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Jules Dassin

American film director (1911–2008)

3.21body-of-work score · ranked #343 of 2631 directors · 8 films in our library

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

Born
December 18, 1911 · Middletown
Died
March 31, 2008 · Athens
Nationality
United States, France, Greece
Work
film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Jules Dassin
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers) · Public domain

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 Naked City

    1948 · United States · crime, mystery, documentary

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1949 #5 · National Film Registry (inducted 2007) · Criterion Collection spine #380

    0.773 citations
  2. 2
    RififiDu rififi chez les hommes

    1955 · France · crime, film-noir, drama

    Letterboxd Top 250 #206 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #115

    0.775 citations
  3. 3
    He Who Must DieCelui qui doit mourir

    1957 · France / Italy · drama

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1957 #2

    0.631 citation
  4. 4
    Topkapi

    1964 · United States · crime, comedy

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.282 citations
  5. 5
    Thieves' Highway

    1949 · United States · crime, drama, film-noir

    Criterion Collection spine #273 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.272 citations
  6. 6
    Never on SundayΠοτέ την Κυριακή

    1960 · Greece · comedy, romance, drama

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies

    0.171 citation
  7. 7
    Brute Force

    1947 · United States · crime, drama, film-noir

    Criterion Collection spine #383

    0.161 citation
  8. 8
    Night and the City

    1950 · United Kingdom · drama, crime, film-noir

    Criterion Collection spine #274

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 25 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.