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Top Films by Director (T-V)

Isao Takahata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 1188

Iwao Takamoto

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Charlotte's Web1 1973 2368

1 Collaborated with Charles A. Nichols.

Lee Tamahori

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Were Warriors 1994 1164

Danis Tanovic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Man's Land 2001 1729

Quentin Tarantino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 20
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 90
3 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 492
4 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 1019
5 Jackie Brown 1997 1341

Andrei Tarkovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Andrei Rublev 1969 200
2 Stalker 1979 513
3 Solaris 1972 526
4 The Mirror 1975 973
5 The Sacrifice 1986 1872
6 Ivan's Childhood 1962 1948
7 Nostalgia 1983 1982

Béla Tarr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sátántangó 1994 1110
2 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 2022

Frank Tashlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 1821

Jacques Tati

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 321
2 Playtime 1967 351
3 Mon Oncle 1958 666
4 Jour de Fête 1949 2185

Norman Taurog

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Boys Town 1938 1996

Bertrand Tavernier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Sunday in the Country 1984 1810
2 'Round Midnight 1986 2331
3 Coup de Torchon 1981 2415
4 The Clockmaker 1974 2498

Paolo Taviani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Shooting Stars1 1982 1429

1 Collaborated with Vittorio Taviani.

Vittorio Taviani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Shooting Stars1 1982 1429

1 Collaborated with Paolo Taviani.

Sam Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 606
2 The Freshman1 1925 628

1 Collaborated with Fred C. Newmeyer.

Julie Taymor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frida 2002 2304

André Téchiné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Wild Reeds 1994 1578

Julien Temple

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle 1980 2274

Andy Tennant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 1252

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woman in the Dunes 1964 827

Gerald Thomas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carry On... Up the Khyber 1968 1913

J. Lee Thompson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Guns of Navarone 1961 885
2 Cape Fear 1962 1549
3 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 1886

Billy Bob Thornton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sling Blade 1996 805

Richard Thorpe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jailhouse Rock 1957 1065

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 1936

Zhuangzhuang Tian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Kite 1993 1528
2 The Horse Thief 1986 2221

Bruce W. Timm

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

1 Collaborated with Eric Radomski.

Tony To

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1956

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

Michael Tolkin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Rapture 1991 2156

Giuseppe Tornatore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cinema Paradiso 1988 192

Jacques Tourneur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Out of the Past 1947 222
2 Cat People 1942 338
3 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 849
4 Curse of the Demon 1957 888

Robert Towne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Personal Best 1982 1933
2 Without Limits 1998 2003

Anh Hung Tran

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cyclo 1995 2297

Gary Trousdale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 252
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 1827

1 Collaborated with Kirk Wise.

Fernando Trueba

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Belle Epoque 1992 1858

François Truffaut

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 78
2 Jules and Jim 1962 154
3 Day for Night 1973 322
4 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 596
5 Stolen Kisses 1968 964
6 The Wild Child 1970 1426
7 Two English Girls 1971 1438
8 The Story of Adele H. 1975 1756
9 The Last Metro 1980 1814
10 Small Change 1976 1852
11 Love on the Run 1979 1909
12 Bed and Board 1970 2130
13 Fahrenheit 451 1966 2385

Douglas Trumbull

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Silent Running 1972 1134

Hark Tsui

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 2140

Stanley Tucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 1397

1 Collaborated with Campbell Scott.

Jon Turteltaub

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Runnings 1993 1315
2 While You Were Sleeping 1995 1624

Frank Tuttle

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 This Gun for Hire 1942 2293

David Twohy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pitch Black 2000 2250

Tom Tykwer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Run Lola Run 1998 489

Edgar G. Ulmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Detour 1945 757
2 The Black Cat 1934 1195
3 People on Sunday1 1930 2451

1 Collabroated with Curt and Robert Siodmak and Fred Zinnemann.

Ron Underwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Slickers 1991 1534

Jamie Uys

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980 1390

Roger Vadim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barbarella 1968 820
2 And God Created Woman 1956 2205

W. S. Van Dyke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 337
2 San Francisco 1936 1310
3 Tarzan the Ape Man 1932 2007
4 Naughty Marietta1 1935 2362

1 Collabroated with Robert Z. Leonard.

Melvin Van Peebles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song 1971 1575

Gus Van Sant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Will Hunting 1997 474
2 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 725
3 My Own Private Idaho 1991 996
4 To Die For 1995 1617
5 Elephant 2003 2292

Agnès Varda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Vagabond 1985 1069
2 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 1070
3 The Gleaners & I 2000 1907

Marcel Varnel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oh, Mr. Porter! 1937 1446

Dmitri Vasilyev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 383

1 Collabroated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Francis Veber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dinner Game 1998 1492

Gore Verbinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 449
2 The Ring 2002 1757

Michael Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nasty Girl 1990 1348

Paul Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Starship Troopers 1997 588
2 RoboCop 1987 589
3 Basic Instinct 1992 762
4 Total Recall 1990 1036
5 Showgirls 1995 1503
6 Soldier of Orange 1977 2019

Conrad Vernon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1826

1 Collabroated with Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury.

Dziga Vertov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 284

Charles Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gilda 1946 614
2 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 2476

King Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crowd 1928 258
2 The Big Parade 1925 444
3 Stella Dallas 1937 787
4 Duel in the Sun 1946 1421
5 Show People 1928 1901
6 Northwest Passage 1940 2123
7 The Fountainhead 1949 2239

Jean Vigo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Atalante 1934 193
2 Zero for Conduct 1933 518
3 À Propos de Nice 1930 2266

Joseph Vilsmaier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stalingrad 1993 2341

Thomas Vinterberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celebration 1998 735

Luchino Visconti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 420
2 Death in Venice 1971 703
3 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 769
4 Ossessione 1943 869
5 La Terra Trema 1948 909
6 Senso 1954 1079

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lives of Others 2006 1273

Gunther von Fritsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Curse of the Cat People1 1944 2070

1 Collabroated with Robert Wise.

Josef von Sternberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Angel 1930 244
2 The Scarlet Empress 1934 505
3 Morocco 1930 828
4 Shanghai Express 1932 1383
5 The Docks of New York 1928 1588
6 The Last Command 1928 1995
7 Blonde Venus 1932 2242
8 Underworld 1927 2474

Erich von Stroheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Greed 1924 162
2 Foolish Wives 1922 946
3 The Wedding March 1928 1751

Lars von Trier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking the Waves 1996 472
2 Dancer in the Dark 2000 1021
3 Dogville 2003 1378
4 The Kingdom1 1994 1915
5 The Idiots 1998 2101

1 Collaborated with Morten Arnfred.

Margarethe von Trotta

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum1 1975 2259

1 Collabroated with Volker Schlöndorff.

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