Best Movies of 1993 by Rank
37
1
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
107
2
Jane Campion
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia / New Zealand / France
English
135
3
Kaige Chen
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge, Chun Li
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
277
4
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
Drama / Music / Romance
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
French
403
5
Harold Ramis
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance / Family / Cult
USA
English
729
6
Robert Altman
Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
808
7
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
824
8
Steven Spielberg
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
958
9
Martin Scorsese
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1001
10
Ang Lee
Winston Chao, May Chin, Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Taiwan / USA
Mandarin
1012
11
Andrew Davis
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Action / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1123
12
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Tianlu Li, Giong Lim, Chung Lin, Yang Liyin, Xin Shufen
Drama / Documentary / Biography
Taiwan
Mandarin
1164
13
Mike Leigh
David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
1165
14
Zhuangzhuang Tian
Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lu
Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
1187
15
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite
Drama
Ireland / UK
English
1214
16
Richard Attenborough
Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison
Drama / Romance / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1281
17
François Girard
Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands
English
1424
18
Woo-ping Yuen
Rongguang Yu, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Shi-Kwan Yen, James Wong
Action / Crime / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1490
19
Henry Selick
Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Animation / Musical / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
1575
20
Jonathan Demme
Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman
Drama
USA
English
1868
21
Wayne Wang
Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin
Drama
USA
English
1906
22
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Richard Briers, Keanu Reeves
Comedy / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
1949
23
Anh Hung Tran
Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong
Drama
France / Vietnam
Vietnamese
1953
24
Wolfgang Petersen
Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
2081
25
Lasse Hallström
Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2179
26
Claude Berri
Miou-Miou, Renaud, Jean Carmet, Judith Henry, Jean-Roger Milo
Drama / Period Film
Belgium / France / Italy
French
2243
27
Brian De Palma
Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Ingrid Rogers
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2251
28
Patrice Leconte
Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Thierry Lhermitte, Carole Bouquet
Comedy
France
French
2274
29
Nancy Savoca
Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Judith Malina
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2290
30
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2290
30
Steven Soderbergh
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray
Drama
USA
English
2307
31
Victor Nunez
Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2350
32
Ivan Reitman
Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2366
33
Steven Zaillian
Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne
Drama
USA
English
2396
34
Michael Caton-Jones
Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku
Drama
USA
English
2404
35
Richard Linklater
Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
2405
36
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Masanobu Katsumura
Action / Drama / Crime / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2439
37
Ken Loach
Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix, Ricky Tomlinson
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2441
38
Rolf de Heer
Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson, Syd Brisbane
Comedy / Crime / Drama
Australia / Italy
English
2465
39
George P. Cosmatos
Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn
Action / Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
2499
40
Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vonte Sweet
Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2521
41
Peter Weir
Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro
Drama
USA
English
2525
42
Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm
Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, Dick Miller
Animation / Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Family / Comic
USA
English
2531
44
André Téchiné
Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga
Drama
France
French
2534
45
Nora Ephron
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2537
46
Stephen Frears
Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam, Peter Rowan
Comedy / Drama
UK / Ireland
English
2558
47
Dominic Sena
Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes
Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2572
48
Brian Gibson
Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA
English
2591
49
Agnès Merlet
Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric Da Silva, Sandrine Blancke, Maxime Leroux
Drama
Belgium / France / Luxembourg
French
2591
49
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee, Charleen Swansea
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2606
50
Andrew Birkin
Andrew Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin
Drama
France / Germany / UK
English
2608
51
John N. Smith
Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn, Brian Dodd
Drama / Sports / Religion
Canada
English
2614
52
Joe Dante
John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2616
53
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
UK
English
2622
54
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary / War / History
Canada
English
2628
55
Sydney Pollack
Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook, Terry Kinney
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2628
55
Ronald F. Maxwell
Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang
Drama / History / War / Epic
USA
English
2628
55
Alan J. Pakula
Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Action
USA
English
2628
55
Philip Kaufman
Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Detective
USA
English
2648
56
Clint Eastwood
Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka
Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2657
57
Guillermo del Toro
Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath
Drama / Horror
Mexico
English
2657
57
Ricky Tognazzi
Claudio Amendola, Enrico Lo Verso, Carlo Cecchi, Ricky Memphis, Tony Sperandeo
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Italy
Italian
2657
57
Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, Michael Harris
Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
2673
58
Wim Wenders
Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz, Nastassja Kinski, Martin Olbertz, Aline Krajewski
Fantasy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Religion
Germany
German
2683
59
Chris Columbus
Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
2690
60
Fei Xie
Siqin Gaowa, Yujuan Wu, Kesheng Lei, Baoguo Chen, Xiaoguang Hu
Drama
China
Mandarin
2694
61
Vincent Ward
Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, Annie Galipeau, Patrick Bergin
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
Australia / UK / Canada / France
English
2694
61
Agnieszka Holland
Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley
Drama / Family
USA / UK
English
2697
62
Emir Kusturica
Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor, Vincent Gallo
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
France / USA
English
2697
62
Atom Egoyan
Arsinée Khanjian, Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamyan
Drama
Armenia / Canada / Germany
English
2700
63
Carlo Carlei
Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Sal Borgese, Lucio Zagaria
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
2700
63
Hans W. Geissendörfer
Maximilian Schell, Thomas Heinze, Anna Thalbach
Drama / Crime
Germany / Switzerland
German
2712
64
Morgan Freeman
Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers, Maynard Eziashi
Drama
USA
English
2712
64
Simon Wincer
Keiko, Jason James Richter, Lori Petty, Jayne Atkinson, August Schellenberg
Family / Adventure / Drama
France / USA
English
2712
64
Walter Hill
Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant
Drama / History / Western / Epic / Biography
USA
English
2712
64
Oliver Stone
Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro Sanruck, Supak Pititam, Joan Chen, Thuan K. Nguyen
Action / Biography / Drama / War / Romance
France / USA
English
2712
64
John McNaughton
Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Mike Starr, Tom Towles
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2712
64
David Anspaugh
Sean Astin, Jon Favreau, Ned Beatty, Greta Lind, Scott Benjaminson
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2712
64
Chris Hegedus, Christopher Hughes, D.A. Pennebaker
James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2712
64
John Duigan
Karina Lombard, Nathaniel Parker, Rachel Ward, Michael York, Martine Beswick
Drama / Romance
Australia
English
2712
64
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2713
65
Joel Schumacher
Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / USA
English
2713
65
Harold Becker
Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
Canada / USA
English
2719
66
Rich Arons, Peter Bonerz
Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, John Mariano, Chick Vennera
Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical / Serial
Japan / USA
English
2719
66
unknown
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, The Boswell Sisters
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2719
66
Mel Brooks
Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Mark Blankfield
Comedy
France / USA
English
2719
66
Forest Whitaker
William James Stiggers Jr., Chi Ali, Bokeem Woodbine, Starletta DuPois
Action / Drama
USA
English
2719
66
Richard Williams
Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Toni Collette, Kevin Dorsey, Donald Pleasence
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
UK / USA
English
2719
66
Peter Bogdanovich
River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, K.T. Oslin
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
2719
66
unknown
Jimmie Rodgers, Whistler's Jug Band, Jack Johnson's Jazz Band, Ted Weems, Otto Gray
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2719
66
John Greyson
John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas
Musical / Fantasy / Comedy
Canada
English
2727
67
Steven Spielberg
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
2730
68
Renny Harlin
Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linn
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Crime / Caper
Italy / France / USA
English
2751
70
Philippe Garrel
Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2755
71
Andrew Young, Susan Todd, Michael Roemer, Robert M. Young
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2755
71
Bryan Singer
Ron Marquette, Burt Williams, Leigh Hunt, John Renshaw
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2755
71
Peter Friedman, Tom Joslin
Liane Bonin, Tom Joslin, Mark Massi
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2765
72
Manoel de Oliveira
Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho
Drama / Romance
France / Portugal / Switzerland
Portuguese
2765
72
Nick Park
Peter Sallis
Animation / Short / Comedy / Crime / Family / Mystery / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2766
73
Raoul Peck
Jennifer Zubar, Toto Bissainthe, Patrick Rameau
Drama
France / Canada
Haitian
2768
74
Rob Weiss
Chris Santos, Michael Leb, Christian Thom, Lou Cantelmo, Jerry Leonard
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2768
74
Nikita Mikhalkov
Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Nikita Mikhalkov
Documentary / Biography
Russia / France
Russian
2768
74
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Ron Rifkin, Joy Behar
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2768
74
Robert M. Young
Edward James Olmos, Sarah Lassez, Sonia Braga, Maria Conchita Alonso
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2768
74
Åke Sandgren
Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård, Basia Frydman, Niklas Olund
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Swedish
2768
74
Jon Amiel
Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, Bill Pullman, James Earl Jones, Lanny Flaherty
Drama / Mystery / Romance
France / USA
English
2768
74
Joseph Vilsmaier
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Drama / War / Epic
Germany / Sweden
German
2768
74
Kwang-su Park
Hye-jin Shim, So-young Ahn, Young-yi Lee, Yong-man Kim, Hyung-in Choi
Drama / Fantasy
South Korea
Korean
2776
75
Maggie Greenwald
Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung
Drama / Western
USA
English
2776
75
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Ali Asghar, Subhash Ghai
Action / Crime / Musical / Romance / Fantasy
India
Hindi
2776
75
Yousry Nasrallah
Zaki Abdel Wahab, Taheya Cariocca, Seif El Dine, Youssra
Drama / Adventure / Romance
Egypt / France
Arabic
NR
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Blake Edwards
Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Shabana Azmi, Debrah Farentino
Comedy / Detective / Crime / Family
Italy / USA
English
