Greatest film-makers of all times

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(Note: created in the 1980s, superficially updated in the 1990s and never truly updated in the 2000s)
  1. Welles
  2. Lang
  3. Hitchcock
  4. Bergman
  5. Chaplin
  6. Bunuel
  7. Kurosawa
  8. Polanski
  9. Wilder
  10. Angelopoulos
  11. Fellini
  12. Kubrick
  13. Kazan
  14. Altman
  15. Kusturica
  16. Tarkovskij
  17. Von Trier
  18. Antonioni
  19. Tarr
  20. Stroheim
  21. Hawks
  22. Sternberg
  23. Peckinpah
  24. Sjostrom
  25. Huston
  26. Ford
  27. Marx
  28. Coppola
  29. Scorsese
  30. Eisenstein
  31. Edwards
  32. Capra
  33. Kieslowski
  34. Aldrich
  35. Lynch
  36. Griffith
  37. Greenaway
  38. Siegel
  39. Truffaut
  40. Wenders
  41. De Oliveira
  42. Dovzenko
  43. Spielberg
  44. Kiarostami
  45. Lucas
  46. Lubitsch
  47. Leone
  48. Murnau
  49. Renoir
  50. Boorman
  51. Bertolucci
  52. Dreyer
  53. Mizoguchi
  54. Almodovar
  55. De Sica
  56. Allen
  57. Keaton
  58. Clair
  59. Tarantino
  60. Resnais
  61. Ray
  62. Olmi
  63. Kitano
  64. Chabrol
  65. Mikhalkov
  66. Curtiz
  67. Herzog
  68. DePalma
  69. Kaurismaki
  70. Svankmajer
  71. Scott
  72. Sturges
  73. Ozu
  74. Pudovkin
  75. Powell
  76. Rossellini
  77. Leigh
  78. Bresson
  79. Coen
  80. Fassbinder
  81. Monicelli
  82. Rohmer
  83. Imamura
  84. Visconti
  85. Cukor
  86. Ruiz
  87. Weir
  88. Wyler
  89. Jancso
  90. Minnelli
  91. Sayles
  92. Soderberg
  93. Borzage
  94. Quine
  95. Godard
  96. Lewis
  97. Forman
  98. Egoyan
  99. Watkins
  100. Loach
  101. Litvak
  102. Russell
  103. Preminger
  104. Penn
  105. Roeg
  106. Hathaway
  107. Cassavetes
  108. Gilliam
  109. Malle
  110. Van Sant
  111. Vidor
  112. Vigo
  113. Parker
  114. Ferrara
  115. Wong
  116. Yimou
  117. Leconte
  118. Denis
  119. Techine
  120. Assayas
  121. Akerman
  122. Holland
  123. Szabo
  124. Chahine
  125. Guney
  126. Kaige
  127. Campion
  128. Figgis
  129. Skolimowsky
  130. Wajda
  131. Ripstein
  132. Tsukamoto
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)
  • Polanski: 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)
  • Angelopoulos: Travelling 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)
  • Tarr: Werckmeister Harmoniak/ Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
  • Nolan: Memento (2001)