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Top Films by Director (L)

Gregory La Cava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Man Godfrey 1936 1216
2 Stage Door 1937 2985

Nadine Labaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capernaum 2018 2045

Richard LaGravenese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 P.S. I Love You 2007 3045

René Laloux

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantastic Planet 1973 696

Mary Lambert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pet Sematary 1989 2495

Albert Lamorisse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Balloon 1956 1172

John Landis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blues Brothers 1980 351
2 An American Werewolf in London 1981 431
3 Animal House 1978 489
4 Coming to America 1988 681
5 Trading Places 1983 818

Fritz Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolis 1927 43
2 M 1931 84
3 The Big Heat 1953 594
4 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 1307
5 Siegfried 1924 1622
6 Fury 1936 1708
7 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 1944
8 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 2201
9 The Woman in the Window 1944 2341
10 Scarlet Street 1945 2398
11 Rancho Notorious 1952 2428
12 You Only Live Once 1937 3016

Walter Lang

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The King and I 1956 1315

Yorgos Lanthimos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lobster 2015 1534
2 The Favourite 2018 1946
3 Dogtooth 2009 2385
4 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 2912
5 Poor Things 2023 3032

Claude Lanzmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shoah 1985 254

John Lasseter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 1995 38
2 Toy Story 2 1999 256
3 A Bug's Life 1998 1841
4 Cars 2006 2239

Wai Keung Lau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 711

1 Collaborated with Alan Mak.

Charles Laughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Hunter 1955 57

Pascal Laugier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Martyrs 2008 1548

Francis Lawrence

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 1485
2 I Am Legend 2007 2253
3 Constantine 2005 2853

Bart Layton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Imposter 2012 2854

David Lean

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 25
2 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 91
3 Brief Encounter 1945 211
4 Doctor Zhivago 1965 393
5 Great Expectations 1946 539
6 In Which We Serve1 1942 2005
7 Oliver Twist 1948 2579
8 A Passage to India 1984 2717
9 Summertime 1955 2878

1 Collaborated with Noel Coward.

Ang Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Brokeback Mountain 2005 111
2 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 140
3 Sense and Sensibility 1995 668
4 Life of Pi 2012 934
5 The Ice Storm 1997 1272
6 Lust, Caution 2007 1543
7 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 1637
8 The Wedding Banquet 1993 1734

Francis Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 God's Own Country 2017 2285

Jennifer Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frozen1 2013 465

1 Collaborated with Chris Buck.

Malcolm D. Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Girls Trip 2017 1459

Spike Lee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Do the Right Thing 1989 75
2 Malcolm X 1992 555
3 25th Hour 2002 1051
4 She's Gotta Have It 1986 1087
5 He Got Game 1998 1549
6 BlacKkKlansman 2018 1719
7 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006 1800
8 Crooklyn 1994 2363
9 Inside Man 2006 2384

Michael Lehmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heathers 1989 488

Mike Leigh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secrets & Lies 1996 629
2 Naked 1993 802
3 Topsy-Turvy 1999 1573
4 Vera Drake 2004 2487
5 Mr. Turner 2014 3031
6 Happy-Go-Lucky 2008 3055

Danny Leiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle 2004 2189

Mitchell Leisen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight 1939 2802

David Leitch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atomic Blonde 2017 2255
2 Deadpool 2 2018 2366

Sebastián Lelio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Fantastic Woman 2017 2092

Claude Lelouch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Man and a Woman 1966 2266

Kasi Lemmons

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Eve's Bayou 1997 1518

Paul Leni

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man Who Laughs 1928 2816

Sergio Leone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 48
2 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 76
3 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 157
4 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 429
5 For a Few Dollars More 1965 476
6 Duck, You Sucker 1971 2234

Irving Lerner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murder by Contract 1958 2768

Mervyn LeRoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Caesar 1931 1177
2 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 1260
3 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 1351
4 Mister Roberts1 1955 1551
5 Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 2458
6 Quo Vadis 1951 2936

1 Collaborated with John Ford.

Mark L. Lester

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Commando 1985 1918

Richard Lester

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Hard Day's Night 1964 303
2 Superman II 1980 723

Jørgen Leth

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Five Obstructions1 2003 2998

1 Collaborated with Lars von Trier.

Jay Levey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 UHF 1989 2512

Barry Levinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rain Man 1988 667
2 The Natural 1984 920
3 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 1594
4 Diner 1982 1677
5 Sleepers 1996 2982

Albert Lewin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 2507

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blood Feast 1963 2782

Jerry Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nutty Professor 1963 2138

Joseph H. Lewis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gun Crazy 1950 1141
2 The Big Combo 1955 2740

Kevin Lima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enchanted 2007 1049
2 Tarzan1 1999 1911

1 Collaborated with Chris Buck.

Doug Liman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Edge of Tomorrow 2014 582
2 The Bourne Identity 2002 790
3 Swingers 1996 1614
4 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 2296

Justin Lin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fast Five 2011 1458

Richard Linklater

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Before Sunrise 1995 263
2 Before Sunset 2004 314
3 Dazed and Confused 1993 379
4 Boyhood 2014 536
5 Before Midnight 2013 844
6 The School of Rock 2003 977
7 A Scanner Darkly 2006 1449
8 Waking Life 2001 1514
9 Slacker 1990 1577

Steven Lisberger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tron 1982 1134

Bing Liu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Minding the Gap 2018 2615

Chia-Liang Liu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drunken Master II 1994 1402
2 Shaolin Master Killer 1978 3041

Jennie Livingston

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paris Is Burning 1990 412

Frank Lloyd

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 1211

Phyllida Lloyd

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mamma Mia! 2008 1229

Ken Loach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kes 1969 576
2 Land and Freedom 1995 2924

Barbara Loden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wanda 1970 2006

Joshua Logan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Picnic 1955 2879

Ken Lonergan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Manchester by the Sea 2016 1171
2 Margaret 2011 2582

Carlos López Estrada

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Raya and the Last Dragon1 2021 2920

1 Collaborated with Don Hall.

Peter Lord

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 995

1 Collaborated with Nick Park.

Phil Lord

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lego Movie1 2014 532
2 21 Jump Street1 2012 1992
3 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs1 2009 2775

1 Collaborated with Christopher Miller.

Joseph Losey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Servant 1963 1000
2 The Damned 1962 2860

John Lounsbery

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh1 1977 2027
2 The Rescuers1 2 1977 2627

1 Collaborated with Wolfgang Reitherman.
2 Collaborated with Art Stevens.

Eugène Lourié

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 2869

David Lowery

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Ghost Story 2017 2389

Ernst Lubitsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be or Not to Be 1942 251
2 The Shop around the Corner 1940 260
3 Trouble in Paradise 1932 540
4 Ninotchka 1939 573
5 The Merry Widow 1934 2114
6 Design for Living 1933 2304
7 Heaven Can Wait 1943 2538
8 One Hour with You 1932 3046

George Lucas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Wars 1977 4
2 American Graffiti 1973 395
3 THX-1138 1971 854
4 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 887
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 2013
6 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 2335

Baz Luhrmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Moulin Rouge! 2001 350
2 Romeo + Juliet 1996 826

Robert Luketic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Legally Blonde 2001 1479

Sidney Lumet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 12 Angry Men 1957 66
2 Network 1976 192
3 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 227
4 Serpico 1973 825
5 The Verdict 1982 1346
6 Fail-Safe 1964 1618
7 The Pawnbroker 1964 2369
8 The Wiz 1978 2423
9 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 3003

Auguste Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 2351

1 Collaborated with Louis Lumière.

Louis Lumière

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat1 1896 2351

1 Collaborated with Auguste Lumière.

Ida Lupino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 2126
2 Outrage 1950 2882

Hamilton Luske

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pinocchio1 1940 224
2 Fantasia1 2 3 1940 229
3 Cinderella2 4 1950 817
4 Lady and the Tramp2 4 1955 836
5 One Hundred and One Dalmatians4 5 1961 885
6 Alice in Wonderland2 4 1951 1127
7 Peter Pan2 4 1953 1290

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

David Lynch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mulholland Dr. 2001 89
2 Blue Velvet 1986 133
3 Eraserhead 1977 249
4 The Elephant Man 1980 385
5 The Straight Story 1999 812
6 Lost Highway 1997 940
7 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 963
8 Wild at Heart 1990 1152
9 Inland Empire 2006 1273
10 Dune 1984 2345

Adrian Lyne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jacob's Ladder 1990 1168
2 Fatal Attraction 1987 1312
3 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 2321

Jonathan Lynn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Cousin Vinny 1992 1638
2 Clue 1985 1778
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