10 Best Film Directors With Less Than 5 Films

10. Steve McQueen

A slight cheat to start off with, McQueen either has four films or nine depending on how you perceive his anthology series Small Axe. As it was released as a limited series of five standalone episodes, McQueen manages to make the list with an already impressive crop of feature films.

Using Michael Fassbender as a muse for three out of his four films, the two of them have put out largely character driven dramas centred around the obsession and commitment of the primary character in Hunger and Shame.

Their third collaboration expanded into something far more ambitious however as McQueen helmed the Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. The film is harrowing and powerful and a landmark piece of cinema that portrays the atrocities of the slave trade in America.

His fourth film Widows starring Viola Davis was a change of pace as it managed to be thrilling and exciting while keeping McQueen's grounded character focused style. When you consider Small Axe as well then McQueen is showing himself to already be a master filmmaker with a catalogue of high calibre films.