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Top Films by Director (M)

Kevin MacDonald

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Touching the Void 2003 906
2 One Day in September 1999 1792

Alexander Mackendrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 177
2 The Ladykillers 1955 333
3 The Man in the White Suit 1951 1071
4 Tight Little Island 1949 1100

John Mackenzie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Long Good Friday 1980 499

John Madden

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shakespeare in Love 1998 244

Albert Magnoli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Purple Rain 1984 1804

Sharon Maguire

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 714

Siu Fai Mak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Infernal Affairs1 2002 1290

1 Collaborated with Wai-keung Lau.

Dusan Makavejev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 1458

Terrence Malick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Badlands 1973 249
2 Days of Heaven 1978 297
3 The Thin Red Line 1998 357

Louis Malle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Atlantic City 1980 529
2 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 534
3 My Dinner with Andre 1981 1139
4 Lacombe Lucien 1974 1151
5 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 1553
6 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 1745
7 Murmur of the Heart 1971 2215
8 The Fire within 1963 2373

David Mamet

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Games 1987 1218
2 The Spanish Prisoner 1997 2226
3 The Winslow Boy 1999 2388

Rouben Mamoulian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Me Tonight 1932 622
2 Queen Christina 1933 800
3 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 874
4 The Mark of Zorro 1940 1710
5 Applause 1929 2350

Milcho Manchevski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Before the Rain 1994 1615

James Mangold

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Walk the Line 2005 1400
2 Girl, Interrupted 1999 2250

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All about Eve 1950 37
2 Guys and Dolls 1955 1076
3 Sleuth 1972 1124
4 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 1307
5 Cleopatra 1963 1397
6 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 1487
7 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 1612

Anthony Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winchester '73 1950 943
2 The Naked Spur 1953 990
3 Man of the West 1958 1538
4 El Cid 1961 2004
5 The Man from Laramie 1955 2205
6 T-Men 1947 2286

Delbert Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marty 1955 555

Michael Mann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heat 1995 150
2 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 468
3 The Insider 1999 647
4 Manhunter 1986 1147
5 Ali 2001 1657
6 Collateral 2004 2054

Chris Marker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Jetée 1962 480
2 Sans soleil 1983 1033

Fletcher Markle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Incredible Journey 1963 2360

Richard Marquand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Return of the Jedi 1983 178

James Marsh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man on Wire 2008 1809

Garry Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pretty Woman 1990 298
2 Beaches 1988 1284

George Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Destry Rides Again 1939 947
2 How the West Was Won1 1962 1625

1 Collaborated with John Ford and Henry Hathaway.

Neil Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Descent 2005 1648

Penny Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big 1988 608
2 A League of Their Own 1992 641
3 Awakenings 1990 2232

Rob Marshall

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicago 2002 624

Leslie H. Martinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman 1966 1966

Andrew Marton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Longest Day1 1962 614

1 Collaborated with Ken Annakin and Bernhard Wicki.

Toshio Masuda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tora! Tora! Tora!1 1970 1760

1 Collaborated with Richard Fleischer and Kinji Fukasaku.

Rudolph Maté

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 D.O.A. 1950 1106

Ronald F. Maxwell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gettysburg 1993 1548

Elaine May

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Heartbreak Kid 1972 2142
2 A New Leaf 1971 2206

Archie Mayo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Petrified Forest 1936 2181

Albert Maysles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gimme Shelter1 2 1970 741
2 Salesman1 2 1968 878
3 Grey Gardens1 3 1975 1150

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 741
2 Salesman1 2 1968 878
3 Grey Gardens1 3 1975 1150

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 1773
2 An Unmarried Woman 1978 1955

Stewart McAllister

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Listen to Britain1 1942 1559

1 Collaborated with Humphrey Jennings.

Jim McBride

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Easy 1986 2078
2 David Holzman's Diary 1967 2085

Leo McCarey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Duck Soup 1933 56
2 The Awful Truth 1937 469
3 An Affair to Remember 1957 514
4 Going My Way 1944 1314
5 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 1398
6 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 1452
7 Love Affair 1939 2209
8 Big Business1 1929 2227

1 Collaborated with James W. Horne.

Thomas McCarthy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Station Agent 2003 1485

Ross McElwee

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sherman's March 1986 1529

Douglas McGrath

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Emma 1996 2017

Adam McKay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 982

Norman Z. McLeod

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It's a Gift 1934 515
2 Horse Feathers 1932 819
3 Monkey Business 1931 1754

John McNaughton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 1010
2 Wild Things 1998 1724

James McTeigue

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 V for Vendetta 2005 1634

John McTiernan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Die Hard 1988 94
2 Predator 1987 814
3 The Hunt for Red October 1990 1468
4 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 1846
5 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 2093

Shane Meadows

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man's Shoes 2004 1496
2 This Is England 2006 2247

Peter Medak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ruling Class 1972 2008
2 The Changeling 1980 2335

Fernando Meirelles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City of God 2002 227
2 The Constant Gardner 2005 2235

George Melford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sheik 1921 2033

Georges Méliès

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Voyage to the Moon 1902 517

Jean-Pierre Melville

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Samouraï 1967 504
2 Army in the Shadows 1969 736
3 Bob le Flambeur 1956 1042
4 Le Cercle rouge 1970 1335

Sam Mendes

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Beauty 1999 111
2 Road to Perdition 2002 1224

Ramón Menéndez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stand and Deliver 1988 1436

Jirí Menzel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Closely Watched Trains 1966 664

William Cameron Menzies

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Things to Come 1936 931
2 Invaders from Mars 1953 1930

Muffie Meyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grey Gardens1 1975 1150

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 507
2 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 2158
3 Time after Time 1979 2320

Russ Meyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 879
2 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 1011

Roger Michell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Notting Hill 1999 1166

Takashi Miike

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Audition 1999 802

Nikita Mikhalkov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Burnt by the Sun 1994 1244

Lewis Milestone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 146
2 Of Mice and Men 1939 1575
3 The Front Page 1931 1844
4 A Walk in the Sun 1945 2056

John Milius

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Conan the Barbarian 1982 1672

Bennett Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Capote 2005 1425

David Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 1629

Frank Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sin City1 2005 575

1 Collaborated with Robert Rodriguez.

George Miller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Road Warrior 1981 306
2 Mad Max 1979 606
3 Lorenzo's Oil 1992 2200

Anthony Minghella

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The English Patient 1996 231
2 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 983
3 Truly, Madly, Deeply 1990 1608

Rob Minkoff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lion King1 1994 270
2 Stuart Little 1999 1616

1 Collaborated with Roger Allers.

Vincente Minnelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 226
2 An American in Paris 1951 237
3 The Band Wagon 1953 381
4 Gigi 1958 532
5 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 1190
6 Father of the Bride 1950 1372
7 Lust for Life 1956 1525
8 Some Came Running 1958 1640
9 The Pirate 1948 2027
10 Cabin in the Sky 1943 2344

David Mirkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Romy and Michele's High School Reunion 1997 2136

John Cameron Mitchell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 795

Hayao Miyazaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spirited Away 2001 174
2 Princess Mononoke 1997 537
3 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 554
4 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 1479
5 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 1647
6 Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989 2111
7 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 2245

Kenji Mizoguchi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ugetsu 1953 273
2 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 464
3 The Life of Oharu 1952 1044
4 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 1357

Edouard Molinaro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 La Cage aux Folles 1978 1900

Mario Monicelli

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 2100

Lukas Moodysson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Together 2000 1705
2 Show Me Love 1998 2052

Michael Moore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bowling for Columbine 2002 840
2 Roger & Me 1989 900
3 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 1673

Jocelyn Moorhouse

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Proof 1991 2273

Nanni Moretti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Son's Room 2001 1862
2 Caro Diario 1993 2152

Edgar Morin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chronicle of a Summer1 1961 1931

1 Collaborated with Jean Rouch.

Errol Morris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Blue Line 1988 478
2 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 1997 1279
3 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 2003 1537
4 Gates of Heaven 1978 1897

Paul Morrissey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chelsea Girls1 1966 1489

1 Collaborated with Andy Warhol.

Greg Mottola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superbad 2007 1959

Allan Moyle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pump Up the Volume 1990 1868

Russell Mulcahy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Highlander 1986 1490

Robert Mulligan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 62
2 Fear Strikes Out 1957 2223

F. W. Murnau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sunrise 1927 99
2 Nosferatu 1922 105
3 The Last Laugh 1924 591
4 Faust 1926 1375
5 Tabu 1931 1588

John Musker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Aladdin1 1992 750
2 The Little Mermaid1 1989 928

1 Collaborated with Ron Clements.

Daniel Myrick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 283

1 Collaborated with Eduardo Sánchez.

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