• Triumph of the Will (1934), Leni Riefenstahl
• Olympia (1938), Leni Riefenstahl
• ✔ Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), Dorothy Arzner
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren (and Alexander Hammid)
• ✔ The Bigamist (1953), Ida Lupino
• ✔ Animal Farm (1954), Joy Batchelor (and John Italas)
• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Agnes Varda
• The Cool World (1963), Shirley Clarke
• The House Is Black (1963), Forugh Farrokhzad
• Daisies (1966), Vera Chytilova
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), Agnes Varda (and Jacques Demy)
• ✔ Gimme Shelter (1970), Charlotte Zwerin (and Albert Maysles, David Maysles)
• ✔ Wanda (1971), Barbara Loden
• The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Elaine May
• ✔ Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Chantal Akerman
• India Song (1975), Marguerite Duras
• ✔ The Ascent (1976), Larisa Shepitko
• My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong
• Too Early, Too Late (1982), Daniele Huillet (and Jean-Marie Straub)
• ✔ Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Amy Heckerling
• ✔ A Question of Silence (1982), Marleen Gorris
• ✔ Vagabond (1985), Agnes Varda
• ✔ Children of a Lesser God (1986), Randa Haines
• ✔ Big (1988), Penny Marshall
• A Tale of the Wind (1988), Marceline Loridan-Ivens (and Joris Ivens)
• The Asthenic Syndrome (1989), Kira Muratova
• No Fear, No Die (1990), Claire Denis
• ✔ Europa Europa (1990), Agnieszka Holland
• ✔ Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991), Eleanor Coppola (and Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper)
• ✔ The Piano (1993), Jane Campion
• ✔ Clueless (1995), Amy Heckerling
• Beau Travail (1999), Claire Denis
• ✔ The Gleaners and I (2000), Agnes Varda
• City of God (2002), Katia Lund (and Fernando Meirelles)
• ✔ Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Valerie Faris (and Jonathan Dayton)
• ✔ The Hurt Locker (2008), Kathryn Bigelow
• ✔ Fish Tank (2009), Andrea Arnold

Have been removed:

• ✔ Strange Days (1995), Kathryn Bigelow
• ✔ The Captive (2000), Chantal Akerman
• Monsoon Wedding (2001), Mira Nair
• Fat Girl (2001), Catherine Breillat
• ✔ Lost in Translation (2003), Sofia Coppola
• An Education (2008), Lone Scherfig