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Rank   Name Born Films Nationality Birthplace
  1. 1
    1910
    Red 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 More
    Japan
    Ota, Tokyo
  2. 2
    1899
    Topaz, 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 More
    United States of America, England
    Leytonstone
  3. 3
    1942
    The 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 More
    United States of America
    Queens
  4. 4
    1928
    The 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 More
    United States of America
    Manhattan
  5. 5
    1939
    The 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 More
    United States of America
    Detroit
  6. 6
    1946
    Minority 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 More
    United States of America
    Cincinnati
  7. 7
    1920
    Amarcord, 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 More
    Italy
    Rimini
  8. 8
    1908
    Major 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 More
    England
    Croydon
  9. 9
    1906
    The 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 More
    United States of America, Austria
    Sucha Beskidzka
  10. 10
    1894
    Donovan'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 More
    United States of America
    Cape Elizabeth

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  1. jdemo23
    The Most Oscar-Worthy Directors Of All Time at 2/09/2011 10:39 AM
    What's your favorite film by Akira Kurosawa? Not too familiar with his work.
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