The Auteurs
all-time favorite
heartbreaking; mindblowing
great
very good
good
not so good
n.b. auteur theory makes sense to me kinda', but I don't think it should stop at directors - i.e. the singular velocity of a film isn't necessarily forged by its director - ergo the strange lists under Mamet, Herzog, Keaton, &c.
also: I don't necessarily love, or even like, all of these creators; inclusion here simply means that they are recognized as having a vision of sorts, as having amassed a body of work that means something.
in alphabetical, then preferential, order:
Woody Allen
01. Manhattan (1979)
02. Annie Hall (1977)
03. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
04. Stardust Memories (1980)
05. Love and Death (1975)
06. Sleeper (1973)
07. Zelig (1983)
08. Bananas (1971)
09. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
10. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Robert Altman
01. Nashville (1975)
02. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
03. Short Cuts (1993)
04. The Long Goodbye (1973)
05. M*A*S*H (1970)
06. Secret Honor (1984)
07. 3 Women (1977)
08. Tanner '88 (1988)
09. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
10. Gosford Park (2001)
11. The Company (2003)
Paul Thomas Anderson
01. There Will Be Blood (2007)
02. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
03. Magnolia (1999)
04. Boogie Nights (1997)
Wes Anderson
01. Rushmore (1998)
02. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
03. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
04. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
05. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
06. Bottle Rocket (1996)
07. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
08. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
09. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
Michelangelo Antonioni
01. L'Avventura (1960)
02. L'Eclisse (1962)
03. The Passenger (1975)
04. La Notte (1961)
05. The Red Desert (1964)
The Archer(s): Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
01. Peeping Tom (1960)
02. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
03. Black Narcissus (1947)
Darren Aronofsky
01. The Wrestler (2008)
02. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
03. Pi (1998)
04. The Fountain (2006)
Hal Ashby
01. Harold and Maude (1971)
02. Being There (1979)
03. The Landlord (1970)
Ingmar Bergman
01. The Silence (1963)
02. The Seventh Seal (1957)
03. Winter Light (1962)
04. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
05. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
06. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
07. Persona (1966)
08. Wild Strawberries (1957)
09. Scenes From A Marriage (1974)
10. Summer with Monika (1953)
11. Cries & Whispers (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
01. The Conformist (1970)
02. La commare secca (1962)
03. The Dreamers (2003)
Peter Bogdanovich
01. The Last Picture Show (1971)
02. Paper Moon (1973)
Frank Borzage
01. History Is Made at Night (1937)
02. Desire (1936)
03. Three Comrades (1938)
04. Moonrise (1948)
05. The River (1929)
Robert Bresson
01. Pickpocket (1959)
02. A Man Escaped (1956)
03. L'argent (1983)
04. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
05. Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
06. Mouchette (1967)
07. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Andrew Bujalski
01. Mutual Appreciation (2005)
02. Funny Ha Ha (2002)
03. Beeswax (2009)
04. Computer Chess (2013)
Luis Bunuel
01. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
02. Un Chien Andalou (1928)
03. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
04. Los Olvidados (1950)
05. Belle de jour (1967)
John Cassavetes
01. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
02. Faces (1968)
03. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
04. Shadows (1959)
05. Opening Night (1977)
Charlie Chaplin
01. Modern Times (1936)
02. City Lights (1931)
03. The Gold Rush (1925)
04. The Kid (1921)
05. The Pilgrim (1923)
06. Sunnyside (1919)
07. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
08. The Great Dictator (1940)
09. Pay Day (1922)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
01. Le Corbeau (1943)
02. Quai des Orfevres (1947)
03. Wages of Fear (1952)
04. Les diaboliques (1955)
Coen Brothers
01. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
02. Fargo (1996)
03. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
06. The Big Lebowski (1998)
07. No Country for Old Men (2007)
08. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
09. Barton Fink (1991)
10. Raising Arizona (1987)
11. Burn After Reading (2008)
12. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
13. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
14. True Grit (2010)
15. Blood Simple (1984)
Francis Ford Coppola
01. The Godfather Pt. II (1974)
02. The Godfather (1972)
03. Apocalypse Now (1979)
04. The Conversation (1974)
05. One from the Heart (1982)
06. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
07. The Godfather Pt. III (1990)
08. The Rainmaker (1997)
David Cronenberg
01. A History of Violence (2005)
02. Videodrome (1983)
03. Naked Lunch (1991)
04. Eastern Promises (2007)
Jules Dassin
01. Night and the City (1950)
02. Thieves' Highway (1949)
03. The Naked City (1948)
04. Brute Force (1947)
05. Rififi (1955)
Vittorio De Sica
01. The Bicycle Thief (1947)
02. Umberto D. (1952)
03. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Jonathan Demme
01. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
02. Stop Making Sense (1984)
03. Something Wild (1986)
04. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
05. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Sergei Eisentstein
01. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
02. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
01. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
02. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
03. Veronika Voss (1982)
04. Lola (1981)
05. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
06. A Little Chaos (1966)
07. The City Tramp (1965)
Federico Fellini
01. 8 1/2 (1963)
02. I Vitelloni (1953)
03. La Strada (1954)
04. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
05. Amarcord (1974)
06. The White Sheik (1952)
David Fincher
01. Se7en (1995)
02. The Game (1997)
03. Fight Club (1999)
04. Gone Girl (2014)
05. The Social Network (2010)
06. Zodiac (2007)
07. Panic Room (2002)
John Ford
01. The Searchers (1956)
02. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
03. My Darling Clementine (1946)
04. Stagecoach (1939)
Samuel Fuller
01. Shock Corridor (1963)
02. Pickup on South Street (1953)
03. The Naked Kiss (1964)
Terry Gilliam
01. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
02. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
03. Brazil (1985)
04. 12 Monkeys (1995)
05. Time Bandits (1981)
Jean-Luc Godard
01. Band of Outsiders (1964)
02. Breathless (1959)
03. A Woman is a Woman (1961)
04. Alphaville (1965)
Michael Haneke
01. Code Unknown (2000)
02. Cache (Hidden) (2005)
03. The Piano Teacher (2001)
Werner Herzog
01. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)*
02. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
03. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
04. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
05. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
06. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
07. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
08. Grizzly Man (2005)
09. Burden of Dreams (1982)*
10. My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski (1999)
*Not directed by Herzog, I know, but he is clearly the velocity of these films. Burden of Dreams, while pretty great, is sullied by Les Blank's socializing and navel gazing, but Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a brilliant film in spite of both its slight subject matter/slim runtime and Blank's overly jocular demeanor and socially heavy hand. Herzog shines through with one of the great manifestos - kin with Deleuze and Bergson - on the image; Herzog here is pure affect - he's not a man, he's a force.
Alfred Hitchcock
01. Rear Window (1954)
02. Vertigo (1958)
03. Dial M for Murder (1954)
04. Psycho (1960)
05. North by Northwest (1959)
06. Strangers on a Train (1951)
07. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
08. The 39 Steps (1935)
09. Notorious (1946)
10. The Birds (1963)
11. Rope (1948)
12. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
13. To Catch a Thief (1955)
John Huston
01. Fat City (1972)
02. Under the Volcano (1984)
03. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
04. Key Largo (1948)
05. Wise Blood (1979)
06. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Jim Jarmusch
01. Down by Law (1986)
02. Dead Man (1995)
03. Mystery Train (1989)
04. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
05. Broken Flowers (2005)
06. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
07. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Charlie Kaufman
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
02. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
03. Being John Malkovich (1999)
04. Adaptation (2002)
Buster Keaton
01. The General (1927)
02. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
03. The Playhouse (1921)
04. Cops (1922)
05. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
06. Our Hospitality (1923)
07. The Haunted House (1921)
Krzysztof Kieslowski
01. Dekalog (1988)
02. Three Colors: Red (1994)
03. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
04. Three Colors: White (1994)
05. Refrain (1972)
06. Before the Rally (1971)
07. The Scar (1976)
08. First Love (1974)
09. Bricklayer (1973)
10. Factory (1970)
11. Workers 1971: Nothing About Us Without Us (1971)
12. X-Ray (1974)
Stanley Kubrick
01. Paths of Glory (1957)
02. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
03. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
04. The Shining (1980)
05. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. The Killing (1956)
08. Lolita (1962)
Akira Kurosawa
01. Ikiru (1952)
02. Red Beard (1965)
03. Sanjuro (1962)
04. Yojimbo (1961)
05. Ran (1985)
06. Stray Dog (1949)
07. The Seven Samurai (1954)
08. Throne of Blood (1957)
09. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
10. Rashomon (1950)
11. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
12. Dreams (1990)
David Lean
01. Brief Encounter (1945)
02. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
03. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Spike Lee
01. 25th Hour (2002)
02. Do the Right Thing (1989)
03. He Got Game (1998)
04. The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
05. Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
06. Summer of Sam (1999)
07. Girl 6 (1996)
08. Get on the Bus (1996)
Mike Leigh
01. Naked (1993)
02. Secrets & Lies (1996)
03. Life is Sweet (1991)
Richard Linklater
01. Before Sunrise (1995)
02. Before Sunset (2004)
03. Dazed & Confused (1993)
04. Boyhood (2014)
05. Before Midnight (2013)
06. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
07. School of Rock (2003)
Ernst Lubitsch
01. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
02. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
03. One Hour with You (1932)
04. Monte Carlo (1930)
05. The Merry Widow (1934)
Sidney Lumet
01. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
02. Network (1976)
03. Equus (1977)
04. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
05. Running on Empty (1988)
David Lynch
01. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
02. INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
03. Blue Velvet (1985)
04. Wild at Heart (1990)
05. Quinoa (2007)
06. Eraserhead (1977)
Guy Maddin
01. Heart of the World (2000)
02. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
03. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
04. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
05. Zookeeper Workbook (from lost film: Love Chaunt of the Chimney) (????)
06. Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
07. It's a Wonderful Life (2001)
08. Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995)
09. A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
Terrence Malick
01. Badlands (1973)
02. The Thin Red Line (1998)
03. The New World (2005)
04. Days of Heaven (1978)
Louis Malle
01. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
02. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
03. Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
David Mamet
01. House of Games (1987)
02. The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
03. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992; d. James Foley)
04. State and Main (2000)
05. Spartan (2004)
06. Homicide (1991)
06. American Buffalo (1996; d. Michael Corrente)
07. Ronin (1998; d. John Frankenheimer)
8. Redbelt (2008)
Michael Mann
01. Miami Vice (2006)
02. Heat (1995)
03. Collateral (2004)
04. The Insider (1999)
05. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Marx Brothers
01. Duck Soup (1933)
02. A Night at the Opera (1935)
03. Monkey Business (1931)
04. Horse Feathers (1932)
Jean-Pierre Melville
01. Le cercle rouge (1970)
02. Le samourai (1967)
03. Le deuxieme souffle (1966)
03. Le doulos (1962)
04. Bob le flambeur (1955)
05. Army of Shadows [L'Armee des ombres] (1969)
06. Un flic (1972)
07. Les enfants terribles (1950)
Kenji Mizoguchi
01. Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
02. The Life of Oharu [Saikaku ichidai onna] (1952)
03. Street of Shame [Akasen chitai] (1956)
04. Sansho the Bailiff [Sanho dayu] (1954)
05. Osaka Elegy [Naniwa ereji] (1936)
06. The Water Magician [Taki no shiraito] (1933)
Errol Morris
01. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
02. Gates of Heaven (1978)
03. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (1999)
04. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
05. The Fog of War (2003)
Mikio Naruse
01. Repast (1951)
02. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
03. Anzukko (1958)
04. Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
05. Mother (1952)
06. Sound of the Mountain (1954)
07. Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
08. Summer Clouds (1958)
09. Approach of Autumn (1960)
10. Lightning (1952)
11. Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
12. Daughters, Wives, and a Mother (1960)
13. Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941)
Mike Nichols
01. The Graduate (1967)
02. Closer (2004)
03. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
04. Angels in America (2003)
05. Primary Colors (1998)
Christopher Nolan
01. The Prestige (2006)
02. Memento (2000)
03. Dunkirk (2017)
04. The Dark Knight (2008)
05. Inception (2010)
06. Following (1998)
07. Batman Begins (2005)
Ermanno Olmi
01. Il Posto (1961)
02. I Fidanzanti (1962)
03. La Cotta (1967)
Max Ophüls
01. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
02. Le plaisir (1962)
03. Laughing Heirs (1933)
04. Caught (1949)
05. Lola Montés (1955)
06. The Reckless Moment (1949)
07. La signora di tutti (1934)
08. The Tender Enemy (1936)
09. The Exile (1947)
Yasujiro Ozu
01. Early Summer (1951)
02. Late Spring (1949)
03. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
04. Tokyo Story (1953)
05. Floating Weeds (1959)
06. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Sam Peckinpah
01. Straw Dogs (1971)
02. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
03. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
04. The Wild Bunch (1969)
05. The Getaway (1972)
06. Ride the High Country (1962)
07. Major Dundee (1965)
Pixar Animation
01. Ratatouille (2007)
02. Up (2009)
03. Wall-E (2008)
04. The Incredibles (2004)
05. Toy Story (1995)
06. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
07. A Bug's Life (1998)
08. Finding Nemo (2003)
Roman Polanski
01. Chinatown (1974)
02. Macbeth (1971)
03. The Pianist (2002)
04. The Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)
05. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
06. The Ninth Gate (1999)
Nicholas Ray
01. In a Lonely Place (1950)
02. Bigger Than Life (1956)
03. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Carol Reed
01. The Third Man (1949)
02. The Fallen Idol (1948)
Nicolas Winding Refn
01. Bronson (2008)
02. Drive (2011)
03. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Jean Renoir
01. Grand Illusion (1937)
02. Rules of the Game (1939)
03. The Lower Depths (1936)
04. The River (1951)
Martin Scorsese
01. Taxi Driver (1976)
02. Goodfellas (1990)
03. The King of Comedy (1983)
04. After Hours (1985)
05. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
06. The Departed (2006)
07. Raging Bull (1980)
08. Boxcar Bertha (1972)
09. Shutter Island (2010)
10. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
11. Gangs of New York (2002)
12. Casino (1995)
Ousmane Sembene
01. Black Girl (1966)
02. Mandabi [The Money Order] (1968)
03. The Wagoner (1966)
Douglas Sirk
01. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
02. There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
03. All I Desire (1953)
Steven Soderbergh
01. Solaris (2002)
02. The Limey (1999)
03. Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
04. Traffic (2000)
05. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
06. Schizopolis (1996)
07. The Informant (2009)
08. Out of Sight (1998)
09. Bubble (2006)
10. Erin Brockovich (2000)
11. Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Oliver Stone
01. Natural Born Killers (1994)
02. Platoon (1986)
03. U-Turn (1997)
04. Any Given Sunday (1999)
05. The Doors (1991)
Preston Sturges
01. The Lady Eve (1941)
02. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
03. Sullivan’s Travels (1942)
Quentin Tarantino
01. Pulp Fiction (1994)
02. Death Proof (2007)
03. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
04. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
05. Jackie Brown (1997)
06. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
07. Four Rooms (1995)
Andrei Tarkovsky
01. Andrei Rublev (1966)
02. Solaris (1972)
03. The Mirror (1975)
04. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
05. Stalker (1979)
Bela Tarr
01. Satantango (1994)
02. Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
03. Damnation (1988)
Jacques Tati
01. Playtime (1967)
02. Mon Oncle (1958)
03. M. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
04. L'ecole des facteurs (1947)
Hiroshi Teshigahara
01. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
02. Antonio Gaudi (1984)
Francois Truffaut
01. The 400 Blows (1959)
02. Bed and Board (1970)
03. Stolen Kisses (1968)
04. Jules and Jim (1961)
05. Love on the Run (1979)
06. Antoine and Collette (1962)
07. Day for Night (1973)
08. Small Change (1976)
09. Les Mistons (1957)
Tsai Ming-liang
01. The Wayward Cloud (2005)
02. The Skywalk is Gone (2002)
03. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2004)
Gus Van Sant
01. Good Will Hunting (1997)
02. Elephant (2003)
03. Gerry (2002)
04. Paranoid Park (2008)
05. Last Days (2005)
06. My Own Private Idaho (1992)
07. Finding Forrester (2000)
08. Psycho (1998)
Lars von Trier
01. Dogville (2003)
02. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
03. Breaking the Waves (1996)
04. The Five Obstructions (2003)
05. The Element of Crime (1984)
Orson Welles
01. F for Fake (1974)
02. Citizen Kane (1941)
03. Touch of Evil (1958)
04. The Stranger (1946)
Wim Wenders
01. Wings of Desire (1987)
02. The American Friend (1977)
Billy Wilder
01. Ace in the Hole (1951)
02. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
03. The Apartment (1960)
04. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
05. Some Like It Hot (1959)
06. Double Indemnity (1944)
07. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Michael Winterbottom
01. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
02. The Trip (2010)
03. Code 46 (2003)
04. 9 Songs (2005)
Wong Kar-Wai
01. In the Mood for Love (2001)
02. Happy Together (1997)
03. Chungking Express (1994)
04. Fallen Angels (1995)
06. My Blueberry Nights (2008)
John Woo
01. The Killer (1989)
02. A Better Tomorrow II (1988)
03. Hard Boiled (1992)
04. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)
05. Hand of Death (1975)
06. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
07. A Bullet in the Head (1990)
08. Face/Off (1997)
09. Heroes Shed No Tears (1985)
10. Broken Arrow (1996)
11. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
heartbreaking; mindblowing
great
very good
good
not so good
n.b. auteur theory makes sense to me kinda', but I don't think it should stop at directors - i.e. the singular velocity of a film isn't necessarily forged by its director - ergo the strange lists under Mamet, Herzog, Keaton, &c.
also: I don't necessarily love, or even like, all of these creators; inclusion here simply means that they are recognized as having a vision of sorts, as having amassed a body of work that means something.
in alphabetical, then preferential, order:
Woody Allen
01. Manhattan (1979)
02. Annie Hall (1977)
03. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
04. Stardust Memories (1980)
05. Love and Death (1975)
06. Sleeper (1973)
07. Zelig (1983)
08. Bananas (1971)
09. Melinda and Melinda (2004)
10. Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Robert Altman
01. Nashville (1975)
02. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
03. Short Cuts (1993)
04. The Long Goodbye (1973)
05. M*A*S*H (1970)
06. Secret Honor (1984)
07. 3 Women (1977)
08. Tanner '88 (1988)
09. Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
10. Gosford Park (2001)
11. The Company (2003)
Paul Thomas Anderson
01. There Will Be Blood (2007)
02. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
03. Magnolia (1999)
04. Boogie Nights (1997)
Wes Anderson
01. Rushmore (1998)
02. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
03. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
04. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
05. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
06. Bottle Rocket (1996)
07. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
08. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
09. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
Michelangelo Antonioni
01. L'Avventura (1960)
02. L'Eclisse (1962)
03. The Passenger (1975)
04. La Notte (1961)
05. The Red Desert (1964)
The Archer(s): Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
01. Peeping Tom (1960)
02. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
03. Black Narcissus (1947)
Darren Aronofsky
01. The Wrestler (2008)
02. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
03. Pi (1998)
04. The Fountain (2006)
Hal Ashby
01. Harold and Maude (1971)
02. Being There (1979)
03. The Landlord (1970)
Ingmar Bergman
01. The Silence (1963)
02. The Seventh Seal (1957)
03. Winter Light (1962)
04. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
05. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
06. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
07. Persona (1966)
08. Wild Strawberries (1957)
09. Scenes From A Marriage (1974)
10. Summer with Monika (1953)
11. Cries & Whispers (1972)
Bernardo Bertolucci
01. The Conformist (1970)
02. La commare secca (1962)
03. The Dreamers (2003)
Peter Bogdanovich
01. The Last Picture Show (1971)
02. Paper Moon (1973)
Frank Borzage
01. History Is Made at Night (1937)
02. Desire (1936)
03. Three Comrades (1938)
04. Moonrise (1948)
05. The River (1929)
Robert Bresson
01. Pickpocket (1959)
02. A Man Escaped (1956)
03. L'argent (1983)
04. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
05. Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
06. Mouchette (1967)
07. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Andrew Bujalski
01. Mutual Appreciation (2005)
02. Funny Ha Ha (2002)
03. Beeswax (2009)
04. Computer Chess (2013)
Luis Bunuel
01. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
02. Un Chien Andalou (1928)
03. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
04. Los Olvidados (1950)
05. Belle de jour (1967)
John Cassavetes
01. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
02. Faces (1968)
03. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
04. Shadows (1959)
05. Opening Night (1977)
Charlie Chaplin
01. Modern Times (1936)
02. City Lights (1931)
03. The Gold Rush (1925)
04. The Kid (1921)
05. The Pilgrim (1923)
06. Sunnyside (1919)
07. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
08. The Great Dictator (1940)
09. Pay Day (1922)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
01. Le Corbeau (1943)
02. Quai des Orfevres (1947)
03. Wages of Fear (1952)
04. Les diaboliques (1955)
Coen Brothers
01. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
02. Fargo (1996)
03. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
04. A Serious Man (2009)
05. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)06. The Big Lebowski (1998)
07. No Country for Old Men (2007)
08. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
09. Barton Fink (1991)
10. Raising Arizona (1987)
11. Burn After Reading (2008)
12. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
13. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
14. True Grit (2010)
15. Blood Simple (1984)
Francis Ford Coppola
01. The Godfather Pt. II (1974)
02. The Godfather (1972)
03. Apocalypse Now (1979)
04. The Conversation (1974)
05. One from the Heart (1982)
06. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
07. The Godfather Pt. III (1990)
08. The Rainmaker (1997)
David Cronenberg
01. A History of Violence (2005)
02. Videodrome (1983)
03. Naked Lunch (1991)
04. Eastern Promises (2007)
Jules Dassin
01. Night and the City (1950)
02. Thieves' Highway (1949)
03. The Naked City (1948)
04. Brute Force (1947)
05. Rififi (1955)
Vittorio De Sica
01. The Bicycle Thief (1947)
02. Umberto D. (1952)
03. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
Jonathan Demme
01. Rachel Getting Married (2008)
02. Stop Making Sense (1984)
03. Something Wild (1986)
04. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
05. The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Sergei Eisentstein
01. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
02. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
01. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
02. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
03. Veronika Voss (1982)
04. Lola (1981)
05. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
06. A Little Chaos (1966)
07. The City Tramp (1965)
Federico Fellini
01. 8 1/2 (1963)
02. I Vitelloni (1953)
03. La Strada (1954)
04. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
05. Amarcord (1974)
06. The White Sheik (1952)
David Fincher
01. Se7en (1995)
02. The Game (1997)
03. Fight Club (1999)
04. Gone Girl (2014)
05. The Social Network (2010)
06. Zodiac (2007)
07. Panic Room (2002)
John Ford
01. The Searchers (1956)
02. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
03. My Darling Clementine (1946)
04. Stagecoach (1939)
Samuel Fuller
01. Shock Corridor (1963)
02. Pickup on South Street (1953)
03. The Naked Kiss (1964)
Terry Gilliam
01. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
02. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
03. Brazil (1985)
04. 12 Monkeys (1995)
05. Time Bandits (1981)
Jean-Luc Godard
01. Band of Outsiders (1964)
02. Breathless (1959)
03. A Woman is a Woman (1961)
04. Alphaville (1965)
Michael Haneke
01. Code Unknown (2000)
02. Cache (Hidden) (2005)
03. The Piano Teacher (2001)
Werner Herzog
01. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)*
02. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
03. Fitzcarraldo (1982)
04. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
05. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
06. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
07. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
08. Grizzly Man (2005)
09. Burden of Dreams (1982)*
10. My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski (1999)
*Not directed by Herzog, I know, but he is clearly the velocity of these films. Burden of Dreams, while pretty great, is sullied by Les Blank's socializing and navel gazing, but Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a brilliant film in spite of both its slight subject matter/slim runtime and Blank's overly jocular demeanor and socially heavy hand. Herzog shines through with one of the great manifestos - kin with Deleuze and Bergson - on the image; Herzog here is pure affect - he's not a man, he's a force.
Alfred Hitchcock
01. Rear Window (1954)
02. Vertigo (1958)
03. Dial M for Murder (1954)
04. Psycho (1960)
05. North by Northwest (1959)
06. Strangers on a Train (1951)
07. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
08. The 39 Steps (1935)
09. Notorious (1946)
10. The Birds (1963)
11. Rope (1948)
12. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
13. To Catch a Thief (1955)
John Huston
01. Fat City (1972)
02. Under the Volcano (1984)
03. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
04. Key Largo (1948)
05. Wise Blood (1979)
06. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Jim Jarmusch
01. Down by Law (1986)
02. Dead Man (1995)
03. Mystery Train (1989)
04. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
05. Broken Flowers (2005)
06. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
07. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Charlie Kaufman
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
02. Synecdoche, New York (2008)
03. Being John Malkovich (1999)
04. Adaptation (2002)
Buster Keaton
01. The General (1927)
02. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
03. The Playhouse (1921)
04. Cops (1922)
05. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
06. Our Hospitality (1923)
07. The Haunted House (1921)
Krzysztof Kieslowski
01. Dekalog (1988)
02. Three Colors: Red (1994)
03. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
04. Three Colors: White (1994)
05. Refrain (1972)
06. Before the Rally (1971)
07. The Scar (1976)
08. First Love (1974)
09. Bricklayer (1973)
10. Factory (1970)
11. Workers 1971: Nothing About Us Without Us (1971)
12. X-Ray (1974)
Stanley Kubrick
01. Paths of Glory (1957)
02. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
03. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
04. The Shining (1980)
05. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
06. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
07. The Killing (1956)
08. Lolita (1962)
Akira Kurosawa
01. Ikiru (1952)
02. Red Beard (1965)
03. Sanjuro (1962)
04. Yojimbo (1961)
05. Ran (1985)
06. Stray Dog (1949)
07. The Seven Samurai (1954)
08. Throne of Blood (1957)
09. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
10. Rashomon (1950)
11. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
12. Dreams (1990)
David Lean
01. Brief Encounter (1945)
02. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
03. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Spike Lee
01. 25th Hour (2002)
02. Do the Right Thing (1989)
03. He Got Game (1998)
04. The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
05. Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
06. Summer of Sam (1999)
07. Girl 6 (1996)
08. Get on the Bus (1996)
Mike Leigh
01. Naked (1993)
02. Secrets & Lies (1996)
03. Life is Sweet (1991)
Richard Linklater
01. Before Sunrise (1995)
02. Before Sunset (2004)
03. Dazed & Confused (1993)
04. Boyhood (2014)
05. Before Midnight (2013)
06. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
07. School of Rock (2003)
Ernst Lubitsch
01. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
02. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
03. One Hour with You (1932)
04. Monte Carlo (1930)
05. The Merry Widow (1934)
Sidney Lumet
01. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
02. Network (1976)
03. Equus (1977)
04. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
05. Running on Empty (1988)
David Lynch
01. Mulholland Dr. (2001)
02. INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
03. Blue Velvet (1985)
04. Wild at Heart (1990)
05. Quinoa (2007)
06. Eraserhead (1977)
Guy Maddin
01. Heart of the World (2000)
02. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
03. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
04. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
05. Zookeeper Workbook (from lost film: Love Chaunt of the Chimney) (????)
06. Sombra Dolorosa (2004)
07. It's a Wonderful Life (2001)
08. Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995)
09. A Trip to the Orphanage (2004)
Terrence Malick
01. Badlands (1973)
02. The Thin Red Line (1998)
03. The New World (2005)
04. Days of Heaven (1978)
Louis Malle
01. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
02. Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
03. Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
David Mamet
01. House of Games (1987)
02. The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
03. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992; d. James Foley)
04. State and Main (2000)
05. Spartan (2004)
06. Homicide (1991)
06. American Buffalo (1996; d. Michael Corrente)
07. Ronin (1998; d. John Frankenheimer)
8. Redbelt (2008)
Michael Mann
01. Miami Vice (2006)
02. Heat (1995)
03. Collateral (2004)
04. The Insider (1999)
05. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Marx Brothers
01. Duck Soup (1933)
02. A Night at the Opera (1935)
03. Monkey Business (1931)
04. Horse Feathers (1932)
Jean-Pierre Melville
01. Le cercle rouge (1970)
02. Le samourai (1967)
03. Le deuxieme souffle (1966)
03. Le doulos (1962)
04. Bob le flambeur (1955)
05. Army of Shadows [L'Armee des ombres] (1969)
06. Un flic (1972)
07. Les enfants terribles (1950)
Kenji Mizoguchi
01. Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
02. The Life of Oharu [Saikaku ichidai onna] (1952)
03. Street of Shame [Akasen chitai] (1956)
04. Sansho the Bailiff [Sanho dayu] (1954)
05. Osaka Elegy [Naniwa ereji] (1936)
06. The Water Magician [Taki no shiraito] (1933)
Errol Morris
01. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
02. Gates of Heaven (1978)
03. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (1999)
04. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
05. The Fog of War (2003)
Mikio Naruse
01. Repast (1951)
02. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
03. Anzukko (1958)
04. Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
05. Mother (1952)
06. Sound of the Mountain (1954)
07. Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
08. Summer Clouds (1958)
09. Approach of Autumn (1960)
10. Lightning (1952)
11. Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
12. Daughters, Wives, and a Mother (1960)
13. Hideko the Bus Conductress (1941)
Mike Nichols
01. The Graduate (1967)
02. Closer (2004)
03. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
04. Angels in America (2003)
05. Primary Colors (1998)
Christopher Nolan
01. The Prestige (2006)
02. Memento (2000)
03. Dunkirk (2017)
04. The Dark Knight (2008)
05. Inception (2010)
06. Following (1998)
07. Batman Begins (2005)
Ermanno Olmi
01. Il Posto (1961)
02. I Fidanzanti (1962)
03. La Cotta (1967)
Max Ophüls
01. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
02. Le plaisir (1962)
03. Laughing Heirs (1933)
04. Caught (1949)
05. Lola Montés (1955)
06. The Reckless Moment (1949)
07. La signora di tutti (1934)
08. The Tender Enemy (1936)
09. The Exile (1947)
Yasujiro Ozu
01. Early Summer (1951)
02. Late Spring (1949)
03. An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
04. Tokyo Story (1953)
05. Floating Weeds (1959)
06. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Sam Peckinpah
01. Straw Dogs (1971)
02. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
03. The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
04. The Wild Bunch (1969)
05. The Getaway (1972)
06. Ride the High Country (1962)
07. Major Dundee (1965)
Pixar Animation
01. Ratatouille (2007)
02. Up (2009)
03. Wall-E (2008)
04. The Incredibles (2004)
05. Toy Story (1995)
06. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
07. A Bug's Life (1998)
08. Finding Nemo (2003)
Roman Polanski
01. Chinatown (1974)
02. Macbeth (1971)
03. The Pianist (2002)
04. The Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967)
05. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
06. The Ninth Gate (1999)
Nicholas Ray
01. In a Lonely Place (1950)
02. Bigger Than Life (1956)
03. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Carol Reed
01. The Third Man (1949)
02. The Fallen Idol (1948)
Nicolas Winding Refn
01. Bronson (2008)
02. Drive (2011)
03. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Jean Renoir
01. Grand Illusion (1937)
02. Rules of the Game (1939)
03. The Lower Depths (1936)
04. The River (1951)
Martin Scorsese
01. Taxi Driver (1976)
02. Goodfellas (1990)
03. The King of Comedy (1983)
04. After Hours (1985)
05. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
06. The Departed (2006)
07. Raging Bull (1980)
08. Boxcar Bertha (1972)
09. Shutter Island (2010)
10. Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
11. Gangs of New York (2002)
12. Casino (1995)
Ousmane Sembene
01. Black Girl (1966)
02. Mandabi [The Money Order] (1968)
03. The Wagoner (1966)
Douglas Sirk
01. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
02. There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
03. All I Desire (1953)
Steven Soderbergh
01. Solaris (2002)
02. The Limey (1999)
03. Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
04. Traffic (2000)
05. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
06. Schizopolis (1996)
07. The Informant (2009)
08. Out of Sight (1998)
09. Bubble (2006)
10. Erin Brockovich (2000)
11. Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Oliver Stone
01. Natural Born Killers (1994)
02. Platoon (1986)
03. U-Turn (1997)
04. Any Given Sunday (1999)
05. The Doors (1991)
Preston Sturges
01. The Lady Eve (1941)
02. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
03. Sullivan’s Travels (1942)
Quentin Tarantino
01. Pulp Fiction (1994)
02. Death Proof (2007)
03. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
04. Kill Bill (2003/2004)
05. Jackie Brown (1997)
06. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
07. Four Rooms (1995)
Andrei Tarkovsky
01. Andrei Rublev (1966)
02. Solaris (1972)
03. The Mirror (1975)
04. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
05. Stalker (1979)
Bela Tarr
01. Satantango (1994)
02. Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
03. Damnation (1988)
Jacques Tati
01. Playtime (1967)
02. Mon Oncle (1958)
03. M. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
04. L'ecole des facteurs (1947)
Hiroshi Teshigahara
01. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
02. Antonio Gaudi (1984)
Francois Truffaut
01. The 400 Blows (1959)
02. Bed and Board (1970)
03. Stolen Kisses (1968)
04. Jules and Jim (1961)
05. Love on the Run (1979)
06. Antoine and Collette (1962)
07. Day for Night (1973)
08. Small Change (1976)
09. Les Mistons (1957)
Tsai Ming-liang
01. The Wayward Cloud (2005)
02. The Skywalk is Gone (2002)
03. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2004)
Gus Van Sant
01. Good Will Hunting (1997)
02. Elephant (2003)
03. Gerry (2002)
04. Paranoid Park (2008)
05. Last Days (2005)
06. My Own Private Idaho (1992)
07. Finding Forrester (2000)
08. Psycho (1998)
Lars von Trier
01. Dogville (2003)
02. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
03. Breaking the Waves (1996)
04. The Five Obstructions (2003)
05. The Element of Crime (1984)
Orson Welles
01. F for Fake (1974)
02. Citizen Kane (1941)
03. Touch of Evil (1958)
04. The Stranger (1946)
Wim Wenders
01. Wings of Desire (1987)
02. The American Friend (1977)
Billy Wilder
01. Ace in the Hole (1951)
02. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
03. The Apartment (1960)
04. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
05. Some Like It Hot (1959)
06. Double Indemnity (1944)
07. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Michael Winterbottom
01. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
02. The Trip (2010)
03. Code 46 (2003)
04. 9 Songs (2005)
Wong Kar-Wai
01. In the Mood for Love (2001)
02. Happy Together (1997)
03. Chungking Express (1994)
04. Fallen Angels (1995)
06. My Blueberry Nights (2008)
John Woo
01. The Killer (1989)
02. A Better Tomorrow II (1988)
03. Hard Boiled (1992)
04. Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)
05. Hand of Death (1975)
06. A Better Tomorrow (1986)
07. A Bullet in the Head (1990)
08. Face/Off (1997)
09. Heroes Shed No Tears (1985)
10. Broken Arrow (1996)
11. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)