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Drama Movie Directors
Top drama directors ranked by rating and filmography.
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Name↕ | Films↕ | Avg Rating↕ | Genres↕ | Known Films↕ | Language↕ |
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Alex Kendrick | 7 | 7.67 | Drama, Family, Romance | The Forge, Overcomer, War Room, Courageous, Fireproof | English |
Lee Chang-dong | 6 | 7.38 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine, Oasis, Peppermint Candy | Korean |
Xavier Dolan | 8 | 7.29 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, Matthias & Maxime, It's Only the End of the World, Mommy, Tom at the Farm | English, French |
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | 5 | 7.28 | Drama, Romance | Vidheyan, Mathilukal, Anantaram, Elippathayam, Swayamvaram | Malayalam |
Simon Curtis | 7 | 7.2 | Drama, Family, History, Romance | Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Downton Abbey: A New Era, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Woman in Gold | English |
Majid Majidi | 9 | 7.16 | Drama, Family, History, Romance | Sun Children, Beyond the Clouds, Muhammad: The Messenger of God, The Song of Sparrows, The Willow Tree | Hindi, Persian |
Takahiro Miki | 17 | 7.11 | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance | Drawing Closer, Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight, The Door into Summer, Love Me, Love Me Not, Fortuna's Eye | Japanese |
Scott Barley | 8 | 7.08 | Drama, Horror, Mystery | Sleep Has Her House, Womb, Hinterlands, Hunter, Irresolute | English |
P. Padmarajan | 6 | 7.08 | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | Njan Gandharvan, Moonnam Pakkam, Innale, Aparan, Thoovanathumbikal | Malayalam |
Wagner de Assis | 5 | 7.06 | Drama, History | Astral City 2: The Messengers, Nobody Belongs to Nobody, Kardec, A Menina Índigo, Astral City: A Spiritual Journey | Portuguese |
Jan Komasa | 6 | 7.05 | Drama, History, Thriller, War | Anniversary, The Hater, Corpus Christi, Warsaw 44, Warsaw Uprising | English, Polish |
Marcel Hanoun | 5 | 7.04 | Drama, Fantasy | The Bright Night, Summer, Spring, Winter, A Simple Story | French |
Zhang Lu | 8 | 7 | Drama, Romance | The Shadowless Tower, Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Ode to the Goose, A Quiet Dream | Chinese, Korean |
Paula Ortiz | 5 | 6.96 | Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | The Red Virgin, Across the River and into the Trees, Teresa, The Bride, Chrysalis | English, Spanish |
Céline Sciamma | 6 | 6.9 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Petite Maman, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Girlhood, Tomboy, Pauline | French |
Gillo Pontecorvo | 5 | 6.9 | Drama, History, Thriller, War | Operation Ogre, Burn!, The Battle of Algiers, Kapo, The Wide Blue Road | Italian, Spanish |
Dave Schram | 5 | 6.86 | Drama, Family, Romance | Regret!, Furious, Lover of Loser, Radeloos, Timboektoe | Dutch, English |
Anthony Pullen Shaw | 5 | 6.84 | Drama, Mystery, TV Movie | Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle, Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | English |
Justin Chadwick | 5 | 6.82 | Drama, History, Romance | Tulip Fever, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Boy, The First Grader, The Other Boleyn Girl | English |
Leonardo Favio | 5 | 6.82 | Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror | Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf, Juan Moreira, The Dependent, Chronicle of a Boy Alone, The Romance of Aniceto and Francisca | Spanish |
Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 8 | 6.8 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | Evil Does Not Exist, Drive My Car, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Asako I & II, Heaven Is Still Far Away | Japanese |
Kei Ishikawa | 5 | 6.76 | Drama, History, Music, Mystery | A Pale View of Hills, Previously Saved Version, A Man, Listen to the Universe, Traces of Sin | Japanese |
Wojciech Has | 9 | 6.74 | Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror | The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober, Memoirs of a Sinner, The Hourglass Sanatorium, The Doll, The Saragossa Manuscript | Polish |
Victor Sjöström | 12 | 6.72 | Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror | The Phantom Carriage, The Wind, He Who Gets Slapped, A Man There Was, The Outlaw and His Wife | English, Swedish |
Ritwik Ghatak | 5 | 6.72 | Drama, Family | A River Called Titas, Reason, Debate and a Story, The Cloud-Capped Star, The Golden Thread, Ajantrik | Bengali |
Jack Clayton | 8 | 6.7 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Great Gatsby, The Innocents, Room at the Top | English |
Benito Zambrano | 5 | 6.68 | Drama, History, Music | Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake, Out in the Open, The Sleeping Voice, Habana Blues, Alone | Spanish |
Alberto Negrin | 6 | 6.67 | Drama, History, Horror, Mystery | Rita Levi-Montalcini, Paolo Borsellino: The 57 Days, Memories of Anne Frank, Pane e libertà, Bartali: The Iron Man | Italian |
Feliks Falk | 5 | 6.66 | Drama, History, Thriller, War | Joanna, Case Unknown, The Collector, Samowolka, Top Dog | Polish |
Lars Kraume | 8 | 6.65 | Drama, Family, History, Music | Measures of Men, Playing God, The Silent Revolution, The Verdict, The People vs. Fritz Bauer | German |
Pema Tseden | 6 | 6.65 | Drama | Snow Leopard, Balloon, Jinpa, Tharlo, Old Dog | BO |
Jorge Fons | 6 | 6.65 | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | File of Attempted Murder, Midaq Alley, Red Dawn, The Bricklayers, The Cubs | English, Spanish |
Klaus Härö | 8 | 6.64 | Drama, Family, History, Romance | Never Alone, My Sailor, My Love, One Last Deal, The Fencer, Letters to Father Jacob | ET, English, Finnish |
Yuri Ozerov | 6 | 6.63 | Drama, History, War | Stalingrad: Film 1, Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow, Liberation: The Fire Bulge, Liberation: The Battle of Berlin, Liberation: Breakthrough | Russian |
Kenny Leon | 7 | 6.61 | Drama, Family, Fantasy, History | Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia, American Son, In My Dreams, The Wiz Live!, The Watsons Go to Birmingham | English |
Zeki Demirkubuz | 12 | 6.58 | Drama | Life, Ember, Nausea, Inside, Envy | Turkish |
Michael O. Sajbel | 5 | 6.58 | Drama, Family, History, Horror | The Mulligan, Wraith, The Ultimate Gift, One Night with the King, The Ride | English |
Mike Flanagan | 9 | 6.57 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | The Life of Chuck, Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, Hush, Ouija: Origin of Evil | English |
Sergey Bondarchuk | 11 | 6.55 | Drama, History, Romance, War | Boris Godunov, Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire, Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World, They Fought for Their Motherland, Waterloo | English, Russian |
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | 5 | 6.54 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Painted Lips, The Female: Seventy Times Seven, The Terrace, Days of Hate, The House of the Angel | Spanish |
Adrian Lyne | 9 | 6.52 | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | Deep Water, Unfaithful, Lolita, Indecent Proposal, Jacob's Ladder | English |
Mischa Kamp | 5 | 6.52 | Drama, Family, Music, Romance | Romy's Salon, Boys, LelleBelle, Where Is Winky's Horse?, Winky's Horse | Dutch |
Alain Tasma | 5 | 6.52 | Drama, History, TV Movie | Falling for Love, Le Viol, Nine Days in Winter, Fracture, Dark Night, October 17, 1961 | French |
Awi Suryadi | 9 | 6.51 | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Sugar Mill, The Last 7 Days, Do You See What I See, KKN: Curse of the Dancing Village, Death Whisper | Indonesian |
Germaine Dulac | 8 | 6.51 | Drama, Fantasy, Music | The Smiling Madame Beudet, The Seashell and the Clergyman, The Cigarette, Arabesque, Those Who Worry | French |
Jerzy Kawalerowicz | 6 | 6.5 | Drama, History, Horror, Romance | Quo Vadis, Austeria, Maddalena, Mother Joan of the Angels, Night Train | Italian, Polish |
Kim Tae-yong | 5 | 6.5 | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | Wonderland, Misbehavior, Set Me Free, Late Autumn, Family Ties | Korean |
Bimal Roy | 5 | 6.5 | Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance | Bandini, Sujata, Madhumati, Devdas, Two Acres of Land | Hindi |
Sophon Sakdaphisit | 5 | 6.48 | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Home for Rent, The Promise, The Swimmers, Laddaland, Coming Soon | Thai |
Yves Allégret | 5 | 6.48 | Drama | Such a Pretty Little Beach, The Proud and the Beautiful, Dedee, The Cheat, The Seven Deadly Sins | French |
Randa Haines | 7 | 6.47 | Drama, Music, Romance, TV Movie | The Ron Clark Story, The Outsider, Dance with Me, The Doctor, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | English |
George C. Wolfe | 6 | 6.47 | Drama, History, Music, Romance | Rustin, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, You're Not You, Nights in Rodanthe | English |
Akio Jissoji | 7 | 6.44 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | Ten Nights of Dreams, Rampo Noir, Summer of Ubume, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis, This Transient Life | Japanese |
Robin Campillo | 5 | 6.44 | Drama, Fantasy | Enzo, Red Island, BPM (Beats per Minute), Eastern Boys, The Returned | French |
Paweł Pawlikowski | 5 | 6.44 | Drama, History, Music, Mystery | Cold War, Ida, The Woman in the Fifth, My Summer of Love, Last Resort | English, French, Polish |
Kei Kumai | 5 | 6.44 | Drama, History, Romance, War | The Sea Is Watching, Death of a Tea Master, The Sea and Poison, Sandakan No. 8, The Long Darkness | Japanese |
Konrad Wolf | 5 | 6.42 | Drama, History, Music, Romance | Solo Sunny, I Was Nineteen, Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment, Divided Heaven, Stars | German |
Kasi Lemmons | 6 | 6.4 | Drama, History, Music, Mystery | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Harriet, Black Nativity, Talk to Me, The Caveman's Valentine | English |
Angelina Jolie | 5 | 6.4 | Drama, History, Romance, War | Without Blood, First They Killed My Father, By the Sea, Unbroken, In the Land of Blood and Honey | English |
Márta Mészáros | 10 | 6.39 | Drama, Music, War | Aurora Borealis: Northern Light, The Seventh Room, Diary for My Loves, Diary for My Children, The Inheritance | Hungarian, Italian |
Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang | 7 | 6.39 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | Everlasting Regret, Lan Yu, Hold You Tight, Red Rose White Rose, Center Stage | CN, Chinese |
Rúnar Rúnarsson | 8 | 6.36 | Drama, Romance | When the Light Breaks, O, Echo, Sparrows, Volcano | Danish, IS |
Ivano De Matteo | 7 | 6.36 | Drama, Mystery | A Daughter, Mia, Houseguests, La vita possibile, The Dinner | Italian |
Michel Franco | 8 | 6.35 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Dreams, Memory, Sundown, New Order, April's Daughters | English, Spanish |
Lisandro Alonso | 6 | 6.35 | Drama, Western | Eureka, Jauja, Liverpool, Fantasma, Los Muertos | English, Spanish |
David Hugh Jones | 6 | 6.33 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller | A Christmas Carol, The Confession, The Trial, Jacknife, 84 Charing Cross Road | English |
Pantelis Voulgaris | 9 | 6.31 | Drama, History, Romance, War | The Last Note, Little England, With Heart & Soul, Brides, It's a Long Road | Greek |
Shūji Terayama | 8 | 6.3 | Drama, Fantasy | Fruits of Passion, Farewell to the Ark, Grass Labyrinth, Labyrinth Tale, Pastoral: To Die in the Country | French, Japanese |
Saverio Costanzo | 5 | 6.3 | Drama | Finally Dawn, Hungry Hearts, The Solitude of Prime Numbers, In Memory Of Me, Private | Arabic, English, Italian |
Yurii Illienko | 5 | 6.3 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance | Swan Lake: The Zone, A Story of the Forest: Mavka, The Eve of Ivan Kupalo, The White Bird Marked with Black, A Spring for the Thirsty | Ukrainian |
Konstantin Lopushansky | 6 | 6.28 | Drama, Science Fiction, War | The Role, The Ugly Swans, Russian Symphony, A Visitor to a Museum, Dead Man's Letters | Russian |
Trey Edward Shults | 5 | 6.28 | Drama, Horror, Music, Mystery | Hurry Up Tomorrow, Waves, It Comes at Night, Krisha, Krisha | English |
Nils Malmros | 10 | 6.26 | Drama, Romance | Sorrow and Joy, Aching Hearts, Facing the Truth, Barbara, Pain of Love | Danish |
François Dupeyron | 5 | 6.26 | Drama, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction | One of a Kind, Monsieur Ibrahim, The Officers' Ward, The Machine, Strange Place for an Encounter | French |
Lawrence Gordon Clark | 7 | 6.24 | Drama, Horror, Mystery, TV Movie | The Signalman, Stigma, The Ash Tree, A Warning to the Curious, Lost Hearts | English |
Miklós Jancsó | 10 | 6.22 | Drama, Fantasy, History, Music | Season of Monsters, Private Vices, Public Virtues, Red Psalm, Electra, My Love, Silence and Cry | Hungarian, Italian |
Nabil Ayouch | 7 | 6.21 | Drama, Music | Everybody Loves Touda, Casablanca Beats, Razzia, Much Loved, Horses of God | Arabic, English, French |
Banmei Takahashi | 5 | 6.2 | Drama, History, Horror, Mystery | Peaceful Death, Zen, A New Love in Tokyo, Door II: Tokyo Diary, Door | Japanese |
Dror Zahavi | 5 | 6.16 | Drama, History, Music, Romance | Crescendo, München '72 - Das Attentat, Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben, For My Father, Kissing My Sister | German, Hebrew |
James Bridges | 6 | 6.15 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Bright Lights, Big City, Perfect, Urban Cowboy, Mike's Murder, The China Syndrome | English |
Lois Weber | 5 | 6.14 | Drama, History | Where Are My Children?, Hypocrites, The Blot, Shoes, The Dumb Girl of Portici | English |
Mark Webber | 5 | 6.12 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | The Place of No Words, Flesh and Blood, The Ever After, The End of Love, Explicit Ills | English |
Miguel Littín | 5 | 6.12 | Drama, History, Thriller, War | Allende in His Maze, Alsino and the Condor, Letters from Marusia, The Widow of Montiel, Jackal of Nahueltoro | Spanish |
Carlos Reygadas | 6 | 6.08 | Drama, Romance | Our Time, Post Tenebras Lux, Silent Light, Battle in Heaven, Japón | French, German, Spanish |
Adam Salky | 5 | 6.08 | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Intrusion, The Dare Project, I Smile Back, Dare, Dare | English |
Mia Hansen-Løve | 9 | 6.06 | Drama, Family, Music, Romance | One Fine Morning, Bergman Island, Maya, Things to Come, Eden | English, French |
Eirik Svensson | 5 | 6.06 | Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | Safe House, Betrayed, Harajuku, One Night in Oslo, Must Have Been Love | Norwegian |
Zhang Yibai | 6 | 6.03 | Drama, Romance | I Belonged to You, Fleet of Time, Eternal Moment, The Longest Night in Shanghai, About Love | Chinese, Japanese |
Semih Kaplanoğlu | 6 | 6.02 | Drama, Science Fiction | Commitment Hasan, Buğday, Honey, Milk, Egg | English, Turkish |
Jim Mickle | 5 | 6 | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller | In the Shadow of the Moon, Cold in July, We Are What We Are, Stake Land, Mulberry Street | English |
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