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Visionary Film Directors
The most acclaimed directors in cinema history — prolific filmmakers with outstanding average ratings.
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Name↕ | Films↕ | Avg Rating↕ | Genres↕ | Known Films↕ | Language↕ |
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Paul Dugdale | 19 | 7.68 | Documentary, Music | Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert, Wicked: One Wonderful Night, The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, An Evening with Dua Lipa, Apple Music Live: Jennifer Lopez | English, German |
Hayao Miyazaki | 18 | 7.65 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy | The Boy and the Heron, The Wind Rises, Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess, Ponyo, Mon Mon the Water Spider | Japanese |
Akira Kurosawa | 30 | 7.44 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Rhapsody in August, Madadayo, Dreams, Ran, Kagemusha | Japanese, Russian |
Peter Jackson | 15 | 7.42 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Documentary | The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert, They Shall Not Grow Old, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | English |
Hamish Hamilton | 23 | 7.34 | Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Family | Nikki Glaser: Someday You'll Die, Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..., Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas, Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special | English, German |
Satyajit Ray | 31 | 7.32 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | The Stranger, An Enemy of the People, The Branches of the Tree, The Home and the World, The Kingdom of Diamonds | Bengali, English, Hindi |
Tosca Musk | 17 | 7.31 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Wallbanger, Gabriel's Redemption: Part I, Gabriel's Redemption: Part II, Gabriel's Redemption: Part III, Gabriel's Rapture: Part III | English |
Ertem Eğilmez | 21 | 7.3 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | Arabesque, I Feel in Love, Bilo the Banker, The Chaos Class: Bye Bye, The Honest One | Turkish |
Stan Lathan | 15 | 7.26 | Comedy, Documentary, Drama, History | Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, Chappelle's Home Team - Earthquake: Legendary, Dave Chappelle: The Closer, Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones, Epilogue: The Punchline | English |
Don Hertzfeldt | 15 | 7.24 | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance | World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime, World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, World of Tomorrow, It's Such a Beautiful Day, It's Such a Beautiful Day | English |
Billy Wilder | 26 | 7.23 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | Buddy Buddy, Fedora, The Front Page, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Avanti! | English, French |
David Lean | 15 | 7.22 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | A Passage to India, Ryan's Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai | English |
Federico Fellini | 21 | 7.21 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | The Voice of the Moon, Ginger and Fred, Intervista, City of Women, And the Ship Sails On | Italian |
Yoji Yamada | 19 | 7.16 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family | Mom, Is That You?!, It's a Flickering Life, What a Wonderful Family! 3, What a Wonderful Family! 2, What a Wonderful Family! | Japanese |
Joel Coen | 16 | 7.15 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama | The Tragedy of Macbeth, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Hail, Caesar!, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man | English |
Miguel M. Delgado | 43 | 7.14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | El Barrendero, La pulquería 3: Entre ficheras anda el diablo, El patrullero 777, Los Reyes del Palenque, The Minister and Me | English, Spanish |
Steven Spielberg | 36 | 7.13 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy | The Fabelmans, West Side Story, Ready Player One, The Post, The BFG | English |
Sergiu Nicolaescu | 19 | 7.13 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Poker, The Survivor, Mirror, Proud Heritage, The Last Assault | Romanian |
Stanley Kubrick | 16 | 7.12 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange | English |
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 |
Laurent Bouzereau | 27 | 7.09 | Action, Adventure, Documentary, Drama | Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, Music by John Williams, Faye, Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford, The Fabelmans: A Family in Film | English |
Wes Anderson | 19 | 7.09 | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime | The Phoenician Scheme, Asteroid City, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Poison, The Swan | English |
Pier Paolo Pasolini | 18 | 7.09 | Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Notes Towards an African Orestes, Theorem, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales | Italian |
Luchino Visconti | 18 | 7.09 | Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama | The Innocent, Death in Venice, The Damned, Ludwig, Conversation Piece | English, Italian |
Wong Kar-Wai | 15 | 7.09 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | The Grandmaster, My Blueberry Nights, 2046, The Hand, The Follow | CN, Chinese, English |
Martin Scorsese | 43 | 7.07 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | Killers of the Flower Moon, The Irishman, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Silence, The Audition | English, Italian |
François Truffaut | 24 | 7.07 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, History | The Last Metro, The Woman Next Door, Confidentially Yours, The Story of Adèle H., Love on the Run | English, French |
Hirokazu Kore-eda | 18 | 7.07 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | Monster, Broker, The Truth, Shoplifters, The Third Murder | French, Japanese, Korean |
Kevin Macdonald | 17 | 7.07 | Action, Adventure, Crime, Documentary | One to One: John & Yoko, High & Low – John Galliano, The Mauritanian, Life in a Day 2020, Whitney | English |
Ingmar Bergman | 50 | 7.06 | Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy | Saraband, The Image Makers, In the Presence of a Clown, Madame de Sade, Karin's Face | English, German, Swedish |
Ismael Rodríguez | 27 | 7.06 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History | Snow White and Her 7 Lovers, Mi niño Tizoc, Autopsy of a Ghost, Unethical Behaviour, The Important Man | English, Spanish |
Leonid Gaidai | 16 | 7.04 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, Or It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach, Private Detective, or Operation Cooperation, Dangerous for Your Life!, SportLotto - 82, It Can't Be! | Russian |
Lav Diaz | 19 | 7.03 | Adventure, Crime, Documentary, Drama | Genus Pan, The Halt, Season of the Devil, The Woman Who Left, A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery | Filipino |
William Wyler | 31 | 7.02 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | Funny Girl, The Liberation of L.B. Jones, Ben-Hur, How to Steal a Million, The Big Country | English |
Marty Callner | 15 | 7.01 | Comedy, Documentary, Music, TV Movie | Whitney Cummings: I'm Your Girlfriend, Whitney Cummings: I Love You, The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway, Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction, Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush | English |
Elia Kazan | 19 | 7 | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery | The Last Tycoon, The Arrangement, The Visitors, Splendor in the Grass, Wild River | English |
Takeshi Kitano | 21 | 6.99 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Broken Rage, Kubi, Outrage Coda, Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen, Morning | Japanese |
Sam Liu | 20 | 6.99 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy | Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Superman: Red Son, Reign of the Supermen, Justice League vs. the Fatal Five | English |
Guy Ritchie | 17 | 6.98 | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime | Fountain of Youth, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Wrath of Man | English |
Theo Angelopoulos | 15 | 6.97 | Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama | Invisible World, The Dust of Time, To Each His Own Cinema, The Weeping Meadow, Eternity and a Day | French, Greek, Portuguese |
Tsutomu Shibayama | 22 | 6.96 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Family | Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey, Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters, Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom, Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves, Doraemon: Nobita and the Legend of the Sun King | Japanese |
Mikio Naruse | 32 | 6.95 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Yearning, Two in the Shadow, Little Peach, Summer Clouds | Japanese |
Joel Gallen | 19 | 6.93 | Action, Comedy, Documentary, Music | Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable | English |
Sathyan Anthikad | 23 | 6.92 | Action, Comedy, Drama, Family | Hridayapoorvam, Njan Prakashan, Jomonte Suvisheshangal, Ennum Eppozhum, Oru Indian Pranayakadha | Malayalam |
Alex Gibney | 23 | 6.92 | Documentary, Drama, Music | In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Crazy, Not Insane, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Citizen K, No Stone Unturned | English, Russian |
Takashi Yamazaki | 16 | 6.92 | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy | Godzilla Minus One, Ghost Book, Lupin III: The First, The Great War of Archimedes, Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura | Japanese |
Shannon Hartman | 15 | 6.91 | Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie | Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn, Jo Koy: Live from the Los Angeles Forum, Jo Koy: Comin' in Hot, W. Kamau Bell: Private School Negro, Jo Koy: Live from Seattle | English |
Luis Buñuel | 32 | 6.9 | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | That Obscure Object of Desire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, Tristana, The Milky Way | English, French, Spanish |
Nanni Moretti | 17 | 6.9 | Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Mystery | A Brighter Tomorrow, Three Floors, Santiago, Italia, Mia madre, We Have a Pope | Italian |
Paul Thomas Anderson | 16 | 6.9 | Action, Comedy, Crime, Documentary | One Battle After Another, Licorice Pizza, Anima, Phantom Thread, Junun | English |
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