Robert Aldrich

1. Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - 9.0
2. Attack (1956) - 8.5
   
3. The Dirty Dozen (1967) - 5.0
   
4. The Longest Yard (1974) - 4.0
   

Woody Allen

1. Annie Hall (1977) - 9.5
   
2. Manhattan (1979) - 9.0
   
3. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
4. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
5. Husbands and Wives (1992)
6. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - 8.5
   
7. Radio Days (1987) - 8.0
   
8. Interiors (1978)
9. Zelig (1983) - 7.5
   
10. Match Point (2005)
11. Melinda and Melinda (2004) - 7.0
    
12. Mighty Aphrodite (1995) - 6.5
    
13. Love and Death (1975)
14. Take the Money and Run (1969)
15. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
16. Sleeper (1973)
    
17. Everyone Says I Love You (1996) - 6.0
    
18. Bananas (1971) - 5.0
    
19. What's Up, Tiger Lily (1966)

Pedro Almodóvar

1. Talk to Her (2002) - 9.5
   
2. Bad Education (2004) - 8.5
   
3. All About My Mother (1999) - 8.0
   
4. Volver (2006) - 7.5

Robert Altman

1. Gosford Park (2001) - 10
   
2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
   
3. The Player (1992) - 9.5
   
4. The Long Goodbye (1973) - 9.0
   
5. Short Cuts (1993) - 8.0
   
6. Tanner '88 (1988)
7. California Split (1974) - 7.0
   
8. Cookie's Fortune (1999)
9. MASH (1970) - 6.5
   
10. Popeye (1980) - 4.0
    
11. The Delinquents (1957) - 3.5
    
12. Prêt-à-Porter (1994) - 1.0

Lindsay Anderson

1. If... (1968) - 8.5
   
2. This Sporting Life (1963) - 7.0

Paul Thomas Anderson

1. Boogie Nights (1997) - 10
   
2. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
3. Magnolia (1999) - 9.5
   
4. There Will Be Blood (2007) - 9.0
   
5. Hard Eight (1996) - 7.5

Wes Anderson

1. The Royal Tenebaums (2001) - 10
   
2. Rushmore (1998) - 9.5
   
3. The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - 7.5
   
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - 6.0
   
5. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
6. Bottle Rocket (1996) - 5.0

Michelangelo Antonioni

1. L'Avventura (1960) - 9.0

Dario Argento

1. Deep Red (1975) - 8.0
   
2. Tenebre (1982) - 7.0
   
3. Suspira (1977) - 6.0

Anthony Asquith

1. The Browning Version (1951) - 9.5
   
2. Pygmalion (1938)
3. The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) - 7.5
   
4. The Way to the Stars (1945) - 6.5

Tex Avery

1. Magical Maestro (1952) - 10
   
2. King-Size Canary (1947) - 9.5
   
3. The Legend of Rockabye Point (1955) - 9.0
   
4. Billy Boy (1954) - 8.0
   
5. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
6. The Cat That Hated People (1948)
   
7. Dixieland Droopy (1954)
8. I Love to Singa (1936) - 7.5
   
9. I'm Cold (1954)
10. Symphony in Slang (1951)
11. Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
12. Bad Luck Blackie (1949) - 7.0
    
13. Little Johnny Jet (1953)
    
14. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
15. Car of Tomorrow (1951) - 5.5
    
16. Gold Diggers of '49 (1935) - 5.0
    
17. Detouring America (1939)

Jacques Becker

1. Le Trou (1960) - 8.5
   
2. Casque d'or (1952) - 8.0

Ingmar Bergman

1. Winter Light (1962) - 10
   
2. Wild Strawberries (1957) - 9.5
   
3. The Virgin Spring (1960)
4. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - 9.0
   
6. Autumn Sonata (1978)
   
7. Persona (1966) - 8.5
   
8. Cries and Whispers (1972)
9. Summer with Monika (1953) - 8.0
   
10. The Seventh Seal (1957)
11. To Joy (1950)
    
12. Summer Interlude (1951) - 7.5
    
13. Brink of Life (1958)
    
14. Dreams (1955)
15. Shame (1968) - 7.0
    
16. A Lesson in Love (1954)
    
17. The Silence (1963)
18. A Ship Bound for India (1947) - 6.5
    
19. Secrets of Women (1952)
20. Crisis (1946) - 5.5

Bernardo Bertolucci

1. The Last Emperor (1987) - 7.5
   
2. 1900 (1976) - 6.0
   
3. Little Buddha (1993) - 2.0

Robert Bresson

1. A Man Escaped (1956) - 10
   
2. Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) - 8.5
   
3. Pickpocket (1959) - 7.5

Mel Brooks

1. Young Frankenstein (1974) - 9.5
   
2. Blazing Saddles (1973) - 9.0
   
3. Spaceballs (1987) - 6.0
   
4. The Producers (1968) - 5.5
   
5. History of the World: Part I (1983) - 4.5
   
6. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)
   
7. High Anxiety (1978) - 4.0
   
8. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - 2.0

Tod Browning

1. Freaks (1932) - 8.5
   
2. The Unknown (1927) - 8.0
   
3. Dracula (1931) - 7.0
   
4. The Devil-Doll (1936) - 6.5
   
5. Mark of the Vampire (1935) - 5.5

Luis Buñuel

1. Los Olvidados (1950) - 10
   
2. El (1953) - 9.5
   
3. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
4. La Âge d'or (1930) - 9.0
   
5. Viridiana (1961)
   
6. Un chien andalou (1929)
7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) - 8.5
   
8. Las Hurdes (1933) - 7.5
   
9. Gran Casino (1947) - 3.0

Tim Burton

1. Ed Wood (1994) - 9.5
   
2. Big Fish (2003) - 9.0
   
3. Batman (1989) - 8.5
   
4. Edward Scissorshands (1990) - 8.0
   
5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber from Fleet Street (2007) - 7.5
   
6. Mars Attacks! (1996) - 6.5
   
7. Beetle Juice (1988) - 6.0
   
8. Batman Returns (1992)
   
9. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
10. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - 3.0
    
11. Planet of the Apes (2001) - 2.5
    

James Cameron

1. Aliens (1986) - 10
   
2. The Terminator (1984) - 8.0
   
3. True Lies (1994) - 7.5
   
4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
   
5. The Abyss (1989) - 7.0
   
6. Titanic (1997) - 6.5
   

Frank Capra

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - 10
   
2. It Happened One Night (1934) - 9.5
   
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - 9.0
   
4. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - 7.5
   
5. Meet John Doe (1941) - 5.0
   
6. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Marcel Carné

1. Le Jour se lève (1939) - 9.5
   
2. Children of Paradise (1945) - 9.0
   
3. Le Quai des brumes (1938)
4. Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929) - 7.0
   
5. Hôtel du Nord (1938) - 6.5

John Carpenter

1. Halloween (1978) - 9.0
   
2. They Live (1988) - 6.5
   
3. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
   
4. Starman (1984) - 6.0
   
5. Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
   
6. The Thing (1982) - 5.5
   
7. The Fog (1980) - 5.0
   
8. Escape from L.A. (1996) - 2.0
   
9. Escape from New York (1981)
   
10. Village of the Damned (1995)

Claude Chabrol

1. Story of Women (1988) - 9.5
   
2. This Man Must Die (1969) - 8.5
   
3. À double tour (1959)
   
4. Le Boucher (1970) - 8.0
   
5. Violette (1978) - 7.0

Chang Cheh
Charles Chaplin
René Clair
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jean Cocteau
Joel Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
David Cronenberg
George Cukor
Michael Curtiz

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Jules Dassin
Brian De Palma
Vittorio De Sica
Guillermo del Toro
Cecil B. DeMille
Jonathan Demme
Maya Deren
William Dieterle
Stanley Donen
Richard Donner
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Clint Eastwood
Sergei Eisenstein
Federico Fellini
David Fincher
John Ford
Milos Forman
Stephen Frears
Samuel Fuller

Terry Gilliam
Jean-Luc Godard
D.W. Griffith
Michael Haneke
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Werner Herzog
Alfred Hitchcock

1. Notorious (1946) - 10
   
2. Strangers on a Train (1951)
   
3. Rear Window (1954)
4. Vertigo (1959) - 9.5
   
5. North by Northwest (1959)
6. The 39 Steps (1935) - 9.0
   
7. Rebecca (1940) - 8.5
   
8. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
9. To Catch a Thief (1955)
10. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
    
11. Psycho (1960) - 8.0
    
12. Frenzy (1972)
13. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
14. The Lodger (1927) - 7.5
    
15. Foreign Correspondent (1940) - 7.0
    
16. Dial M for Murder (1954)
17. The Wrong Man (1956)
18. Sabotage (1936)
    
19. Lifeboat (1944)
20. Blackmail (1929)
    
21. Marnie (1964)
22. The Birds (1963) - 6.5
23. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
    
24. Family Plot (1976)
25. The Skin Game (1931)
    
26. Rope (1948) - 6.0
27. The Manxman (1929)
    
28. Torn Curtain (1966) - 5.5
29. Suspicion (1941)
    
30. Spellbound (1945)
31. The Ring (1927)
    
32. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - 5.0
33. Murder! (1930) - 3.0

John Huston

Kon Ichikawa
Joris Ivens
Peter Jackson
Jim Jarmusch
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chuck Jones
Mikhail Kalatonov
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
Abbas Kiarostami
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Ki-duk Kim
Takeshi Kitano
Masaki Kobayashi
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Emir Kusturica

Fritz Lang
David Lean

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 10
   
2. Great Expectations (1946) - 9.5
   
3. In Which We Serve (1942) - 8.5
   
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
5. Brief Encounter (1945)
   
6. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - 8.0
   
7. A Passage to India (1984) - 7.5
   
8. Blithe Spirit (1945) - 6.0
   
9. Oliver Twist (1948) - 5.0

Ang Lee
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Sergio Leone
Richard Linklater
Ernst Lubitsch
Sidney Lumet
David Lynch

Guy Maddin
Terence Malick
Louis Malle
Anthony Mann
Michael Mann
Jean-Pierre Melville

1. Army of Shadows (1969) - 9.0
   
2. Le Deuxième souffle (1966) - 8.5
   
3. Bob le flambeur (1955) - 8.0
   
4. Le Cercle rouge (1970) - 7.5
   
5. Le Doulos (1962)

Takashi Miike
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Errol Morris
F.W. Murnau

Mikio Naruse
Mike Nichols
Max Ophüls
François Ozon
Yasujiro Ozu

1. Tokyo Story (1953) - 10
2. Late Spring (1949)
   
3. Early Summer (1951)
4. An Inn in Tokyo (1935) - 9.5
   
5. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
   
6. Late Autumn (1960)
7. The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) - 9.0
   
8. Tokyo Twilight (1957) - 8.5
9. The Only Son (1936) - 8.0
   
10. The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
    
11. Early Spring (1956)
12. There Was a Father (1942) - 7.5
    
13. The End of Summer (1961) - 7.0
    
14. Good Morning (1959) - 6.5
15. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Chan-wook Park
Sam Peckinpah
Roman Polanski
Michael Powell
Otto Preminger

Sam Raimi
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Jean Renoir
Leni Riefenstahl
Eric Rohmer
George A. Romero
Roberto Rossellini

Carlos Saura
John Sayles

1. Men with Guns (1997) - 10
   
2. Limbo (1999) - 9.5
   
3. Lone Star (1996) - 9.0
   
4. Matewan (1987) - 8.5
   
5. Eight Men Out (1988) - 7.5
   
6. City of Hope (1991) - 7.0
   
7. Casa de los Babys (2003)
8. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) - 6.5

Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Jim Sheridan
M. Night Shyamalan
Victor Sjöström
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Spielberg
Wladysalw Starewicz
Oliver Stone
Preston Sturges

Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Tashlin
Jacques Tati
Johnny To
Jacques Tourneur
Ahn Hung Tran
François Truffaut
Tsai Ming-liang
Gus Van Sant
Agnès Varda
Paul Verhoeven
King Vidor
Jean Vigo
Josef von Sternberg
Lars von Trier

Andrzej Wajda
Peter Weir
Orson Welles
Billy Wilder
Wong Kar Wai
William Wyler
Yôji Yamada
Sadao Yamanaka
Zhang Yimou