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Top Films by Director (R)

Michael Radford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 1984 1984 2028
2 Il Postino 1994 2353

Eric Radomski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm1 1993 2094

1 Collaborated with Bruce W. Timm.

Bob Rafelson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Five Easy Pieces 1970 581
2 Head 1968 2317
3 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 2714

Sam Raimi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Evil Dead II 1987 369
2 The Evil Dead 1981 417
3 Spider-Man 2 2004 652
4 Spider-Man 2002 655
5 Army of Darkness 1992 1399
6 Drag Me to Hell 2009 2324
7 A Simple Plan 1998 2523

Harold Ramis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Groundhog Day 1993 98
2 Caddyshack 1980 528
3 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 1516

Lynne Ramsay

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ratcatcher 1999 1432
2 Morvern Callar 2002 2412
3 We Need to Talk about Kevin 2011 2471

Peter Ramsey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse1 2018 1118

1 Collaborated with Bob Persichett and Rodney Rothman.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 1641

Irving Rapper

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Now, Voyager 1942 612

Brett Ratner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rush Hour 1998 2645

Nicholas Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rebel without a Cause 1955 171
2 In a Lonely Place 1950 361
3 Johnny Guitar 1954 419
4 They Live by Night 1948 991
5 Bigger than Life 1956 1282
6 The Lusty Men 1952 2668

Satyajit Ray

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pather Panchali 1955 148
2 The World of Apu 1959 402
3 Aparajito 1956 575
4 Charulata 1964 1140
5 The Music Room 1958 1288

Robert Redford

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ordinary People 1980 959
2 Quiz Show 1994 2265
3 A River Runs Through It 1992 2773

Carol Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Third Man 1949 30
2 Oliver! 1968 757
3 Odd Man Out 1947 1230
4 The Fallen Idol 1948 1639

Peyton Reed

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bring It on 2000 2460
2 Ant-Man 2015 2581

Dee Rees

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pariah 2011 2383

Jerry Rees

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Brave Little Toaster 1987 2685

Matt Reeves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cloverfield 2008 2214
2 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 2429

Michael Reeves

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Witchfinder General 1968 1910

Nicolas Winding Refn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Drive 2011 659

Godfrey Reggio

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 538

Kelly Reichardt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wendy and Lucy 2008 2131
2 Meek's Cutoff 2010 2171

Carl Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jerk 1979 704
2 The Man with Two Brains 1983 1702

Rob Reiner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Princess Bride 1987 96
2 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 109
3 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 149
4 Stand by Me 1986 325
5 Misery 1990 745
6 A Few Good Men 1992 1335
7 The Sure Thing 1985 2393
8 The American President 1995 2607

Lotte Reiniger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 1821

Charles Reisner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 781

Karel Reisz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 982

Wolfgang Reitherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Jungle Book 1967 474
2 One Hundred and One Dalmatians1 1961 755
3 Robin Hood 1973 2117
4 The Rescuers2 3 1977 2586
5 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh2 1977 2625

1 Collaborated with Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske.
2 Collaborated with John Lounsbery.
3 Collaborated with Art Stevens.

Ivan Reitman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ghostbusters 1984 169
2 Stripes 1981 2003

Jason Reitman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Juno 2007 522
2 Up in the Air 2009 2160
3 Thank You for Smoking 2005 2264

Edgar Reitz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Heimat 1984 1895

Chris Renaud

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Despicable Me1 2010 1324

1 Collaborated with Pierre Coffin.

Norman René

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Longtime Companion 1989 2223

Jean Renoir

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rules of the Game 1939 99
2 The Grand Illusion 1937 122
3 A Day in the Country 1946 1001
4 The River 1951 1216
5 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 1628
6 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 1766
7 La Bête Humaine 1938 1767
8 La Chienne 1931 2082
9 French Cancan 1955 2612

John Requa

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crazy, Stupid, Love.1 2011 2657

1 Collaborated with Glenn Ficarra.

Alain Resnais

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 326
2 Night and Fog 1956 390
3 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 392
4 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 2417

Tony Richardson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 932
2 Tom Jones 1963 1043
3 A Taste of Honey 1961 2726

W. D. Richter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 1790

Leni Riefenstahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Triumph of the Will 1935 590
2 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 734
3 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 790

Marlon Riggs

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tongues Untied 1989 1374

Wolf Rilla

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Village of the Damned 1960 1268

Dino Risi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Il Sorpasso 1962 2384

Guy Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 556
2 Snatch. 2000 673
3 Sherlock Holmes 2009 2528

Michael Ritchie

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Bad News Bears 1976 976
2 Downhill Racer 1969 2105
3 Fletch 1985 2795

Martin Ritt

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hud 1963 911
2 Norma Rae 1979 1578
3 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 1984
4 Sounder 1972 2154
5 Hombre 1967 2205

Jacques Rivette

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 631
2 La Belle noiseuse 1991 1254
3 Out 1 1971 2336
4 L'Amour Fou 1969 2731

Jay Roach

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 735
2 Meet the Parents 2000 1588

Brian Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Varsity Blues 1999 2480

Jerome Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 West Side Story1 1961 118

1 Collaborated with Robert Wise.

Tim Robbins

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dead Man Walking 1995 1363

Bill Roberts

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Fantasia1 1940 266

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 313

Phil Alden Robinson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Field of Dreams 1989 385
2 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591

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 The Seventh Victim 1943 2351

Glauber Rocha

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black God and White Devil 1964 1197
2 Antonio das Mortes 1969 2330
3 Terra em Transe 1967 2647

Franc Roddam

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Quadrophenia 1979 1907

Robert Rodriguez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sin City1 2005 515
2 Desperado 1995 1613
3 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 1648
4 El Mariachi 1992 1685

1 Collaborated with Frank Miller.

Nicolas Roeg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Don't Look Now 1973 165
2 Performance1 1970 576
3 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 765
4 Walkabout 1971 853
5 The Witches 1990 1949
6 Bad Timing 1980 2636

1 Collaborated with Donald Cammell.

Michael Roemer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Nothing but a Man 1964 2654

Eric Rohmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Night at Maud's 1969 752
2 Claire's Knee 1970 1367
3 Summer 1986 1778
4 Chloe in the Afternoon 1972 2529
5 La Collectionneuse 1967 2704

George A. Romero

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Night of the Living Dead 1968 113
2 Dawn of the Dead 1978 307
3 Day of the Dead 1985 1314
4 Martin 1977 2358

Bernard Rose

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Candyman 1992 1705

Martin Rosen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Watership Down 1978 1316

Stuart Rosenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Hand Luke 1967 285

Francesco Rosi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 2068

Gary Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pleasantville 1998 1245
2 Seabiscuit 2003 1474
3 The Hunger Games 2012 1581

Herbert Ross

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Steel Magnolias 1989 1658
2 Play It Again, Sam 1972 1754
3 The Goodbye Girl 1977 2426

Roberto Rossellini

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rome, Open City 1945 239
2 Voyage in Italy 1954 937
3 Paisan 1946 1018
4 Germany, Year Zero 1948 1517
5 Stromboli 1950 2132
6 The Rise of Louis XIV 1966 2477
7 Europa '51 1952 2582

Robert Rossen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hustler 1961 301
2 Body and Soul 1947 1593
3 All the King's Men 1949 1900

Rodney Rothman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse1 2018 1118

1 Collaborated with Bob Persichett and Peter Ramsey.

Jean Rouch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chronicle of a Summer1 1961 1510
2 Les Maîtres fous 1957 2486

1 Collaborated with Edgar Morin.

Henry Alex Rubin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murderball1 2005 1051

1 Collaborated with Dana Adam Shapiro.

Richard Rush

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Stunt Man 1980 2267

Chuck Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mask 1994 1585

David O. Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Three Kings 1999 967
2 The Fighter 2010 1063
3 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 1441
4 Flirting with Disaster 1996 2398

Ken Russell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Devils 1971 1082
2 Altered States 1980 1626
3 Tommy 1975 2098
4 Women in Love 1969 2293

Anthony Russo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Captain America: Civil War1 2016 1289
2 Avengers: Infinity War1 2018 1384
3 Avengers: Endgame1 2019 1454
4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier1 2014 1475

1 Collaborated with Joe Russo.

Joe Russo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Captain America: Civil War1 2016 1289
2 Avengers: Infinity War1 2018 1384
3 Avengers: Endgame1 2019 1454
4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier1 2014 1475

1 Collaborated with Anthony Russo.

Walter Ruttmann

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 1491

Mark Rydell

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 On Golden Pond 1981 1773

Pawel Rzepkowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Short Film about Love1 1988 2046

1 Collaborated with Teresa Violetta Buhl and Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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