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Ira Sachs

American filmmaker (born 1965)

2.43body-of-work score · ranked #442 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

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

Born
November 21, 1965 · Memphis
Nationality
United States
Work
film director, screenwriter, film producer, writer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Ira Sachs
Martin Kraft · 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
    Forty Shades of Blue

    2005 · United States · drama

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 2005

    0.751 citation
  2. 2
    Love Is Strange

    2014 · France / United States · drama, romance

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2014 #8 · Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #33

    0.512 citations
  3. 3
    Keep the Lights On

    2012 · United States · drama, romance

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2012 #10 · Film Comment year-end poll 2012 #40

    0.482 citations
  4. 4
    Passages

    2023 · France / Germany / United Kingdom · drama, romance

    Film Comment year-end poll 2023 #12

    0.271 citation
  5. 5
    Peter Hujar’s Day

    2025 · United States / Germany / United Kingdom · biography, drama

    Film Comment year-end poll 2025 #13

    0.261 citation
  6. 6
    The Delta

    1996 · United States · drama

    Criterion Collection spine #1309

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.