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Top Films by Director (S)

Leontine Sagan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Maedchen in Uniform 1931 2800

Gene Saks

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Odd Couple 1968 798

Walter Salles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Central Station 1998 883
2 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 1733

Mikael Salomon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591

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

Eduardo Sánchez

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blair Witch Project1 1999 281

1 Collaborated with Daniel Myrick.

Chris Sanders

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 How to Train Your Dragon1 2010 502
2 Lilo & Stitch1 2002 1994

1 Collaborated with Dean DeBlois.

Mark Sandrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Hat 1935 330
2 The Gay Divorcee 1934 2348
3 Holiday Inn 1942 2401

Richard C. Sarafian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Vanishing Point 1971 2305

Joseph Sargent

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 761

Marjane Satrapi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Persepolis1 2007 472

1 Collaborated with Vincent Paronnaud.

Paul Satterfield

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 Bill Roberts.

Carlos Saura

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cría Cuervos 1976 1710

John Sayles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Lone Star 1996 821
2 Eight Men Out 1988 1032
3 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 1548
4 Matewan 1987 1768

Franklin J. Schaffner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Planet of the Apes 1968 166
2 Patton 1970 291
3 Papillon 1973 948

Fred Schepisi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Roxanne 1987 1610

Lone Scherfig

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 An Education 2009 1843

John Schlesinger

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Midnight Cowboy 1969 194
2 Marathon Man 1976 1403
3 Billy Liar 1963 1678
4 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 2211
5 Darling 1965 2458

Volker Schlöndorff

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Tin Drum 1979 980

Julian Schnabel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 895
2 Before Night Falls 2000 2519

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 King Kong1 1933 51

1 Collaborated with Merian C. Cooper.

Paul Schrader

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 1525
2 Blue Collar 1978 2314

Barbet Schroeder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Reversal of Fortune 1990 2538

Joel Schumacher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost Boys 1987 1734
2 A Time to Kill 1996 2488
3 Falling Down 1993 2511

Ettore Scola

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Special Day 1977 1835
2 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 1985

Martin Scorsese

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Taxi Driver 1976 14
2 Goodfellas 1990 17
3 Raging Bull 1980 29
4 The Departed 2006 238
5 Mean Streets 1973 249
6 Casino 1995 398
7 The King of Comedy 1982 604
8 The Last Waltz 1978 896
9 After Hours 1985 992
10 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 1067
11 Shutter Island 2010 1083
12 Hugo 2011 1120
13 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 1160
14 Cape Fear 1991 1179
15 The Age of Innocence 1993 1235
16 The Color of Money 1986 1587
17 The Aviator 2004 1605
18 Gangs of New York 2002 1774
19 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 1792

Campbell Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 2071

1 Collaborated with Stanley Tucci.

Ridley Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Blade Runner 1982 11
2 Alien 1979 16
3 Gladiator 2000 137
4 Thelma & Louise 1991 379
5 Black Hawk Down 2001 947
6 American Gangster 2007 1692

Tony Scott

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Top Gun 1986 693
2 True Romance 1993 768
3 The Hunger 1983 1805
4 Man on Fire 2004 1813
5 The Last Boy Scout 1991 2466
6 Enemy of the State 1998 2655

George Seaton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 544

Edward Sedgwick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Cameraman 1928 1041

Peter Segal

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tommy Boy 1995 2585

Susan Seidelman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 1745

William A. Seiter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sons of the Desert 1933 1066

Henry Selick

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 297
2 Coraline 2009 717
3 James and the Giant Peach 1996 1867

Ousmane Sembene

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Black Girl 1966 1379
2 Xala 1975 1514
3 Moolaadé 2004 1845
4 Ceddo 1977 1866

Tom Shadyac

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 1817

Steven Shainberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Secretary 2002 1424

Adam Shankman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Hairspray 2007 1637
2 A Walk to Remember 2002 2187

John Patrick Shanley

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Doubt 2008 2327

Dana Adam Shapiro

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Murderball1 2005 1051

1 Collaborated with Henry Alex Rubin.

Jim Sharman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 386

Ben Sharpsteen

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pinocchio1 1940 233
2 Dumbo 1941 616

1 Collaborated with Hamilton Luske.

Adrienne Shelly

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Waitress 2007 2381

Ron Shelton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Bull Durham 1988 441
2 Tin Cup 1996 1359
3 White Men Can't Jump 1992 1612

Larissa Shepitko

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Ascent 1977 1531

Jim Sheridan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 My Left Foot 1989 1145
2 In the Name of the Father 1993 1333

Lowell Sherman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 She Done Him Wrong 1933 2069

Bill Sherwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Parting Glances 1986 2233

Takashi Shimizu

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ju-on: The Grudge 2002 2566

Kaneto Shindô

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Onibaba 1964 1393

Makoto Shinkai

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Your Name 2016 1571

Jack Sholder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hidden 1987 2447

Michael Showalter

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Big Sick 2017 2541

M. Night Shyamalan

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Sixth Sense 1999 187
2 Unbreakable 2000 1735
3 Signs 2002 2007

George Sidney

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kiss Me Kate 1953 2047
2 Anchors Aweigh 1945 2670
3 The Harvey Girls 1946 2691

Don Siegel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 186
2 Dirty Harry 1971 206
3 The Shootist 1976 1110
4 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 2107
5 Charley Varrick 1973 2515

David Silverstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Simpsons Movie 2007 2711

Elliott Silverstein

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cat Ballou 1965 1837

Bryan Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Usual Suspects 1995 112
2 X2 2003 736
3 X-Men 2000 1167
4 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 1575

Marc Singer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dark Days 2000 2775

Tarsem Singh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Fall 2006 1883

John Singleton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boyz N the Hood 1991 649

David Sington

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 In the Shadow of the Moon 2007 2271

Bruce Sinofsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills1 1996 1712
2 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster1 2004 2302
3 Brother's Keeper1 1992 2420

1 Collaborated with Joe Berlinger.

Curt Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 People on Sunday1 1930 2392

1 Collaborated with Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann.

Robert Siodmak

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Killers 1946 686
2 People on Sunday1 1930 2392
3 The Spiral Staircase 1946 2425
4 Criss Cross 1949 2518

1 Collaborated with Curt Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann.

Ramesh Sippy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sholay 1975 2266

Douglas Sirk

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Imitation of Life 1959 519
2 All That Heaven Allows 1955 744
3 Written on the Wind 1956 978

Victor Sjöström

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wind 1928 605
2 The Phantom Chariot 1921 1464

Jerzy Skolimowski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Deep End 1970 2247

George Sluizer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Vanishing 1988 795

Chris Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 American Movie 1999 1113

Jack Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Flaming Creatures 1963 1880

Kevin Smith

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Clerks. 1994 364
2 Chasing Amy 1997 1263
3 Dogma 1999 2371

Michael Snow

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wavelength 1967 1526

Zack Snyder

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 300 2006 666
2 Dawn of the Dead 2004 1280
3 Watchmen 2009 1355
4 Man of Steel 2013 2589

Steven Soderbergh

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 582
2 Out of Sight 1998 860
3 Ocean's Eleven 2001 984
4 Erin Brockovich 2000 1046
5 Traffic 2000 1452
6 The Limey 1999 1822
7 Solaris 2002 2161

Aleksandr Sokurov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Russian Ark 2002 1325
2 Mother and Son 1997 1652

Fernando E. Solanas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hour of the Furnaces1 1968 1762

1 Collaborated with Octavio Getino and Santiago Álvarez.

Todd Solondz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Happiness 1998 969
2 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1995 1927

Stephen Sommers

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Mummy 1999 2388

Barry Sonnenfeld

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Men in Black 1997 787
2 Get Shorty 1995 2209

Shion Sono

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Love Exposure 2008 2762

Paolo Sorrentino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Beauty 2013 2157

Penelope Spheeris

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wayne's World 1992 1312
2 The Decline of Western Civilization 1981 2258

Steven Spielberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jaws 1975 23
2 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 26
3 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 27
4 Schindler's List 1993 28
5 Saving Private Ryan 1998 77
6 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 120
7 Jurassic Park 1993 132
8 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 380
9 Minority Report 2002 516
10 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 593
11 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 695
12 Empire of the Sun 1987 812
13 The Color Purple 1985 862
14 Duel 1971 953
15 Catch Me If You Can 2002 988
16 Munich 2005 1624
17 War of the Worlds 2005 1684
18 Lincoln 2012 1814
19 The Terminal 2004 2575

Morgan Spurlock

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Super Size Me 2004 1827

Chad Stahelski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 John Wick 2014 2372

John M. Stahl

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 1448

Sylvester Stallone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Rocky II 1979 1686
2 Rocky IV 1985 2044
3 Rocky III 1982 2108

Andrew Stanton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 WALL•E 2008 82
2 Finding Nemo 2003 168

Irene Starewicz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Roman de Renard1 1937 2628

1 Collaborated with Wladyslaw Starewicz.

Wladyslaw Starewicz

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Le Roman de Renard1 1937 2628

1 Collaborated with Irene Starewicz.

Bert Stern

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jazz on a Summer's Day1 1959 2804

1 Collaborated with Aram Avakian.

Art Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rescuers1 1977 2586

1 Collaborated with John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman.

George Stevens

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shane 1953 341
2 Giant 1956 641
3 Swing Time 1936 772
4 A Place in the Sun 1951 786
5 Gunga Din 1939 1213
6 Woman of the Year 1942 1858

John Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kung Fu Panda1 2008 1327

1 Collaborated with Mark Osborne.

Robert Stevenson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mary Poppins 1964 267
2 Old Yeller 1957 1450

Ben Stiller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Zoolander 2001 866
2 Tropic Thunder 2008 2321

Whit Stillman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Metropolitan 1990 1349

Nicholas Stoller

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 2049

Andrew L. Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stormy Weather 1943 2204

Oliver Stone

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Platoon 1986 200
2 JFK 1991 529
3 Wall Street 1987 868
4 Natural Born Killers 1994 1226
5 Any Given Sunday 1999 1440
6 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 1467
7 Salvador 1986 1820
8 Nixon 1995 1946
9 The Doors 1991 2805

Barbra Streisand

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Yentl 1983 2433

Mel Stuart

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 416

John Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Escape 1963 234
2 The Magnificent Seven 1960 273
3 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 710
4 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957 2026

Preston Sturges

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lady Eve 1941 193
2 Sullivan's Travels 1941 252
3 The Palm Beach Story 1942 803
4 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 884
5 Hail the Conquering Hero 1944 1497
6 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 2084
7 The Great McGinty 1940 2462

Seijun Suzuki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Branded to Kill 1967 1769
2 Tokyo Drifter 1966 2677

Jan Svankmajer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alice 1988 1561

Jan Sverák

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kolya 1996 2142

David Swift

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Parent Trap 1961 2195

István Szabó

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mephisto 1981 1800

Damián Szifrón

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wild Tales 2014 2706
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