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Top Films by Director (M)

Kevin MacDonald

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Touching the Void 2003 1400
2 One Day in September 1999 1893

Gustav Machatý

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ecstasy 1933 2247

Alexander Mackendrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 170
2 The Ladykillers 1955 441
3 The Man in the White Suit 1951 908
4 Tight Little Island 1949 1148

John Mackenzie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Long Good Friday 1980 663

Alison Maclean

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jesus' Son 1999 2382

John Madden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shakespeare in Love 1998 229

Guy Madden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Archangel 1990 2500

Sharon Maguire

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 626

Siu Fai Mak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 1878

1 Collaborated with Wai-keung Lau.

Dusan Makavejev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 1226

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gabbeh 1996 2116
2 Kandahar 2001 2301

Terrence Malick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Badlands 1973 218
2 Days of Heaven 1978 295
3 The Thin Red Line 1998 490

Louis Malle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atlantic City 1980 374
2 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 460
3 My Dinner with André 1981 902
4 Lacombe Lucien 1974 1146
5 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 1501
6 Murmur of the Heart 1971 1688
7 The Fire within 1963 1965
8 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 2069

David Mamet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Games 1987 993
2 The Winslow Boy 1999 2031
3 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 2330

Rouben Mamoulian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Queen Christina 1933 529
2 Love Me Tonight 1932 546
3 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 686
4 The Mark of Zorro 1940 1513
5 Applause 1929 2058
6 Silk Stockings 1957 2413

Milcho Manchevski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Before the Rain 1994 1659

James Mangold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Girl, Interrupted 1999 2176
2 Cop Land 1997 2419
3 Walk the Line 2005 2466

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 35
2 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 960
3 Guys and Dolls 1955 971
4 Sleuth 1972 975
5 Cleopatra 1963 1169
6 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 1352
7 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 1627
8 Julius Caesar 1953 2009
9 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 2186

Anthony Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winchester '73 1950 939
2 El Cid 1961 1192
3 The Naked Spur 1953 1406
4 Man of the West 1958 1411
5 The Man from Laramie 1955 1888
6 Bend of the River 1952 2510

Delbert Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marty 1955 462
2 Separate Tables 1958 2437

Michael Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heat 1995 208
2 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 467
3 The Insider 1999 636
4 Manhunter 1986 1288
5 Collateral 2004 1759
6 Ali 2001 2017
7 Thief 1981 2393

Chris Marker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Jetée 1962 687
2 Sans soleil 1983 1097

Fletcher Markle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Journey 1963 2441

Richard Marquand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Return of the Jedi 1983 199
2 Jagged Edge 1985 2495

Garry Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 272
2 Beaches 1988 1266

George Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Destry Rides Again 1939 850
2 How the West Was Won1 1962 1489

1 Collaborated with John Ford and Henry Hathaway.

Neil Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Descent 2005 2054

Penny Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big 1988 563
2 A League of Their Own 1992 621
3 Awakenings 1990 2087

Rob Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicago 2002 680

Leslie H. Martinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman 1966 2315

Andrew Marton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 536
2 King Solomon's Mines2 1950 2142

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Bernhard Wicki.
2 Collaborated with Compton Bennett.

Toshio Masuda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1832

1 Collaborated with Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku.

Rudolph Maté

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 D.O.A. 1950 988

Ronald F. Maxwell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gettysburg 1993 1658

Elaine May

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A New Leaf 1971 1629
2 The Heartbreak Kid 1972 1905

Archie Mayo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Petrified Forest 1936 1975

Albert Maysles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 2 1970 726
2 Salesman1 2 1968 914
3 Grey Gardens1 3 1975 1481

1 Collaborated with David Maysles.
2 Collaborated with Charlotte Zwerin.
3 Collaborated with Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer.

David Maysles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 2 1970 726
2 Salesman1 2 1968 914
3 Grey Gardens1 3 1975 1481

1 Collaborated with Albert Maysles.
2 Collaborated with Charlotte Zwerin.
3 Collaborated with Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer.

Paul Mazursky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Enemies, A Love Story 1989 1376
2 An Unmarried Woman 1978 1608
3 Down and Out in Beverly Hills 1986 2380
4 Harry and Tonto 1974 2406

Stewart McAllister

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Listen to Britain1 1942 1838

1 Collaborated with Humphrey Jennings.

Jim McBride

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Easy 1987 1455
2 David Holzman's Diary 1967 1767

Leo McCarey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 56
2 The Awful Truth 1937 393
3 An Affair to Remember 1957 455
4 Going My Way 1944 1200
5 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 1765
6 Love Affair 1939 1778
7 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 1865
8 Big Business1 1929 2516

1 Collaborated with James W. Horne.

Thomas McCarthy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Station Agent 2003 1689

Ross McElwee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sherman's March 1986 1382

McG

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Charlie's Angels 2000 2121

Douglas McGrath

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Emma 1996 1970

Norman Z. McLeod

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Gift 1934 450
2 Horse Feathers 1932 800
3 Monkey Business 1931 1581
4 Topper 1937 2179

John McNaughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 1084
2 Wild Things 1998 2178

James McTeigue

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 V for Vendetta 2005 2283

John McTiernan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 1988 124
2 Predator 1987 986
3 The Hunt for Red October 1990 1428
4 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 2170

Shane Meadows

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man’s Shoes 2004 2322

Peter Medak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ruling Class 1972 1325

Gus Meins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babes in Toyland1 1934 2320

1 Collaborated with Charley Rogers.

Fernando Meirelles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City of God 2002 331

George Melford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sheik 1921 1566

Georges Méliès

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Voyage to the Moon 1902 473

Jean-Pierre Melville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Samouraï 1967 535
2 Bob le Flambeur 1956 929
3 The Army in the Shadows 1969 1554
4 Le Cercle rouge 1970 1962

Sam Mendes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Beauty 1999 123
2 Road to Perdition 2002 1190

Ramón Menéndez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stand and Deliver 1988 1450

Jirí Menzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Closely Watched Trains 1966 716

William Cameron Menzies

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Things to Come 1936 1232
2 Invaders from Mars 1953 2244

Muffie Meyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 1481

1 Collaborated with Ellen Hovde and Albert and David Maysles.

Nicholas Meyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 727
2 Time after Time 1979 2379

Russ Meyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 925
2 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 1029

Nancy Meyers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Something's Gotta Give 2003 2073

Roger Michell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Notting Hill 1999 1223

Takashi Miike

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Audition 1999 1233

Nikita Mikhalkov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burnt by the Sun 1994 1063

Lewis Milestone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 119
2 Of Mice and Men 1939 1557
3 A Walk in the Sun 1945 1584
4 The Front Page 1931 1641
5 Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933 2078
6 Ocean's Eleven 1960 2174

John Milius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Conan the Barbarian 1982 1715
2 Big Wednesday 1978 2023

Bennett Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capote 2005 2367

David Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 1552

Frank Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sin City1 2005 765

1 Collaborated with Robert Rodriguez.

George Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Road Warrior 1981 370
2 Mad Max 1979 543
3 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome1 1985 2083

1 Collaborated with George Ogilvie.

Anthony Minghella

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The English Patient 1996 214
2 Truly, Madly, Deeply 1990 1285
3 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 1307
4 Cold Mountain 2003 2507

Rob Minkoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 259
2 Stuart Little 1999 1625

1 Collaborated with Roger Allers.

Vincente Minnelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An American in Paris 1951 169
2 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 204
3 The Band Wagon 1953 335
4 Gigi 1958 426
5 Lust for Life 1956 1086
6 Father of the Bride 1950 1096
7 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 1172
8 Cabin in the Sky 1943 1404
9 The Pirate 1948 1825
10 Brigadoon 1954 1950
11 Some Came Running 1958 2135
12 The Clock 1945 2482

David Mirkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1997 2075

John Cameron Mitchell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 1140

Hayao Miyazaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spirited Away 2001 246
2 Princess Mononoke 1997 791
3 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 892
4 Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989 1961
5 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 2276

Kenji Mizoguchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ugetsu 1953 250
2 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 459
3 The Life of Oharu 1952 954
4 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 1131

Edouard Molinaro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Cage aux Folles 1978 2143

Mario Monicelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 1796

Lukas Moodysson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Show Me Love 1998 1842
2 Together 2000 1897

Michael Moore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Roger & Me 1989 926
2 Bowling for Columbine 2002 933
3 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 2347

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Proof 1991 1857

Nanni Moretti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Caro Diario 1993 1713
2 The Son's Room 2001 2310

Edgar Morin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chronicle of a Summer1 1961 1769

1 Collaborated with Jean Rouch.

Errol Morris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Blue Line 1988 525
2 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 1276
3 Gates of Heaven 1980 1476
4 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 2003 2502

Paul Morrissey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1468
2 Trash 1970 2366

1 Collaborated with Andy Warhol.

Terry O. Morse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Godzilla, King of the Monsters!1 1956 1717

1 Collaborated with Ishirô Honda.

Allan Moyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pump Up the Volume 1990 1806

Russell Mulcahy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Highlander 1986 1109

Peter Mullan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Magdalene Sisters 2002 2458

Robert Mulligan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 57
2 The Man in the Moon 1991 2430

Kira Muratova

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Asthenic Syndrome 1989 2272

F. W. Murnau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 95
2 Nosferatu 1922 115
3 The Last Laugh 1924 496
4 Tabu 1931 1241
5 Faust 1926 1249

John Musker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 724
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 874

1 Collaborated with Ron Clements.

Daniel Myrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 417

1 Collaborated with Eduardo Sánchez.

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