- Welles
- Lang
- Kazan
- Hitchcock
- Bergman
- Altman
- Chaplin
- Bunuel
- Kurosawa
- Polanski
- Stroheim
- Sternberg
- Sjostrom
- Wilder
- Angheolopoulos
- Huston
- Kubrick
- Ford
- Marx
- Coppola
- Fellini
- Scorsese
- Eisenstein
- Edwards
- Capra
- Antonioni
- Hawks
- Aldritch
- Lynch
- Griffith
- Renoir
- De Sica
- Kusturica
- Peckinpah
- Siegel
- Truffaut
- Von Trier
- Tarkovskij
- Wenders
- Dovzenko
- Spielberg
- De Oliveira
- Kiarostami
- Lucas
- Lubitsch
- Murnau
- Boorman
- Bertolucci
- Dreyer
- Greenaway
- Mizoguchi
- Almodovar
- Allen
- Leone
- Keaton
- Kieslowski
- Clair
- Tarantino
- Resnais
- Ray
- Olmi
- Kitano
- Chabrol
- Mikhalkov
- Curtiz
- Herzog
- DePalma
- Kaurismaki
- Svankmajer
- Scott
- Sturges
- Ozu
- Pudovkin
- Powell
- Rossellini
- Leigh
- Bresson
- Coen
- Fassbinder
- Monicelli
- Rohmer
- Imamura
- Visconti
- Cukor
- Ruiz
- Weir
- Wyler
- Jancso
- Minnelli
- Sayles
- Soderberg
- Borzage
- Quine
- Godard
- Lewis
- Forman
- Egoyan
- Watkins
- Loach
- Litvak
- Russell
- Preminger
- Penn
- Roeg
- Hathaway
- Cassavetes
- Gilliam
- Malle
- Van Sant
- Vidor
- Vigo
- Parker
- Ferrara
- Wong
- Yimou
- Leconte
- Denis
- Techine
- Assayas
- Akerman
- Holland
- Szabo
- Chahine
- Guney
- Kaige
- Campion
- Figgis
- Skolimowsky
- Wajda
- Ripstein
- Tsukamoto
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Chronologically
(and one of their masterpieces)
- Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- Sjostrom: Phantom Chariot (1920)
- Stroheim: Greed (1924)
- Ejzenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Lang: Metropolis (1926)
- Keaton: The General (1927)
- Murnau: Sunrise(1927)
- Vidor: The Crowd (1928)
- Dovzhenko: Zvenigora (1928)
- Sternberg: Das Blaue Engel (1930)
- Milestone: Front Page (1931)
- Marx: Duck Soup (1933)
- Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)
- Renoir: La Grande Illusion (1937)
- Hawks: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Capra: John Doe (1941)
- Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
- Curtiz: Casablanca (1942)
- Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- Kurosawa: Rashomon (1950)
- Wilder: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Huston: The African Queen (1951)
- DeSica: Miracle in Milan (1951)
- Ozu: Tokyo Monogatari (1953)
- Mizoguchi: Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
- Kazan: On The Waterfront (1954)
- Bergman: Seventh Seal (1956)
- Siegel: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Hitchcock: North By Northwest/ Intrigo Internazionale (1959)
- Godard: Breathless (1959)
- Truffaut: The 400 Blows(1959)
- Fellini: La Dolce Vita (1960)
- Powell: Peeping Tom (1960)
- Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- Edwards: The Great Race (1965)
- Aldrich: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1965)
- Antonioni: Blow-Up (1966)
- Bunuel: Belle de Jour (1967)
- Polansky: Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Leone: Once Upon a Time in The West (1968)
- Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Boorman: Zardoz (1973)
- Scorsese: Mean Streets (1973)
- Coppola: The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Altman: Nashville (1975)
- Anghelopulos: Traveling Players (1975)
- Bertolucci: 1900 (1976)
- Lucas: Star Wars (1977)
- Malick: Days of Heaven (1978)
- Cimino: The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Olmi: L'Albero degli Zoccoli (1978)
- Allen: Manhattan (1979)
- Tarkovskij: Stalker (1979)
- DePalma: Dressed to Kill (1980)
- Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Szabo: Mephisto (1981)
- Miller: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Greenaway: The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
- Scott: Blade Runner (1982)
- Gilliam: Brazil (1985)
- Wenders: Wings of Desire (1988)
- Kitano: Sonatine (1993)
- Tarantino: Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Egoyan: Exotica (1994)
- Figgis: Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- Jeunet: City of Lost Children (1995)
- Sayles: Lone Star (1995)
- Von Trier: The Kingdom (1995)
- Jarmusch: Dead Man (1995)
- Kusturica: Underground (1995)
- Lynch: Lost Highway (1997)
- Woo: Face/Off (1998)
- Smith: Dogma (1999)
- Majidi: Color Of Paradise (2000)
- Nolan: Memento (2001)
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