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Director Rank
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Highest Ranked Film (Release Year), Film Rank
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Director
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1
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Vertigo (1958), #2
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Alfred Hitchcock
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2
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Citizen Kane (1941), #1
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Orson Welles
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3
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), #3
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Stanley Kubrick
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4
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8½ (1963), #7
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Federico Fellini
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5
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Godfather, The (1972), #6
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Francis Ford Coppola
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6
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Breathless (1960), #18
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Jean-Luc Godard
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7
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Persona (1966), #16
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Ingmar Bergman
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8
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Seven Samurai (1954), #10
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Akira Kurosawa
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9
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The Rules of the Game (1939), #5
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Jean Renoir
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10
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The Searchers (1956), #9
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John Ford
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11
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Tokyo Story (1953), #4
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Yasujiro Ozu
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12
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Taxi Driver (1976), #15
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Martin Scorsese
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13
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Mirror (1975), #23
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Andrei Tarkovsky
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14
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Viridiana (1961), #80
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Luis Buñuel
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15
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City Lights (1931), #25
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Charles Chaplin
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16
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Au hasard Balthazar (1966), #29
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Robert Bresson
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17
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Some Like it Hot (1959), #31
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Billy Wilder
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18
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), #19
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Carl Theodor Dreyer
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19
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), #8
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F.W. Murnau
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20
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Rio Bravo (1959), #63
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Howard Hawks
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21
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L'Avventura (1960), #37
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Michelangelo Antonioni
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22
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Mulholland Dr. (2001), #30
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David Lynch
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23
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Jaws (1975), #91
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Steven Spielberg
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24
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M (1931), #55
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Fritz Lang
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25
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The 400 Blows (1959), #27
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François Truffaut
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26
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Ugetsu monogatari (1953), #58
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Kenji Mizoguchi
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27
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Journey to Italy (1954), #69
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Roberto Rossellini
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28
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), #12
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Chantal Akerman
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29
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Battleship Potemkin (1925), #21
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Sergei Eisenstein
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30
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In the Mood for Love (2000), #17
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Wong Kar-wai
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31
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Close-Up (1990), #47
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Abbas Kiarostami
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32
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Bicycle Thieves (1948), #14
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Vittorio De Sica
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33
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974), #73
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John Cassavetes
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34
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The Leopard (1963), #75
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Luchino Visconti
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35
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The Red Shoes (1948), #121
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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
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36
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Pather Panchali (1955), #46
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Satyajit Ray
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37
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To Be or Not to Be (1942), #98
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Ernst Lubitsch
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38
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Annie Hall (1977), #109
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Woody Allen
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39
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962), #49
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David Lean
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40
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961), #111
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Alain Resnais
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41
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), #67
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Sergio Leone
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42
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Singin' in the Rain (1952), #11
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Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
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43
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Blade Runner (1982), #39
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Ridley Scott
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44
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Chinatown (1974), #70
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Roman Polanski
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45
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L'Atalante (1934), #20
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Jean Vigo
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46
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The Earrings of Madame de... (1953), #104
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Max Ophüls
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47
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Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), #97
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Agnès Varda
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48
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), #107
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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49
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Nashville (1975), #92
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Robert Altman
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50
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The General (1926), #50
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Buster Keaton
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51
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Days of Heaven (1978), #157
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Terrence Malick
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52
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), #144
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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53
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Playtime (1967), #42
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Jacques Tati
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54
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La Jetée (1962), #95
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Chris Marker
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55
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), #108
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Werner Herzog
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56
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929), #22
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Dziga Vertov
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57
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A City of Sadness (1989), #202
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Hou Hsiao-hsien
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58
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There Will Be Blood (2007), #153
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Paul Thomas Anderson
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59
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Dekalog (1989), #169
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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60
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Beau travail (1999), #52
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Claire Denis
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61
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The Big Lebowski (1998), #250
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Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
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62
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The Conformist (1970), #87
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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63
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Casablanca (1942), #38
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Michael Curtiz
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64
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Pulp Fiction (1994), #78
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Quentin Tarantino
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65
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), #273
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John Huston
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66
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A Brighter Summer Day (1991), #116
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Edward Yang
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67
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Intolerance (1916), #125
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D.W. Griffith
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68
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946), #82
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Frank Capra
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69
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Spirited Away (2001), #137
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Hayao Miyazaki
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|
70
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Johnny Guitar (1954), #183
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Nicholas Ray
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71
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The Wild Bunch (1969), #79
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Sam Peckinpah
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72
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The Band Wagon (1953), #249
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Vincente Minnelli
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73
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Paris, Texas (1984), #196
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Wim Wenders
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|
74
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Imitation of Life (1959), #136
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Douglas Sirk
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75
|
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Do the Right Thing (1989), #71
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Spike Lee
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76
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The Third Man (1949), #54
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Carol Reed
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77
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Breaking the Waves (1996), #217
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Lars von Trier
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|
78
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Tropical Malady (2004), #164
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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|
79
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Sátántangó (1994), #102
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Béla Tarr
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80
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Duck Soup (1933), #175
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Leo McCarey
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|
81
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The Wizard of Oz (1939), #117
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Victor Fleming
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82
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The Green Ray (1986), #257
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Eric Rohmer
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|
83
|
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Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), #143
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Jacques Rivette
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|
84
|
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Caché (2005), #245
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Michael Haneke
|
|
85
|
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), #147
|
|
Milos Forman
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|
86
|
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The Piano (1993), #115
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Jane Campion
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|
87
|
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The Lady Eve (1941), #198
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Preston Sturges
|
|
88
|
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On the Waterfront (1954), #203
|
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Elia Kazan
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|
89
|
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Children of Paradise (1945), #76
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Marcel Carné
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|
90
|
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Don't Look Now (1973), #119
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Nicolas Roeg
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|
91
|
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The Battle of Algiers (1966), #59
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Gillo Pontecorvo
|
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92
|
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), #148
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Jacques Demy
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|
93
|
|
Videodrome (1983), #319
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|
David Cronenberg
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|
94
|
|
Greed (1924), #114
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Erich von Stroheim
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|
95
|
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Le Samouraï (1967), #220
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Jean-Pierre Melville
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|
96
|
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The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), #112
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Víctor Erice
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|
97
|
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Shoah (1985), #65
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Claude Lanzmann
|
|
98
|
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The Scarlet Empress (1934), #440
|
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Josef von Sternberg
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|
99
|
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All About My Mother (1999), #296
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Pedro Almodóvar
|
|
100
|
|
Out of the Past (1947), #187
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Jacques Tourneur
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|
101
|
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Carrie (1976), #487
|
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Brian De Palma
|
|
102
|
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All About Eve (1950), #134
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
|
|
103
|
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975), #351
|
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Sidney Lumet
|
|
104
|
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The Mother and the Whore (1973), #101
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Jean Eustache
|
|
105
|
|
The Thing (1982), #211
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John Carpenter
|
|
106
|
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Aliens (1986), #385
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James Cameron
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|
107
|
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Black God, White Devil (1964), #231
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Glauber Rocha
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|
108
|
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Unforgiven (1992), #300
|
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Clint Eastwood
|
|
109
|
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The Philadelphia Story (1940), #325
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George Cukor
|
|
110
|
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), #239
|
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William Wyler
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|
111
|
|
The Crowd (1928), #241
|
|
King Vidor
|
|
112
|
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The Travelling Players (1975), #230
|
|
Theo Angelopoulos
|
|
113
|
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), #284
|
|
Tsai Ming-liang
|
|
114
|
|
The Deer Hunter (1978), #168
|
|
Michael Cimino
|
|
115
|
|
Too Early/Too Late (1981), #859
|
|
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
|
|
116
|
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La Ciénaga (2001), #282
|
|
Lucrecia Martel
|
|
117
|
|
Fight Club (1999), #495
|
|
David Fincher
|
|
118
|
|
Naked (1993), #445
|
|
Mike Leigh
|
|
119
|
|
Come and See (1985), #110
|
|
Elem Klimov
|
|
120
|
|
Parasite (2019), #235
|
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
|
121
|
|
Stranger Than Paradise (1984), #377
|
|
Jim Jarmusch
|
|
122
|
|
Kes (1969), #222
|
|
Ken Loach
|
|
123
|
|
Black Girl (1966), #272
|
|
Ousmane Sembene
|
|
124
|
|
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), #182
|
|
Céline Sciamma
|
|
125
|
|
Back to the Future (1985), #279
|
|
Robert Zemeckis
|
|
126
|
|
The Exorcist (1973), #270
|
|
William Friedkin
|
|
127
|
|
Star Wars (1977), #152
|
|
George Lucas
|
|
128
|
|
Dog Star Man (1964), #814
|
|
Stan Brakhage
|
|
129
|
|
Floating Clouds (1955), #304
|
|
Mikio Naruse
|
|
130
|
|
Colour of Pomegranates, The (1969), #180
|
|
Sergei Parajanov
|
|
131
|
|
Heat (1995), #268
|
|
Michael Mann
|
|
132
|
|
Boyhood (2014), #533
|
|
Richard Linklater
|
|
133
|
|
À nos amours (1983), #452
|
|
Maurice Pialat
|
|
134
|
|
Wavelength (1967), #215
|
|
Michael Snow
|
|
135
|
|
Cabaret (1972), #298
|
|
Bob Fosse
|
|
136
|
|
Killer of Sheep (1977), #149
|
|
Charles Burnett
|
|
137
|
|
Harold and Maude (1971), #372
|
|
Hal Ashby
|
|
138
|
|
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), #552
|
|
Peter Weir
|
|
139
|
|
This is Spinal Tap (1984), #388
|
|
Rob Reiner
|
|
140
|
|
Touki Bouki (1973), #174
|
|
Djibril Diop Mambéty
|
|
141
|
|
Daisies (1966), #145
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|
Věra Chytilová
|
|
142
|
|
Brazil (1985), #225
|
|
Terry Gilliam
|
|
143
|
|
Ashes and Diamonds (1958), #234
|
|
Andrzej Wajda
|
|
144
|
|
Safe (1995), #384
|
|
Todd Haynes
|
|
145
|
|
In the Realm of the Senses (1976), #321
|
|
Nagisa Oshima
|
|
146
|
|
White Heat (1949), #847
|
|
Raoul Walsh
|
|
147
|
|
La belle et la bête (1946), #324
|
|
Jean Cocteau
|
|
148
|
|
Earth (1930), #181
|
|
Alexander Dovzhenko
|
|
149
|
|
The Graduate (1967), #260
|
|
Mike Nichols
|
|
150
|
|
Night of the Living Dead (1968), #353
|
|
George A. Romero
|
|
151
|
|
Napoléon (1927), #188
|
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Abel Gance
|
|
152
|
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005), #569
|
|
Ang Lee
|
|
153
|
|
Laura (1944), #581
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|
Otto Preminger
|
|
154
|
|
Kiss Me Deadly (1955), #346
|
|
Robert Aldrich
|
|
155
|
|
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), #170
|
|
Tobe Hooper
|
|
156
|
|
Nanook of the North (1922), #316
|
|
Robert J. Flaherty
|
|
157
|
|
Children of Men (2006), #547
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|
Alfonso Cuarón
|
|
158
|
|
Raise the Red Lantern (1991), #491
|
|
Zhang Yimou
|
|
159
|
|
El Verdugo (1963), #259
|
|
Luis García Berlanga
|
|
160
|
|
Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001), #641
|
|
Wes Anderson
|
|
161
|
|
I Am Cuba (1964), #315
|
|
Mikhail Kalatozov
|
|
162
|
|
Elephant (2003), #477
|
|
Gus Van Sant
|
|
163
|
|
Titicut Follies (1967), #736
|
|
Frederick Wiseman
|
|
164
|
|
Dark Knight, The (2008), #643
|
|
Christopher Nolan
|
|
165
|
|
Chelsea Girls (1966), #422
|
|
Andy Warhol
|
|
166
|
|
Platform (2000), #485
|
|
Jia Zhangke
|
|
167
|
|
Abraham's Valley (1993), #813
|
|
Manoel de Oliveira
|
|
168
|
|
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), #302
|
|
Terence Davies
|
|
169
|
|
The Last Picture Show (1971), #357
|
|
Peter Bogdanovich
|
|
170
|
|
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), #100
|
|
Maya Deren
|
|
171
|
|
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), #350
|
|
George Miller
|
|
172
|
|
In Vanda's Room (2000), #471
|
|
Pedro Costa
|
|
173
|
|
The Wages of Fear (1953), #341
|
|
Henri-Georges Clouzot
|
|
174
|
|
Russian Ark (2002), #559
|
|
Aleksandr Sokurov
|
|
175
|
|
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), #349
|
|
Ritwik Ghatak
|
|
176
|
|
Shock Corridor (1963), #809
|
|
Samuel Fuller
|
|
177
|
|
RoboCop (1987), #686
|
|
Paul Verhoeven
|
|
178
|
|
Underground (1995), #336
|
|
Emir Kusturica
|
|
179
|
|
Elevator to the Gallows (1958), #990
|
|
Louis Malle
|
|
180
|
|
Point Blank (1967), #540
|
|
John Boorman
|
|
181
|
|
West Side Story (1961), #348
|
|
Robert Wise
|
|
182
|
|
After Life (1998), #508
|
|
Hirokazu Koreeda
|
|
183
|
|
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), #333
|
|
Arthur Penn
|
|
184
|
|
Sweet Smell of Success (1957), #278
|
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
|
185
|
|
The Wind (1928), #448
|
|
Victor Sjöström
|
|
186
|
|
Holy Motors (2012), #432
|
|
Leos Carax
|
|
187
|
|
Shane (1953), #503
|
|
George Stevens
|
|
188
|
|
The Ballad of Narayama (1983), #1001
|
|
Shohei Imamura
|
|
189
|
|
India Song (1975), #294
|
|
Marguerite Duras
|
|
190
|
|
King Kong (1933), #205
|
|
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
|
|
191
|
|
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), #360
|
|
Ermanno Olmi
|
|
192
|
|
The Matrix (1999), #238
|
|
Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski
|
|
193
|
|
Pandora's Box (1929), #289
|
|
G.W. Pabst
|
|
194
|
|
Spring in a Small Town (1948), #195
|
|
Fei Mu
|
|
195
|
|
The Servant (1963), #592
|
|
Joseph Losey
|
|
196
|
|
Morvern Callar (2002), #566
|
|
Lynne Ramsay
|
|
197
|
|
The Silence of the Lambs (1991), #369
|
|
Jonathan Demme
|
|
198
|
|
Bride of Frankenstein (1935), #425
|
|
James Whale
|
|
199
|
|
Moonlight (2016), #216
|
|
Barry Jenkins
|
|
200
|
|
Freaks (1932), #322
|
|
Tod Browning
|
|
201
|
|
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), #596
|
|
Peter Jackson
|
|
202
|
|
Edward Scissorhands (1990), #831
|
|
Tim Burton
|
|
203
|
|
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000), #567
|
|
Jonas Mekas
|
|
204
|
|
Rosetta (1999), #542
|
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
|
|
205
|
|
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), #492
|
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
|
|
206
|
|
The Ascent (1977), #290
|
|
Larisa Shepitko
|
|
207
|
|
Suspiria (1977), #406
|
|
Dario Argento
|
|
208
|
|
Wendy and Lucy (2008), #909
|
|
Kelly Reichardt
|
|
209
|
|
Lost in Translation (2003), #413
|
|
Sofia Coppola
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210
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Peeping Tom (1960), #370
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Michael Powell
|
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211
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Midnight Cowboy (1969), #342
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John Schlesinger
|
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212
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Pyaasa (1957), #335
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Guru Dutt
|
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213
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), #254
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Michel Gondry
|
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214
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7th Heaven (1927), #932
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Frank Borzage
|
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215
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All the President's Men (1976), #415
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Alan J. Pakula
|
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216
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Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), #243
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
|
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217
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The Match Factory Girl (1990), #1080
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Aki Kaurismäki
|
|
218
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A Touch of Zen (1971), #343
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King Hu
|
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219
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Man of the West (1958), #1120
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Anthony Mann
|
|
220
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000), #457
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Roy Andersson
|
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221
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Point Break (1991), #849
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Kathryn Bigelow
|
|
222
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Le Boucher (1970), #933
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Claude Chabrol
|
|
223
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Eyes Without a Face (1960), #411
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Georges Franju
|
|
224
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Casque d'or (1952), #640
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Jacques Becker
|
|
225
|
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Les Vampires (1915), #527
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Louis Feuillade
|
|
226
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Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), #1529
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Hong Sang-soo
|
|
227
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If…. (1968), #426
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Lindsay Anderson
|
|
228
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The Thin Blue Line (1988), #403
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Errol Morris
|
|
229
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Daughters of the Dust (1991), #258
|
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Julie Dash
|
|
230
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Salvatore Giuliano (1962), #424
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Francesco Rosi
|
|
231
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High Noon (1952), #478
|
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Fred Zinnemann
|
|
232
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À nous la liberté (1931), #1061
|
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René Clair
|
|
233
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), #885
|
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Raúl Ruiz
|
|
234
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Cinema Paradiso (1988), #256
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Giuseppe Tornatore
|
|
235
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Chronicle of a Summer (1961), #684
|
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Jean Rouch
|
|
236
|
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Tootsie (1982), #601
|
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Sydney Pollack
|
|
237
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By the Bluest of Seas (1936), #475
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|
Boris Barnet
|
|
238
|
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Pink Flamingos (1972), #631
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John Waters
|
|
239
|
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), #275
|
|
Robert Hamer
|
|
240
|
|
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), #842
|
|
Don Siegel
|
|
241
|
|
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), #263
|
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Robert Wiene
|
|
242
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|
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985), #618
|
|
Aleksei German
|
|
243
|
|
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), #416
|
|
David Hand
|
|
244
|
|
Groundhog Day (1993), #285
|
|
Harold Ramis
|
|
245
|
|
Young Frankenstein (1974), #673
|
|
Mel Brooks
|
|
246
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|
Blue (1993), #539
|
|
Derek Jarman
|
|
247
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|
Pan's Labyrinth (2006), #467
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|
Guillermo del Toro
|
|
248
|
|
Get Out (2017), #352
|
|
Jordan Peele
|
|
249
|
|
Edvard Munch [TV] (1974), #624
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|
Peter Watkins
|
|
250
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|
JFK (1991), #782
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Oliver Stone
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