Piero Scaruffi's Best Film Directors

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1. Orson Welles

   • Citizen Kane (1941)

   • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

   • The Stranger (1946)

   • Lady from Shanghai (1948)

   • Mr Arkadin / Rapporto Confidenziale (1955)

   • Touch of Evil (1958)

   • F for Fake (1973) 

2. Alfred Hitchcock

   • Blackmail (1929)

   • The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)

   • The Lady Vanishes (1938)

   • Rebecca (1940)

   • Suspicion (1941)

   • Saboteur (1942)

   • Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

   • Spellbound (1945)

   • Notorious (1946)

   • Stage Fright (1950)

   • Strangers on a Train (1951)

   • I Confess (1953)

   • Rear Window (1954)

   • Dial M for Murder (1954)

   • To Catch A Thief (1955)

   • Wrong Man (1956)

   • Vertigo (1958)

   • North By Northwest (1959)

   • Psycho (1960)

   • The Birds (1963)

   • Marnie (1964) 

3. Ingmar Bergman

   • Summer with Monica (1952)

   • Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

   • Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

   • Seventh Seal (1956)

   • Wild Strawberries (1957)

   • Magician (1957)

   • Virgin Spring (1959)

   • Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

   • Persona (1966)

   • Cries and Whispers (1972)

   • Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

   • Autumn Sonata (1978)

   • From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) 

4. Roman Polanski

   • Knife in the Water (1962)

   • Repulsion (1965)

   • Cul de Sac (1966)

   • Rosemary's Baby (1968)

   • Chinatown (1974)

   • The Tenant (1976)

   • Pirates (1986)

   • Frantic (1988)

   • Bitter Moon (1992) 

5. Theo Angelopoulos

   • Travelling Players (1975)

   • Voyage to Cythera (1984)

   • The Beekeeper (1986)

   • Landscape In The Mist (1988)

   • The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)

   • Ulysses' Gaze (1995)

   • Eternity And A Day (1998)

   • The Weeping Meadow (2004) 

6. Bela Tarr

   • Prefab People (1982)

   • Autumn Almanac (1984)

   • Damnation (1989)

   • Satan's Tango (1994)

   • Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

   • The Man From London (2007)

   • The Turin Horse (2011) 

7. Andrei Tarkovsky

   • Ivan's Childhood (1962)

   • Andrei Rublev (1966)

   • Solaris (1971)

   • Mirror (1974)

   • Stalker (1979)

   • Nostalgia (1983)

   • Sacrifice (1986) 

8. Michelangelo Antonioni

   • Story of a Love Affair (1950)

   • Il Grido (1957)

   • Adventure (1959)

   • The Night (1961)

   • Eclipse (1962)

   • Red Desert (1965)

   • Blow-Up (1966)

   • The Passenger (1975) 

9. Robert Altman

   • MASH (1970)

   • Brewster McCloud (1970)

   • McCabe And Mrs Miller (1971)

   • The Long Goodbye (1973)

   • Nashville (1975)

   • The Player (1992)

   • Short Cuts (1993) 

10. Federico Fellini

    • La Strada (1954)

    • Nights of Cabiria (1956)

    • La Dolce Vita (1960)

    • 8 1/2 (1963)

    • Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

    • Amarcord (1974) 

11. Luis Bunuel

    • An Andalusian Dog (1928)

    • The Golden Age (1930)

    • The Young and the Damned (1950)

    • El (1952)

    • Viridiana (1961)

    • Exterminating Angel (1962)

    • Simon of the Desert (1966)

    • Belle de Jour (1967)

    • The Milky Way (1969)

    • Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    • Phantom of Liberty (1974) 

12. Akira Kurosawa

    • Rashomon (1950)

    • Ikiru/To Live (1952)

    • Seven Samurai (1954)

    • Throne of Blood (1957)

    • Hidden Fortress (1958)

    • Yojimbo (1961)

    • High and Low (1963)

    • Dersu Uzala (1975)

    • Kagemusha (1980)

    • Ran (1985) 

13. Francis Ford Coppola

    • The Rain People (1969)

    • The Godfather (1972)

    • The Conversation (1974)

    • The Godfather Part II (1974)

    • Apocalypse Now (1979)

    • Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 

14. Robert Aldrich

    • Apache (1954)

    • Vera Cruz (1954)

    • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

    • Big Knife (1955)

    • Attack (1956)

    • Autumn Leaves (1956)

    • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

    • Flight Of The Phoenix (1965)

    • Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964)

    • The Dirty Dozen (1967)

    • Grissom Gang (1971)

    • Ulzana's Raid (1972)

    • Emperor of the North (1973)

    • Hustle (1975)

    • Twilight's Last Gleaming (1976) 

15. Lars Von Trier

    • Europa / Zentropa (1991)

    • Riget / Kingdom (TV, 1995)

    • Breaking the Waves (1996)

    • The Idiots (1998)

    • Dancer In The Dark (2000)

    • Dogville (2003)

    • Melancholia (2011) 

16. Sam Peckinpah

    • Ride the High Country (1962)

    • The Wild Bunch (1969)

    • Ballad Of Cable Hogue (1970)

    • The Getaway (1972)

    • Junior Bonner (1972)

    • Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (1973)

    • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

    • Killer Elite (1975)

    • Iron Cross (1977)

    • Convoy (1978) 

17. Emir Kusturica

    • When Father Was Away on Business (1985)

    • Time of the Gypsies (1989)

    • Underground (1995)

    • Black Cat White Cat (1998) 

18. Alejandro Jodorowsky

    • El Topo (1970)

    • Holy Mountain (1973)

    • Holy Blood (1989)

    • The Dance of Reality (2013)

    • Endless Poetry (2016) 

19. Sion Sono

    • Suicide Club (2001)

    • Strange Circus (2005)

    • Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

    • Love Exposure (2008)

    • Guilty of Romance (2011)

    • The Whispering Star (2015)

    • Tag (2015)

    • Red Post on Escher Street (2020) 

20. John Ford

    • Stagecoach (1939)

    • How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    • My Darling Clementine (1946)

    • Fort Apache (1948)

    • She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)

    • The Searchers (1956)

    • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 

21. Zhang Yimou

    • Ju Dou (1990)

    • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

    • To Live (1994)

    • Shanghai Triad (1995)

    • Not One Less (1999)

    • Ying Xiong / Hero (2002) 

22. Martin Scorsese

    • Mean Streets (1973)

    • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

    • Taxi Driver (1976)

    • Raging Bull (1980)

    • The King of Comedy (1982)

    • After Hours (1985)

    • Goodfellas (1990)

    • Casino (1995)

    • Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 

23. Terrence Malick

    • Badlands (1974)

    • Days of Heaven (1978)

    • The Thin Red Line (1998)

    • The Tree of Life (2011)

    • A Hidden Life (2019) 

24. Edward Yang

    • That Day on the Beach (1983)

    • Taipei Story (1985)

    • The Terrorizers (1986)

    • A Confucian Confusion (1995)

    • A One and a Two (2000) 

25. Fritz Lang

    • Destiny (1921)

    • Doktor Mabuse (1922)

    • Metropolis (1926)

    • Woman in the Moon (1929)

    • M (1931)

    • The Testament of Doctor Mabuse (1932)

    • Fury (1936)

    • You Only Live Once (1937)

    • Scarlet Street (1945)

    • Rancho Notorious (1952)

    • The Big Heat (1953)

    • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1955)

    • While the City Sleeps (1956) 

26. Billy Wilder

    • Double Indemnity (1944)

    • The Lost Weekend (1945)

    • Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    • The Big Carnival (1951)

    • The Seven Year Itch (1955)

    • Some Like It Hot (1959)

    • The Apartment (1960)

    • Irma La Douce (1963)

    • Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

    • The Fortune Cookie (1966)

    • Buddy Buddy (1981) 

27. David Lynch

    • Eraserhead (1978)

    • Blue Velvet (1986)

    • Wild At Heart (1990)

    • Twin Peaks (TV, 1990)

    • Lost Highway (1997)

    • Mulholland Drive (2001)

    • Inland Empire (2006) 

28. Charles Chaplin

    • The Kid (1921)

    • The Gold Rush (1925)

    • The Circus (1928)

    • City Lights (1931)

    • Modern Times (1936)

    • The Great Dictator (1940)

    • Limelight (1952) 

29. Woody Allen

    • Bananas (1971)

    • (Herbert Ross): Play It Again Sam (1972)

    • Sleeper (1973)

    • Annie Hall (1977)

    • Manhattan (1979)

    • Zelig (1983)

    • The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

    • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    • Melinda and Melinda (2004)

    • Midnight in Paris (2011) 

30. Peter Greenaway

    • The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)

    • A Zed and Two Noughts (1986)

    • Belly of An Architect (1987)

    • Drowning by Numbers (1988)

    • The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover (1990)

    • Prospero's Books (1991)

    • The Pillow Book (1996)

    • 8 1/2 Women (1999)

    • Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) 

31. Pedro Almodovar

    • Matador (1986)

    • Law of Desire (1987)

    • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

    • Tie Me Up Tie Me Down (1990)

    • Live Flesh (1997)

    • All About My Mother (1999)

    • Talk To Her (2002)

    • Bad Education (2004)

    • Volver (2006)

    • The Skin I Live In (2011)

    • Madres Paralelas / Parallel Mothers (2021) 

32. Manoel de Oliveira

    • Anikibobo (1942)

    • Benilde (1974)

    • Francisca (1981)

    • My Case (1987)

    • The Cannibals (1988)

    • Divine Comedy (1991)

    • Abraham's Valley (1993)

    • Journey to the Beginning of the World (1997)

    • Anxiety (1998)

    • I'm Going Home (2001)

    • The Strange Case of Angelica (2010) 

33. Josef von Sternberg

    • Underworld / Il Castigo (1927)

    • Docks of New York (1928)

    • The Last Command (1928)

    • Morocco (1930)

    • The Blue Angel (1930)

    • Shangai Express (1932)

    • Scarlet Empress (1934)

    • Shanghai Gesture (1941) 

34. Majid Majidi

    • Children of Heaven (1997)

    • Color of Paradise (1999)

    • The Willow Tree (2005)

    • Avaze Gonjeshk Ha / Song of Sparrows (2008)

    • Sun Children (2020) 

35. Elia Kazan

    • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945)

    • Viva Zapata (1952)

    • On The Waterfront (1954)

    • East of Eden (1954)

    • A Face in the Crowd (1957)

    • Wild River (1960)

    • Splendor In The Grass (1961)

    • America America (1963) 

36. Stanley Kubrick

    • Paths of Glory (1957)

    • Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    • A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    • The Shining (1980)

    • Full Metal Jacket (1987) 

37. Michael Haneke

    • The Seventh Continent (1989)

    • Benny's Video (1992)

    • Funny Games (1997)

    • La Pianiste (2001)

    • Code Unknown (2001)

    • Cache`/ Hidden (2005)

    • White Ribbon (2009)

    • Happy End (2017) 

38. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    • Love is Colder than Death (1969)

    • Troublemaker (1969)

    • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

    • World on a Wire (1973)

    • Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

    • Fox and his Friends (1975)

    • Chinese Roulette (1976)

    • The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)

    • In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

    • Lola (1981)

    • Veronika Voss (1982) 

39. Vittorio De Sica

    • Sciuscia (1946)

    • Bicycle Thieves (1948)

    • Miracle in Milan (1951)

    • Umberto D (1955) 

40. John Woo

    • A Better Tomorrow (1975)

    • The Killer (1986)

    • Bullet in the Head (1990)

    • Hard Boiled (1992)

    • Face/Off (1997) 

41. Jan Svankmajer

    • Alice (1988)

    • Lesson Faust (1994)

    • Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)

    • Greedy Guts (2000)

    • Lunacy (2006)

    • Surviving Life (2010) 

42. Chan-wook Park

    • Joint Security Arena (2000)

    • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)

    • Oldboy (2003)

    • I'm a Cyborg But That's OK (2007)

    • Stoker (2013)

    • The Handmaiden (2016)

    • Decision To Leave (2022) 

43. Blake Edwards

    • The Pink Panther (1963)

    • A Shot in the Dark (1964)

    • The Great Race (1965)

    • Return of the Pink Panther (1974)

    • Tamarind Seed (1974)

    • 10 (1979)

    • S.O.B. (1981)

    • Victor/Victoria (1982)

    • A Fine Mess (1985) 

44. Sergei Paradzanov

    • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)

    • Color of the Pomegranates (1969) 

45. Ermanno Olmi

    • Il Posto (1961)

    • I Fidanzati (1963)

    • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) 

46. Christopher Nolan

    • Following (1998)

    • Memento (2000)

    • The Prestige (2006)

    • Inception (2010)

    • Interstellar (2014) 

47. Sergio Leone

    • A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

    • For a Few Dollars More (1965)

    • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

    • Once Upon a Time in The West (1968) 

48. Satoshi Kon

    • Perfect Blue (1997)

    • Millennium Actress (2001)

    • Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

    • Paranoia Agent (TV, 2004)

    • Paprika (2006) 

49. Krzysztof Kieslowski

    • Dekalog (1988)

    • The Double Life of Veronica (1991)

    • Bleu (1993)

    • Blanc (1993)

    • Rouge (1994) 

50. Ki-duk Kim

    • The Isle (2000)

    • Bad Guy (2001)

    • The Coast Guard (2002)

    • Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring (2003)

    • 3-Iron (2004)

    • The Bow (2005)

    • Shigan / Time (2006)

    • Moebius (2013) 

51. Howard Hawks

    • Scarface (1932)

    • Twentieth Century (1934)

    • Bringing Up Baby (1938)

    • Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

    • His Girl Friday (1940)

    • Sergeant York (1941)

    • Ball Of Fire (1941)

    • The Big Sleep (1946)

    • Red River (1948)

    • I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

    • The Thing from Another World (1951)

    • Monkey Business (1952)

    • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

    • Rio Bravo (1959)

    • Man's Favorite Sport (1964) 

52. Yasujiro Ozu

    • I Was Born But (1932)

    • Passing Fancy (1933)

    • Floating Weeds (1934)

    • The Only Son (1936)

    • Late Spring (1949)

    • Early Summer (1951)

    • Tokyo Monogatari (1953)

    • Tokyo Twilight (1957)

    • Autumn for the Kohayagawa Family/ The End of Summer/ Early Autumn (1961)

    • An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 

53. Jean Renoir

    • La Chienne (1931)

    • Boudou Saved from the Waters (1932)

    • Toni (1935)

    • La Grande Illusion (1937)

    • The Rules of the Game (1939)

    • The Southerner (1945)

    • The River (1951) 

54. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

    • Nosferatu (1922)

    • Der Letzte Mann (1924)

    • Faust (1926)

    • Sunrise (1927) 

55. Hirokazu Kore-eda

    • Maborosi (1995)

    • Afterlife (1998)

    • Distance (2001)

    • Nobody Knows (2004)

    • Hana (2006)

    • Still Walking (2008)

    • Like Father Like Son (2013)

    • After the Storm (2016)

    • Shoplifters (2018) 

56. John Huston

    • The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    • In This Our Life (1942)

    • Across the Pacific (1942)

    • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

    • Key Largo (1948)

    • The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    • The African Queen (1951)

    • The Misfits (1961)

    • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

    • Prizzi's Honor (1985) 

57. Sergei Eisenstein

    • Strike (1924)

    • Battleship Potemkin (1925)

    • Aleksandr Nevskii (1938)

    • Ivan the Terrible (1944) 

58. Frank Capra

    • Lady for a Day (1933)

    • It Happened One Night (1934)

    • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

    • Meet John Doe (1941)

    • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    • State of the Union (1948) 

59. Brian De Palma

    • Sisters (1972)

    • Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

    • Carrie (1976)

    • Dressed to Kill (1980)

    • Blow Out (1981)

    • Scarface (1983)

    • Body Double (1984)

    • The Untouchables (1987)

    • Carlito's Way (1993)

    • Snake Eyes (1998)

    • Femme Fatale (2002) 

60. John Boorman

    • Point Blank (1967)

    • Hell in the Pacific (1968)

    • Deliverance (1971)

    • Zardoz (1973) 

61. Nicolas Roeg

    • Performance (1970)

    • Walkabout (1971)

    • Don't Look Now (1973)

    • Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

    • Bad Timing (1980)

    • Eureka (1985)

    • Insignificance (1985)

    • The Witches (1990) 

62. Quentin Tarantino

    • Reservoir Dogs (1992)

    • Pulp Fiction (1994)

    • Inglorious Basterds (2009)

    • The Hateful Eight (2015)

    • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) 

63. Terry Gilliam

    • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

    • Time Bandits (1981)

    • Brazil (1985)

    • Fisher King (1991)

    • Twelve Monkeys (1995)

    • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    • The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) 

64. George Stevens

    • Gunga Din (1939)

    • Woman of the Year (1942)

    • A Place in the Sun (1951)

    • Shane (1953)

    • Giant (1956) 

65. Kevin Smith

    • Clerks (1994)

    • Dogma (1999) 

66. Chang-Dong Lee

    • Green Fish (1997)

    • Peppermint Candy (1999)

    • Oasis (2002)

    • Secret Sunshine (2007)

    • Shi / Poetry (2010)

    • Burning (2018) 

67. Johnnie To

    • The Mission (1999)

    • Drug War (2004)

    • Exiled (2006)

    • Mad Detective (2007)

    • Office (2015) 

68. Don Siegel

    • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

    • Madigan (1968)

    • Coogan's Bluff (1968)

    • The Beguiled (1971)

    • Dirty Harry (1971)

    • The Shootist (1976)

    • Escape From Alcatraz (1979) 

69. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

    • Delicatessen (1991)

    • City of Lost Children (1995)

    • Amelie (2001) 

70. Pedro Costa

    • Colossal Youth (2006)

    • Horse Money (2014) 

71. Satyajit Ray

    • Pather Panchali (1955)

    • Aparajito (1956)

    • Music Room (1958) 

72. Alice Rohrwacher

    • Corpo Celeste / Heavenly Body (2011)

    • Le Meravigilie / The Wonders (2014)

    • Lazzaro Felice / Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 

73. Jafar Panahi 

    • White Balloon (1995)

    • The Circle (2000)

    • Crimson Gold (2003)

    • This Is Not a Film (2011)

    • Closed Curtain (2013)

    • Taxi (2015)

    • Three Faces (2018) 

74. Gyorgy Palfi

    • Hukkle (2002)

    • Taxidermia (2006)

    • Final Cut (2012) 

75. Gaspar Noe

    • Irreversible (2002)

    • Enter the Void (2009) 

76. Sergei Loznitsa

    • My Joy (2010)

    • In the Fog (2012)

    • A Gentle Creature (2017) 

77. Wim Wenders

    • Alice in den Stadten (1973)

    • Der Amerikanische Freund (1977)

    • Paris Texas (1983)

    • Wings of Desire (1988)

    • Until the End of the World (1991) 

78. Mathieu Kassovitz

    • La Haine / Hate (1996)

79. Alain Resnais

    • Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

    • Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

    • Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

    • Wild Grass (2009) 

80. Spike Jonze

    • Being John Malkovich (1999)

    • Adaptation (2002)

    • Her (2013) 

81. King Vidor

    • The Big Parade (1925)

    • The Crowd (1928)

    • Hallelujah (1929)

    • Duel in the Sun (1946)

    • Man Without a Star (1955) 

82. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

    • Amores Perros (2000)

    • 21 Grams (2003)

    • Babel (2006)

    • Birdman (2014) 

83. Michel Gondry

    • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

    • The Science of Sleep (2006)

    • Be Kind Rewind (2008) 

84. Luc Besson

    • La Femme Nikita (1991)

    • Leon / The Professional (1994)

    • The Fifth Element (1996)

    • Anna (2019) 

85. Carl Theodor Dreyer

    • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)

    • Vampyr (1931)

    • Day of Wrath (1943)

    • Ordet (1955)

    • Gertrud (1964) 

86. Christian Petzold

    • The State I Am In (2000)

    • Something To Remind Me (2002)

    • Wolfsburg (2003)

    • Ghosts (2005)

    • Yella (2007)

    • Dreileben (2011)

    • Barbara (2012)

    • Phoenix (2014)

    • Transit (2018)

    • Undine (2020) 

87. Bernardo Bertolucci

    • Strategia del Ragno (1970)

    • Last Tango in Paris (1972)

    • 1900 (1976)

    • The Last Emperor (1987) 

88. Carlos Reygadas

    • Japon (2002)

    • Batalla en el Cielo (2005)

    • Luz Silenciosa / Silent Light (2007)

    • Post Tenebras Lux / Light After Darkness (2012) 

89. Sydney Pollack

    • They Shoot Horses Don't They (1969)

    • Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

    • Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    • Tootsie (1982)

    • Out of Africa (1985) 

90. Shohei Imamura

    • Insect Woman (1963)

    • The Pornographers (1966)

    • The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)

    • Ballad of Narayama (1983)

    • Black Rain (1988)

    • The Eel (1997)

    • Dr Akagi (1998)

    • Lukewarm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) 

91. Hu Bo

    • An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)

92. Miguel Gomes

    • Our Beloved Month of August (2010)

    • Tabu (2012)

    • Arabian Nights (2015) 

93. Bae Yong-Kyun

    • Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left For The East (1989)

94. Fatih Akin

    • Head On (2004)

    • The Edge of Heaven (2008)

    • Soul Kitchen (2009)

    • The Cut (2014)

    • In the Fade (2017) 

95. Quentin Dupieux

    • Rubber (2010)

    • Reality (2014)

    • Deerskin (2019)

    • Yannick (2023) 

96. Kenji Mizoguchi

    • Sisters of Gion (1936)

    • Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)

    • Life of Oharu (1952)

    • Ugetsu (1953)

    • Crucified Lovers (1954)

    • Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

    • New Tales of the Tara Clan (1955) 

97. Preston Sturges

    • The Great McGinty (1940)

    • Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    • The Lady Eve (1941)

    • The Palm Beach Story (1942)

    • Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)

    • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) 

98. Abbas Kiarostami

    • Where Is the Friend's House (1987)

    • Close-Up (1989)

    • Through the Olive Trees (1994)

    • A Taste of Cherry (1997)

    • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

    • Ten (2002)

    • Like Someone in Love (2012)

    • 24 Frames (2017) 

99. Aki Kaurismaki 

    • Calamari Union (1984)

    • Hamlet Goes Business (1987)

    • Match Factory Girl (1989)

    • Leningrad Cowboys go America (1989)

    • I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

    • Take Care of your Scarf (1993)

    • Drifting Clouds (1996)

    • Ariel (1998)

    • The Man Without a Past (2002)

    • Lights in the Dusk (2006)

    • Le Havre (2011) 

100. Istvan Szabo

     • 25 Firemen St (1973)

     • Confidence (1979)

     • Mephisto (1981)

     • Hanussen (1988)

     • Sweet Emma Dear Bobe - Sketches Nudes (1992) 

101. John Cassavetes

     • Shadows (1959)

     • Faces (1968)

     • A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

     • Opening Night (1977)

     • Gloria (1980) 

102. Ming-Liang Tsai

     • Rebels of the Neon God (1992)

     • The River (1997)

     • The Hole (1998)

     • What Time Is It There? (2001)

     • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)

     • Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)

     • Afternoon (2015)

     • Days (2020) 

103. David Wark Griffith

     • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

     • Intolerance (1916)

     • Broken Blossoms (1919) 

104. Vsevolod Pudovkin

     • Mother (1926)

     • Storm Over Asia (1928) 

105. Dziga Vertov

     • Man With a Movie Camera (1929)

106. Joachim Trier

     • Reprise (2006)

     • Oslo August 31st (2011)

     • Thelma (2017) 

107. Masahiro Shinoda

     • Pale Flower (1964)

     • Double Suicide (1969) 

108. Raul Ruiz

     • Three Sad Tigers (1969)

     • Nobody Said Anything (1971)

     • Dog Symposium (1977)

     • The Suspended Vocation (1978)

     • Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

     • Territory (1981)

     • The City of Pirates (1983)

     • Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)

     • Dark at Noon (1993)

     • Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

     • Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

     • Comedy of Innocence (2000)

     • Love Torn in a Dream (2000)

     • That Day (2003)

     • Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

     • Night Across the Street (2012) 

109. Arturo Ripstein

     • Castle of Purity (1972)

     • Place Without Limits (1978)

     • The Woman of the Port (1991)

     • Queen of the Night (1994)

     • Deep Crimson (1996)

     • The Ruination of Men (2000)

     • Virgin of Lust (2002) 

110. Harmony Korine

     • (Larry Clark): Kids (1995)

     • Gummo (1997)

     • Julien Donkey Boy (1999)

     • Trash Humpers (2009)

     • Spring Breakers (2012) 

111. Takeshi Kitano

     • Violent Cop (1989)

     • Boiling Point (1991)

     • Sonatine (1993)

     • Fireworks (1997)

     • Kikujiro (1999)

     • Dolls (2002) 

112. Jaromil Jires

     • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

113. Jerzy Skolimowski

     • Deep End (1971)

     • The Shout (1978)

     • Essential Killing (2010)

     • 11 Minutes (2015) 

114. Jean-Luc Godard

     • Breathless (1959)

     • Contempt (1963)

     • Alphaville (1965)

     • Pierrot le Fou (1965)

     • Masculin Feminin (1966)

     • Weekend (1968)

     • Goodbye to Language (2014)

     • The Image Book (2018) 

115. Joel Coen

     • Blood Simple (1984)

     • Raising Arizona (1987)

     • Miller's Crossing (1990)

     • Barton Fink (1991)

     • Fargo (1996)

     • The Big Lebowski (1998)

     • O Brother Where Art Thou (2000)

     • No Country for Old Men (2007)

     • Hail Caesar (2016)

     • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 

116. Michael Cimino

     • The Deer Hunter (1978)

     • Heaven's Gate (1981) 

117. Leos Carax

     • Les Amants du Pont Neuf / The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)

     • Holy Motors (2012) 

118. Ana Lily Amirpour

     • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

119. Carol Reed

     • Odd Man Out (1947)

     • The Third Man (1949) 

120. Richard Quine

     • Bell Book and Candle / Una Strega in Paradiso (1958)

     • It Happened to Jane (1959)

     • Notorious Landlady (1962)

     • Sex and Single Girl (1965) 

121. Otto Preminger

     • Laura (1944)

     • Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

     • Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

     • Skidoo (1970) 

122. Michael Powell

     • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

     • A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

     • Black Narcissus (1947)

     • Red Shoes (1948)

     • Peeping Tom (1960) 

123. Takashi Miike

     • Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)

     • The Bird People in China (1998)

     • Blues Harp (1998)

     • Dead or Alive (1999)

     • Ichi the Killer (2001)

     • Visitor Q (2001)

     • Gozu (2003) 

124. Dusan Makavejev

     • Love Affair (1967)

     • WR (1970)

     • Sweet Movie (1974) 

125. Ernst Lubitsch

     • Oyster Princess (1919)

     • Trouble in Paradise (1932)

     • Ninotchka (1939)

     • To Be or Not to Be (1942)

     • Heaven Can Wait (1943) 

126. Fred Zinnemann

     • High Noon (1952)

     • From Here To Eternity (1952)

     • A Man for All Seasons (1966) 

127. William Wyler

     • Jezebel (1938)

     • Wuthering Heights (1939)

     • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

     • Detective Story (1951)

     • Roman Holiday (1953)

     • Desperate Hours (1955)

     • The Big Country (1958)

     • Ben-Hur (1959)

     • Funny Girl (1968) 

128. Eskil Vogt

     • Blind (2014)

129. Jacques Tati

     • Hulot's Holiday (1953)

     • My Uncle (1958)

     • Playtime (1967) 

130. Paolo Sorrentino

     • Le Conseguenze dell'Amore / The Consequences of Love (2004)

     • L'Amico di Famiglia (2006)

     • La Grande Bellezza / The Great Beauty (2013)

     • Youth - La Giovinezza (2015)

     • The New Pope (2019) 

131. Susan Seidelman

     • Smithereens (1982)

     • Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) 

132. Wong Kar-wai

     • Days of Being Wild (1991)

     • Chungking Express (1994)

     • Fallen Angels (1996)

     • In the Mood For Love (2000)

     • 2046 (2004)

     • Grandmaster (2013) 

133. Ridley Scott

     • Alien (1979)

     • Blade Runner (1982)

     • Thelma & Louise (1991)

     • The Counselor (2013)

     • All the Money in the World (2017) 

134. George Miller

     • Mad Max (1979)

     • Road Warrior (1982)

     • Beyond Thunderdome (1985) 

135. Joseph Mankiewicz

     • All About Eve (1950)

     • People Will Talk (1951)

     • The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

     • There Was a Crooked Man (1970)

     • Sleuth (1972) 

136. Elem Klimov

     • Come and See (1985)

137. Chen Kaige

     • Life on a String (1991)

     • Farewell my Concubine (1993)

     • Sacrifice (2011) 

138. Matthew Ryan Hoge

     • The United States of Leland (2003)

139. Werner Herzog

     • Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)

     • Aguirre (1972)

     • Stroszek (1977)

     • Fitzcarraldo (1982)

     • Invincible (2001)

     • Rescue Dawn (2007) 

140. Abel Ferrara

     • King of New York (1990)

     • Bad Lieutenant (1992)

     • The Addiction (1995)

     • The Funeral (1996)

     • Black Out (1997)

     • Go Go Tales (2007)

     • 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011) 

141. Arnaud Desplechin

     • Kings and Queen (2002)

     • A Christmas Tale (2008)

     • Jimmy P (2013)

     • Ismael's Ghosts (2017) 

142. Michael Curtiz

     • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

     • Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

     • Casablanca (1942)

     • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

     • Mildred Pierce (1945)

     • The Unsuspected (1947) 

143. Henri Clouzot 

     • The Raven (1943)

     • Wages of Fear (1953)

     • The Devils (1955)

     • The Truth (1960) 

144. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

     • Uzak / Distant (2002)

     • Climates (2006)

     • Uc Maymum / Three Monkeys (2008)

     • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

     • Winter Sleep (2014) 

145. Robert Wiene

     • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

146. Marcel Carne

     • Harbor in the Fog (1938)

     • Daybreak (1939)

     • Children of Paradise (1945) 

147. James Cameron

     • The Terminator (1984)

     • True Lies (1994) 

148. Bong Joon-Ho

     • Memories of Murder (2003)

     • The Host (2006)

     • Mother (2009)

     • Snowpiercer (2013)

     • Okja (2017)

     • Parasite (2017) 

149. Bi Gan

     • Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)

150. Maren Ade

     • Everyone Else (2009)

     • Toni Erdmann (2016) 

151. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

     • Intacto (2001) 

152. Roberto Benigni

     • Non Ci Resta Che Piangere (1984)

     • Johnny Stecchino (1992)

     • La Vita E` Bella (1997) 

153. Buster Keaton

     • Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

     • The Navigator (1924)

     • The General (1927)

     • Steamboat Bill Jr (1928) 

154. Richard Fleischer

     • Narrow Margin (1952)

     • Fantastic Voyage (1966)

     • See No Evil (1971)

     • Soylent Green (1973) 

And the rest

• Agnieszka Holland

• Alan Parker

• Aleksandr Dovzenko

• Anatole Litvak

• Andre Techine

• Andrzej Wajda

• Arthur Penn

• Atom Egoyan

• Chantal Akerman

• Claire Denis

• Claude Chabrol

• Eric Rohmer

• Eric von Stroheim

• Francois Truffaut

• Frank Borzage

• George Cukor

• George Lucas

• Gus Van Sant

• Henry Hathaway

• Jane Campion

• Jean Vigo

• Jerry Lewis

• Jim Jarmusch

• John Frankenheimer

• John Sayles

• Ken Loach

• Ken Russell

• Lewis Milestone

• Louis Malle

• Luchino Visconti

• Mario Monicelli

• Mike Figgis

• Mike Leigh

• Miklos Jancso

• Milos Forman

• Nicholas Ray

• Nikita Mikhalkov

• Olivier Assayas

• Patrice Leconte

• Peter Watkins

• Peter Weir

• Rene Clair

• Robert Bresson

• Roberto Rossellini

• Sergej Paradzanov

• Shinya Tsukamoto

• Steven Soderbergh

• Steven Spielberg

• Victor Sjostrom

• Vincent Minnelli

• Wes Anderson

• Yilmaz Guney

• Yorgos Lanthimos

• Youssef Chahine