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Top Films by Director (N-Q)

Mira Nair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monsoon Wedding 2001 959
2 Salaam Bombay! 1988 1478
3 Mississippi Masala 1991 1901

Hideo Nakata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ring 1998 1089

Vincenzo Natali

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cube 1997 1900

Gregory Nava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Norte 1983 1169
2 Selena 1997 2094

Ronald Neame

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 1125
2 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 1622

Ralph Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 1814
2 Lilies of the Field 1963 2191

Kurt Neumann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1958 1873

Mike Newell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 278
2 Donnie Brasco 1997 873
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 1243
4 Enchanted April 1992 2112

Joseph M. Newman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Island Earth 1955 2089

Fred C. Newmeyer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 726
2 The Freshman1 1925 824

1 Collaborated with Sam Taylor.

Fred Niblo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1925 1058

Andrew Niccol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gattaca 1997 872

Mike Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 38
2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 452
3 Working Girl 1988 802
4 Silkwood 1983 1020
5 Catch-22 1970 1063
6 Primary Colors 1998 1708
7 Carnal Knowledge 1971 2155

Leonard Nimoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 1493

Gaspar Noé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irréversible 2002 1948

Christopher Nolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memento 2000 152
2 Batman Begins 2005 583
3 The Dark Knight 2008 701
4 The Prestige 2006 1627
5 Insomnia 2002 2178

Chris Noonan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babe 1995 358

Stephen Norrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade 1998 1773

Phillip Noyce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 1212
2 Clear and Present Danger 1994 1597
3 The Quiet American 2002 1643

Victor Nunez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ulee's Gold 1997 1833
2 Ruby in Paradise 1993 2196

David Nutter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1857

1 Collaborated with David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To.

Christian Nyby

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thing from Another World 1951 516

Gavin O'Connor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle 2004 1614

George Ogilvie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome1 1985 2249

1 Collaborated with George Miller.

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1944 364
2 Hamlet 1948 806
3 Richard III 1955 1349

Ermanno Olmi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 850

Marcel Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 556

Max Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 320
2 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 402
3 Lola Montès 1955 640
4 La Ronde 1950 1127
5 The Reckless Moment 1949 1731
6 Le Plaisir 1952 1756

Mamoru Oshii

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell 1995 757

Nagisa Oshima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 716

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 309

Frank Oz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 1768
2 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 2202

Yasujiro Ozu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 124
2 Late Spring 1949 889
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 1418
4 Early Summer 1951 2026
5 I Was Born, But... 1932 2060

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pandora's Box 1929 375

Marcel Pagnol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marius1 1931 1498
2 César 1936 1520
3 The Baker's Wife 1938 1684

1 Collaborated with Alexander Korda.

Alan J. Pakula

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All the President's Men 1976 269
2 Klute 1971 682
3 Sophie's Choice 1982 782
4 The Parallax View 1974 1025

George Pal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Time Machine 1960 1222

Jafar Panahi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The White Balloon 1995 2051

Norman Panama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 1042

1 Collaborated with Melvin Frank.

Sergei Paradjanov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 1076
2 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 1490

Dean Parisot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Galaxy Quest 1999 1097

Chan-wook Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oldboy 2003 811

Nick Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 735
2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit2 2005 1002
3 The Wrong Trousers 1993 1201
4 A Close Shave 1995 1923
5 A Grand Day Out 1989 1977

1 Collaborated with Peter Lord.
2 Collaborated with Steve Box.

Alan Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Commitments 1991 1139
2 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 1274
3 Angel Heart 1987 1392
4 Evita 1996 1601
5 Fame 1980 1618
6 Bugsy Malone 1976 1620
7 Midnight Express 1978 1660
8 Mississippi Burning 1988 2270

Albert Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Pirate 1926 2128

Trey Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 476
2 Team America: World Police 2004 1538

Gordon Parks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaft 1971 664

Gordon Parks Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superfly 1972 1947

Vincent Paronnaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 1967

1 Collaborated with Marjane Satrapi.

James Parrott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Box 1932 1835

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 632
2 Salò 1975 1577
3 Teorema 1968 1734
4 Accattone 1961 1749

Ivan Passer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cutter's Way 1981 1637

Giovanni Pastrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabiria 1914 1783

Josh Pate

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1729

1 Collaborated with Peter Berg.

Bill Paxton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frailty 2001 2159

Alexander Payne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Election 1999 574
2 Sideways 2004 681
3 Citizen Ruth 1996 1428
4 About Schmidt 2002 1786

Sam Peckinpah

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 48
2 Ride the High Country 1962 749
3 Straw Dogs 1971 808
4 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 896
5 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 1540
6 Cross of Iron 1977 1557
7 The Getaway 1972 1632

Kimberly Peirce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Don't Cry 1999 1090

Arthur Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 46
2 Little Big Man 1970 727
3 The Miracle Worker 1962 1038
4 Night Moves 1975 1550

Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Into the Wild 2007 2091

D. A. Pennebaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dont Look Back 1967 711

Stacy Peralta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 1370

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barren Lives 1963 1707

Jacques Perrin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winged Migration 2001 2139

Frank Perry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mommie Dearest 1981 2114

Wolfgang Petersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Das Boot 1981 231
2 In the Line of Fire 1993 1430
3 Air Force One 1997 1752
4 Troy 2004 2250

Daniel Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 1198

Nicolas Philibert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be and to Have 2002 1420

Todd Phillips

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Old School 2003 1635

Maurice Pialat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À nos amours 1983 1533
2 Van Gogh 1991 2240

Benoît Poelvoorde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1275

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel.

Sidney Poitier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stir Crazy 1980 2061

Roman Polanski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 20
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 217
3 Repulsion 1965 352
4 The Pianist 2002 530
5 Knife in the Water 1962 669
6 The Tenant 1976 1330

Sydney Pollack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 175
2 Out of Africa 1985 433
3 The Way We Were 1973 834
4 Three Days of the Condor 1975 1266
5 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 2199

Abraham Polonsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Force of Evil 1948 775

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Algiers 1966 253

Edwin S. Porter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Train Robbery 1903 1451

H.C. Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellzapoppin' 1941 1736

Sally Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Orlando 1992 1662

Michael Powell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 222
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 260
3 Peeping Tom 1960 274
4 Black Narcissus1 1947 340
5 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 390
6 The Thief of Bagdad2 1940 649
7 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 804
8 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1559
9 49th Parallel 1941 2152

1 Collaborated with Emeric Pressburger.
2 Collaborated with Ludwig Berger and Tim Whelan.

Otto Preminger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laura 1944 230
2 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 507
3 Carmen Jones 1954 1189
4 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 1956

Emeric Pressburger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 222
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 260
3 Black Narcissus1 1947 340
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 390
5 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 804
6 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1559

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love & Basketball 2000 2170

Alex Proyas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dark City 1998 887
2 The Crow 1994 967

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Storm over Asia 1928 1927
2 Mother 1926 2054

Luis Puenzo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Official Story 1985 1331

Robert Pulcini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1236

1 Collaborated with Shari Springer Berman.

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