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Top Films by Director (T-V)

Isao Takahata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 771

Lee Tamahori

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Were Warriors 1994 1235

Danis Tanovic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Man's Land 2001 1630

Quentin Tarantino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 15
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 66
3 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 351
4 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 701
5 Jackie Brown 1997 927
6 Inglourious Basterds 2009 1738

Andrei Tarkovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Andrei Rublev 1966 236
2 Solaris 1972 377
3 Stalker 1979 509
4 The Mirror 1975 887
5 Nostalgia 1983 1675
6 Ivan's Childhood 1962 1873

Béla Tarr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sátántangó 1994 1155
2 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 1414

Frank Tashlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 1576

Jacques Tati

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 311
2 Playtime 1967 378
3 Mon Oncle 1958 850
4 Jour de Fête 1949 2167

Bertrand Tavernier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 A Sunday in the Country 1984 1938

Paolo Taviani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Shooting Stars1 1982 2190

1 Collaborated with Vittorio Taviani.

Vittorio Taviani

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Night of the Shooting Stars1 1982 2190

1 Collaborated with Paolo Taviani.

Sam Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 672
2 The Freshman1 1925 716

1 Collaborated with Fred C. Newmeyer.

Julie Taymor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frida 2002 2222

André Téchiné

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Wild Reeds 1994 1847

Andy Tennant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998 1505

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woman in the Dunes 1964 914

Gerald Thomas

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Carry On... Up the Khyber 1968 2280

J. Lee Thompson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Guns of Navarone 1961 783
2 Cape Fear 1962 1160
3 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 1426

Billy Bob Thornton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sling Blade 1996 826

Richard Thorpe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jailhouse Rock 1957 1272

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 1948

Zhuangzhuang Tian

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Kite 1993 1891
2 The Horse Thief 1988 2055

Bruce W. Timm

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm1 1993 2331

1 Collaborated with Eric Radomski.

Ondi Timoner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 DiG! 2004 2357

Tony To

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 1915

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

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 242
2 Cat People 1942 458
3 Curse of the Demon 1957 833
4 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 883

Robert Towne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Without Limits 1998 1563
2 Personal Best 1982 2057

Gary Trousdale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 246
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2103

1 Collaborated with Kirk Wise.

Fernando Trueba

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Belle Epoque 1992 2079

François Truffaut

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 71
2 Jules and Jim 1962 168
3 Day for Night 1973 414
4 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 699
5 Stolen Kisses 1968 1327
6 The Wild Child 1970 1636
7 The Last Metro 1980 1739
8 Fahrenheit 451 1966 1961
9 Love on the Run 1979 2229
10 Two English Girls 1971 2306
11 The Story of Adele H. 1975 2362

Douglas Trumbull

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Silent Running 1972 913

Hark Tsui

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 2090

Slava Tsukerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Liquid Sky 1982 2191

Stanley Tucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 1133

1 Collaborated with Campbell Scott.

Jon Turteltaub

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Runnings 1993 1309
2 While You Were Sleeping 1995 2099

David Twohy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pitch Black 2000 2346

Tom Tykwer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Run Lola Run 1998 494

Edgar G. Ulmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Detour 1945 702
2 The Black Cat 1934 1046

Ron Underwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 City Slickers 1991 1614
2 Tremors 1990 2309

Lee Unkrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 3 2010 1967

Jamie Uys

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 1981 1502

Roger Vadim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barbarella 1968 734
2 And God Created Woman 1956 2010

W. S. Van Dyke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 409
2 San Francisco 1936 1854
3 Naughty Marietta1 1935 2311

1 Collabroated with Robert Z. Leonard.

Melvin Van Peebles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 1092

Gus Van Sant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Will Hunting 1997 387
2 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 902
3 My Own Private Idaho 1991 991
4 To Die For 1995 1690
5 Milk 2008 1856
6 Elephant 2003 2001

Agnès Varda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 1136
2 Vagabond 1985 1170
3 The Gleaners & I 2000 1598

Marcel Varnel

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Oh, Mr. Porter! 1937 2237

Dmitri Vasilyev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 523

1 Collabroated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Francis Veber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dinner Game 1998 1232

Gore Verbinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 379
2 The Ring 2002 1422
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 1874

Michael Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Nasty Girl 1990 1602

Paul Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Starship Troopers 1997 441
2 RoboCop 1987 495
3 Basic Instinct 1992 636
4 Total Recall 1990 846
5 Showgirls 1995 1293
6 Black Book 2006 1851
7 Soldier of Orange 1977 2166

Conrad Vernon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1380

1 Collabroated with Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury.

Dziga Vertov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 296

Charles Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gilda 1946 643
2 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 2392

King Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crowd 1928 337
2 The Big Parade 1925 461
3 Stella Dallas 1937 938
4 Duel in the Sun 1946 1146
5 Hallelujah! 1929 2116
6 The Champ 1931 2307

Jean Vigo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Atalante 1934 189
2 Zero for Conduct 1933 595

Joseph Vilsmaier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stalingrad 1993 1725

Thomas Vinterberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celebration 1998 637

Luchino Visconti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 332
2 Death in Venice 1971 821
3 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 1008
4 La Terra Trema 1948 1220
5 Ossessione 1943 1248
6 Senso 1954 1346
7 The Damned 1969 2123

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lives of Others 2006 505

Gunther von Fritsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Curse of the Cat People1 1944 2294

1 Collabroated with Robert Wise.

Josef von Sternberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Angel 1930 321
2 The Scarlet Empress 1934 631
3 Morocco 1930 1097
4 Shanghai Express 1932 1457
5 The Docks of New York 1928 2288
6 The Last Command 1928 2363

Erich von Stroheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Greed 1924 209
2 Foolish Wives 1922 1211
3 The Wedding March 1928 1936

Lars von Trier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking the Waves 1996 456
2 Dancer in the Dark 2000 780
3 Dogville 2003 1130
4 Zentropa 1991 1716
5 The Idiots 1998 1825
6 The Kingdom1 1994 1960

1 Collaborated with Morten Arnfred.

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