By director

A different way through the same catalogue. Filmographies in release order, or a curated path for anyone who wants to know where to start.

• 13 films · 27h 20m

  Christopher Nolan

  Time, memory, and a deep suspicion of the cut.

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• 10 films · 23h 35m

  Quentin Tarantino

  Nine films, and a long-promised tenth.

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• 35 films · 76h 25m

  Steven Spielberg

  The most influential filmography in American cinema.

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• 13 films · 33h 23m

  Martin Scorsese

  Guilt, violence, and men who cannot stop talking.

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• 8 films · 18h 17m

  Denis Villeneuve

  Scale, silence, and dread.

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• 11 films · 25h 8m

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thirteen films, no two alike.

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• 13 films · 27h

  David Fincher

  Procedure, obsession, and an unreasonable number of takes.

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• 12 films · 20h 2m

  Wes Anderson

  Symmetry, melancholy, and an enormous amount of yellow.

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• 18 films · 40h 27m

  Ridley Scott

  Two of the greatest science fiction films ever made, and forty years of trying again.

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• 10 films · 21h 34m

  James Cameron

  Nine films, four of which have been the highest-grossing ever made.

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• 17 films · 31h 23m

  Alfred Hitchcock

  The man who worked out what suspense actually is.

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• 8 films · 16h 45m

  Bong Joon-ho

  Genre films that turn into something else halfway through.

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• 12 films · 22h 34m

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Twelve films, and no villains in most of them.

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• 21 films · 37h 12m

  The Coen Brothers

  Twenty-one films about people who are not as clever as they think.

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• 13 films · 30h 55m

  Peter Jackson

  From splatter comedy in a New Zealand garage to seventeen Oscars.

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• 22 films · 42h 45m

  Robert Zemeckis

  The most technically restless director of his generation.

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• 13 films · 26h 11m

  Guillermo del Toro

  Monsters are the sympathetic ones. Always.

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• 10 films · 23h 29m

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Ten films about need, and what people do about it.

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• 30 films · 61h 27m

  Akira Kurosawa

  Thirty films, and half of modern blockbuster cinema traces back to them.

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• 18 films · 29h 30m

  John Carpenter

  Widescreen, synthesiser, and one man against something inside a building.

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• 7 films · 18h 22m

  Sergio Leone

  Seven films, and he reinvented the western twice.

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• 23 films · 46h 53m

  Francis Ford Coppola

  The best five-year run any American director has had, and everything after it.

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• 11 films · 20h 19m

  George Miller

  A former emergency-room doctor who made Mad Max and Happy Feet.

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• 8 films · 14h 41m

  Edgar Wright

  Every cut is a joke, and every joke is set up three scenes early.

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• 3 films · 5h 50m

  Jordan Peele

  Three films, three Oscars nominations, and a complete change of career.

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• 5 films · 7h 3m

  Greta Gerwig

  Four films as director, and the biggest of 2023.

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