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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)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Limelight (1952)

Masterpiece account: 21

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

9

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)
Notorious (1946)
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)

Masterpiece account: 20

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

9.1

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)

Masterpiece account: 16

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

9

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)

Masterpiece account: 16

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.8

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)
Midnight in Paris (2011)

Masterpiece account: 15

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.6

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)

Masterpiece account: 13

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.2

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")

Masterpiece account: 12

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.9

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.4

9. 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)
True Grit (2010)

Masterpiece account: 11

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.8

10. 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)

Masterpiece account: 11

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.9

11. 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)

Masterpiece account: 10

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.6

12. 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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.7

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)

Masterpiece account: 9

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.1

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)

Masterpiece account: 9

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.1

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)

Masterpiece account: 9

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.4

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.5

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)

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.3

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)

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.8

19. John Carpenter

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Halloween (1978)
The Fog (1980)
Escape from New York (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
They Live (1988)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.5

20. 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?")

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.3

21. 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)

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.4

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)
La Piel Que Habito (2011)

Masterpiece account: 8

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.2

23. 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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.8

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.7

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.1

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.4

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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.5

28. Christopher Nolan

Memento (2000)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Prestige (2006)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)

Masterpiece account: 5

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.4

29. Michael Haneke

Funny Games (1997)
La Pianiste (2001)
Le Temps du Loup (2003)
Caché (2005)
Das weiße Band (2009)

Masterpiece account: 5

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.9

30. Nicholas Ray

They Live by Night (1948)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
King of Kings (1961)

Masterpiece account: 5

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.3

31. 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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8

32. Alejandro González Iñárritu

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

Masterpiece account: 5

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.9

33. Billy Wilder

Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Apartment (1960)

Masterpiece account: 4

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.9

34. Lars von Trier

Breaking the Waves (1996)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Dogville (2003)
Antichrist (2009)

Masterpiece account: 4

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.3

35. Paul Thomas Anderson

Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)

Masterpiece account: 4

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8

36. 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

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

6.9

37. Don Bluth

The Secret of NIMH (1982)
An American Tail (1986)
The Land Before Time (1988)
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Masterpiece account: 4

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.2

38. Sam Peckinpah

The Wild Bunch (1969)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Getaway (1972)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.9

39. George A. Romero

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.9

40. Sylvain Chomet

Les Triplettes de Belleville (2003)
Paris, Je T'Aime (2006) (segment "Tour Eiffel")
L'Illusionniste (2010)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.1

41. Dario Argento

L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo (1970)
Profondo Rosso (1975)
Suspiria (1977)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.7

42. 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)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.2

43. Fernando Meirelles

Cidade de Deus (2002)
The Constant Gardner (2005)
Blindness (2008)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.1

44. José Padilha

Ônibus 174 (2002)
Tropa de Elite (2007)
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro (2010)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.3

45. Darren Aronofsky

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Wrestler (2008)
Black Swan (2010)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.2

46. John Sturges

The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
The Great Escape (1963)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

7.5

47. James Cameron

The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Masterpiece account: 3

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8

48. Ridley Scott

Alien (1978)
Blade Runner (1982)

Masterpiece account: 2

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

8.5

49. Majid Majidi

Children of Heaven (1997)
The Color of Paradise (1999)

Masterpiece account: 2

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

6.8

50. Jean-Jacques Annaud

The Quest For Fire (1981)
The Name of the Rose (1986)

Masterpiece account: 2

diabolical dr voodoo's rating:

*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.

*Short films count.

*If an awesome film is not here is probably because I didin't saw it yet. And if so, please, let me know.

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Comments

AbdelRahman Tekriti

Posted: 4 years, 2 months ago at Mar 14 4:52

Darren Aronofsky

The Wrestler (2008)
The Fountain (2006)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pi (1998)

Posted: 4 years, 2 months 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: 4 years, 1 month 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: 3 years, 11 months 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: 3 years, 11 months ago at Jun 22 7:27

Excellent! Maybe add Alejandro González Iñárritu with Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006)?

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 3 years, 11 months 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: 3 years, 6 months ago at Oct 26 3:54

Cara, eu colocaria o link para cada filme.

Posted: 3 years, 6 months 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.

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 3 years, 6 months ago at Oct 26 10:45

Pedro: Vou começar.. heheh...

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

Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at Dec 17 10:33

And who decides if they are masterpieces or not?

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at Dec 17 14:26

I do.

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 3 years, 2 months ago at Feb 22 9:18

Haven't seen it yet. But plan to.

Posted: 3 years, 1 month ago at Mar 27 12:35

NOW they are in chronological order, I don't remember them being before when I looked at it. This list seems to be much better laid out now, very nice.

Posted: 3 years, 1 month ago at Mar 27 13:58

Great List! Here are a few sugegstions.

Sidney Lumet: Network (1976)
George A. Romero: The Crazies (1973)
John Carpenter: The Fog (1980)

Posted: 3 years ago at May 14 15:18

Great list. I was glad to see Michael Haneke on the list. His movies are difficult but brilliant.

Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Jul 5 17:23

Very helpfull than film schools

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Aug 26 16:41

Masterpiece doesn't mean really good, it means a certain person's best, this list doesn't make sense

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Aug 26 16:50

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, Masterpiece, also known as Masterwork, is a work of art such as a painting, film or book which is done or made with great skill.

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 15 16:00

You simply HAVE to see Hitchcock's "Notorious"! No Hitch list is complete without it. "Sabatouer" and "To Catch a Thief" come to mind as well, but "Notorious" is simply a must.

Also I'm not sure the date you listed for "The Man Who Knew Too Much" is correct I wanna say early 30's actually. Good work! You've seen far more "Great" films than I have.

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 16 9:19

Add to that Suspicion (1941 I think) I loved the atmosphere of that movie, and Cary grant is the main lead so it gotta be good ^^

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 16 10:19

A suggestion. Buñuel: "El"

Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Oct 18 9:34

I'm gonna go ahead and suggest Andrei Tarkovsky, he most definitely should be here. Check out, Stalker, Solaris, The Sacrifice, Mirror and Ivan's Childhood, and get your mind blown. He truly is one of the greatest of all time.

Posted: 2 years, 4 months ago at Jan 22 1:12

Daron Aronofsky... How About The Fountain?

diabolical dr voodoo

Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 9 15:02

Haven't seen The Fountain yet.

Posted: 2 years, 1 month ago at Mar 28 9:24

Love the list

Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jun 25 1:22

vERY GREAT LSIT!!!!

SUGGESTIONS
SHUTTER ISLAND
BIUTIFUL

WES ANDERSON MOVIES

Posted: 1 year, 2 months ago at Mar 5 3:57

A good list, but too easy. Try taking the same list, but only giving one masterpeice to each director, That would be a challenge.

Posted: 12 months ago at May 23 22:38

fucking Tarkovsky, man

Posted: 10 months, 4 weeks ago at Jun 26 11:48

Where's Frank Capra and George Cukor?

Posted: 7 months ago at Oct 17 3:43

Heavenly Creautures is truly Peter Jackson's Masterpiece.

http://www.listal.com/movie/heavenly-creatures

and . Jean-Jacques Annaud, The Lover is also a masterpiece.

photos of women

Posted: 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 4 10:50

i like it

Posted: 1 month ago at Apr 14 19:41

"Django Unchained"is another masterpiece by Tarantino. Don't forget it!

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