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Terry Gilliam

American born-British filmmaker, comedian, and actor (born 1940)

4.20body-of-work score · ranked #264 of 2631 directors · 8 films in our library

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

Born
November 22, 1940 · Minneapolis
Nationality
United Kingdom, United States
Work
film director, screenwriter, comedian, animator
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Terry Gilliam
Greg2600 · CC BY-SA 2.0

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
    Brazil

    1985 · United Kingdom / Australia · film-noir, sci-fi, fantasy

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1986 #8 · TIME All-TIME 100 · BFI Top 100 British films #54

    1.517 citations
  2. 2
    The Fisher King

    1991 · United States · fantasy, comedy, drama

    TIFF People's Choice winner 1991 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #764

    1.083 citations
  3. 3
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    1998 · United States · biography, comedy, drama

    Empire 500 (2008) #469 · Criterion Collection spine #175

    0.332 citations
  4. 4
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975 · United Kingdom · fantasy, adventure, drama

    Empire 500 (2008) #381 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.292 citations
  5. 5
    Jabberwocky

    1977 · United Kingdom · fantasy

    Criterion Collection spine #903 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.272 citations
  6. 6
    Time Bandits

    1981 · United Kingdom · sci-fi, fantasy, adventure

    Criterion Collection spine #37 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

    0.272 citations
  7. 7
    The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

    1988 · United Kingdom / Italy / Germany · fantasy, comedy, adventure

    Criterion Collection spine #1166 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.272 citations
  8. 8
    12 Monkeys

    1995 · United States · film-noir

    Empire 500 (2008) #465

    0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 18 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.