10 Directors With The Most Movies In The IMDb Top 250

5. Steven Spielberg (6)

The Movies: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jaws, Jurassic Park Few directors share a reputation for crafting blockbusters like Steven Spielberg, and yet across the span of his long and wonderful career the man who brought the world Jaws and Jurassic Park has also shined with more intimate and often harrowing pictures (some of which, like Munich and Empire of the Sun are absent from the list). So it's no surprise that Schindler's List is Spielberg's highest ranking movie on the IMDb - it is, at once, a bold, horrifying and honest movie, and as a testament to Spielberg the director it is perhaps the greatest movie he has ever made - telling that he directed it during the same year that he made Jurassic Park, a notion that showcases the duel sides of Spielberg that audiences have come to know. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are two of the most iconic adventure movies ever made, so no surprise there (no love for Temple of Doom?), whilst Jaws - with its perfect plotting, Hitchcockian stylings and John Williams soundtrack - is perhaps the most Spielbergian movie of all. It's also a masterpiece - the definitive example of the blockbuster as a movie masterpiece.
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