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Top Films by Director (T-V)

Isao Takahata

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 210
2 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 1148
3 Only Yesterday 1991 1477

Yôjirô Takita

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Departures 2008 2303

Lee Tamahori

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Were Warriors 1994 2305

Danis Tanovic

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 No Man's Land 2001 2473

Quentin Tarantino

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pulp Fiction 1994 8
2 Reservoir Dogs 1992 95
3 Inglourious Basterds 2009 164
4 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 262
5 Django Unchained 2012 411
6 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 445
7 Jackie Brown 1997 688
8 The Hateful Eight 2015 1357
9 Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood 2019 1456
10 Death Proof 2007 2194
11 Grindhouse1 2007 2567

1 Collaborated with Robert Rodriguez.

Andrei Tarkovsky

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Solaris 1972 170
2 Stalker 1979 195
3 Andrei Rublev 1966 264
4 The Mirror 1975 597
5 Ivan's Childhood 1962 1025
6 The Sacrifice 1986 1202
7 Nostalgia 1983 1478

Béla Tarr

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sátántangó 1994 776
2 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 874
3 The Turin Horse 2011 2356

Frank Tashlin

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 2562

Jacques Tati

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Playtime 1967 328
2 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 525
3 Mon Oncle 1958 822

Brian Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Crank1 2006 2689

1 Collaborated with Mark Neveldine.

Sam Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Safety Last!1 1923 687
2 The Freshman1 1925 2281

1 Collaborated with Fred C. Newmeyer.

Tate Taylor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Help 2011 969

Julie Taymor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Across the Universe 2007 2358
2 Frida 2002 2399

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Woman in the Dunes 1964 805
2 The Face of Another 1966 2751

J. Lee Thompson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cape Fear 1962 1219
2 The Guns of Navarone 1961 1399
3 Ice-Cold in Alex 1958 2200

Justin K. Thompson

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse1 2023 1292

1 Collaborated with Joaquim Dos Santos and Kemp Powers.

Billy Bob Thornton

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sling Blade 1996 1175

Richard Thorpe

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Jailhouse Rock 1957 2637

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story 2004 1690

George Tillman Jr.

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Hate U Give 2018 1786

Bruce W. Timm

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm1 1993 1575

1 Collaborated with Eric Radomski.

Eric Toledano

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Intouchables1 2011 853

1 Collaborated with Olivier Nakache.

Stanley Tong

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Supercop 1992 1790

Giuseppe Tornatore

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cinema Paradiso 1988 275

Jacques Tourneur

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cat People 1942 435
2 Out of the Past 1947 461
3 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 960
4 Curse of the Demon 1957 1063

Robert Towne

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Personal Best 1982 1982

Dan Trachtenberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 2263

Josh Trank

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Chronicle 2012 2922

Pete Travis

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dredd 2012 1322

Joachim Trier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Worst Person in the World 2021 2082

Rose Troche

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Go Fish 1994 2054

Gary Trousdale

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Beauty and the Beast1 1991 106
2 The Hunchback of Notre Dame1 1996 2153

1 Collaborated with Kirk Wise.

François Truffaut

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The 400 Blows 1959 70
2 Jules and Jim 1962 241
3 Day for Night 1973 662
4 Fahrenheit 451 1966 1108
5 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 1291
6 Stolen Kisses 1968 1893
7 The Wild Child 1970 2151
8 The Last Metro 1980 2452

Dalton Trumbo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Johnny Got His Gun 1971 2881

Douglas Trumbull

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Silent Running 1972 1117

Hark Tsui

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Once Upon a Time in China 1991 2650

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1989 2302

Slava Tsukerman

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Liquid Sky 1982 2725

Stanley Tucci

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Big Night1 1996 2677

1 Collaborated with Campbell Scott.

Jon Turteltaub

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cool Runnings 1993 1144
2 While You Were Sleeping 1995 1436
3 National Treasure 2004 2413

Nora Twomey

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Breadwinner 2017 2785

Tom Tykwer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Run Lola Run 1998 750
2 Cloud Atlas1 2012 2894

1 Collaborated with Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

Morten Tyldum

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Imitation Game 2014 1123

Shin'ichirô Ueda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 One Cut of the Dead 2017 2840

Edgar G. Ulmer

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Detour 1945 1271
2 The Black Cat 1934 1930

Ron Underwood

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Tremors 1990 2312
2 City Slickers 1991 2948

Lee Unkrich

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Toy Story 3 2010 169
2 Coco 2017 304

Kinka Usher

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Mystery Men 1999 2144

Roger Vadim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Barbarella 1968 1491

Jean-Marc Vallée

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 954
2 C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 2652

W. S. Van Dyke

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Thin Man 1934 630
2 San Francisco 1936 3018

Melvin Van Peebles

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 956

Gus Van Sant

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Good Will Hunting 1997 339
2 My Own Private Idaho 1991 728
3 Milk 2008 811
4 Elephant 2003 1457
5 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 1691
6 To Die For 1995 2610

Agnčs Varda

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 383
2 The Gleaners & I 2000 927
3 Vagabond 1985 1545
4 The Beaches of Agnčs 2008 2252
5 Le Bonheur 1965 2411
6 Faces Places1 2017 2617

1 Collabroated with JR.

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Free Solo1 2018 2149

1 Collabroated with Jimmy Chin.

Dmitri Vasilyev

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Alexander Nevsky1 1938 1116

1 Collabroated with Sergei M. Eisenstein.

Matthew Vaughn

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Kick-Ass 2010 1157
2 X-Men: First Class 2011 1370
3 Stardust 2007 1667
4 Kingsman: The Secret Service 2014 2110
5 Layer Cake 2004 2819

Gore Verbinski

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 363
2 The Ring 2002 1046
3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 1867
4 Rango 2011 1964
5 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2007 2156

Paul Verhoeven

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 RoboCop 1987 213
2 Total Recall 1990 511
3 Starship Troopers 1997 596
4 Basic Instinct 1992 717
5 Showgirls 1995 1378
6 Black Book 2006 1602
7 Elle 2016 2342
8 The Fourth Man 1983 2946

Conrad Vernon

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Shrek 21 2004 1114

1 Collabroated with Andrew Adamson and Kelly Asbury.

Dziga Vertov

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 240

Charles Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Gilda 1946 1139

King Vidor

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Crowd 1928 775
2 The Big Parade 1925 1382
3 Duel in the Sun 1946 1564
4 Hallelujah! 1929 1969
5 Stella Dallas 1937 2022
6 Show People 1928 2532

Jean Vigo

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 L'Atalante 1934 332
2 Zero for Conduct 1933 1499

Denis Villeneuve

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Arrival 2016 466
2 Blade Runner 2049 2017 472
3 Dune 2021 1062
4 Prisoners 2013 1198
5 Sicario 2015 1362
6 Incendies 2010 1505
7 Dune: Part Two 2024 1629
8 Enemy 2013 2806

Joseph Vilsmaier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Stalingrad 1993 2988

Thomas Vinterberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Celebration 1998 720
2 The Hunt 2012 1044

Luchino Visconti

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Leopard 1963 340
2 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 838
3 Death in Venice 1971 944
4 Senso 1954 1700
5 Ossessione 1943 1731
6 La Terra Trema 1948 1961
7 The Damned 1969 2704

Frantisek Vlácil

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Marketa Lazarová 1967 2388

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Lives of Others 2006 244

Josef von Sternberg

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 The Blue Angel 1930 937
2 The Scarlet Empress 1934 1434
3 Shanghai Express 1932 1827
4 Morocco 1930 1852
5 The Last Command 1928 2405
6 The Docks of New York 1928 2837
7 Blonde Venus 1932 3034

Erich von Stroheim

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Greed 1924 473
2 Foolish Wives 1922 2668

Lars von Trier

Rank Title Year Overall
Rank
1 Breaking the Waves 1996 580
2 Dancer in the Dark 2000 632
3 Dogville 2003 869
4 Antichrist 2009 1527
5 Melancholia 2011 1616
6 The Idiots 1998 2072
7 Zentropa 1991 2440
8 The Five Obstructions1 2003 2998

1 Collabroated with Jřrgen Leth.

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