French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has directed fifteen features, including Cold Water, Irma Vep, Demonlover, Summer Hours, Carlos, and Clouds of Sils Maria.
Photo by Grant Delin
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The List
1
The Leopard
UnavailableLuchino Visconti
1963
186 min
2tie
Pickpocket
Robert Bresson
1959
75 min
2tie
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky
1966
183 min
3tie
White Material
UnavailableClaire Denis
2009
106 min
3tie
A Christmas Tale
Arnaud Desplechin
2008
152 min
3tie
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai
1994
103 min
3tie
Dazed and Confused
UnavailableRichard Linklater
1993
102 min
3tie
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach
2013
86 min
3tie
Moonrise Kingdom
UnavailableWes Anderson
2012
94 min
3tie
Yi Yi
Edward Yang
2000
174 min
4
Nashville
UnavailableRobert Altman
1975
160 min
5
Heaven’s Gate
UnavailableMichael Cimino
1980
218 min
6
Videodrome
UnavailableDavid Cronenberg
1983
88 min
7
Che
UnavailableSteven Soderbergh
2008
55 min
8tie
La dolce vita
UnavailableFederico Fellini
1960
176 min
8tie
Army of Shadows
UnavailableJean-Pierre Melville
1969
145 min
9tie
Fanny and Alexander: Television Version
Ingmar Bergman
1983
9tie
Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
1999
160 min
10tie
Désiré
Sacha Guitry
1937
92 min
10tie
Judex
Georges Franju
1963
104 min
11tie
Rififi
UnavailableJules Dassin
1955
118 min
11tie
Thief
UnavailableMichael Mann
1981
123 min