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Barbet Schroeder

French film director (born 1941)

1.42body-of-work score · ranked #665 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library

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

Born
August 26, 1941 · Tehran
Nationality
France, Switzerland
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Barbet Schroeder
Barbet_Schroeder_(2883902011).jpg: Bryan Chan from Toronto, Canada derivative work: Morn · CC BY-SA 2.0

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
    Reversal of Fortune

    1990 · United States / Japan · biography, drama, mystery

    Ebert's annual top 10 1990 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Siskel's annual top 10 1990 #8

    0.523 citations
  2. 2
    Barfly

    1987 · United States · drama, comedy, romance

    Ebert's annual top 10 1987 #3 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.422 citations
  3. 3
    General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait

    1974 · France / Switzerland · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #153

    0.161 citation
  4. 4
    Maîtresse

    1975 · France · romance

    Criterion Collection spine #223

    0.161 citation
  5. 5
    Koko: A Talking GorillaKoko, le gorille qui parle

    1978 · France · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #340

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 22 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.