Favorite Directors

Movies
★★★★★
The Magnificent Ambersons
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
★★★★☆
Chimes at Midnight
The Trial
F for Fake
★★★☆
Macbeth
Watch-list:

Movies

Ranked List

★★★★★
Seven Samurai
Rashōmon
Ran
Ikiru
★★★★☆
Red Beard
Yojimbo
Throne of Blood
High and Low
★★★★
The Hidden Fortress
Sanjuro
Dersu Uzala
Stray Dog
Dodes'ka-den
Watch-list: The Lower Depths, Kagemusha, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Madadayo (Not Yet), I Live in Fear, Drunken Angel, The Bad Sleep Well, The Idiot

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
★★★★☆
3. Paths of Glory
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. The Shining
6. Barry Lyndon
★★★★
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. The Killing
9. Full Metal Jacket
10. Lolita
★★★☆
11. Spartacus

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
1. 8½
2. Nights of Cabria
3. La Strada
4. La Dolce Vita
★★★★
5. Amarcord
6. I Vitelloni
Watch-list: Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, Roma

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
Au Hasard Balthazar
Mouchette
A Man Escaped
L'argent
★★★★☆
Pickpocket
★★★★
Diary of a Country Priest
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Watch-list: ...

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
City Lights
Modern Times
Monsieur Verdoux
Limelight
★★★★☆
The Gold Rush
The Kid
The Great Dictator
The Circus

Movies
★★★★★
Tokyo Story
I Was Born, But...
An Autumn Afternoon
Floating Weeds
Late Spring
The Only Son
★★★★☆
Equinox Flower
Early Summer
Late Autumn
A Story of Floating Weeds
★★★★
Good Morning
The End of Summer
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Watch-list: Record of a Tenement Gentleman, Tokyo Twilight, Early Spring, A Hen in the Wind, Tokyo Chorus

Movies
★★★★★
1. Bicycle Thieves
2. Shoeshine
★★★★☆
3. Umberto D.
Watch-list: The Children are Watching Us

Movies
★★★★★
Gertrud
Ordet
The Passion of Joan of Arc
★★★★☆
Vampyr
Day of Wrath

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
★★★★☆
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
GoodFellas
★★★★
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
The Departed
The Last Temptation of Christ
Hugo
A Letter to Elia (Kazan)
The Key to Reserva
★★★☆
Casino
Gangs of New York
The Aviator
Watch-list: The King of Comedy, Mean Streets, The Age of Innocence, Hugo, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Cape Fear

Movies

Ranking

★★★★★
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Solaris
★★★★☆
The Mirror
★★★★
Ivan's Childhood
Watch-list: The Sacrifice, Nostalghia

Movies
★★★★★
The Seventh Seal
Persona
★★★★☆
Winter Light
The Virgin Spring
Wild Strawberries (Rewatch)
Through a Glass Darkly
Watch-list: Fanny and Alexander, The Making of 'Fanny and Alexander', Hour of the Wolf, The Silence, Scenes From a Marriage, Shame, Cries and Whispers, Face to Face, The Magician, Autmn Sonata

Movies
★★★★★
Vertigo
Psycho
Rear Window
★★★★☆
North by Northwest
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Rope
★★★★
Marnie
Foreign Correspondent
The 39 Steps
The Birds
Watch-list: Rebecca, The Lady Vanishes, Dial M for Murder, Shadow of a Doubt, Frenzy, The Man Who Knew Too Much (original and remake), Spellbound, Young and Innocent

Movies
★★★★★
Harakiri
Human Condition III
Samurai Rebellion
★★★★☆
Human Condition I and II
Watch-list: Kwaidan ...

Movies
★★★★★
The Apartment
★★★★☆
Sunset Blvd.
Double Indemnity
Ace in the Hole
Some Like it Hot
Watch-list: Witness for the Prosecution, The Lost Weekend

Movies
★★★★★
Sunrise
★★★★☆
Noseferatu
The Last Laugh
Tabu
Faust

Movies
★★★★★
L' Atalante
★★★★☆
Zero for Conduct
★★★★
À propos de Nice
★★★☆
Taris

Movies
★★★★★
1. M
★★★★☆
2. Metropolis
Watch-list: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, Fury, Destiny, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler, The Big Heat

Movies

Ranked list

★★★★★
Breathless
★★★★☆
Contempt
My Life to Live
Pierrot le Fou
★★★★
Band of Outsiders
Week-end
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her
★★★☆
A Woman Is a Woman
Masculin Feminin
Alphaville
Tout Va Bien (Just Great)
Watch-list: La Chinoise, Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires ...

Movies
★★★★★
The 400 Blows
★★★★☆
Jules et Jim
★★★★
Day for Night
Stolen Kisses
Les Mistons
Shoot the Piano Player
★★★☆
Antoine et Colette
Watch-list: The Last Metro, The Bride Wore Black

Movies
★★★★★
1. The Godfather Part I and II
★★★★☆
2. Apocalypse Now
★★★☆
3. The Godfather Part III
★★★
4. The Outsiders
Watch-list: The Conversation

Movies
★★★★★
1. The Rules of the Game
★★★★☆
2. The Grand Illusion
Watch-list: A Day in the Country, La Chienne (The Bitch), La Bête Humaine (The Human Beast), Night at the Crossroads

Movies
★★★★★
The Decalogue
★★★★☆
Three Colours: Blue
★★★★
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: White
Talking Heads
★★★☆
No End
Watch-list: The Double Life of Veronique, Camera Buff, Blind Chance

Movies
★★★★★
Spirited Away
★★★★☆
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Porco Rosso
★★★★
Howl's Moving Castle
Castle in the Sky
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo
Watch-list: The Secret World of Arrietty, Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro

Movies

Ranked list

★★★★★
Sherlock, Jr.
★★★★☆
The General
The Cameraman
★★★★
One Week
Our Hospitality
Seven Chances (not directed by Buster Keaton)
The Scarecrow
Steamboat Bill Jr.
The Navigator

Movies
★★★★☆
Intolerance
Broken Blossoms
The Birth of a Nation
Watch-list: Orphans of the Storm, Way Down East, True Heart Susie

Movies
★★★★☆
The Pier
Without Sun
★★★☆
Cat Listening to Music ...
★★★
Junkopia
Wish-list: Cinéma, de notre temps Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch

Movies
★★★★★
Paranoia Agent
★★★★☆
Millennium Actress
Perfect Blue
★★★★
Paprika
Tokyo Godfathers
Ohayo
Watchlist: The Dreaming Machine

Movies
★★★★☆
Fargo
The Big Leebowski
No Country for Old Men
★★★★
World Cinema (from To Each His Own Cinema)
Barton Fink
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Miller's Crossing
True Grit
The Man Who Wasn't There
★★★☆
Raising Arizona
★★★
The Ladykillers
Watch-list: Blood Simple, A Serious Man

Movies
★★★★☆
Mulholland Dr.
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks (the TV show)
★★★★
The Grandmother
Eraserhead
Premonition Following An Evil Deed (from Lumière & Company)
Absurda (from To Each His Own Cinema)
Dumbland
★★
The Amputee
Watch-list: ...

Movies
★★★★☆
Sullivan's Travels
The Lady Eve
★★★★
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Unfaithfully Yours
The Palm Beach Story

Movies
★★★★☆
The Thief and the Cobbler: The Uncobbled Cut
★★★★
The Little Island

Movies
★★★★☆
Mary and Max
Harvie Krumpet
★★★★
Brother
★★★☆
Uncle
Cousin

Movies
★★★★☆
I Am So Proud of You
Everything Will Be Ok
Rejected
It's Such a Beautiful Day
★★★★
Genre
The Meaning of Life
Billy's Balloon
Ah, l'amour
Lily and Jim
★★★☆
Wisdom Teeth
Welcome to the Show

Movies

★★★★☆
Ed Wood
Vincent
★★★★
Edward Scissorhands
Frankenweenie (the animated remake)
Frankenweenie
Big Fish
Batman
★★★☆
Sleepy Hallow
Batman Returns
★★★
Stalk of the Celery
Corpse Bride
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mars Attacks!
★
Planet of the Apes
Watch-list: Sweeney Todd, The World of Stainboy, Beetlejuice, Dark Shadows (2012)

Movies
★★★★★
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
★★★★
Once Upon a Time in the West
For a Few Dollars More
A Fistful of Dollars
Watch-list: Once Upon a Time in America (2012 restoration), A Fistful of Dynamite

Movies

Ranking

★★★★☆
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
★★★★
Land of Silence and Darkness
Stroszek
Fitzcarraldo
Lessons of Darkness
My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski
Grizzly Man
Encounters at the End of the World
★★★☆
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Cobra Verde
Watch-list: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Into the Abyss, Woyzeck

Movies
★★★★☆
Battleship Potemkin
★★★★
Ivan the Terrible Part I and II
Strike
Watch-list: October: Ten Days That Shook the World, Alexander Nevsky

Movies
★★★★☆
Dog Day Afternoon
12 Angry Men
Network
★★★★
Serpico
Watchlist: Fail-Safe

Movies
★★★★☆
1. A Face in the Crowd
★★★★
2. On the Waterfront
3. A Streetcar Named Desire
Watchlist: East of Eden

Movies
★★★★☆
Dimensions of Dialogue
Conspirators of Pleasure
★★★★
The Flat
Darkness/Light/Darkness
(I didn't list all the films I've seen)
Watch-list: Faust ...

Movies
★★★★☆
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
★★★★
Evangelion 2
Evangelion 1
★★★☆
Evangelion 3
Watch-list: Evangelion 4

Movies
★★★★☆
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit
★★★★
A Matter of Loaf and Death
Curse of the Were-Rabbit
★★★☆
Creature Comforts
★★★
Chicken Run

Movies
★★★★☆
Manhattan
Annie Hall
★★★★
Zelig
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
★★★☆
Midnight in Paris

Movies
★★★★☆
Broken Flowers
Dead Man
★★★★
Stranger than Paradise
Watch-list: Down by Law ...

Movies
★★★★☆
Alien
Blade Runner
★★★☆
Gladiator
★★★
Thelma and Louise
Prometheus
★★
Black Hawk Down

Movies
★★★★☆
Chinatown
Repulsion
★★★★
The Tenant
Rosemary's Baby
The Pianist
Watch-list: Knife in the Water

★★★★☆
The House is Black

★★★★☆
A Song of Love