Best Movies of 1994 by Rank
19
1
Quentin Tarantino
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
133
2
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
Poland / France / Switzerland
French
313
3
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown
Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
441
5
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Comedy / Drama
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
Polish
517
6
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
524
7
Steve James
William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
534
8
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Drama / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
657
9
Mike Newell
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas
Comedy / Romance / Drama
UK
English
691
10
Kar Wai Wong
Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Drama / Mystery / Romance
Hong Kong
Cantonese
796
12
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Matthew Broderick, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson
Family / Adventure / Animation / Musical / Comedy / Fantasy
USA
English
817
13
Peter Jackson
Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent
Drama / Romance / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror
UK / Germany / New Zealand
English
839
14
Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred
Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Holger Juul Hansen
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Comedy / Cult
Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden
Danish
928
16
John Dahl
Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses, Zack Phifer
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
USA
English
982
17
Yimou Zhang
You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Xiao Cong, Deng Fei, Tao Guo, Wu Jiang, Zhang Lu
Drama
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
1024
18
Béla Tarr
Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy
Drama
Hungary / Germany / Switzerland
Hungarian
1058
19
Jan de Bont
Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck
Action / Thriller
USA
English
1093
20
Milcho Manchevski
Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin
Drama / War
Rep of N Macedonia / France / UK
Macedonian
1154
21
Michael Radford
Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy / Belgium
Italian
1258
22
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1262
23
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Drama
France / Russia
Russian
1390
24
Kevin Smith
Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Lisa Spoonhauer, Jason Mewes
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA
English
1418
25
Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti, Giovanna Bozzolo, Sebastiano Nardone, Antonio Petrocelli
Biography / Comedy / Drama
Italy / France
Italian
1462
26
P.J. Hogan
Sophie Lee, Rosalind Hammond, Toni Collette, Belinda Jarrett, Pippa Grandison
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Australia / France
English
1479
27
Ang Lee
Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-Lien Wu, Sylvia Chang
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Taiwan / USA
Mandarin
1572
28
Oliver Stone
Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr.
Action / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1664
29
Robert Benton
Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
1694
30
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
Comedy / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1697
31
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Biography
France / Italy / Germany
French
1739
32
Lee Tamahori
Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Julian Arahanga
Drama
New Zealand
English
1773
33
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Drama / Documentary
France / Iran
Persian
1896
34
Louis Malle
Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes, Lynn Cohen, Jerry Mayer
Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
1899
35
Gillian Armstrong
Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado
Drama / Romance / Family / Period Film
USA
English
2002
36
Boaz Yakin
Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / USA
English
2025
37
Atom Egoyan
Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, David Hemblen
Drama
Canada
English
2041
38
Chia-Liang Liu, Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan, Lung Ti, Anita Mui, Felix Wong, Chia-Liang Liu
Action / Comedy
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2093
39
Luc Besson
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Gangster
France
English
2100
40
Stephan Elliott
Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Bill Hunter
Comedy / Drama / Music / Cult
Australia
English
2126
41
Michael J. Sheridan, Bud Friedgen
Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Debbie Reynolds
Documentary / Family / Musical
USA
English
2217
42
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío
Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz
Drama / Comedy
Cuba / Mexico / Spain
Spanish
2289
43
Ken Loach
Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle, Mauricio Venegas
Drama
UK
English
2290
44
Xiaowen Zhou
Liya Ai, Peiqi Liu, Zhijun Ge, Haiyan Zhang, Zhenguo Yan, Xiao Yang
Drama / Comedy
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2314
45
Michael Tolkin
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Corbin Bernsen
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2320
46
Antonia Bird
Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson, Lesley Sharp
Drama / Religion
UK
English
2406
47
Jean Bach
Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2475
48
Gérard Corbiau
Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso
Drama / Music / Comedy / Period Film / Romance / Biography
Italy / Belgium / France
French
2509
49
Spike Lee
Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, Carlton William
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2517
50
Woody Allen
John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2612
51
Michael Apted
Lu Li, Jin-Ming Zhang, Yi-Ming Huang, Yi-fen Kan, Ke-Hsi Hsiang, Tsung-cheng Hou
Documentary / Biography
UK / Canada
English
2628
52
Alex Proyas
Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Ling Bai
Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Tech-Noir / Cult
USA
English
2640
53
Danny Boyle
Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen
Drama / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2648
54
Ming-liang Tsai
Kuei-Mei Yang, Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee
Drama
Taiwan
Mandarin
2695
55
Tom Shadyac
Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young, Tone Loc, Dan Marino, Noble Willingham
Action / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2695
55
Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Karen Duffy, Charles Rocket
Adventure / Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2695
55
John Waters
Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Morgan
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2695
55
David O. Russell
Jeremy Davies, Alberta Watson, Elizabeth Newett, Benjamin Hendrickson, Carla Gallo
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2696
56
Joel Schumacher
Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2696
56
Barry Levinson
Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Roma Maffia
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2698
57
Kaizo Hayashi
Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano, Kiyotaka Nanbara, Yang Haitin, Hou De Jian
Drama / Comedy / Mystery / Post-Noir / Detective
Japan / China / Taiwan
Japanese
2706
58
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2734
59
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
UK / Germany / USA
English
2746
60
Brian Gilbert
Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2758
61
Edward Zwick
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film
USA
English
2762
62
Lourdes Portillo
Ofelia Almeida, Jesus de la Torre
Documentary / Mystery
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2762
62
Freida Lee Mock
Maya Lin
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2769
63
Michael Blakemore
Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia
English
2769
63
Alan Rudolph
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2769
63
John Sayles
Jeni Courtney, Pat Slowey, Dave Duffy, Declan Hannigan
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
USA / Ireland
English
2772
64
Mina Shum
Sandra Oh, Stephen Chang, Alannah Ong, Frances You, Johnny Mah
Drama / Comedy
Canada
English
2789
65
Abel Ferrara
Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, Reilly Murphy, Billy Wirth
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2789
65
Luis Mandoki
Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Ellen Burstyn, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Lauren Tom
Drama
USA
English
2794
66
Martine Dugowson
Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Thomassin
Drama
Netherlands / France / Belgium
French
2795
67
Kar Wai Wong
Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
Hong Kong / China / Taiwan
Cantonese
2795
67
Giacomo Campiotti
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giancarlo Giannini, Ignazio Oliva
Drama
France / Italy / UK
Italian
2795
67
Michael Apted
Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini
Drama
USA
English
2795
67
Robert Altman
Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Comedy
USA
English
2798
68
Shaohong Li
Ji Wang, Zhiwen Wang, Caifei He, Liwei Zhang, Ruoli Wang
Drama / Romance
China / Hong Kong
Cantonese
2798
68
Ho Yim
Gaowa Siqin, Chung Hua Tou, Jingwu Ma, Zhi Wei
Drama / Mystery
Hong Kong
Mandarin
2798
68
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Michael Lonsdale
Documentary / Experimental
France / Belgium
French
2798
68
James L. Brooks
Nick Nolte, Albert Brooks, Whittni Wright, Julie Kavner
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2799
69
Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Earl Jones, Jim Cummings
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Family / Musical / Fantasy / Epic
USA
English
2804
70
Moufida Tlatli
Amel Hedhili, Najia Ouerghi, Hend Sabri, Fatima Ben Saïdane
Drama
France / Tunisia
Arabic
2807
71
Michael Apted
Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar, Peter Friedman, Bruce A. Young
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2807
71
Lodge H. Kerrigan
Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald, Molly Castelloe
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2807
71
Hugh Wilson
Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2807
71
Anthony Drazan
Harvey Keitel, Fairuza Balk, Kelly Lynch, Vincent D'Onofrio, Diane Baker
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2807
71
Bernard Rose
Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege
Biography / Drama / Musical / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2807
71
Fred Schepisi
Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau, Lou Jacobi, Gene Saks, Joseph Maher
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
71
Andrew Bergman
Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce, Isaac Hayes
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
71
Ivan Reitman
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, Pamela Reed
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2807
71
Andrew Scheinman
Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton, Ashley Crow, Kevin Dunn
Comedy / Drama / Family / Sports
USA
English
2807
71
Norman Jewison
Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2807
71
Ron Howard
Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2807
71
John Duigan
Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Sam Neill, Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi
Comedy / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2807
71
Steven M. Martin
Leon Theremin, Clara Rockmore, Robert Moog, Nicolas Slonimsky, Paul Shure
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA / UK
English
2807
71
John Irvin
Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent
Thriller / Comedy / Romance / Mystery
UK / Ireland
English
2813
72
Robert Morin
Donald Morin, Guy Nadon, Nathalie Coupal, Michel Laperrière
Drama
Canada
French
2830
73
Jacques Rivette
Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2830
73
Jacques Rivette
Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2846
74
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Ronnie Washington
Documentary / History
USA
English
2846
74
Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan, Karen Sillas
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2853
75
Rafal Zielinski
Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope, Ania Suli
Drama / Crime
Canada
English
2853
75
Boro Draskovic
Mirjana Jokovic, Boris Isakovic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Predrag Ejdus
War
Cyprus / Italy / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2858
76
Whit Stillman
Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Tushka Bergen, Mira Sorvino, Pep Munné
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2858
76
Pascale Ferran
Didier Sandre, Alexandre Zloto, Catherine Ferran, Agathe De Chassey
Drama
France
French
2858
76
Mario Camus
Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines, Fernando Valverde, Anabel Alonso
Crime / Drama
Spain
Spanish
2858
76
Dorota Kedzierzawska
Karolina Ostrozna, Kasia Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska, Anna Prucnal
Drama
Poland
Polish
2858
76
Michel Blanc
Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel
Comedy
France
French
2858
76
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Richard Bohringer, Saïd Diarra, Félicité Wouassi, Alex Descas
Drama
Burkina Faso / France
French
2858
76
Doug McHenry
Allen Payne, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Anthony 'Treach' Criss
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2858
76
Bob Balaban
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Maureen Stapleton, Lionel Stander, Olivia d'Abo
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2858
76
James Gray
Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Guilfoyle
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2858
76
Richard Donner
Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, Alfred Molina
Adventure / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2858
76
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Örvar Jens Arnarson, Rúrik Haraldsson, Orri Helgason
Drama / Biography
Iceland / Germany / Denmark
Icelandic
2858
76
Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward
Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward, Dolores McDougal, Tara Shannon
Comedy
USA
English
2858
76
Doris Dörrie
Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German
2858
76
David Mamet
William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Scott Zigler, Rebecca Pidgeon
Drama
UK / USA
English
2858
76
Geoff Burton, Kevin Dowling
Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson, Deborah Kennedy, Joss Moroney
Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
2858
76
Adawna, Frank Cardon, La Traun Parker
Frank Cardon, Adwana, Gloria, La Traun Parker
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2858
76
Jay Craven
Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Bill Raymond, Mark Margolis, Michael J. Fox
Drama
USA
English
2866
77
Barry Levinson
Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe
Crime / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
NR
-
Brian Levant
John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan
Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
Chuck Russell
Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni
Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy
USA
English
