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Top Films by Director (R)

Michael Radford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Il Postino 1994 818

Eric Radomski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm1 1993 2397

1 Collaborated with Bruce W. Timm.

Bob Rafelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Five Easy Pieces 1970 320
2 Head 1968 2408

Sam Raimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Evil Dead 1981 466
2 Evil Dead II 1987 495
3 Spider-Man 2002 574
4 Spider-Man 2 2004 940
5 Army of Darkness 1992 1558
6 A Simple Plan 1998 1609

Harold Ramis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 187
2 Caddyshack 1980 549
3 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 1738

Lynne Ramsay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ratcatcher 1999 2212

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 696

Irving Rapper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Now, Voyager 1942 328

Steve Rash

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Buddy Holly Story 1978 2240

Nicholas Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rebel without a Cause 1955 85
2 In a Lonely Place 1950 453
3 Johnny Guitar 1954 619
4 They Live by Night 1948 957
5 Bigger Than Life 1956 1435
6 King of Kings 1961 2036

Satyajit Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pather Panchali 1955 157
2 The World of Apu 1959 288
3 Aparajito 1956 402
4 Charulata 1964 1136
5 The Music Room 1958 1208
6 Distant Thunder 1973 2497

Robert Redford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ordinary People 1980 389
2 Quiz Show 1994 961
3 A River Runs Through It 1992 1633

Carol Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Third Man 1949 26
2 Oliver! 1968 559
3 Odd Man Out 1947 741
4 The Fallen Idol 1948 1921

Peyton Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bring It On 2000 1275

Michael Reeves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conqueror Worm 1968 812

Godfrey Reggio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 1088

Carl Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 977
2 All of Me 1984 1839
3 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 2460

Rob Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 127
2 The Princess Bride 1987 145
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 172
4 Stand by Me 1986 336
5 A Few Good Men 1992 1033
6 The American President 1995 1218
7 Misery 1990 1231

Charles Reisner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 844

Karel Reisz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 743
2 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 1465

Wolfgang Reitherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jungle Book 1967 545
2 One Hundred and One Dalmatians1 1961 1187
3 Robin Hood 1973 2279

1 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske.

Ivan Reitman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghostbusters 1984 429
2 Dave 1993 1506
3 Stripes 1981 1746

Edgar Reitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heimat 1984 1350

Norman René

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Longtime Companion 1990 2284

Jean Renoir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rules of the Game 1939 58
2 The Grand Illusion 1937 89
3 A Day in the Country 1936 604
4 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 947
5 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 1184
6 The River 1951 1238
7 La Chienne 1931 1313
8 The Southerner 1945 1484
9 La Bête Humaine 1938 1497
10 The Golden Coach 1953 1574
11 French Cancan 1954 1979

Alain Resnais

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 281
2 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 382
3 Night and Fog 1955 1066
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 1120
5 Providence 1977 1705

Tony Richardson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tom Jones 1963 399
2 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 832
3 A Taste of Honey 1961 1727
4 The Entertainer 1960 2129

W. D. Richter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 855

Leni Riefenstahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Triumph of the Will 1935 432
2 Olympia 1938 477

Wolf Rilla

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Village of the Damned 1960 1234

Guy Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 761
2 Snatch. 2000 1176

Michael Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bad News Bears 1976 921
2 Smile 1975 1498
3 Downhill Racer 1969 1776
4 Fletch 1985 1988
5 The Candidate 1972 2085

Martin Ritt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hud 1963 531
2 Sounder 1972 884
3 Norma Rae 1979 1043
4 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 1564
5 The Great White Hope 1970 2002
6 The Long, Hot Summer 1958 2403
7 Hombre 1967 2421
8 The Front 1976 2472

Jacques Rivette

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 649
2 La Belle noiseuse 1991 956

Jay Roach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 469
2 Meet the Parents 2000 1095
3 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 1820

Jerome Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story1 1961 84

1 Collaborated with Robert Wise.

Tim Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man Walking 1995 751
2 Bob Roberts 1992 2278

Yves Robert

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Mother's Castle 1990 2375
2 My Father's Glory 1990 2435

Bill Roberts

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 158

1 Collaborated with James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, and Paul Satterfield.

Bruce Robinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Withnail & I 1987 227

Phil Alden Robinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Field of Dreams 1989 219
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

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

Mark Robson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Champion 1949 1225
2 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 2168
3 The Harder They Fall 1956 2308
4 Von Ryan's Express 1965 2395

Glauber Rocha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black God and White Devil 1964 1885
2 Antonio das Mortes 1969 1918

Franc Roddam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quadrophenia 1979 1436

Robert Rodriguez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sin City1 2005 765
2 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 1010
3 Spy Kids 2001 1602
4 El Mariachi 1992 1630
5 Desperado 1995 2067

1 Collaborated with Frank Miller.

Nicolas Roeg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Don't Look Now 1973 185
2 Performance1 1970 414
3 Walkabout 1971 729
4 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 1173

1 Collaborated with Donald Cammell.

Michael Roemer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nothing but a Man 1964 2234

Charley Rogers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Babes in Toyland1 1934 2320

1 Collaborated with Gus Meins.

Eric Rohmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Night at Maud's 1969 1023
2 Claire's Knee 1970 1268
3 Summer 1986 1761
4 Autumn Tale 1998 2384

George A. Romero

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Night of the Living Dead 1968 168
2 Dawn of the Dead 1978 273
3 Day of the Dead 1985 1634
4 Martin 1977 2020

Don Roos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Opposite of Sex 1998 1220

Bernard Rose

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Candyman 1992 1157

Martin Rosen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Watership Down 1978 1361

Stuart Rosenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Hand Luke 1967 362

Francesco Rosi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 1567

Gary Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pleasantville 1998 1368
2 Seabiscuit 2003 1684

Herbert Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Goodbye Girl 1977 1185
2 Steel Magnolias 1989 1221
3 Pennies from Heaven 1981 1355
4 Play It Again, Sam 1972 1573
5 The Sunshine Boys 1975 1845
6 The Last of Sheila 1973 2110
7 Footloose 1984 2399

Roberto Rossellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Open City 1945 210
2 Paisan 1946 616
3 Voyage in Italy 1954 1041
4 Germany, Year Zero 1948 1303
5 The Rise to Power of Louis XIV 1966 1379
6 The Flowers of St. Francis 1950 2038
7 Europa '51 1952 2126

Robert Rossen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hustler 1961 216
2 All the King's Men 1949 721
3 Body and Soul 1947 936

Jean Rouch

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

1 Collaborated with Edgar Morin.

Roy Rowland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 1441

Patricia Rozema

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing 1987 2166

Joseph Ruben

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stepfather 1987 2177

Richard Rush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stunt Man 1980 1416

Chuck Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mask 1994 1055

David O. Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Kings 1999 722
2 Flirting with Disaster 1996 1035

Ken Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Women in Love 1969 851
2 Altered States 1980 1697
3 Tommy 1975 1721

Walter Ruttmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 1277

Mark Rydell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Golden Pond 1981 587
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