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Top Films by Director (R)

Michael Radford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Il Postino 1994 970

Eric Radomski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm1 1993 2228

1 Collaborated with Bruce W. Timm.

Bob Rafelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Five Easy Pieces 1970 337
2 Head 1968 2047
3 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 2260

Sam Raimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Evil Dead II 1987 385
2 The Evil Dead 1981 454
3 Spider-Man 2002 503
4 Spider-Man 2 2004 790
5 A Simple Plan 1998 1388
6 Army of Darkness 1992 1441

Harold Ramis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 149
2 Caddyshack 1980 477
3 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 1565

Lynne Ramsay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ratcatcher 1999 1870

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 736

Irving Rapper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Now, Voyager 1942 361

Steve Rash

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Buddy Holly Story 1978 2084

Nicholas Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rebel without a Cause 1955 101
2 In a Lonely Place 1950 492
3 Johnny Guitar 1954 599
4 They Live by Night 1948 890
5 Bigger Than Life 1956 1411

Satyajit Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pather Panchali 1955 163
2 The World of Apu 1959 316
3 Aparajito 1956 448
4 The Music Room 1958 1187
5 Charulata 1964 1209

Robert Redford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ordinary People 1980 446
2 Quiz Show 1994 940
3 A River Runs Through It 1992 1880

Carol Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Third Man 1949 28
2 Oliver! 1968 506
3 Odd Man Out 1947 868
4 The Fallen Idol 1948 1701

Peyton Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bring It On 2000 1479

Matt Reeves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cloverfield 2008 2079

Michael Reeves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Conqueror Worm 1968 1003

Godfrey Reggio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 1161

Carl Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 817
2 The Man with Two Brains 1983 1722
3 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 1982 2024
4 All of Me 1984 2183

Rob Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 99
2 The Princess Bride 1987 143
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 178
4 Stand by Me 1986 321
5 A Few Good Men 1992 1092
6 Misery 1990 1118
7 The American President 1995 1583
8 The Sure Thing 1985 2111

Charles Reisner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 789

Karel Reisz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 786
2 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981 1802

Wolfgang Reitherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jungle Book 1967 429
2 One Hundred and One Dalmatians1 1961 1013
3 Robin Hood 1973 1906

1 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske.

Ivan Reitman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghostbusters 1984 303
2 Stripes 1981 1452
3 Dave 1993 1747

Jason Reitman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Juno 2007 1646

Edgar Reitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heimat 1984 1488

Jean Renoir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rules of the Game 1939 68
2 The Grand Illusion 1937 105
3 A Day in the Country 1936 624
4 The River 1951 1172
5 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 1261
6 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 1353
7 La Chienne 1931 1548
8 La Bête Humaine 1938 1551
9 The Golden Coach 1952 1935
10 The Southerner 1945 1988
11 French Cancan 1954 2088

Alain Resnais

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 292
2 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 396
3 Night and Fog 1955 819
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 1253
5 Providence 1977 1700

Tony Richardson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tom Jones 1963 423
2 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 838
3 A Taste of Honey 1961 1991

W. D. Richter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 867

Leni Riefenstahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Triumph of the Will 1935 484
2 Olympia 1938 554

Wolf Rilla

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Village of the Damned 1960 1265

Guy Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 759
2 Snatch. 2000 1032

Michael Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bad News Bears 1976 894
2 Downhill Racer 1969 1784
3 Smile 1975 1843
4 Fletch 1985 1941
5 The Candidate 1972 2083

Martin Ritt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hud 1963 606
2 Norma Rae 1979 946
3 Sounder 1972 947
4 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 1644
5 Hombre 1967 2271

Jacques Rivette

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 700
2 La Belle noiseuse 1991 941

Jay Roach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 417
2 Meet the Parents 2000 999
3 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 1999 1964

Jerome Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story1 1961 82

1 Collaborated with Robert Wise.

Tim Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man Walking 1995 744
2 Bob Roberts 1992 2019

Bill Roberts

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 180

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 205

Phil Alden Robinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Field of Dreams 1989 242
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 1857

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 1408
2 The Harder They Fall 1956 2189

Glauber Rocha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Antonio das Mortes 1969 2037
2 Black God and White Devil 1964 2242

Franc Roddam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quadrophenia 1979 1564

Robert Rodriguez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sin City1 2005 586
2 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 1136
3 Spy Kids 2001 1608
4 El Mariachi 1992 1997

1 Collaborated with Frank Miller.

Nicolas Roeg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Don't Look Now 1973 172
2 Performance1 1970 341
3 Walkabout 1971 805
4 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 881

1 Collaborated with Donald Cammell.

Eric Rohmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Night at Maud's 1969 857
2 Claire's Knee 1970 1154
3 Summer 1986 1840
4 Autumn Tale 1998 2218
5 La Collectionneuse 1967 2243

George A. Romero

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Night of the Living Dead 1968 134
2 Dawn of the Dead 1978 241
3 Day of the Dead 1985 1742
4 Martin 1977 1924

Don Roos

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Opposite of Sex 1998 1102

Bernard Rose

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Candyman 1992 1210

Martin Rosen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Watership Down 1978 1254

Stuart Rosenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Hand Luke 1967 322

Rick Rosenthal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bad Boys 1983 2248

Francesco Rosi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 1652

Gary Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pleasantville 1998 1287
2 Seabiscuit 2003 1785

Herbert Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Steel Magnolias 1989 1191
2 The Goodbye Girl 1977 1412
3 Play It Again, Sam 1972 1554
4 Pennies from Heaven 1981 1585
5 The Sunshine Boys 1975 2205

Roberto Rossellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Open City 1945 220
2 Paisan 1946 859
3 Voyage in Italy 1954 1111
4 The Rise of Louis XIV 1966 1600
5 Germany, Year Zero 1948 1865

Robert Rossen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hustler 1961 201
2 All the King's Men 1949 797
3 Body and Soul 1947 918

Jean Rouch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chronicle of a Summer1 1961 2123

1 Collaborated with Edgar Morin.

Roy Rowland

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 1703

Joseph Ruben

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stepfather 1987 2234

Henry Alex Rubin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murderball1 2005 2239

1 Collaborated with Dana Adam Shapiro.

Wesley Ruggles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cimarron 1931 2162

Richard Rush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stunt Man 1980 1480

Chuck Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mask 1994 1335

David O. Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Kings 1999 637
2 Flirting with Disaster 1996 1204

Ken Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Women in Love 1969 994
2 Tommy 1975 1509
3 Altered States 1980 1596
4 The Devils 1971 2036

Walter Ruttmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 1393

Mark Rydell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Golden Pond 1981 666
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