Directors of the Top 100 IMDb Movies

Can you name the directors of the top 100 movies, as rated by users on IMDb.

Source https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ - Correct as of September 2024

Animated films in blue

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Movie

Director

The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan

The Godfather: Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Peter Jackson

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Peter Jackson

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone

Forrest Gump

Robert Zemeckis

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Peter Jackson

Fight Club

David Fincher

Inception

Christopher Nolan

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Irvin Kershner

The Matrix

The Wachowskis

Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman

Interstellar

Christopher Nolan

Se7en

David Fincher

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg

City of God

Fernando Meirelles

Life Is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni

The Green Mile

Frank Darabont

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

George Lucas

Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki

The Pianist

Roman Polanski

Parasite

Bong Joon Ho

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

Gladiator

Ridley Scott

The Lion King (1994)

Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson

The Departed

Martin Scorsese

Whiplash

Damien Chazelle

American History X

Tony Kaye

Léon: The Professional

Luc Besson

Grave of the Fireflies

Isao Takahata

The Prestige

Christopher Nolan

Hara-Kiri

Masaki Kobayashi

Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve

The Usual Suspects

Bryan Singer

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

The Intouchables

Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Alien

Ridley Scott

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone

City Lights

Charlie Chaplin

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

Memento

Christopher Nolan

WALL-E

Andrew Stanton

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg

12th Fail

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Sunset Blvd.

Billy Wilder

Avengers: Infinity War

Anthony Russo & Joe Russo

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman

Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick

The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin

Aliens

James Cameron

Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino

The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan

Coco

Lee Unkrich

Amadeus

Milos Forman

Toy Story

John Lasseter

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick

Oldboy

Chan-wook Park

American Beauty

Sam Mendes

Avengers: Endgame

Anthony Russo & Joe Russo

Das Boot

Wolfgang Petersen

Braveheart

Mel Gibson

Good Will Hunting

Gus Van Sant

Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki

Joker

Todd Phillips

Your Name.

Makoto Shinkai

High and Low

Akira Kurosawa

3 Idiots

Rajkumar Hirani

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone

Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

Capernaum

Nadine Labaki

Come and See

Elem Klimov

Requiem for a Dream

Darren Aronofsky

Toy Story 3

Lee Unkrich

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Richard Marquand

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Michel Gondry

The Hunt

Thomas Vinterberg

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

100

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

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9 Comments

Level 79

Jun 28, 2021

Can't believe I forgot Brian Singer directed The Usual Suspects. duh... also I'm absolutely floored that Michael Bay, the greatest director of his generation and perhaps of all time, is nowhere in the top 100.

Level 80

Jun 28, 2021

I'm waiting for the comments about how Michael Bay does not belong on this list.

Level 65

Jun 28, 2021

Surprised The Shining made the list. In my opinion, any movie that drops the N-Bomb does not deserve this list. (great movie excluding that and the gore tho)

Level 94

Apr 2, 2023

Weird how you call out The Shining for dropping the n-word, which it only does like two or three times, when you have Pulp Fiction, which uses it 10+ times, much higher on this list.

Level 67

Oct 1, 2022

Damn, I really couldn't think of another Pixar guy except Pete Docter.

Sorry Lee Unkrich - you did some of my favourite films and I don't know your name!

Level 69

Apr 2, 2023

Good quiz! Noticed that Toy Story 3 isn't written in blue, though. So for continuity, you should fix that.

Level 82

Apr 6, 2023

Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed now :) Glad you enjoyed!

Level 92

Nov 5, 2023