film directors' movies ranked
by enceanualex75 | created - 06 Feb 2019 | updated - 06 Feb 2019 | Publiclist made by a random dude
1. Gaspar Noé
Director | Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...
1. Enter the Void - 10/10 ★ 2. Irréversible - 10/10 3. Une experience d'hypnose televisuelle / A Hypnotic Television Experience - 10/10 4. Climax - 10/10 5. We Fuck Alone - 9/10 6. Seul contre tous / I Stand Alone - 9/10 7. Love - 9/10 8. Intoxication - 9/10 9. Carne - 8/10 10. Tintarella di luna - 8/10 11. SIDA - 8/10 12. Sodomites - 8/10 13. Eva - 8/10
2. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
i HATE ranking his feature length films because they're all 10s and so different from the other. so:
1-7. all seven - 10/10
8. Каток и скрипка / The Steamroller and the Violin - 7/10
3. Béla Tarr
Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák
Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.
1. Sátántangó - 10/10 2. Werckmeister harmóniák - 10/10 3. A londoni férfi / The Man from London - 10/10 4. Kárhozat / Damnation - 10/10 ★ 5. Öszi almanach - 10/10 6. A torinói ló / The Turin Horse - 9/10 ★ 7. Családi tüsfészek / Family Nest - 9/10 8. Hotel Magnezit - 9/10 9. Panelkapcsolat / The Prefab People - 7/10
4. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
1. Vampyr - Der traum des Allan Grey - 10/10 2. Ordet - 10/10 3. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc - 10/10 4. Gertrud - 10/10 5. Vredens dag (Day of Wrath) - 10/10 6. Du skal ære din hustru (Master of the House) - 7/10
5. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
1. Inland Empire (+ More Things That Happened) - 10/10 ★ 2. The Grandmother - 10/10 3. Twin Peaks: The Return - 10/10 ★ 4. Darkened Room - 10/10 ★ 3. Twin Peaks: Season 2 - 10/10 ★ 4. Lost Highway - 10/10 ★ 5. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (+ The Missing Pieces) - 9.5/10 ★ 6. Mulholland Dr. - 9.5/10 ★ 7. Eraserhead - 9/10 8. Rabbits - 9/10 9. The Alphabet - 9/10 8. Blue Velvet - 9/10 ★ 9. Ant Head - 9/10 10. Wild At Heart - 9/10 11. DumbLand - 9/10 12. Twin Peaks: Season 1 - 8/10 ★ 13. Intervalometer Experiments - 8/10 ★ 14. Premonition Following an Evil Deed - 8/10 15. The Elephant Man - 8/10 16. Lamp - 8/10 ★ 17. Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) - 8/10 18. The Straight Story - 8/10 19. Boat - 8/10 ★ 20. The Amputee - 7/10 21. Dune - 7/10 22. Industrial Soundscape - 7/10 ★ 23. The Bug Crawls - 7/10 ★ 24. Out Yonder - Neighbor Boy - 6/10 ★
6. Walerian Borowczyk
Director | Docteur Jekyll et les femmes
Born in Kwilcz, Poland, Walerian Borowczyk trained as a painter and lithographer, winning Poland's National Prize in 1953. He began his film career as a film poster designer, then started making short animated films in the late 1950s. Moving to France in the early 1960s, he gained a reputation as a...
1. La bête - 10/10 2. La marge - 10/10 3. Blanche - 9/10 4. Contes immoraux - 9/10 5. Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal - 9/10 6. Goto, l'ile de amour - 9/10
7. Julián Hernández
Writer | Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor
Julián Hernández was born on January 9, 1973 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for A Thousand Clouds of Peace (2003), Long Sleepless Nights (2000) and Dos entre muchos (2022).
1. Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo / Raging Sun, Raging Sky - 10/10 2. Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo / I Am Happiness on Earth - 10/10 3. El cielo dividido / Broken Sky - 10/10 4. Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía / Young Man at the Bar Masturbating with Rage and Nerve - 6/10
8. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
1. The House That Jack Built - 10/10 2. Antichrist - 10/10 3. Nymphomaniac - 10/10 4. Melancholia - 10/10 ★ 5. Dancer in the Dark - 9/10 ★ 6. Breaking the Waves - 9/10 7. Dogville - 9/10 8. Manderlay - 8/10 9. Idioterne - 7.5/10 10. Europa - 6/10 11. The Element of Crime - 5/10
9. Sam Esmail
Producer | Mr. Robot
Sam Esmail was born on September 17, 1977 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Homecoming (2018) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He has been married to Emmy Rossum since May 28, 2017. They have two children.
1. Mr. Robot: Season_2.0 - 10/10 ★ 2. Mr. Robot: Season_3.0 - 9/10 3. Mr. Robot: Season_1.0 - 9/10 4. Homecoming - 4/10
10. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director | Suna no onna
Hiroshi Teshigahara was born the son of Sofu Teshigahara who was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (flower arrangement). In 1950, he graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in oil painting. In 1958, he became the director of Sogetsu Art Centre and took a ...
1. 他人の顔 / The Face of Another - 10/10 2. 砂の女 / Woman in the Dunes - 10/10 3. おとし穴 / Pitfall - 8/10
11. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
1. Krótki film o zabijaniu / A Short Film About Killing - 10/10 2. La double vie de Véronique - 10/10 ★ 3. Trois couleurs: Bleu - 9.5/10 ★ 4. Dekalog - 9.5/10 5. Krótki film o milosci / A Short Film About Love - 9/10 6. Trois couleurs: Rouge - 8.5/10 ★ 7. Trois couleurs: Blanc - 8/10 ★
12. John Cassavetes
Actor | Rosemary's Baby
John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.
Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...
1. A Woman Under the Influence - 10/10 2. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - 10/10 3. Opening Night - 10/10 4. Faces - 9/10 5. Love Streams - 7/10 6. Shadows - 7/10
13. Tom Ford
Director | A Single Man
Tom Ford is an American fashion designer, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He gained fame as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. In 2006, Ford launched his own "Tom Ford" label.
Ford directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016), both films were...
1. Nocturnal Animals - 9/10 ★ 2. A Single Man - 9/10
14. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
1. Tystnaden / The Silence - 9/10 2. Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf - 9/10 3. Nattvardsgästerna / Winter Light - 9/10 4. Persona - 9/10 5. Fanny och Alexander - 9/10 6. Såsom i en spegel / Through a Glass Darkly - 9/10 7. Skammen / Shame - 9/10 8. En passion / The Passion of Anna - 9/10 9. Viskningar och rop / Cries and Whispers - 9/10 10. Det sjunde inseglet / The Seventh Seal - 9/10 ★ 11. Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries - 9/10 12. Jungfrukällan / The Virgin Spring - 9/10 13. Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage - 8.5/10
15. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
1. Funny Games - 10/10
2. Der siebente kontinent - 9/10
3. Benny's Video - 7.5/10
4. La pianiste - 6/10
5. The Castle - 5/10
(need to rewatch Funny Games U.S.)
16. Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer | The Neon Demon
Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. ...
1. The Neon Demon - 9/10 ★ 2. Drive - 9/10 ★ 3. Only God Forgives - 8.5/10
17. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | L'avventura
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
1. Il deserto rosso - 9.5/10 2. L'Avventura - 9/10 3. La Notte - 9/10 4. L'Eclisse - 9/10 5. Blow-Up - 8/10 6. Le Amiche - 8/10
18. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
1. mother! - 10/10 ★ 2. Black Swan - 9/10 ★ 3. Requiem for a Dream - 9/10 ★ 4. The Wrestler - 8.5/10 5. л / Pi - 8/10 6. Noah - 8/10 ★ 7. The Fountain - 6.5/10
19. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
1. The Godfather: Part II - 9/10 ★ 2. The Godfather - 9/10 ★ 3. The Godfather: Part III - 9/10 ★ 4. Bram Stoker's Dracula - 9/10 5. Apocalypse Now - 6/10 ★
20. Steve McQueen
Director | 12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.
1. Hunger - 10/10 ★ 2. Shame - 9/10 3. 12 Years a Slave - 6/10
21. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
1. 21 Grams - 9/10 ★ 2. Amores perros - 9/10 3. The Revenant - 9/10 ★ 4. Biutiful - 8.5/10 5. Babel - 8/10 6. Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance - 6/10
22. Yorgos Lanthimos
Director | The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta,...
1. Κυνόδοντας / Dogtooth - 9/10 2. The Killing of a Sacred Deer - 9/10 ★ 3. The Lobster - 6/10
23. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Director | Nelyubov
Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "...
1. Изгнание / The Banishment - 10/10 ★ 2. Нелюбовь / Loveless - 9.5/10 3. Елена / Elena - 7.5/10 4. Возвращение / The Return - 6.5/10 ★ 5. Левиафан / Leviathan - 6/10
24. Terrence Malick
Writer | Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...
1. The New World - 9/10 2. The Thin Red Line - 8.5/10 3. The Tree of Life - 8/10 4. Badlands - 7/10 5. Days of Heaven - 6/10
25. Gregg Araki
Writer | Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki was born on December 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mysterious Skin (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and Kaboom (2010).
1. Mysterious Skin - 9/10 ★ 2. White Bird in a Blizzard - 9/10 ★ 3. The Doom Generation - 8.5/10 4. Nowhere - 8/10 5. Totally Fucked Up - 8/10 6. Riverdale: Season 2 - 7/10 (the rest of the show can fuck off) 7. 13 Reasons Why: Season 1 - 6/10 (same goes here) 8. 13 Reasons Why: Season 2 - 5/10 (and here)
26. Cristian Mungiu
Producer | 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile
Cristian Mungiu was born on April 27, 1968 in Iasi, Romania. He is a producer and writer, known for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Graduation (2016) and Beyond the Hills (2012).
1. 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - 9/10 2. Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills - 6/10
27. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
1. Lucifer Rising - 10/10 2. Invocation of My Demon Brother - 10/10 3. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - 10/10 4. Scorpio Rising - 9/10 5. Fireworks - 9/10 6. Rabbit's Moon - 9/10 7. Kustom Kar Kommandos - 9/10 8. Puce Moment - 8.5/10 9. Eaux d'artifice - 8/10
28. Panos Cosmatos
Writer | Mandy
Panos Cosmatos is known for Mandy (2018), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Tombstone (1993).
1. Mandy - 10/10 2. Beyond the Black Rainbow - 9/10
29. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
1. Vivre sa vie - 10/10 2 Masculin féminin - 9/10
30. Catherine Breillat
Writer | À ma soeur!
Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a "porno auteuriste", Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies....
1. Anatomie de l'enfer / Anatomy of Hell - 10/10 2. À ma soeur! / Fat Girl - 9/10 3. Romance - 8/10
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