Emir Kusturica
Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- November 24, 1954 · Sarajevo
- Nationality
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia, France
- Work
- actor, film producer, film director, screenwriter
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
1995 · France / Germany / Bulgaria · comedy, drama, war
Palme d'Or winner 1995 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1996 #3 · Kehr's annual top 10 1995 #2
3.138 citations - 2
1985 · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · comedy, drama
Palme d'Or winner 1985 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1986 #5 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films
2.063 citations - 3Time of the GypsiesДом за вешање
1988 · Yugoslavia / Italy / United Kingdom · drama, fantasy
Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1989 #10 · Letterboxd Top 250 #246
0.482 citations - 4Black Cat, White CatCrna mačka, beli mačor
1998 · France / Germany / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · comedy, romance, musical
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1999 #7
0.331 citation
Complete filmography
All 19 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1978Guernica
- 1978Nevjeste dolaze
- 1979Café Titanic
- 1981Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
- 1985When Father Was Away on Business
- 1988Time of the Gypsies
- 1993Arizona Dream
- 1995
- 1995Underground
- 1996Sept jours dans la vie d’un oiseau
- 1998Black Cat, White Cat
- 2001Super 8 Stories
- 2004Life Is a Miracle
- 2005All the Invisible Children
- 2007Promise Me This
- 2008Maradona by Kusturica
- 2014Words with Gods
- 2016On the Milky Road
- 2018El Pepe, una vida suprema