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The top-60 directors

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Average listal rating (157 ratings) 9.2  
1. Andrei Tarkovsky
Masterpiece: Stalker
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Average listal rating (185 ratings) 8.7  
2. Werner Herzog
Masterpiece: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
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Average listal rating (248 ratings) 8.3  
3. Jean-Luc Godard
Masterpiece: Week End
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Average listal rating (305 ratings) 9.1  
4. Ingmar Bergman
Masterpiece: Persona
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Average listal rating (141 ratings) 8.2  
5. Terrence Malick
Masterpiece: Badlands
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Masterpiece: Dekalog
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Average listal rating (1000 ratings) 8.9  
7. Stanley Kubrick
Masterpiece: A Clockwork Orange
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Average listal rating (209 ratings) 8.9  
8. Federico Fellini
Masterpiece: 8½
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Average listal rating (104 ratings) 8  
9. John Cassavetes
Masterpiece: A Woman Under the Influence
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Average listal rating (61 ratings) 8.4  
10. Aki Kaurismäki
Masterpiece: La Vie de Bohème
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Average listal rating (574 ratings) 8.6  
11. David Lynch
Masterpiece: Eraserhead
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Average listal rating (71 ratings) 8.5  
12. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Masterpiece: El Topo
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Average listal rating (147 ratings) 8.4  
13. Michael Haneke
Masterpiece: Funny Games (1997)
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Average listal rating (306 ratings) 9  
14. Akira Kurosawa
Masterpiece: Rashômon
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Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.2  
15. Wim Wenders
Masterpiece: Der Himmel über Berlin
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Average listal rating (327 ratings) 8.8  
16. Sergio Leone
Masterpiece: C'era una volta il West
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Average listal rating (62 ratings) 9  
17. Yasujiro Ozu
Masterpiece: Tokyo monogatari
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Average listal rating (50 ratings) 8.6  
18. Robert Bresson
Masterpiece: Pickpocket
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Average listal rating (523 ratings) 8.2  
19. Roman Polanski
Masterpiece: Chinatown
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Average listal rating (33 ratings) 8.8  
20. Kenji Mizoguchi
Masterpiece: Ugetsu monogatari
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Average listal rating (748 ratings) 8.4  
21. Francis Ford Coppola
Masterpiece: The Conversation
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Average listal rating (511 ratings) 8.9  
22. Charles Chaplin
Masterpiece: City Lights
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Average listal rating (1048 ratings) 8.7  
23. Martin Scorsese
Masterpiece: Raging Bull
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Average listal rating (184 ratings) 8.6  
24. François Truffaut
Masterpiece: Jules et Jim
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Average listal rating (275 ratings) 8.3  
25. Paul Thomas Anderson
Masterpiece: There Will Be Blood
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Average listal rating (286 ratings) 7.9  
26. Lars von Trier
Masterpiece: Riget
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Average listal rating (102 ratings) 8.2  
27. Sam Peckinpah
Masterpiece: The Wild Bunch
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Average listal rating (886 ratings) 9  
28. Alfred Hitchcock
Masterpiece: Vertigo
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Average listal rating (308 ratings) 8.7  
29. Orson Welles
Masterpiece: Touch of Evil
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Average listal rating (369 ratings) 8.1  
30. David Cronenberg
Masterpiece: Videodrome
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Average listal rating (156 ratings) 8.6  
31. Kar Wai Wong
Masterpiece: In the Mood for Love
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Average listal rating (35 ratings) 8.8  
32. Jean Vigo
Masterpiece: L'Atalante
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Average listal rating (143 ratings) 8.4  
33. John Ford
Masterpiece: The Searchers
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Average listal rating (47 ratings) 8.9  
34. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Masterpiece: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
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Masterpiece: Blow-Up
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Average listal rating (521 ratings) 8.4  
36. Joel Coen
Masterpiece: No Country for Old Men
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Average listal rating (201 ratings) 8.2  
37. Jim Jarmusch
Masterpiece: Down by Law
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Average listal rating (91 ratings) 8.7  
38. F.W. Murnau
Masterpiece: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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Average listal rating (82 ratings) 8.5  
39. Vittorio De Sica
Masterpiece: Ladri di biciclette
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Average listal rating (403 ratings) 7.6  
40. Brian De Palma
Masterpiece: Blow Out
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Average listal rating (21 ratings) 8.4  
41. Roy Andersson
Masterpiece: Sånger från andra våningen
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Average listal rating (338 ratings) 7.5  
42. Gus Van Sant
Masterpiece: Elephant
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Average listal rating (21 ratings) 8.5  
43. Maya Deren
Masterpiece: Meshes of the Afternoon
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Average listal rating (842 ratings) 7.8  
44. Woody Allen
Masterpiece: Annie Hall
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Average listal rating (146 ratings) 8.8  
45. Luis Buñuel
Masterpiece: Belle de jour
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Average listal rating (171 ratings) 8.8  
46. Fritz Lang
Masterpiece: M
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Average listal rating (328 ratings) 8.1  
47. Wes Anderson
Masterpiece: The Royal Tenenbaums
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Average listal rating (366 ratings) 7.8  
48. John Carpenter
Masterpiece: Halloween
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Average listal rating (158 ratings) 8.1  
49. Robert Altman
Masterpiece: The Long Goodbye
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Average listal rating (205 ratings) 7.9  
50. George A. Romero
Masterpiece: Night of the Living Dead
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A very basic list of directors which needs still some extreme construction.

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Comments

Posted: 4 years ago at Apr 27 14:58
Very nice, very nice !
Posted: 4 years ago at May 3 7:44
Cheers mate!
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at Dec 17 11:15
Very nice list :=)
Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 23 5:42
I should definitely try following this list. I really need some guide for my study in film.
Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 24 12:59
i think i'd go Pulp Fiction on Tarantino.
Posted: 2 years, 3 months ago at Feb 1 20:19
GOOD !!!!!!
Posted: 11 months, 3 weeks ago at May 29 0:57
glad to see another who appreciates the genius of Tarkovsky as much as me
Posted: 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 9 15:30
Ridley Scott, Chris Nolan, David Fincher?!
Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Aug 12 21:50
Why on earth should I put those on the list?
Posted: 1 month, 3 weeks ago at Mar 28 16:21
Great choices, Tarkovsky is amazing.

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