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Directors and their Masterpieces

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1. Charles Chaplin
One A.M. (1916)
The Pawnshop (1916)
The Rink (1916)
Easy Street (1917)
The Immigrant (1917)
The Adventurer (1917)
A Dog's Life (1918)
Shoulder Arms (1918)
A Day's Pleasure (1919)
The Kid (1921)
The Idle Class (1921)
Pay Day (1922)
The Pilgrim (1923)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Circus (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Limelight (1952)


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2. Alfred Hitchcock
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Frenzy (1972)


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3. Ingmar Bergman
Summer Interlude (1951)
Summer with Monika (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
A Lesson in Love (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Winter Light (1962)
The Silence (1963)
Persona (1966)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Saraband (2003)


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4. Akira Kurosawa
No Regrets for My Youth (1946)
Wonderful Sunday (1947)
A Silent Duel (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Scandal (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Kagemusha (1980)
Ran (1985)
Dreams (1990)
Rhapsody in August (1991)


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5. Woody Allen
Bananas (1971)
Annie Hall (1977)
Interiors (1978)
Manhattan (1979)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Radio Days (1987)
Another Woman (1988)
New York Stories (1989) (segment "Oedipus Wrecks")
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Match Point (2005)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)


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6. François Truffaut
Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
Tirez sur le Pianiste (1960)
Jules et Jim (1962)
L'Amour à vingt ans (1962) (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
La Mariée Était en Noir (1968)
Baisers Volés (1968)
Domicile conjugal (1970)
Une Belle Fille Comme Moi (1972)
La Nuit Américaine (1973)
L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (1975)
L'Amour en Fuite (1979)
La Femme d'à Côté (1981)


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7. Roman Polanski
Knife in the Water (1962)
Repulsion (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
Dance of the Vampires (1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Chinatown (1974)
Le Locataire (1976)
Frantic (1988)
Bitter Moon (1992)
The Pianist (2002)
Oliver Twist (2005)
Chacun Son Cinéma (2007) (segment "Cinéma Erotique")


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8. Stanley Kubrick
Killer's Kiss (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Spartacus (1960)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)


Masterpiece account: 11
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9. Luis Buñuel
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
L'Âge d'Or, (1930)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954)
Viridiana (1961)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Tristana (1970)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)


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10. Federico Fellini
La Strada (1954)
Le Notti di Cabiria (1957)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
8½ (1963)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Satyricon (1969)
Roma (1972)
Amarcord (1973)
E La Nave Va (1983)
Ginger e Fred (1986)


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11. Brian De Palma
Sisters (1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Carrie (1976)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
Scarface (1983)
The Untouchables (1987)
Casualties of War (1989)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Redacted (2007)


Masterpiece account: 10
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12. Joel Coen
Blood Simple. (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Tuileries")
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)


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13. Martin Scorsese
Mean Streets (1973)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
After Hours (1985)
New York Stories (1989) (segment "Life Lessons")
Goodfellas (1990)
The Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)
The Key to Reserva (2007)


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14. Steven Spielberg
Duel (1971)
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Schindler's List (1994)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Munich (2005)


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15. Robert Altman
MASH (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Nashville (1975)
The Player (1992)
Short Cuts (1993)
Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Kansas City (1996)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)


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16. John Ford
Stagecoach (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Fort Apache (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
The Searchers (1956)
How the West Was Won (1962) (segment "The Civil War")


Masterpiece account: 8
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17. Clint Eastwood
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Bird (1988)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Mystic River (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Gran Torino (2008)


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18. Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Four Rooms (1995) (segment "The Man from Hollywood")
Jackie Brown (1997)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Death Proof (2007)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)


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19. Abbas Kiarostami
Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987)
Close Up (1990)
Life, and Nothing More... (1991)
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
A Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Ten (2002)
Chacun Son Cinéma (2007) (segment "Where is my Romeo?")


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20. John Huston
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The African Queen (1951)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)


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21. Sidney Lumet
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Serpico (1973)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)


Masterpiece account: 7
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22. Pedro Almodóvar
Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (1988)
¡Átame! (1990)
Carne trémula (1997)
Todo Sobre Mi Madre (1999)
Hable Con Ella (2002)
La Mala Educación (2004)
Volver (2006)


Masterpiece account: 7
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23. John Carpenter
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Halloween (1978)
Escape from New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
They Live (1988)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Masterpiece account: 7
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24. Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Duck, You Sucker (1971)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)


Masterpiece account: 6
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25. Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Macbeth (1948)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Touch of Evil (1958)


Masterpiece account: 6
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26. D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
America (1924)
Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928)


Masterpiece account: 6
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27. Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather (1972)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)


Masterpiece account: 5
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28. Michael Haneke
Funny Games (1997)
La Pianiste (2001)
Le Temps du Loup (2003)
Caché (2005)
Das weiße Band (2009)


Masterpiece account: 5
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29. Nicholas Ray
They Live by Night (1948)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
King of Kings (1961)


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30. Robert Zemeckis
Back to the Future (1985)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Forrest Gump (1994)


Masterpiece account: 5
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Amores Perros (2000)
September 11 (2002) (segment "Mexico")
21 Grams (2003)
Babel (2006)
Chacun son Cinéma (2007) (segment "Anna")

Masterpiece account: 5
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32. Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)


Masterpiece account: 4
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33. Paul Thomas Anderson
Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)


Masterpiece account: 4
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34. Darren Aronofsky
Pi (1998)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Fountain (2006)
The Wrestler (2008)


Masterpiece account: 4
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35. Milos Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Amadeus (1984)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Man on the Moon (1999)


Masterpiece account: 4
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36. Sam Peckinpah
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Getaway (1972)

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37. George A. Romero
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)


Masterpiece account: 3
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38. Dario Argento
L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo (1970)
Profondo Rosso (1975)
Suspiria (1977)

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39. Lars von Trier
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Dogville (2003)
Antichrist (2009)


Masterpiece account: 3
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40. James Cameron
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)


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41. Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)


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42. John Sturges
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Great Escape (1963)


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43. Fernando Meirelles
Cidade de Deus (2002)
The Constant Gardner (2005)
Blindness (2008)


Masterpiece account: 3
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44. Majid Majidi
Children of Heaven (1997)
The Color of Paradise (1999)


Masterpiece account: 2
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45. Ridley Scott
Alien (1978)
Blade Runner (1982)


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46. Glauber Rocha
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964)
Terra em Transe (1967)


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Posted : 7 months, 4 weeks ago at Mar 14 4:52
Darren Aronofsky

The Wrestler (2008)
The Fountain (2006)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pi (1998)
Posted : 7 months, 4 weeks ago at Mar 15 2:16
Great list. Well, there's one director in particular I wouldn't have included (Tarantino), but he does have quite a lot of fans. That doesn't make Death Proof any better, though.
Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 9 9:15
Good list especially for searching for recommendations :). I agree with Puceron though, I wouldn't have included Death Proof.
Posted : 4 months, 4 weeks ago at Jun 13 3:15
Yep, sweet and interesting list, but I was just wonderin' that why there ain't no McCabe & Mrs. Miller or Long Goodbye on the list of films by Robert Altman? They're both masterpieces and quite reputated too.
Posted : 4 months, 2 weeks ago at Jun 22 7:27
Excellent! Maybe add Alejandro González Iñárritu with Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006)?

Posted : 4 months, 2 weeks ago at Jun 22 9:03
Thanks for the suggestions Banaanipalmu and NitroPupu, they're all added!

And I also added Michael Haneke, Sam Peckinpah, John Carpenter and Dario Argento.
Posted : 1 week, 6 days ago at Oct 26 3:54
Cara, eu colocaria o link para cada filme.
Posted : 1 week, 6 days ago at Oct 26 10:11
For Spielberg I would have put Schindler's List ahead of Jurassic Park, for Kurosawa I would have added Stray Dog (1949) and for Woody Allen definitely Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Great list though.
Posted : 1 week, 6 days ago at Oct 26 10:45
Pedro: Vou começar.. heheh...

Shaun: They're in chronological order, but I'll add your suggestions, thanks!

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*This list is ordered by the number of masterpieces for each director.

*Their films are displayed in chronological order.

*Each director must have at least two masterpieces to enter the list.

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