Director
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Film series
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Notes
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Gregg Araki
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Teenage Apocalypse
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Dario Argento
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The Three Mothers
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John G. Avildsen
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The Karate Kid
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Fourth film and reboot directed by Christopher Cain and Harald Zwart, respectively
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Michael Bay
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Transformers
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Luc Besson
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Arthur series
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Darren Lynn Bousman
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Saw
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Directed Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, and the upcoming ninth installment Spiral
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Jan Bucquoy
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians
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John Carpenter
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Apocalypse Trilogy
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Unrelated films, considered a trilogy by Carpenter due to their common theme[1]
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Park Chan-wook
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The Vengeance Trilogy
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Pierre Coffin
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Despicable Me
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First two films co-directed with Chris Renaud; third film co-directed with Kyle Balda
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Francis Ford Coppola
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The Godfather
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Wes Craven
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Scream
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Eric Darnell
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Madagascar
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Co-directed with Tom McGrath; third film co-directed with Conrad Vernon
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Dean DeBlois
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How to Train Your Dragon
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First film co-directed with Chris Sanders
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Biblical Trilogy
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John Ford
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Cavalry Trilogy
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Ron Howard
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Robert Langdon
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Hiroshi Inagaki
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Samurai Trilogy
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Peter Jackson
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Hobbit
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Three Colours trilogy
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Sergio Leone
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Dollars Trilogy
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Once Upon a Time
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Shawn Levy
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Night at the Museum
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George Lucas
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Star Wars original trilogy
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Episode V and VI directed by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand, respectively
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Star Wars prequel trilogy
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Star Wars sequel trilogy
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Episode VII, VIII and IX directed by J.J. Abrams, Rian Johnson and J.J. Abrams, respectively
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Baz Luhrmann
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Red Curtain Trilogy
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Tom McGrath
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Madagascar
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Co-directed with Eric Darnell; third film co-directed with Conrad Vernon
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Deepa Mehta
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Elements trilogy
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George Miller
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Mad Max
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Third film co-directed with George Ogilvie
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Christopher Nolan
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The Dark Knight Trilogy
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Sam Raimi
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Evil Dead
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Spider-Man
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Brett Ratner
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Rush Hour
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Satyajit Ray
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The Apu Trilogy
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Calcutta trilogy
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Godfrey Reggio
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Qatsi trilogy
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Robert Rodriguez
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Mexico Trilogy
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Spy Kids
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Penelope Spheeris
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The Decline of Western Civilization
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Steven Spielberg
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Indiana Jones
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Quentin Tarantino
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Kill Bill
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Gore Verbinski
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Pirates of the Caribbean
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Fourth and fifth films directed by Rob Marshall, and Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, respectively
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Lars von Trier
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Europa trilogy
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Golden Heart trilogy
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Land of Opportunities trilogy
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The Wachowskis
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The Matrix
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Edgar Wright
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Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy
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Robert Vince
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Air Buddies, MVP, Pup Star
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Robert Zemeckis
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Back to the Future
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