The Film-Lover's Check List: Directors

Filmographies of Great Directors

Darren Aronofsky


	Pi (1998)
	Requiem For a Dream (2000)
	The Fountain (2006)
	The Wrestler (2008)

Jame L. Brooks


	Terms of Endearment (1983)
	Broadcast News (1987)
	As Good As It Gets (1997)
	I'll Do Anything (1994)
	Spanglish (2004)

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu


	Amores Perros (2000)
	21 Grams (2003)
	Babel (2006)
	Biutiful (2010)

Baz Lurhmann


	Strictly Ballroom (1992)
	Romeo + Juliet (1996)
	Moulin Rouge! (2001)
	Australia (2008)

Stephen Daldry


	Billy Elliot (2000)
	The Hours (2002)
	The Reader (2008)

David Fincher


	Alien 3 (1992)
	Seven (1995)
	The Game (1997)
	Fight Club (1999)
	Panic Room (2002)
	Zodiac (2007)
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Cameron Crowe


	Say Anything... (1989)
	Singles (1992)
	Jerry Maguire (1996)
	Almost Famous (2000)
	Vanilla Sky (2001)
	Elizabethtown (2005)

Sam Mendes


	American Beauty (1999)
	Road To Perdition (2002)
	Jarhead (2005)
	Revolutionary Road (2008)
	Away We Go (2009)

Terrence Malick


	Lanton Mills (1969)
	Badlands (1973)
	Days of Heaven (1978)
	The Thin Red Line (1998)
	The New World (2005)
	The Tree of Life (2010)

Paul Thomas Anderson


	Hard Eight (1997)
	Boogie Nights (1997)
	Magnolia (1999)
	Punch Drunk Love (2002)
	There Will Be Blood (2007)

Christopher Nolan


	Following (1998)
	Memento (2000)
	Insomnia (2002)
	Batman Begins (2005)
	The Prestige (2006)
	The Dark Knight (2008)

Danny Boyles


	Shallow Grave (1994)
	Trainspotting (1996)
	A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
	The Beach (2000)
	28 Days Later (2002)
	Millions (2005)
	Sunshine (2007)
	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Quentin Tarantino


	Reservoir Dogs (1992)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
	Jackie Brown (1997)
	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
	Grindhouse (2007)
	Inglourious Basterds (2009)

James Cameron


	Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
	The Terminator (1984)
	Aliens (1986)
	The Abyss (1989)
	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
	True Lies (1994)
	Titanic (1997)
	Avatar (2009)

Charlie Chaplin


	The Kid (1921)
	A Woman of Paris (1923)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	The Circus (1928)
	City Lights (1931)
	Modern Times (1936)
	The Great Dictator (1940)
	Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Albert Brooks


	Real Life (1979)
	Modern Romance (1981)
	Lost In America (1985)
	Defending Your Life (1991)
	Mother (1996)
	The Muse (1999)
	Looking For Comedy In the Muslim World (2005)

Sergio Leone


	A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
	For a Few Dollars More (1965)
	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
	A Fistful of Dynamite (1971)
	My Name Is Nobody (1973)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)

Michael Mann


	Thief (1981)
	The Keep (1983)
	Manhunter (1986)
	The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
	Heat (1995)
	The Insider (1999)
	Ali (2001)
	Collateral (2004)
	Miami Vice (2006)
	Public Enemies (2009)

M. Night Shyamalan


	Praying With Anger (1992)
	Wide Awake (1998)
	The Sixth Sense (1999)
	Unbreakable (2000)
	Signs (2002)
	The Village (2004)
	Lady In the Water (2006)
	The Happening (2008)

Kevin Smith


	Clerks (1994)
	Mallrats (1995)
	Chasing Amy (1997)
	Dogma (1999)
	Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
	Jersey Girl (2004)
	Clerks II (2006)
	Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

Wes Anderson


	Bottle Rocket (1996)
	Rushmore (1998)
	The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
	The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
	The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
	Hotel Chevalier (2007)
	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Jim Sheridan


	My Left Foot (1989)
	The Field (1990)
	In the Name of the Father (1993)
	The Boxer (1997)
	In America (2003)
	Get Rich Or Die Tryin' (2005)
	Brothers (2009)

David Lynch


	Eraserhead (1977)
	The Elephant Man (1980)
	Dune (1984)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	Wild At Heart (1990)
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
	Lost Highway (1997)
	The Straight Story (1999)
	Mulholland Drive (2001)
	Inland Empire (2006)

Terry Gilliam


	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
	Jabberwocky (1977)
	Time Bandits (1981)
	The Meaning of Life (1983)
	Brazil (1985)
	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
	The Fisher King (1991)
	Twelve Monkeys (1995)
	Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)
	The Brothers Grimm (2005)
	Tideland (2005)
	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

Gus Van Sant


	Mala Noche (1985)
	Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
	My Own Private Idaho (1991)
	Good Will Hunting (1997)
	Finding Forrester (2000)
	Gerry (2002)
	Elephant (2003)
	Paris, Je T'Aime (2006)
	Paranoid Park (2007)
	Milk (2008)

John Hughes


	Sixteen Candles (1984)
	The Breakfast Club (1985)
	Weird Science (1985)
	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
	Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
	She's Having a Baby (1988)
	Uncle Buck (1989)
	Curly Sue (1991)

Michael Gondry


	Human Nature (2001)
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
	The Science of Sleep (2006)
	Be Kind Rewind (2008)
	The Green Hornet (2010)

Alexander Payne


	Citizen Ruth (1996)
	Election (1999)
	About Schmidt (2002)
	Sideways (2004)
	Paris, Je T'Aime (2006)
	The Descendants (2011)
	Fork In the Road (2011)

Alfonso Cuaron


	A Little Princess (1995)
	Great Expectations (1998)
	Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
	Paris, Je T'Aime (2006)
	Children of Men (2006)

Mel Brooks


	The Producers (1968)
	The Twelve Chairs (1970)
	Blazing Saddles (1974)
	Young Frankenstein (1974)
	Silent Movie (1976)
	High Anxiety (1977)
	History of the World: Part I (1981)
	Spaceballs (1987)
	Life Stinks (1991)
	Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993)
	Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)

Stanley Kubrick


	Fear and Desire (1953)
	Killer's Kiss (1955)
	The Killing (1956)
	Paths of Glory (1957)
	Spartacus (1960)
	Lolita (1962)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)
	The Shining (1980)
	Full Metal Jacket (1987)
	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Peter Jackson


	Bad Taste (1987)
	Meet the Feebles (1989)
	Braindead (1992)
	Heavenly Creatures (1994)
	The Frighteners (1996)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
	King Kong (2005)
	The Lovely Bones (2009)

Clint Eastwood


	Play Misty For Me (1971)
	High Plains Drifter (1973)
	The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
	White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
	Unforgiven (1992)
	The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
	Mystic River (2003)
	Million Dollar Baby (2004)
	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
	Gran Torino (2008)
	Invictus (2009)

Hayao Miyazaki


	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
	Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
	Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)
	Porco Rosso (1992)
	Princess Mononoke (1997)
	Spirited Away (2001)
	Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
	Ponyo (2008)

Howard Hawks


	Scarface (1932)
	Viva Villa! (1934)
	Twentieth Century (1934)
	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
	His Girl Friday (1940)
	Sergeant York (1941)
	To Have and Have Not (1944)
	The Big Sleep (1946)
	The Thing From Another World (1951)
	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
	Rio Bravo (1959)
	El Dorado (1966)

David Lean


	In Which We Serve (1942)
	This Happy Breed (1944)
	Blithe Spirit (1945)
	Brief Encounter (1945)
	Great Expectations (1946)
	Oliver Twist (1948)
	The Passionate Friends (1949)
	Madeleine (1950)
	The Sound Barrier (1952)
	Hobson's Choice (1954)
	Summertime (1955)
	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	Dr. Zhivago (1965)
	Ryan's Daughter (1970)
	A Passage To India (1984)

Joel and Ethan Coen


	Blood Simple (1984)
	Raising Arizona (1987)
	Miller's Crossing (1990)
	Barton Fink (1991)
	The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
	Fargo (1996)
	The Big Lebowski (1998)
	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
	The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
	Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
	The Ladykillers (2004)
	No Country For Old Men (2007)
	Burn After Reading (2008)
	A Serious Man (2009)

Sidney Lumet


	12 Angry Men (1957)
	Fail-Safe (1964)
	The Pawnbroker (1965)
	Serpico (1973)
	Murder On the Orient Express (1974)
	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
	Network (1976)
	Equus (1977)
	Prince of the City (1981)
	The Verdict (1982)
	Running On Empty (1988)
	Find Me Guilty (2006)
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

David Cronenberg


	Shivers (1975)
	Rabid (1977)
	The Brood (1979)
	Scanners (1981)
	Videodrome (1983)
	The Dead Zone (1983)
	The Fly (1986)
	Dead Ringers (1988)
	Naked Lunch (1991)
	Crash (1996)
	eXistenZ (1999)
	Spider (2002)
	A History of Violence (2005)
	Eastern Promises (2007)

Tim Burton


	Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
	Beetlejuice (1988)
	Batman (1989)
	Edward Scissorhands (1990)
	Batman Returns (1992)
	Ed Wood (1994)
	Mars Attacks! (1996)
	Sleepy Hollow (1999)
	Planet of the Apes (2001)
	Big Fish (2003)
	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
	Corpse Bride (2005)
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Peter Weir


	Homesdale (1971)
	Three To Go (1971)
	The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
	Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
	The Last Wave (1977)
	Gallipoli (1981)
	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
	Witness (1985)
	The Mosquito Coast (1986)
	Dead Poets Society (1989)
	Green Card (1990)
	Fearless (1993)
	The Truman Show (1998)
	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Robert Zemeckis


	I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
	Used Cars (1980)
	Romancing the Stone (1984)
	Back To the Future (1985)
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
	Back To the Future, Part II (1989)
	Back To the Future, Part III (1990)
	Death Becomes Her (1992)
	Forrest Gump (1994)
	Contact (1997)
	What Lies Beneath (2000)
	Cast Away (2000)
	The Polar Express (2004)
	Beowulf (2007)

Ridley Scott


	The Duellists (1977)
	Alien (1979)
	Blade Runner (1982)
	Legend (1985)
	Someone To Watch Over Me (1987)
	Black Rain (1989)
	Thelma & Louise (1991)
	1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
	White Squall (1996)
	G.I. Jane (1997)
	Gladiator (2000)
	Hannibal (2001)
	Black Hawk Down (2001)
	Matchstick Men (2003)
	Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
	A Good Year (2006)
	American Gangster (2007)
	Body of Lies (2008)

Ron Howard


	Grand Theft Auto (1977)
	Night Shift (1982)
	Splash (1984)
	Cocoon (1985)
	Gung Ho (1986)
	Willow (1988)
	Parenthood (1989)
	Backdraft (1991)
	Far and Away (1992)
	The Paper (1994)
	Apollo 13 (1995)
	Ransom (1996)
	Edtv (1999)
	How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
	A Beautiful Mind (2001)
	The Missing (2003)
	Cinderella Man (2005)
	The Da Vinci Code (2006)
	Frost/Nixon (2008)
	Angels & Demons (2009)

William Wyler


	Dodsworth (1936)
	Dead End (1937)
	Jezebel (1938)
	Wuthering Heights (1939)
	The Westerner (1940)
	The Letter (1940)
	The Little Foxes (1941)
	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	The Heiress (1949)
	Roman Holiday (1953)
	The Desperate Hours (1955)
	The Big Country (1958)
	Ben-Hur (1959)
	The Children's Hour (1961)
	The Collector (1965)
	How To Steal a Million (1966)

Woody Allen


	Bananas (1971)
	Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask (1972)
	Sleeper (1973)
	Love and Death (1975)
	Annie Hall (1977)
	Manhattan (1979)
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
	Husbands and Wives (1992)
	Deconstructing Harry (1997)
	Match Point (2005)
	Scoop (2006)
	Cassandra's Dream (2007)
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
	Whatever Works (2009)

Frank Capra


	Lady For a Day (1933)
	It Happened One Night (1934)
	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
	Lost Horizon (1937)
	You Can't Take It With You (1938)
	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
	Meet John Doe (1941)
	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	State of the Union (1948)
	Here Comes the Groom (1951)
	A Hole In the Head (1959)
	Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Rob Reiner


	This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
	The Sure Thing (1985)
	Stand By Me (1986)
	The Princess Bride (1987)
	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
	Misery (1990)
	A Few Good Men (1992)
	North (1994)
	The American President (1995)
	Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
	The Story of Us (1999)
	Alex & Emma (2003)
	Rumor Has It... (2005)
	The Bucket List (2007)

Steven Soderbergh


	Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
	Kafka (1991)
	King of the Hill (1993)
	Out of Sight (1998)
	The Limey (1999)
	Erin Brockovich (2000)
	Traffic (2000)
	Ocean's Eleven (2001)
	Solaris (2002)
	Ocean's Twelve (2004)
	Bubble (2005)
	The Good German (2006)
	Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
	Che: Part One (2008)
	Che: Part Two (2008)
	The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
	The Informant! (2009)

Milos Forman


	A Blonde In Love (1965)
	The Firemen's Ball (1967)
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	Hair (1979)
	Ragtime (1981)
	Amadeus (1984)
	Valmont (1989)
	The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
	Man On the Moon (1999)
	Goya's Ghosts (2006)
	The Ghost of Munich (2009)

Alfred Hitchcock


	The Lodger (1927)
	Juno and the Paycock (1930)
	Murder! (1930)
	Rich and Strange (1931)
	Number Seventeen (1932)
	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
	The 39 Steps (1935)
	Secret Agent (1936)
	Sabotage (1936)
	Young and Innocent (1937)
	The Lady Vanishes (1938)
	Jamaica Inn (1939)
	Rebecca (1940)
	Foreign Correspondent (1940)
	Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
	Suspicion (1941)
	Saboteur (1942)
	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
	Lifeboat (1944)
	Spellbound (1945)
	Notorious (1946)
	The Paradine Case (1947)
	Rope (1948)
	Under Capricorn (1949)
	Stage Fright (1950)
	Strangers On a Train (1951)
	I Confess (1953)
	Dial M For Murder (1954)
	Rear Window (1954)
	To Catch a Thief (1955)
	The Trouble With Harry (1955)
	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
	The Wrong Man (1956)
	Vertigo (1958)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	Psycho (1960)
	The Birds (1963)
	Marnie (1964)
	Torn Curtain (1966)
	Topaz (1969)
	Frenzy (1972)
	Family Plot (1976)

Akira Kurosawa


	Judo Saga (1943)
	The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (1945)
	Judo Saga II (1945)
	No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
	One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
	Drunken Angel (1948)
	Stray Dog (1949)
	Scandal (1950)
	Rashomon (1950)
	The Idiot (1951)
	Ikiru (1952)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	I Live In Fear (1955)
	Throne of Blood (1957)
	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
	The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
	Yojimbo (1961)
	Sanjuro (1962)
	High and Low (1963)
	Red Beard (1965)
	Dodes'ka-den (1970)
	Dersu Uzala (1975)
	Kagemusha (1980)
	Ran (1985)
	Dreams (1990)
	Rhapsody In August (1991)
	Madadayo (1993)

Billy Wilder


	Mauvaise Graine (1934)
	The Major and the Minor (1942)
	Five Graves To Cairo (1943)
	Double Indemnity (1944)
	The Lost Weekend (1945)
	Death Mills (1945)
	The Emperor Waltz (1948)
	A Foreign Affair (1948)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
	Ace In the Hole (1951)
	Stalag 17 (1953)
	Sabrina (1954)
	The Seven Year Itch (1955)
	The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
	Love In the Afternoon (1957)
	Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
	Some Like It Hot (1959)
	The Apartment (1960)
	One, Two, Three (1961)
	Irma La Douce (1963)
	Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
	The Fortune Cookie (1966)
	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
	Avanti! (1972)
	The Front Page (1974)
	Fedora (1978)
	Buddy Buddy (1981)

Steven Spielberg


	Duel (1971)
	Something Evil (1972)
	Savage (1973)
	The Sugarland Express (1974)
	Jaws (1975)
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
	1941 (1979)
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
	The Color Purple (1985)
	Empire of the Sun (1987)
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
	Always (1989)
	Hook (1991)
	Jurassic Park (1993)
	Schindler's List (1993)
	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
	Amistad (1997)
	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
	Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001)
	Minority Report (2002)
	Catch Me If You Can (2002)
	The Terminal (2004)
	War of the Worlds (2005)
	Munich (2005)
	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Martin Scorsese


	Who's That Knocking At My Door (1967)
	Boxcar Bertha (1972)
	Mean Streets (1973)
	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	New York, New York (1977)
	The Last Waltz (1978)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	The King of Comedy (1982)
	After Hours (1985)
	The Color of Money (1986)
	The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
	New York Stories (1989)
	Goodfellas (1990)
	Cape Fear (1991)
	The Age of Innocence (1993)
	Casino (1995)
	Kundun (1997)
	Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
	Gangs of New York (2002)
	The Aviator (2004)
	No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
	The Departed (2006)
	Shine a Light (2008)
	Shutter Island (2010)