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Poll: IMDb Top Rated Movies and Top Rated TV Shows Directors

A poll by Silitonga
These remarkably talented directors managed to make one or some of the most popular and the highest rated movies and TV shows in the world according to IMDb.

Which one is your favorite?

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." Alfred Hitchcock

Direct some words here

*The director needs to have at least one movie and one TV show in IMDb top rated movies and TV

Results of 776 votes:

  1. 1.

    Alfred Hitchcock

     
    Movie: Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), Rebecca (1940) TV: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955)
  2. 2.

    David Fincher

     
    Movie: Gone Girl (2014), Fight Club (1999), Se7en (1995) TV: House of Cards (2013), Mindhunter (2017)
  3. 3.

    David Lynch

     
    Movie: The Elephant Man (1980) TV: Twin Peaks (1990), Twin Peaks (2017)
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