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Leos Carax

French director and writer (born 1960)

4.28body-of-work score · ranked #258 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

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

Born
November 22, 1960 · Suresnes
Nationality
France
Work
screenwriter, film critic, film actor, film director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Leos Carax
Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0

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
    Holy Motors

    2012 · France / Germany · drama, fantasy

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2012 #1 · Film Comment year-end poll 2012 #1 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2013 #6

    1.614 citations
  2. 2
    Annette

    2021 · France / Germany / Belgium · musical

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2021 #2 · Film Comment year-end poll 2021 #4 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2022 #5

    1.453 citations
  3. 3
    Mauvais sang

    1986 · France / Switzerland · drama, romance, crime

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1986 #5 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.502 citations
  4. 4
    Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

    1991 · France · romance, drama

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1991 #9 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.412 citations
  5. 5
    Pola X

    1999 · France / Switzerland / Germany · drama, romance

    Kehr's annual top 10 2000 #8

    0.161 citation
  6. 6
    Boy Meets Girl

    1984 · France · drama, romance

    Kehr's annual top 10 1984 #9

    0.151 citation

Complete filmography

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