George Miller

1h 28m

Made for about four hundred thousand Australian dollars, partly funded by his shifts as a doctor.

1h 36m

The film that set the visual grammar of every post-apocalypse since. Barely any dialogue.

1h 47m

Co-directed after his producer died during pre-production. Softer, and the weakest of the four.

1h 58m

Jack Nicholson as the devil in New England. His first American studio film and a large hit.

2h 9m

Parents researching a cure for their son's disease. The medical detail is exact — he was a doctor.

1h 37m

He wrote and produced the first Babe but directed only this one, which is far darker and has real defenders.

1h 48m

A tap-dancing penguin musical that won the animation Oscar, and is bleaker than it sounds.

1h 40m

A sequel nobody needed, with a krill subplot voiced by Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.

2h 0m

Thirty years in development, six Oscars, and one chase that lasts the entire film.

1h 48m

Tilda Swinton and a djinn, talking in a hotel room. Almost nobody saw it.

2h 28m

A fifteen-year prequel told in chapters. Slower and more novelistic than Fury Road, deliberately.