Top Ten Movies of the Year by Year
2268
2025
1
Zach Cregger
Scarlett Sher, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Jason Turner, Josh Brolin
Horror / Mystery
USA
English
2346
2025
2
Alex Garland, Ray Mendoza
D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett
Action / Drama / War / Adventure
USA / UK
English
2664
2025
3
Steven Soderbergh
Michael Fassbender, Gustaf Skarsgård, Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Marisa Abela
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2664
2025
3
Jafar Panahi
Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller
Iran / France / Luxembourg
Persian
2673
2025
4
Joachim Trier
Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning
Comedy / Drama
Norway / Germany / Denmark / France / Sweden
Norwegian
2681
2025
5
Oliver Laxe
Sergi López, Bruno Núñez Arjona, Stefania Gadda
Drama
France / Spain
Spanish
2681
2025
5
Mascha Schilinski
Hanna Heckt, Lena Urzendowsky, Susanne Wuest, Luise Heyer, Laeni Geiseler
Drama
Germany
German
2693
2025
6
Gabriel Mascaro
Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarras, Adanilo, Rosa Malagueta
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Brazil / Mexico / Netherlands / Chile
Portuguese
2702
2025
7
Iván Fund
Mara Bestelli, Anika Bootz, Betania Cappato, Marcelo Subiotto
Fantasy / Drama
Argentina / Spain / Uruguay
Spanish
2705
2025
8
Philip Barantini
Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2705
2025
8
Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin
Billy Joel, Jon Small, Liberty DeVitto, Judy Molinari, Christie Brinkley
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2705
2025
8
Drew Hancock
Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
USA
English
2705
2025
8
Ryan Coogler
Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku
Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller / Adventure / Fantasy
USA / Australia / Canada
English
2705
2025
8
Eva Victor
Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack, Lucas Hedges
Comedy / Drama
USA / Spain / France
English
2719
2025
9
Julius Onah
Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2719
2025
9
Jonathan Dayton, MJ Delaney, David Dobkin, Valerie Faris, John Hamburg, Jaffar Mahmood
Owen Wilson, Peter Dager, Lilli Kay, Mariana Treviño, Marc Maron
Comedy / Sports
USA
English
2719
2025
9
Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen, Catherine O'Hara, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn
Comedy, Drama
USA
English
2729
2025
10
Scott Frank, Elisa Amoruso
Matthew Goode, Kelly Macdonald, Chloe Pirrie, Alexej Manvelov, Leah Byrne
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
2729
2025
10
Christopher Landon
Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Reed Diamond
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA / Ireland
English
2729
2025
10
Josh Ruben
Alex Walker, Lauren O'Hara, Latham Gaines, Alex McColl, Karlton Laing
Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Romance
USA / New Zealand
English
2729
2025
10
Alex Russell
Théodore Pellerin, Archie Madekwe, Sunny Suljic, Cam Hicks, Chaize Macklin
Crime / Drama / Music / Thriller
USA / Italy
English
2729
2025
10
Joon Ho Bong
Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Michael Monroe, Patsy Ferran, Cameron Britton
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama
USA / South Korea
English
2729
2025
10
Osgood Perkins
Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Elijah Wood
Horror / Comedy
USA / UK
English
2729
2025
10
Jesse Armstrong
Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Daniel Oreskes
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2729
2025
10
Mariska Hargitay
Jayne Mansfield, Mariska Hargitay, Zoltan Hargitay, Mickey Hargitay Jr.
Documentary
USA
English
2729
2025
10
Michael Shanks
Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Mia Morrissey, Karl Richmond, Jack Kenny
Horror / Romance
Australia / USA
English
2729
2025
10
Peter Kosminsky
Claire Foy, Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Charlie Rowe, Elizabeth Conboy
Drama / History
USA
English
634
2024
1
Sean Baker
Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Karren Karagulian
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
717
2024
2
Brady Corbet
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
Drama / History / Epic
USA / UK / Hungary
English
902
2024
3
Jacques Audiard
Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramírez
Comedy / Crime / Musical / Thriller / Drama
France / USA / Mexico
Spanish
1100
2024
4
James Mangold
Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Edward Norton
Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
1109
2024
5
Payal Kapadia
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad
Drama
France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy
Malayalam
1113
2024
6
Edward Berger
Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msamati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow
Thriller / Religion / Drama / Mystery
UK / USA
English
1120
2024
7
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany / France
Persian
1215
2024
8
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
1456
2024
9
RaMell Ross
Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jase Stidwell
Drama / History
USA
English
1510
2024
10
Jon M. Chu
Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey
Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Drama / Epic
USA / Canada / Iceland
English
598
2023
1
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
668
2023
2
Justine Triet
Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
753
2023
3
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
756
2023
4
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
771
2023
5
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
772
2023
6
Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott
Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
956
2023
7
Celine Song
Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah, Leem Seung-min
Drama / Romance
USA / South Korea
English
1253
2023
8
Bradley Cooper
Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Vincenzo Amato, Greg Hildreth
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
1320
2023
9
Greta Gerwig
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera
Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Musical
USA / UK
English
1465
2023
10
Cord Jefferson
Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
734
2022
1
Todd Field
Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover
Drama / Music
USA
English
816
2022
2
Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
923
2022
3
Steven Spielberg
Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Jeannie Berlin
Drama
USA
English
963
2022
4
Martin McDonagh
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan
Drama / Comedy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1039
2022
5
Joseph Kosinski
Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Bashir Salahuddin
Action / Drama / Adventure
China / USA
English
1136
2022
6
James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Epic
USA
English
1192
2022
7
Jerzy Skolimowski
Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
Drama
Poland / Italy
Polish
1396
2022
8
Edward Berger
Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Aaron Hilmer, Moritz Klaus, Adrian Grünewald
Action / Drama / War / Epic
Germany / USA / UK
German
1448
2022
9
Santiago Mitre
Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Santiago Armas, Laura Paredes
Drama / Crime / Period Film
Argentina / USA
Spanish
1471
2022
10
Lukas Dhont
Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Kevin Janssens, Igor van Dessel
Drama
Belgium / Netherlands / France
Dutch
763
2021
1
Jane Campion
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Drama / Romance / Western
UK / Australia / USA / Canada / New Zealand
English
877
2021
2
Paul Thomas Anderson
Will Angarola, Griff Giacchino, James Kelley, Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
974
2021
3
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin
Drama
Japan
Japanese
978
2021
4
Denis Villeneuve
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Epic
USA / Canada
English
1077
2021
5
Kenneth Branagh
Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan
Drama
UK
English
1096
2021
6
Steven Spielberg
Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno
Crime / Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1316
2021
7
Joachim Trier
Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Mia McGovern Zaini, Maria Grazia Di Meo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Norway / France / Sweden / Denmark
Norwegian
1387
2021
8
Paolo Sorrentino
Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo, Marlon Joubert, Luisa Ranieri
Drama
Italy
Italian
1499
2021
9
Adam McKay
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan
Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1552
2021
10
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Jon Bernthal, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton
Biography / Drama / Sports
USA
English
467
2020
1
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
842
2020
2
Lee Isaac Chung
Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-Jung Youn, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Will Patton
Drama
USA
English
918
2020
3
Emerald Fennell
Carey Mulligan, Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Timothy E. Goodwin
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comedy
UK / USA
English
1107
2020
4
Florian Zeller
Olivia Colman, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots
Drama
UK / France
English
1312
2020
5
Thomas Vinterberg
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, Maria Bonnevie
Comedy / Drama
Denmark / Sweden / Netherlands
Danish
1313
2020
6
David Fincher
Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey, Arliss Howard
Biography / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1356
2020
7
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
1596
2020
8
Regina King
Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr., Lance Reddick
Drama
USA
English
1688
2020
9
Jasmila Zbanic
Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrovic, Johan Heldenbergh
Drama / War
Bosnia-Herzegovina / Austria / Romania / Netherlands / Germany / Poland / France / Norway / Turkey
Bosnian
1800
2020
10
Thomas Kail
Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
320
2019
1
Joon Ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Seo-joon Park
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
675
2019
2
Céline Sciamma
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Drama / Romance
France
French
702
2019
3
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, Joe Pesci, Stephen Graham
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
955
2019
4
Noah Baumbach
Scarlett Johansson, Merritt Wever, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Ray Liotta
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
959
2019
5
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
1002
2019
6
Sam Mendes
Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, Dean-Charles Chapman
Drama / War / Period Film / Epic
UK / USA
English
1092
2019
7
Todd Phillips
Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA / Canada
English
1103
2019
8
Pedro Almodóvar
Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano
Drama
Spain
Spanish
1176
2019
9
Taika Waititi
Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi
Comedy / Drama / War
Czech Republic / New Zealand
English
1205
2019
10
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
437
2018
1
Alfonso Cuarón
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Drama
Mexico / USA
Spanish
850
2018
2
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
882
2018
3
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
946
2018
4
Peter Farrelly
Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Adventure
USA
English
1006
2018
5
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott
Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
1195
2018
6
Barry Jenkins
KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris
Crime / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1232
2018
7
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1250
2018
8
Spike Lee
Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin, Ryan Eggold, Laura Harrier
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1327
2018
9
Ryan Coogler
Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Comic
USA
English
1378
2018
10
Nadine Labaki
Kawthar Al Haddad, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Nadine Labaki, Zain Al Rafeea
Drama
Lebanon / USA
Arabic
802
2017
1
Guillermo del Toro
Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller | War
USA
English
818
2017
2
Martin McDonagh
Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Lucas Hedges, Clarke Peters
Comedy | Crime | Drama
UK / USA
English
888
2017
3
Luca Guadagnino
Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Drama | Romance
Italy / France / Brazil / USA
English
912
2017
4
Jordan Peele
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford
Horror / Mystery
USA
English
984
2017
5
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
998
2017
6
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Timothée Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf, Kathryn Newton
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1157
2017
7
Robin Campillo
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Drama / Romance
France
French
1197
2017
8
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Yanina Hope, Matvey Novikov
Drama
Russia / France
Russian
1228
2017
9
Ruben Östlund
Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, Terry Notary
Comedy / Drama
Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark
Swedish
1363
2017
10
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
461
2016
1
Barry Jenkins
Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert, Janelle Monáe
Drama
USA
English
476
2016
2
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
653
2016
3
Maren Ade
Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl
Comedy / Drama
Germany / Austria
German
751
2016
4
Kenneth Lonergan
Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill
Drama
USA
English
858
2016
5
Denis Villeneuve
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
1227
2016
6
Chan-wook Park
Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, So-ri Moon, Hae-suk Kim
Drama / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1266
2016
7
Paul Verhoeven
Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira
Drama / Thriller
France / Germany / Belgium
French
1378
2016
8
David Mackenzie
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Dale Dickey
Crime / Drama / Caper / Action
USA
English
1418
2016
9
Asghar Farhadi
Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati
Drama / Thriller
Iran / France
Persian
1459
2016
10
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby
Drama
USA
English
522
2015
1
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
536
2015
2
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
973
2015
4
Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA / France
English
1085
2015
5
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas
Adventure / Drama / Western / Thriller / Epic / Biography
USA
English
1150
2015
6
Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen
Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Adventure
USA
English
1257
2015
7
Lenny Abrahamson
Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Jacob Tremblay, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel
Drama
Ireland / Canada
English
1261
2015
8
Ridley Scott
Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1292
2015
9
John Crowley
Saoirse Ronan, Matt Glynn, Brid Brennan, Jim Broadbent, Maeve McGrath
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Ireland / UK / Canada
English
1371
2015
10
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo, Marisa Tomei
Biography / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
389
2014
1
Richard Linklater
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater
Drama
USA
English
731
2014
2
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov
Drama / Documentary
Russia
Russian
735
2014
3
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
744
2014
4
Wes Anderson
Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
1007
2014
5
Morten Tyldum
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance
Biography / Drama / Thriller / War
UK / USA
English
1148
2014
6
Abderrahmane Sissako
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Mehdi A.G. Mohamed
Drama
France / Mauritania
French
1317
2014
7
Damien Chazelle
Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist, J.K. Simmons, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair
Drama / Music
USA
English
1319
2014
8
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry
Drama
Belgium / France / Italy
French
1416
2014
9
Clint Eastwood
Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Brian Hallisay
Action / Biography / War / Drama
USA
English
1453
2014
10
James Marsh
Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry, Finlay Wright-Stephens
Biography / Drama / Romance
UK
English
465
2013
1
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
591
2013
2
Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte
Drama / Comic / Romance
France
French
687
2013
3
Pawel Pawlikowski
Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna Kulig, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski
Drama / Religion
Poland / Denmark
Polish
762
2013
4
Alfonso Cuarón
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Eric Michels, Basher Savage, Paul Sharma
Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / UK
English
773
2013
5
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Jon Bernthal
Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
864
2013
6
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
909
2013
7
Spike Jonze
Joaquin Phoenix, Lynn Adrianna, Lisa Renee Pitts, Gabe Gomez, Chris Pratt
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
USA
English
930
2013
8
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA / France
English
1149
2013
9
Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, Corey Johnson
Action / Adventure / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1156
2013
10
Alexander Payne
Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
345
2012
1
Michael Haneke
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Drama
France / Germany / Austria
French
485
2012
2
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
756
2012
3
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
764
2012
4
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
896
2012
5
Ang Lee
Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Gautam Belur, Adil Hussain
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1020
2012
6
Paul Thomas Anderson
Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, Laura Dern
Drama / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
1100
2012
7
Leos Carax
Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau, Jeanne Disson
Drama / Fantasy
France / Germany
French
1119
2012
8
Benh Zeitlin
Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel Alexander, Marilyn Barbarin
Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
1160
2012
9
David O. Russell
Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles, Chris Tucker
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1201
2012
10
Tom Hooper
Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
351
2011
1
Asghar Farhadi
Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi
Drama
Iran
Persian
509
2011
2
Terrence Malick
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler
Drama / Sci-Fi / Period Film
USA
English
515
2011
3
Michel Hazanavicius
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Missi Pyle
Romance / Comedy / Drama
France / Belgium
English (Semi-Silent)
788
2011
4
Martin Scorsese
Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
835
2011
5
Alexander Payne
George Clooney, Judy Greer, Shailene Woodley, Matthew Lillard, Beau Bridges
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
901
2011
6
Lars von Trier
Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling
Drama / Sci-Fi
Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany
English
1271
2011
7
Woody Allen
Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Carla Bruni
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Spain / USA
English
1329
2011
8
Kenneth Lonergan
Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Matthew Broderick
Drama
USA
English
1447
2011
9
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Jeremy Irvine
Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
1466
2011
10
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie, Hannah Ware
Drama
UK
English
295
2010
1
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
419
2010
2
Christopher Nolan
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Fantasy
USA / UK
English
446
2010
3
Tom Hooper
Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / Australia
English
793
2010
4
Darren Aronofsky
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Janet Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
838
2010
5
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld, Barry Pepper
Drama / Western
USA
English
1023
2010
6
Debra Granik
Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone
Drama
USA
English
1069
2010
7
Lee Unkrich
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles, Michael Keaton
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
1086
2010
8
David O. Russell
Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe, Jack McGee
Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1151
2010
9
Denis Villeneuve
Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard
Drama
Canada
French
1229
2010
10
Lisa Cholodenko
Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
313
2009
1
Jacques Audiard
Niels Arestrup, Alaa Oumouzoune, Tahar Rahim, Gilles Cohen, Farid Elouardi
Crime / Drama / Gangster
France / Italy
French
413
2009
2
Michael Haneke
Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Burghart Klaußner, Josef Bierbichler
Drama / Period Film
Austria / France / Germany
German
568
2009
3
Quentin Tarantino
Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender
Drama / War / Adventure
USA / Germany / France
English
585
2009
4
James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
670
2009
5
Jason Reitman
George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Danny McBride
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
685
2009
6
Lee Daniels
Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd
Drama
USA
English
789
2009
7
Juan José Campanella
Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Argentina / Spain
Spanish
883
2009
8
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
USA / UK / France
English
1006
2009
9
Andrea Arnold
Michael Fassbender, Harry Treadaway, Kierston Wareing, Katie Jarvis, Jason Maza
Drama
UK
English
1106
2009
10
Lone Scherfig
Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, William Melling
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
206
2008
1
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
312
2008
2
Tomas Alfredson
Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist
Drama / Horror / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
353
2008
3
Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tanay Chheda
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
387
2008
4
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
550
2008
5
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
658
2008
6
Andrew Stanton
Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Elissa Knight, John Ratzenberger
Animation / Comedy / Family / Romance / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
814
2008
7
Gus Van Sant
Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill
Biography / Drama
USA
English
826
2008
8
Ron Howard
Toby Jones, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK / France
English
880
2008
9
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
1001
2008
10
Matteo Garrone
Salvatore Abruzzese, Salvatore Ruocco, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale
Crime / Drama / Gangster
Italy
Italian
179
2007
1
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
243
2007
2
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
350
2007
3
Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Biography / Drama
France / USA
French
376
2007
4
Cristian Mungiu
Adi Carauleanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Vlad Ivanov, Anamaria Marinca
Drama
Romania
English
487
2007
5
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Tilly Mandelbrot
Animation / Drama / Comic
France
French
655
2007
6
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
979
2007
7
Jason Reitman
Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Olivia Thirlby
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1034
2007
8
Andrew Dominik
Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Brooklynn Proulx, Dustin Bollinger, Casey Affleck
Action / Drama / Western
USA
English
1060
2007
9
Sean Penn
Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian Dierker
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1069
2007
10
Tony Gilroy
George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
149
2006
1
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
278
2006
2
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
478
2006
3
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
578
2006
4
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
815
2006
5
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal, Jamie McBride
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
856
2006
6
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
897
2006
7
Joon Ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko
Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
911
2006
8
Pedro Almodóvar
Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
1022
2006
9
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
1043
2006
10
Larry Charles
Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Pamela Anderson
Comedy
USA
English
153
2005
1
Ang Lee
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
Drama / Romance / Western
USA
English
425
2005
2
Michael Haneke
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Drama / Thriller
France / Austria / Germany / Italy
French
553
2005
3
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
693
2005
4
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
763
2005
5
Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper
Biography / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
854
2005
6
Gavin Hood
Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe, Percy Matsemela
Crime / Drama / Gangster
UK / South Africa
Zulu
926
2005
7
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1132
2005
8
Hany Abu-Assad
Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass, Ashraf Barhom
Crime / Drama
France / Germany / Netherlands / Israel
Arabic
1202
2005
9
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam, January Jones
Drama / Western
USA / France
English
1236
2005
10
Werner Herzog
Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog, Franc G. Fallico, Amie Huguenard
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
287
2004
1
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
Adventure / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
447
2004
2
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Drama / History / War / Biography
Germany / Italy / Austria
German
450
2004
3
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie
Drama / Sports
USA
English
543
2004
4
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA / Japan / Germany
English
589
2004
5
Yimou Zhang
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
Action / Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
597
2004
6
Paul Haggis
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA / Germany
English
620
2004
7
Michel Gondry
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Comedy
USA
English
709
2004
8
Marc Forster
Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK / USA
English
908
2004
9
Mike Leigh
Imelda Staunton, Heather Craney, Philip Davis, Peter Wight
Drama / Period Film
UK / France / New Zealand
English
1008
2004
10
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
178
2003
1
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
USA / New Zealand
English
293
2003
2
Sofia Coppola
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Drama / Comedy
USA / Japan
English
327
2003
3
Chan-wook Park
Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim
Action / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
South Korea
Korean
424
2003
4
Denys Arcand
Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Dorothée Berryman
Drama / Comedy
Canada / France
French
474
2003
5
Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Gangster
Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK
English
496
2003
6
Clint Eastwood
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
639
2003
7
Peter Weir
Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Edward Woodall
Action / Drama / Adventure / War
USA
English
651
2003
8
Wolfgang Becker
Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova
Comedy / Drama
Germany
German
673
2003
9
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family
USA
English
922
2003
10
Sylvain Chomet
Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreault, Michèle Caucheteux
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Gangster / Sports
France / Belgium / Canada / UK
French
110
2002
1
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
198
2002
2
Roman Polanski
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Katarzyna Figura
Drama / War / Period Film
Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
264
2002
3
Pedro Almodóvar
Javier Cámara, Dario Grandinetti
Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
270
2002
4
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
USA / New Zealand / Germany
English
417
2002
5
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / USA
English
496
2002
6
Spike Jonze
Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
503
2002
7
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
592
2002
8
Stephen Daldry
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
606
2002
9
Abbas Kiarostami
Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh
Drama / Documentary / Experimental
France / Iran / USA
Persian
681
2002
10
Rob Marshall
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah
Musical / Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA / Canada
English
69
2001
1
David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Experimental / Post-Noir / Cult
France / USA
English
108
2001
2
Hayao Miyazaki
Miyu Irino, Rumi Hîragi, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô
Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Family
Japan
Japanese
131
2001
3
Alfonso Cuarón
Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
158
2001
4
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France / Germany
French
211
2001
5
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
New Zealand / USA
English
347
2001
6
Baz Luhrmann
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor
Drama / Musical / Romance
Australia / USA
English
527
2001
7
Ashutosh Gowariker
Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
Musical / Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports / Period Film
India
Hindi
656
2001
8
Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
USA
English
784
2001
9
Danis Tanovic
Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Georges Siatidis
War / Drama / Comedy
Bosnia-Herzegovina / Slovenia / Italy / France / UK / Belgium
Serbo-Croatian
827
2001
10
Robert Altman
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA / Germany / Italy
English
38
2000
1
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
99
2000
2
Ang Lee
Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng
Adventure / Drama / Action / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China
Mandarin
202
2000
3
Edward Yang
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
Drama
Taiwan / Japan
Mandarin
375
2000
4
Ridley Scott
Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
Drama / Action / Epic / Period Film
UK / USA
English
401
2000
5
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Thriller / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
472
2000
6
Christopher Nolan
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
517
2000
7
Steven Soderbergh
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
Germany / USA
English
588
2000
8
Cameron Crowe
Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee
Drama / Comedy / Music
USA
English
662
2000
9
Stephen Daldry
Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Drama / Comedy
UK / France
English
742
2000
10
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi, Djoko Rosic
Drama / Horror
Hungary / Italy / Germany / France
Hungarian
109
1999
1
Pedro Almodóvar
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Comedy
Spain / France
Spanish
294
1999
3
Spike Jonze
John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Cult
USA
English
410
1999
5
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
445
1999
6
Claire Denis
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Drama
France
French
505
1999
7
Paul Thomas Anderson
Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall
Drama
USA
English
580
1999
8
M. Night Shyamalan
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
642
1999
9
David O. Russell
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze
War / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Caper
USA
English
730
1999
10
Mike Leigh
Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Comedy / Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
73
1998
1
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Matt Damon
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
198
1998
2
Thomas Vinterberg
Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen
Drama / Comedy
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
362
1998
3
John Madden
Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
USA / UK
English
380
1998
4
Terrence Malick
Sean Penn, James Caviezel, Adrien Brody, Ben Chaplin
Action / Drama / War
Canada / USA
English
392
1998
5
Walter Salles
Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira
Drama
Brazil / France
Portuguese
415
1998
6
Tom Tykwer
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German
462
1998
7
Todd Solondz
Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker
Drama / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
730
1998
8
Lars von Trier
Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Troels Lyby
Comedy / Drama
Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Italy
Danish
786
1998
9
Peter Weir
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone
Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi
USA
English
800
1998
10
Hideo Nakata
Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
68
1997
1
Curtis Hanson
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
180
1997
2
James Cameron
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film / Adventure / Family
USA
English
409
1997
3
Paul Thomas Anderson
Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
431
1997
4
Peter Cattaneo
Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison
Comedy
UK
English
451
1997
5
Atom Egoyan
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Drama
Canada
English
452
1997
6
Abbas Kiarostami
Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Drama
France / Iran
Persian
552
1997
7
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
Comedy / Romance / Drama / War
Italy
Italian
836
1997
8
Neil Jordan
Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle II, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen
Comedy / Drama
Ireland / USA
English
874
1997
9
James L. Brooks
Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1001
1997
10
Mike Newell
Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
81
1996
1
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Crime / Thriller / Comedy / Detective / Cult
USA / UK
English
230
1996
2
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Comedy
France / UK
English
299
1996
3
Anthony Minghella
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
Romance / Drama / War / Epic / Period Film / Adventure
USA
English
352
1996
4
Scott Hicks
Geoffrey Rush, Lynn Redgrave, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, John Gielgud
Drama / Romance / Music / Biography
Australia
English
368
1996
5
Lars von Trier
Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway
English
575
1996
6
Danny Boyle
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
678
1996
7
Cameron Crowe
Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renee Zellweger
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sports
USA
English
845
1996
9
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo
Drama / Mystery / Crime / Romance
USA
English
855
1996
10
Milos Forman
Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Brett Harrelson
Drama / Biography
Canada / USA
English
304
1995
1
John Lasseter
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
Animation / Family / Comedy / Fantasy / Adventure
USA
English
363
1995
2
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
428
1995
3
Ang Lee
Kate Winslet, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
559
1995
4
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
590
1995
5
Chris Noonan
Christine Cavanaugh, James Cromwell
Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Australia / USA
English
595
1995
6
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
619
1995
7
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA / France
English
640
1995
8
Mike Figgis
Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue
Drama / Romance
France / USA / UK
English
705
1995
9
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
747
1995
10
Michael Mann
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
19
1994
1
Quentin Tarantino
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
124
1994
2
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
Poland / France / Switzerland
French
302
1994
3
Frank Darabont
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown
Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
433
1994
5
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Comedy / Drama
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
Polish
497
1994
6
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
Drama / Adventure
Italy / France
Italian
507
1994
7
Steve James
William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
569
1994
8
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
622
1994
9
Mike Newell
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas
Comedy / Romance / Drama
UK
English
707
1994
10
Kar Wai Wong
Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Drama / Mystery / Romance
Hong Kong
Cantonese
37
1993
1
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
107
1993
2
Jane Campion
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia / New Zealand / France
English
135
1993
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
1993
4
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
Drama / Music / Romance
France / Poland / Switzerland / UK
French
403
1993
5
Harold Ramis
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance / Family / Cult
USA
English
729
1993
6
Robert Altman
Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Jack Lemmon, Julianne Moore
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
808
1993
7
James Ivory
Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
824
1993
8
Steven Spielberg
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Horror / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
958
1993
9
Martin Scorsese
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1001
1993
10
Ang Lee
Winston Chao, May Chin, Dion Birney, Jeanne Kuo Chang
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Taiwan / USA
Mandarin
76
1992
1
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett
Western / Drama / Crime
USA
English
289
1992
3
Neil Jordan
Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / Japan
English
600
1992
4
James Ivory
Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave
Drama / Period Film
UK / Japan
English
635
1992
5
Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
735
1992
6
Spike Lee
Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr.
Drama / Biography
USA
English
810
1992
7
Carl Franklin
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
835
1992
8
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
988
1992
9
Baz Luhrmann
Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Australia
English
1042
1992
10
James Foley
Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey
Drama
USA
English
39
1991
1
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Caifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma, Qi Zhao, Lin Kong, Jin Shuyuan
Drama / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / Taiwan
Mandarin
77
1991
2
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine
Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult / Horror
USA
English
229
1991
3
Ridley Scott
Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama
USA
English
400
1991
4
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
France / Poland / Norway
French
412
1991
5
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers
Animation / Family / Musical / Romance / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
492
1991
6
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Drama
France / USA
English
502
1991
7
Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Pascal Benezech, Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
France
French
593
1991
8
Jacques Rivette
Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland
French
608
1991
9
John Singleton
Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut
Crime / Drama
USA
English
644
1991
10
Oliver Stone
Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA / France
English
26
1990
1
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Crime / Drama / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
260
1990
2
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France
French
296
1990
3
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Documentary / Drama
Iran
Persian
513
1990
4
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Adventure / Drama / Western / Epic / Family
USA
English
720
1990
5
Agnieszka Holland
Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
Drama / War / Comedy
Germany / France / Poland
German
727
1990
6
Stephen Frears
Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
879
1990
7
Barbet Schroeder
Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra
Drama
USA / Japan / UK
English
941
1990
8
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
942
1990
9
Michael Verhoeven
Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
1083
1990
10
Whit Stillman
Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
56
1989
1
Spike Lee
Ossie Davis, Danny Aiello, Giancarlo Esposito, Richard Edson, Spike Lee
Comedy / Drama / Crime
USA
English
142
1989
2
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Miroslaw Baka, Henryk Baranowski, Artur Barcis, Aleksander Bardini
Drama
Poland
Polish
398
1989
3
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
430
1989
4
Rob Reiner
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
511
1989
5
Phil Alden Robinson
Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta
Fantasy / Drama / Sports / Family
USA
English
554
1989
6
Oliver Stone
Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans, Jamie Talisman
Drama / War / Biography
USA
English
562
1989
7
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker
Drama / Biography
Ireland / UK
English
566
1989
8
Steven Soderbergh
James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher
Drama
USA
English
792
1989
9
Gus Van Sant
Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham
Crime / Drama
USA
English
798
1989
10
Denys Arcand
Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening
Drama / Religion
Canada / France
French
169
1988
1
Giuseppe Tornatore
Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
209
1988
2
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
355
1988
3
Stephen Frears
Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA / UK
English
367
1988
4
Robert Zemeckis
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English
561
1988
5
Theo Angelopoulos
Tania Palaiologou, Michalis Zeke, Dimitris Kaberidis
Drama
France / Greece / Italy
Greek
581
1988
6
Hayao Miyazaki
Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Adventure
Japan / USA
Japanese
604
1988
7
John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
Action / Thriller
USA
English
647
1988
9
George Sluizer
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Netherlands / France
Dutch
683
1988
10
Mira Nair
Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Sarfuddin Quarrassi, Raghuvir Yadav
Drama
UK / India / France
Hindi
55
1987
1
Wim Wenders
Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk
Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Religion
West Germany / France
German
335
1987
2
Louis Malle
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö
Drama / War
France / West Germany
French
377
1987
3
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
France / Italy / UK
English
453
1987
4
John Huston
Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
520
1987
5
James L. Brooks
William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
571
1987
6
Souleymane Cissé
Issiaka Kane, Aoua Sangare, Niamanto Sanogo
Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
Mali / Burkina Faso / France / West Germany
French
662
1987
8
Bille August
Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath, Astrid Villaume
Drama / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Danish
697
1987
9
Gabriel Axel
Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Denmark
Danish
710
1987
10
Norman Jewison
Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
137
1986
1
David Lynch
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
241
1986
2
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
357
1986
3
Claude Berri
Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
Drama / Period Film
France / Switzerland / Italy
French
421
1986
5
Claude Berri
Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Béart, Daniel Auteuil
Drama
Italy / France / Switzerland
French
539
1986
6
James Cameron
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Horror / Action
USA / UK
English
736
1986
7
David Cronenberg
Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama
USA
English
965
1986
8
Rob Reiner
Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
Adventure / Drama / Family
USA
English
1070
1986
9
Bertrand Tavernier
Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips
Drama / Music
USA / France
English
1102
1986
10
Denys Arcand
Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal
Comedy / Drama
Canada
French
43
1985
1
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
121
1985
2
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary / War / History
France
English
256
1985
3
Elem Klimov
Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian
324
1985
4
James Ivory
Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Denholm Elliott
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
444
1985
5
Robert Zemeckis
Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, Thomas F. Wilson
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
480
1985
6
John Huston
Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
501
1985
7
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
573
1985
8
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Cult
UK
English
594
1985
9
Agnès Varda
Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère
Drama
France / UK
French
621
1985
10
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
203
1984
1
Milos Forman
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce
Drama / Music / Biography / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
309
1984
2
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
UK / France / West Germany / USA
English
404
1984
4
Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Fran Drescher
Comedy / Music / Cult
USA
English
508
1984
5
Sergio Leone
Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Period Film
Italy / USA
English
528
1984
6
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
612
1984
7
Bertrand Tavernier
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Period Film
France
French
629
1984
8
Jim Jarmusch
John Lurie, Eszter Balint
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA / West Germany
English
637
1984
9
Edgar Reitz
Marita Breuer, Edgar Reitz, Gudrun Landgrebe
Drama / History / Epic
West Germany
German
663
1984
10
David Lean
Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee
Drama / Period Film
UK / USA
English
383
1983
1
Philip Kaufman
Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Adventure / Drama
USA
English
516
1983
2
Peter Yates
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Drama
UK
English
524
1983
3
Robert Bresson
Christian Patey, Sylvie Van den Elsen, Vincent Risterucci
Crime / Drama
France / Switzerland
French
532
1983
4
James L. Brooks
Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
659
1983
6
Paul Verhoeven
Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk
Thriller / Comedy / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
711
1983
7
Brian De Palma
Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
806
1983
8
Bill Forsyth
Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Comedy / Drama / Cult
UK
English
878
1983
9
Chris Marker
Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
957
1983
10
Gregory Nava
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Drama / Adventure
USA / UK
Spanish
33
1982
1
Steven Spielberg
Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
59
1982
2
Ingmar Bergman
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
Sweden / France / West Germany
Swedish
85
1982
3
Ridley Scott
Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh
Sci-Fi / Drama / Action / Tech-Noir / Cult
USA
English
255
1982
4
Sydney Pollack
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
334
1982
5
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
344
1982
6
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
Adventure / Drama
Peru / West Germany
English
374
1982
7
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
397
1982
8
Barry Levinson
Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
495
1982
9
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
90
1981
1
Steven Spielberg
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies
Action / Adventure / Family
USA
English
225
1981
2
Hugh Hudson
Ian Charleson, Ben Cross
Drama / Sports / Period Film / Family
UK
English
249
1981
3
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
284
1981
4
Wolfgang Petersen
Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch
Drama / War / Adventure
West Germany
German
656
1981
6
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Music / Gangster / Cult
France
French
664
1981
7
István Szabó
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda
Drama
West Germany / Hungary / Austria
Hungarian
665
1981
8
Peter Weir
Mark Lee, Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, Harold Hopkins, Charles Lathalu Yunipingli
Drama / War
Australia
English
719
1981
9
George Miller
Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps
Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Crime / Cult
Australia
English
17
1980
1
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
150
1980
2
Louis Malle
Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA / Canada / France
English
322
1980
3
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
333
1980
4
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack
Comedy / Family / Cult
USA
English
337
1980
5
David Lynch
Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Drama / Biography / Period Film / Cult
UK / USA
English
358
1980
6
Irvin Kershner
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
414
1980
7
Samuel Fuller
Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco
Action / Drama / War
USA
English
466
1980
9
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
512
1980
10
Michael Apted
Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones
Drama / Music / Biography
USA
English
21
1979
1
Francis Ford Coppola
Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms
Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Epic / Cult
USA
English
183
1979
2
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
323
1979
5
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen
Drama / War
West Germany
German
342
1979
6
Hal Ashby
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
Drama / Comedy
USA / UK / West Germany / Japan
English
459
1979
8
Volker Schlöndorff
Mario Adorf, David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
Drama / Period Film / War
West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia
German
484
1979
9
Peter Yates
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
Drama / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English
666
1979
10
Terry Jones
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Comedy / Religion / Cult
UK
English
132
1978
1
Michael Cimino
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken
Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
191
1978
2
Terrence Malick
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
338
1978
3
Charles Burnett
Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry
Drama
USA
English
457
1978
4
John Carpenter
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
537
1978
5
Ermanno Olmi
Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianin
Drama
Italy / France
Italian
757
1978
6
George A. Romero
David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross
Action / Horror / Drama / Cult
Italy / USA
English
804
1978
7
Richard Donner
Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Crime / Family / Comic
UK
English
821
1978
8
Randal Kleiser
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Family
USA
English
825
1978
9
Martin Scorsese
Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Dr. John
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
913
1978
10
Fred Schepisi
Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson
Drama
Australia
English
29
1977
1
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
35
1977
2
George Lucas
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
182
1977
3
Steven Spielberg
Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
240
1977
4
John Badham
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape
Drama / Romance / Music / Cult
USA
English
