The Film-Lover's Check List: Greatest Directors A To Z

Woody Allen


	Sleeper (1973)
	Annie Hall (1977)
	Manhattan (1979)
	Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
	Blue Jasmine (2013)

Pedro Almodovar


	Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
	All About My Mother (1999)
	Bad Education (2004)
	Volver (2006)
	The Skin I Live In (2011)

Dario Argento


	The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
	Profondo Rosso (1975)
	Suspiria (1977)
	Tenebre (1982)
	Opera (1987)

Darren Aronofsky


	Pi (1998)
	Requiem For a Dream (2000)
	The Fountain (2006)
	The Wrestler (2008)
	Black Swan (2010)

Ingmar Bergman


	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	Wild Strawberries (1957)
	The Virgin Spring (1960)
	Persona (1966)
	Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Kathryn Bigelow


	Near Dark (1987)
	Point Break (1991)
	Strange Days (1995)
	The Hurt Locker (2009)
	Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Danny Boyle


	Shallow Grave (1994)
	Trainspotting (1996)
	Sunshine (2007)
	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
	127 Hours (2010)

Tim Burton


	Beetlejuice (1988)
	Batman (1989)
	Edward Scissorhands (1990)
	Ed Wood (1994)
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Jane Campion


	Sweetie (1989)
	The Piano (1993)
	The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
	Holy Smoke! (1999)
	Bright Star (2009)

John Carpenter


	Dark Star (1974)
	Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
	Halloween (1978)
	Escape From New York (1981)
	The Thing (1982)

Charlie Chaplin


	The Kid (1921)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	City Lights (1931)
	Modern Times (1936)
	The Great Dictator (1940)

Joel & Ethan Coen


	Miller's Crossing (1990)
	Fargo (1996)
	The Big Lebowski (1998)
	No Country For Old Men (2007)
	Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Francis Ford Coppola


	The Godfather (1972)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	The Conversation (1974)
	Apocalypse Now (1979)
	Rumble Fish (1983)

David Cronenberg


	Videodrome (1983)
	The Dead Zone (1983)
	The Fly (1986)
	Dead Ringers (1988)
	A History of Violence (2005)

Stanley Donen


	On the Town (1949)
	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
	It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
	Funny Face (1957)
	Charade (1963)

Sergei Eisenstein


	Strike (1925)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	October (1928)
	Alexander Nevsky (1938)
	Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
	Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1958)

Federico Fellini


	La Strada (1954)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	Satyricon (1969)
	Amarcord (1973)

David Fincher


	Seven (1995)
	The Game (1997)
	Fight Club (1999)
	Zodiac (2007)
	The Social Network (2010)

John Ford


	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
	The Searchers (1956)
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Jean-Luc Godard


	Breathless (1960)
	Contempt (1963)
	Alphaville (1965)
	Masculine-Feminine (1966)
	Week End (1967)

Werner Herzog


	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
	Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
	Fitzcarraldo (1982)
	Grizzly Man (2005)

Alfred Hitchcock


	Strangers On a Train (1951)
	Rear Window (1954)
	Vertigo (1958)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	Psycho (1960)

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu


	Amores Perros (2000)
	21 Grams (2003)
	Babel (2006)
	Biutiful (2010)
	Birdman (2014)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet


	Delicatessen (1991)
	The City of Lost Children (1995)
	Amelie (2001)
	A Very Long Engagement (2004)
	The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

Krzysztof Kieslowski


	A Short Film About Killing (1988)
	The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
	Blue (1993)
	White (1994)
	Red (1994)

Stanley Kubrick


	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)
	The Shining (1980)

Akira Kurosawa


	Rashomon (1950)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	Throne of Blood (1957)
	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
	Ran (1985)

Fritz Lang


	Metropolis (1927)
	M (1931)
	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
	Fury (1936)
	The Big Heat (1953)

David Lean


	Brief Encounter (1945)
	Great Expectations (1946)
	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	Dr. Zhivago (1965)

Ang Lee


	Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
	Sense and Sensibility (1995)
	The Ice Storm (1997)
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
	Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Spike Lee


	She's Gotta Have It (1986)
	Do the Right Thing (1989)
	Malcolm X (1992)
	Summer of Sam (1999)
	25th Hour (2002)

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)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)

David Lynch


	Eraserhead (1977)
	The Elephant Man (1980)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
	Mulholland Drive (2001)

Terrence Malick


	Badlands (1973)
	Days of Heaven (1978)
	The Thin Red Line (1998)
	The New World (2005)
	The Tree of Life (2011)

Georges Melies


	Manor of the Devil (1896)
	Four Heads Are Better Than One (1898)
	A Trip To the Moon (1902)
	Voyage a Travers L'impossible (1904)
	Humanity Through the Ages (1908)

Mira Nair


	Salaam Bombay! (1988)
	Monsoon Wedding (2001)
	Vanity Fair (2004)
	The Namesake (2006)
	The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)

Christopher Nolan


	Memento (2000)
	The Prestige (2006)
	The Dark Knight (2008)
	Inception (2010)
	Interstellar (2014)

Yasujiro Ozu


	Late Spring (1949)
	Tokyo Story (1953)
	Good Morning (1959)
	Floating Weeds (1959)
	Late Autumn (1960)

Sam Peckinpah


	Ride the High Country (1962)
	The Wild Bunch (1969)
	Straw Dogs (1971)
	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
	Cross of Iron (1977)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger


	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
	Black Narcissus (1947)
	The Red Shoes (1948)
	Peeping Tom (1960)

Satyajit Ray


	Pather Panchali (1955)
	Aparajito (1956)
	The Music Room (1958)
	The World of Apu (1959)
	Charulata (1964)

Martin Scorsese


	Taxi Driver (1976)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
	Goodfellas (1990)
	The Departed (2006)

Ridley Scott


	Alien (1979)
	Blade Runner (1982)
	Thelma & Louise (1991)
	Gladiator (2000)
	Matchstick Men (2003)

Ousmane Sembene


	Black Girl (1966)
	The Money Order (1968)
	Xala (1975)
	Camp de Thiaroye (1988)
	Moolaade (2004)

Steven Spielberg


	Jaws (1975)
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
	Schindler's List (1993)
	Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Quentin Tarantino


	Reservoir Dogs (1992)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
	Jackie Brown (1997)
	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
	Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
	Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Francois Truffaut


	The 400 Blows (1959)
	Jules and Jim (1962)
	Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
	Day For Night (1973)
	The Last Metro (1980)

Orson Welles


	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
	Othello (1952)
	Touch of Evil (1958)
	Chimes At Midnight (1965)

Wim Wenders


	The American Friend (1977)
	Paris, Texas (1984)
	Wings of Desire (1987)
	Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
	Pina (2011)

Billy Wilder


	Double Indemnity (1944)
	The Lost Weekend (1945)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
	Some Like It Hot (1959)
	The Apartment (1960)

Wong Kar-Wai


	Chungking Express (1994)
	Buenos Aires Affair (1997)
	In the Mood For Love (2000)
	2046 (2004)
	First Generation Master (2013)

Zhang Yimou


	Red Sorghum (1987)
	Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
	Hero (2002)
	House of Flying Daggers (2004)
	Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)