| # | Director | Country | Year | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | 1972 | The Godfather | 86%
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| 35 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | 1960 | Psycho | 85%
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| 2 | Orson Welles | USA | 1941 | Citizen Kane | 84%
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| 56 | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1931 | M | 75%
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| 6 | Stanley Kubrick | UK/USA | 1968 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 74%
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| 31 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | 1974 | The Godfather Part II | 73%
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| 1 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | 1958 | Vertigo | 68%
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| 17 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1954 | Seven Samurai | 62%
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| 31 | Martin Scorsese | USA | 1976 | Taxi Driver | 60%
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| 14 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | 1979 | Apocalypse Now | 58%
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| 53 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | 1954 | Rear Window | 56%
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| 20 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | USA | 1951 | Singin' in the Rain | 53%
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| 53 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | 1959 | North by Northwest | 51%
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| 35 | Fritz Lang | Germany | 1927 | Metropolis | 48%
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| 84 | Michael Curtiz | USA | 1942 | Casablanca | 47%
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| 53 | Martin Scorsese | USA | 1980 | Raging Bull | 45%
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| 69 | Ridley Scott | USA/Hong Kong | 1982 | Blade Runner | 42%
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| 28 | David Lynch | USA | 2001 | Mulholland Dr. | 41%
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| 69 | David Lynch | USA | 1986 | Blue Velvet | 40%
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| 50 | Charlie Chaplin | USA | 1931 | City Lights | 39%
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| 81 | David Lean | UK | 1962 | Lawrence of Arabia | 39%
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| 63 | Charlie Chaplin | USA | 1936 | Modern Times | 39%
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| 93 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1957 | The Seventh Seal | 39%
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| 11 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR | 1925 | Battleship Potemkin | 38%
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| 7 | John Ford | USA | 1956 | The Searchers | 38%
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| 39 | Federico Fellini | France/Italy | 1960 | La Dolce Vita | 37%
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| 78 | Roman Polanski | USA | 1974 | Chinatown | 36%
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| 42 | Billy Wilder | USA | 1959 | Some Like It Hot | 35%
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| 59 | Stanley Kubrick | UK/USA | 1975 | Barry Lyndon | 34%
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| 33 | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | 1948 | Bicycle Thieves | 34%
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| 26 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | 1950 | Rashomon | 34%
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| 13 | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1960 | Breathless | 33%
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| 78 | Sergio Leone | Italy/USA | 1968 | Once Upon a Time in the West | 33%
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| 73 | Carol Reed | UK/USA | 1949 | The Third Man | 33%
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| 3 | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan | 1953 | Tokyo Story | 33%
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| 29 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | 1979 | Stalker | 32%
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| 34 | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | USA | 1926 | The General | 32%
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| 17 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1966 | Persona | 30%
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| 24 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | 2000 | In the Mood for Love | 29%
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| 63 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | 1957 | Wild Strawberries | 27%
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| 63 | Billy Wilder | USA | 1950 | Sunset Blvd. | 26%
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| 39 | François Truffaut | France | 1959 | The 400 Blows | 26%
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| 73 | Robert Altman | USA | 1975 | Nashville | 24%
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| 26 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | 1966 | Andrei Rublev | 23%
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| 84 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden/France | 1984 | Fanny and Alexander | 23%
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| 19 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR | 1974 | Mirror | 23%
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| 10 | Federico Fellini | Italy | 1963 | 8½ (Eight and a Half) | 22%
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| 5 | F.W. Murnau | USA | 1927 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 21%
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| 9 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | 1927 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 21%
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| 90 | Werner Herzog | West Germany | 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 20%
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| 93 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | 1974 | Fear Eats the Soul | 20%
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| 81 | Orson Welles | USA | 1942 | The Magnificent Ambersons | 20%
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| 4 | Jean Renoir | France | 1939 | The Rules of the Game | 20%
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| 84 | Sam Peckinpah | USA | 1969 | The Wild Bunch | 20%
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| 57 | Orson Welles | USA | 1958 | Touch of Evil | 20%
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| 8 | Dziga Vertov | USSR | 1929 | Man with a Movie Camera | 19%
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| 48 | Gillo Pontecorvo | Algeria/Italy | 1966 | The Battle of Algiers | 18%
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| 63 | Charles Laughton | USA | 1955 | The Night of the Hunter | 18%
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| 93 | Edward Yang | Japan/Taiwan | 2000 | Yi Yi | 18%
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| 93 | D.W. Griffith | USA | 1916 | Intolerance | 17%
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| 42 | Jacques Tati | France | 1967 | Play Time | 17%
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| 93 | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | Un chien andalou | 17%
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| 42 | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 1990 | Close-Up | 16%
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| 35 | Chantal Akerman | Belgium/France | 1975 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles | 16%
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| 21 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | 1960 | L'Avventura | 16%
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| 24 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | 1955 | Ordet | 16%
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| 59 | Buster Keaton | USA | 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | 16%
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| 78 | Claire Denis | France | 1998 | Beau Travail | 15%
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| 15 | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan | 1949 | Late Spring | 15%
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| 63 | Robert Bresson | France | 1959 | Pickpocket | 15%
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| 35 | Béla Tarr | Switzerland/Germany/Hungary | 1994 | Sátántangó | 15%
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| 84 | Edward Yang | Taiwan | 1991 | A Brighter Summer Day | 13%
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| 84 | Erich von Stroheim | USA | 1925 | Greed | 13%
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| 73 | Jean Renoir | France | 1937 | La grande illusion | 13%
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| 12 | Jean Vigo | France | 1934 | L'Atalante | 13%
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| 42 | Jean-Luc Goddard | France/Italy | 1965 | Pierrot le Fou | 13%
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| 63 | Howard Hawks | USA | 1958 | Rio Bravo | 13%
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| 29 | Claude Lanzmann | France | 1985 | Shoah | 13%
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| 42 | Satyajit Ray | India | 1955 | Pather Panchali | 12%
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| 57 | Luchino Visconti | France/Italy | 1963 | The Leopard | 12%
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| 50 | Mizoguchi Kenji | Japan | 1953 | Ugetsu Monogatari | 12%
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| 69 | Robert Bresson | France | 1956 | A Man Escaped | 11%
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| 16 | Robert Bresson | France/Sweden | 1966 | Au hasard Balthazar | 11%
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| 50 | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | La Jetée | 11%
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| 90 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1946 | A Matter of Life and Death | 10%
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| 73 | Marcel Carné | France | 1945 | Children of Paradise | 9%
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| 73 | Michelangelo Antonioni | France/Italy | 1962 | L'eclisse | 9%
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| 21 | Jean-Luc Goddard | France/Italy | 1963 | Le Mépris | 9%
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| 69 | Chris Marker | France | 1982 | Sans Soleil | 9%
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| 42 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | 1964 | Gertrud | 7%
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| 41 | Roberto Rosellini | France/Italy | 1954 | Journey to Italy | 7%
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| 93 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | UK | 1943 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 7%
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| 81 | Victor Erice | Spain | 1973 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 7%
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| 93 | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal | 1973 | Touki Bouki | 7%
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| 84 | Sergei Parajanov | USSR | 1968 | The Colour of Pomegranates | 6%
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| 48 | Jean-Luc Goddard | France/Switzerland | 1998 | Histoire(s) du cinéma | 5%
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| 93 | Douglas Sirk | USA | 1959 | Imitation of Life | 5%
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| 59 | Jean Eustache | France | 1973 | La Maman et la putain | 4%
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| 93 | Max Ophuls | France/Italy | 1953 | Madame de... | 4%
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| 90 | Jean Renoir | France | 1936 | Partie de campagne | 2%
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| 59 | Mizoguchi Kenji | Japan | 1954 | Sansho Dayu | 2%
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