Films by Director — La Cava to Zwigoff

Gregory La Cava (2)

• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Stage Door (1937)

Neil LaBute (4)

• Nurse Betty (2000)
• The Shape of Things (2003)
• Lakeview Terrace (2008)
• Death at a Funeral (2010)

René Laloux (2)

• Dead Times (1964)
• The Fantastic Plante (1973)

Evelyn Lambart (3)

• Begone Dull Care (1949)
• Lines: Horizontal (1962)
• Mosaic (1965)

Albert Lamorisse (2)

• White Mane (1953)
• The Red Balloon (1956)

John Landis (9)

• Animal House (1978)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Trading Places (1983)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• ¡Three Amigos! (1986)
• Coming to America (1988)
• Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
• The Stupids (1996)

Fritz Lang (24)

• The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake (1919)
• The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920)
• The Moving Image (1920)
• Destiny (1921)
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Woman in the Moon (1929)
• M (1931)
• Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Fury (1936)
• You Only Live Once (1937)
• Western Union (1941)
• Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• Scarlet Street (1945)
• Secret Beyond the Door… (1948)
• Clash by Night (1952)
• Rancho Notorious (1952)
• The Big Heat (1953)
• Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
• The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
• The Indian Tomb (1959)

Giorgos Lanthimos (2)

• Kanetta (2005)
• Dogtooth (2009)

John Lasseter (5)

• Knick Knack (1989)
• Toy Story (1995)
• A Bug’s Life (1998)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Cars (2006)

Alberto Lattuada (2)

• Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo (1947)
• Mafioso (1962)

Jeffrey Lau (2)

• A Chinese Odyssey Part 1: Pandora’s Box (1994)
• A Chinese Odyssey Part 2: Cinderella (1994)

Francis Lawrence (3)

• Constantine (2005)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Water for Elephants (2011)

David Lean (9)

• In Which We Serve (1942)
• Blithe Spirit (1945)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• A Passage to India (1984)

Mimi Leder (3)

• The Peacemaker (1997)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Pay It Forward (2000)

Ang Lee (8)

• The Wedding Banquet (1993)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Chosen (2001)
• Hulk (2003)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Taking Woodstock (2009)

Chang-dong Lee (5)

• Green Fish (1998)
• Peppermint Candy (1999)
• Oasis (2002)
• Secret Sunshine (2007)
• Poetry (2010)

Spike Lee (10)

• She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• Clockers (1995)
• Girl 6 (1996)
• He Got Game (1998)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• The 25th Hour (2002)
• Inside Man (2006)
• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)

Michael Lehmann (4)

• Hudson Hawk (1991)
• Airheads (1994)
• The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
• 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

Mike Leigh (7)

• Nuts in May (1976)
• Naked (1993)
• Secrets & Lies (1996)
• Topsy-Turvy (1999)
• Vera Drake (2004)
• Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
• Another Year (2010)

Danny Leiner (2)

• Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000)
• Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Brett Leonard (2)

• The Lawnmower Man (1992)
• Virtuosity (1995)

Robert Z. Leonard (2)

• The Divorcee (1930)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Sergio Leone (6)

• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Duck, You Sucker (1971)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Charles-Lucien Lépine (2)

• Son of the Devil (1906)
• I’ve Lost My Eyeglasses (1906)

Mervyn LeRoy (6)

• Little Caesar (1931)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• Elmer, the Great (1933)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
• Little Women (1949)

Mark L. Lester (3)

• Firestarter (1984)
• Commando (1985)
• Armed and Dangerous (1986)

Richard Lester (3)

• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
• Superman II (1980)
• Superman III (1983)

Louis Leterrier (3)

• Danny the Dog (2005)
• The Incredible Hulk (2008)
• Clash of the Titans (2010)

Brian Levant (2)

• The Flintstones (1994)
• Jingle All the Way (1996)

Barry Levinson (12)

• Diner (1982)
• The Natural (1984)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
• Rain Man (1988)
• Bugsy (1991)
• Toys (1992)
• Disclosure (1994)
• Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
• Sleepers (1996)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• Sphere (1998)
• Bandits (2001)

Shawn Levy (5)

• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
• Just Married (2003)
• Night at the Museum (2006)
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
• Date Night (2010)

Albert Lewin (2)

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Jerry Lewis (2)

• The Ladies Man (1961)
• The Nutty Professor (1963)

Marcel L’Herbier (4)

• Man of the Sea (1920)
• Eldorado (1921)
• L’inhumaine (1924)
• L’argent (1928)

Kevin Lima (3)

• A Goofy Movie (1995)
• Tarzan (1999)
• Enchanted (2007)

Doug Liman (3)

• Go (1999)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Richard Linklater (7)

• Slacker (1991)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Waking Life (2001)
• The School of Rock (2003)
• Before Sunset (2004)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Dwight H. Little (3)

• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
• Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
• Murder at 1600 (1997)

Anatole Litvak (2)

• Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
• The Snake Pit (1948)

Liu Chia-Liang (3)

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
• Heroes of the East (1979)
• Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1983)

Luis Llosa (3)

• Sniper (1993)
• The Specialist (1994)
• Anaconda (1997)

Ken Loach (3)

• Kes (1969)
• Land and Freedom (1995)
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Richard Loncraine (2)

• Wimbledon (2004)
• Firewall (2006)

Pare Lorentz (2)

• The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936)
• The River (1938)

Joseph Losey (4)

• The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
• M (1951)
• The Damned (1963)
• The Servant (1963)

John Lounsbery (2)

• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
• The Rescuers (1977)

Ernst Lubitsch (16)

• The Merry Jail (1917)
• I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)
• The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
• The Doll (1919)
• The Oyster Princess (1919)
• Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920)
• The Marriage Circle (1924)
• The Love Parade (1929)
• Monte Carlo (1930)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• Design for Living (1933)
• The Merry Widow (1934)
• Angel (1937)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)

George Lucas (5)

• Electronic Labrynth THX 1138 4EB (1967)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Baz Luhrmann (3)

• Strictly Ballroom (1992)
• Moulin Rouge! (2001)
• Australia (2008)

Sidney Lumet (16)

• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Fugitive Kind (1959)
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• The Pawnbroker (1964)
• The Hill (1965)
• Serpico (1973)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Network (1976)
• Equus (1977)
• Deathtrap (1982)
• The Verdict (1982)
• A Stranger Among Us (1992)
• Find Me Guilty (2006)
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007)

Louis Lumière (12)

• The Arrival of the Mail Train (1895)
• Baby’s Meal (1895)
• Baignade en mer (1895)
• Card Game (1895)
• Leaving the Factory (1895)
• Lion, London Zoological Garden (1895)
• Photograph (1895)
• The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon (1895)
• The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895)
• Transformation by Hats (1895)
• Demolition of a Wall (1896)
• Leaving Jerusalem by Railway (1897)

Rod Lurie (3)

• The Contender (2000)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Straw Dogs (2011)

Hamilton Luske (7)

• Fantasia (1940)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• Cinderella (1950)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• Peter Pan (1953)
• Lady and the Tramp (1955)
• One Hundred and One Dalmations (1961)

Len Lye (2)

• Rainbow Dance (1936)
• Free Radicals (1958)

David Lynch (9)

• The Alphabet (1968)
• The Grandmother (1970)
• Eraserhead (1976)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• The Straight Story (1999)
• Mulholland Dr. (2001)
• Inland Empire (2006)

Adrian Lyne (3)

• Fatal Attraction (1987)
• Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)

Jonathan Lynn (4)

• Clue (1985)
• The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
• My Cousin Vinny (1992)
• The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

Kevin Macdonald (4)

• One Day in September (1999)
• The Last King of Scotland (2006)
• State of Play (2009)
• The Eagle (2011)

Alexander Mackendrick (5)

• Whisky Galore! (1949)
• The Man in the White Suit (1951)
• The Maggie (1954)
• The Ladykillers (1955)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

John Madden (3)

• Mrs. Brown (1997)
• Shakespeare in Love (1998)
• The Debt (2010)

Guy Maddin (17)

• Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
• Archangel (1990)
• Careful (1992)
  
• Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
• The Heart of the World (2000)
• Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)
• Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
• The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
• A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
• Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
• Nude Caboose (2006)
• Odin’s Shield Maiden (2007)
• My Winnipeg (2007)
• Footsteps (2008)
• Night Mayor (2009)
• Glorious (2009)
• Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair (2009)
  

Majid Majidi (6)

• Father (1996)
• Children of Heaven (1997)
• The Color of Paradise (1999)
• Baran (2001)
• The Willow Tree (2005)
• The Song of Sparrows (2008)

Dusan Makavejev (4)

• Man Is Not a Bird (1965)
• Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
• W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
• Sweet Movie (1974)

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (2)

• Gabbeh (1996)
• A Matter of Innocence (1996)

Terence Malick (5)

• Badlands (1973)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• The New World (2005)
• The Tree of Life (2011)

Louis Malle (5)

• Crazeologie (1953)
• Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
• Lacombe Lucien (1974)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Au revoir les enfants (1987)

David Mamet (3)

• Heist (2001)
• Spartan (2004)
• Redbelt (2008)

Rouben Mamoulian (3)

• Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
• Love Me Tonight (1932)
• Queen Christina (1933)

Robert Mandel (3)

• F/X (1986)
• School Ties (1992)
• The Substitute (1996)

Luis Mandoki (2)

• When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
• Message in a Bottle (1999)

James Mangold (4)

• Cop Land (1997)
• Identity (2003)
• Walk the Line (2005)
• 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (5)

• The Devil and Mrs. Muir (1947)
• No Way Out (1950)
• All About Eve (1950)
• The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
• Sleuth (1972)

Anthony Mann (17)

• Strangers in the Night (1944)
• Border Incident (1949)
• Side Street (1950)
• Winchester ’73 (1950)
• The Furies (1950)
• Devil’s Doorway (1950)
• The Tall Target (1951)
• Bend of the River (1952)
• The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
• The Naked Spur (1953)
• Thunder Bay (1953)
• The Far Country (1954)
• The Man from Laramie (1955)
• Strategic Air Command (1955)
• The Tin Star (1957)
• Man of the West (1958)
• Cimarron (1960)

Michael Mann (7)

• Manhunter (1986)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• Heat (1995)
• The Insider (1999)
• Ali (2001)
• Collateral (2004)
• Public Enemies (2009)

Chris Marker (3)

• Les Astronautes (1958)
• La Jetée (1962)
• Sans soleil (1983)

James Marsh (2)

• Man on Wire (2008)
• Project Nim (2011)

Frank Marshall (3)

• Arachnophobia (1990)
• Alive (1993)
• Congo (1995)

Garry Marshall (5)

• Overboard (1987)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Exit to Eden (1994)
• Runaway Bride (1999)
• The Princess Diaries (2001)

George Marshall (2)

• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• How the West Was Won (1962)

Neil Marshall (3)

• Dog Soldiers (2002)
• The Descent (2005)
• Centurion (2010)

Penny Marshall (5)

• Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986)
• Big (1988)
• Awakenings (1990)
• A League of Their Own (1992)
• Rennaisance Man (1994)

Rob Marshall (3)

• Chicago (2002)
• Memoirs of Geisha (2005)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Joshua Marston (2)

• Maria Full of Grace (2004)
• New York, I Love You (2009)

Lucrecia Martel (2)

• La ciénaga (2001)
• The Holy Girl (2003)

Yasuzo Masumura (6)

• Kisses (1957)
• Giants and Toys (1958)
• Manji (1964)
• Seisaku’s Wife (1965)
• Irezumi (1966)
• Red Angel (1966)

Rudolph Maté (2)

• D.O.A. (1950)
• Seven Seas to Calais (1963)

Hitoshi Matsumoto (2)

• Big Man Japan (2007)
• Symbol (2009)

Les Mayfield (3)

• Encino Man (1992)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
• Blue Streak (1999)

Albert & David Maysles (2)

• Gimme Shelter (1970)
• Grey Gardens (1975)

Tim McCanlies (2)

• Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998)
• Secondhand Lions (2003)

Leo McCarey (8)

• The Finishing Touch (1928)
• Liberty (1929)
• Big Business (1929)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
• An Affair to Remember (1957)

Winsor McCay (2)

• How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

McG (2)

• Charlie’s Angels (2000)
• Charlie’s Angels: Full Trottle (2003)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)

Tom McGrath (3)

• Madagascar (2005)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
• Megamind (2010)

Adam McKay (3)

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
• Step Brothers (2008)

Robert McKimson (5)

• The Foghorn Leghorn (1948)
• Boobs in the Woods (1950)
• What’s Up Doc? (1950)
• Big Top Bunny (1951)
• Rabbit’s Kin (1952)

Norman McLaren (16)

• Dots (1940)
• La poulette grise (1947)
• Boogie-Doodle (1948)
• Begone Dull Care (1949)
• Neighbours (1952)
• A Phantasy (1952)
• Blinkity Blank (1955)
• A Chairy Tail (1957)
• Blackbird (1958)
• New York Lightboard Record (1961)
• Lines: Horizontal (1962)
• Mosaic (1965)
• Pas de deux (1968)
• Synchromy (1971)
• Animated Motion #5 (1978)
• Narcissus (1983)

Greg Mclean (2)

• Wolf Creek (2005)
• Rogue (2007)

Norman Z. McLeod (4)

• Monkey Business (1931)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• It’s a Gift (1934)
• The Paleface (1948)

John McNaughton (2)

• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
• Wild Things (1998)

John McTiernan (9)

• Predator (1987)
• Die Hard (1988)
• The Hunt for Red October (1990)
• Medicine Man (1992)
• Last Action Hero (1993)
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
• Rollerball (2002)
• Basic (2003)

Peter Medak (2)

• Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981)
• Species II (1998)

Julio Medem (2)

• Vacas (1992)
• Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

Fernando Meirelles (3)

• City of God (2002)
• The Constant Gardener (2005)
• Blindness (2008)

Georges Méliès (60)

• Playing Cards (1896)
• A Terrible Night (1896)
• The Vanishing Lady (1896)
• A Nightmare (1896)
• The Haunted Castle (1897)
• The Surrender of Tournavos (1897)
• Between Calais and Dover (1897)
• The Bewitch Inn (1897)
• After the Ball (1897)
• Divers at Work on the Wreck of the “Maine” (1898)
• Panorama from Top of a Moving Train (1898)
• The Magician (1898)
• The Famous Box Trick (1898)
• Adventures of William Tell (1898)
• The Astronomer’s Dream (1898)
• The Four Troublesome Heads (1898)
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1898)
• The Conjurer (1899)
• The Devil in a Convent (1899)
• The Pillar of Fire (1899)
• The Mysterious Portrait (1899)
• Arrest of Dreyfus (1899)
• Devil’s Island – Within the Palisade (1899)
• Dreyfus Put In Irons (1899)
• Suicide of Colonel Henry (1899)
• Landing of Dreyfus at Quiberon (1899)
• Dreyfus Meets His Wife at Rennes (1899)
• The Attempt Against the Life of Maitre Labori (1899)
• The Fight of Reporters (1899)
• The Court Martial at Rennes (1899)
• Cinderella (1899)
• The Mysterious Knight (1899)
• Going to Bed Under Difficulties (1900)
• The Mysterious Portrait (1901)
• The India Rubber Head (1901)
• The Colonel’s Shower Bath (1901)
  
• Bluebeard (1901)
• The Human Fly (1902)
• Gulliver’s Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (1902)
  
• The Treasures of Satan (1902)
• An Impossible Balancing Feat (1902)
• The Coronation of Edward VII (1902)
  
• The Dancing Midget (1902)
• The Shadow Girl (1902)
  
• A Trip to the Moon (1902)
• Misfortune Never Comes Alone (1903)
  
• The Infernal Cake-Walk (1903)
• The Marvelous Wreath (1903)
• The Mysterious Box (1903)
• The Enchanted Well (1903)
• The Inn Where No Man Rests (1903)
• The Drawing Lesson (1903)
• Fairyland: A Kingdom of Fairies (1903)
• The Melomaniac (1903)
• The Cook in Trouble (1904)
• The Mermaid (1904)
• The Impossible Voyage (1904)
  
• A Fall from Five Floors (1906)
• Les Incendiaires (1906)
• The Misfortunes of a Photographer (1908)

Jean-Pierre Melville (12)

• Le Silence de la Mer (1949)
• Les Enfants terribles (1950)
• Bob le flambeur (1955)
• Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
• Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
• Le Doulos (1962)
• The Magnet of Doom (1963)
• Le Deuxième souffle (1966)
• Le Samouraï (1967)
• Army of Shadows (1969)
• Le Cercle rouge (1970)
• Un Flic (1972)

Sam Mendes (4)

• American Beauty (1999)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Away We Go (2009)

Marie Menken (2)

• Notebook (1963)
• Go! Go! Go! (1964)

Márta Mészáros (2)

• Adoption (1975)
• Diary for My Children (1984)

Nicholas Meyer (3)

• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Volunteers (1985)
• Star Trek Vi: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Nancy Meyers (3)

• What Women Want (2000)
• Something’s Gotta Give (2003)
• The Holiday (2006)

Roger Michell (3)

• Notting Hill (1999)
• Changing Lanes (2002)
• Venus (2006)

Takashi Miike (10)

• The Bird People in China (1998)
• Audition (1999)
• Dead or Alive (1999)
• The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
• Ichi the Killer (2001)
• Visitor Q (2001)
• One Missed Call (2003)
• The Great Yokai War (2005)
• Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)
• 13 Assassins (2010)

Nikita Mikhalkov (2)

• Burnt by the Sun (1994)
• The Barber of Siberia (1998)

Lewis Milestone (3)

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• Hallelujah I’m a Bum (1933)
• Ocean’s Eleven (1960)

John Milius (2)

• Conan the Barbarian (1982)
• Red Dawn (1984)

Bennett Miller (2)

• Capote (2005)
• Moneyball (2011)

Chris Miller (2)

• Shrek the Third (2007)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Frank Miller (2)

• Sin City (2005)
• The Spirit (2008)

George Miller (5)

• Mad Max (1979)
• The Road Warrior (1981)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
• Happy Feet (2006)

Steve Miner (6)

• House (1986)
• Soul Man (1986)
• Forever Young (1992)
• Big Bully (1996)
• Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later (1998)
• Lake Placid (1999)

Anthony Minghella (4)

• The English Patient (1996)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• Cold Mountain (2003)
• Breaking and Entering (2006)

Vincente Minnelli (10)

• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• The Clock (1945)
• Father of the Bride (1950)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
• Lust for Life (1956)
• Gigi (1958)
• Some Came Running (1958)

Kenji Misumi (4)

• The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Mike Mitchell (2)

• Surviving Christmas (2004)
• Sky High (2005)

Hayao Miyazaki (10)

• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
• Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
• Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
• Porco Rosso (1992)
• Princess Mononoke (1997)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)

Kenji Mizoguchi (16)

• Oyuki, the Virgin (1935)
• Osaka Elegy (1936)
• Sisters of the Gion (1936)
• The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939)
• The 47 Ronin (1941)
• Musashi Miyamoto (1944)
• The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
• Miss Oyu (1951)
• The Lady from Musashino (1951)
• The Life of Oharu (1952)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• The Crucified Lovers (1954)
• Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
• The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
• Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
• Street of Shame (1956)

Mario Monicelli (3)

• Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
• The Great War (1959)
• My Friends (1975)

Lukas Moodysson (3)

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• Phantom (1922)
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• Faust (1926)
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Geoff Murphy (4)

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John Musker (5)

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Hong-jin Na (2)

• The Chaser (2008)
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Mikio Naruse (36)

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• Apart from You (1933)
• Every Night Dreams (1933)
• Five Men in the Circus (1935)
• The Actress and the Poet (1935)
• Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
• Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
• The Girl in the Rumor (1935)
• The Road I Travel with You (1936)
• A Woman’s Sorrows (1937)
• Avalanche (1937)
• The Whole Family Works (1939)
• Sincerity (1939)
• Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941)
• The Way of Drama (1944)
• Both You and I (1946)
• Dancing Girl (1951)
• Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
• Repast (1951)
• Okuni and Gohei (1952)
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• Floating Clouds (1955)
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• Untamed (1957)
• Anzukko (1958)
• Summer Clouds (1958)
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Gregory Nava (2)

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Roy William Neill (2)

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• O (2001)
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Jan Nemec (2)

• Diamonds of the Night (1964)
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Mark Neveldine (2)

• Crank (2006)
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Mike Newell (6)

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Fred C. Newmeyer (11)

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• The Freshman (1925)

Fred Niblo (2)

• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
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• Gattaca (1997)
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Mike Nichols (12)

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• The Graduate (1967)
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• The Fortune (1975)
• Silkwood (1983)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• Regarding Henry (1991)
• Wolf (1994)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• Primary Colors (1998)
• Closer (2004)
• Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

Leonard Nimoy (3)

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• I Stand Alone (1998)
• Irreversible (2002)
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Christopher Nolan (6)

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• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Inception (2010)

Stephen Norrington (2)

• Blade (1998)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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• Seasons (1969)
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Phillip Noyce (7)

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• Patriot Games (1992)
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• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
• Catch a Fire (2006)

Nabuhiko Obayashi (3)

• Dandanko (1960)
• House (1978)
• The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983)

Steve Oedekerk (2)

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Max Ophüls (13)

• Leibelei (1933)
• The Merry Heirs (1933)
• La Signora di tutti (1934)
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• From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)
• The Exile (1947)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
• Caught (1949)
• The Reckless Moment (1949)
• La Ronde (1950)
• Le Plaisir (1952)
• Madame de… (1953)
• Lola Montès (1955)

Mark Osborne (2)

• More (1998)
• Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Nagisa Oshima (10)

• A Street of Love and Hope (1959)
• Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
• The Sun’s Burial (1960)
• Violence at High Noon (1966)
• Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
• Shonen (1969)
• The Ceremony (1971)
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
• 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995)
• Taboo (1999)

Frank Oz (7)

• The Dark Crystal (1982)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
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• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
• In & Out (1997)
• The Score (2001)

François Ozon (4)

• Truth or Dare (1994)
• Under the Sand (2000)
• 8 Women (2002)
• 5×2 (2004)

Yasujiro Ozu (30)

• Days of Youth (1929)
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• A Straightforward Boy (1929)
• That Night’s Wife (1930)
• I Flunked But… (1930)
• Tokyo Chorus (1931)
• I Was Born, But… (1932)
• Woman of Tokyo (1933)
• A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
• An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
• Kagamijishi (1936)
• The Only Son (1936)
• What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)
• The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
• There Was a Father (1942)
• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
• A Hen in the Wind (1948)
• Late Spring (1949)
• The Munekata Sisters (1950)
• Early Summer (1951)
• Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
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• Equinox Flower (1958)
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst (9)

• The Joyless Street (1925)
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José Padilha (3)

• Bus 174 (2002)
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John Paizs (3)

• Springtime in Greenland (1981)
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Alan J. Pakula (4)

• The Parallax View (1974)
• All the President’s Men (1975)
• The Pelican Brief (1993)
• The Devil’s Own (1997)

Jafar Panahi (3)

• The White Balloon (1995)
• The Circle (2000)
• Offside (2006)

Sergei Parajanov (2)

• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
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Chan-wook Park (6)

• Joint Security Area (2000)
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• Lady Vengeance (2005)
• I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006)
• Thirst (2009)

Nick Park (6)

• A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (1989)
• Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
• Wallace and Gromit in a Close Shave (1995)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were- Rabbit (2005)
• Wallace and Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’ (2008)

Alan Parker (4)

• Midnight Express (1978)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Evita (1996)
• Angela’s Ashes (1999)

Trey Parker (3)

• Orgazmo (1997)
• South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
• Team America: World Police (2004)

James Parrott (6)

• On the Front Page (1926)
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• Perfect Day (1929)
  
• Another Fine Mess (1930)
• County Hospital (1932)
• The Music Box (1932)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (4)

• Accattone! (1961)
• Mamma Roma (1962)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
• Salò, or 120 Days in Sodom (1975)

John Pasquin (2)

• The Santa Clause (1994)
• Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

Robert W. Paul (7)

• Rough Sea at Dover (1895)
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• Come Along Do! (1898)
• The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
• A Chess Dispute (1903)
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• Buy Your Own Cherries (1904)

Alexander Payne (4)

• Election (1999)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Sideways (2004)
• Paris, je t’aime (2006)

Sam Peckinpah (8)

• Ride the High Country (1962)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• The Getaway (1972)
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
• Convoy (1978)

Mark Pellington (2)

• Arlington Road (1999)
• The Mothman Prophesies (2002)

Arthur Penn (4)

• The Miracle Worker (1962)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• Target (1985)

Sean Penn (2)

• The Pledge (2001)
• Into the Wild (2007)

D.A. Pennebaker (2)

• Dont Look Back (1967)
• Monterey Pop (1968)

Nelson Pereira dos Santos (2)

• Vidas Secas (1963)
• How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)

Wolfgang Petersen (9)

• Das Boot (1981)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
• Shattered (1991)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Outbreak (1995)
• Air Force One (1997)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Troy (2004)
• Poseidon (2006)

Elio Petri (2)

• The Assassin (1961)
• The 10th Victim (1965)

Daniel Petrie Jr. (2)

• Toy Soldiers (1991)
• In the Army Now (1994)

Donald Petrie (4)

• Grumpy Old Men (1993)
• Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)

Aleksandr Petrov (4)

• Cow (1989)
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
• My Love (2006)
  

Aleksandar Petrovic (3)

• And Love Has Vanished (1961)
• Three (1967)
• I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)

Todd Phillips (5)

• Road Trip (2000)
• Old School (2003)
• Starsky & Hutch (2004)
• The Hangover (2009)
• Due Date (2010)

Paco Plaza (2)

• [Rec] (2007)
• [Rec] 2 (2009)

Laura Poitras (2)

• My Country, My Country (2006)
• The Oath (2010)

Roman Polanski (13)

• A Murderer (1957)
• A Toothful Smile (1957)
• The Lamp (1959)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• Mammals (1963)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Frantic (1988)
• Death and the Maiden (1994)
• The Pianist (2002)
• The Ghost Writer (2010)

Michael Polish (2)

• Twin Falls Idaho (1999)
• The Astronaut Farmer (2006)

Sydney Pollack (6)

• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Absence of Malice (1981)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• The Firm (1993)
• The Interpreter (2005)

Gillo Pontecorvo (2)

• Kapò (1959)
• The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Edwin S. Porter (2)

• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905)
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
  

Corneliu Porumboiu (2)

• 12:08 to Bucharest (2006)
• Police, Adjective (2009)

Ted Post (2)

• Hang ‘Em High (1968)
• Magnum Force (1973)

Michael Powell (24)

• Red Ensign (1934)
• Something Always Happens (1934)
• Lazybones (1935)
• The Phantom Light (1935)
• Crown v. Stevens (1936)
• The Edge of the World (1937)
• The Spy in Black (1939)
• Contraband (1940)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• 49th Parallel (1941)
• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• The Volunteer (1943)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
• Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• Age of Consent (1969)
• The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)

Otto Preminger (12)

• Laura (1944)
• Daisy Kenyon (1947)
• Whirlpool (1949)
• Angel Face (1952)
• River of No Return (1954)
• Carmen Jones (1954)
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
• Bonjour tristesse (1957)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Exodus (1960)
• In Harm’s Way (1965)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Emeric Pressburger (11)

• One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• The Volunteer (1943)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
• Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)

Alex Proyas (4)

• The Crow (1994)
• Dark City (1998)
• I, Robot (2004)
• Knowing (2009)

Vsevolod Pudovkin (3)

• Chess Fever (1925)
• Mother (1926)
• Storm Over Asia (1928)

Stephen and Timothy Quay (6)

• The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
• The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
• Street of Crocodiles (1986)
• Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
• Stille Nacht I (1988)
• The Comb (1990)

Sam Raimi (11)

• Evil Dead (1981)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Darkman (1990)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• For Love of the Game (1999)
• The Gift (2000)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Harold Ramis (8)

• Caddyshack (1980)
• Vacation (1983)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Multiplicity (1996)
• Analyze This (1999)
• Analyze That (2002)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Year One (2009)

Lynne Ramsay (2)

• Morvern Callar (2002)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Irving Rapper (2)

• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Brett Ratner (7)

• Rush Hour (1998)
• The Family Man (2000)
• Rush Hour 2 (2001)
• Red Dragon (2002)
• After the Sunset (2004)
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
• New York, I Love You (2009)

Billy Ray (2)

• Shattered Glass (2003)
• Breach (2007)

Man Ray (2)

• Le Retour à la Raison (1923)
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Nicholas Ray (8)

• They Live by Night (1948)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• On Dangerous Ground (1952)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• Bigger Than Life (1956)
• Bitter Victory (1957)
• Winds Across the Everglades (1959)

Satyajit Ray (12)

• Pather Panchali (1955)
• Aparajito (1956)
• The Philosopher’s Stone (1958)
• The Music Room (1958)
• The World of Apu (1959)
• Devi (1960)
• Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
• Kanchenjungha (1962)
• Mahanagar (1963)
• Charulata (1964)
• Mahapurush (1965)
• Nayak (1966)
• Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
• Sukumar Ray (1987)

Robert Redford (5)

• Ordinary People (1980)
• A River Runs Through It (1992)
• Quiz Show (1994)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998)
• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Carol Reed (5)

• Odd Man Out (1947)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Our Man in Havana (1959)
• The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Matt Reeves (2)

• Cloverfield (2008)
• Let Me In (2010)

Nicolas Winding Refn (2)

• Valhalla Rising (2009)
• Drive (2011)

Kelly Reichardt (3)

• Old Joy (2006)
• Wendy and Lucy (2008)
• Meek’s Cutoff (2010)

Carl Reiner (3)

• The Jerk (1979)
• The Man with Two Brains (1983)
• Summer Rental (1985)

Rob Reiner (8)

• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Stand by Me (1986)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
• Misery (1990)
• A Few Good Men (1992)
• The American President (1995)
• Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

Lotte Reiniger (2)

• The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1955)

Wolfgang Reitherman (6)

• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
• The Jungle Book (1967)
• The AristoCats (1970)
• Robin Hood (1973)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
• The Rescuers (1977)

Ivan Reitman (9)

• Stripes (1981)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Twins (1988)
• Ghostbusters II (1989)
• Kindergarten Cop (1990)
• Dave (1993)
• Junior (1994)
• Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
• Evolution (2001)

Jason Reitman (3)

• Thank You for Smoking (2005)
• Juno (2006)
• Up in the Air (2009)

Jean Renoir (20)

• Nana (1926)
• Charleston Parade (1927)
• The Little Match Girl (1928)
• La Chienne (1931)
• Night at the Crossroads (1932)
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
• Toni (1935)
• A Day in the Country (1936)
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• The Lower Depths (1936)
• The Grand Illusion (1937)
• La Marseillaise (1938)
• La Bête humaine (1938)
• The Rules of the Game (1939)
• Swamp Water (1941)
• The Southerner (1945)
• The River (1951)
• The Golden Coach (1951)
• French Cancan (1954)
• The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1959)

Alain Resnais (8)

• Guernica (1950)
• Night and Fog (1955)
• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• The Styrene’s Song (1959)
• Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
• Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968)
• Providence (1977)
• Wild Grass (2009)

Kevin Reynolds (4)

• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
• Waterworld (1995)
• One Eight Seven (1997)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

Jean-François Richet (2)

• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
• Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)

Leni Riefenstahl (4)

• The Blue Light (1932)
• Day of Freedom (1935)
• Triumph of the Will (1935)
• Olympia (1938)

Adam Rifkin (2)

• The Chase (1994)
• Detroit Rock City (1999)

Guy Ritchie (5)

• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
• Snatch. (2000)
• RocknRolla (2008)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
• Sherlock Holmes:  A Game of Shadows (2011)

Michael Ritchie (7)

• Smile (1975)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• Fletch (1985)
• The Golden Child (1986)
• Wildcats (1986)
• Fletch Lives (1989)
• Diggstown (1992)

Martin Ritt (5)

• The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
• Hud (1963)
• The Outrage (1964)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
• Hombre (1967)

Jacques Rivette (3)

• Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• Noroît (1976)
• La belle noiseuse (1991)

Hal Roach (8)

• Ask Father (1919)
• Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
• Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
  
• From Hand to Mouth (1919)
• An Eastern Westerner (1920)
• Haunted Spooks (1920)
• Number, Please? (1920)
• Now or Never (1921)

Jay Roach (5)

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
• Mystery, Alaska (1999)
• Meet the Parents (2000)
• Meet the Fockers (2004)

Bruce Robinson (2)

• Withnail and I (1987)
• Jennifer Eight (1992)

Phil Alden Robinson (3)

• Field of Dreams (1989)
• Sneakers (1992)
• The Sum of All Fears (2001)

Mark Robson (5)

• The Ghost Ship (1943)
• The Seventh Victim (1943)
• Bedlam (1946)
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)
• Earthquake (1974)

Robert Rodriguez (7)

• El Mariachi (1993)
• Desperado (1995)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Sin City (2005)
• Planet Terror (2007)
• Machete (2010)

Nicolas Roeg (3)

• Walkabout (1971)
• Don’t Look Now (1973)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Eric Rohmer (12)

• Véronique and Her Dunce (1958)
• The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963)
• Suzanne’s Career (1963)
• Nadja in Paris (1964)
• La Collectionneuse (1967)
• My Night at Maud’s (1969)
• Claire’s Knee (1970)
• Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
• Pauline at the Beach (1983)
• The Green Ray (1986)
• A Tale of Springtime (1990)
• A Tale of Winter (1992)

George A. Romero (5)

• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Martin (1977)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Day of the Dead (1985)
• Land of the Dead (2005)

Don Roos (2)

• The Opposite of Sex (1998)
• Bounce (2000)

Bernard Rose (2)

• Candyman (1992)
• Immortal Beloved (1994)

Martin Rosen (2)

• Watership Down (1978)
• The Plague Dogs (1982)

Francesco Rosi (3)

• Salvatore Guiliano (1962)
• Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
• Three Brothers (1981)

Gary Ross (2)

• Pleasantville (1998)
• Seabiscuit (2003)

Herbert Ross (3)

• Steel Magnolias (1989)
• My Blue Heaven (1990)
• Boys on the Side (1995)

Roberto Rossellini (10)

• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Paisan (1946)
• Germany anno zero (1947)
• Stromboli (1950)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
• Europa ’51 (1952)
• Where Is Freedom? (1954)
• Voyage in Italy (1954)
• Il generale della Rovere (1959)
• Cartesius (1974)

Robert Rossen (2)

• Body and Soul (1947)
• The Hustler (1961)

Eli Roth (2)

• Cabin Fever (2002)
• Hostel (2005)

Jean Rouch (5)

• Hippopatomus Hunt (1950)
• Cemeteries in the Cliff (1951)
• Les maîtres fous (1955)
  
• Moi un noir (1958)
• Chronicle of a Summer (1961)

Joseph Ruben (6)

• The Stepfather (1987)
• Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
• The Good Son (1993)
• Money Train (1995)
• Return to Paradise (1998)
• The Forgotten (2004)

Raoul Ruiz (2)

• City of Pirates (1983)
• Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Chuck Russell (4)

• The Blob (1988)
• The Mask (1994)
• Eraser (1996)
• The Scorpion King (2002)

David O. Russell (4)

• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• Three Kings (1999)
• I Heart Huckabees (2004)
• The Fighter (2010)

Carlos Saldanha (3)

• Ice Age (2002)
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
• Rio (2011)

Walter Salles (3)

• Central Station (1998)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
• Paris, je t’aime (2006)

Victor Salva (2)

• Powder (1995)
• Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Chris Sanders (2)

• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

Carlos Saura (2)

• La Caza (1966)
• Cría cuervos (1976)

John Sayles (9)

• The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
• Matewan (1987)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• City of Hope (1991)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Lone Star (1996)
• Men with Guns (1997)
• Limbo (1999)
• Casa de los Babys (2003)

Franklin J. Schaffner (3)

• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Patton (1970)
• Papillon (1973)

Fred Schepisi (5)

• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
• Roxanne (1987)
• Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
• I.Q. (1994)
• Fierce Creatures (1997)

John Schlesinger (8)

• Terminus (1961)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Day of the Locust (1975)
• Marathon Man (1976)
• The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)
• Pacific Heights (1990)
• Eye for an Eye (1996)

Volker Schlöndorff (2)

• Young Torless (1966)
• The Tin Drum (1979)

Ernest B. Schoedsack (5)

• Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925)
• Chang: A Story of the Wilderness (1927)
• The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
• King Kong (1933)
• Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Paul Schrader (3)

• Blue Collar (1978)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• The Affliction (1997)

Barbet Schroeder (4)

• General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974)
• Barfly (1987)
• Reversal of Fortune (1990)
• Kiss of Death (1995)

Ariel Schulman (2)

• Catfish (2010)
• Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

Joel Schumacher (12)

• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Flatliners (1990)
• Falling Down (1993)
• The Client (1994)
• Batman Forever (1995)
• A Time to Kill (1996)
• Batman & Robin (1997)
• 8MM (1999)
• Tigerland (2000)
• Bad Company (2002)
• Phone Booth (2002)
• The Number 23 (2007)

Robert Schwentke (3)

• Flightplan (2005)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
• Red (2010)

Martin Scorsese (23)

• What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963)
• It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
  
• The Big Shave (1967)
• Boxcar Bertha (1972)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Last Waltz (1978)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• After Hours (1985)
• The Color of Money (1986)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• The Age of Innocence (1993)
• A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Aviator (2004)
• The Departed (2006)
• Shine a Light (2008)
• Shutter Island (2010)

Ridley Scott (14)

• The Duellists (1977)
• Alien (1979)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• White Squall (1996)
• G.I. Jane (1997)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Black Hawk Down (2001)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Matchstick Men (2003)
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
• A Good Year (2006)
• American Gangster (2007)
• Robin Hood (2010)

Tony Scott (13)

• Top Gun (1986)
• Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
• Revenge (1990)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• True Romance (1993)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• The Fan (1996)
• Enemy of the State (1998)
• Spy Game (2001)
• Man on Fire (2004)
• Deja Vu (2006)
• The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
• Unstoppable (2010)

George Seaton (3)

• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• 36 Hours (1964)
• Airport (1970)

Edward Sedgwick (2)

• The Cameraman (1928)
• Spite Marriage (1929)

Peter Segal (6)

• Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
• Tommy Boy (1995)
• Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
• Anger Management (2003)
• 50 First Dates (2004)
• Get Smart (2008)

Henry Selick (3)

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1996)
• James and the Giant Peach (1996)
• Coraline (2009)

Ousmane Sembene (4)

• Black Girl (1966)
• Borom Sarret (1966)
• Ceddo (1977)
• Moolaadé (2004)

Dominic Sena (2)

• Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
• Swordfish (2001)

Tom Shadyac (7)

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
• The Nutty Professor (1996)
• Liar Liar (1997)
• Patch Adams (1998)
• Dragonfly (2002)
• Bruce Almighty (2003)
• Evan Almighty (2007)

Adam Shankman (3)

• A Walk to Remember (2002)
• Bringing Down the House (2003)
• Hairspray (2007)

Ben Sharpsteen (5)

• Clock Cleaners (1937)
• Boat Builders (1938)
• Mickey’s Trailer (1938)
  
• Fantasia (1940)
• Pinocchio (1940)

Ron Shelton (4)

• Bull Durham (1988)
• White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
• Cobb (1994)
• Tin Cup (1996)

Larisa Shepitko (2)

• Wings (1966)
• The Ascent (1977)

Jim Sheridan (6)

• My Left Foot (1989)
• The Field (1990)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Boxer (1997)
• In America (2002)
• Brothers (2009)

Hiroshi Shimizu (7)

• Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
• Mr. Thank You (1936)
• Children in the Wind (1937)
• A Star Athlete (1937)
• The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
• Nobuko (1940)
• Ornamental Hairpin (1941)

Kaneto Shindô (7)

• Children of Hiroshima (1952)
• The Naked Island (1960)
• Onibaba (1964)
• Kuroneko (1968)
• Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975)
• Edo Porn (1981)
• Tree Without Leaves (1986)

Makoto Shinkai (3)

• Voices of a Distant Star (2003)
• The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
• 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

Masahiro Shinoda (4)

• Pale Flower (1964)
• Punishment Island (1966)
• Double Suicide (1969)
• Silence (1971)

M. Night Shyamalan (7)

• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Unbreakable (2000)
• Signs (2002)
• The Village (2004)
• Lady in the Water (2006)
• The Happening (2008)
• The Last Airbender (2010)

Charles Shyer (3)

• Father of the Bride (1991)
• I Love Trouble (1994)
• Father of the Bride Part II (1995)

Don Siegel (7)

• Star in the Night (1945)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Hell Is for Heroes (1962)
• Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Charley Varrick (1973)
• The Shootist (1976)

Slobodan Sijan (2)

• Who Sings Over There (1980)
• The Marathon Family (1982)

Brad Silberling (3)

• Casper (1995)
• City of Angels (1998)
• Land of the Lost (2009)

David Silverman (2)

• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Bryan Singer (6)

• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Apt Pupil (1998)
• X-Men (2000)
• X2 (2003)
• Superman Returns (2006)
• Valkyrie (2008)

Tarsem Singh (2)

• The Cell (2000)
• The Fall (2006)

John Singleton (4)

• Boyz n the Hood (1991)
• Higher Learning (1995)
• Rosewood (1997)
• Four Brothers (2005)

Robert Siodmak (6)

• People on Sunday (1930)
• Phantom Lady (1944)
• Cobra Woman (1944)
• The Killers (1946)
• The Spiral Staircase (1946)
• The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)

Douglas Sirk (6)

• Magnificent Obsession (1954)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• The Tarnished Angels (1957)
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
• Imitation of Life (1959)

Victor Sjöström (8)

• Ingeborg Holm (1913)
• A Man There Was (1917)
• The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)
• The Monastery of Sendomir (1920)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
• The Scarlet Letter (1926)
• The Wind (1928)

Erik Skjoldbjærg (2)

• Insomnia (1997)
• Prozac Nation (2001)

David Slade (2)

• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• Eclipse (2010)

Wladyslaw Sleslicki (3)

• Where the Devil Says Goodnight (1956)
• People from an Empty Zone (1957)
  
• A Day Without Sun (1959)

Jerzy Skolimowski (8)

• The Menacing Eye (1960)
• Little Hamlet (1960)
• Erotique (1960)
• Your Money or Your Life (1961)
• Identification Marks: None (1965)
• Deep End (1970)
• The Shout (1978)
  
• Essential Killing (2010)

George Albert Smith (7)

• The Miller and the Sweep (1898)
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899)
• As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
• Grandma’s Reading Glass (1900)
  
• Let Me Dream Again (1900)
• Mary Jane’s Mishap (1903)
• Sick Kitten (1903)

Kevin Smith (6)

• Clerks. (1994)
• Mallrats (1995)
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• Dogma (1999)
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

Michael Snow (2)

• Wavelength (1967)
• Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (1976)

Zach Snyder (5)

• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• 300 (2006)
• Watchmen (2009)
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
• Sucker Punch (2011)

Steven Soderbergh (12)

• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• Out of Sight (1998)
• The Limey (1999)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Traffic (2000)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
• Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
• Che: Part One (2008)
• Che: Part Two (2008)
• The Informant! (2009)
• Contagion (2011)

Iain Softley (2)

• Hackers (1995)
• K-PAX (2001)

Aleksandr Sokurov (3)

• Moscow Elegy (1988)
• The Second Circle (1990)
• Russian Ark (2002)

Stephen Sommers (5)

• The Jungle Book (1994)
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Mummy Returns (2001)
• Van Helsing (2004)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

Barry Sonnenfeld (6)

• The Addams Family (1991)
• Addams Family Values (1993)
• Get Shorty (1995)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Wild Wild West (1999)
• Men in Black II (2002)

Shion Sono (5)

• Suicide Club (2003)
• Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005)
• Strange Circus (2005)
• Love Exposure (2008)
• Be Sure to Share (2009)

Penelope Spheeris (3)

• Wayne’s World (1992)
• Black Sheep (1996)
• Senseless (1998)

Steven Spielberg (27)

• Amblin’ (1968)
• Duel (1971)
• Something Evil (1972)
• The Sugarland Express (1974)
• Jaws (1975)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• 1941 (1979)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Always (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Hook (1991)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Schindler’s List (1993)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
• Catch Me if You Can (2002)
• Minority Report (2002)
• The Terminal (2004)
• Munich (2005)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Roger Spottiswoode (6)

• Shoot to Kill (1988)
• Turner & Hooch (1989)
• Air America (1990)
• Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• The 6th Day (2000)

Andrew Stanton (3)

• A Bug’s Life (1998)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• WALL-E (2008)

Sylvester Stallone (3)

• Rocky II (1979)
• Rocky III (1982)
• Rocky IV (1985)

Wladyslaw Starewicz (4)

• The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
• The Frogs Who Wanted a King (1923)
• The Story of the Fox (1930)
• The Mascot (1934)
  

Art Stevens (2)

• The Rescuers (1977)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981)

George Stevens (6)

• Swing Time (1936)
• Gunga Din (1939)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• Shane (1953)
• Giant (1956)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Robert Stevenson (2)

• Old Yeller (1957)
• Mary Poppins (1964)

Ben Stiller (3)

• The Cable Guy (1996)
• Zoolander (2001)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)

Mauritz Stiller (3)

• Thomas Graal’s Best Film (1917)
• Sir Arne’s Treasure (1919)
• Erotikon (1920)

Nicholas Stoller (2)

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• Get Him to the Greek (2010)

Oliver Stone (12)

• Salvador (1986)
• Platoon (1986)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• The Doors (1991)
• JFK (1991)
• Natural Born Killers (1994)
• Nixon (1995)
• Alexander (2004)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• W. (2008)
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Tim Story (2)

• Fantastic Four (2005)
• 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

John Sturges (6)

• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
• Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

Preston Sturges (7)

• Christmas in July (1940)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
• The Palm Beach Story (1942)
• The Miracle of Morgan Creek (1944)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
• Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Seijun Suzuki (10)

• Beauty of the Underworld (1958)
• Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
• Youth of the Beast (1963)
• Gate of Flesh (1964)
• Story of a Prostitute (1965)
• Tattooed Life (1965)
• Tokyo Drifter (1966)
• Fighting Elegy (1966)
• Branded to Kill (1967)
• Zigeunerweisen (1980)

Jan Svankmajer (4)

• Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
• Darkness/Light/Darkness (1990)
• Alice (1988)
• Surviving Life (Theory and Practice) (2010)

István Szabó (4)

• Variations of a Theme (1961)
• Father (1966)
• Budapest Tales (1977)
• Sunshine (1999)

Piotr Szulkin (2)

• Golem (1980)
• War of the World: Next Century (1981)

Isao Takahata (3)

• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Only Yesterday (1991)
• Pom poko (1994)

Lee Tamahori (3)

• The Edge (1997)
• Along Came a Spider (2001)
• Die Another Day (2002)

Quentin Tarantino (7)

• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
• Death Proof (2007)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Andrei Tarkovsky (11)

• The Killers (1956)
• There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
• Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Mirror (1975)
• Stalker (1979)
• Voyage in Time (1983)
• Nostalghia (1983)
• The Sacrifice (1986)

Béla Tarr (4)

• The Prefab People (1982)
• Satan’s Tango (1994)
• The Werkmeister Harmonies (2000)
• The Turin Horse (2011)

Frank Tashlin (4)

• Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)
• Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
• Artists and Models (1955)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

Jacques Tati (5)

• School of Postmen (1947)
• Jour de fête (1949)
• M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
• Mon oncle (1958)
• Play Time (1967)

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (2)

• Padre padrone (1977)
• Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

Brian Taylor (2)

• Crank (2006)
• Crank: High Voltage (2009)

Sam Taylor (4)

• Safety Last! (1923)
• Girl Shy (1924)
• Hot Water (1924)
• The Freshman (1925)

Julie Taymor (3)

• Titus (1999)
• Frida (2002)
• Across the Universe (2007)

Lewis Teague (2)

• Cat’s Eye (1985)
• Navy Seals (1990)

Andy Tennant (4)

• Fools Rush In (1997)
• Anna and the King (1999)
• Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
• Hitch (2005)

Hiroshi Teshigahara (4)

• The Pitfall (1962)
• Woman in the Dunes (1964)
• The Face of Another (1966)
• Antonio Gaudí (1984)

Betty Thomas (4)

• The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
• Private Parts (1997)
• Doctor Doolittle (1998)
• I Spy (2002)

J. Lee Thompson (2)

• The Guns of Navarone (1961)
• Cape Fear (1962)

Richard Thorpe (2)

• Ivanhoe (1952)
• The Honeymoon Machine (1961)

Billy Bob Thorton (2)

• Sling Blade (1996)
• All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Tian Zhuangzhuang (2)

• The Horse Thief (1986)
• The Blue Kite (1993)

Johnny To (11)

• The Mission (1999)
• Fulltime Killer (2001)
• PTU (2003)
• Breaking News (2004)
• Election (2005)
• Election 2 (2006)
• Exiled (2006)
• Mad Detective (2007)
• Sparrow (2008)
• Vengeance (2009)
• Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011)

Stanley Tong (3)

• Supercop (1992)
• Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
• Jackie Chan’s First Strike (1996)

Guiseppe Tornatore (2)

• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Màlena (2000)

Jacques Tourneur (8)

• Cat People (1942)
• I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
• The Leopard Man (1943)
• Canyon Passage (1946)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Easy Living (1949)
• The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
• Night of the Demon (1957)

Maurice Tourneur (2)

• The Blue Bird (1918)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

Tran Anh Hung (5)

• The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
• Cyclo (1995)
• The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
• I Come with the Rain (2008)
• Norwegian Wood (2010)

Jeff Tremaine (3)

• Jackass: The Movie (2002)
• Jackass Number Two (2006)
• Jackass 3D (2010)

Jirí Trnka (4)

• Springman & the SS (1946)
• Story of the Bass Cello (1949)
• The Devil’s Mill (1949)
• The Hand (1965)

Gary Trousdale (4)

• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
• The Madagascar Penguins in: A Christmas Caper (2005)

François Truffaut (7)

• Les mistons (1957)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
• Jules and Jim (1962)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• The Wild Child (1970)
• The Last Metro (1980)

Tsai Ming-liang (4)

• Rebels of the Neon God (1993)
• The Hole (1998)
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
• The Wayward Cloud (2005)

Peter Tscherkassky (8)

• Miniaturen – Many Berlin Artists in Hoisdorf (1983)
• Motion Picture (La sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière à Lyon) (1984)
• Manufactur (1985)
• The Arrival (1998)
• Outer Space (1999)
• Get Ready (1999)
• Dream Work (2002)
• Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005)

Tsui Hark (5)

• Peking Opera Blues (1986)
• Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
• Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
• The Blade (1995)
• Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)

Shinya Tsukamoto (5)

• Adventures of Electric Rod Boy (1987)
• Tetsuo (1989)
• Gemini (1999)
• Vital (2004)
• Haze (2005)

Joe Turteltaub (6)

• Cool Runnings (1993)
• While You Were Sleeping (1995)
• Phenomenon (1996)
• Instinct (1999)
• National Treasure (2004)
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

David Twohy (4)

• The Arrival (1996)
• Pitch Black (2000)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• A Perfect Getaway (2009)

Tom Tykwer (4)

• Run, Lola, Run (1998)
• Paris, je t’aime (2006)
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
• The International (2009)

Stefan Uher (2)

• The Organ (1965)
• Miraculous Virgin (1967)

Edgar G. Ulmer (3)

• People on Sunday (1930)
• The Black Cat (1934)
• Detour (1945)

Ron Underwood (3)

• Tremors (1990)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Speechless (1994)

Lee Unkrich (3)

• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Toy Story 3 (2010)

W.S. Van Dyke (5)

• Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• After the Thin Man (1936)
• The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
• Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

Gus Van Sant (12)

• Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
• My Own Private Idaho (1991)
• To Die For (1995)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Psycho (1998)
• Finding Forrester (2000)
• Gerry (2002)
• Elephant (2003)
• Last Days (2005)
• Paris, je t’aime (2006)
• Paranoid Park (2007)
• Milk (2008)

Agnès Varda (5)

• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
• Vagabond (1985)
• The Gleaners and I (2000)
• The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002)

Matthew Vaughn (3)

• Stardust (2007)
• Kick-Ass (2010)
• X-Men: First Class (2011)

Gore Verbinski (7)

• The Mexican (2001)
• The Ring (2002)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• The Weather Man (2005)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)
• Rango (2011)

Paul Verhoeven (9)

• Soldier of Orange (1977)
• The Fourth Man (1983)
• RoboCop (1987)
• Total Recall (1990)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Showgirls (1995)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Hollow Man (2000)
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