I’m working toward watching 100% of several directors’ filmographies, and I’ll keep track of my progress on this page. I am not counting short films in most cases (exceptions for silent comedy directors will likely be made, or I will keep track of features and shorts separately).
Please note: Most information is currently taken from Flickchart. I need to check some of the directors against IMDb, as I think their complete filmography is not yet in Flickchart’s database. My percentage may change drastically once I do that.
The 100% Club
Joel and Ethan Coen
Seen: 16/16 features, 1/2 anthology contributions
Favorite Film: O Brother Where Art Thou?
Upcoming Films: Hail Caesar!
David Fincher
Seen: 100/10 films
Favorite Film: The Social Network
Christopher Nolan
Seen: 9/9 features, 1/1 short
Favorite Film: Memento
Wes Anderson
Seen: 8/8 features, 1/3 shorts
Favorite Film: The Royal Tenenbaums
Andy and Lana Wachowski
Seen: 7/7 features
Favorite Film: The Matrix
Sam Mendes
Seen: 6/6 films
Favorite Film: American Beauty
Upcoming Films: Spectre
George Lucas
Seen: 6/6 features, 0/5 shorts
Favorite Film: Star Wars
Joss Whedon
Seen: 5/5 films
Favorite Film: The Avengers
Baz Luhrmann
Seen: 5/5 features
Favorite Film: Moulin Rouge!
J.J. Abrams
Seen: 4/4 films
Favorite Film: Super 8
Upcoming Films: Star Wars Episode VII
Len Wiseman
Seen: 4/4 films
Favorite Film: Underworld
Rian Johnson
Seen: 3/3 films, 0/2 shorts
Favorite Film: Brick
Upcoming Films: Star Wars Episode VIII
Andrew Stanton
Seen: 4/4 features, 0/2 shorts
Favorite Film: Wall-E
Upcoming Films: Finding Dory
Gary Ross
Seen: 3/3 films
Favorite Film: The Hunger Games
Duncan Jones
Seen: 2/2 films
Favorite Film: Moon
Upcoming Films: Warcraft
Charles Laughton
Seen: 1/1 feature
Favorite Film: Night of the Hunter
Want to Complete
Billy Wilder
Seen: 24/26 features
Favorite Film: Double Indemnity
Remaining Films:
- Buddy Buddy (1981) – [not available]
- Mauvaise Graine (1934) – [ClassicFlix]
Tim Burton
Seen: 15/17 features, 2/3 shorts
Favorite Film: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Remaining Films: Dark Shadows, Big Eyes
Quentin Tarantino
Seen: 7/8 features, 0/1 short
Favorite Film: Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Remaining Features: Death Proof
Upcoming Features: The Hateful Eight
Jacques Tati
Seen: 5/6 features, 0/1 shorts
Favorite Film: Playtime
Remaining Films: Jour de fete (1949) [not available in US]
John Lasseter
Seen: 5/6 features, 3/6 shorts
Favorite Film: Toy Story
Remaining Films: Cars 2
David Lynch
Seen: 9/11 features
Favorite Film: Mulholland Drive
Remaining Films: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Eraserhead
Brad Bird
Seen: 4/5 features, 0/1 shorts
Favorite Film: The Incredibles
Remaining Films: Tomorrowland
Matthew Vaughn
Seen: 4/5 films
Favorite Film: Layer Cake
Upcoming Films: Kingsmen: The Secret Service
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Seen: 4/5 features, 0/2 shorts, 0/2 anthology contributions
Favorite Film: Amores Perros
Remaining Films: Birdman
Joe Wright
Seen: 4/5 features
Favorite Film: Pride & Prejudice
Remaining Films: The Soloist
Upcoming Films: Pan
Sofia Coppola
Seen: 4/5 features, 0/1 short
Favorite Film: Lost in Translation
Remaining Films: The Bling Ring
Satoshi Kon
Seen: 3/4 features
Favorite Film: Paprika
Remaining Films: Millennium Actress
Paul Thomas Anderson
Seen: 5/7 features, 0/6 shorts
Favorite Film: Magnolia
Remaining Films: Hard Eight, Inherent Vice
Preston Sturges
Seen: 8/12
Favorite Film: The Lady Eve
Remaining Films: The Great McGinty, The Great Moment, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The French, They Are a Funny Race
Andrea Arnold
Seen: 2/3 features, 0/2 shorts
Favorite Film: Fish Tank
Remaining Films: Wuthering Heights
Ben Affleck
Seen: 2/3 features, 0/1 short
Favorite Film: Argo
Remaining Films: The Town
Sylvain Chomet
Seen: 2/3 features, 0/1 short, 1/1 anthology contribution
Favorite Film: The Illusionist
Remaining Films: Attila Marcel
Alfred Hitchcock
Seen: 34/52 features, 1/6 shorts
Favorite Film: Rear Window
Remaining Films:
- I Confess (1953) – [LA County Library]
- The Paradine Case (1948) – [LA County Library]
- Jamaica Inn (1939) – [LA County Library]
- Waltzes from Vienna (1933) – [not available]
- Number 17 (1932) – [YouTube]
- Rich and Strange (1931) – [LA County Library]
- The Skin Game (1931) – [YouTube]
- Murder! (1930) – [YouTube]
- Juno and Paycock (1929) – [LA Public Library]
- The Manxman (1929) – [YouTube]
- Champagne (1928) – [YouTube]
- Easy Virtue (1927) – [YouTube]
- The Farmer’s Wife (1928) – [LA Public Library]
- Downhill (1927) – [YouTube]
- The Ring (1927) – [YouTube]
- The Lodger (1927) – [YouTube]
- The Pleasure Garden (1925) – [YouTube]
- (and The Mountain Eagle, but it’s lost)
Steven Spielberg
Seen: 19/30 features, 0/1 shorts
Favorite Film: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Remaining Films: Lincoln, War Horse, Amistad, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Always, Empire of the Sun, 1941, The Sugarland Express, Savage, Something Evil, Duel
Upcoming Films: Bridge of Spies
Stanley Donen
Seen: 16/27 features
Favorite Film: Singin’ in the Rain
Remaining Films: Blame it on Rio, Saturn 3, Movie, Movie, Lucky lady, Staircase, The Grass is Greener, Once More, with Feeling, Surprise Package, Kiss Them for Me, Fearless Fagan, Love is Better than Ever
Orson Welles
Seen: 7/12 features, 0/10 shorts
Favorite Film: Citizen Kane
Remaining Films: Macbeth, Othello, Mr Arkadin, The Trial, Don Quixote
Stanley Kubrick
Seen: 8/14 features, 0/2 shorts
Favorite Film: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Remaining Films:
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Lolita (1962)
- Killer’s Kiss (1955) [have on The Killing blu-ray]
- Fear and Desire (1953)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Seen: 4/7 features
Favorite Film: Amélie
Remaining Films: The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, Alien: Resurrection, Delicatessen
Frank Capra
Seen: 19/37 features
Favorite Film: It Happened One Night
Remaining Films: Pockeful of Miracles (1961), Riding High (1950), State of the Union (1948), Why We Fight (1942-1945), Broadway Bill (1934), Dirigible (1931), Rain or Shine (1930), Flight (1929), The Donovan Affair (1929), The Younger Generation (1929), Submarine (1928), The Power of the Press (1928), The Way of the Strong (1928), So This is Love? (1928), That Certain Thing (1928), Long Pants (1927), The Strong Man (1926)
Darren Aronofsky
Seen: 3/6 features
Favorite Film: The Fountain
Remaining Films: Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Noah
Gareth Edwards
Seen: 1/2 features
Favorite Film: Monsters
Remaining Films: Godzilla
François Truffaut
Seen: 9/22 features, 2/3 shorts, 0/1 anthology contribution
Favorite Film: The 400 Blows
Remaining Films: (essentials bold)
- Confidentially Yours (1983) [LA Public Library]
- The Woman Next Door (1981) [HuluPlus)
- The Last Metro (1980) [LA County Library]
- Love on the Run (1979) [LA Public Library]
- The Green Room
- The Man Who Loved Women
- Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me
- Two English Girls (1971) [LA Public Library]
- Bed and Board (1970) [LA Public Library]
- Mississippi Mermaid
- The Bride Wore Black
- The Soft Skin
- The Army Game
Xavier Dolan
Seen: 2/5 features
Favorite Film: I Killed My Mother
Remaining Films: Tom at the Farm, Laurence Anyways, Mommy
Jeff Nichols
Seen: 1/3 features
Favorite Film: Take Shelter
Remaining Films: Shotgun Stories [own on DVD], Mud [Amazon Prime]
Upcoming Films: Midnight Special
Nicholas Ray
Seen: 7/22 features, 0/1 shorts, 0/1 anthology contribution
Favorite Film: In a Lonely Place
Remaining Films:
- Lightning Over Water
- We Can’t Go Home Again
- 55 Days at Peking
- King of Kings
- The Savage Innocents
- Party Girl
- Wind Across the Everglades
- The True Story of Jesse James
- Bitter Victory
- Hot Blood
- Run for Cover
- Flying Leathernecks
- Born to Be Bad
- Knock on Any Door
Fritz Lang
Seen: 11/40 features
Favorite Film: Metropolis
Remaining Films: Spiders Parts 1 and 2, Harakiri, Das wandernde Bild, Vier um die Frau, Destiny, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Siegfied, Kreimhild’s Revenge, Spies, Woman in the Moon, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Liliom, Fury, You and Me, The Return of Frank James, Western Union, Manhunt, Hangmen Also Die, Cloak and Dagger, Secret Beyond the Door, American Guerilla in the Philippines, Rancho Notorious, Human Desire, Moonfleet, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Tiger of Eschnapur, The Tomb of Love, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Jean-Luc Godard
(for Godard, I am counting both narrative and documentary features, but not his “making of” docs, shorts, TV, etc.)
Seen: 13/48 features, 0/12 anthology contributions
Favorite Film: Band of Outsiders
Remaining Films: Notre Musique, In Praise of Love, The Old Place, Histoire du cinema, Forever Mozart, 2 x 50 Years of French Cinema, JLG/JLG: Self Portrait in December, The King of Ads, Les enfants jouent à la Russie, Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, Nouvelle Vague, Le rapport Darty, Keep Your Right Up, King Lear, Soft and Hard, Détective, Hail Mary, First Name: Carmen, Godard’s Passion, Every Man for Himself, Comment ça va?, Here and Elsewhere, Numéro Deux, Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still, 1 P.M., Pravda, See You at Mao, Joy of Learning, A Film Like Any Other, Sympathy for the Devil, La Chinoise, Une femme mariée, Les Carabiniers
Anthony Mann
Seen: 10/40 films
Favorite Film: The Man from Laramie
Remaining Films: The Streets of New York, Dr. Broadway, Moonlight in Havana, Nobody’s Darling, My Best Gal, Strangers in the Night, The Great Flamarion, Two O’Clock Courage, Sing Your Way Home, Strange Impersonation, The Bamboo Blonde, Desperate, Railroaded!, T-Men, Reign of Terror, Border Incident, Side Street, Devil’s Doorway, The Tall Target, Thunder Bay, Strategic Air Command, The Last Frontier, Men in War, The Tin Star, God’s Little Acre, Cimarron, El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Heroes of Telemark, A Dandy in Aspic
Samuel Fuller
Seen: 3/23 features
Favorite Film: The Naked Kiss
Remaining Films: I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, The Steel Helmet, Fixed Bayonets!, Park Row, Hell and High Water, House of Bamboo, China Gate, Run of the Arrow, Forty Guns, Verboten!, The Crimson Kimono, Underworld U.S.A., Merrill’s Marauders, Shark, The Meanest Men in the West, The Big Red One, White Dog, Thieves After Dark, Street of No Return
Ernst Lubitsch
Howard Hawks
John Ford
Raoul Walsh
Michael Curtiz
Seen: 24/164 features, 24/101 American features
Favorite Film: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Remaining Films: Lots.
Robert Wise
Seen: 7/40 features
Arthur Penn
Seen: 3/17 features
W.S. Van Dyke
Seen: 12/84 features
Victor Fleming
Seen: 4/45 features
Near 100%
Directors who happen to be near 100%, or I only lack one or two films from completing, but who I’m not actively pursuing 100% completion.
Stephen Daldry
Seen: 3/4 features
Favorite Film: The Hours
Remaining Films: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Upcoming Films: Trash
Tony Gilroy
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Bourne Legacy
Remaining Films: Duplicity
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: 28 Weeks Later
Remaining Films: Intruders
John Cameron Mitchell
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Remaining Films: Rabbit Hole
Bibo Bergeron
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Road to El Dorado
Remaining Films: A Monster in Paris
James McTeigue
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: V for Vendetta
Remaining Films: The Raven
Upcoming Films: Survivor
Randall Wallace
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Man in the Iron Mask
Remaining Films: Secretariat, Heaven is for Real
Nicholas Stoller
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Remaining Films: Get Him to the Greek
Upcoming Films: Neighbors
Robert Moore
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Cheap Detective
Remaining Films: Chapter Two
Mark Dindal
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Emperor’s New Groove
Remaining Films: Chicken Little
Karyn Kusama
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Aeon Flux
Remaining Films: Jennifer’s Body
Matt Reeves
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Cloverfield
Remaining Films: The Pallbearer
Upcoming Films: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Christine Jeffs
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Sunshine Cleaning
Remaining Films: Rain
Chris Nahon
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Kiss of the Dragon
Remaining Films: Empire of the Wolves
E. Elias Merhige
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Shadow of the Vampire
Remaining Films: Begotten
Kurt Wimmer
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: Ultraviolet
Remaining Films: One Tough Bastard
Todd Holland
Seen: 2/3 features
Favorite Film: The Wizard
Remaining Films: Firehouse Dog