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Chantal Akerman

Belgian film director, screenwriter, and educator (1950–2015)

9.58body-of-work score · ranked #97 of 2631 directors · 10 films in our library

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

Born
June 6, 1950 · Etterbeek
Died
October 5, 2015 · 20th arrondissement of Paris
Nationality
Belgium, France
Work
film director, actor, screenwriter, film producer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Chantal Akerman
Mario De Munck · CC BY-SA 4.0

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
    Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 BruxellesMust-See #17

    1975 · Belgium / France · drama

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #1 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #4 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1978 #1

    5.266 citations
  2. 2
    News from Home

    1976 · France / Belgium / Germany · documentary

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #52 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #72

    1.012 citations
  3. 3
    La Captive

    2000 · France / Belgium · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2000 #2 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2001 #3

    0.882 citations
  4. 4
    Anna's MeetingsLes Rendez-vous d'Anna

    1978 · France / Germany / Belgium

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1979 #4 · Kehr's annual top 10 1978 #4 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.543 citations
  5. 5
    De l'autre côté

    2002 · France / Belgium · documentary

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2002 #4

    0.431 citation
  6. 6
    Je Tu Il Elle

    1974 · France / Belgium · drama, romance

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225

    0.381 citation
  7. 7
    Night and DayNuit et Jour

    1991 · France / Belgium · drama

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1992 #5 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.302 citations
  8. 8
    No Home Movie

    2015 · France / Belgium · documentary

    Film Comment year-end poll 2016 #10

    0.291 citation
  9. 9
    D'Est

    1993 · France · documentary

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1999 #null · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.262 citations
  10. 10
    Almayer's FollyLa Folie Almayer

    2011 · France / Belgium · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2012 #22

    0.221 citation

Complete filmography

All 36 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1968Blow Up My Town
  • 1972Hôtel Monterey
  • 1972La chambre
  • 1973Hanging Out Yonkers
  • 1973Le 15/8
  • 1974Je Tu Il Elle
  • 1975Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • 1976News from Home
  • 1978Anna's Meetings
  • 1980Dis-moi
  • 1982Toute une nuit
  • 1983The Eighties
  • 1984Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
  • 1986Golden Eighties
  • 1986Letters Home
  • 1986Sieben Frauen - Sieben Todsünden
  • 1989American Stories, Food, Family and Philosophy
  • 1989Les trois dernières sonates de Franz Schubert
  • 1989Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher
  • 1991Against Oblivion
  • 1991Night and Day
  • 1993D'Est
  • 1994Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60’s in Brussels
  • 1996A Couch in New York
  • 1996Chantal Akerman on Chantal Akerman
  • 1999Sud
  • 2000La Captive
  • 2002Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton
  • 2002De l'autre côté
  • 2004Tomorrow We Move
  • 2006Down There
  • 2007State of the World
  • 2011Almayer's Folly
  • 2015No Home Movie
  • —South
  • —The Child Loves, or I Play at Being a Married Woman