
5 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 964
6 A Short Film about Killing 1988 1957
7 A Short Film about Love 1988 2148

Henry King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 1094
2 The Gunfighter 1950 1178

Paul King

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paddington 2 2017 785
2 Paddington 2014 2166

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Page of Madness 1926 2355

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ménilmontant 1926 3037

Takeshi Kitano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fireworks 1997 1204
2 Sonatine 1993 2429

Kim Ki-young

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Housemaid 1960 2623

Randal Kleiser

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grease 1978 355

Elem Klimov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Come and See 1985 255

Elmar Klos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Shop on Main Street1 1965 1980

1 Collaborted with Ján Kadár.

Travis Knight

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 1058

Masaki Kobayashi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harakiri 1962 753
2 Kwaidan 1964 852
3 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 1689
4 Samurai Rebellion 1967 1764
5 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 1766
6 The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity 1959 2640

Satoshi Kon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paprika 2006 933
2 Perfect Blue 1997 1162
3 Millennium Actress 2001 1716
4 Tokyo Godfathers1 2003 2070

1 Collaborted with Shôgo Furuya.

Andrei Konchalovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Runaway Train 1985 2462

Yoshifumi Kondô

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Whisper of the Heart 1995 1775

Barbara Kopple

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 550

Alexander Korda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 3015

Hirokazu Koreeda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shoplifters 2018 1082
2 Nobody Knows 2004 1569
3 Still Walking 2008 1862
4 After Life 1998 2211

Harmony Korine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gummo 1997 2578

Joseph Kosinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 1339

Henry Koster

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harvey 1950 1672
2 The Robe 1953 2811

Ted Kotcheff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 First Blood 1982 1011
2 North Dallas Forty 1979 1781
3 Wake in Fright 1971 2376

Stanley Kramer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 936
2 Inherit the Wind 1960 1430
3 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 1517
4 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 1806
5 The Defiant Ones 1958 2179
6 On the Beach 1959 2833

John Krasinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Quiet Place 2018 705

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 16
3 The Shining 1980 22
4 A Clockwork Orange 1971 36
5 Paths of Glory 1957 127
6 Full Metal Jacket 1987 198
7 Barry Lyndon 1975 233
8 Spartacus 1960 336
9 The Killing 1956 502
10 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 595
11 Lolita 1962 1089

Kurt Kuenne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father 2008 1752

Buzz Kulik

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brian's Song 1971 2249

Roger Kumble

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cruel Intentions 1999 2041

Zacharias Kunuk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 2955

Akira Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Seven Samurai 1954 24
2 Rashômon 1950 65
3 Ran 1985 186
4 Ikiru 1952 223
5 Yojimbo 1961 354
6 Throne of Blood 1957 592
7 High and Low 1963 642
8 Kagemusha 1980 1326
9 The Hidden Fortress 1958 1342
10 Red Beard 1965 1437
11 Dersu Uzala 1975 1533
12 Sanjuro 1962 1900
13 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 2328
14 Stray Dog 1949 2684

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulse 2001 1664
2 Cure 1997 2678

Karyn Kusama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Invitation 2015 1928
2 Girlfight 2000 2116
3 Jennifer's Body 2009 2765

Emir Kusturica

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Underground 1995 1365
2 Time of the Gypsies 1988 19897

Daniel Kwan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Everything Everywhere All at Once1 2022 1093

1 Collaborted with Daniel Scheinert.

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