Roland Joffé

English and French film/television director and producer

4.87body-of-work score · ranked #222 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

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

Born
November 17, 1945 · London
Nationality
United Kingdom, France
Work
film director, film producer, screenwriter, television director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Roland Joffé
Franek Vetulani · 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

    1984 · United Kingdom · biography, drama

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1985 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1984 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1985 #7

    2.708 citations
  2. 2

    1986 · United Kingdom / France · drama

    Palme d'Or winner 1986 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1986 · Vatican film list

    2.173 citations

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1974Ann: A World Of Her Own
  • 1978The Spongers
  • 1984The Killing Fields
  • 1986The Mission
  • 1989Fat Man and Little Boy
  • 1992City of Joy
  • 1995The Scarlet Letter
  • 1998Goodbye Lover
  • 2000Vatel
  • 2007Captivity
  • 2008You and I
  • 2011There Be Dragons
  • 2013Singularity
  • 2015Texas Rising
  • 2017The Forgiven
  • November 1963