John Hughes
Director · 47 credits · 8 in highly-rated films
Best known for The Breakfast Club (1985)
Frequent collaborators: Sean Costello, Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck
Directed movies (27 total, ranked by score)
1The Breakfast Club
1985 · ★ 7.7 (8,674 votes)
Comedy, Drama
2Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · ★ 7.6 (5,505 votes)
Comedy
3Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987 · ★ 7.3 (2,214 votes)
Comedy
4Uncle Buck
1989 · ★ 6.8 (1,352 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Family
5Sixteen Candles
1984 · ★ 6.7 (2,249 votes)
Comedy, Romance
6Weird Science
1985 · ★ 6.5 (1,577 votes)
Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
7Curly Sue
1991 · ★ 6.4 (584 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Family
8She's Having a Baby
1988 · ★ 6.0 (225 votes)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
9Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia
2009
Documentary
10Eerie
2022 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)
Comedy, Horror
11After Mabo
1998
12Senses of Cinema
2022
Documentary
13Twilight Time
2024
Documentary
14What I Have Written
1996 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)
Romance, Drama, Mystery
15The Tin
2022 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)
Horror
16PILLS
2022 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)
Horror, Drama
17The Archive Project
2006
Documentary
- 18
One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin
1992
Documentary
19All That Is Solid
1988
Documentary
20Gunana
1982
Documentary
- 21
Film-Work
1981
Documentary
22The Fuel of Youth
2026
Drama
- 23
Compulsion: The Art Of Pill Popping
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Drama, Thriller, Crime
24Traps
1986
25November Eleven
1979
- 26
Happy Hour
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Comedy, Adventure
- 27
Depersonalized
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Drama, Thriller
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.