Favorite Films (By Director)

Woody Allen

1) Annie Hall
2) Manhattan
3) Zelig
4) Radio Days
5) Sweet and Lowdown
6) Crimes and Misdemeanors
7) The Purple Rose of Cairo
8) Bullets Over Broadway
9) Shadows and Fog
10) Hannah and Her Sisters
11) Husbands and Wives
12) Deconstructing Harry
13) Midnight in Paris
14) Cassandra's Dream
15) Love and Death
16) Manhattan Murder Mystery
17) Vicky Christina Barcelona
18) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
19) Small Time Crooks
20) Stardust Memories
21) Sleeper
22) Match Point
23) Melinda & Melinda
24) Whatever Works
25) Bananas

Pedro Almodovar

1) Bad Education
2) Talk to Her
3) The Skin I Live In
4) Live Flesh
5) All About My Mother
6) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
7) Broken Embraces
8) Volver
9) Broken Embraces

Robert Altman

1) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
2) The Player
3) The Long Goodbye
4) The Company
5) Short Cuts
6) Nashville
7) California Split
8) A Wedding
9) Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
10) MASH
11) 3 Women
12) A Prairie Home Companion
13) Brewster McCloud
14) Thieves Like Us
15) Gosford Park
16) The James Dean Story
17) Kansas City
18) Images

Paul Thomas Anderson

1) Magnolia
2) There Will Be Blood
3) Punch-Drunk Love
4) Boogie Nights
5) The Master
6) Hard Eight

Wes Anderson

1) Rushmore
2) The Royal Tenenbaums
3) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
4) The Darjeeling Limited
5) Bottle Rocket
6) Moonrise Kingdom
7) Hotel Chevalier

Michelangelo Antonioni

1) L'Avventura
2) L'Eclisse
3) Blowup
4) Red Desert
5) Il Grido
6) Zabriskie Point
7) La Notte
8) Le Amiche
9) Story of a Love Affair
10) The Passenger
11) The Dangerous Thread of Things (segement from Eros)

Dario Argento

1) Deep Red
2) Opera
3) Tenebrae
4) The Bird With the Crystal Plumage
5) Suspiria

Hal Ashby

1) Harold & Maude
2) Shampoo
3) Being There

Ingmar Bergman

1) The Seventh Seal
2) Persona
3) Fanny and Alexander
4) Scenes from a Marriage
5) Autumn Sonata
6) The Virgin Spring
7) Monika
8) Wild Strawberries
9) Hour of the Wolf
10) Shame
11) Through a Glass Darkly
12) Smiles of a Summer's Night
13) The Silence
14) Sawdust and Tinsel
15) Winter Light
16) Cries and Whispers
17) Saraband
18) The Serpent's Egg

Robert Bresson

1) Au Hasard Balthazar
2) Mouchette
3) A Man Escaped
4) L'Argent
5) A Gentle Woman
6) Diary of a Country Priest
7) Pickpocket
8) Lancelot of the Lake
9) The Trial of Joan of Arc
10) Les Dames du Bois de Bologne
11) Four Nights of a Dreamer
12) Angels of Sin
13) The Devil, Probably

Mel Brooks

1) The Producers
2) Blazing Saddles
3) Young Frankenstein
4) History of the World: Part I
5) Spaceballs
6) Robin Hood: Men in Tights
7) Life Stinks

Luis Buñuel

1) That Obscure Object of Desire
2) Belle de Jour
3) El
4) Simon of the Desert
5) Los Olvidados
6) L'Âge D'or
7) The Exterminating Angel
8) Un Chien Andalou
9) Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10) Wuthering Heights
11) Tristana
12) Nazarin
13) The Milky Way
14) The Fall of the House of Usher (co-directed w/Jean Epstein)
15) Land Without Bread
16) The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
17) Viridiana
18) The Phantom of Liberty
19) El Bruto
20) Diary of a Chambermaid

Tim Burton

1) Edward Scissorhands
2) The Nightmare Before Christmas*
3) Ed Wood
4) Pee-wee's Big Adventure
5) Beetlejuice
6) Batman
7) Vincent
8) Batman Returns
9) Sweeney Todd
10) Mars Attacks
11) Big Fish

* = Produced/co-wrote, but did not direct

Jane Campion

1) A Girl's Own Story
2) The Piano
3) Sweetie
4) Pationless Moments
5) Peel
6) In the Cut

Frank Capra

1) It's a Wonderful Life
2) It Happened One Night
3) Lady for a Day
4) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
5) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
6) The Bitter Tea of General Yen
7) Meet John Doe
8) You Can't Take it With You
9) Arsenic and Old Lace

John Carpenter

1) The Thing
2) Assault on Precinct 13
3) They Live
4) Christine
5) The Fog
6) Halloween
7) Prince of Darkness
8) Vampires
9) Escape from New York
10) Dark Star

John Cassavetes

1) Opening Night
2) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
3) Husbands
4) Minnie and Moskowitz
5) Shadows
6) A Woman Under the Influence
7) Faces

Charles Chaplin

1) City Lights
2) Modern Times
3) The Gold Rush
4) The Circus
5) The Kid
6) The Great Dictator
7) A Dog's Life
8) Monsieur Verdoux
9) The Immigrant
10) The Idle Class
11) Limelight

Rene Clair

1) Entr'Acte
2) A Nous la Liberte
3) Le Million

Henri-Georges Clouzot

1) Quai des Orfevres
2) Les Diaboliques
3) The Raven
4) The Mystery of Picasso
5) Wages of Fear

Jean Cocteau

1) Beauty and the Beast
2) Orpheus
3) Blood of the Poet
4) Testament of Orpheus

Joel Coen

1) Raising Arizona
2) Blood Simple
3) Barton Fink
4) The Big Lebowski
5) No Country for Old Men
6) Fargo
7) O Brother, Where Art Thou?
8) Burn After Reading
9) Intolerable Cruelty
10) The Hudsucker Proxy
11) Miller's Crossing
12) The Ladykillers
13) The Man Who Wasn't There

Francis Ford Coppola

1) The Conversation
2) Apocalpyse Now
3) The Godfather
4) The Godfather, Part II
5) Rumble Fish
6) Tucker: The Man and His Dreams
7) The Rainmaker
8) The Godfather, Part III
9) One From the Heart
10) Youth Without Youth

David Cronenberg

1) Spider
2) A History of Violence
3) eXistenZ
4) Videodrome
5) Scanners
6) The Fly
7) Cosmopolis
8) Dead Ringers
9) Eastern Promises
10) A Dangerous Method
11) The Brood
12) Naked Lunch
13) Crash
14) The Dead Zone
15) Shivers

Cameron Crowe

1) Almost Famous
2) Say Anything...
3) Jerry Maguire
4) Singles
5) Elizabethtown
6) Vanilla Sky

George Cukor

1) The Philadelphia Story
2) Holiday
3) A Star is Born
4) Gaslight
5) My Fair Lady

Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne

1) Rosetta
2) L'Enfant
3) La Promesse
4) Lorna's Silence
5) The Kid With a Bike
6) The Son

Jules Dassin

1) Rififi
2) Night and the City
3) Brute Force

Brian De Palma

1) Body Double
2) Femme Fatale
3) Blow Out
4) Dressed to Kill
5) Hi, Mom!
6) Carlito's Way
7) Sisters
8) Snake Eyes
9) Scarface
10) Mission to Mars
11) Carrie
12) Casualties of War
13) Phantom of the Paradise
14) The Black Dahlia
15) The Untouchables
16) Mission: Impossible
17) Raising Cain

Vittorio De Sica

1) Shoe-shine
2) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
3) Umberto D
4) The Bicycle Thief
5) The Children are Watching Us
6) Miracle in Milan

Claire Denis

1) L'Intrus
2) Friday Night
3) 35 Shots of Rum
4) White Material
5) Beau Travail
6) Trouble Every Day
7) I Can't Sleep
8) Chocolat
9) U.S. Go Home

Arnaud Desplechin1) A Christmas Tale
2) King & Queen
3) My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument
4) Esther Kahn

Walt Disney et al

1) Fantasia
2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
3) Alice in Wonderland
4) Peter Pan
5) Monster's Inc.
6) Pinocchio
7) Bambi
8) Dumbo
9) The Little Mermaid
10) Lilo and Stitch

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1) The Passion of Joan of Arc
2) Ordet
3) Day of Wrath
4) The Parson's Widow
5) Gertrud
6) Vampyr
7) Leaves from Satan's Book
8) Michael

Clint Eastwood

1) Mystic River
2) Unforgiven
3) Pale Rider
4) White Hunter Black Heart
5) Letters from Iwo Jima
6) Million Dollar Baby
7) Breezy
8) A Perfect World
9) The Outlaw Josie Wales
10) Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
11) J. Edgar
12) Blood Work
13) Hereafter
14) Flags of Our Fathers
15) Changeling
16) Gran Torino
17) Heartbreak Ridge
18) Invictus

Atom Egoyan

1) The Sweet Hereafter
2) Exotica
3) Adoration
4) Calendar
5) Where the Truth Lies

Sergei Eisenstein

1) Ivan the Terrible, Part I
2) Battleship Potemkin
3) Ivan the Terrible, Part II
4) Strike
5) October
6) Alexander Nevsky

Peter & Bobby Farrelly

1) Kingpin
2) Stuck On You
3) There's Something About Mary
4) Dumb & Dumber
5) Me, Myself & Irene

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1) Berlin Alexanderplatz
2) The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
3) Martha
4) The Marriage of Maria Braun
5) In a Year of 13 Moons
6) Veronicka Voss
7) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
8) Chinese Roulette
9) Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
10) Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
11) Effi Briest
12) Fox and His Friends
13) Lola
14) Whity

Federico Fellini

1) 8 1/2
2) Nights of Cabiria
3) Amarcord
4) La Dolce Vita
5) Juliet of the Spirits
6) Il Bidone
7) I Vitelloni
8) La Strada
9) Fellini: A Director's Notebook

David Fincher

1) Fight Club
2) Zodiac
3) Seven
4) The Game
5) Panic Room
6) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
7) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8) Alien 3

John Ford

1) The Searchers
2) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
3) The Grapes of Wrath
4) Young Mr. Lincoln
5) Stagecoach
6) The Sun Shines Bright
7) My Darling Clementine
8) The Prisoner of Shark Island
9) The Quiet Man
10) Judge Priest
11) How Green Was My Valley

Milos Forman

1) Amadeus
2) Loves of a Blonde
3) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
4) The People vs. Larry Flynt
5) The Fireman's Ball
6) The Man on the Moon

Samuel Fuller

1) Pickup on South Street
2) White Dog
3) Shock Corridor
4) I Shot Jesse James
5) Underworld U.S.A.
6) Park Row
7) Forty Guns
8) House of Bamboo
9) The Naked Kiss
10) The Big Red One

Terry Gilliam

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
2) Brazil
3) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
4) 12 Monkeys
5) The Fisher King
6) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
7) The Crimson Permanent Insurance
8) Jabberwocky
9) Time Bandits
10) The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
11) The Brothers Grimm
12) Tideland

*Only directed animated sequences

Jean-Luc Godard

1) Pierrot le Fou
2) Contempt
3) Histoire(s) du Cinéma
4) Alphaville
5) In Praise of Love
6) My Life to Live
7) Nouvelle Vague
8) Band of Outsiders
9) Week End
10) Ici et Ailleurs
11) Breathless
12) Sympathy for the Devil
13) Passion
14) 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
15) Masculin-Feminin
16) Tout va Bien
17) Numero Deux
18) A Woman is a Woman
19) A Married Woman
20) Notre Musique
21) La Chinoise
22) First Name: Carmen
23) Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
24) Made in U.S.A.
25) Les Carabiniers
26) Hail Mary
27) Le Petit Soldat
28) Comment ca va?
29) Letter to Jane
30) JLG/JLG
31) King Lear
32) Film Socialism
33) Forever Mozart
34) Keep Up Your Right
35) Le Gai Savoir
35) Detective

David Gordon Green

1) All the Real Girl's
2) George Washington
3) Pineapple Express
4) Undertow
5) Snow Angels
6) Your Highness

Christopher Guest

1) Waiting for Guffman
2) Best in Show
3) This is Spinal Tap!*
4) A Mighty Wind
5) For Your Consideration

* = Directed by Rob Reiner but I'll group it here since it's still a mockumentary starring Guest and McKean.  Plus Guest is a better director than Reiner so...there.

Michael Haneke

1) Code Unknown
2) The Seventh Continent
3) The Piano Teacher
4) Amour
5) Benny's Video
6) Time of the Wolf
7) The White Ribbon
8) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
9) Caché
10) Funny Games U.S.
11) Funny Games

Curtis Hanson

1) Wonder Boys
2) L.A. Confidential
3) In Her Shoes
4) 8 Mile

Hal Hartley

1) Trust
2) Surviving Desire
3) Theory of Achievement
4) Amateur
5) Ambition
6) The Unbelievable Truth
7) Simple Men
8) Henry Fool
9) Flirt
10) The Girl from Monday
11) NYC 3/94
12) Fay Grim
13) Kimono
14) Opera No. 1
15) The New Math(s)
16) The Other Also
17) The Sisters of Mercy

Howard Hawks

1) Rio Bravo
2) The Big Sleep
3) Only Angels Have Wings
4) Hatari!
5) Red River
6) Scarface
7) I Was a Male War Bride
8) Man's Favorite Sport
9) Tiger Shark
10) El Dorado
11) The Crowd Roars
12) Air Force
13) To Have and Have Not
14) The Thing From Another World
15) Ball of Fire
16) Twentieth Century
17) Bringing up Baby
18) The Big Sky
19) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
20) His Girl Friday
21) Monkey Business

Todd Haynes

1) I'm Not There
2) Safe
3) Far From Heaven
4) Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
5) Mildred Pierce
6) Velvet Goldmine
7) Dottie Gets Spanked
8) Poison

Werner Herzog

1) Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2) Nosferatu the Vampyre
3) Fitzcarraldo
4) Grizzly Man
5) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
6) Land of Silence and Darkness
7) Lessons of Darkness
8) Fata Morgana
9) Woyzeck
10) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
11) Cobra Verde
12) God's Angry Man
13) Invincible
14) My Best Fiend
15) Encounters at the End of the World
16) Stroszek
17) Little Dieter Needs to Fly
18) Into the Abyss
19) The Wild Blue Yonder
20) Rescue Dawn
21) Heart of Glass

Alfred Hitchcock

1) Rear Window
2) Notorious
3) Vertigo
4) The Wrong Man
5) Strangers on a Train
6) The Birds 7) North by Northwest
8) Psycho
9) Marnie
10) Rope
11) Rebecca
12) Lifeboat
13) Shadow of a Doubt
14) Foreign Correspondent
15) To Catch a Thief16) The Lodger
17) I Confess
18) Saboteur
19) The Lady Vanishes
20) Dial M for Murder
21) Stage Fright
22) The 39 Steps
23) Spellbound
24) The Trouble with Harry
25) Blackmail
26) Suspicion
27) Family Plot
28) Torn Curtain
29) The Paradine Case
30) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
31) Frenzy
32) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
33) The Ring
34) Topaz

Hong Sang-soo

1) Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
2) Hahaha
3) Woman on the Beach
4) A Tale of Cinema
5) Turning Gate
6) In Another Country
7) Woman is the Future of Man
8) The Day He Arrives
9) The Day a Pig Fell Down a Well
10) Oki's Movie
11) The Power of Kangwon Province
12) Night & Day

Hsiao-hsien Hou

1) Millennium Mambo
2) Three Times
3) Good Men, Good Women
4) Goodbye South, Goodbye
5) Flight of the Red Balloon
6) A Summer at Grandpa's
7) A City of Sadness
8) Café Lumière
9) The Time to Live and the Time to Die
10) Flowers of Shanghai
11) The Puppetmaster

John Huston

1) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
2) The Maltese Falcon
3) Fat City
4) The Man Who Would Be King
5) The Dead
6) Prizzi's Honor
7) Annie
8) Casino Royale*
9) The Asphalt Jungle
10) The African Queen

* = 1 of 4 directors

Kon Ichikawa

1) An Actor's Revenge
2) The Burmese Harp
3) Fires on the Plain

Shohei Imamura

1) The Ballad of Narayama
2) The Insect Woman
3) Pigs & Battleships
4) Black Rain
5) Vengeance is Mine
6) The Eel

Jim Jarmusch

1) Down by Law
2) Mystery Train
3) Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
4) Dead Man
5) The Limits of Control
6) Night on Earth
7) Stranger than Paradise
8) Broken Flowers
9) Coffee and Cigarettes

Miklos Jansco

1) The Red and the White
2) The Round-Up

Jia Zhang-ke

1) The World
2) Platform
3) Still Life
4) Xiao Wu
5) 24 City
6) Unknown Pleasures

Elia Kazan

1) On the Waterfront
2) Baby Doll
3) A Streetcar Named Desire
4) Panic in the Streets
5) East of Eden
6) A Face in the Crowd

Buster Keaton

1) Sherlock, Jr.
2) Our Hospitality
3) Steamboat Bill, Jr.
4) Neighbors
5) Convict 13
6) Seven Chances
7) The General
8) The Electric House
9) One Week
10) Daydreams
11) The Cameraman
12) The Scarecrow
13) The Navigator
14) The Balloonatic
15) The Paleface
16) Go West

Abbas Kiarostami

1) Where is My Friend's House?
2) Close-Up
3) The Wind Will Carry Us
4) Through the Olive Trees
5) Certified Copy
6) Ten
7) And Life Goes On... (aka Life and Nothing More)
8) Like Someone in Love
9) A Taste of Cherry

Krzysztof Kieslowski

1) The Decalogue
2) Blue
3) Red
4) White
5) A Short Film About Killing
6) A Short Film About Love
7) The Double Life of Veronique
8) Night Porter's Point of View
9) The Tram
10) Camera Buff

Takeshi Kitano

1) Achilles & the Tortoise
2) Outrage
3) Sonatine
4) Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
5) Hana-bi

Hirokazu Kore-eda


1) Still Walking
2) Nobody Knows
3) Maborosi
4) I Wish
5) After-Life

Stanley Kubrick

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Eyes Wide Shut
3) A Clockwork Orange
4) The Shining
5) Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
6) Barry Lyndon
7) Lolita
8) Full Metal Jacket
9) The Killing
10) Paths of Glory
11) Killer's Kiss

Akira Kurosawa

1) Dersu Uzala
2) Throne of Blood
3) Yojimbo
4) Seven Samurai
5) Ran
6) The Hidden Fortress
7) Rashomon
8) High & Low
9) Dodes'kaden
10) Stray Dog
11) Ikiru
12) Sanjuro
13) Rhapsody in August
14) Kagemusha
15) Drunken Angel
16) Dreams
17) The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1) Pulse
2) Cure
3) Tokyo Sonata
4) Doppelganger
5) Bright Future
6) Charisma
7) Retribution

Emir Kusturica

1) Underground
2) Black Cat, White Cat
3) Time of the Gypsies
4) When Father Was Away on Business
5) Arizona Dream

Fritz Lang

1) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
2) Metropolis
3) You Only Live Once
4) M
5) Fury
6) The Woman in the Window
7) The Big Heat
8) Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
9) Siegfried
10) Kriemhild's Revenge
11) Destiny
12) Ministry of Fear
13) Western Union
14) While the City Sleeps
15) Scarlet Street

David Lean

1) The Bridge on the River Kwai
2) Lawrence of Arabia
3) Great Expectations
4) Dr. Zhivago
5) Oliver Twist
6) Brief Encounter

Spike Lee

1) Do the Right Thing
2) 25th Hour
3) Malcolm X
4) He Got Game
5) Clockers
6) Crooklyn
7) Mo' Better Blues
8) Bamboozled
9) Jungle Fever
10) Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
11) Inside Man
12) Summer of Sam
13) School Daze
14) The Miracle at St. Anna

Lee Chang-dong

1) Oasis
2) Poetry
3) Secret Sunshine
4) Peppermint Candy

Mike Leigh

1) Naked
2) All or Nothing
3) Vera Drake
4) Happy-Go-Lucky
5) Secrets and Lies
6) Topsy Turvy
7) Life is Sweet
8) High Hopes
9) Bleak Moments
10) Another Year
11) Hard Labour
12) Career Girls

Sergio Leone

1) Once Upon a Time in America
2) Once Upon a Time in the West
3) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4) A Fistful of Dollars
5) For a Few Dollars More

Richard Linklater

1) Dazed and Confused
2) Waking Life
3) Before Sunset
4) Before Sunrise
5) School of Rock
6) Bernie
7) Tape
8) Slacker
9) A Scanner Darkly
10) It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
11) Fast Food Nation
12) The Newton Boys

Joseph Losey

1) Secret Ceremony
2) Mr. Klein
3) M
4) The Servant
5) The Prowler
6) Time Without Pity
7) The Boy With Green Hair

Ernst Lubitsch

1) Trouble in Paradise
2) Design for Living
3) The Shop Around the Corner
4) To Be or Not to Be
5) Heaven Can Wait
6) That Uncertain Feeling
7) Angel
8) The Merry Widow
9) Cluny Brown
10) The Smiling Lieutenant
11) Ninotchka
12) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
13) The Student Prince at Old Heidelberg
14) The Merry Jail

Sidney Lumet

1) Network
2) The Verdict
3) Dog Day Afternoon
4) Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5) 12 Angry Men
6) Find Me Guilty

David Lynch

1) Mulholland Dr.
2) Blue Velvet
3) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
4) Twin Peaks: Pilot
5) Inland Empire
6) The Straight Story
7) Lost Highway
8) Eraserhead
9) The Elephant Man
10) The Grandmother
11) Wild at Heart
12) The Alphabet
13) The Amputee
14) Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)
15) The Cowboy and the Frenchman

Guy Maddin

1) The Heart of the World
2) The Saddest Music in the World
3) Brand Upon the Brain
4) Careful
5) Archangel
6) Tales from the Gimli Hospital
7) Cowards Bend the Knee
8) Sombre Dolorosa
9) Sissy Boy Slap Party
10) Trip to the Orphanage
11) My Dad is 100 Years Old
12) Dracula: Pages of a Virgin's Diary
13) Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

Dusan Makavejev

1) WR: Mysteries of the Organism
2) Love Affair or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
3) Sweet Movie
4) Man is Not a Bird

Terence Malick

1) The New World
2) The Tree of Life
3) Days of Heaven
4) The Thin Red Line
5) Badlands

Louis Malle

1) Au Revoir les Enfants
2) Damage
3) Lacombe Lucien
4) Elevator to the Gallows
5) Zazie dans le Métro

Anthony Mann

1) The Man from Laramie
2) The Naked Spur
3) Winchester '73
4) Men in War
5) Man of the West
6) The Tin Star
7) The Tall Target
8) The Far Country
9) Bend of the River
10) Raw Deal

Michael Mann

1) Heat
2) The Last of the Mohicans
3) The Insider
4) Collateral
5) Manhunter
6) Miami Vice
7) Thief
8) Public Enemies
9) Ali

Chris Marker

1) La Jetée
2) A Grin Without a Cat
3) Sans Soleil
4) One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
5) Remembrance of Things to Come

Leo McCarey

1) Make Way for Tomorrow
2) Ruggles of Red Gap
3) The Awful Truth
4) Duck Soup
5) Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
6) An Affair to Remember

Jean-Pierre Melville

1) Le Samourai
2) Le Cercle Rouge
3) Army of Shadows
4) Le Deuxieme Souffle
5) Bob le Flambeur
6) Les Enfants Terribles

Vincente Minnelli

1) Meet Me in St. Louis
2) The Clock
3) Lust for Life
4) Two Weeks in Another Town
5) The Bad and the Beautiful
6) An American in Paris
7) Some Came Running
8) The Band Wagon
9) Gigi

Hayao Miyazaki

1) Spirited Away
2) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
3) Princess Mononoke
4) My Neighbor Totoro
5) Laputa: Castle in the Sky
6) Howl's Moving Castle
7) Crimson Pig
8) Kiki's Delivery Service
9) Ponyo
10) Castle of Cagliostro
11) On Your Mark

Kenji Mizoguchi

1) Sansho the Bailiff
2) Ugetsu
3) The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
4) The Life of Oharu
5) The 47 Ronin
6) A Geisha
7) Princess Yang Kwei Fei
8) Crucified Lovers
9) Osaka Elegy
10) Sisters of the Gion
11) Street of Shame

Errol Morris

1) The Thin Blue Line
2) The Fog of War
3) Gates of Heaven
4) Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
5) Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
6) A Brief History of Time
7) Vernon, Florida

F.W. Murnau

1) Sunrise
2) The Last Laugh
3) Tabu
4) Nosferatu
5) Faust

Mikio Naruse

1) Floating Clouds
2) When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
3) Scattered Clouds
4) Lightning
5) Yearning
6) Late Chrysanthemums
7) Her Lonely Lane
8) Mother
9) Repast
10) Wife, Be Like a Rose
11) Sound of the Mountain
12) Flowing

Mike Nichols

1) The Graduate
2) Catch-22
3) Carnal Knowledge
4) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
5) Closer
6) Charlie Wilson's War
7) Biloxi Blues

Max Ophuls

1) The Earrings of Madame de...
2) The Reckless Moment
3) Lola Montes
4) La Signora di Tutti
5) Caught
6) Letter from an Unknown Woman
7) Leibelei
8) La Ronde
9) Le Plaisir
10) Valse brillante de Chopin

Nagisa Oshima

1) The Ceremony
2) Death By Hanging
3) Violence at High Noon
4) Cruel Story of Youth
5) Boy
6) Night and Fog in Japan
7) Empire of Passion
8) Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
9) In the Realm of the Senses
10) The Man Who Left His Will on Film

Yasujiro Ozu

1) Record of a Tenement Gentleman
2) Late Spring
3) I Was Born, But...
4) Tokyo Story
5) An Autumn Afternoon
6) Floating Weeds

Sergei Parajanov

1) Ashik Kerib
2) Color of Pomegranates

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1) Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom
2) Accattone
3) Mamma Roma
4) The Gospel According to St. Matthew
5) Oedipus Rex
6) Medea
7) The Hawks and the Sparrows
8) Teorema

Sam Peckinpah

1) Ride the High Country
2) The Wild Bunch
3) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
4) Major Dundee

Roman Polanski

1) Chinatown
2) Repulsion
3) Knife in the Water
4) Tess
5) The Tenant
6) Rosemary's Baby
7) Cul-de-Sac
8) The Pianist
9) The Ghost Writer
10) Carnage

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

1) Black Narcissus
2) Peeping Tom*
3) The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4) The Edge of the World*
5) The Red Shoes
6) I Know Where I'm Going!
7) A Canterbury Tale
8) A Matter of Life and Death
9) An Airman's Letter to His Mother*

* = Powell only

Otto Preminger

1) Advise and Consent
2) Daisy Kenyon
3) Laura
4) Anatomy of a Murder
5) Bonjour Tristesse
6) Bunny Lake is Missing
7) In Harm's Way
8) The 13th Letter
9) Whirlpool
10) Angel Face
11) The Moon is Blue
12) Skidoo

Nicholas Ray

1) Bitter Victory
2) In a Lonely Place
3) On Dangerous Ground
4) Bigger Than Life
5) Johnny Guitar
6) Born to be Bad
7) Rebel Without a Cause
8) Party Girl
9) The Lusty Men
10) Hot Blood
11) The Savage Innocents
12) They Live By Night
13) Lightning Over Water

Satyajit Ray

1) Pather Panchali
2) Charulata
3) The World of Apu
4) The Music Room
5) Aparajito
6) The Stranger
7) The Chess Players

Godfrey Reggio

1) Koyaanisqatsi
2) Powaqatsi
3) Naqoyqatsi

Jean Renoir

1) Rules of the Game
2) This Land is Mine
3) French Cancan
4) A Day in the Country
5) The Grand Illusion
6) The Golden Coach
7) Boudu Saved from Drowning
8) La Bête Humaine
9) La Chienne
10) The Southerner
11) The Crime of Monsieur Lange
12) The Woman on the Beach
13) The River

Alain Resnais

1) Night and Fog
2) Je t'aime, je t'aime
3) Last Year at Marienbad
4) Providence
5) Wild Grass
6) Private Fears in Public Places
7) Hiroshima, Mon Amour
8) La Guerre est Finie
9) Mon Oncle D'Amerique
10) Guernica
11) Muriel
12) Not on the Lips

Jacques Rivette

1) Celine and Julie Go Boating
2) La Religieuse

Eric Rohmer

1) The Marquise of O
2) The Green Ray
3) Chloe in the Afternoon
4) The Girl at the Monceau Bakery
5) Suzanne's Career
6) La Collectionneuse
7) My Night at Maud's
8) Claire's Knee
9) Veronique & Her Dunce
10) Triple Agent

George A. Romero

1) Dawn of the Dead
2) Day of the Dead
3) Land of the Dead
4) Night of the Living Dead

Roberto Rossellini

1) Stromboli
2) Germany Year Zero
3) Paisan
4) The Age of Cosimo de Medici
5) Europa '51
6) Voyage in Italy
7) The Flowers of St. Francis
8) The Rise of Louis XIV
9) Rome: Open City

David O. Russell

1) I Heart Huckabees
2) Three Kings
3) Flirting With Disaster
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) The Fighter
6) Spanking the Monkey

Martin Scorsese

1) Taxi Driver
2) Goodfellas
3) Raging Bull
4) The Aviator
5) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Cinema
6) Casino
7) The Age of Innocence
8) Bringing Out the Dead
9) Last Temptation of Christ
10) The King of Comedy
11) Mean Streets
12) Hugo
13) The Departed
14) The Color of Money
15) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
16) New York, New York
17) After Hours
18) Shutter Island
19) Cape Fear
20) Gangs of New York
21) Who's That Knocking at My Door?
22) Boxcar Bertha

Kaneto Shîndo

1) Naked Island
2) Onibaba

Douglas Sirk

1) Written on the Wind
2) All I Desire
3) There's Always Tomorrow
4) The Tarnished Angels
5) All that Heaven Allows
6) Imitation of Life
7) Magnificent Obsession

Alf Sjöberg

1) Miss Julie
2) Torment

Steven Soderbergh

1) Out of Sight
2) The Limey
3) Traffic
4) Sex, Lies, and Videotape
5) Haywire
6) Che: Part 1, The Argentine
7) King of the Hill
8) The Girlfriend Experience
9) Ocean's 11
10) Equilibrium (segment from Eros)
11) Erin Brockovich
12) The Informant!
13) Contagion
14) Bubble
15) Ocean's 13

Aleksandr Sokurov

1) Mother & Son
2) Russian Ark
3) The Second Circle
4) Father & Son
5) Faust
6) Alekandra

Steven Spielberg

1) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
4) Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark
5) Schindler's List
6) Catch Me if You Can
7) Jaws
8) Jurassic Park
9) Munich
10) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
11) War of the Worlds
12) Minority Report
13) Lincoln
14) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade15) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
16) Hook17) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
18) The Terminal
19) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Oliver Stone

1) Platoon
2) Born on the Fourth of July
3) JFK
4) Natural Born Killers
5) Nixon
6) Wall Street
7) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
8) Alexander
9) The Doors
10) W.
11) Any Given Sunday

Preston Sturges

1) Miracle at Morgan's Creek
2) Hail the Conquering Hero
3) The Palm Beach Story
4) Unfaithfully Yours
5) Christmas in July
6) Sullivan's Travels
7) The Lady Eve
8) The Great McGinty

Quentin Tarantino

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Inglourious Basterds
3) Kill Bill, Volume 2
4) Jackie Brown
5) Kill Bill, Volume 1
6) Death Proof
7) Reservoir Dogs

Andrei Tarkovsky

1) Solaris
2) Nostalghia
3) Mirror
4) Stalker
5) Ivan's Childhood
6) Andrei Rublev
7) The Sacrifice

Béla Tarr

1) Werckmeister Harmonies
2) Damnation
3) The Turin Horse
4) Almanac of Fall
5) The Man From London
6) Family Nest

Jacques Tati

1) Playtime
2) Parade
3) Trafic
4) Mon Oncle
5) Jour de Fete
6) Les Vacances de M. Hulot
7) Forza Bastia

Jacques Tourneur

1) Out of the Past
2) I Walked With a Zombie
3) The Leopard Man
4) Night of the Demon
5) Cat People

Anh Hung Tran

1) Cyclo
2) Vertical Ray of the Sun
3) The Scent of Green Papaya
4) I Came With the Rain
Francois Truffaut

1) Shoot the Piano Player
2) Jules et Jim
3) The 400 Blows
4) The Story of Adele H.
5) The Soft Skin
6) Love on the Run
7) Day for Night
8) Small Change
9) Fahrenheit 451
10) Antoine et Colette
11) Bed & Board
12) Les Mistons
13) Stolen Kisses

Gus Van Sant

1) Last Days
2) Elephant
3) Gerry
4) Paranoid Park
5) Drugstore Cowboy
6) Milk
7) My Own Private Idaho
8) Promised Land
9) Finding Forrester
10) Good Will Hunting
11) Mala Noche
12) Psycho

Agnes Varda

1) Vagabond
2) Le Bonheur
3) Cleo from 5 to 7

King Vidor

1) The Big Parade
2) The Crowd
3) Our Daily Bread

Jean Vigo

1) L'Atalante
2) A Propos de Nice
3) Zero for Conduct
4) Taris, champion de natation

Luchino Visconti

1) La Terra Trema
2) Le Notti Bianche
3) Senso
4) Death in Venice
5) The Leopard (135-minute dubbed cut)

Josef von Sternberg

1) The Scarlett Empress
2) An American Tragedy
3) Morocco
4) The Docks of New York
5) Thunderbolt
6) The Devil Is a Woman
7) Shanghai Express
8) Macao
9) Blonde Venus
10) The Blue Angel

Lars von Trier

1) Dogville
2) Antichrist
3) Dancer in the Dark
4) Melancholia
5) Breaking the Waves
6) The Boss of it All
7) Zentropa
8) Manderlay
9) The Idiots
10) The Element of Crime

Orson Welles

1) The Trial
2) Citizen Kane
3) Touch of Evil
4) F for Fake
5) The Immortal Story
6) The Magnificent Ambersons
7) The Lady from Shanghai
8) Chimes at Midnight
9) The Stranger
10 Confidential Report
11) Hearts of Age

Wim Wenders

1) Paris, Texas
2) The American Friend
3) Lightning Over Water
4) Wings of Desire
5) Tokyo-Ga
6) Room 666
7) Don't Come Knocking

Billy Wilder

1) Sunset Blvd.
2) Double Indemnity
3) Some Like it Hot
4) The Apartment
5) Sabrina
6) One, Two, Three
7) Stalag 17
8) Avanti!
9) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
10) The Lost Weekend

William Wyler

1) The Heiress
2) Counsellor at Law
3) Dodsworth
4) Wuthering Heights
5) The Best Years of Our Lives
6) Roman Holiday
7) Ben-Hur
8) The Letter

Wong Kar-Wai

1) In the Mood for Love
2) Chungking Express
3) 2046
4) Fallen Angels
5) Days of Being Wild
6) The Hand (segment from Eros)
7) My Blueberry Nights
8) Happy Together
9) Ashes of Time
10) As Tears Go By

Yimou Zhang

1) Raise the Red Lantern
2) To Live
3) Hero
4) House of Flying Daggers