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Jake Kasdan (3)

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• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
• Bad Teacher (2011)

Lawrence Kasdan (6)

• Body Heat (1981)
• The Big Chill (1983)
• Silverado (1985)
• Wyatt Earp (1994)
• French Kiss (1995)
• Dreamcatcher (2003)

Philip Kaufman (5)

• The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• The Right Stuff (1983)
• Rising Sun (1993)
• Quills (2000)

Aki Kaurismäki (9)

• Calamari Union (1985)
• Shadows in Paradise (1987)
• Ariel (1988)
• Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
• I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
• The Match Factory Girl (1990)
• Bohemian Life (1992)
• Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
• Drifting Clouds (1996)

Jerzy Kawalerowicz (3)

• Real End of the Great War (1957)
• Night Train (1959)
• Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

Elia Kazan (8)

• Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
• Panic in the Streets (1950)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Baby Doll (1956)
• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Buster Keaton (28)

• The Rough House (1917)
• One Week (1920)
• Convict 13 (1920)
• The Scarecrow (1920)
• Neighbors (1920)
• The Haunted House (1921)
• The ‘High’ Sign (1921)
• The Goat (1921)
• The Play House (1921)
• The Boat (1921)
• Cops (1922)
• Daydreams (1922)
• My Wife’s Relations (1922)
• The Balloonatic (1923)
• The Love Nest (1923)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• Three Ages (1923)
• The Navigator (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• Seven Chances (1925)
• Go West (1925)
• Battling Butler (1926)
• College (1927)
• The General (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• Spite Marriage (1929)
• Streamlined Swing (1938)

Dorota Kedzierzawska (2)

• The End of the World (1988)
• Time to Die (2007)

Gene Kelly (2)

• On the Town (1949)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Richard Kelly (2)

• Donnie Darko (2001)
• The Box (2009)
  

Gil Kenan (2)

• Monster House (2006)
• City of Ember (2008)

Fyodor Khitruk (3)

• Winnie Pooh (1969)
• Winnie the Pooh Goes Visiting (1971)
• Winnie the Pooh and a Busy Day (1972)

Abbas Kiarostami (11)

• The Bread and the Alley (1970)
• Breaktime (1972)
• Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)
• The Chorus (1982)
• Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987)
• Close Up (1990)
• Life, and Nothing More… (1991)
• Through the Olive Trees (1994)
• A Taste of Cherry (1997)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
• Certified Copy (2010)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (23)

• The Office (1966)
• From the City of Lodz (1968)
• I Was a Soldier (1970)
• Factory (1971)
• Refrain (1972)
• Bricklayer (1973)
• First Love (1974)
• X-Ray (1974)
• Curriculum Vitae (1975)
• Slate (1976)
• Hospital (1977)
• Night Porter’s Point of View (1979)
• Seven Women of Different Ages (1979)
• Railway Station (1980)
• Talking Heads (1980)
• No End (1985)
• A Short Film About Killing (1988)
• A Short Film About Love (1988)
• Dekalog (1989)
• The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
• Three Colors: Blue (1993)
• Three Colors: White (1994)
• Three Colors: Red (1994)

Ji-woon Kim (5)

• The Quiet Family (1998)
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
• A Bittersweet Life (2005)
• The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)
• I Saw the Devil (2010)

Ki-duk Kim (6)

• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)
• Samaritan Girl (2004)
• 3-Iron (2004)
• The Bow (2005)
• Time (2006)
• Breath (2007)

Keisuke Kinoshita (2)

• Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
• Ballad of Narayama (1958)
• The River Fuefuki (1960)

Teinosuke Kinugasa (2)

• A Page of Madness (1926)
• Gate of Hell (1953)

Dimitri Kirsanoff (2)

• Ménilmontant (1926)
• Brumes d’automne (1929)

Takeshi Kitano (8)

• Violent Cop (1989)
• Boiling Point (1990)
• A Scene at the Sea (1991)
• Sonatine (1993)
• Kids Return (1996)
• Hana-bi (1997)
• Zatoichi (2003)
• Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)

Randal Kleiser (4)

• Grease (1978)
• Flight of the Navigator (1986)
• White Fang (1991)
• Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)

Elem Klimov (2)

• Larisa (1980)
• Come and See (1985)

Masaki Kobayashi (6)

• The Human Condition I (1959)
• The Human Condition II (1959)
• The Human Condition III (1961)
• Harakiri (1962)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Samurai Rebellion (1967)

David Koepp (2)

• Stir of Echoes (1999)
• Secret Window (2004)

Satoshi Kon (2)

• Perfect Blue (1998)
• Paprika (2006)

Andrei Konchalovsky (2)

• Runaway Train (1985)
• Tango & Cash (1989)

Barbara Kopple (2)

• Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
• Shut Up & Sing (2006)

Alexander Korda (2)

• Marius (1931)
• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)

Zoltan Korda (2)

• The Four Feathers (1939)
• Sahara (1943)

Hirokazu Koreeda (7)

• Maborosi (1995)
• After Life (1998)
• Distance (2001)
• Nobody Knows (2004)
• Still Walking (2008)
• Air Doll (2009)
• I Wish (2011)

Ted Kotcheff (3)

• First Blood (1982)
• Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
• Folks! (1992)

Nikos Koundouros (2)

• O drakos (1956)
• Young Aphrodites (1963)

Stanley Kramer (5)

• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• On the Beach (1959)
• Inherit the Wind (1960)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Kurt Kren (2)

• 15/67: TV (1967)
• 31/75: Asylum (1975)

Peter Kubelka (3)

• Abedar (1957)
• Schwechater (1958)
• Arnuld Rainer (1960)

Stanley Kubrick (12)

• Killer’s Kiss (1955)
• The Killing (1956)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Lolita (1962)
• Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• 2001: A Space Oddyssey (1968)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Shining (1980)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

George Kuchar (2)

• Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
• Wild Night in El Reno (1977)

Eiichi Kudo (2)

• The Thirteen Assassins (1963)
• The Great Duel (1964)

Akira Kurosawa (30)

• Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
• The Most Beautiful (1944)
• The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)
• Sanshiro Sugata II (1945)
• No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
• One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
• Drunken Angel (1948)
• The Quiet Duel (1949)
• Stray Dog (1949)
• Rashômon (1950)
• Scandal (1950)
• The Idiot (1951)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• I Live in Fear (1955)
• The Lower Depths (1957)
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• Sanjuro (1962)
• High and Low (1963)
• Red Beard (1965)
• Dodesukaden (1970)
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
• Kagemusha (1980)
• Ran (1985)
• Dreams (1990)
• Rhapsody in August (1991)
• Madadayo (1993)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa (5)

• Cure (1997)
• Seance (2000)
• Pulse (2001)
• Bright Future (2003)
• Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Emir Kusturica (3)

• Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
• Time of the Gypsies (1987)
• Underground (1995)

Stanley Kwan (2)

• Rouge (1987)
• The Actress (1992)

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 (22)

• 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)
• 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)

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 (3)

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

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)

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