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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thai film director, screenwriter, and film producer (born 1970)

10.58body-of-work score · ranked #74 of 2631 directors · 7 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
July 16, 1970 · Bangkok
Nationality
Thailand
Work
film director, film producer, screenwriter, installation artist
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thachan.makan · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past LivesลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติMust-See #74

    2010 · Thailand / France · comedy, drama, fantasy

    Palme d'Or winner 2010 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2010 #1 · Film Comment year-end poll 2011 #2

    3.695 citations
  2. 2
    Tropical Maladyสัตว์ประหลาดMust-See #244

    2004 · Thailand / Italy / Germany · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2004 #1 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #62 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #95

    2.466 citations
  3. 3
    Memoria

    2021 · Colombia / Thailand / Germany · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2021 #1 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2021 #3

    1.502 citations
  4. 4
    Syndromes and a Centuryแสงศตวรรษ

    2006 · France / Thailand · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2007 #4 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #243 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2007 #10

    1.103 citations
  5. 5
    Cemetery of Splendourรักที่ขอนแก่น

    2015 · Thailand / United Kingdom / France · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2015 #2 · Film Comment year-end poll 2016 #4

    1.062 citations
  6. 6
    Blissfully Yoursสุดเสน่หา

    2002 · Thailand · romance

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2002 #3

    0.501 citation
  7. 7
    Mysterious Object at Noonดอกฟ้าในมือมาร

    2000 · Thailand · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #875 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.272 citations

Complete filmography

All 15 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.