Best Direction
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1.
Barry (2018–2023)
Episode:
starting now
(2022)
TV-MA | 29 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
NoHo Hank hatches an escape. Sally lets out more aggression. Barry encounters more traps sprung by Fuches.
Director: Bill Hader | Stars: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan
Votes: 6,342
2.
Barry (2018–2023)
Episode:
710N
(2022)
TV-MA | 29 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Fuches' schemes finally catch up with him. The Taylors hunt for Barry, and Barry plans to re-connect with old friends.
Director: Bill Hader | Stars: Bill Hader, Stephen Root, Sarah Goldberg, Anthony Carrigan
Votes: 5,675
3.
Succession (2018–2023)
Episode:
Connor's Wedding
(2023)
TV-MA | 62 min | Comedy, Drama
While Logan doles out an unsavory task ahead of his trip to meet Matsson, Connor fixates on minutiae at his wedding.
Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 36,189
4.
The Bear (2022– )
Episode:
Review
(2022)
TV-MA | 20 min | Comedy, Drama
A bad day in the kitchen. Tensions rise.
Director: Christopher Storer | Stars: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce
Votes: 12,113
5.
Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)
Episode:
Episode #2.6
(2014)
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama
Tommy plans to execute the mission given to him by Campbell: the assassination of a high-ranking member of the military establishment.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Riley, Joe Cole, Harry Kirton
Votes: 14,457
6.
Severance (2022– )
Episode:
Defiant Jazz
(2022)
TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Mark and the team encounter new security measures from Cobel.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman
Votes: 7,154
7.
Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode:
Plan and Execution
(2022)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama
Jimmy and Kim deal with a last-minute snag in their plan; Lalo is forced to make an unexpected move.
Director: Thomas Schnauz | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian
Votes: 56,462
8.
Hannibal (2013–2015)
Episode:
Mizumono
(2014)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Jack devises a plan to apprehend Hannibal, while Hannibal prepares for his departure. Will makes his decision, and it results in devastating consequences.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 21,513
9.
The Curse (2023– )
Episode:
Green Queen
(2024)
TV-MA | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Months later. Season finale.
Director: Nathan Fielder | Stars: Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder, Benny Safdie, Vincent Pastore
Votes: 1,125
10.
House of Cards (2013–2018)
Episode:
Chapter 26
(2014)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Francis is about to be destroyed while the nation is in turmoil. Stamper must pick up loose ends. Claire marks the conclusion of her ruthlessness.
Director: James Foley | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sakina Jaffrey
Votes: 7,127
11.
Atlanta (2016–2022)
Episode:
Teddy Perkins
(2018)
TV-MA | 35 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When Darius goes to pick up a piano, he meets Teddy Perkins, a strange, eccentric man who makes him feel uneasy.
Director: Hiro Murai | Stars: Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, LaKeith Stanfield, Khris Davis
Votes: 8,962
12. Boiling Point (I) (2021)
R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
Enter the relentless pressure of a restaurant kitchen as a head chef wrangles his team on the busiest day of the year.
Director: Philip Barantini | Stars: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Ray Panthaki
Votes: 42,297
13. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 666,769 | Gross: $42.34M
14. Babylon (I) (2022)
R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 167,924
15. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,671 | Gross: $6.21M
16. Parasite (2019)
R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik
Votes: 960,722 | Gross: $53.37M
17. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, History
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 186,289 | Gross: $16.38M
18. The Lobster (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman
Votes: 296,858 | Gross: $8.70M
19. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 93,918
20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody
Votes: 887,338 | Gross: $59.10M
21. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,013,964 | Gross: $134.97M
22. The Zone of Interest (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Johann Karthaus, Luis Noah Witte
Votes: 84,502
23. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,585,494 | Gross: $120.54M
24. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
R | 180 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey
Votes: 1,584,585 | Gross: $116.90M
25. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Votes: 109,725 | Gross: $3.76M
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