Best consecutive great movie streak a director has ever had? Stanley Kubrick 1962-1980 (Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining)

Jeffrey Wells had a fun way of wasting time the other day over at HE. The finest 3-4 consecutive "great" movie streaks from directors. I mean, in all honesty, the game is an absolutely empty exercise in comparing art, which is sacrilege to many, alas I gave in and it is absolutely impossible to find a director that had more than 5 "indisputably great" movies in a row, only Kubrick's done it, in my books at least. Coppola came close. So did Allen. 

Francis Coppola: 
The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now

Stanley Kubrick: 
Lolita,  Dr. Strangelove, 2001,  A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining.

Alfred Hitchcock:
Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and The Birds

Martin Scorsese:
Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and After Hours

Joel Coen:
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink

Frederico Fellini:
Nights of Caribia, La Dolce Vita, and 8 1/2

Woody Allen:
Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters and Radio Days

Billy Wilder:
Witness for the Prosecution, Some Like it Hot and The Apartment

Paul Thomas Anderson: 
Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will be Blood, and The Master

Steven Soderbergh: 
Out of Sight, The Limey, Eric Brockovich, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven

Quentin Tarantino: 
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown

Terrence Malick: 
Badlands, Days of Heaven, and  The Thin Red Line 

Charlie Chaplin: 
City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator

Steven Spielberg: 
Saving Private Ryan, A.I, Minority Report, and Catch Me if You Can