Entertainment
Movie Directors
40 of 15,225
Name↕ | Films in Database↕ | Known Films↕ | Avg TMDB Rating↕ | Genre Specialties↕ | Primary Language↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chuck Jones | 207 | From Hare to Eternity, Superior Duck, Another Froggy Evening, Chariots of Fur, Daffy Duck's Quackbusters | 6.57 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime | English |
Friz Freleng | 183 | Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes, The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television , Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol | 6.53 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime | English |
Georges Méliès | 142 | A Trip to the Moon, The Astronomer's Dream, The Impossible Voyage, The Man with the Rubber Head, The One-Man Band | 5.49 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, French, XX |
Robert McKimson | 108 | Pink DaVinci, A-Haunting We Will Go, Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare, A Broken Leghorn, The Mouse That Jack Built | 6.56 | Action, Animation, Comedy, Crime | English |
Jesús Franco | 103 | Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies, La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II, Paula-Paula, Helter Skelter, Lust for Frankenstein | 4.53 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, French, German |
Tex Avery | 99 | King-Size Canary, Little Rural Riding Hood, Bad Luck Blackie, Northwest Hounded Police, Magical Maestro | 6.49 | Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family | English |
Fred Olen Ray | 95 | A Royal Christmas Tail, A Royal Christmas Holiday, Moon Maidens, A Royal Christmas on Ice, Dognapped: Hound for the Holidays | 4.52 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
David DeCoteau | 95 | The Wrong High School Sweetheart, The Wrong Blind Date, The Wrong Real Estate Agent, The Wrong Mr. Right, Christmas Together | 4.13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, Russian |
Stan Brakhage | 94 | Chinese Series, Seasons..., Lovesong, Water for Maya, The Dark Tower | 5.24 | Animation, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy | English, XX |
William Hanna | 83 | I Yabba-Dabba Do!, The Flintstones: Hollyrock a Bye Baby, Jetsons: The Movie, Yogi's Ark Lark, The Man Called Flintstone | 6.87 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama | English |
Jim Wynorski | 75 | Giantess Battle Attack!, Attack of the 50 Foot Camgirl, Bigfoot or Bust, A Doggone Hollywood, A Doggone Christmas | 4.4 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Dave Fleischer | 73 | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, Gulliver's Travels, Superman, Snow-White, Bimbo's Initiation | 6.39 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy | English |
Jean-Luc Godard | 68 | Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, The Image Book, Goodbye to Language, Film Socialisme, Tribute to Eric Rohmer | 6.39 | Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama | English, French, Italian |
Charlie Chaplin | 68 | A Countess from Hong Kong, The Chaplin Revue, Limelight, Monsieur Verdoux, A King in New York | 6.34 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Michael Curtiz | 68 | The Comancheros, King Creole, The Proud Rebel, The Hangman, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 6.25 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, German |
John Ford | 67 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, How the West Was Won, The Horse Soldiers, Donovan's Reef, Two Rode Together | 6.53 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
D.W. Griffith | 65 | The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, Way Down East, A Corner in Wheat | 5.53 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Walt Disney | 64 | Steamboat Willie, The Skeleton Dance, Plane Crazy, The Golden Touch, The Haunted House | 5.3 | Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Family | English |
Jack Hannah | 63 | From All of Us, To All of You, Pluto's Christmas Tree, Trick or Treat, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, Chip an' Dale | 6.62 | Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | English |
Takashi Miike | 63 | Lumberjack the Monster, The Great Yokai War: Guardians, The Mole Song: Final, First Love, Laplace's Witch | 6.4 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Japanese |
Werner Herzog | 61 | The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, Family Romance, LLC, Meeting Gorbachev, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | 6.63 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | English, French, German |
Jack Kinney | 60 | 1001 Arabian Nights, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Goofy Gymnastics, Motor Mania, Chips Ahoy | 6.54 | Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Family | English, French, Spanish |
Terry Ingram | 60 | Three Wisest Men, Three Wiser Men And A Boy, Happy Howlidays, Love on the Danube: Love Song, The Real West | 6.41 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Alfred Hitchcock | 58 | Family Plot, Frenzy, Topaz, Psycho, Vertigo | 6.58 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, German |
Carlo Vanzina | 58 | Caccia al tesoro, Non si ruba a casa dei ladri, Miami Beach, Torno indietro e cambio vita, A Fairy Tale Wedding | 5.11 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | English, Italian |
Jack King | 55 | Sleepy Time Donald, Drip Dippy Donald, Donald's Crime, Donald's Dilemma, Wide Open Spaces | 6.21 | Animation, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy | English |
Wilfred Jackson | 55 | The Little House, The Legend of Johnny Appleseed, Saludos Amigos, The Old Mill, The Tortoise and the Hare | 6.17 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Documentary | English |
Robert Clampett | 54 | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Book Revue, Kitty Kornered, The Big Snooze, Baby Bottleneck | 6.42 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family | English |
Woody Allen | 53 | Coup de Chance, Rifkin’s Festival, A Rainy Day in New York, Wonder Wheel, Café Society | 6.67 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | English, French |
Raoul Walsh | 53 | The Naked and the Dead, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, A Distant Trumpet, Esther and the King, White Heat | 6.25 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Burt Gillett | 52 | Three Little Pigs, Flowers and Trees, Lonesome Ghosts, The Big Bad Wolf, Ye Olden Days | 5.96 | Animation, Comedy, Family, Horror | English |
Michael Feifer | 52 | Desperate Riders, A Gift of Murder, Last Shoot Out, Catch the Bullet, A Soldier's Revenge | 5.09 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | English, French |
Charles August Nichols | 51 | Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, A Chipmunk Reunion, Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob, Scruffy | 6.61 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama | English |
Wong Jing | 51 | New Kung Fu Cult Master, Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch, Chasing the Dragon, The Golden Monk, Mission Milano | 6.14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | CN, Chinese, English |
Lucio Fulci | 51 | Voices from Beyond, Door to Silence, A Cat in the Brain, Zombie Flesh Eaters 2, Touch of Death | 5.75 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English, Italian |
Ingmar Bergman | 50 | Saraband, The Image Makers, In the Presence of a Clown, Madame de Sade, Karin's Face | 7.06 | Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy | English, German, Swedish |
Claude Chabrol | 50 | Bellamy, A Girl Cut in Two, The Necklace, Comedy of Power, The Bridesmaid | 6.07 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama | English, French |
Steven R. Monroe | 49 | Mystery Island: Winner Takes All, Mystery Island: Play for Keeps, Five Gold Rings, Caribbean Summer, Teardrop | 5.83 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
Chang Cheh | 48 | Five Element Ninjas, Masked Avengers, Two Champions of Shaolin, The Sword Stained with Royal Blood, The Flag of Iron | 6.49 | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama | CN, Chinese |
Ron Oliver | 48 | The Wedding Veil Journey, Hotel for the Holidays, Love in the Limelight, The Housewives of the North Pole, A Timeless Christmas | 5.89 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | English |
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