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Top Films by Director (L)

Gregory La Cava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Man Godfrey 1936 499
2 Stage Door 1937 905

Neil LaBute

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Company of Men 1997 1296

René Laloux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantastic Planet 1973 1569

Albert Lamorisse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Balloon 1956 1259

John Landis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Animal House 1978 277
2 The Blues Brothers 1980 304
3 An American Werewolf in London 1981 513
4 Trading Places 1983 765

Sidney Lanfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 2073

Fritz Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolis 1927 62
2 M 1931 76
3 The Big Heat 1953 543
4 Fury 1936 1026
5 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 1264
6 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 1506
7 Siegfried 1924 1519
8 Spione 1928 1647
9 Scarlet Street 1945 1793
10 The Woman in the Window 1944 1926
11 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 2219

Walter Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King and I 1956 528

Simon Langton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride and Prejudice 1995 2120

Claude Lanzmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shoah 1985 473

John Lasseter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 60
2 Toy Story 2 1999 290
3 A Bug's Life 1998 760

Wai-keung Lau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 1757

1 Collaborated with Siu Fai Mak.

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 59

Frank Launder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 2142

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Léolo 1992 1878

Ray Lawrence

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lantana 2001 1832

David Lean

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 9
2 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 52
3 Brief Encounter 1945 165
4 Doctor Zhivago 1965 176
5 Great Expectations 1946 249
6 Oliver Twist 1948 865
7 In Which We Serve1 1942 955
8 A Passage to India 1984 1961
9 Summertime 1955 2055

1 Collaborated with Noel Coward.

Ang Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 188
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 420
3 Brokeback Mountain 2005 550
4 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 926
5 The Ice Storm 1997 1039
6 The Wedding Banquet 1993 1651

Rowland V. Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Son of Frankenstein 1939 2107

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 103
2 Malcolm X 1992 621
3 She's Gotta Have It 1986 930
4 25th Hour 2002 1227

Michael Lehmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heathers 1988 778

Mike Leigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secrets & Lies 1996 388
2 Naked 1993 645
3 Topsy-Turvy 1999 719
4 Life Is Sweet 1990 1588

Mitchell Leisen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight 1939 1117

David Leland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1857

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 1271
2 Les Misérables 1995 2167

Robert Z. Leonard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride and Prejudice 1940 1231
2 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 1567
3 Naughty Marietta1 1935 2210

1 Collaborated with W.S. Van Dyke.

Sergio Leone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 115
2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 116
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 213
4 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 680
5 For a Few Dollars More 1965 1472

Mervyn LeRoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Caesar 1931 644
2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 720
3 Mister Roberts1 1955 762
4 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 1122
5 Quo Vadis 1951 1804
6 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 2018
7 Random Harvest 1942 2028

1 Collaborated with John Ford.

Richard Lester

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Hard Day's Night 1964 159
2 Superman II 1980 1518
3 Petulia 1968 1541
4 The Three Musketeers 1973 2150

Barry Levinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rain Man 1988 307
2 Diner 1982 618
3 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 1000
4 The Natural 1984 1079
5 Wag the Dog 1997 1255
6 Bugsy 1991 1609

Jerry Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nutty Professor 1963 781

Joseph H. Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gun Crazy 1950 378
2 The Big Combo 1955 1607

Kevin Lima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1440

1 Collaborated with Chris Buck.

Doug Liman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Swingers 1996 774
2 The Bourne Identity 2002 976
3 Go 1999 2156

Caroline Link

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nowhere in Africa 2001 1858

Richard Linklater

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dazed and Confused 1993 548
2 Before Sunset 2004 659
3 Before Sunrise 1995 758
4 Waking Life 2001 898
5 Slacker 1991 1098
6 The School of Rock 2003 1251

Steven Lisberger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tron 1982 743

Anatole Litvak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2217

1 Collaborated with Frank Capra.

Chia-Liang Liu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drunken Master II 1994 2207

Jennie Livingston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paris Is Burning 1990 2021

Frank Lloyd

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 371
2 Cavalcade 1933 2119

Ken Loach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kes 1970 475
2 Land and Freedom 1995 1473

Barbara Loden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wanda 1970 1907

Joshua Logan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Pacific 1958 1278
2 Picnic 1955 1896

Richard Loncraine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Richard III 1995 1240
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 1857

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 1346

Peter Lord

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 735

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Joseph Losey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Servant 1963 737
2 The Go-Between 1970 1780
3 Mr. Klein 1976 2140

Ernst Lubitsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 215
2 To Be or Not to Be 1942 225
3 Trouble in Paradise 1932 286
4 The Shop around the Corner 1940 490
5 Heaven Can Wait 1943 1616
6 The Merry Widow 1934 1905
7 The Love Parade 1929 2193

George Lucas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 8
2 American Graffiti 1973 177
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 837
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 899
5 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 1269
6 THX-1138 1971 1282

Baz Luhrmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moulin Rouge! 2001 237
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 394
3 Strictly Ballroom 1992 815

Robert Luketic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Legally Blonde 2001 1186

Sidney Lumet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 12 Angry Men 1957 156
2 Network 1976 204
3 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 300
4 The Verdict 1982 813
5 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 952
6 Serpico 1973 1068
7 Fail-Safe 1964 1426
8 The Pawnbroker 1964 1492
9 Prince of the City 1981 1936

Auguste Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 2000

1 Collaborated with Louis Lumière.

Louis Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 2000

1 Collaborated with Auguste Lumière.

J.J. Bigas Luna

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jamón, jamón 1992 2203

Hamilton Luske

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 2 1940 180
2 Pinocchio3 1940 212
3 Lady and the Tramp1 4 1955 877
4 Cinderella 4 1950 880
5 Peter Pan 4 1953 986
6 One Hundred and One Dalmatians4 5 1961 1013
7 Alice in Wonderland 4 1951 1641

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 1976 291
3 Mulholland Dr. 2001 330
4 The Elephant Man 1980 431
5 The Straight Story 1999 746
6 Lost Highway 1997 1218
7 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 1318
8 Dune 1984 1791
9 Wild at Heart 1990 1823

Adrian Lyne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fatal Attraction 1987 489
2 Jacob's Ladder 1990 883
3 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 1362
4 Flashdance 1983 1416

Jonathan Lynn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Cousin Vinny 1992 1862
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