10 Directors With The Most Movies In The IMDb Top 250

2. Stanley Kubrick (7)

The Movies: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Shining, Paths Of Glory, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon The genius of Stanley Kubrick stemmed from his ability - and willingness - to work in multiple genres. No, he never managed to make a western or a kung-fu flick, but he covered the main bases and delivered masterpieces in pretty much every genre one could wish for. So there's his masterpiece of black comedy, Dr. Strangelove; his exercise in horror, The Shining; the anti-war classics Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket; his sci-fi gems 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange; and Barry Lyndon, his most underrated film (though perhaps not given its place on the list?), which is a kind of historial epic - though it is rendered as something of a black comedy, too. Kubrick's perfectionism (and his perceived coldness) has cemented his reputation as one of cinema's most intelligent directors, and indeed his films broadcast a man who wants to explore and poke into the very depths of humankind, be it through the Vietnam war or - hey! - an inter-dimensional wormhole. Whether you like his movies or not, there is no denying his magnitude, his influence, and the stamp that he made on the cinema scene - and in popular culture. All 7 movies in the Top 250 are wholly deserved.