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Cristi Puiu

Romanian film director and screenwriter

2.10body-of-work score · ranked #498 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

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

Born
April 3, 1967 · Bucharest
Nationality
Romania
Work
film director, screenwriter, film screenwriter
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Cristi Puiu
Nuță Lucian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania · CC BY 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
    The Death of Mr. LazarescuMoartea domnului Lăzărescu

    2005 · Romania · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2006 #2 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2006 #1 · Empire 500 (2008) #270

    1.474 citations
  2. 2
    Malmkrog

    2020 · Romania / Serbia / Switzerland · drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2020 #4

    0.431 citation
  3. 3
    Aurora

    2010 · Romania / France · drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2011 #29

    0.201 citation

Complete filmography

All 8 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.