Best run of 3 movies by a director?

[Coach]

Another brothers combo: The Farrelly brothers

Dumb and Dumber
Kingpin
There's Something About Mary
Me, Myself & Irene

[CliffFletcher]

Peter Weir

Gallipoli
The Year of Living Dangerously
Witness

Another good run by Weir:

Fearless
The Truman Show
Master and Commander

When you consider he also directed Picnic at Hanging Rock and the Dead Poets Society, Weir has had a very underrated career.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Coach

Not to throw a grenade into the mix, but how about the Russo Brothers?

Winter Soldier
Civil War
Infinity War
Endgame

Collective gross: $6.7 BILLION

Say what you want about Marvel, these are awesome Sci-Fi/Action movies and that dollar level is absolutely ridiculous.

EDIT: I see KTrain got there first. Either way I'll leave my stance in support.

Originally Posted by nik-

Yeah but you could basically parachute almost any director in there and they'd make a billion. The director is pretty irrelevant. Feige gets the credit for that template imo. Or maybe Favreau and Whedon for setting and cementing the style.

I don't know they above anyone hold the marvel crown, add GotG Vol1 and Ragnorok to their films and you pretty much have the 6 best ones. in the franchise with like 30 shows now, all for of theirs being in the top 20% is something.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug

Not a huge fan of either, but I think Richard Linklater and Woody Allen might have 3 in a row that could compete.

Slacker/Dazed and Confused/Before Sunrise?

Broadway Danny Rose/Purple Rose of Cairo/Hanna and her Sisters?

I definitely considered Linklater, mind you Dazed and Confused is for me just one of those moves that moves the needle all on its own

[Coach]

Brad Bird is a machine. Never saw Tomorrowland, and heard it wasn't great. But otherwise this is a pretty tremendous run. Besides directing, his filmography in other roles is basically an animators dream.

The Iron Giant
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Tomorrowland
The Incredibles 2

Sticking with animation. If we can include Polanski and Allen, we can talk about John "The Hands" Lasseter.

Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Cars

Andrew Stanton was well on his with Finding Nemo followed by Wall-E. But his leap into Live action was John Carter, one of the film industry's greatest flops.

And finally, maybe the greatest director no one has ever heard of. Even me as I googled it just now, Pete Doctor.

Monster's Inc.
Up
Inside Out
Soul

That might be the best run period.

[psyang]

Another lesser known animation director at Disney is Chris Williams.

Bolt
Big Hero 6
Moana

He's also the guy who saved Emperor's New Groove.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Little known but each of there is worth watching
Vincent Ward
The Navigator
Map of the Human Heart
What dreams may come

[Wormius]

Has Christopher Nolan been mentioned yet?

Memento
Insomnia
Batman Begins
The Prestige
The Dark Knight
Inception

Edit: Okay, weird, my search for "nolan" wasn't found in this thread. Anyway, I'd give him a 6 movie streak, and then I think Dark Knight Rises was a bit of a miss.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I would say his best stretch is prestige to inception

[Coach]

Adam McKay with two good stints. First with some of the best ever comedies.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Step Brothers
The Other Guys

And then a spin into uniquely styled ensemble comedic dramas.

The Big Short
Vice
Don't Look Up

I would say Vice and Don't Look Up are a step down from The Big Short, but that is one of, if not my favorite movies ever. So that's not to say the other two are bad.

[flames_fan_down_under]

Villeneuve, Coppola, Scorcese, Spielberg have all rightly been mentioned. I haven't read every post so I will probably be repeating some others suggestions:

Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider and Ali is a pretty darn good stretch by Michael Mann.

David Zucker: Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. Hard to argue with the perfect comedy trilogy of all time coupled with a national treasure.

PT Anderson: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, (Punch Drunk Love), There Will Be Blood. Almost the perfect run, as I wasn't crazy about PDL.

Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings Trilogy was incredible.

Big fan of Alejandro Iñárritu: Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel

David Fincher: Se7en, The Game, Fight Club. All incredible movies, and continued with Panic Room, Zodiac and Social Network. Panic Room is the only somewhat weak one there.

Lot's of movies to re-watch!

[AC]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I assume the Peter Jackson mentioned before was for:

Bad Taste
Meet the Feebles
Dead Alive

This is the most underrated answer so far IMO.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

And these were followed by Misery and A Few Good Men. What a run.

And then Hollywood stopped giving all its best scripts to Rob Reiner

[rustycana]

A good one I forgot are Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (collectively known as The Archers). They had an incredible run of movies post WW2

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)

[iLoveLamp]

Originally Posted by Coach

Adam McKay with two good stints. First with some of the best ever comedies.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Step Brothers
The Other Guys

And then a spin into uniquely styled ensemble comedic dramas.

The Big Short
Vice
Don't Look Up

I would say Vice and Don't Look Up are a step down from The Big Short, but that is one of, if not my favorite movies ever. So that's not to say the other two are bad.

Respectfully, I think those last three Adam McKay movies are awful, and he is the most overrated director in Hollywood.

[iLoveLamp]

Safdie Bros
Heaven Knows What
Good Time
Uncut Gems

[Bs&Cs]

Originally Posted by rustycana

A good one I forgot are Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (collectively known as The Archers). They had an incredible run of movies post WW2

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)

Every Canadian should watch 49th Parallel. Fun movie on its own, with some nice footage of WW2 era Western Canada.

Jean Luc Godard:
Breathless
A Woman is a Woman
My Life to Live

I'm sure you could make the case for a bunch of different combinations of his films from the 60s, but the run of three to start his career has to be my favourite.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Bs&Cs

Every Canadian should watch 49th Parallel. Fun movie on its own, with some nice footage of WW2 era Western Canada.

Jean Luc Godard:
Breathless
A Woman is a Woman
My Life to Live

I'm sure you could make the case for a bunch of different combinations of his films from the 60s, but the run of three to start his career has to be my favourite.

49th parallel is hilarious. I love how the submariner strolls from the Hudson Bay to Winnipeg in an afternoon, then drives to Banff in no time. It is pretty cool to see Banff circa 1941. And Laurence Olivier playing a french-Canadian trapper is a must-see.

[Gaskal]

I liked the Katheryn Bigelow run of

-The Hurt Locker
-Zero Dark Thirty
-Detroit

[Nadal Fan]

Paul Verhoeven

RoboCop
Total Recall
Basic Instinct
Showgirls
Starship Troopers

What a run