Directors with 3 or more films I like of their filmography
by reynaldo_n | created - 12 Dec 2012 | updated - 09 Jun 2018 | PublicA list of the directors that had made at least 2 great films. Every director on the list is going to have in each description a list of those movies. Since I haven´t seen every movie they have done in their lives (I hope) the list will be updated with the missing Good-Movies after watching them. By the way, since this list its based on my personal opinion every director have in their description the movies that I have seen but that I hate or that I feel are just forgettable.
1. Stephen Sommers
Producer | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Stephen Sommers was born on March 20, 1962 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he attended St. John's University and the University of Seville in Spain. Afterward, Sommers spent the next four years performing as an actor in theater groups and managing rock bands throughout ...
Good Ones:
The Mummy
The Mummy Return
Deep Rising
Van Helsing
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
Forgettable Ones:
Odd Thomas
2. Peter Hyams
Director | 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Peter Hyams was born in New York on July 26, 1943, and attended Hunter College Elementary School. He studied art and music at the Art Students League and the High School of Music and Art as well as at Syracuse University, where he majored in music and art. Before he became a CBS News news anchor in...
Good Ones:
End Of Days
Sudden Death
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Timecop
Bad Ones:
2010
The Sound of Thunder
Stay Tuned
Forgettable Ones:
Outland
Star chamber
The Musketeer
3. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
Good Ones:
Fight Club
The Social Network
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Game
Se7en
Bad Ones:
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Zodiac
Forgettable Ones:
Panic Room
Alien 3
4. D.J. Caruso
Director | I Am Number Four
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Caruso came west to play tennis and study Television Production at Pepperdine University. Interned at Disney Studios in the Product Placement department and later hooked up with Director John Badham, who mentored him into a second-unit director, after Badham lost his ...
Good Ones:
Eagle Eye
Paranoia
Taking Lives
Bad Ones:
I Am Number Four
Forgettable Ones:
The Salton Sea
XXX Return of Xander Cage
5. Michael Bay
Producer | Armageddon
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...
Good Ones:
The Island
Transformers
Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen
Transformers Age of Extinction
Transformers The Last Knight
Armageddon
Pain & Gain
The Rock
Bad Ones:
13 Hours
Pearl Harbor
Transformers Dark Of The Moon
Forgettable Ones:
Bad Boys
Bad Boys II
6. Ben Stiller
Producer | Tropic Thunder
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real...
Good One:
The Cable Guy
Tropic Thunder
Bad Ones:
Zoolander
Fogettable Ones:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
7. James Cameron
Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water
James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...
Good Ones:
Titanic
Avatar
The Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Bad Ones:
Aliens
The Abbys
Forgettable Ones:
True Lies
8. Marcus Nispel
Director | Friday the 13th
Marcus Nispel was born on May 26, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Friday the 13th (2009), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Pathfinder (2007).
Good Ones:
Conan The Barbarian
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Bad Ones:
Pathfinder
Friday The 13th
9. Joel Schumacher
Director | The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher was an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and fashion designer from New York City. He rose to fame in the 1980s for directing the coming-of-age drama "St. Elmo's Fire" (1985), and the vampire-themed horror film "The Lost Boys" (1987). In the 1990s, he worked on two ...
Good Ones:
8MM
Phone Booth
The Number 23
Flatliners
Bad Ones:
Twelve
Trespass
Blood Creek
The Lost Boys
Forgettable Ones:
Bad Company
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
10. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Writer | Azuloscurocasinegro
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo was born on June 24, 1970 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He is a writer and director, known for Dark Blue Almost Black (2006), Fat People (2009) and Traumalogía (2007).
Good Ones:
Gordos
Primos
Bad Ones:
AzulOscuroCasiNegro
11. John Woo
Director | Ying hung boon sik
Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...
Good Ones:
Face/Off
Broken Arrow
Paychek
Bad Ones:
Mission: Impossible 2
12. Jeff Wadlow
Producer | Truth or Dare
DGA award nominee Jeff Wadlow's forthcoming theatrical film, Imaginary, marks his third collaboration with Jason Blum under a first look deal that launched Jeff's own production company, Tower of Babble Entertainment. Last year, he was the director and executive producer of The Curse of Bridge ...
Good Ones:
Cry Wolf
Never Back Down
Kick Ass 2
Bad Ones
Blumhouse´s Truth or Dare
Forgettable ones
True Memoirs of an International Assassin
13. Jaume Collet-Serra
Producer | The Shallows
Jaume Collet-Serra was born on March 23, 1974 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At the age of 18, he moved to Los Angeles and attended Columbia College Hollywood, working as an editor on the side. Upon graduation, he began shooting music videos and caught the eye of several production ...
Good Ones:
The Orphan
Unkown
Non-Stop
Run all Night
The Commuter
Forgettable Ones:
House of Wax
Gol 2
14. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
Good Ones:
Inception
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
Bad Ones:
The Dark Knight Rises
Interstellar
Insomnia
Following
Forgettable Ones:
Memento
15. Rodrigo Cortés
Director | Buried
Rodrigo Cortés was born in 1973 in Pazos Hermos, Ourense, Galicia, Spain. He is a director and editor, known for Buried (2010), Love Gets a Room (2021) and Red Lights (2012).
Good Ones:
Concursante= The Contestant
Red Lights
Bad Ones:
Buried
16. Roland Emmerich
Writer | Independence Day
Roland Emmerich is a German film director and producer of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996) and The Patriot (2000). Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original ...
Good Ones:
2012
White House Down
Independence Day
The Day After Tomorrow
The Patriot
Stargate
Godzilla
Bad Ones:
Independence Day Resurgence
Forgettable Ones:
10000 BC
Universal Soldier
17. Renny Harlin
Producer | Driven
Born in 15 March 1959 as Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, he is the most successful Finnish film director in the history of Hollywood.
Harlin started his career in film business in the beginning of 1980s when he was directing commercials and company films for companies like Shell. Later he worked as a ...
Good Ones
The Legend of Hercules
Deep Blue Sea
Mindhunters
The Cleaner
12 Rounds
Skiptrace
Bad Ones
The Exorcist The Beggining
The Covenant
5 Days of War
Cliffhanger
Die Hard 2
Forgettable Ones:
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Driven
18. Bryan Singer
Director | X-Men
Bryan Singer is an American film director and producer who got his start writing and co-directing the short film Lions Den with his classmates while he attended USC. He was hired by 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men, which helped kick-start the superhero renaissance. He later directed three sequels....
Good Ones:
X-Men
X2
The Usual Supects
Superman Returns
Jack The Giant Slayer
Bad Ones:
Valkyrie
Apt Pupil
X-Men Apocalypse
X-Men Days of Future Past
19. Raja Gosnell
Director | Big Momma's House
Raja Gosnell started his film career as an assistant editor in the late 1970s. His first credit as a film's main editor was the romantic comedy "The Lonely Guy" (1984), for director Arthur Hiller. During the 1980s, Gosnell served as editor in films directed by Tom Laughlin, David Worth, Bob Dahlin,...
Good Ones:
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo Monsters Unleashed
The Smurfs
Forgettable Ones:
The Smurfs 2
20. Ron Howard
Producer | Arrested Development
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.
Howard ...
Good Ones
Rush
Ransom
Apollo 13
The Dilemma
A Beautiful Mind
The Da Vinci Code
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Bad Ones
Willow
Grinch
The Missing
Angels & Demons
Forgettable Ones:
21. Ridley Scott
Producer | The Martian
Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...
Good Ones
Prometheus
Gladiator
Robin Hood
Bad Ones
Alien Covenant
Blade Runner
Exodus: Gods & Kings
Kingdom of Heaven
Body of Lies
American Gangster
Black Hawk Down
Matchstick Men
Thelma & Louise
Forgettable Ones:
Alien
Hannibal
The Martian
All the Money in the World
22. Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer | Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Paul W.S. Anderson gained a fair bit of notoriety in his native England when he directed the ultra-violent Shopping (1994) (which he also wrote), starring Jude Law and Sean Pertwee in a story about thieves who steal by ramming a car into storefronts. The film was banned in some cinemas in England, ...
Good Ones
Event Horizon
Resident Evil
Soldier
Pompeii
Alien Vs Predator
Resident Evil: Retribution
Bad Ones
Death Race
Three Musketeers
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Forgettable Ones:
23. Tony Scott
Producer | Domino
Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...
Good Ones
Enemy of the State
Deja Vu
Unstoppable
Bad Ones
Spy Games
Man on Fire
The Fan
Forgettable Ones:
24. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
Good Ones
Pacific Rim
Crimson Peak
Hellboy
Bad Ones
Mimic
El Laberinto del Fauno
Forgettable Ones:
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
25. Stephen Hopkins
Producer | Lost in Space
Stephen Hopkins is a producer and director, known for Lost in Space (1998), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Predator 2 (1990).
Good Ones
Lost in Space
The Reaping
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
Bad Ones
Predator 2
Forgettable Ones:
Tell Your Friends