137/250 + 5/15 additions
2. Orson Welles - Touch of Evil (1958) - 4th seen
3. Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon (1975) - 11th seen
4. Federico Fellini - 8½ (1963) - 1st seen
5. Jean-Luc Godard - Vivre sa vie (1962) - 3rd seen
6. Francis Ford Coppola
7. Akira Kurosawa - High and Low (1963) - 3rd seen
8. Jean Renoir - A Day in the Country (1936) - 3rd seen
9. Ingmar Bergman - Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - 4th seen
10. John Ford - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - 2nd seen
11. Yasujirō Ozu - Tokyo Story (1953) - 2nd seen
12. Martin Scorsese - Silence (2016) - 15th seen
13. Andrei Tarkovsky - Ivan's Childhood (1962) - 1st seen
14. Luis Buñuel - That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - 1st seen
15. Charles Chaplin - The Circus (1928) - 2nd seen
16. Carl Th. Dreyer - Vampyr (1932) - 3rd seen
17. Robert Bresson - Diary of a Country Priest (1951) - 1st seen
18. Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot (1959) - 3rd seen
19. F.W. Murnau - The Haunted Castle (1921) - 6th seen
20. Michelangelo Antonioni - L'avventura (1960) - 1st seen
21. Fritz Lang
22. Howard Hawks - Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 2nd seen
23. Sergei Eisenstein
24. François Truffaut - Jules and Jim (1962) - 3rd seen
25. Kenji Mizoguchi - Ugetsu (1953) - 1st seen
26. Roberto Rossellini - Journey to Italy (1954) - 1st seen
27. Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies (2015) - 18th seen
28. David Lean - Brief Encounter (1945) - 2nd seen
29. David Lynch - Lost Highway (1997) - 4th seen
30. Vittorio De Sica
31. Woody Allen - Magic in the Moonlight (2014) - 10th seen
32. Alain Resnais
33. Luchino Visconti
34. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - Black Narcissus (1947) - 2nd seen
35. Jean Vigo - Zero for Conduct (1933) - 2nd seen
36. Sergio Leone - A Fistful of Dollars (1964) - 3rd seen
37. Satyajit Ray
38. John Cassavetes - Shadows (1959) - 2nd seen
39. Wong Kar-wai - 2046 (2004) - 8th seen
40. Ernst Lubitsch - To Be or Not to Be (1942) - 3rd seen
41. Roman Polanski - Repulsion (1965) - 2nd seen
42. Max Ophüls - Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - 1st seen
43. D.W. Griffith
44. Abbas Kiarostami - Ten (2002) - 1st seen
45. Robert Altman - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) - 5th seen
46. Ridley Scott - Prometheus (2012) - 6th seen
47. Werner Herzog - Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) - 3rd seen
48. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
49. Dziga Vertov
50. Buster Keaton - College (1927) - 3rd seen
51. Chris Marker - Letter from Siberia (1957) - 2nd seen
52. Krzysztof Kieślowski - The Scar (1976) - 3rd seen
53. Hou Hsiao-hsien - Cute Girl (1980) - 1st seen
54. Edward Yang
55. Jacques Tati - Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - 2nd seen
56. John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 2nd seen
57. Terrence Malick - Badlands (1973) - 5th seen
58. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
59. Pier Paolo Pasolini
60. Bernardo Bertolucci - The Conformist (1970) - 1st seen
61. Sam Peckinpah
62. Michael Curtiz
63. Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 3rd seen
64. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - Hail, Caesar! (2016) - 17th seen
65. Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind (1939) - 2nd seen
66. Marcel Carné
67. Carol Reed
68. Preston Sturges - The Palm Beach Story (1942) - 1st seen
69. Vincente Minnelli - Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - 1st seen
70. Quentin Tarantino - Jackie Brown (1997) - 5th seen
71. Nicholas Ray - In a Lonely Place (1950) - 1st seen
72. Béla Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - 1st seen
73. Wim Wenders
74. Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth (1937) - 1st seen
75. Erich von Stroheim - Blind Husbands (1919) - 1st seen
76. Douglas Sirk
77. Claude Lanzmann
78. Chantal Akerman - Almayer's Folly (2011) - 1st seen
79. Theo Angelopoulos
80. Nicolas Roeg - The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - 2nd seen
81. Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samouraï (1967) - 1st seen
82. Eric Rohmer - The Collector (1967) - 1st seen
83. Lars von Trier - Dogville (2003) - 4th seen
84. Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers (1966) - 1st seen
85. Elia Kazan
86. Jacques Rivette - Out 1 (1971) - 1st seen
87. Josef von Sternberg - Blonde Venus (1932) - 1st seen
88. David Cronenberg - Videodrome (1983) - 3rd seen
89. Miloš Forman
90. George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story (1940) - 2nd seen
91. Hayao Miyazaki - Porco Rosso (1992) - 3rd seen
92. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
93. Jacques Demy - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - 1st seen
94. Jacques Tourneur - Out of the Past (1947) - 1st seen
95. William Wyler
96. Victor Erice
97. Michael Haneke
98. Sidney Lumet
99. James Cameron - Titanic (1997) - 4th seen
100. Mikio Naruse
101. Jean Eustache
102. Clint Eastwood - Jersey Boys (2014) - 9th seen
103. Brian De Palma
104. Claire Denis - Trouble Every Day (2001) - 2nd seen
105. Robert Flaherty
106. Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing (1989) - 2nd seen
107. Paul Thomas Anderson - Junun (2015) - 8th seen
108. George Lucas
109. Pedro Almodóvar - Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) - 1st seen
110. Ken Loach
111. King Vidor
112. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) - 1st seen
113. Jean Cocteau - The Blood of a Poet (1932) - 1st seen
114. Glauber Rocha
115. Aleksandr Sokurov - Mother and Son (1997) - 1st seen
116. Stan Brakhage
117. Agnès Varda - Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) - 2nd seen
118. George A. Romero - Dawn of the Dead (1978) - 1st seen
119. Sergei Parajanov - Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) - 1st seen
120. Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Cemetery of Splendour (2015) - 8th seen
121. Abel Gance
122. Jim Jarmusch - Permanent Vacation (1980) - 1st seen
123. Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - 1st seen
124. Alexander Dovzhenko
125. John Carpenter - Halloween (1978) - 3rd seen
126. Otto Preminger - Laura (1944) - 1st seen
127. Terry Gilliam
128. Michael Snow
129. Hal Ashby - The Last Detail (1973) - 2nd seen
130. Fei Mu
131. Alexander Mackendrick
132. William Friedkin - The Exorcist (1973) - 1st seen
133. Jane Campion - Sweetie (1989) - 1st seen
134. Michael Cimino
135. Elem Klimov
136. Henri-Georges Clouzot - Diabolique (1955) - 1st seen
137. Andy Warhol
138. Emir Kusturica - Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) - 1st seen
139. Peter Weir - The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) - 2nd seen
140. Andrzej Wajda
141. Michael Powell - The Edge of the World (1937) - 1st seen
142. Ang Lee
143. Nagisa Oshima
144. Errol Morris
145. Raoul Walsh - The Roaring Twenties (1939) - 1st seen
146. Mike Leigh
147. Frederick Wiseman - Titicut Follies (1967) - 1st seen
148. Samuel Fuller
149. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
150. Maurice Pialat - Van Gogh (1991) - 1st seen
151. Ousmane Sembène - Black Girl (1966) - 1st seen
152. Robert Wise - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - 4th seen
153. Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - 1st seen
154. Luis García Berlanga
155. Tsai Ming-liang - Vive l'Amour (1994) - 2nd seen
156. Louis Malle
157. James Whale
158. Michael Mann - Blackhat (2015) - 3rd seen
159. Robert Aldrich - Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - 1st seen
160. Mike Nichols - Carnal Knowledge (1971) - 2nd seen
161. Robert Zemeckis - The Walk (2015) - 8th seen
162. Mikhail Kalatozov - The Cranes Are Flying (1957) - 1st seen
163. Rob Reiner
164. G.W. Pabst - Comradeship (1931) - 1st seen
165. King Hu
166. Ritwik Ghatak
167. John Boorman - Point Blank (1967) - 1st seen
168. Georges Méliès
169. Humphrey Jennings
170. Jia Zhangke - Platform (2000) - 1st seen
171. David Fincher - The Game (1997) - 8th seen
172. Anthony Mann
173. Manoel de Oliveira
174. Djibril Diop Mambéty - Touki Bouki (1973) - 1st seen
175. Maya Deren
176. George Stevens - Shane (1953) - 1st seen
177. Jean Rouch - Chronicle of a Summer (1961) - 1st seen
178. Terence Davies - The Long Day Closes (1992) - 6th seen
179. Chen Kaige
180. René Clair
181. Georges Franju
182. Tod Browning
183. Robert Wiene
184. Tobe Hooper - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - 1st seen
185. Sydney Pollack
186. Shohei Imamura
187. Richard Linklater - Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) - 8th seen
188. Robert Hamer - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - 1st seen
189. Joseph Losey
190. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne - The Son (2002) - 4th seen
191. Ben Sharpsteen
192. Peter Watkins
193. Bob Fosse
194. John Woo - The Killer (1989) - 1st seen
195. Paul Verhoeven - Total Recall (1990) - 1st seen
196. Peter Bogdanovich
197. Fred Zinnemann - High Noon (1952) - 1st seen
198. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - 1st seen
199. Lindsay Anderson
200. Leni Riefenstahl
201. Don Siegel - The Beguiled (1971) - 1st seen
202. Tim Burton
203. David Hand
204. Gus Van Sant - Mala Noche (1986) - 3rd seen
205. Blake Edwards
206. Frank Borzage - A Farewell to Arms (1932) - 1st seen
207. Ken Russell
208. Marcel Ophüls
209. Charles Burnett
210. Victor Sjöström - A Man There Was (1917) - 1st seen
211. Todd Haynes - Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987) - 1st seen
212. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
213. Harold Ramis
214. Oliver Stone
215. Ermanno Olmi
216. Peter Jackson - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) - 6th seen
217. George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - 1st seen
218. John Schlesinger
219. Robert Mulligan
220. Guru Dutt - Pyaasa (1957) - 1st seen
221. Aki Kaurismäki
222. Mel Brooks
223. Kenneth Anger
224. Dario Argento
225. Irvin Kershner
226. Guiseppe Tornatore
227. Peter Greenaway
228. Jonas Mekas - As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - 1st seen
229. Monte Hellman
230. Pedro Costa - In Vanda's Room (2000) - 2nd seen
231. D.A. Pennebaker
232. Louis Feuillade
233. Jacques Becker - Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) - 1st seen
234. Jonathan Demme
235. Francesco Rosi
236. John Hughes - The Breakfast Club (1985) - 3rd seen
237. Jack Clayton
238. John Frankenheimer
239. Bob Rafelson
240. Masaki Kobayashi - Harakiri (1962) - 1st seen
241. Claude Chabrol - Les Cousins (1959) - 1st seen
242. Wes Anderson
243. Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
244. Jerry Lewis - The Ladies Man (1961) - 1st seen
245. Jan Svankmajer
246. Alejandro Jodorowsky
247. Alan J. Pakula
248. Philip Kaufman
249. Rouben Mamoulian
250. John Lasseter
2016 additions:
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
John Landis
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk (2017) - 10th seen
Danny Boyle
Takeshi Kitano - Sonatine (1993) - 1st seen
2017 additions:
Michel Gondry
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Edgar G. Ulmer
Derek Jarman
Philippe Garrel - Le Révélateur (1968) - 2nd seen
Alfonso Cuarón - Children of Men (2006) - 3rd seen
Kathryn Bigelow
Wang Bing - Mrs. Fang (2017) - 1st seen
2018 additions:
Leos Carax
George Miller