films series directed entirely by one director

This is somewhat of a rarity in the film world, but can you think of any film series in which every entry was done by the same director? For the sake of discussion, let's consider a "series" to be any franchise that has at least 3 or more entries.

Here are a few examples:

Lethal Weapon quadrilogy - Richard Donner
Transformers quadrilogy - Michael Bay
Evil Dead trilogy - Sam Raimi
Spiderman trilogy - Sam Raimi
Austin Powers trilogy - Jay Roach
Back to the Future trilogy - Robert Zemeckis
Indiana Jones quadrilogy - Steven Spielberg
"Dead" series - George Romero
"Askewniverse" series - Kevin Smith
"Before" trilogy - Richard Linklater
Godfather trilogy - Frances Ford Coppola
"Three Mothers" trilogy - Dario Argento
Mad Max quadrilogy - George Miller
The Matrix trilogy - The Wachowskis
Men in Black trilogy - Barry Sonnenfeld
Blind Dead quadrilogy - Amando de Ossorio
Lord of the Rings trilogy - Peter Jackson
The Hobbit trilogy - Peter Jackson
Maniac Cop trilogy - William Lustig
Toxic Avenger quadrilogy - Lloyd Kaufman
Phantasm quadrilogy - Don Coscarelli
Rush Hour trilogy - Brett Ratner
Scream quadrilogy - Wes Craven
Dark Knight trilogy - Christopher Nolan
Dead or Alive trilogy - Takashi Miike
It's Alive trilogy - Larry Cohen
"Man With No Name" trilogy - Sergio Leone
"Ocean's" trilogy - Steven Soderbergh
Basket Case trilogy - Frank Henenlotter
Mondo Cane series - Franco Prosperi
All Night Long trilogy - Katsuya Matsumura
Samurai trilogy - Hiroshi Inagaki
"Orphic" trilogy - Jean Cocteau
Dracula trilogy - Patrick Lussier
"Vengeance" trilogy - Chan Wook Park
Human Condition trilogy - Masaki Kobayashi
Three Colors trilogy - Krzystof Kieslowski
"Apu" trilogy - Satyajit Ray
Human Centipede trilogy - Tom Six
"Qatsi" trilogy - Godfrey Reggio

 

Mexico Trilogy - Robert Rodriguez
Samurai Trilogy - Yoji Yamada (Mr. Yamada also directed 46 of the 48 "Tora-san" films.)

 

Holy crap, can you leave a few for us to mention, OP?

 

You'll have to take off Phantasm. Phantoms RaVager is out soon and not directed by Coscarelli.

 

I'm sure there are more, I was just listing ones from my own collection.

 

That's unfortunate... I wonder why he's not directing this time?

 

Wait, there is a fourth Indiana Jones film?

 

Of course, there have been huge numbers listed by others, haven't there?

 

He let his co-writer and vfx guy direct this one. He still co-wrote and produced it. Not sure exactly why. The filmed it all in secret though.

 

Not exactly a series, but Todd Solondz has the continues adventures of Dawn Wiener through 'Welcome To The Dollhouse', 'Palindromes' and 'Wiener-Dog.' If the ViewAskewVerse counts, this might.

 

Well, this thread fizzled out pretty quickly....

 

Battles Without Honour or Humanity -- five films, all directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

The Adventures of Antoine Doinel -- five films, all directed by François Truffaut.

 

The 7 Up documentaries, all directed by Michael Apted. 8 installments so far, one every seven years since 1964.

 

Infernal Affairs I-III by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak.

 

Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy - Edgar Wright

Shaun of the Dead (strawberry for blood), Hot Fuzz (blue for police), The World's End (green for aliens)

 

Jeepers Creepers - Victor Salva
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy - George Lucas

 

Dekalog - Krzystof Kieslowski

 

Bugs/Daffy/Elmer hunting trilogy - Chuck Jones

 

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Death Trilogy
Not sure if this really counts as they are only thematically linked and not officially a trilogy. Meh.

 

Michael Apted was a researcher on the first installment and started directing with the second. Paul Almond was the original director.