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Top Films by Director (L)

Gregory La Cava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Man Godfrey 1936 538
2 Stage Door 1937 897

Neil LaBute

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Company of Men 1997 1424

René Laloux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantastic Planet 1973 1641

Albert Lamorisse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Balloon 1956 1306

John Landis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blues Brothers 1980 293
2 Animal House 1978 299
3 An American Werewolf in London 1981 438
4 Trading Places 1983 811

Sidney Lanfield

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 2301

Fritz Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolis 1927 53
2 M 1931 75
3 The Big Heat 1953 566
4 Fury 1936 1115
5 Spione 1928 1560
6 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 1594
7 Siegfried 1924 1713
8 Scarlet Street 1945 1870
9 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 1908
10 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 1964
11 The Woman in the Window 1944 1991

Walter Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King and I 1956 519

Claude Lanzmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shoah 1985 415

John Lasseter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 64
2 Toy Story 2 1999 268
3 A Bug's Life 1998 788

Wai-keung Lau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 1290

1 Collaborated with Siu Fai Mak.

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 61

Frank Launder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 2214

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Léolo 1992 1953

Ray Lawrence

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lantana 2001 1903

David Lean

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 9
2 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 57
3 Brief Encounter 1945 148
4 Doctor Zhivago 1965 191
5 Great Expectations 1946 257
6 Oliver Twist 1948 939
7 In Which We Serve1 1942 978
8 A Passage to India 1984 2023
9 Summertime 1955 2128

1 Collaborated with Noel Coward.

Ang Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 165
2 Sense and Sensibility 1995 405
3 Brokeback Mountain 2005 474
4 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 957
5 The Ice Storm 1997 1072
6 The Wedding Banquet 1993 1733

Rowland V. Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Son of Frankenstein 1939 2172

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 100
2 Malcolm X 1992 582
3 She's Gotta Have It 1986 912
4 25th Hour 2002 1259

Michael Lehmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heathers 1988 717

Mike Leigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secrets & Lies 1996 389
2 Naked 1993 632
3 Topsy-Turvy 1999 752
4 Life Is Sweet 1990 1669
5 Vera Drake 2004 2356

Mitchell Leisen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight 1939 1177

David Leland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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 1313
2 Les Misérables 1995 1985

Robert Z. Leonard

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pride and Prejudice 1940 1277
2 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 1562
3 Naughty Marietta1 1935 2311

1 Collaborated with W.S. Van Dyke.

Sergio Leone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 107
2 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 118
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 207
4 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 653
5 For a Few Dollars More 1965 1533

Mervyn LeRoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Caesar 1931 722
2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 756
3 Mister Roberts 1955 863
4 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 1095
5 Quo Vadis 1951 1871
6 Random Harvest 1942 2097
7 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 2284

1 Collaborated with John Ford.

Richard Lester

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Hard Day's Night 1964 157
2 Superman II 1980 1387
3 Petulia 1968 1469
4 The Three Musketeers 1973 2216

Barry Levinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rain Man 1988 347
2 Diner 1982 646
3 The Natural 1984 908
4 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 1040
5 Wag the Dog 1997 1261
6 Bugsy 1991 1770

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blood Feast 1963 2271

Jerry Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nutty Professor 1963 809
2 The Bellboy 1960 2336

Joseph H. Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gun Crazy 1950 425
2 The Big Combo 1955 1584

Kevin Lima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tarzan1 1999 1500

1 Collaborated with Chris Buck.

Doug Liman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Swingers 1996 860
2 The Bourne Identity 2002 1004
3 Go 1999 2383

Caroline Link

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nowhere in Africa 2001 1821

Richard Linklater

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dazed and Confused 1993 433
2 Before Sunset 2004 508
3 Before Sunrise 1995 679
4 Waking Life 2001 954
5 Slacker 1991 1142
6 The School of Rock 2003 1294
7 A Scanner Darkly 2006 2183

Steven Lisberger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tron 1982 703

Anatole Litvak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War1 1943 2316

1 Collaborated with Frank Capra.

Chia-Liang Liu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drunken Master II 1994 2076

Jennie Livingston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paris Is Burning 1990 1818

Frank Lloyd

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 447

Ken Loach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kes 1969 436
2 Land and Freedom 1995 1377
3 Sweet Sixteen 2002 2391

Barbara Loden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wanda 1970 1978

Joshua Logan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Pacific 1958 1391
2 Picnic 1955 1775

Richard Loncraine

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Richard III 1995 1175
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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 1407

Peter Lord

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 747

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Joseph Losey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Servant 1963 688
2 The Go-Between 1970 1843
3 The Damned 1963 2179

Ernst Lubitsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ninotchka 1939 229
2 To Be or Not to Be 1942 248
3 Trouble in Paradise 1932 305
4 The Shop around the Corner 1940 472
5 Heaven Can Wait 1943 1499
6 The Merry Widow 1934 1734
7 The Love Parade 1929 2285

George Lucas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 8
2 American Graffiti 1973 198
3 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 876
4 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 959
5 THX-1138 1971 1182
6 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 1252

Baz Luhrmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moulin Rouge! 2001 219
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 406
3 Strictly Ballroom 1992 864

Robert Luketic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Legally Blonde 2001 1273

Sidney Lumet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 12 Angry Men 1957 154
2 Network 1976 221
3 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 285
4 The Verdict 1982 831
5 Serpico 1973 1057
6 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 1167
7 Fail-Safe 1964 1368
8 The Pawnbroker 1964 1547
9 Prince of the City 1981 1995
10 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 2105

Auguste Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 1561

1 Collaborated with Louis Lumière.

Louis Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 1561

1 Collaborated with Auguste Lumière.

J.J. Bigas Luna

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jamón, jamón 1992 2082

Hamilton Luske

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 2 1940 199
2 Pinocchio3 1940 217
3 Lady and the Tramp1 4 1955 832
4 Cinderella1 4 1950 941
5 Peter Pan1 4 1953 999
6 One Hundred and One Dalmatians4 5 1961 1089
7 Alice in Wonderland1 4 1951 1643

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 59
2 Eraserhead 1976 280
3 Mulholland Dr. 2001 310
4 The Elephant Man 1980 421
5 The Straight Story 1999 738
6 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 1297
7 Lost Highway 1997 1322
8 Wild at Heart 1990 1665
9 Dune 1984 2067

Adrian Lyne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fatal Attraction 1987 530
2 Jacob's Ladder 1990 924
3 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 1280
4 Flashdance 1983 1466

Jonathan Lynn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Cousin Vinny 1992 1940
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