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Top Films by Director (N-Q)

Mira Nair

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Monsoon Wedding 2001 940
2 Salaam Bombay! 1988 1719
3 Mississippi Masala 1991 1842

Hideo Nakata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ring 1998 921

Vincenzo Natali

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cube 1997 1813

Gregory Nava

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 El Norte 1983 1316
2 Selena 1997 2170

Ronald Neame

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 1038
2 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 1699

Ralph Nelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Requiem for a Heavyweight 1962 1658
2 Lilies of the Field 1963 2274

Kurt Neumann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fly 1958 2198

Mike Newell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 267
2 Donnie Brasco 1997 869
3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 1214
4 Enchanted April 1992 2176

Fred C. Newmeyer

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Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 672
2 The Freshman1 1925 716

1 Collaborated with Sam Taylor.

Fred Niblo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ben-Hur 1925 1226

Andrew Niccol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gattaca 1997 950

Mike Nichols

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Graduate 1967 39
2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 476
3 Working Girl 1988 789
4 Silkwood 1983 1051
5 Catch-22 1970 1109
6 Primary Colors 1998 1711
7 Carnal Knowledge 1971 1972
8 The Birdcage 1996 2308

Leonard Nimoy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986 1482

Gaspar Noé

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Irréversible 2002 1834

Christopher Nolan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Memento 2000 136
2 The Dark Knight 2008 581
3 Batman Begins 2005 592
4 Inception 2010 1654
5 The Prestige 2006 1688
6 Insomnia 2002 1892

Chris Noonan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babe 1995 372

Stephen Norrington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade 1998 1700

Phillip Noyce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 1254
2 Clear and Present Danger 1994 1383
3 The Quiet American 2002 1429
4 Newsfront 1978 2272

Victor Nunez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ulee's Gold 1997 1706
2 Ruby in Paradise 1993 2293

David Nutter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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 513

Gavin O'Connor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle 2004 1483

Laurence Olivier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Henry V 1944 375
2 Hamlet 1948 973
3 Richard III 1955 1501

Ermanno Olmi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 976

Marcel Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 599

Max Ophüls

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 308
2 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 477
3 Lola Montès 1955 730
4 La Ronde 1950 1193
5 The Reckless Moment 1949 1799
6 Le Plaisir 1952 1831

Mamoru Oshii

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghost in the Shell 1995 697

Nagisa Oshima

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 615

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 302

Frank Oz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 1668
2 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 2305

Yasujiro Ozu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 110
2 Late Spring 1949 855
3 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 1638
4 Early Summer 1951 1803
5 I Was Born, But... 1932 1963

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pandora's Box 1929 446

Marcel Pagnol

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 César 1936 1712
2 Marius1 1931 1895
3 The Baker's Wife 1938 1989

1 Collaborated with Alexander Korda.

Alan J. Pakula

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 All the President's Men 1976 277
2 Klute 1971 767
3 Sophie's Choice 1982 823
4 The Parallax View 1974 953

George Pal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Time Machine 1960 1264

Jafar Panahi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The White Balloon 1995 2126

Norman Panama

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Court Jester1 1955 895

1 Collaborated with Melvin Frank.

Sergei Paradjanov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 1121
2 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 1551

Dean Parisot

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Galaxy Quest 1999 1138

Chan-wook Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oldboy 2003 684

Nick Park

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chicken Run1 2000 747
2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit2 2005 951
3 The Wrong Trousers 1993 1253
4 A Close Shave 1995 2003
5 A Grand Day Out 1989 2046

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

Alan Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Commitments 1991 1026
2 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 1331
3 Angel Heart 1987 1353
4 Evita 1996 1428
5 Fame 1980 1486
6 Bugsy Malone 1976 1582
7 Midnight Express 1978 1595
8 Birdy 1984 2122
9 Mississippi Burning 1988 2368

Albert Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Black Pirate 1926 2192

Trey Parker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 466
2 Team America: World Police 2004 1236

Gordon Parks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shaft 1971 746

Gordon Parks Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Superfly 1972 1763

Vincent Paronnaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 1651

1 Collaborated with Marjane Satrapi.

James Parrott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Music Box 1932 1678

Gabriel Pascal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Major Barbara 1941 2380

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 660
2 Salò 1975 1310
3 Teorema 1968 1801
4 Accattone 1961 1984

Ivan Passer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cutter's Way 1981 1621

Giovanni Pastrone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cabiria 1914 2020

Josh Pate

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Friday Night Lights1 2004 1593

1 Collaborated with Peter Berg.

Bill Paxton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frailty 2001 2389

Alexander Payne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Election 1999 545
2 Sideways 2004 680
3 Citizen Ruth 1996 1492
4 About Schmidt 2002 1950

Sam Peckinpah

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Bunch 1969 51
2 Straw Dogs 1971 726
3 Ride the High Country 1962 880
4 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 885
5 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 1367
6 Cross of Iron 1977 1440
7 The Getaway 1972 1694
8 Junior Bonner 1972 1942

Kimberly Peirce

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Don't Cry 1999 1052

Arthur Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 48
2 Little Big Man 1970 742
3 The Miracle Worker 1962 1174
4 Night Moves 1975 1623

Sean Penn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Into the Wild 2007 1983

D. A. Pennebaker

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dont Look Back 1967 737

Stacy Peralta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 1358

Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barren Lives 1964 1860

Vadim Perelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 House of Sand and Fog 2003 2134

Jacques Perrin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Winged Migration 2001 2302

Frank Perry

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mommie Dearest 1981 2036
2 The Swimmer 1968 2322

Wolfgang Petersen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Das Boot 1981 194
2 In the Line of Fire 1993 1402
3 Air Force One 1997 1488
4 Troy 2004 2333

Daniel Petrie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 1652

Nicolas Philibert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 To Be and to Have 2002 1470

Todd Phillips

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Old School 2003 1589

Maurice Pialat

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 À nos amours 1983 1611
2 Van Gogh 1991 2345

Benoît Poelvoorde

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Man Bites Dog1 1992 1201

1 Collaborated with Rémy Belvaux and André Bonzel.

Sidney Poitier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stir Crazy 1980 2265

Roman Polanski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chinatown 1974 20
2 Rosemary's Baby 1968 193
3 Repulsion 1965 350
4 The Pianist 2002 470
5 Knife in the Water 1962 689
6 The Tenant 1976 1199
7 Cul-de-sac 1966 2349

Sydney Pollack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tootsie 1982 197
2 Out of Africa 1985 498
3 The Way We Were 1973 842
4 Three Days of the Condor 1975 1308

Abraham Polonsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Force of Evil 1948 891

Gillo Pontecorvo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Battle of Algiers 1966 215

Edwin S. Porter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Train Robbery 1903 1237

H.C. Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hellzapoppin' 1941 1811

Sally Potter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Orlando 1992 1748

Michael Powell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 204
2 Peeping Tom 1960 258
3 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 265
4 Black Narcissus1 1947 335
5 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 390
6 The Thief of Bagdad2 1940 709
7 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 830
8 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1656
9 49th Parallel 1941 2219

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

Otto Preminger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Laura 1944 259
2 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 556
3 Carmen Jones 1954 1305
4 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 1480
5 Porgy and Bess 1959 2060

Emeric Pressburger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Red Shoes1 1948 204
2 Stairway to Heaven1 1946 265
3 Black Narcissus1 1947 335
4 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1 1943 390
5 'I Know Where I'm Going!'1 1945 830
6 A Canterbury Tale1 1944 1656

1 Collaborated with Michael Powell.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love & Basketball 2000 2248

Alex Proyas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dark City 1998 868
2 The Crow 1994 968

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Storm over Asia 1928 1992
2 Mother 1926 2133

Luis Puenzo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Official Story 1985 1371

Robert Pulcini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Splendor1 2003 1209

1 Collaborated with Shari Springer Berman.

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