Last Updated on 3 February 2024
The following list is the Official Definitive Ranked List of all 19 movies Tim Burton has directed so far, plus a few that he produced, but didn’t actually direct.
I found 62 different ranked lists online of “best Tim Burton movies” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation. Some only allowed movies he directed and others were more open, so I included all I could find. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 62 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which Tim Burton movies you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list.
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Beetlejuice (1988)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Batman (1989)
- Batman Returns (1992)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
- Big Fish (2003)
- Corpse Bride (2005)
- Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
- Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- Frankenweenie (2012)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Mars Attacks! (1996)
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- Big Eyes (2014)
- Dark Shadows (2012)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Dumbo (2019)
- Vincent (1982)
- James and the Giant Peach (1996)
- Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
- Frankenweenie (Short) (1984)
- Batman Forever (1995)
- 9 (2009)
- Cabin Boy (1994)
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
- 1997 (1974)
