—Wes Anderson

• the grand budapest hotel
• moonrise kingdom
• bottle rocket
• the darjeeling limited
• the life aquatic with steve zissou
• rushmore
• the royal tenenbaums
• isle of dogs
• fantastic mr. fox

—Tim Burton

• pee wee's big adventure
• beetlejuice
• batman / returns
• edward scissorhands
• the nightmare before christmas
• sleepy hollow
• big fish
• charlie and the chocolate factory
• corpse bride
• sweeney todd
• alice in wonderland
• dark shadows
• big eyes
• miss peregrine's home for peculiar children
• dumbo

—Quentin Tarantino

• kill bill vol. 1 & 2
• django unchained
• the hateful eight
• death proof
• reservoir dogs
• pulp fiction
• inglorious basterds
• once upon a time in hollywood

—Guillermo Del Toro

• pan's labyrinth
• scary stories to tell in the dark
• the shape of water
• hellboy
• pacific rim
• crimson peak
• cronos
• the devil's backbone
• mimic
• don't be afraid of the dark
• the orphanage
• the book of life
• rise of the guardians

—Ingmar Bergman

• smiles of a summer night
• fanny and alexander
• wild strawberries
• cries and whispers
• persona
• the seventh seal
• hour of the wolf
• through a glass darkly, winter light, the silence
• autumn sonata

—Christopher Nolan

• following
• memento
• insomnia
• the prestige
• the dark knight trilogy
• inception
• interstellar
• dunkirk

—Stanley Kubrick

• the shining
• a clockwork orange
• 2001: a space odyssey
• eyes wide shut
• lolita
• dr. strangelove