I think David Fincher deserved at least an honorable mention. "Seven", "Fight Club" and "Gone girl" are masterpieces to me. "Panic room", "Zodiac" and "The girl with the dragon tattoo" are also worthy of note.
@@GhoulReviews Damn right. I also binge most of his films as well. Zodiac and The Social Network are his best work whereas Fight Club and Se7en are his fan favorites in my opinion.
That's because a big amount of Spielberg movies literally suck....everyone else on this either haven't made a single bad movie or they made like 1 or 2 bad movies Spielberg has at least 5 or 6 piece of shit movies
Oh come on! where is david fincher Fight club, social network, seven, gone girl, benjamin button, zodiac, girl with the dragon tatoo. You can binge his movies all day
Yeah the Spielberg HM is very questionable. Robert Zemeckis however, he's made a couple great movies, however most of his catalog is filled with average or just plain terrible movies. I mean House of Wax? Beowulf? Ghost Whip? Real Steel? Gothika? Mars Needs Moms? Thirteen Ghosts? The Polar Express? The Witches? Welcome to Marwen? Imagine binge watching those
@@micahcaraballo890 Oh yeah both of them are, My bad. Well because everyone knows Spielberg more than anyone else, Other directors exist and Watchmojo thinks they deserve some attention too. I find Spielberg overrated because he makes too many passable CGI explosion blockbusters like War of the Worlds. I find it Funny how when Michael Bay makes ok passable CGI blockbusters he gets made fun of but when Spielberg does with War of the Worlds he gets a pass because he’s Spielberg.
@@micahcaraballo890 not to say I straight up hate Spielberg, I like a lot of his movies; I love Catch Me if You Can the most, that movie is actually deep and meaningful and very well acted and not just CGI and explosions.
@Darshan Swaminathan so basically your saying Forest Gump, Contact, Cast Away, Romancing the stone, Death becomes her, and who framed roger rabbit were just ok.
@@kdn42069 no shit, sounds like he's just trying to be an edgy boi. I mean, maybe you don't like a few of those movies as much as some people, but there's no denying the man has some absolute classics. If you don't like Back to the Future, we can't be friends.
Wouldn’t say he’s underrated at all. Jojo Rabbits a bit too derivative of Wes Anderson’s style for me, but I’d agree that Boy and What We Do in the Shadows are great
Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan are my favorites directors. Also Taika Waititi,Wes Anderson, Wes Craven.
Fincher / Coppola / Zemeckis / Spielberg all should’ve been actually on this list. I was in shock when Fincher wasn’t in top 5 then wasn’t even on the list.
Clint Eastwood is also a good director to binge watch. His westerns, thrillers and war films will always leave an impact. Also, Spielberg belongs at number 1 due to how his movies are diverse and have something everyone can enjoy
The great legendary Steven Spielberg got a honorable mention? His movies are like the definition of binge watch. I've seen E.T. like countless times. Robert Zemeckis, Ang Lee and Penny Marshall's movies are worth binge watching too.
Stanley Kubrick he is the coolest and awesome director in all the time he create many awesome and iconic movies like The Shining,200:A Space Odyssey,A Clockwork orange and other coolest movies
I dated a girl once and we watched that movie pretty shortly into it, she hated it and thought it was stupid. Didn't work out with us. I'm not saying I dumped her because of that, but that's the sign I should have paid more attention to.😂 that movie is great.
Steven Spielberg he is one of the coolest and best directors of Hollywood in all the time and his movies are iconic and awesome like Jaws,E.T. The Extraterrestrial,Jurassic Park,The Schindler List and Ready Player one
Guillermo Del Toro is one of my favorite directors of all time. He has a great way of telling fantasy stories and making you admire the world he creates, I cannot wait to see what he makes next
Christopher Nolan he is the iconic and awesome director in Hollywood and in theaters and I like his movies like The Dark Knight franchise,Tenet,Dunkirk and Inception
@@cherryblossoms85 They may have, but if so, they were quite wrong. Here's another fun fact: one of the executive producers of _Fury Road_ was none other than former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who served under President Trump. He's been involved with a number of films in that capacity, and even appeared onscreen in a bit part in Warren Beatty's 2016 Howard Hughes biopic _Rules Don't Apply,_ billed as - what else? - 'Merrill Lynch Executive'.
Isn't this just a best directors list? It's a list of directors with the most entertaining catalogue of classic movies, which means best directors more than anything else. Spielberg being a mere honorable mention is laughable, but maybe his mainstream appeal makes him a victim of his own success.
Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Villeneuve, Frank Darabont, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, William Friedkin, John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick, Don Siegel, Sidney Lumet, Robert Zemeckis. These are some of the best Hollywood filmmakers of all times. It also includes some of the greatest filmmakers there ever were.
What about John Hughes? Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Not to mention his writing career. He did so much for gen X and our teen years than any other director.
He became crap in the 90s and just wrote crappy kids movies from there. Last good one he wrote was Home Alone 2, he just a lot of crap from there. I really don’t know what happened, how does one go from Ferris Bueller and the first 2 Home Alone movies to Home Alone 3 and that crappy 101 Dalmatians remake that’s already getting remade by scummy Disney like always starring Emma Stone.
John Frankenheimer is an underrated director. He had a directing career that spanned half a century and did classic movies from the 60s like Birds of Alcatraz, Three Days In May, Grand Prix, and The Manchurian Candidate. He also did critically acclaimed movies for HBO late in his life like The Burning Season, Against The Wall, and Path To War.
Spielberg? Man, I'd rather binge-watch frickin' Fred Figglehorn's entire videography on loop for a _week_ than subject myself to that hack's syrupy-ass cinematic _schmegegge!_
@@WesleyB-Rook Spielberg’s only bad movies are Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 1941, and The Lost World Jurassic Park. Tho he has been making a lot of passable, mediocre and forgettable movies so yeah.
For the movie buffs out there: David Cronenberg, Buster Keaton, Kenji Fukasaku, Nicholas Ray, Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, Mario Bava, Nicholas Roeg, Chang Cheh, Paul Verhoeven, David Lynch ... all bingeworthy.
@@Jodster223 yeah totally. In retrospect Sidney Lumet would have gone well with my initial list (edited for the watchmojo crowd). With the classics I need to see more of Capra and Hawks but I'd also add Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang. To extend the list: David Lean, Jean Pierre Melville, Werner Herzog, Michael Powell, Wong Kar Wai, Shyam Benegal, Elio Petri, Sam Peckinpah. Special consideration should also go to Mikhail Kalatozov (I am Cuba etc) and Max Ophuls (big influence on Kubrick). All of these are bingeworthy and digestible.
David Fincher, Neil Jordan, Woody Allen, Wes Craven, Luca Guadagnino, Clint Eastwood, Jason Reitman, Pedro Almodovar, Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma and Alexander Payne are my personal favorites
The Spielberg disrespect...this is criminal. Such a diverse filmography with so many rewatchable films, and he gets honorable mention? I can’t believe this.
Rob Reiner’s movies from the 80s and 90s are binge watch worthy. The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, Misery, The Sure Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, The American President, and A Few Good Men.
Tony Scott’s Directorial Filmography is intriguing. • The Hunger (1983) • Top Gun (1986) • Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987) • Revenge (1990) • Days of Thunder (1990) • The Last Boy Scout (1991) • True Romance (1993) • Crimson Tide (1995) • The Fan (1996) • Enemy of the State (1998) • Spy Game (2001) • Man on Fire (2004) • Domino (2005) • Déjà Vu (2006) • The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) • Unstoppable (2010)
Steven Spielberg in Honorable mention wtf? Come on WatchMojo, you can do better, he's the greatest and highest grossing film director of all time. And you put him in Honorable mention??
I think they were going for directors that may not be so well known, or maybe you've heard the name or seen a movie or 2, and there's other good ones too that are worth a watch. Pretty much everyone has seen all or most of Spielbergs movies.
Stanley Kubrick,Steven Spielberg,Michael Bay,Zack Snyder,Christopher Nolan,Tim Burton and Guillerno Del Torro and Michael hay they are the most directors whose movie you need to binge watch
20.) Taika Waititi 19.) Christopher Guest 18.) Denis Villeneuve 17.) Richard Linklater 16.) Tim Burton 15.) Edgar Wright 14.) Spike Lee 13.) James Cameron 12.) Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) 11.) Coen Brothers 10.) Kathryn Bigelow 9.) Guillermo del Toro 8.) Bong Joon-ho 7.) Christopher Nolan 6.) Wes Anderson 5.) Paul Thomas Anderson 4.) Quentin Tarantino 3.) Martin Scorsese 2.) Hayao Miyazaki 1.) Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) ----------------------- Honorable Mentions 1.) John Carpenter 2.) John Woo 3.) Steven Spielberg
Fun fact Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki once sent a genuine katana to Miramax head Harvey Weinstein, implicitly threatening the consequences the producer might face if any edits were made to Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke for its American release.
This is partially true. It wasn’t Miyazaki himself who hatched the plan and delivered the sword to Weinstein, however, but Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshiro Suzuki. Furthermore, it wasn’t a ‘genuine katana’, but a highly detailed replica lacking a sharp edge, bought from a little shop underneath the train tracks between Shinbashi and Yūrakuchō in Tokyo, long known for supplying realistic-looking faux weaponry for use in samurai films. In other words, it was just a film prop (albeit one so expertly crafted that this would have become apparent only upon close inspection).
Binge watching this many movies in a row will kill you. I like sticking to shorter binges like Martin McDonagh, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jordon Peele, Nicholas Wending Refn, Tom Ford, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, David Robert Mitchell, Darren Aronofsky, Richard Ayoade, Sofia Coppola, Drew Goddard, Mike Flannagan, Ari Aster, David Lynch, David Fincher, etc. Great list that had most of my favorite directors though!
Akira Kurasawa should have been included. I binge watched almost all of his movies. The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Ikiru, Rashoman, Yojimbo, and Seven Samurai. His movies are both entertaining and legendary!
How can you include unimaginative shills like Spike Lee and Kathryn Bigelow, but leave off such true visionaries as David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Paul Verhoeven, and Terry Gilliam? ...Oh, that's right - this is _WatchMojo._ Also, binge-watching the filmography of Wes Anderson sounds, to me, like the very definition of wilfully descending into the ceaseless flames of the living Hell.
I would say that one director who you could binge watch is Brad Bird. I know he only has 6 films in his filmography as a director. But when two of them are among the two best Pixar movies of all time in The Incredibles and Ratatouille that’s worthy of him being on the list. Even his worst movie Tomorrowland is still an enjoyable movie to watch. Another director that is worth bingeing is Guy Ritchie. Now his track record isn’t perfect he has had some flops like Swept Away and Revolver, but he does have some great films in his filmography like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Snatch.
Spielberg's filmography is the best for a binge-watch. The variety of genres is what makes it easy to binge. Kubrick is just too damn heavy for a binge watch. Even PTA is just too damn depressing. You don't binge them, you take them in doses. Gradually, slowly.
How the HELL can Akira Kurosawa not be on this list?! You've included non-western directors, so know it isn't Westerners exclusively, but how the HELL is AK-san left off?! INEXCUSABLE!
My top 6 directors for ultimate binge-watching excitement (in no particular order): Miyazaki Kubrick Lee Joon-ho Del Toro Villeneuve That's my list and I'm sticking to it lol
I’m shocked that all of the greatest directors in history (John Ford, Charlie Chaplin, William Wyler, Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, John Houston, Fred Zinnemann, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hawks, Francis Ford Copolla, Orson Welles, and Cecil B. De Mille) were overlooked by you. Their movies are binge watch worthy.
Really, As a movie lover ... None of directors give me the felling that Christopher Nolan movies give with the respect of some great directors and their excellent movies
I'm going to assume Akira Kurosawa didn't get even an Honorable Mention because there are too many of them to binge. Other than that, you have no excuse.
Steven Spielberg should be #1. But Hey, I like Andy Sadaris and Lloyd Kaufman too! I take it all back... Lloyd Kaufman is #1. Who can ever for get Poultrygeist, Tromeo and Juliet, or Class of Nukem High Part two. Yes, he can deal with deep social issues - such as the challenges of the mentally impaired in the Toxic Avenger Part IV. Lloyd is a brilliant director that can cast obscure international cultural norms as a main recurring film character (Sargent kobuki man). I encourage all to explore Troma and all its flix.
Hell, yeah! I, too, wept at the poignant moment in which the ‘special’ children _were_ in fact able to tell the teacher that what they were eating was tacos. It’s ‘Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.’, though - don’t _make_ him blow up that same vintage Thunderbird again!
Recommended topic... top 10 best film (movie or sitcom) surprises/kept secrets. Example and my vote for #1... Luke Skywalker in Mandalorian. In a world of leaks and spoilers this would be a cool video.
20. Taika Waititi 19. Christopher Guest 18. Denis Villenueva 17. Richard Linklater 16. Tim Burton 15. Edgar Wright 14. Spike Lee 13. James Cameron 12. Alfred Hitchcock 11. Coen Brothers 10. Kathryn Bigelow 09. Guillermo Del Toro 08. Bong Joon-Ho 07. Christopher Nolan 06. Wes Anderson 05. Paul Thomas Anderson 04. Quentin Tarantino 03. Martin Scorsese 02. Hayao Miyazaki 01. Tommy Wiseau 1.5 Michael Bay 00. M. Night Shyamalan Honorable Mentions: John Carpenter John Woo Steven Spielberg Jk~ #1. Stanley Kubrick
"We're WEREWOLVES, not SWEARWOLVES!" 😂😂😂 that line has always stuck with me so much, damnit that movie is so stupid in the best way possible. It's brilliantly stupid.
Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, David Lynch, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, Roman Polanski, Darren Aronofsky, Robert Rodriguez, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang and Charlie Chaplin??
No offense but I think that David lynch should have been in here with blue velvet,eraserhead Mulholland drive and the the straight stories.he is even considered by many directors as Kubrick's successor.
@@gassedlikenarstie7173 yeah but you could say the same of Kubrick's work take for example 2001, let me just clarify by saying it's my favourite movie and nothing comes close to it for me. but the issue is once you finish the film you will not feel like binging another one, Because once you finish one of them you can't get it out of your head. But thank you very much for replying to my comment this is just my personal opinion so take everything with a grain of salt
#16 - Tim Burton: what?? THAT low on the list?? i expected him higher up than 16, better be some exceptional directors overshadowing him! EDIT: alright, fine... i still idolize his movies! i grew up on that beautiful and gothic look his movies always have, cant expect me to not be biased.
James Gunn he is the coolest and incredible director of Marvel universe in all the time and I like his movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy sequels I can’t wait to see his new movie of The Suicide Squad 2
Sion Sono Japanese Director. Love & Peace, Suicide Club, Cold Fish, Strange Circus, The Virgin Psychics...Must Watch. Plus his first english language film starring Nicholas Cage entitled Prisoner od the Ghostland is out soon!
Also why Francis Ford Coppola isn't on the list?! Although he came into limelight because of the Godfather trilogy, but his films like Jack (it's a heartwarming film, recommend everyone to give it a watch), Rumble Fish, The Conversation (an underrated enthralling thriller), The Rainmaker (a family court room drama, very well scripted and directed based on the novel of the same name starring Matt Damon) are worth giving a shot!
Which director has the most binge-watch worthy resume? Let us know what you think!
Ishiro Honda.
How was this video posted 1 minute ago, but your comment is 6 days old?
@@supartec Fucking RUclips man, haha lol.
@@supartec they commented before uploading
Stanley Kubrick,Michael Bay,Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan
I think David Fincher deserved at least an honorable mention. "Seven", "Fight Club" and "Gone girl" are masterpieces to me. "Panic room", "Zodiac" and "The girl with the dragon tattoo" are also worthy of note.
I was about to say the same thing.
Fuck an honorable mention he should have been on this list. I binged a bunch of his movies late last year and it was awesome.
@@GhoulReviews Damn right. I also binge most of his films as well. Zodiac and The Social Network are his best work whereas Fight Club and Se7en are his fan favorites in my opinion.
David Lynch too.
And Darren Aronofsky
Alfred Hitchcock should've been higher on the list, but Steven Spielberg is an...HONORABLE MENTION?!
My thoughts exactly!!!
Ikr
I feel like Hitchcock is kinda skewed because his filmography is so huge. He has a lot of great material to binge but also a ton of garbage
That's because a big amount of Spielberg movies literally suck....everyone else on this either haven't made a single bad movie or they made like 1 or 2 bad movies Spielberg has at least 5 or 6 piece of shit movies
@@artirony410Which hitchcock flim is garbage?
Oh come on! where is david fincher
Fight club, social network, seven, gone girl, benjamin button, zodiac, girl with the dragon tatoo.
You can binge his movies all day
There's also Mank, Panic Room, and The Game, but we should ignore Alien 3
@@gaigemann2918 Yeah
Just for Fight Club alone his catalog is worth a watch.
@@thegheymantis8702 Yes
How is it that Spielberg is on the “honorable mentions” list and Robert Zemeckis isn’t on this list at all?! 😤😤
Yeah the Spielberg HM is very questionable. Robert Zemeckis however, he's made a couple great movies, however most of his catalog is filled with average or just plain terrible movies. I mean House of Wax? Beowulf? Ghost Whip? Real Steel? Gothika? Mars Needs Moms? Thirteen Ghosts? The Polar Express? The Witches? Welcome to Marwen? Imagine binge watching those
Spielberg isn’t on here because he along with Christopher Nolan and Tarantino, are the only directors most of you peeps know.
@@blunew467 that doesn’t make any sense. And besides, Tarantino and Nolan are on this list, so why can’t Spielberg?
@@micahcaraballo890 Oh yeah both of them are, My bad. Well because everyone knows Spielberg more than anyone else, Other directors exist and Watchmojo thinks they deserve some attention too. I find Spielberg overrated because he makes too many passable CGI explosion blockbusters like War of the Worlds. I find it Funny how when Michael Bay makes ok passable CGI blockbusters he gets made fun of but when Spielberg does with War of the Worlds he gets a pass because he’s Spielberg.
@@micahcaraballo890 not to say I straight up hate Spielberg, I like a lot of his movies; I love Catch Me if You Can the most, that movie is actually deep and meaningful and very well acted and not just CGI and explosions.
I can't believe Robert Zemeckis wasn't even mentioned not even honorably.
Yeah
@Darshan Swaminathan so basically your saying Forest Gump, Contact, Cast Away, Romancing the stone, Death becomes her, and who framed roger rabbit were just ok.
@@kdn42069 no shit, sounds like he's just trying to be an edgy boi. I mean, maybe you don't like a few of those movies as much as some people, but there's no denying the man has some absolute classics. If you don't like Back to the Future, we can't be friends.
I've got a soft spot for polar express also especially in 3d imax at Christmas as a child. One of the best 3d movies ever.
Beowolf and the Christmas Carol also make good use of 3d shame about the actual films though.
Taika Waititi is severely underrated. His NZ films are a real treat that I'd recommend to everyone
Wouldn’t say he’s underrated at all. Jojo Rabbits a bit too derivative of Wes Anderson’s style for me, but I’d agree that Boy and What We Do in the Shadows are great
He is wonderful ❤funny as fuck😂😂
Amen!
You probably meant overrated.
I am just happy Hayao Miyazaki got really high on the list because I constantly watch his movies
Steven Spielberg only an honourable mention? You don't do that to the most successful director of all time..
Despacito is the most viewed song but it doesn’t mean it’s the best.
@@blunew467 id argue spielberg is above that, if nolan and cameron made it fincher and spielber schould have too imo
he’s overrated
Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan are my favorites directors. Also Taika Waititi,Wes Anderson, Wes Craven.
Bas list👎
Fincher / Coppola / Zemeckis / Spielberg all should’ve been actually on this list. I was in shock when Fincher wasn’t in top 5 then wasn’t even on the list.
Clint Eastwood is also a good director to binge watch. His westerns, thrillers and war films will always leave an impact. Also, Spielberg belongs at number 1 due to how his movies are diverse and have something everyone can enjoy
True. I'm surprised Leone didn't make the cut.
The great legendary Steven Spielberg got a honorable mention? His movies are like the definition of binge watch. I've seen E.T. like countless times. Robert Zemeckis, Ang Lee and Penny Marshall's movies are worth binge watching too.
None knows it... But there is 90% chance that E.T. was stolen
@@ankitbhattacharjee_iitkgp From what movie?
Stanley Kubrick he is the coolest and awesome director in all the time he create many awesome and iconic movies like The Shining,200:A Space Odyssey,A Clockwork orange and other coolest movies
What we do in the shadows in the thumbnail, have my like.
I dated a girl once and we watched that movie pretty shortly into it, she hated it and thought it was stupid. Didn't work out with us. I'm not saying I dumped her because of that, but that's the sign I should have paid more attention to.😂 that movie is great.
@@thegheymantis8702 amen brother
@@thegheymantis8702 lmao 🤣 definitely would have been a good reason.
Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Darren Aronofsky, Zack Snider all deserve at least an honouable mention.
Wait, Spielberg is only HM? Really? And where is Kurosawa???
Kurosawa is probably the GOAT of directors but his stuff isn't bingable.
They're not counting non-hollywood directors
@@sameerahmed-gx8js Hayao Miyazaki, Bong Joon Ho are on the list
@@mohantharani1471 because both of them has oscar...
@@sameerahmed-gx8js doesnt mean theyre hollywood m8...
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Steven Spielberg he is one of the coolest and best directors of Hollywood in all the time and his movies are iconic and awesome like Jaws,E.T. The Extraterrestrial,Jurassic Park,The Schindler List and Ready Player one
Guillermo Del Toro is one of my favorite directors of all time. He has a great way of telling fantasy stories and making you admire the world he creates, I cannot wait to see what he makes next
He’s making a stop motion animated Pinocchio film for Netflix that’ll be based on the 2002 Grim Grisly version of the novel. Just so you’d know. 😊
@@ZemeckisTEN yeah I know, I’m really looking forward to it
Christopher Nolan he is the iconic and awesome director in Hollywood and in theaters and I like his movies like The Dark Knight franchise,Tenet,Dunkirk and Inception
I think he did Mad Max Fury Road with Tom Hardy which I loved!
@@cherryblossoms85 No, that was George Miller (who, in addition to the _Mad Max_ series, also made _Babe_ and _Happy Feet_ ).
@@bryangarcia5599 Oh I thought they said Chris Nolan did it in another video.
@@cherryblossoms85 They may have, but if so, they were quite wrong. Here's another fun fact: one of the executive producers of _Fury Road_ was none other than former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who served under President Trump. He's been involved with a number of films in that capacity, and even appeared onscreen in a bit part in Warren Beatty's 2016 Howard Hughes biopic _Rules Don't Apply,_ billed as - what else? - 'Merrill Lynch Executive'.
@@bryangarcia5599 Yea I could be wrong but who knows. That's pretty cool about the former Treasury guy!
Isn't this just a best directors list? It's a list of directors with the most entertaining catalogue of classic movies, which means best directors more than anything else. Spielberg being a mere honorable mention is laughable, but maybe his mainstream appeal makes him a victim of his own success.
Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Villeneuve, Frank Darabont, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, William Friedkin, John Boorman, Stanley Kubrick, Don Siegel, Sidney Lumet, Robert Zemeckis. These are some of the best Hollywood filmmakers of all times. It also includes some of the greatest filmmakers there ever were.
Yeah...why no love for Darabont?
Edgar Wright is one of the most creative director of all time imo
Shaun of the Dead is in my top 10 movies of all time, sheer brilliance.
@@thegheymantis8702 Agreed
I've been binge watching Terry Gilliam and Stanley Kubrick movies during the pandemic. They definitely help me escape reality!
What about John Hughes? Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Not to mention his writing career. He did so much for gen X and our teen years than any other director.
He became crap in the 90s and just wrote crappy kids movies from there. Last good one he wrote was Home Alone 2, he just a lot of crap from there. I really don’t know what happened, how does one go from Ferris Bueller and the first 2 Home Alone movies to Home Alone 3 and that crappy 101 Dalmatians remake that’s already getting remade by scummy Disney like always starring Emma Stone.
@@blunew467 Sad, but true... :(
John Frankenheimer is an underrated director. He had a directing career that spanned half a century and did classic movies from the 60s like Birds of Alcatraz, Three Days In May, Grand Prix, and The Manchurian Candidate. He also did critically acclaimed movies for HBO late in his life like The Burning Season, Against The Wall, and Path To War.
Steven Spielberg deserves an honorable mention in this top
Nooooo not at all. He has way too many bad movies amongst the good ones
Spielberg? Man, I'd rather binge-watch frickin' Fred Figglehorn's entire videography on loop for a _week_ than subject myself to that hack's syrupy-ass cinematic _schmegegge!_
@@bryangarcia5599 yeah okay buddy
@@WesleyB-Rook Spielberg’s only bad movies are Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 1941, and The Lost World Jurassic Park. Tho he has been making a lot of passable, mediocre and forgettable movies so yeah.
@@WesleyB-Rookyou say all his movie are bad.but why do all his movie go to the Oscars and the box office?
For the movie buffs out there: David Cronenberg, Buster Keaton, Kenji Fukasaku, Nicholas Ray, Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, Mario Bava, Nicholas Roeg, Chang Cheh, Paul Verhoeven, David Lynch ... all bingeworthy.
I agree with all these. Also, add Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Clint Eastwood, Howard Hawks, and Sidney Lumet
@@Jodster223 yeah totally. In retrospect Sidney Lumet would have gone well with my initial list (edited for the watchmojo crowd). With the classics I need to see more of Capra and Hawks but I'd also add Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang. To extend the list: David Lean, Jean Pierre Melville, Werner Herzog, Michael Powell, Wong Kar Wai, Shyam Benegal, Elio Petri, Sam Peckinpah. Special consideration should also go to Mikhail Kalatozov (I am Cuba etc) and Max Ophuls (big influence on Kubrick). All of these are bingeworthy and digestible.
David Fincher, Neil Jordan, Woody Allen, Wes Craven, Luca Guadagnino, Clint Eastwood, Jason Reitman, Pedro Almodovar, Rob Reiner, Brian De Palma and Alexander Payne are my personal favorites
Taika is a bloody legend already, i live in NZ and he is absolutely adored❤ Peter Jackson isn't too bad either😂
Taika Waititi made Thor Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit. Really cool movies. The guy is awesome!
Unfortunately, he lost his cool with Thor: Love and Thunder
The Spielberg disrespect...this is criminal. Such a diverse filmography with so many rewatchable films, and he gets honorable mention? I can’t believe this.
Rob Reiner’s movies from the 80s and 90s are binge watch worthy. The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, Misery, The Sure Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, The American President, and A Few Good Men.
Tony Scott’s Directorial Filmography is intriguing.
• The Hunger (1983)
• Top Gun (1986)
• Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)
• Revenge (1990)
• Days of Thunder (1990)
• The Last Boy Scout (1991)
• True Romance (1993)
• Crimson Tide (1995)
• The Fan (1996)
• Enemy of the State (1998)
• Spy Game (2001)
• Man on Fire (2004)
• Domino (2005)
• Déjà Vu (2006)
• The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
• Unstoppable (2010)
Half of them are real good! The other half are really bad😂😂
David Fincher, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini
No David Lynch? List invalidated.
Damn right.
Right same with Satoshi Kon
Glad to see Taika Waititi in your list.
Steven Spielberg in Honorable mention wtf? Come on WatchMojo, you can do better, he's the greatest and highest grossing film director of all time. And you put him in Honorable mention??
Probally because he’s what everybody expected
Drake is the best selling artist of 2020. Do you think he's also the best? It's not about popularity, it's about quality.
@@thozynator6094 fairplay
@Darshan Swaminathan He's good. They just don't think he's in the top 20. Movies are worldwide, not only in Hollywood.
I think they were going for directors that may not be so well known, or maybe you've heard the name or seen a movie or 2, and there's other good ones too that are worth a watch. Pretty much everyone has seen all or most of Spielbergs movies.
Stanley Kubrick,Steven Spielberg,Michael Bay,Zack Snyder,Christopher Nolan,Tim Burton and Guillerno Del Torro and Michael hay they are the most directors whose movie you need to binge watch
You accidentally said Michael hay. Maybe you meant Bay, but he doesn’t belong on any list involving talent.
we can watch all M night shyamalan movies.. mostly for thr twist endings.. he is king in that
He’s only made like two good movies. The rest range from “okay” to “HELL NO”
Meh...
20.) Taika Waititi
19.) Christopher Guest
18.) Denis Villeneuve
17.) Richard Linklater
16.) Tim Burton
15.) Edgar Wright
14.) Spike Lee
13.) James Cameron
12.) Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)
11.) Coen Brothers
10.) Kathryn Bigelow
9.) Guillermo del Toro
8.) Bong Joon-ho
7.) Christopher Nolan
6.) Wes Anderson
5.) Paul Thomas Anderson
4.) Quentin Tarantino
3.) Martin Scorsese
2.) Hayao Miyazaki
1.) Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)
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Honorable Mentions
1.) John Carpenter
2.) John Woo
3.) Steven Spielberg
Top 10 Movie Characters That Are Pure Evil Incarnate
on tv shows though the lich from adventure time was an example of pure evil incarnate.
Eric Cartman. I know he's primarily a TV character, but there was a movie.
Mr. Bean
@@bryangarcia5599 lmao, that poor turkey.
@@thegheymantis8702 _Ecce homo qui est faba_
I loved this video! Great work! Thank you
Fun fact
Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki once sent a genuine katana to Miramax head Harvey Weinstein, implicitly threatening the consequences the producer might face if any edits were made to Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke for its American release.
This is partially true. It wasn’t Miyazaki himself who hatched the plan and delivered the sword to Weinstein, however, but Studio Ghibli co-founder and producer Toshiro Suzuki. Furthermore, it wasn’t a ‘genuine katana’, but a highly detailed replica lacking a sharp edge, bought from a little shop underneath the train tracks between Shinbashi and Yūrakuchō in Tokyo, long known for supplying realistic-looking faux weaponry for use in samurai films. In other words, it was just a film prop (albeit one so expertly crafted that this would have become apparent only upon close inspection).
Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Altman, and Charlie Kaufman.
Thank you for putting Wes Anderson on the list.
Taika Waititi should have been higher than 20. I love him sooo much
Binge watching this many movies in a row will kill you. I like sticking to shorter binges like Martin McDonagh, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jordon Peele, Nicholas Wending Refn, Tom Ford, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland, David Robert Mitchell, Darren Aronofsky, Richard Ayoade, Sofia Coppola, Drew Goddard, Mike Flannagan, Ari Aster, David Lynch, David Fincher, etc. Great list that had most of my favorite directors though!
Great 📹 and I enjoyed it and have a blessed 🌙
Rope (by Al Hitchcock) needs far more recognition. So good
Akira Kurasawa should have been included. I binge watched almost all of his movies. The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Ikiru, Rashoman, Yojimbo, and Seven Samurai. His movies are both entertaining and legendary!
How can you include unimaginative shills like Spike Lee and Kathryn Bigelow, but leave off such true visionaries as David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Paul Verhoeven, and Terry Gilliam? ...Oh, that's right - this is _WatchMojo._
Also, binge-watching the filmography of Wes Anderson sounds, to me, like the very definition of wilfully descending into the ceaseless flames of the living Hell.
I would say that one director who you could binge watch is Brad Bird. I know he only has 6 films in his filmography as a director. But when two of them are among the two best Pixar movies of all time in The Incredibles and Ratatouille that’s worthy of him being on the list. Even his worst movie Tomorrowland is still an enjoyable movie to watch. Another director that is worth bingeing is Guy Ritchie. Now his track record isn’t perfect he has had some flops like Swept Away and Revolver, but he does have some great films in his filmography like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Snatch.
As much as I love Kubrick's and Scorcese's movies, Tarantino's movies are the most binge watchable.
Spielberg's filmography is the best for a binge-watch. The variety of genres is what makes it easy to binge.
Kubrick is just too damn heavy for a binge watch. Even PTA is just too damn depressing. You don't binge them, you take them in doses. Gradually, slowly.
I was thinking this would just be a top 20 directors list with a fancy title, but then Spielberg was an honourable mention and I realised it wasn't
25th hour is such an under appreciated movie.
Totally agree❤❤
How the HELL can Akira Kurosawa not be on this list?! You've included non-western directors, so know it isn't Westerners exclusively, but how the HELL is AK-san left off?! INEXCUSABLE!
Top 10 MULTI-GENRE Directors
Francis ford Coppola went missing all of a sudden.
Coppola embodied the New American cinema movement. I could listen to him talk movies all day.
He only have one good movie
@@jimbo9208 5 i believe
5 masterpieces. Others were good.
My top 6 directors for ultimate binge-watching excitement (in no particular order):
Miyazaki
Kubrick
Lee
Joon-ho
Del Toro
Villeneuve
That's my list and I'm sticking to it lol
Good list!
@@zzz43344 thanks a lot!!! ☺️
@@art.of.verser No problem! :)
Ishiro Honda should be on this list, but I know that he probably won't be.
And Akira Kurosawa?!
Better see matthew Vaughan on this list
I’m shocked that all of the greatest directors in history (John Ford, Charlie Chaplin, William Wyler, Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, John Houston, Fred Zinnemann, Michael Curtiz, Howard Hawks, Francis Ford Copolla, Orson Welles, and Cecil B. De Mille) were overlooked by you. Their movies are binge watch worthy.
Here some suggestions:
Wong kar wai(hong Kong)
Takashi milte(Japanese)
Anurag khasyap(indian)
Park chan-woo(korean)
Darren afronsky(Spanish)
Oh yeah, don't forget John Hughes! I am a child of the 80's. Home Alone, sixteen candles, pretty in pink!!
Really, As a movie lover ...
None of directors give me the felling that Christopher Nolan movies give with the respect of some great directors and their excellent movies
I'm going to assume Akira Kurosawa didn't get even an Honorable Mention because there are too many of them to binge. Other than that, you have no excuse.
One of the best ever lived.
While I agree with the top pick with all my heart, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini deserved spots here.
Steven Spielberg should be #1. But Hey, I like Andy Sadaris and Lloyd Kaufman too! I take it all back... Lloyd Kaufman is #1. Who can ever for get Poultrygeist, Tromeo and Juliet, or Class of Nukem High Part two. Yes, he can deal with deep social issues - such as the challenges of the mentally impaired in the Toxic Avenger Part IV. Lloyd is a brilliant director that can cast obscure international cultural norms as a main recurring film character (Sargent kobuki man). I encourage all to explore Troma and all its flix.
Hell, yeah! I, too, wept at the poignant moment in which the ‘special’ children _were_ in fact able to tell the teacher that what they were eating was tacos. It’s ‘Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.’, though - don’t _make_ him blow up that same vintage Thunderbird again!
Chris Nolan, Martin Scor, Stanley Kubrick, Spielberg, David Fincher
Recommended topic... top 10 best film (movie or sitcom) surprises/kept secrets. Example and my vote for #1... Luke Skywalker in Mandalorian. In a world of leaks and spoilers this would be a cool video.
Rumor has it that Luke Skywalker in S2E8 of "The Mandalorian" was even a surprise to the president of Lucasfilm.
Spielberg an honorable mention? also fincher needs a spot imo
20. Taika Waititi
19. Christopher Guest
18. Denis Villenueva
17. Richard Linklater
16. Tim Burton
15. Edgar Wright
14. Spike Lee
13. James Cameron
12. Alfred Hitchcock
11. Coen Brothers
10. Kathryn Bigelow
09. Guillermo Del Toro
08. Bong Joon-Ho
07. Christopher Nolan
06. Wes Anderson
05. Paul Thomas Anderson
04. Quentin Tarantino
03. Martin Scorsese
02. Hayao Miyazaki
01. Tommy Wiseau
1.5 Michael Bay
00. M. Night Shyamalan
Honorable Mentions:
John Carpenter
John Woo
Steven Spielberg
Jk~
#1. Stanley Kubrick
What we do in the shadows is comedic masterpiece
"We're WEREWOLVES, not SWEARWOLVES!" 😂😂😂 that line has always stuck with me so much, damnit that movie is so stupid in the best way possible. It's brilliantly stupid.
Yeah!
I Haven’t watched Yet but Paul Thomas Anderson Changed my Life
@Darshan Swaminathan exactly man
Sergio Leone, Orson Welles, David Lynch, David Fincher, Ridley Scott, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, Roman Polanski, Darren Aronofsky, Robert Rodriguez, Milos Forman, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang and Charlie Chaplin??
Good list but IMO Spielberg should have been in the top 5....Ang Lee also is another good director as is Zemeckis! My honorable mentions
Can you do most anticipated anime of spring 2021? 😊
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The Russo Brothers, Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, George Lucas, Spike Jonze, Doug Liman
Feige don’t direct movies
No offense but I think that David lynch should have been in here with blue velvet,eraserhead Mulholland drive and the the straight stories.he is even considered by many directors as Kubrick's successor.
Brilliant but not binge worthy though, tried to watch long highway, Mulholland drive and inland empire back to back and I went insane.
@@gassedlikenarstie7173 Well, they worked properly, then. Also, what’s ‘Long Highway’?
@@gassedlikenarstie7173 yeah but you could say the same of Kubrick's work take for example 2001, let me just clarify by saying it's my favourite movie and nothing comes close to it for me. but the issue is once you finish the film you will not feel like binging another one, Because once you finish one of them you can't get it out of your head. But thank you very much for replying to my comment this is just my personal opinion so take everything with a grain of salt
Oh And I have seen at least three of Studio Ghibli's films: Ponyo, Spirited Away and Secret Life of Arrietty
you forgot john landis, john hughes, and wes craven
Also Ari Aster
John Landis? Isn’t he a killer and a creep?
@@blunew467 no. He did the american werewolf movies and other horror movies. He also directed the music video to michael jackson's thriller
#16 - Tim Burton: what?? THAT low on the list?? i expected him higher up than 16, better be some exceptional directors overshadowing him!
EDIT: alright, fine... i still idolize his movies! i grew up on that beautiful and gothic look his movies always have, cant expect me to not be biased.
I happen to be binge watching Tony Scott at this point.
Spielberg is a legend he should have on the actual list!
James Gunn he is the coolest and incredible director of Marvel universe in all the time and I like his movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy sequels I can’t wait to see his new movie of The Suicide Squad 2
Clicked because I saw Taika waititi
At least Hitchcock made the list but should have been much higher. But no Kurosawa? Spielberg is only an honorable mention? Yikes.
"Top 10 Greatest Team/Squad Leaders in Anime".
No love for Mel Brooks???
Sion Sono Japanese Director. Love & Peace, Suicide Club, Cold Fish, Strange Circus, The Virgin Psychics...Must Watch.
Plus his first english language film starring Nicholas Cage entitled Prisoner od the Ghostland is out soon!
Good Video
I think there should be another top 20 directors whose movies we need to binge, in my opinion for the next list.
Milos Forman made two of the greatest movies ever! One flew over the cuckoo's nest and Amadeus, plus man on the moon and the people vs Larry flynt❤❤❤
Also why Francis Ford Coppola isn't on the list?! Although he came into limelight because of the Godfather trilogy, but his films like Jack (it's a heartwarming film, recommend everyone to give it a watch), Rumble Fish, The Conversation (an underrated enthralling thriller), The Rainmaker (a family court room drama, very well scripted and directed based on the novel of the same name starring Matt Damon) are worth giving a shot!
Park Chan Wook deserves at least an honorable mention
Ridley Scott?
Bryan Singer?
David Fincher?
The Russo Brothers?
How could you leave this guys out?