for the first time, from most recent to oldest:

• the graduate - mike nicols
• black swan - darren aronofsky
• go - doug liman
• the red shoes - michael powell & emeric pressburger
• the fifth element - luc besson
• un chien andalou - luis buñuel
• akira kurosawa's dreams - akira kurosawa
• winter light - ingmar bergman
• ikiru - akira kurosawa
• viridiania - luis buñuel
• wild at heart - david lynch
• coraline - henry selick
• burn after reading - ethan & joel coen
• brazil - terry gilliam
• night of the living dead - george romero
• (500) days of summer - marc webb
• the lovely bones - peter jackson
• lilith - robert rossen
• lying - m. blash
• elevator to the gallows - louis malle
• videodrome - david cronenberg
• amélie - jean-pierre jeunet
• el topo - alejandro jodorowsky
• gilda - charles vidor
• city of god - fernando meirelles
• the imaginarium of doctor parnassus - terry gilliam
• la vie en rose - olivier dahan
• three colours: red - krszystof kieslowski
• scenes from a marriage - ingmar bergman
• week-end - jean-luc godard
• the passion of joan of arc - carl dreyer
• the mirror - andrei tarkovsky
• three colours: white - krszystof kieslowski
• the virgin spring - ingmar bergman
• cries and whispers - ingmar bergman
• twin peaks: fire walk with me - david lynch
• who's afraid of virginia woolf? - mike nichols
• three colours: blue - krszystof kieslowski
• last house on the left - wes craven
• une femme est une femme - jean-luc godard
• knife in the water - roman polanski
• moon - duncan jones
• psycho - alfred hitchcock
• barton fink - joel coen
• where the wild things are - spike jonze
• the birds - alfred hitchcock
• pierrot le fou - jean-luc godard
• persona - ingmar bergman
• masculin, féminin - jean-luc godard
• the man who wasn't there - joel coen
• synecdoche, new york - charlie kaufman
• 3 women - robert altman
• les diaboliques - henri-georges clouzot
• rashomon - akira kurosawa
• closer - mike nichols
• paths of glory - stanley kubrick
• a serious man - joel & ethan coen
• the rules of the game - jean renoir
• contempt - jean-luc godard
• the straight story - david lynch
• l'argent - robert bresson
• lolita - stanley kubrick
• the seventh seal - ingmar bergman
• dodes'ka-den - akira kurosawa
• the box - richard kelly
• battleship potemkin - sergei eisenstein
• short cuts - robert altman
• lost highway - david lynch
• walkabout - nicolas roeg
• v for vendetta - james mcteigue
• dancer in the dark - lars von trier
• choke - clark gregg
• la dolce vita - federico fellini
• tropic thunder - ben stiller
• barry lyndon - stanley kubrick
• sunset boulevard - billy wilder
• the 400 blows - françois truffaut
• sedmikrásky - věra chytilová
• 2001: a space odyssey - stanley kubrick
• a woman under the influence - john cassavetes
• casablanca - michael curtiz
• m - fritz lang
• marmaduke - tom dey
• repulsion - roman polanski
• cloudy with a chance of meatballs - phil lord
• rear window - alfred hitchcock
• jules et jim - françois truffaut
• chinatown - roman polanski
• breakfast at tiffany's - blake edwards
• waking life - richard linklater
• last house on the left - dennis illadis
• freaks - tod browning
• my own private idaho - gus van sant
• dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb - stanley kubrick
• ghost world - terry zwigoff
• blue velvet - david lynch
• grey gardens - albert and david maysles
• the diving bell and the butterfly - julian schnabel
• mulholland drive - david lynch
• persepolis - marjane satrapi and vincent paronnaud
• notorious - george tillman, jr.
• suspiria - dario argento
• the dead poets society - peter weir
• citizen kane - orson welles
• a streetcar named desire - elia kazan
• the last laugh - f.w. murnau
• gia - michael cristofer
• the fountain - darren aronofsky
• the magnificent ambersons - orson welles
• the conversation - francis ford coppola
• eraserhead - david lynch
• breathless - jean-luc godard
• the maltese falcon - john huston
• do the right thing - spike lee
• pi - darren aronofsky
• touch of evil - orson welles
• the crazies - breck eisner
• towelhead - alan ball
• wolfman - joe johnston
• fargo - joel & ethan coen
• vertigo - alfred hitchcock
• slumdog millionaire - danny boyle
• the cabinet of dr. caligari - robert wiene
• night of the hunter - charles laughton
• stagecoach - john ford