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Top Films by Director (L)

Gregory La Cava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Man Godfrey 1936 515
2 Stage Door 1937 839

Neil LaBute

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Company of Men 1997 1363

René Laloux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantastic Planet 1973 1812

Albert Lamorisse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Balloon 1956 1794

John Landis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Animal House 1978 282
2 The Blues Brothers 1980 345
3 An American Werewolf in London 1981 585
4 Trading Places 1983 951

Sidney Lanfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 1667

Fritz Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolis 1927 66
2 M 1931 74
3 The Big Heat 1953 558
4 Fury 1936 823
5 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 1113
6 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 1186
7 Siegfried 1924 1417
8 The Woman in the Window 1944 1694
9 Scarlet Street 1945 1781
10 Spione 1928 1978
11 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 2033
12 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956 2063
13 You Only Live Once 1937 2309

Walter Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King and I 1956 475

Simon Langton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride and Prejudice 1995 2059

Claude Lanzmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shoah 1985 479

John Lasseter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 83
2 Toy Story 2 1999 325
3 A Bug's Life 1998 705

Wai-keung Lau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 1878

1 Collaborated with Siu Fai Mak.

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 73

Frank Launder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 2444

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Léolo 1992 1855

Ray Lawrence

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lantana 2001 1836

David Lean

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 8
2 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 52
3 Brief Encounter 1945 159
4 Doctor Zhivago 1965 167
5 Great Expectations 1946 234
6 In Which We Serve1 1942 764
7 Oliver Twist 1948 784
8 Summertime 1955 1542
9 A Passage to India 1984 1758
10 Hobson's Choice 1954 2508

1 Collaborated with Noel Coward.

Ang Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 205
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 357
3 Brokeback Mountain 2005 893
4 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 949
5 The Ice Storm 1997 1083
6 The Wedding Banquet 1993 1434

Rowland V. Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Son of Frankenstein 1939 1861

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 106
2 Malcolm X 1992 551
3 She's Gotta Have It 1986 808
4 25th Hour 2002 1240
5 Clockers 1995 2282

Michael Lehmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heathers 1989 833

Mike Leigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secrets & Lies 1996 436
2 Naked 1993 658
3 Topsy-Turvy 1999 785
4 Life Is Sweet 1990 1582
5 High Hopes 1988 2199

Mitchell Leisen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight 1939 1059

David Leland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

1 Collaborated with David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

Claude Lelouch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Man and a Woman 1966 1392
2 Les Misérables 1995 2086

Robert Z. Leonard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride and Prejudice 1940 917
2 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 1631
3 Naughty Marietta1 1935 2362

1 Collaborated with W.S. Van Dyke.

Sergio Leone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 136
2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 140
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 233
4 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 702
5 For a Few Dollars More 1965 1637

Mervyn LeRoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 553
2 Little Caesar 1931 595
3 Mister Roberts1 1955 681
4 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 859
5 Quo Vadis 1951 1317
6 Random Harvest 1942 1457
7 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 1770

1 Collaborated with John Ford.

Richard Lester

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Hard Day's Night 1964 164
2 Petulia 1968 1330
3 Superman II 1980 1766
4 Robin and Marian 1976 2358
5 The Knack... and How to Get It 1965 2499

Barry Levinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rain Man 1988 296
2 Diner 1982 683
3 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 1013
4 The Natural 1984 1167
5 Wag the Dog 1997 1217
6 Bugsy 1991 1614

Jerry Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nutty Professor 1963 693
2 The Bellboy 1960 2029

Joseph H. Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gun Crazy 1950 434
2 The Big Combo 1955 1955

Kevin Lima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1373

1 Collaborated with Chris Buck.

Doug Liman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Swingers 1996 831
2 The Bourne Identity 2002 1458
3 Go 1999 2011

Caroline Link

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nowhere in Africa 2001 1843

Richard Linklater

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dazed and Confused 1993 613
2 Before Sunrise 1995 796
3 Before Sunset 2004 948
4 Waking Life 2001 1087
5 Slacker 1991 1151
6 The School of Rock 2003 1339

Steven Lisberger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tron 1982 846

Anatole Litvak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Snake Pit 1948 1993
2 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2265

1 Collaborated with Frank Capra.

Chia-Liang Liu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drunken Master II 1994 2094

Jennie Livingston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paris is Burning 1990 2014

Frank Lloyd

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 300
2 Cavalcade 1933 1896

Wei Lo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fists of Fury 1971 2342

Ken Loach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kes 1969 510
2 Land and Freedom 1995 1695
3 My Name Is Joe 1998 2468

Barbara Loden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wanda 1970 1569

Joshua Logan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Pacific 1958 1105
2 Picnic 1955 1529

Richard Loncraine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Richard III 1995 1704
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

1 Collaborated with David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

Ken Lonergan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 You Can Count on Me 2000 1343

Peter Lord

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 707

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Joseph Losey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Servant 1963 753
2 The Go-Between 1970 1517

Ernst Lubitsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 190
2 To Be or Not to Be 1942 197
3 Trouble in Paradise 1932 262
4 The Shop around the Corner 1940 344
5 Heaven Can Wait 1943 1467
6 The Merry Widow 1934 1771
7 The Love Parade 1929 1938
8 The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg 1927 2197

George Lucas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 7
2 American Graffiti 1973 179
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 857
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 907
5 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 1690
6 THX-1138 1971 1844

Baz Luhrmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moulin Rouge! 2001 235
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 352
3 Strictly Ballroom 1992 836

Robert Luketic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Legally Blonde 2001 1074

Sidney Lumet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 12 Angry Men 1957 156
2 Network 1976 202
3 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 324
4 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 837
5 The Verdict 1982 968
6 The Pawnbroker 1964 1264
7 Serpico 1973 1472
8 Fail-Safe 1964 1523
9 Prince of the City 1981 1622
10 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 1969

Auguste Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1895 1649

1 Collaborated with Louis Lumière.

Louis Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1895 1649

1 Collaborated with Auguste Lumière.

J.J. Bigas Luna

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jamón, jamón 1992 1943

Rod Lurie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Contender 2000 2426

Hamilton Luske

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 2 1940 158
2 Pinocchio3 1940 245
3 Lady and the Tramp1 4 1955 803
4 Cinderella1 4 1950 919
5 Peter Pan1 4 1953 1031
6 One Hundred and One Dalmatians4 5 1961 1187
7 Alice in Wonderland1 4 1951 1433

1 Collaborated with Wilfred Jackson.
2 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield.
3 Collaborated with Ben Sharpsteen.
4 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi
5 Collaborated with Wolfgang Reitherman.

David Lynch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blue Velvet 1986 61
2 Eraserhead 1977 397
3 Mulholland Dr. 2001 422
4 The Elephant Man 1980 457
5 The Straight Story 1999 740
6 Lost Highway 1997 1344
7 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 1356
8 Wild at Heart 1990 1559

Adrian Lyne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fatal Attraction 1987 499
2 Flashdance 1983 1202
3 Jacob's Ladder 1990 1259
4 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 1483

Jonathan Lynn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Cousin Vinny 1992 1749
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