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J. Lee Thompson

Director · 53 credits · 36 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Guns of Navarone (1961)

Best J. Lee Thompson movies by genre

Directed movies (48 total, ranked by score)

  1. The Guns of Navarone

    1961 · ★ 7.3 (900 votes)

    Adventure, Drama, War

    1

  2. Cape Fear

    1962 · ★ 7.4 (649 votes)

    Thriller, Drama, Crime

    2

  3. Ice Cold in Alex

    1958 · ★ 7.3 (106 votes)

    War, Adventure, Drama

    3

  4. What a Way to Go!

    1964 · ★ 7.1 (108 votes)

    Comedy, Romance

    4

  5. North West Frontier

    1959 · ★ 6.8 (57 votes)

    Adventure, Drama

    5

  6. Tiger Bay

    1959 · ★ 7.2 (57 votes)

    Thriller, Crime

    6

  7. Mackenna's Gold

    1969 · ★ 6.6 (213 votes)

    Adventure, Action, Western

    7

  8. 10 to Midnight

    1983 · ★ 6.2 (235 votes)

    Crime, Drama, Thriller

    8

  9. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    1972 · ★ 6.2 (1,116 votes)

    Action, Science Fiction

    9

  10. Yield to the Night

    1956 · ★ 6.9 (41 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    10

  11. Taras Bulba

    1962 · ★ 6.3 (81 votes)

    Adventure, Romance, History

    11

  12. The White Buffalo

    1977 · ★ 6.0 (147 votes)

    Western, Adventure, Action

    12

  13. Happy Birthday to Me

    1981 · ★ 6.0 (240 votes)

    Horror, Mystery

    13

  14. Murphy's Law

    1986 · ★ 6.1 (179 votes)

    Action, Thriller, Crime

    14

  15. The Weak and the Wicked

    1954 · ★ 5.9 (9 votes)

    Drama

    15

  16. Kings of the Sun

    1963 · ★ 6.1 (49 votes)

    History, Adventure

    16

  17. Eye of the Devil

    1966 · ★ 6.1 (63 votes)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

    17

  18. Widow

    1976

    Drama, TV Movie

    18

  19. St. Ives

    1976 · ★ 5.8 (59 votes)

    Action, Crime, Thriller

    19

  20. The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

    1975 · ★ 5.8 (62 votes)

    Horror, Mystery

    20

  21. The Passage

    1979 · ★ 6.0 (55 votes)

    War, Action, Thriller

    21

  22. Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

    1987 · ★ 5.7 (359 votes)

    Crime, Action, Thriller

    22

  23. Battle for the Planet of the Apes

    1973 · ★ 5.7 (1,091 votes)

    Action, Science Fiction

    23

  24. Return from the Ashes

    1965 · ★ 6.2 (32 votes)

    Thriller, Drama

    24

  25. The Blue Knight

    1975

    Crime, Drama, TV Movie

    25

  26. The Chairman

    1969 · ★ 5.6 (25 votes)

    Action, Thriller

    26

  27. The Evil That Men Do

    1984 · ★ 5.7 (112 votes)

    Action, Adventure, Crime

    27

  28. Caboblanco

    1980 · ★ 5.3 (35 votes)

    Action, Adventure, Crime

    28

  29. Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

    1989 · ★ 5.4 (104 votes)

    Action, Drama, Thriller

    29

  30. Huckleberry Finn

    1974 · ★ 5.8 (15 votes)

    Music, Family, Adventure

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.