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The Most Oscar-Worthy Directors Of All Time
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There are many great movie directors in film history. But, only the best directors deserve to win that little golden Academy Awards statue. From classic movie directors to the best filmmakers working in Hollywood right now, these are the most Oscar-worthy directors of all time, ranked by the wisdom of the crowd. Whether they've actually won an Academy Award, or you just think they deserve a place in the Oscar race, rank your favorite directors here. You may not be a member of the Academy, but you still get a vote on this list.
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1928The Shining, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Day of the Fight, The Killing, Lolita, Killer's Kiss, One-Eyed Jacks, Fear and Desire, The Seafarers, Flying Padre MoreUnited States of AmericaMost Passionate - 2
1942The Color of Money, Bringing Out the Dead, The King of Comedy, The Departed, The Aviator, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Last Waltz, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, Cape Fear, Italianamerican, After Hours, Street Scenes, Kundun, Shine a Light, Goodfellas, A Letter to Elia, The Key to Reserva, Hugo, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, New York Stories, The Age of Innocence, Who's That Knocking at My Door, The Last Temptation of Christ, Public Speaking, Casino, My Voyage to Italy, New York, New York, Boxcar Bertha, Bad, Untitled The Departed 2 Sequel, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, No Direction Home, Silence, It's Not Just You, Murray!, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, The Big Shave, Sinatra , Made in Milan, Made in Milan, Back Home Years Ago: The Real Casino MoreUnited States of AmericaMost Listed - 3
1899Topaz, Sabotage, Notorious, Lifeboat, The Paradine Case, The Birds, Juno and the Paycock, North by Northwest, Saboteur, The Trouble with Harry, The Farmer's Wife, Psycho, Family Plot, Waltzes from Vienna, Number Seventeen, Rich and Strange, Juno and the Paycock, Easy Virtue, Aventure Malgache, Jamaica Inn, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Marnie, Frenzy, Suspicion, Dial M for Murder, Shadow of a Doubt, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Stage Fright, Rebecca, Spellbound, The Lady Vanishes, I Confess, Rear Window, The 39 Steps, Elstree Calling, Blackmail, Bon Voyage, Vertigo, Torn Curtain, Young and Innocent, The Mountain Eagle, The Pleasure Garden, Always Tell Your Wife, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Ring, Murder!, Under Capricorn, Secret Agent, Alfred Hitchcock: More Than Just a Profile, Number 13, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, To Catch a Thief, The Skin Game, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, Foreign Correspondent, Woman to Woman, The Manxman, Downhill, The White Shadow, Champagne, Mary, Vertigo, North by North-West, An Elastic Affair, Vertigo MoreUnited States of America, England - 4
1910Red Beard, Dreams, Sanshiro Sugata, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Ran, Yojimbo, Ikiru, The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail, The Bad Sleep Well, Kagemusha, The Lower Depths, The Most Beautiful, Drunken Angel, No Regrets for Our Youth, Sanjuro, I Live in Fear, Rhapsody in August, Stray Dog, Dodesukaden, Rashomon, The Quiet Duel, High and Low, Scandal, One Wonderful Sunday, Madadayo, Seven Samurai, Hakuchi, Those Who Make Tomorrow, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, Dersu Uzala, Gendai no Noh MoreJapan - 5
1939The Rainmaker, Rumble Fish, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, Apocalypse Now Redux, The Godfather, Finian's Rainbow, Captain EO, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Tetro, The Godfather Saga, The Conversation, You're a Big Boy Now, Youth Without Youth, Peggy Sue Got Married, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders, The Godfather Part II, New York Stories, The Godfather Part III, The Cotton Club, Godfather Trilogy, The Terror, Supernova, Dementia 13, One from the Heart, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Gardens of Stone, Jack, The Rain People, The Bellboy and the Playgirls, Tonight for Sure, Battle Beyond the Sun, Twixt MoreUnited States of America - 6
1954The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Paris, je t'aime, Intolerable Cruelty, To Each His Own Cinema, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Ladykillers, Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar, The Big Lebowski, Suburbicon MoreUnited States of America - 7 1946Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Hook, 1941, Amistad, Catch Me If You Can, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jurassic Park, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Saving Private Ryan, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, Jurassic Park, The Attack of the Mummies, Amazing Stories, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Color Purple, Munich, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, Amblin, War Horse, Savage, The Terminal, Empire of the Sun, Empire of the Sun, Always, Duel, Lincoln, Robopocalypse, Firelight, Interstellar, Lincoln, Something Evil, Amazing Stories: Book One, Slipstream MoreUnited States of America
- 8 1906The Spirit of St. Louis, Sunset Boulevard, One, Two, Three, The Fortune Cookie, Ace in the Hole, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Kiss Me, Stupid, The Major and the Minor, Fedora, Love in the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution, The Front Page, Some Like It Hot, Irma la Douce, The Emperor Waltz, Five Graves to Cairo, Double Indemnity, The Seven Year Itch, Stalag 17, Billy Wilder filmography, Mauvaise Graine, Buddy Buddy, The Apartment, Avanti!, Sabrina, The Lost Weekend, A Foreign Affair, Death Mills MoreUnited States of America, AustriaControversial
- 9 1970Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Following, The Prestige, Insomnia, Memento, The Dark Knight Rises, Doodlebug, The Dark Knight: Bonus Material MoreUnited States of America, England
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1957The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Paris, je t'aime, Intolerable Cruelty, To Each His Own Cinema, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, Blood Simple, The Ladykillers, Miller's Crossing, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Hail Caesar, The Big Lebowski MoreUnited States of America - 11 1890Moonfleet, Metropolis, The Spiders, The Return of Frank James, Spies, American Guerrilla in the Philippines, Hangmen Also Die, The Blue Gardenia, Human Desire, The Woman in the Window, While the City Sleeps, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, You and Me, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Moontide, You Only Live Once, Kämpfende Herzen, M, Man Hunt, Woman in the Moon, Master of Love, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Liliom, Clash by Night, Der müde Tod, Western Union, The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship, In Night and Ice, Scarlet Street, Secret Beyond the Door..., House by the River, Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Cloak and Dagger, Ministry of Fear, Fury, The Indian Tomb, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Harakiri, The Big Heat, Rancho Notorious, Das wandernde Bild, Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis, Halbblut MoreUnited States of America, Germany, Austria
- 12 1915Filming Othello, Citizen Kane, The Fountain of Youth, Macbeth, Othello, The Stranger, The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles' Magic Show, Around The World With Orson Welles, Mr. Arkadin, It's All True, The Immortal Story, The Merchant of Venice, Don Quixote, The Trial, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, The Orson Welles Batman Hoax, Chimes at Midnight, The Hearts of Age, Mr. Arkadin: The Comprehensive Version, Portrait of Gina, The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles' Sketch Book, The Lady in the Ice, Horse Eats Hat, Filming The Trial, One Man Band, Too Much Johnson, Moby Dick Rehearsed, Moby Dick, The Southern Star, Mr. Arkadin: The Corinth Version, Vienna, The Orson Welles Show, The Dreamers, In the Land of Don Quixote, The Deep, The Miracle of St. Anne MoreUnited States of America
- 13 1929For a Few Dollars More, Il Colosso di Rodi, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Last Days of Pompeii, A Fistful of Dynamite, A Fistful of Dollars, Once Upon a Time in the West, My Name Is Nobody, Once Upon a Time in America, A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe, Dollars Trilogy MoreItaly
- 14 1935Alice, Hollywood Ending, Anything Else, Sleeper, Hannah and Her Sisters, Husbands and Wives, Bullets Over Broadway, Shadows and Fog, Whatever Works, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mighty Aphrodite, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), Scoop, Everyone Says I Love You, Match Point, Radio Days, September, Don't Drink the Water, Another Woman, Sweet and Lowdown, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Cassandra's Dream, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Zelig, Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Take the Money and Run, Manhattan, Melinda and Melinda, New York Stories, Love and Death, Small Time Crooks, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Celebrity, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie Hall, Bananas, Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story, Interiors, Stardust Memories, Deconstructing Harry, Bop DeCameron, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Broadway Danny Rose MoreUnited States of America
- 15 1963Sin City, Grindhouse, Death Proof, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 3, Kill Bill Volume 1, Four Rooms, Inglourious Basterds, My Best Friend's Birthday, Pulp Fiction, The Vega Brothers, Kill Bill Volume 2, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Django Unchained, pokpok MoreUnited States of America, United States
- 16 1894Donovan's Reef, Cheyenne Autumn, Fort Apache, Rio Grande, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Long Voyage Home, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, They Were Expendable, Four Sons, The Last Hurrah, The Fugitive, The Battle of Midway, The Informer, Men Without Women, Wagon Master, The Wallop, The Iron Horse, The Lost Patrol, Seas Beneath, Riley the Cop, The Blue Eagle, 3 Bad Men, The Shamrock Handicap, The Sun Shines Bright, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, Arrowsmith, Flesh, North of Hudson Bay, How the West Was Won, Wee Willie Winkie, The Wings of Eagles, My Darling Clementine, Gideon's Day, The Hurricane, Two Rode Together, What Price Glory, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Horse Soldiers, The Soul Herder, The Secret Man, Ace of the Saddle, The Freeze-Out, The Last Outlaw, The Prince of Avenue A, Silver Wings, Hearts of Oak, Upstream, Airmail, Pilgrimage, The World Moves On, Judge Priest, Young Cassidy, Four Men and a Prayer, The Long Gray Line, Young Mr. Lincoln, Mary of Scotland, Pinky, 7 Women, The Adventures of Marco Polo, The Phantom Riders, Wild Women, Three Mounted Men, Bare Fists, Desperate Trails, The Girl in Number 29, Bucking Broadway, The Rising of the Moon, Mister Roberts, The Big Punch, The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, Lightnin', Napoleon's Barber, Doctor Bull, Roped, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Gun Law, The Village Blacksmith, The Grapes of Wrath, Korean War in Color, How the West Was Won: Special Edition: Bonus Material, Hangman's House, Salute, Women in Defense, A Fight for Love, Rustlers, The Gun Packer, Action, The Plough and the Stars, The Fighting Brothers, Kentucky Pride, Sergeant Rutledge, Mother Machree, Air Mail, The Whole Town's Talking, The Searchers, Born Reckless, Straight Shooting, The Prisoner of Shark Island, Just Pals, Little Miss Smiles, Mogambo, The Black Watch, Tobacco Road, A Gun Fightin' Gentleman, The Craving, Steamboat Round the Bend, Marked Men, Three Godfathers, How Green Was My Valley, Pearl Harbor: Dawn of Death, Up the River, Riders of Vengeance, The Trail of Hate, The Brat, The Fighting Heart, Strong Boy, Thank You, Tornado, Submarine Patrol, Cheyenne's Pal, Sex Hygiene, When Willie Comes Marching Home, Hitchin' Posts, Hoodman Blind, Cameo Kirby, Jackie, Thieves' Gold, Rider of the Law, Torpedo Squadron, Flashing Spikes, Rookie of the Year, The Scrapper, Sure Fire, The Fighting Gringo, December 7th, By Indian Post, A Woman's Fool, The Colors of War: Pacific, A Marked Man, Three Jumps Ahead, Hell Bent, The Scarlet Drop MoreUnited States of America
- 17 1895Battling Butler, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr., The Rough House, The Blacksmith, The Frozen North, Mixed Magic, The Haunted House, Allez Oop, Hollywood Handicap , The Playhouse, The Navigator, Grand Slam Opera, Seven Chances, Sherlock, Jr., Love Nest on Wheels, In the Good Old Summertime, Cops, The Love Nest, College, Neighbors, Daydreams, One Run Elmer, Blue Blazes, Three Ages, The Cameraman, My Wife's Relations, The Scarecrow, Hard Luck, Go West, Tars and Stripes, Our Hospitality, Convict 13, The Paleface, The Electric House, The Goat, One Week, Spite Marriage, The High Sign, The Boat, The Balloonatic, The Gold Ghost, Easy to Wed MoreUnited States of America
- 18 1889The Bank, A Jitney Elopement, His New Job, His Prehistoric Past, The Face on the Bar Room Floor, Triple Trouble, Dough and Dynamite, Twenty Minutes of Love, The Floorwalker, A Dog's Life, Sunnyside, The Idle Class, Work, Easy Street, A Night Out, Recreation, City Lights, The Great Dictator, One A.M., The Champion, A Woman of Paris, Mabel's Married Life, Gentlemen of Nerve, His Musical Career, His Regeneration, A Woman, The Masquerader, A Countess from Hong Kong, Pay Day, A King in New York, A Night in the Show, The Tramp, Monsieur Verdoux, The Adventurer, The Fireman, The Cure, His New Profession, Shoulder Arms, Modern Times, The Pawnshop, Caught in the Rain, Limelight, Behind the Screen, The Pilgrim, By the Sea, In the Park, The Circus, The Gold Rush, Those Love Pangs, Getting Acquainted, Police!, Burlesque on Carmen, The Vagabond, The Immigrant, A Day's Pleasure, The Professor, The Kid, A Busy Day, The Property Man, His Trysting Place, Laughing Gas, Her Friend the Bandit, The New Janitor, The Rink, The Count, Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work, The Freak, Chaplin: The Collection: Vol. 3, The Rounders, Shanghaied, The Bond, The Chaplin Revue MoreUnited Kingdom, England
- 19 1943M. Butterfly, London Fields, Shivers, A History of Violence, To Each His Own Cinema, Camera, Naked Lunch, Crash, Scanners, Videodrome, Spider, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, The Brood, Maps to the Stars, Cosmopolis, EXistenZ, Fast Company, A Dangerous Method, Eastern Promises, The Fly, Stereo, Transfer, The Bridge Short Film & Video Collection, Rabid, Crimes of the Future, From the Drain, At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World MoreCanada
- 20 1937Thelma & Louise, Blade Runner, G.I. Jane, Black Rain, Body of Lies, Robin Hood, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, Prometheus, Gladiator, A Good Year, Boy and Bicycle, American Gangster, Legend, Alien, 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Matchstick Men, The Duellists, White Squall, All the Invisible Children, Blade Runner: Theatrical and Director's Cut, Alien Quadrilogy, Someone to Watch Over Me, 1984 MoreEngland
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- 21 1963The Limey, Ocean's Eleven, Haywire, Ocean's Twelve, Out of Sight, Contagion, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Traffic, Life Interrupted, 9012Live, The Girlfriend Experience, The Argentine, The Informant!, Erin Brockovich, Solaris, The Underneath, The Good German, Che: Part Two, sex, lies and videotape, Schizopolis, King of the Hill, Cleo, Kafka, Ocean's Thirteen, Full Frontal, And Everything Is Going Fine, Bubble, Liberace, Eros, Gray's Anatomy, Greatest Video Hits, Magic Mike, Magic Mike, Wholphin: Issue 2, The Last Time I Saw Michael Gregg MoreUnited States of America
- 22 1932Stolen Kisses, Tirez sur le pianiste, Two English Girls, La Mariée était en noir, The Man Who Loved Women, Love at Twenty, The Last Metro, Confidentially Yours, Day for Night, La Peau douce, Mississippi Mermaid, La Femme d'à côté, Love on the Run, Bed & Board, The Wild Child, Fahrenheit 451, L'Homme qui aimait les femmes, Une belle fille comme moi, Les mistons, The Story of Adele H., The 400 Blows, Les Salades de L'amour, Jules and Jim, Antoine and Colette, Small Change, Une histoire d'eau, The Green Room, Une Visite, Fahrenheit 451 MoreFrance
- 23 1962Seven, Alien³, Panic Room, Zodiac, Fight Club, The Game, The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Torso, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, Alien Quadrilogy, Benjamin Button, The Beat of the Live Drum, Cleopatra MoreUnited States of America
- 24 1933Frantic, Macbeth, Bitter Moon, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac, Chinatown, Knife in the Water, Les plus belles escroqueries du monde, Oliver Twist, Tess, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Ninth Gate, The Pianist, The Tenant, What?, Pirates, Rosemary's Baby, Mammals, A Murderer, Break Up the Dance, Teeth Smile, When Angels Fall, The Fat and the Lean, The Lamp, The Ghost Writer, To Each His Own Cinema, Two Men and a Wardrobe, Death and the Maiden, Knife in the Water: Bonus Material, Carnage, Afternoon of a Champion MoreFrance, Poland
- 25 1920Amarcord, City of Women, L'Amore in Città, Intervista, Satyricon, La voce della luna, La Strada, I Clowns, Fellini: A Director's Notebook, Il bidone, And the Ship Sails on, 8½, Ginger and Fred, The White Sheik, La Dolce Vita, Le Notti di Cabiria, Variety Lights, I Vitelloni, Roma, Prova d'orchestra, Fellini's Casanova, Juliet of the Spirits, Spirits of the Dead, Boccaccio '70, 8 1/2 MoreItaly
- 26 1898The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, The Great Moment, The French, They Are a Funny Race, The Palm Beach Story, Vendetta, The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Great McGinty, Hail the Conquering Hero, Sullivan's Travels, Unfaithfully Yours, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, Christmas in July MoreUnited States of America
- 27 195628 Days Later, Sunshine, The Beach, Millions, Alien Love Triangle, Slumdog Millionaire, Shallow Grave, A Life Less Ordinary, 127 Hours, Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise, Trainspotting, Strumpet, Trance MoreEngland
- 28 1949All About My Mother, Broken Embraces, Tacones lejanos, Bad Education, Talk to Her, Kika, Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver, Live Flesh, Law of Desire, Dark Habits, The Skin I Live In, The Flower of My Secret, Matador, Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Laberinto de pasiones, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, The Cannibalistic Councillor MoreSpain
- 29 1894On purge bébé, La Chienne, Partie de campagne, Picnic on the Grass, The Woman on the Beach, Charleston Parade, Life Belongs to Us, Elena and Her Men, Toni, French Cancan, This Land Is Mine, The Doctor's Horrible Experiment, Grand Illusion, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, The Rules of the Game, The Elusive Corporal, La Marseillaise, Boudu Saved from Drowning, The Golden Coach, The River, Carola, The Lower Depths, La Bête humaine, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Amazing Mrs. Holliday, The Southerner, The Italian Straw Hat, Night at the Crossroads, Swamp Water, La petite marchande d'allumettes, The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, Nana MoreUnited States of America, France
- 30 1918The Seventh Seal, Shame, The Touch, Summer Interlude, Persona, The Image Makers, Face to Face, Through a Glass Darkly, The Magician, The Serpent's Egg, Fanny and Alexander, All These Women, Scenes from a Marriage, Autumn Sonata, The Blessed Ones, Cries and Whispers, Saraband, Summer with Monika, Secrets of Women, Prison, To Joy, This Can't Happen Here, Brink of Life, The Virgin Spring, Smiles of a Summer Night, Hour of the Wolf, Winter Light, The Magic Flute, In the Presence of a Clown, The Silence, The Passion of Anna, Sawdust and Tinsel, Bris Reklamfilmer, Karin's Face, The Rite, A Lesson in Love, Dreams, The Making of Fanny and Alexander, Karin's Face, From the Life of the Marionettes, Mr. Sleeman Is Coming, A Ship to India, Port of Call, Thirst, Crisis, Fårö-dokument 1979, Music in Darkness, The Devil's Eye, Wild Strawberries, The Last Gasp, Ingmar Bergman, After the Rehearsal, Stimulantia, Fårödokument 1969, Daniel, It Rains on Our Love, The Venetian, Rabies MoreSweden
- 31 1969The Wrestler, The Fountain, Black Swan, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Fortune Cookie, The Wolverine, No Time MoreUnited States of America
- 32 1898Strike, Alexander Nevsky, October: Ten Days That Shook the World, Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, ¡Qué viva México!, The General Line, Bezhin Meadow, Ivan Groznyy: Skaz vtoroy - Boyarskiy zagovor, Romance sentimentale MoreLatvia
- 33 1961Forgotten Silver, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, King Kong, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Frighteners, The Valley, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Hobbit: Part 2, The Lovely Bones, Dead Alive, The Hobbit: Part 1, Bad Taste, Heavenly Creatures, Meet the Feebles, Crossing the Line MoreNew Zealand
- 34 1946Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, Dune, Lumière and Company, The Elephant Man, Inland Empire, Twin Peaks, The Short Films of David Lynch, Rabbits, Lost Highway, Wild at Heart, The Straight Story, To Each His Own Cinema, The Grandmother, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, Dynamic: 1: The Best of DavidLynch.com, Absurda, Industrial Symphony No. 1, Boat, Lady Blue Shanghai, Darkened Room, Ronnie Rocket, Dumb Land, The Amputee MoreUnited States of America
- 35 1940Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Tideland, Brazil, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Jabberwocky, The Brothers Grimm, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Twelve Monkeys, And Now For Something Completely Different, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Crimson Permanent Assurance, The Fisher King, The Legend of Hallowdega, Zero Theorem MoreUnited States of America, United Kingdom
- 36 1942Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Ten Minutes Older, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, Fitzcarraldo, Rescue Dawn, No One Will Play with Me, Portrait Werner Herzog, God's Angry Man, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Invincible, Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, Grizzly Man, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, La bohème, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Woyzeck, Encounters at the End of the World, Last Words, Handicapped Future, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Wheel of Time, Signs of Life, Scream of Stone, Ten Thousand Years Older, Cobra Verde, Bells from the Deep, Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Lessons of Darkness, The Flying Doctors of East Africa, My Best Fiend, The Wild Blue Yonder, Jag Mandir, Pilgrimage, La Soufrière, Echoes from a Somber Empire, The White Diamond, The Transformation of the World Into Music, How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Where the Green Ants Dream, Giovanna D'Arco: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna, Precautions Against Fanatics, Land of Silence and Darkness, Wings of Hope, Herakles, Game in the Sand, Huie's Sermon, Into the Abyss, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz MoreGermany
- 37 1941Porco Rosso, Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro: Special Edition, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, Ponyo, Castle in the Sky: Bonus Material, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, On Your Mark, The Castle of Cagliostro, Kūsō no Sora Tobu Kikaitachi, Looking for a home, Howl's Moving Castle: Bonus Material, Mei and the Kittenbus, Kujiratori, Hoshi wo Katta Hi, Pandane to tamago hime, Koro no dai-sanpo, Mizugumo Monmon MoreJapan
- 38 1896Red Line 7000, Come and Get It, Sergeant York, The Dawn Patrol, Air Force, Only Angels Have Wings, Hatari!, The Outlaw, Land of the Pharaohs, El Dorado, The Criminal Code, Ceiling Zero, Barbary Coast, The Big Sky, Red River, Fig Leaves, To Have and Have Not, Scarface, Twentieth Century, Viva Villa!, O. Henry's Full House, Monkey Business, His Girl Friday, Bringing up Baby, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, I Was a Male War Bride, Tiger Shark, A Song Is Born, Today We Live, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Crowd Roars, A Girl in Every Port, The Thing, The Big Sleep, The Prizefighter and the Lady, Rio Bravo, Ball of Fire, Rio Lobo, Trent's Last Case, The Road to Glory, Cary Grant: A Gentleman's Gentleman, Paid to Love, Cradle Snatchers MoreUnited States of America
- 39 1970Punch-Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The Master MoreUnited States of America
- 40 1946Mission: Impossible II, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, Hard Boiled, Hard Target, A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow 2, Last Hurrah for Chivalry, Windtalkers, BMW films, Red Cliff, Heroes Shed No Tears, Paycheck, Just Heroes, Red Cliff II, Reign of Assassins, Blackjack, Once a Thief , Once a Thief, Hand Of Death, Once a Thief, All the Invisible Children, Hostage, Fist to Fist, The Robinsons: Lost in Space MoreUnited States of America, China
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- 41 1908Major Barbara, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sound Barrier, A Passage to India, Ryan's Daughter, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, This Happy Breed, Hobson's Choice, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oliver Twist, Brief Encounter, Summertime, The Passionate Friends, Madeleine, Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor, Blithe Spirit, In Which We Serve MoreEngland
- 42 1969Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Fully Flared, Björk: Greatest Hits, Where the Wild Things Are, I'm Here, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Wholphin: Issue 1, Scenes From The Suburbs, Fatlip: The Loneliest Punk, Torrance Rises, Mourir auprès de toi, Beastie Boys Video Anthology, We Were Once a Fairytale, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Yeah Right!, Bjork: Volumen Plus, Video Days, Wholphin: Issue 9, Slow Century, How They Get There, The Work of Director Spike Jonze, Amarillo by Morning MoreUnited States of America
- 43 1875The Birth of a Nation, Ramona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Lonely Villa, Those Awful Hats, The Unchanging Sea, His Trust, The Lonedale Operator, What Shall We Do with Our Old?, In the Aisles of the Wild, The Informer, Brothers, Near to Earth, The Sorrowful Shore, The Mistake, My Baby, Just Gold, The Battle of the Sexes, Intolerance, Her Awakening, Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal, The New Dress, A Romance of the Western Hills, An Outcast Among Outcasts, A Woman Scorned, The Transformation of Mike, The Battle, The Avenging Conscience, Isn't Life Wonderful, That Royle Girl, Romance of a Jewess, The Oath and the Man, The Sealed Room, His Trust Fulfilled, An Adventure in the Autumn Woods, The Ranchero's Revenge, A Timely Interception, Resurrection, The New York Hat, Brutality, Was He a Coward?, How She Triumphed, The Broken Cross, The White Rose of the Wilds, A Country Cupid, The Blind Princess and the Poet, The Primal Call, One Is Business, the Other Crime, Orphans Of The Storm, A Corner in Wheat, Judith of Bethulia, The Black Viper, Home, Sweet Home, The Escape, In the Border States, Heredity, My Hero, A Misappropriated Turkey, A Girl's Stratagem, The Unwelcome Guest, The Hero of Little Italy, Two Men of the Desert, The Battle at Elderbush Gulch, Dream Street, The Lady and the Mouse, The Mothering Heart, The Spanish Gypsy, The Miser's Heart, The Old Bookkeeper, The Eternal Mother, The Lesser Evil, The Call of the Wild, Choosing a Husband, A Decree of Destiny, The Battle of the Sexes, Lady of the Pavements, Fate's Turning, America, Way Down East, The White Rose, Friends, Oil and Water, Fools of Fate, The Hessian Renegades, Two Daughters of Eve, The Burglar's Dilemma, A Cry for Help, The God Within, The Enemy's Baby, The Voice of the Child, The Great Love, Enoch Arden, Heart Beats of Long Ago, The Spirit Awakened, Man's Lust for Gold, Out from the Shadow, The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch, True Heart Susie, The Tavern Keeper's Daughter, A Trap for Santa, Three Friends, The House of Darkness, The Musketeers of Pig Alley, The Making of a Man, Broken Blossoms, In Old California, Drums of Love, The Fight for Freedom, The Sunbeam, The Golden Louis, Brute Force, An Unseen Enemy, At the Altar, After Many Years, A Chance Deception, The Stolen Loaf, Balked at the Altar, The Greatest Question, Blind Love, A Temporary Truce, The Italian Barber, The Red Man and the Child, The Englishman and the Girl, The Bandit's Waterloo, Hearts of the World, A Drunkard's Reformation, The Adventures of Dollie, The House with Closed Shutters, So Near, Yet So Far, The Left-Handed Man, Madonna of the Storm, The Two Brothers, The Country Doctor, Abraham Lincoln, The Two Paths, His Daughter, The Inner Circle, A String of Pearls, The Stuff Heroes Are Made Of, Fighting Blood, Under Burning Skies, The Indian Brothers, Lady Helen's Escapade, Sally of the Sawdust, One Exciting Night, The Sheriff's Baby, A Misunderstood Boy, The Fugitive, The One She Loved, The Rocky Road, For His Son, A Sister's Love, The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period, The Wanderer, If We Only Knew, Love in an Apartment Hotel, The Telephone Girl and the Lady, Gold and Glitter, The Conscience of Hassan Bey, The Painted Lady, The Greatest Thing in Life, A Romance of Happy Valley, What the Daisy Said, The Punishment, Through Darkened Vales, Love in the Hills, The Long Road, In Little Italy, A Change of Spirit, The Smile of a Child, A Flash of Light, The Day After, To Save Her Soul, The Lily of the Tenements, The Red Man's View, Way Down West, The Sorrows of Satan, A Feud in the Kentucky Hills, The Chief's Blanket, Money Mad, Broken Ways, The Last Drop of Water, The Curtain Pole, The Girl and Her Trust, An Arcadian Maid, Swords and Hearts, The Struggle, Macbeth, Bill Sharkey's Last Game, Death's Marathon MoreUnited States of America
- 44 1963Biutiful, 21 Grams, BMW films, Amores perros, To Each His Own Cinema, Babel, 11'9''01 September 11, The Hire: Powder Keg MoreMexico
- 45 1886Angels with Dirty Faces, Trouble Along the Way, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Santa Fe Trail, Virginia City, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, The Comancheros, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Captains of the Clouds, Noah's Ark, God's Gift to Women, We're No Angels, Bright Lights, The Lady Takes a Sailor, Kid Galahad, Jimmy the Gent, Romance on the High Seas, The Man in the Net, Female, The Karthauzer, The Last Dawn, Moon of Israel, The Mad Genius, The Vagabond King, Captive Souls, Liliom, Sons of Liberty, Stolen Holiday, The Boy from Oklahoma, Anthony Adverse, Mandalay, Dive Bomber, The Sea Wolf, Gold Is Where You Find It, The Kennel Murder Case, The Borrowed Babies, A Deadly Game, The Keyhole, The Medic, Tenderloin, The Best Things in Life Are Free, Little Big Shot, Mountain Justice, The Cabin in the Cotton, The Scarlet Hour, The Breaking Point, The Walking Dead, The Story of Will Rogers, Black Legion, Elizabeth Taylor Triad, Four's a Crowd, I'll See You in My Dreams, Casablanca, A Breath of Scandal, Four Daughters, The Jazz Singer, Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Christmas, Young Man with a Horn, Bright Leaf, Alraune, Dodge City, Night and Day, Francis of Assisi, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Helen Morgan Story, King Creole, Marked Woman, Front Page Woman, Mystery of the Wax Museum, 99, Avalanche, Roughly Speaking, The Colonel, The Perfect Specimen, The Hangman, British Agent, Daughters Courageous, A Soldier's Plaything, A Penny's History, The Desired Woman, Golddigger, Four Wives, The Key, Cab No. 13, A skorpió I., Peace's Road, Secret of St. Job Forest, Harun al Raschid, Private Detective 62, Madonna of Avenue A, Good Time Charley, The Mayor of Hell, Mildred Pierce, The Egyptian, Passage to Marseille, Bánk Bán, Das Spielzeug von Paris, Life with father, The Scourge of God, Mammy, The Exile, The Princess in a Nightrobe, Flamingo Road, Alias the Doctor, This Is the Army, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Black Fury, Mission to Moscow, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Labyrinth of Horror, Magic Waltz, One Who Is Loved By Two, Janie, Doctor X, Under a Texas Moon, The Matrimonial Bed, The Gamblers, Hearts in Exile, The Merry Widow, The Lady with the Black Gloves, Young Medardus, The Sunflower Woman, Mrs. Dane's Confession, The Strange Love of Molly Louvain, The Devil, Glad Rag Doll, The Cowboy Creed, The Unsuspected, Spring in Winter, The Charlatan, Nameless, Prisoner of the Night, Lu, the Coquette, The Woman from Monte Carlo, My Dream Is Yours, Miss Tutti Frutti, The Proud Rebel, My Husband's Getting Married, Jim Thorpe -- All-American, Lulu, Earth's Man, The Third Degree, Jön az öcsém, Sodom and Gomorrah, River's End, A Million Bid, Tartar Invasion, The Golden Butterfly, Master Zoard, Force of Arms, The Wolf, From Headquarters, Goodbye Again, The Red Samson, The Star of Damascus, Jean the Tenant, The Ugly Boy, Seven of Spades, Boccaccio, Today and Tomorrow, Júdás, The Case of the Curious Bride, Demon of the Sea, Good and Evil, The Strength of the Fatherland, Nobody's Son, The Last Bohemian, Mr. Doctor, General Babka, The Black Rainbow, The Fishing Bell MoreUnited States of America
- 46 1954True Lies, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens, Avatar, Battle Angel, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Titanic, Ghosts of the Abyss, Aliens of the Deep, The Abyss, The Dive, Expedition: Bismarck, T2 3-D:Battle Across Time, Piranha II: The Spawning, Alien Quadrilogy, Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time, Xenogenesis MoreUnited States of America, Canada
- 47 1906Under the Volcano, Across the Pacific, The Man Who Would Be King, We Were Strangers, Casino Royale, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Unforgiven, Prizzi's Honor, The Red Badge of Courage, The African Queen, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The Mackintosh Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Freud: The Secret Passion, Sinful Davey, The List of Adrian Messenger, Beat the Devil, The Bible: In The Beginning, Fat City, The Night of the Iguana, Moulin Rouge, Annie, Wise Blood, The Maltese Falcon, The Asphalt Jungle, Tunisian Victory, The Kremlin Letter, Moby Dick, The Dead, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Phobia, In This Our Life, Winning Your Wings, The Misfits, The Roots of Heaven, The Barbarian and the Geisha, Key Largo, Independence, Escape to Victory, A Walk with Love and Death, Let There Be Light, The Colors of War: Pacific, The Battle of San Pietro, Report from the Aleutians MoreUnited States of America
- 48 1969Rushmore, Hotel Chevalier, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bottle Rocket, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Moonrise Kingdom, Bottle Rocket MoreUnited States of America
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Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
1888The Head of Janus, City Girl, Journey Into the Night, Marizza, Valdotanian regional election, 1949, Nosferatu, Faust, The Last Laugh, Del Rey and the Sun Kings: Nosferatu, Sunrise, The Dark Road, 4 Devils, The Boy in Blue, Sehnsucht, The Haunted Castle, Phantom, Satan, Tabu, Tartuffe, Der Brennende Acker, St John Clerkenwell, Wally Bruner, The Hunchback and the Dancer, Evening - Night - Morning, The Expulsion, The Grand Duke's Finances MoreGermany - 50 1940Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, Wise Guys, The Untouchables, Scarface, Raising Cain, The Wedding Party, Blow Out, Phantom of the Paradise, Greetings, The Black Dahlia, Mission to Mars, The Fury, Obsession, Snake Eyes, Sisters, Carrie, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War, Murder a la Mod, Redacted, Femme Fatale, Get to Know Your Rabbit, Carlito's Way, Hi, Mom!, Body Double, Dionysus MoreUnited States of America
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