Alfred Hitchcock

• Destiny (1921)
• 8½ (1963)
• Blow-Up (1966)

Andrei Tarkovsky

• Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
• Mouchette (1967)
• Winter Light (1963)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Persona (1966)
• Nazarin (1959)
• City Lights (1931)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Béla Tarr

• Alexander Nevsky (1938)
• Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• Frenzy (1972)
• M (1931)
• Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• The Round-Up (1966)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Billy Wlder

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Conformist
• Diabolique
• La Dolce Vita
• 42nd Street
• Grand Illusion
• Seduced and Abandoned
• The Shop Around the Corner

Carl Theodor Dreyer

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
• Port of Shadows (1938)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Henry V (1944)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• Rome, Open City (1945)

Carol Reed

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• The Baker's Wife (1938)
• Carnival in Flanders (1935)
• City Lights (1931)
• Children of Paradise (1945)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• La Ronde (1950)
• Variety (aka Jealousy) (1925)

Coen Brothers

• Brother's Keeper (1992)
• Il Bidone (1955)
• Salesman (1968)
• The Bad News Bears (1976)
• The Fortune (1975)
• High and Low (1963)
• Dames (1934)
• Separate Tables (1958)
• Where Eagles Dare (1968)

+ western

• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• Greaser's Palace (1972)
• Doc (1971)
• The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

David Lynch

• Sunset Boulevard
• It's a Gift
• 8½
• Hulot's Holiday
• Rear Window
• Lolita

Eliza Kazan

• Battleship Potemkin
• Frontier
• The Gold Rush
• Flesh and the Devil
• Rome, Open City
• Bicycle Thieves
• Shoulder Arms
• Target for Tonight
• The Baker's Wife
• Marius
• Fanny
• César

Federico Fellini

• Maciste in Hell
• City Lights
• The Devil's Brother
• Frankenstein
• Stagecoach
• Paisan
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
• Intervista

Francis Ford Coppola

• Ashes and Diamonds
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Vitelloni
• The Bad Sleep Well
• Yojimbo
• Singin' in the Rain
• The King of Comedy
• Raging Bull
• The Apartment
• Sunrise

Jacques Rivette

• The Life of Oharu (1952)
• Germany Year Zero (1948)
• True Heart Susie (1919)
• Sunrise (1927)
• The River (1951)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 (1944)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (1958)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• Day of Wrath (1943)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Mr. Arkadin (1955)

John Carpenter

• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Blow-Up (1966)

John Ford

• The Alamo (1960)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Going My Way (1944)
• The High and the Mighty (1954)
• The Honor System (1917)
• Lady for a Day (1933)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• The Song of Bernadette (1943)
• Tol'able David (1921)
• 3 Godfathers (1948)

John Huston

• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Breaker Morant (1980)
• Gallipoli (1981)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Hiroshima, My Love (1959)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Wages of Fear (1953)

King Vidor

• Intolerance (1916)
• Sunrise (1927)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• City Lights (1931)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Krzysztof Kieslowski

• La Strada (1954)
• Kes (1969)
• A Man Escaped (1956)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Kid (1921)
• Ivan's Childhood (1962)
• The Musicians (1960)
• Barnvagnen (1963)
• Intimate Lighting (1965)

Luchino Visconti

• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Greed (1924)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Que Viva Mexico (1979)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Tabu (1931)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Children of Paradise (1945)

Luis Buñuel

• Underworld
• The Gold Rush
• The Bicycle Thief
• Battleship Potemkin
• Portait of Jennie
• Cavalcade
• White Shadows in the South Seas
• Dead of Night
• L'Age d'Or
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Milos Forman

• Amarcord (1973)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• City Lights (1931)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Children of Paradise (1945)
• Giant (1956)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Miracle in Milan (1951)
• Raging Bull (1980)

Pedro Almodóvar

• Journey to Italy (1954)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• Opening Night (1977)
• The Apartment (1960)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• El (1953)
• The Rules of the Game (1939)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• All About Eve (1950)
• Midnight (1939)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• Senso (1954)

Orson Welles

• City Lights (1931)
• Greed (1924)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• Shoeshine (1946)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Baker's Wife (1938)
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• Ninotchka (1939)

Sidney Lumet

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Fanny and Alexander
• The Godfather
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Intolerance
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Ran
• Fellini's Roma
• Singin' in the Rain
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

Sydney Pollock

• Casablanca (Curtiz)
• Citizen Kane (Welles)
• The Conformist (Bertolucci)
• The Godfather Part II (Coppola)
• La Grande Illusion (Renoir)
• The Leopard (Visconti)
• Once upon a Time in America (Leone)
• Raging Bull (Scorsese)
• The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
• Sunset Blvd. (Wilder)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• The Damned (1969)
• The Naked and the Dead (1958)
• Lola Montès (1955)
• Flamingo Road (1949)
• Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• Dishonored (1931)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• The Red Snowball Tree (1974)

Richard Linklater

• Some Came Running
• Au Hasard Balthazar
• Barry Lyndon
• In a Year With 13 Moons
• The Crowd
• They Were Expendable
• Bigger Than Life
• New York, New York
• O Lucky Man
• El

Robert Bresson

• The Gold Rush (1925)
• City Lights (1931)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• Man of Aran (1934)
• Louisiana Story (1948)

Roman Polanski

• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Hamlet (1948)
• 8½ (1963)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Circus (1928)

Samuel Fuller

• The Informer (1935)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Pierrot le Fou (1965)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Brief Encounter (1945)

Stanley Kubrick

• Eraserhead
• Citizen Kane
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• The Godfather
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Dog Day Afternoon
• City Lights
• La Notte
• Roxie Hart
• Hell's Angels
• An American Werewolf in London
• Metropolis
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
• Abigail's Party
• Roger & Me
• White Men Can't Jump
• Modern Romance
• The Jerk

Vittorio de Sica

• Man of Aran (1934)
• The Kid (1921)
• La Chienne (1931)
• Le Million (1931)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• Comradeship (1931)
• Storm Over Asia (1928)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Hallelujah (1929)
• Carnival in Flanders (1935)

Werner Herzog

• Freaks (1932)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Nosferatu (1922)

Wes Anderson

• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932) (1932)
• Toni (1935)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

+ criterion

• The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
• Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
• The Flesh Is Hot (Pigs and Battleships) (1961)
• The Insect Woman (1963)
• Intentions of Murder (1964)
• The Rise of Louis XIV (1966)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
• Classe Tous Risques (1960)
• Naked Childhood (1968)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• The Exterminating Angel (1962)