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Top Films by Director (T-V)

Isao Takahata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 329
2 Only Yesterday 1991 2051
3 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 2178

Yojiro Takita

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Departures 2008 2508

Lee Tamahori

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Were Warriors 1994 1906

Danis Tanovic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Man's Land 2001 2304

Quentin Tarantino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 9
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 80
3 Inglourious Basterds 2009 272
4 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 274
5 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 439
6 Django Unchained 2012 579
7 Jackie Brown 1997 722
8 The Hateful Eight 2015 1707

Andrei Tarkovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Andrei Rublev 1966 160
2 Stalker 1979 222
3 Solaris 1972 227
4 The Mirror 1975 498
5 Ivan's Childhood 1962 818
6 Nostalgia 1983 943
7 The Sacrifice 1986 987

Béla Tarr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sátántangó 1994 650
2 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 890
3 The Turin Horse 2011 2779

Frank Tashlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 1812

Jacques Tati

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Playtime 1967 300
2 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 453
3 Mon Oncle 1958 682

Bertrand Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crank1 2006 1863

1 Collaborated with Mark Neveldine.

Sam Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 658
2 The Freshman1 1925 1489

1 Collaborated with Fred C. Newmeyer.

Tate Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Help 2011 1177

Julie Taymor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Frida 2002 2031
2 Across the Universe 2007 2604

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woman in the Dunes 1964 667
2 The Face of Another 1966 2397

J. Lee Thompson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cape Fear 1962 1237
2 The Guns of Navarone 1961 1303
3 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 1904

Billy Bob Thornton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sling Blade 1996 1165

Richard Thorpe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jailhouse Rock 1957 2516

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 1356

Bruce W. Timm

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

Ondi Timoner

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 DiG! 2004 2522

Tony To

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Band of Brothers1 2001 2591

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

Eric Toledano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Intouchables1 2011 802

1 Collaborated with Olivier Nakache.

Stanley Tong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Supercop 1992 2180

Giuseppe Tornatore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cinema Paradiso 1988 217
2 The Legend of 1900 1998 2737

Jacques Tourneur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Out of the Past 1947 289
2 Cat People 1942 452
3 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 864
4 Curse of the Demon 1957 1086

Robert Towne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Personal Best 1982 2193

Pete Travis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dredd 2012 2054

Gary Trousdale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 154
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2613

1 Collaborated with Kirk Wise.

François Truffaut

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 60
2 Jules and Jim 1962 201
3 Day for Night 1973 467
4 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 807
5 Fahrenheit 451 1966 1178
6 Stolen Kisses 1968 1860
7 The Last Metro 1980 1896
8 The Wild Child 1970 2141

Douglas Trumbull

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Silent Running 1972 1056

Ming-liang Tsai

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The River 1997 2730

Hark Tsui

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 2524

Shinya Tsukamoto

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989 2748

Slava Tsukerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Liquid Sky 1982 2725

Kazuya Tsurumaki

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 End of Evangelion1 1997 1591

1 Collaborated with Hideaki Anno.

Stanley Tucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 2071

1 Collaborated with Campbell Scott.

Jon Turteltaub

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Runnings 1993 1370
2 While You Were Sleeping 1995 2095

David Twohy

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pitch Black 2000 2490

Tom Tykwer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Run Lola Run 1998 594

Morten Tyldum

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Imitation Game 2014 1668

Edgar G. Ulmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Detour 1945 707
2 The Black Cat 1934 1518
3 People on Sunday1 1930 2392

1 Collaborated with Curt and Robert Siodmak and Fred Zinnemann.

Ron Underwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tremors 1990 2276

Lee Unkrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 3 2010 261
2 Coco 2017 809

Kinka Usher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mystery Men 1999 2514

Jamie Uys

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Gods Must Be Crazy 1980 2641

Roger Vadim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barbarella 1968 1078

Ladislao Vajda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 It Happened in Broad Daylight 1958 2708

Jean-Marc Vallée

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 1662
2 C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 2404

W. S. Van Dyke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 568

Melvin Van Peebles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 730

Gus Van Sant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Will Hunting 1997 495
2 My Own Private Idaho 1991 769
3 Milk 2008 886
4 Elephant 2003 1170
5 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 1291
6 To Die For 1995 2024

Agnčs Varda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 461
2 The Gleaners & I 2000 926
3 Vagabond 1985 1427
4 The Beaches of Agnčs 2008 2735

Dmitri Vasilyev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 760

1 Collabroated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Matthew Vaughn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kick-Ass 2010 1341
2 X-Men: First Class 2011 1449
3 Stardust 2007 2126
4 Layer Cake 2004 2546

Francis Veber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Dinner Game 1998 2484

Gore Verbinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 344
2 The Ring 2002 1234
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 1948
4 Rango 2011 2164
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 2455

Paul Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 RoboCop 1987 308
2 Total Recall 1990 487
3 Starship Troopers 1997 549
4 Basic Instinct 1992 796
5 Black Book 2006 1473
6 Showgirls 1995 1634

Conrad Vernon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1287

1 Collabroated with Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury.

Dziga Vertov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 180

Charles Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gilda 1946 719

King Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crowd 1928 572
2 The Big Parade 1925 1076
3 Duel in the Sun 1946 1285
4 Stella Dallas 1937 1913
5 Hallelujah! 1929 1930
6 Show People 1928 2500

Jean Vigo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Atalante 1934 219
2 Zero for Conduct 1933 1071

Denis Villeneuve

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival 2016 1223
2 Prisoners 2013 1562
3 Blade Runner 2049 2017 1647
4 Incendies 2010 1829

Joseph Vilsmaier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stalingrad 1993 2679

Thomas Vinterberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celebration 1998 525
2 The Hunt 2012 1077

Luchino Visconti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 293
2 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 727
3 Death in Venice 1971 778
4 Ossessione 1943 1257
5 Senso 1954 1364
6 La Terra Trema 1948 1376
7 The Damned 1969 1976

Frantisek Vlácil

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marketa Lazarová 1967 1818

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lives of Others 2006 218

Gunther von Fritsch

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Curse of the Cat People1 1944 2693

1 Collabroated with Robert Wise.

Josef von Sternberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Angel 1930 643
2 The Scarlet Empress 1934 913
3 Morocco 1930 1642
4 Shanghai Express 1932 1741
5 The Last Command 1928 2036
6 The Docks of New York 1928 2225
7 Underworld 1927 2364
8 Blonde Venus 1932 2785

Erich von Stroheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Greed 1924 321
2 Foolish Wives 1922 1897

Lars von Trier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking the Waves 1996 418
2 Dancer in the Dark 2000 532
3 Dogville 2003 626
4 The Idiots 1998 1677
5 Zentropa 1991 1757
6 Melancholia 2011 2088
7 Antichrist 2009 2110
8 The Five Obstructions1 2003 2790
9 The Kingdom2/sup> 1994 2810

1 Collabroated with Jřrgen Leth.
2 Collabroated with Morten Arnfred.

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