Best Biographies by Rank
17
1
1980
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
26
2
1990
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Crime / Drama / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
31
3
1967
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
37
4
1993
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
66
5
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
116
6
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
203
7
1984
Milos Forman
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Drama / Music / Biography / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
218
8
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
249
9
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
297
10
2010
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
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300
11
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
308
12
1970
Franklin J. Schaffner
George C. Scott, Karl Malden
Drama / War / Epic / Biography
USA
English
329
13
1955
Max Ophüls
Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France / West Germany
French
331
14
1937
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard
Drama / Biography
USA
English
332
15
1942
Michael Curtiz
James Cagney, Joan Leslie
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
337
16
1980
David Lynch
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Cult
UK / USA
English
351
17
2007
Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Biography / Drama
France / USA
French
352
18
1996
Scott Hicks
Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud
Drama / Romance / Music / Biography
Australia
English
373
19
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
376
20
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
France / Italy / UK
English
386
21
2008
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
409
22
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
445
23
2004
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Drama / History / War / Biography
Germany / Italy / Austria
German
462
24
2013
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
475
25
2006
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
504
26
1994
Steve James
William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
507
27
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
509
28
1980
Michael Apted
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
518
29
1974
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
527
30
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
540
31
2004
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA / Japan / Germany
English
550
32
2005
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
552
33
1989
Oliver Stone
Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
560
34
1989
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker
Drama / Biography
Ireland / UK
English
567
35
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
572
36
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
605
37
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
633
38
1922
Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
638
39
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Drama / Adventure / Religion / Biography / Family / Epic
USA
English
643
40
1962
Arthur Penn
Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Drama / Biography / Family
USA
English
685
41
1988
Errol Morris
Randall Adams, David Harris III, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton
Documentary / Crime / Biography
USA
English
687
42
1973
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Detective / Biography
Italy / USA
English
693
43
1985
Sydney Pollack
Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
Drama / Romance / Epic / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
699
44
2019
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, Joe Pesci, Stephen Graham
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
706
45
2004
Marc Forster
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK / USA
English
727
46
1999
Mike Leigh
Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Comedy / Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
733
47
1992
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
Drama / Biography
USA
English
738
48
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
750
49
2023
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
761
50
2005
Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper
Biography / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
762
51
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
768
52
1964
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
771
53
2013
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Bernthal
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
772
54
2000
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer, Bodan Litnanski
Documentary / Biography
France
French
812
55
2008
Gus Van Sant
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill
Biography / Drama
USA
English
824
56
1978
Martin Scorsese
Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Dr. John
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
825
57
2008
Ron Howard
Toby Jones, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK / France
English
825
57
1956
Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor
Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
Drama / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
829
58
1941
Howard Hawks
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
832
59
1977
Fred Zinnemann
Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
USA
English
835
60
1952
John Huston
José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon
Drama / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
842
61
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
847
62
1979
Gillian Armstrong
Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Australia
English
852
63
1996
Milos Forman
Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson
Drama / Biography
Canada / USA
English
857
64
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
871
65
1998
Shekhar Kapur
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
890
66
1953
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
917
67
1978
Alan Parker
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Biography
UK / USA
English
945
68
2018
Peter Farrelly
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Adventure
USA
English
950
69
1989
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Action / Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
976
70
1968
William Wyler
Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
Drama / Romance / Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
990
71
2001
Ron Howard
Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
Drama / Mystery / Biography
USA
English
992
72
1952
Elia Kazan
Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1004
73
1983
Mike Nichols
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid
Thriller / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1006
74
2014
Morten Tyldum
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance
Biography / Drama / Thriller / War
UK / USA
English
1027
75
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1045
76
1974
Bob Fosse
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1047
77
2004
Alejandro Amenábar
Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera
Biography / Drama
Spain / France / Italy
Spanish
1066
78
1967
D.A. Pennebaker
Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Tito Burns
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
1073
79
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
1083
80
2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas
Adventure / Drama / Western / Thriller / Epic / Biography
USA
English
1084
81
2010
David O. Russell
Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe, Jack McGee
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1097
82
1970
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1099
83
2024
James Mangold
Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Edward Norton
Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
1104
84
2007
Olivier Dahan
Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner
Biography / Drama / Music
France / UK / Czech Republic
French
1114
85
1959
George Stevens
Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters
Drama / War / History / Biography
USA
English
1117
86
1943
Henry King
Jennifer Jones, William Eythe
Drama / Religion / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1122
87
1993
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Tianlu Li, Giong Lim, Chung Lin, Yang Liyin, Xin Shufen
Drama / Documentary / Biography
Taiwan
Mandarin
1148
88
2013
Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, Corey Johnson
Action / Adventure / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1153
89
2003
Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman, Paul Giamatti
Drama / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
1160
90
1958
Robert Wise
Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Crime / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1167
91
1986
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee, Burt Reynolds, Charleen Swansea
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1170
92
1936
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1173
93
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
1174
94
1934
Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Fay Wray
Western / Action / Biography
USA
English
1183
95
1994
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1186
96
2004
Walter Salles
Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro
Adventure / Biography / Drama
USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru / France
Spanish
1195
97
1976
Hal Ashby
David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland
Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film / Family
USA
English
1207
98
1979
Ira Wohl
Zero Mostel, Christine O'Connor, Frances Reiss, Philip Wohl
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1210
99
1993
Richard Attenborough
Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1211
100
2024
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
1214
101
1990
Jane Campion
Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn
Drama / Biography
UK / Australia / New Zealand
English
1222
102
1991
Barry Levinson
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening
Crime / Drama / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
1229
103
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1232
104
2005
Werner Herzog
Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog, Franc G. Fallico, Amie Huguenard
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1247
105
2018
Spike Lee
Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin, Ryan Eggold, Laura Harrier
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1250
106
2023
Bradley Cooper
Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Vincenzo Amato, Greg Hildreth
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
1267
108
1973
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
1268
109
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
1280
110
2004
Taylor Hackford
Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1286
111
1993
François Girard
Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands
English
1302
112
2003
Andrew Jarecki
Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse Friedman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1305
113
1992
Terence Davies
Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont
Biography / Drama
UK
English
1309
114
2020
David Fincher
Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1329
115
1985
Mike Newell
Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Biography
UK
English
1340
116
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1344
117
2003
Errol Morris
Robert McNamara, Fidel Castro, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
1351
118
1936
Robert Z. Leonard
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer
Musical / Biography / Drama
USA
English
1354
119
1986
John McNaughton
Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Rick Paul, Flo Spink, Waleed B. Ali
Crime / Thriller / Horror / Biography / Adult
USA
English
1359
120
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1367
121
2015
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Marisa Tomei
Biography / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1377
122
1944
Henry King
Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1382
123
2008
Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin, Jan Devereaux, Michael Kelly
Biography / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1398
124
1991
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1402
125
1975
François Truffaut
Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Drama / Period Film / Romance / Biography
France
French
1412
126
1999
Chris Smith
Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Ken Keen, Tom Schimmels
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1414
127
2014
Clint Eastwood
Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Brian Hallisay
Action / Biography / War / Drama
USA
English
1417
128
1929
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1425
129
1988
Martin Scorsese
Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie
Drama / Religion / Biography
USA
English
1434
130
1953
Anthony Mann
James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake, George Tobias
Biography / Drama / Music / Period Film
USA
English
1439
131
1988
Terence Davies
Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams
Drama / Biography
UK
English
1449
132
1994
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti, Giovanna Bozzolo, Sebastiano Nardone, Antonio Petrocelli
Biography / Comedy / Drama
Italy / France
Italian
1450
133
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1452
134
2014
James Marsh
Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens
Biography / Drama / Romance
UK
English
1477
135
1988
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary / History / Biography / War
France / USA
French
1480
136
1985
Paul Schrader
Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda
Drama / Biography
USA
Japanese
1484
137
1960
Vincent J. Donehue
Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1485
138
1995
Oliver Stone
Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins
Biography / Drama
USA
English
1490
139
1938
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman
Musical / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1498
140
2018
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
1501
141
2011
Bennett Miller
Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt
Biography / Drama / Sports / Comedy
USA
English
1506
142
2005
James Mangold
Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
1515
143
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
1519
144
1986
Alex Cox
Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop
Drama / Music / Romance / Biography / Cult
UK / USA
English
1521
145
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1551
146
2021
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
1551
146
1974
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1564
147
1936
John Ford
Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1566
148
1994
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Biography
France / Italy / Germany
French
1571
149
1995
Christopher Hampton
Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
UK / France
English
1572
150
2008
Sacha Gervasi
Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Robb Reiner, Kevin Goocher, Glenn Gyorffy, Chris Tsangarides
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
1573
151
2021
Shaka King
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
1580
152
1942
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
1591
153
2019
James Mangold
Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe
Action / Biography / Drama / Sports
USA / France
English
1593
154
2016
Mel Gibson
Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson, Darcy Bryce
Drama / History / War / Period Film / Religion / Biography
Australia / USA
English
1593
154
2009
Clint Eastwood
Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
1594
155
2022
Baz Luhrmann
Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh
Biography / Drama / Music
Australia / USA
English
1599
156
1998
John Boorman
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Sean McGinley
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Biography / Gangster
UK / Ireland
English
1608
157
1955
Charles Vidor
Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
1614
158
2016
Theodore Melfi
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
1658
159
1994
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
Comedy / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1660
160
1974
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
1670
161
2005
Alex Gibney
John Beard, Jim Chanos, Carol Coale, Peter Coyote, Gray Davis, Joseph Dunn
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1674
162
2010
Danny Boyle
James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1676
163
1996
Alan Parker
Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail
Drama / Musical / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
1691
164
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
1693
165
2004
Bill Condon
Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
1699
166
1973
Franklin J. Schaffner
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Adventure / Biography / Drama
France / USA
English
1708
167
1999
Wim Wenders
Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba
English
1709
168
1997
Errol Morris
Dave Hoover, George Mendonça, Ray Mendez, Rodney Brooks
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1716
169
2018
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
Biography / Drama / History / Adventure
USA / Japan
English
1727
170
2025
Chloé Zhao
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
1735
171
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1736
172
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
1742
173
1962
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1755
174
2003
Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn, Louis I. Kahn, Harriet Pattison, Sue Ann Kahn, Alexandra Tyng
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1757
175
1946
Alfred E. Green
Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1764
176
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1772
177
1934
Alfred L. Werker
George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young, Robert Young
Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1774
178
1956
Robert Wise
Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1777
179
2014
Ava DuVernay
David Oyelowo, Tim Roth, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr., Martin Sheen
Drama / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
1782
180
1943
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1794
181
2020
Thomas Kail
Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
1805
182
2017
Craig Gillespie
Margot Robbie, Bobby Cannavale, Sebastian Stan, Mckenna Grace, Allison Janney
Biography | Drama | Sports / Crime / Comedy
USA
English
1808
183
1938
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
1812
184
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1817
185
2005
Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Joe Soares, Mark Zupan, Keith Cavill, Andy Cohn, Scott Hogsett, Christopher Igoe
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1818
186
1978
Steve Rash
Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis
Drama / Music / Biography / Family
USA
English
1823
187
1987
Richard Attenborough
Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe
Drama / Biography
UK
English
1832
188
1972
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler
Biography / Drama / War
UK
English
1849
189
1962
John Huston
Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1868
190
2001
Stacy Peralta
Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jeff Ament, Bob Biniak, Steve Caballero
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1868
190
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1869
191
2007
Sergei Bodrov
Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia
Mongolian
1874
192
2013
Jean-Marc Vallée
Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1875
193
2015
Danny Boyle
Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Sarah Snook
Biography / Drama
USA
English
1876
194
2014
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
1878
195
1990
Yves Robert
Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
Drama / Family / Comedy / Biography
France
French
1879
196
1985
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
1889
197
1988
Bruno Nuytten
Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Romance
France
French
1901
198
1992
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Delbert Ward, Connie Chung, John Teeple, Lyman Ward
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1913
199
2002
Nicolas Philibert
Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel, Guillaume, Jessie, Johan, Johann, Jonathan
Documentary / Family / Biography
France
French
1919
200
1951
John Boulting
Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson
Biography / Drama
UK
English
1920
201
2015
F. Gary Gray
O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1943
202
1972
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Biography
Italy
Italian
1950
203
1977
Michael Apted
Susan Sullivan, Peter Davies, Charles, Bruce Balden
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
1952
204
2014
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
1954
205
2000
Julian Schnabel
Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1955
206
1997
Spike Lee
Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr.
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
1955
206
1955
Daniel Mann
Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
1955
206
1945
Delmer Daves
John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, John Ridgely, Rosemary DeCamp
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
1959
207
2007
Wes Anderson
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Camilla Rutherford
Adventure / Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1960
208
1976
Elia Kazan
Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1965
209
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / France / Netherlands
English
1968
210
2016
Pablo Larraín
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup
Biography / Drama / History
USA / Chile / France
English
1970
211
1988
Francis Ford Coppola
Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Mako
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1972
212
1992
Bille August
Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
Sweden / Germany / UK / Italy / France / Denmark / Finland / Norway / Iceland
Swedish
1973
213
2006
Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Simon Renshaw, Emily Robison
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
1976
214
2018
Bryan Singer
Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello
Biography / Drama / Music
UK / USA
English
1981
215
1974
Jack Haley Jr.
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
1994
216
2007
Anton Corbijn
Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson, Joe Anderson, Nigel Harris
Biography / Drama / Music
UK / USA
English
1998
217
2000
Ed Harris
Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2002
218
1991
Errol Morris
Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking
Documentary / Biography
UK / Japan / USA
English
2002
218
2023
Michael Mann
Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Patrick Dempsey, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Biography / Sports / History
USA / UK / Italy / China
English
2005
219
1975
Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Jack Helmuth
Documentary / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2006
220
2008
James Marsh
Philippe Petit, Ardis Campbell, David Demato, David Frank, Aaron Haskil
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2012
221
1988
István Szabó
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson
Drama / Biography
Hungary / West Germany / Austria
Hungarian
2018
222
1947
Maurice Cloche
Pierre Fresnay, Yvonne Gaudeau, Jean Carmet, Lise Delamare
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2020
223
1986
Derek Jarman
Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Garry Cooper, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough
Biography / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2023
224
1981
Frank Perry
Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Mara Hobel
Biography / Drama / Cult
USA
English
2028
225
2005
Marc Rothemund
Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf
Drama / War / Biography
Germany
German
2030
226
1982
Phillip Borsos
Richard Farnsworth, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson
Western / Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
Canada
English
2030
226
1972
Jonas Mekas
Peter Kubelka, Annette Michelson
Documentary / Biography
UK / West Germany
English
2033
227
2019
Craig Brewer
Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2034
228
2013
John Lee Hancock
Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Family / History / Music
USA / UK / Australia
English
2047
229
2009
Anne Fontaine
Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain
Biography / Drama
France
French
2049
230
2002
Julie Taymor
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro, Amelia Zapata
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA / Canada / Mexico
English
2055
231
2006
Sofia Coppola
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period Film
Japan / France / USA
English
2061
232
2016
Pablo Larraín
Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco, Pablo Derqui
Biography / Drama
Chile / Argentina / France / Spain / USA
Spanish
2062
233
1985
Peter Bogdanovich
Cher, Sam Elliott, Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty, Richard A. Dysart, Laura Dern
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2063
234
1991
Alain Corneau
Jean-Pierre Marielle, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Guillaume Depardieu
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance / Period Film
France
French
2069
235
2017
James Franco
Dave Franco, James Franco, Seth Rogen, Ari Graynor, Alison Brie, Jacki Weaver
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2075
236
2006
Kevin Macdonald
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2078
237
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2081
238
2008
Uli Edel
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / War
Germany / France / Czech Republic
German
2088
239
2002
Jeffrey Blitz
Harry Altman, Angela Arenivar, Ted Brigham, April DeGideo, Neil Kadakia
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2089
240
2007
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker
Drama / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2095
241
2016
Clint Eastwood
Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Delphi Harrington, Mike O'Malley
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2098
243
1991
Agnès Varda
Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Biography / Drama / Comedy
France
French
2107
244
1999
Norman Jewison
Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2114
245
2007
David Sington
Buzz Aldrin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins
Documentary / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2115
246
2008
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Paolo Graziosi, Giulio Bosetti
Biography / Drama
Italy / France
Italian
2116
247
1957
Robert Mulligan
Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams, Perry Wilson
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2119
248
1999
Joe Johnston
Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott
Biography / Drama / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2130
249
1940
William Keighley
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Jeffrey Lynn, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Biography / Drama / War / Comedy
USA
English
2130
249
2022
Chinonye Chukwu
Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2135
250
1982
George T. Nierenberg
Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2139
251
1987
Luis Valdez
Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto
Drama / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2140
252
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
2144
253
2017
Armando Iannucci
Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards, Adrian McLoughlin
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History / Period Film
UK / Canada / France / Belgium
English
2144
253
1982
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2145
254
1998
Anand Tucker
Emily Watson, Rachel Griffiths, James Frain, David Morrissey
Biography / Drama / Music
UK
English
2147
255
2000
Philip Kaufman
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography
USA / Germany / UK
English
2149
256
2007
Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Adrien Brody, Richard Gere, Christian Bale
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
2160
257
1992
Stanley Kwan
Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Tony Leung Kar-Fai
Biography / Drama / Romance
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2162
258
1940
Lloyd Bacon
Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2165
259
2011
David Cronenberg
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Drama / Thriller / Biography / History
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland
English
2167
260
1982
Les Blank
Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2171
261
2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2173
262
2008
Martin Scorsese
The Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Jack White, Christina Aguilera, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA / UK
English
2175
263
2014
Bennett Miller
Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave
Biography / Drama / Sports / Thriller
USA
English
2184
264
2003
Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles, Joy Bryant, Paul Rodriguez, Nia Long
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2186
265
2000
Fernando Trueba
Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, Gato Barbieri, Eliane Elias
Documentary / Music / Biography
Spain / France / Italy
French
2186
265
1973
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna
Biography / Drama
UK
English
2186
265
1978
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Paul Kermack, Jessie Combe, William Carrol, Morag McNee
Biography / Drama
UK
English
2193
266
2012
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
UK / Norway / Denmark
English
2197
267
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2197
267
1973
Lamont Johnson
Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty
Drama / Action / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2197
267
1978
Robert Enders
Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, Trevor Howard
Drama / Biography
UK
English
2203
268
2005
Ron Howard
Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
USA
English
2203
268
1952
Walter Lang
Susan Hayward, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Thelma Ritter
Drama / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2205
269
2004
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Elliot Lovett, Nick Moncrief, Stuart Wilf, Devon Dixon, Javorn Drummond
Documentary / War / Biography
USA
English
2217
271
2023
Sean Durkin
Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany
Biography / Drama / Sports
UK / USA
English
2224
272
2006
Jonathan Demme
Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, Karl Himmel
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2230
273
1965
Richard Kaplan
Frances Cole, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2234
274
1990
Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk
Jesse Jackson, Ray Rogers
Documentary / Biography
USA / UK
English
2238
275
2023
Ava DuVernay
Victoria Pedretti, Vera Farmiga, Connie Nielsen, Jon Bernthal, Finn Wittrock
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2246
276
1990
Yves Robert
Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Didier Pain
Comedy / Drama / Biography
France
French
2253
277
1939
Mark Donskoy
Aleksei Lyarsky, Irina Zarubina, Varvara Massalitinova, Ye. Lilina
Biography / Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2257
278
2011
Wim Wenders
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / France / UK
German
2258
279
1955
Henry Koster
Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond
Drama / Family / Biography / Religion
USA
English
2258
279
2024
Luca Guadagnino
Lesley Manville, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, David Lowery
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2259
280
1940
Mark Donskoy
Nikolai Valbert, Stepan Kayukov, Nikolai Dorokhin, Nikolai Plotnikov
Biography / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2260
281
1951
Richard Thorpe
Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna, Richard Hageman
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2261
282
2017
Angelina Jolie
Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara
Biography / Drama / History
Cambodia / USA
Khmer
2266
283
2022
Laura Poitras
Nan Goldin, Marina Berio, Robert Suarez
Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2266
283
2018
Marielle Heller
Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2267
284
1987
David Hugh Jones
Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer, Maurice Denham
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2267
284
1957
Joseph Pevney
James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau, Jim Backus
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2267
284
1943
Michael Curtiz
Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, Gene Lockhart, George Tobias
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2272
285
2003
Patty Jenkins
Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson
Biography / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
USA / Germany
English
2277
286
1940
William Dieterle
Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp, Maria Ouspenskaya
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2277
286
2000
Raoul Peck
Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto
Drama / Biography
France / Belgium / Germany / Haiti
French
2277
286
1950
Jean Negulesco
Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa
War / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2277
286
1990
Robert Altman
Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier, Yves Dangerfield
Biography / Drama
Netherlands / UK / France
English
2285
287
1968
Karel Reisz
Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, John Fraser, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
UK / France
English
2294
288
1999
Milos Forman
Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry
Comedy / Drama / Biography
UK / Germany / Japan / USA
English
2295
289
2014
Angelina Jolie
Jai Courtney, Finn Wittrock, Jack O'Connell, Garrett Hedlund, Domhnall Gleeson
Biography / Drama / Sports / War
USA
English
2304
290
1971
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2305
291
2014
Steve James
Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2307
292
1988
Clint Eastwood
Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2308
293
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2308
293
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2310
294
1970
Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2312
295
1992
Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield, Aileen Wuornos, Arlene Pralle, Steven Glaser
Documentary / Biography / Crime
UK
English
2323
296
2023
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Viola Davis
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2323
296
1998
James Moll
Bill Basch, Alice Lok Cahana, Renee Firestone, Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2328
297
2012
Kevin Macdonald
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley
Documentary / Biography / Music / History
USA / UK
English
2331
298
1938
Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2333
299
1939
Henry King, Irving Cummings
Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull
Western / Biography
USA
English
2337
300
1956
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pablo Picasso
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2342
301
1965
Carol Reed
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
USA
English
2342
301
1961
Irvin Kershner
Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Keir Dullea
Drama / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2342
301
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2342
301
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2345
302
1992
Danny DeVito
Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
France / USA
English
2346
303
2002
Paul Justman
Richard 'Pistol' Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, Benny 'Papa Zita' Benjamin
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2347
304
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2350
305
2025
Richard Linklater
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
France / USA
French
2353
306
2019
Marielle Heller
Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Maryann Plunkett
Biography / Drama
China / USA
English
2353
306
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2356
307
1950
Roberto Rossellini
Aldo Fabrizi, Brother Nazario Gerardi, Arabella Lemaitre
Drama / Religion / Biography
Italy
Italian
2357
308
1994
Gérard Corbiau
Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso
Drama / Music / Comedy / Period Film / Romance / Biography
Italy / Belgium / France
French
2361
309
1968
Richard Fleischer
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Biography / Detective
USA
English
2361
309
1977
George Butler, Robert Fiore
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Mike Katz, Franco Columbu
Documentary / Sports / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2367
310
2003
Peter Webber
Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy
Biography / Drama
USA / UK / Luxembourg
English
2367
310
1999
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt, Randy Little, Tyrene Manson, Mickey Marcello
Documentary / Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2367
310
2002
Bertrand Tavernier
Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydès, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges
Biography / Drama / War
Spain / France / Germany
French
2369
311
2002
Denzel Washington
Derek Luke, Malcolm David Kelley, Cory Hodges, Denzel Washington, Joy Bryant
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2369
311
2008
Anthony Fabian
Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge, Hannes Brummer
Biography / Drama / Mystery / Period Film
UK / South Africa
English
2373
312
1998
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2373
312
1970
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2373
312
1991
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2373
312
2009
Kenny Ortega
Michael Jackson, Orianthi Panagaris, Tommy Organ, Bashiri Johnson, Jonathan Moffett
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2377
313
2015
Tom Hooper
Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Ben Whishaw
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK / Germany / USA
English
2380
314
2008
Steven Soderbergh
Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro, Catalina Sandino Moreno
Biography / Drama
Spain / France / USA
English
2384
315
1954
Nancy Hamilton
Helen Keller, Polly Thompson, Katharine Cornell, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2385
316
2008
Jean-François Richet
Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan
Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster
France / Canada
English
2388
317
2002
Steven Spielberg
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye
Biography / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2391
318
2013
Ron Howard
Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara
Action / Biography / Drama / Sports
USA / Germany / UK
English
2392
319
2008
Jean-François Richet
Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche
Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Gangster
France / Canada / Italy
French
2393
320
1934
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2395
321
2010
Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Dr. Joy Browne, Melissa Rivers, Jon Stewart
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2397
322
2003
Jonathan Demme
Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan, Michele Montas, Raoul Labuchin
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2397
322
2005
Ward Serrill
Ludacris, Devon Crosby Helms, Maude Lepley, Bill Resler, Darnellia Russell
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2397
322
1976
Gordon Parks
Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair, Alan Manson, Albert Hall
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2397
322
2004
Stacy Peralta
Greg Noll, Jeff Clark, Darrick Doerner, Laird John Hamilton, Dave Kalama
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA / France
English
2397
322
2002
Steve James
Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler, Verna Hagler
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2397
322
1949
Sam Wood
James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2397
322
1969
Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2401
323
2016
Nate Parker
Armie Hammer, Nate Parker, Penelope Ann Miller, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2401
323
1946
Kenji Mizoguchi
Minosuke Bandô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôtarô Bandô
Drama / Biography / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2401
323
2018
Morgan Neville
Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers, Jim Rogers, John Rogers, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2403
324
1967
Shirley Clarke
Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2414
325
2014
Laura Poitras
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen MacAskill
Documentary / Biography
Germany / USA
English
2414
325
2014
Gabe Polsky
Scotty Bowman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis
Documentary / Biography / History / Sports
USA / Russia
English
2415
326
2007
Andrzej Wajda
Joachim Paul Assböck, Waldemar Barwinski, Stanislawa Celinska, Andrzej Chyra
Drama / History / War / Biography
Poland
Polish
2415
326
2016
Jeff Nichols
Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2417
327
2003
Rick McKay
Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Marlon Brando, Shirley MacLaine
Documentary / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2418
328
2007
Seth Gordon
Walter Day, Billy Mitchell, Todd Rogers, Steve Sanders, Doris Self
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2419
329
1992
Edward James Olmos
Sal Lopez, Vira Montes, Roberto Martín Márquez, Dyana Ortelli
Biography / Drama / Crime / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
2419
329
1997
Gregory Nava
Jennifer Lopez, Jackie Guerra, Constance Marie, Alex Meneses, Jon Seda
Biography / Drama / Music
USA
English
2422
330
1974
Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Fay Anderson
Eadweard Muybridge, Dean Stockwell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2424
331
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2429
332
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2430
333
1983
Bob Fosse
Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2435
334
1975
Herbert Ross
Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall
Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2435
334
1962
Mervyn LeRoy
Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace
Musical / Drama / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2437
335
1930
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2441
336
1941
Mervyn LeRoy
Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2442
337
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2447
338
1952
Charles Vidor
Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh, Philip Tonge
Biography / Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
2450
339
1982
Graeme Clifford
Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jonathan Banks
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2452
340
1988
Michael Apted
Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi
Drama / Biography / Adventure
USA
English
2453
341
1960
Ken Hughes, Irving Allen
Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Drama / Biography
UK
English
2454
342
2011
Constance Marks, Philip Shane
Kevin Clash, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Oz, Cheryl Henson, Rosie O'Donnell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2457
343
1944
Lloyd Bacon
Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall
Biography / Drama / War
USA
English
2457
343
2000
Julien Temple
John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, Sid Vicious, Malcolm McLaren
Documentary / Music / Biography
UK / USA
English
2458
344
2019
Clint Eastwood
Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Walter Hauser, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Nina Arianda
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2461
345
1939
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2462
346
2022
Marie Kreutzer
Colin Morgan, Vicky Krieps, Finnegan Oldfield, Ivana Urban, Alma Hasun
Biography / Drama / History
Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France
German
2462
346
1950
Richard Thorpe
Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Vera-Ellen, Arlene Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gale Robbins
Biography / Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2464
347
2011
Clint Eastwood
Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, Ed Westwick
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2466
348
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2472
349
1946
Michael Curtiz
Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Eve Arden
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2484
350
1998
John Maybury
Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Anne Lambton, Adrian Scarborough
Biography / Drama
UK / France / Japan
English
2489
351
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2489
351
1984
Rob Epstein
Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
Documentary / Biography / History / Crime
USA
English
2493
352
1987
Todd Haynes
Rob LaBelle, Gwen Kraus, Bruce Tuthill
Short / Biography / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
2502
353
1933
Lev Kuleshov
Konstantin Khokhlov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Vasili Kovrigin, Andrei Fajt
Drama / Biography / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2506
354
2005
Sam Mendes
Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
2509
355
1985
Ken Burns
Huey Long, David McCullough, Russell Long
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2510
356
1982
Wim Wenders
Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Mystery / Crime / Post-Noir / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2510
356
1986
Alain Cavalier
Catherine Mouchet, Hélène Alexandridis, Aurore Prieto
Drama / Religion / Biography
France
French
2517
357
2005
Marilyn Agrelo
Tara Devon Gallagher, Madeleine Hackney, Charlotte Jorgensen, Rodney Lopez
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2523
358
1995
Jon Blair
Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Ashley Johnson
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
2523
358
1996
Jan Troell
Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Gard B. Eidsvold
Biography / Drama / War
Germany / Norway / Sweden / Denmark
Danish
2527
359
2012
Bart Layton
Frédéric Bourdin, Adam O'Brian, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben
Documentary / Biography / Crime
UK
English
2527
359
2017
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Joe Cole, Pornchanok Mabklang, Panya Yimmumphai, Vithaya Pansringarm
Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / Sports
France / UK / Cambodia / USA / China
English
2527
359
2014
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier
Documentary / Biography
France / Brazil / Italy
French
2527
359
2004
Peter Raymont
Roméo Dallaire
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Canada
English
2534
360
2008
Kurt Kuenne
Kurt Kuenne, Zachary Andrew, David Bagby, Dr. Andrew Bagby, Kathleen Bagby
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2534
360
2002
Bing Wang
Documentary / Biography
China / Netherlands
Mandarin
2538
361
2017
Aaron Sorkin
Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Jeremy Strong
Biography / Drama / Crime
China / USA
English
2539
362
2018
Julian Schnabel
Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric
Biography / Drama
Switzerland / UK / France / USA / Ireland
English
2539
362
2010
Richard Press
Anna Wintour, Bill Cunningham, Tom Wolfe, Edita Sherman, Annette de la Renta
Documentary / Biography
USA / France
English
2539
362
2023
Matt Johnson
Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
Canada
English
2539
362
2018
David Lowery
Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits, Sissy Spacek
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2539
362
2021
Pablo Larraín
Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Nielen, Freddie Spry, Jack Farthing
Biography / Drama / Romance
Germany / Chile / UK / USA
English
2540
363
2008
Chris Bell
Carl Lewis, Barry Bonds, Christian Boeving, Mark 'Smelly' Bell, Mike 'Mad Dog' Bell
Documentary / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2540
363
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2541
364
2019
Dexter Fletcher
Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Gemma Jones
Biography / Drama / Music / Musical
UK / USA / Canada
English
2542
365
2019
A.J. Eaton
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2543
366
1957
Don Siegel
Mickey Rooney, Carolyn Jones, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo Gordon, Anthony Caruso
Drama / Crime / Film-Noir / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
2543
366
2006
Tom Hooper
Lee Boardman, Jim Broadbent, Tam Dean Burn, Lindsay Duncan, Kate Miles
Drama / Religion / Biography / Crime
UK / USA
English
2543
366
1973
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA / France / Italy
English
2543
366
1943
Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks
Jack Buetel, Jane Russell, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Huston, Mimi Aguglia
Drama / Western / Romance / Biography
USA
English
2543
366
1992
John Schlesinger
James Fox, David Calder, Geoffrey Palmer, Prunella Scales, Jason Flemyng, Ann Beach
Drama / Thriller / Biography / Spy
UK
English
2544
367
1951
Michael Curtiz
Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore
Musical / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2545
368
2012
Malik Bendjelloul
Rodriguez, Clarence Avant, Malik Bendjelloul, Dennis Coffey, Eva Rodriguez
Documentary / Biography / Music
Sweden / UK
English
2548
369
1996
Julian Schnabel
Jeffrey Wright, Michael Wincott, Benicio Del Toro, Claire Forlani
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2550
370
2010
Errol Morris
Kent Gavin, Joyce McKinney, Jackson Shaw, Peter Tory, Troy Williams
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2551
371
1995
Mark Rappaport
Mary Beth Hurt, Jean Seberg
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2555
372
1974
Peter Watkins
Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Eric Allum, Amund Berge, Kerstii Allum
Biography / Drama
Sweden / Norway
Norwegian
2556
373
2002
Paul Schrader
Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2556
373
2003
Jonathan Caouette
Renee Leblanc, Jonathan Caouette, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis, David Sanin Paz
Documentary / Biography / Experimental
USA
English
2557
374
2004
Ondi Timoner
Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, Peter Holmstrom
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2557
374
2024
Pablo Larraín
Angelina Jolie, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Haluk Bilginer
Biography / Drama / Music
Italy / Germany / Chile
English
2557
374
2010
René Féret
Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau
Drama / History / Biography
France
French
2557
374
2023
Nikolaj Arcel
Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Amanda Collin, Jacob Lohmann, Kristine Kujath Thorp
Drama / War / Biography / History / Epic
Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Germany
Danish
2557
374
2013
John Curran
Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Rainer Bock
Biography / Drama
Australia
English
2559
375
2016
Stephen Frears
Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
UK
English
2560
376
2015
Robert Budreau
Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie, Tony Nappo, Stephen McHattie
Biography / Drama / Music
UK / Canada / USA
English
2560
376
2007
Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Jimmy Breslin, Burt Pugach, Linda Riss Pugach, Rusty Goldberg, Bob Janoff
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2560
376
2016
James Gray
Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2560
376
2023
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Anne Marie Kempf, Carolyn McCormick, Marcos Diaz
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2560
376
2019
Matt Tyrnauer
Roy Cohn, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, Ken Auletta, Anne Roiphe, Donald Trump
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2561
377
2005
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2561
377
1987
Stephen Frears
Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn
Biography / Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2561
377
2008
Oliver Stone
Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA / Hong Kong / Germany / UK / Australia
English
2565
378
2001
Werner Herzog
Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari, Max Raabe, Jacob Wein
Drama / War / Biography
UK / Germany / Ireland / USA
English
2566
379
2009
Nora Ephron
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Helen Carey
Biography / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2567
380
2023
Sofia Coppola
Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
Italy / USA
English
2567
380
2018
Jon S. Baird
John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Steve Coogan, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston
Biography / Comedy / Drama
UK / Canada / USA
English
2568
381
2018
Alex Holmes
Tracy Edwards, Jeni Mundy, Mikaela Von Koskull
Documentary / Sports / Biography
UK
English
2568
381
2002
Menno Meyjes
John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Ulrich Thomsen
Drama / Biography / Period Film / War
Hungary / Canada / UK
English
2569
382
2025
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Giles Surridge
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Music / Romance
USA / Ireland
English
2570
383
2009
Edmon Roch
Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith, Juan Kreisler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Spain
Spanish
2573
384
2005
Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, Woody Guthrie, D.A. Pennebaker
Documentary / Music / Biography
UK / USA / Japan
English
2575
385
1995
Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss, Madam Alex, Cookie, Ivan Nagy
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2575
385
2012
Roger Michell
Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2575
385
2005
Mary Harron
Gretchen Mol, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2575
385
2009
Sam Taylor-Wood
Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond
Biography / Drama / Music
UK / Canada
English
2575
385
2011
Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
Bill Courtney, O.C. Brown, Montrail 'Money' Brown, Chavis Daniels
Documentary / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2575
385
2009
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton, Don Bluth
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2575
385
1993
Brian Gibson
Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2577
386
2018
Guy Nattiv
Vera Farmiga, Danielle Macdonald, Jamie Bell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mike Colter
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2581
387
2021
Aaron Sorkin
Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2583
388
2002
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Robert Evans, Eddie Albert, William Castle, Francis Ford Coppola
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2585
389
2002
George Clooney
Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA / Canada / Germany
English
2585
389
2009
Tom Hooper
Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Henry Goodman
Biography / Drama / Sports / Period Film
UK
English
2586
390
2008
Alex Gibney
Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Jann Wenner
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2586
390
2004
Mark Wexler
Peter Bart, Verna Bloom, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Milos Forman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2588
391
2003
Lauren Lazin
Tupac Shakur, Rappin' 4-Tay, Conrad Bain, Bill Bellamy, William J. Bennett
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2593
392
2017
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
Biography | Drama | History / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2595
393
2024
Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally
Biography / Drama / History
Canada / Denmark / Ireland
English
2595
393
2018
Felix van Groeningen
Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2595
393
2015
Scott Cooper
Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2595
393
2010
Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2595
393
2025
Gus Van Sant
Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Myha'la, Kelly Lynch
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2595
393
2018
Gus Van Sant
Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Tony Greenhand
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2595
393
2013
Chiemi Karasawa
Elaine Stritch , Alec Baldwin, Rob Bowman, Tina Fey, James Gandolfini
Documentary / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2595
393
2016
Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Harry Benson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2595
393
2004
Laurence Dunmore
Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter, Stanley Townsend
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2595
393
2016
Roger Ross Williams
Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind
Documentary / Animation / Family / Biography
France / USA
English
2595
393
2014
Ethan Hawke
Seymour Bernstein, Jiyang Chen, Ethan Hawke, Junko Ichikawa, Marcus Ostermiller
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2595
393
2010
Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2596
394
1967
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Stuart Whitman
Documentary / War / History / Biography
France
French
2596
394
2005
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2596
394
2002
André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Traudl Junge
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Austria
German
2596
394
1977
Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna, Galina Mezenzewa
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2596
394
1987
Taylor Hackford
Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Little Richard, Bo Diddley
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2596
394
2002
Christian Charles
Jerry Seinfeld, Greg Giraldo, Sherrod Small, Jim Norton, Allan Havey, Colin Quinn
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
