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Bill Viola

Director · 96 credits · 5 in highly-rated films

Best known for Return (1975)

Directed movies (82 total, ranked by score)

  1. Four Hands

    2001

    31

  2. Fire Birth

    2002

    32

  3. The Semi-Circular Canals

    1975

    33

  4. Three Women

    2008

    34

  5. Traveling on Foot

    2012

    35

  6. Moonblood

    1979

    36

  7. The Quintet of the Astonished

    2000

    37

  8. Martyrs: Air

    2014

    38

  9. Martyrs: Earth

    2014

    39

  10. Martyrs

    2014

    40

  11. Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity

    2013

    41

  12. Anima

    2000

    42

  13. Red Tape: Collected Works

    1975

    43

  14. He Weeps for You

    1977

    44

  15. The Tristan Project

    2004

    Music

    45

  16. Ablutions

    2005

    46

  17. Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers

    1977

    47

  18. The Wheel of Becoming

    1977

    48

  19. The Morning After the Night of Power

    1977

    49

  20. Vegetable Memory

    1980

    50

  21. The Crossing

    1996

    Action

    51

  22. Martyrs: Fire

    2014

    52

  23. Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979

    1979

    53

  24. The Sleepers

    1992

    54

  25. Silent Life

    1986

    55

  26. The Veiling

    1995

    56

  27. Martyrs: Water

    2014

    57

  28. Catherine's Room

    2001

    58

  29. The Dreamers

    2013

    59

  30. Truth Through Mass Individuation

    1976

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.