They Shoot Pictures, Don't They: Top 200 Directors (2010 Edition) Films I've Seen

Submitted by MrTerrific1976 on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 11:22
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  1. 1. Orson Welles

  2. Citizen Kane (1941)
  3. Touch of Evil (1958)

  4. 2. Alfred Hitchcock

  5. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
  6. The 39 Steps
  7. Sabotage (1936)
  8. Rebecca (1940)
  9. Rope (1948)
  10. Strangers On A Train (1951)
  11. Dial M For Murder (1954)
  12. Rear Window (1954)
  13. Vertigo (1958)
  14. North By Northwest (1959)
  15. Psycho (1960)
  16. The Birds (1963)

  17. 3. Federico Fellini

  18. La Dolce Vita (1960)
  19. Amarcord (1973)

  20. 4. Stanley Kubrick

  21. The Killing (1956)
  22. Paths of Glory (1957)
  23. Spartacus (1960)
  24. Lolita (1962)
  25. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  26. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  27. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  28. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  29. The Shining (1980)
  30. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  31. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

  32. 5. John Ford

  33. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  34. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
  35. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  36. The Searchers (1956)
  37. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

  38. 6. Jean Renoir

  39. The Lower Depths (1936)

  40. 7. Akira Kurosawa

  41. Rashomon (1950)
  42. Ikiru (1952)
  43. Seven Samurai (1954)
  44. Throne of Blood (1957)
  45. The Lower Depths (1957)
  46. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
  47. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
  48. Yojimbo (1961)
  49. Sanjuro (1962)
  50. High and Low (1963)
  51. Red Beard (1965)
  52. Dersu Uzala (1975)
  53. Kagemusha (1980)
  54. Ran (1985)
  55. Madadayo (1993)

  56. 8. Ingmar Bergman

  57. The Seventh Seal (1957)

  58. 9. Francis Ford Coppola

  59. The Godfather (1972)
  60. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  61. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  62. One From the Heart (1982)
  63. The Outsiders (1983)
  64. The Cotton Club (1984)
  65. Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  66. Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988)
  67. The Godfather: Part III (1990)
  68. Dracula (1992)
  69. Jack (1996)
  70. The Rainmaker (1997)

  71. 10. Jean-Luc Godard

  72. 11. Charles Chaplin

  73. The Tramp (1915)
  74. The Kid (1921)
  75. The Gold Rush (1925)
  76. City Lights (1931)
  77. Modern Times (1936)
  78. The Great Dictator (1940)

  79. 12. Billy Wilder

  80. Double Indemnity (1944)
  81. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  82. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  83. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  84. The Apartment (1960)

  85. 13. Luis Bunuel

  86. 14. Martin Scorsese

  87. Mean Streets (1973)
  88. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
  89. Taxi Driver (1976)
  90. Raging Bull (1980)
  91. The King of Comedy (1982)
  92. After Hours (1985)
  93. The Color of Money (1986)
  94. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
  95. GoodFellas (1990)
  96. Cape Fear (1991)
  97. The Age of Innocence (1993)
  98. Casino (1995)
  99. Kundun (1997)
  100. Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
  101. Gangs of New York (2002)
  102. The Aviator (2004)
  103. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
  104. The Departed (2006)

  105. 15. Howard Hawks

  106. To Have and Have Not (1944)
  107. The Big Sleep (1946)

  108. 16. Carl Theodore Dreyer

  109. 17. Sergei Eisenstein

  110. 18. F.W. Murnau

  111. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
  112. Nosferatu (1922)

  113. 19. Yasujiro Ozu

  114. 20. Robert Bresson

  115. 21. Andrei Tarkovsky

  116. 22. Fritz Lang

  117. 23. David Lean

  118. 24. Francois Truffaut

  119. 25. Kenji Mizoguchi

  120. 26. Buster Keaton

  121. 27. Michelangelo Antonioni

  122. 28. Steven Spielberg

  123. 29. Roberto Rossellini

  124. 30. D.W. Griffith

  125. 31. Luchino Visconti

  126. 32. Vittorio De Sica

  127. 33. Ernst Lubitsch

  128. 34. Max Ophuls

  129. 35. Woody Allen

  130. 36. Satyajit Ray

  131. 37. John Huston

  132. 38. Gene Kelly/ Stanley Donen

  133. 39. Robert Altman

  134. 40. Jean Vigo

  135. 41. Roman Polanski

  136. 42. Emeric Pressburger/ Michael Powell

  137. 43. Sergio Leone

  138. 44. Frank Capra

  139. 45. Alain Resnais

  140. 46. Michael Curtiz

  141. 47. Preston Sturges

  142. 48. Sam Peckinpah

  143. 49. Ridley Scott

  144. 50. Bernardo Bertolucci

  145. 51. Victor Fleming

  146. 52. John Cassavetes

  147. 53. Marcel Carne

  148. 54. David Lynch

  149. 55. Carol Reed

  150. 56. Werner Herzog

  151. 57. George Cukor

  152. 58. Erich Von Stroheim

  153. 59. Vincente Minnelli

  154. 60. Leo McCarey

  155. 61. Jacques Tati

  156. 62. Elia Kazan

  157. 63. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  158. 64. Josef Von Sternberg

  159. 65. Nicholas Ray

  160. 66. Douglas Sirk

  161. 67. Pier Paolo Pasolini

  162. 68. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  163. 69. Krszystof Kieslowski

  164. 70. Abbas Kiarostami

  165. 71. Terrence Malick

  166. 72. William Wyler

  167. 73. Ethan Coen / Joel Coen

  168. 74. Wong Kar-Wai

  169. 75. Chris Marker

  170. 76. Jacques Tourneur

  171. 77. Milos Forman

  172. 78. King Vidor

  173. 79. Quentin Tarantino

  174. 80. Wim Wenders

  175. 81. Eric Rohmer

  176. 82. Jacques Rivette

  177. 83. Clint Eastwood

  178. 84. David Cronenberg

  179. 85. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

  180. 86. Jean-Pierre Melville

  181. 87. Jean Cocteau

  182. 88. Nicolas Roeg

  183. 89. Michael Powell

  184. 90. James Cameron

  185. 91. George Lucas

  186. 92. Sidney Lumet

  187. 93. Brian De Palma

  188. 94. Jacques Demy

  189. 95. George A. Romero

  190. 96. Raoul Walsch

  191. 97. Otto Preminger

  192. 98. Gillo Pontecorvo

  193. 99. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

  194. 100. Rene Clair

  195. 101. Robert Flaherty

  196. 102. Abel Gance

  197. 103. Dziga Vertov

  198. 104. Andrzej Wajda

  199. 105. Chantal Akerman

  200. 106. James Whale

  201. 107. Samuel Fuller

  202. 108. Henri-Georges Clouzot

  203. 109. George Stevens

  204. 110. Arthur Penn

  205. 111. Theo Angelopoulos

  206. 112. Spike Lee

  207. 113. Peter Weir

  208. 114. Hal Ashby

  209. 115. William Friedkin

  210. 116. Alexander Mackendrick

  211. 117. Anthony Mann

  212. 118. Terry Gilliam

  213. 119. Stan Brakhage

  214. 120. Jane Campion

  215. 121. Ernest B. Schoedsack / Merian C. Cooper

  216. 122. Glauber Rocha

  217. 123. G.W. Pabst

  218. 124. Lars Von Trier

  219. 125. Robert Aldrich

  220. 126. Pedro Almodovar

  221. 127. Hayao Miyazaki

  222. 128. Jim Jarmusch

  223. 129. John Carpenter

  224. 130. Don Siegel

  225. 131. Tod Browning

  226. 132. John Boorman

  227. 133. Mikio Naruse

  228. 134. Victor Erice

  229. 135. Edward Yang

  230. 136. Michael Snow

  231. 137. Paul Thomas Anderson

  232. 138. Fred Zinnemann

  233. 139. Jean Eustache

  234. 140. Michael Cimino

  235. 141. Mike Nichols

  236. 142. Ken Loach

  237. 143. Oliver Stone

  238. 144. Mike Leigh

  239. 145. Zhang Yimou

  240. 146. Robert Wise

  241. 147. Blake Edwards

  242. 148. Nagisa Oshima

  243. 149. Ritwik Ghatak

  244. 150. Robert Wiene

  245. 151. Claude Lanzmann

  246. 152. Rob Reiner

  247. 153. Bob Fosse

  248. 154. Peter Bogdanovich

  249. 155. Michael Mann

  250. 156. Sam Wood

  251. 157. Tim Burton

  252. 158. Bela Tarr

  253. 159. Sydney Pollack

  254. 160. Louis Malle

  255. 161. Frank Borzage

  256. 162. Robert Zemeckis

  257. 163. Francesco Rosi

  258. 164. Leni Riefenstahl

  259. 165. Victor Sjostrom

  260. 166. David Hand

  261. 167. Ermanno Olmi

  262. 168. Georges Franju

  263. 169. Ben Sharpsteen

  264. 170. Andy Warhol

  265. 171. Robert Mulligan

  266. 172. Joseph Losey

  267. 173. John Schlesinger

  268. 174. Ousmane Sembene

  269. 175. John Woo

  270. 176. Manoel De Oliveira

  271. 177. Agnes Varda

  272. 178. Charles Burnett

  273. 179. Kenneth Anger

  274. 180. Luis Garcia Berlanga

  275. 181. Edgar G. Ulmer

  276. 182. Claude Chabrol

  277. 183. Peter Jackson

  278. 184. Rober Hamer

  279. 185. Emir Kusturica

  280. 186. Jacques Becker

  281. 187. George Roy Hill

  282. 188. Mel Brooks

  283. 189. Paul Verhoeven

  284. 190. Sergei Parajanov

  285. 191. Claire Denis

  286. 192. Tobe Hooper

  287. 193. Richard Linklater

  288. 194. Dario Argento

  289. 195. Alan J. Pakula

  290. 196. William A. Wellman

  291. 197. Shohei Imamura

  292. 198. Louis Feuillade

  293. 199. Humphrey Jennings

  294. 200. Cecil B. DeMille

Author Comments: 

Wow...I've only seen one Renoir and one Bergman film. I'm ashamed.