A rare unrated list, In alphabetical order
Art is not a competition. That is called “sport”.
DANDIANANDA
Sam Mendes
1917
Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
Sidney Lumet
12 Angry Men
Milos Forman
Amadeus
Fred Zinnemann
A Man for All Seasons
Asghar Farhadi
A Separation
Joe Wright
Atonement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A Very Long Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amélie
Otto Preminger
Anatomy of a Murder
Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
Hal Ashby
Being There
Blake Edwards
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Michael Haneke
Caché
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
Juan Antonio Bardem
Death of a Cyclist
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Diabolique
Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity
James Algar
Samuel Armstrong
Ford Beebe, Jr.
Fantasia
Alfonso Cuarón
Gravity
Grigoriy Kozintsev
Hamlet
Fred Zinnemann
High Noon
Martin Scorsese
Hugo
Martin McDonagh
In Bruges
Denis Villeneuve
Incendies
Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce,
1080 Bruxelles
Iain Softley
K-PAX
Giuseppe Tornatore
Legend of 1900
Kenneth Lonergan
Manchester By The Sea
John Schlesinger
Marathon Man
Tony Gilroy
Michael Clayton
Jaco Van Dormael
Mr Nobody
Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious
Bong Joon Ho
Parasite
Ed Harris
Pollock
Céline Sciamma
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon
Atom Egoyan
Remember
Tom Tykwer
Run Lola Run
John Carpenter
Starman
Todd Field
Tár
Harald Zwart
The 12th Man
Oriol Paulo
The Body
Robert Lepage
The Confessional
Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Double Life of Veronique
Ridley Scott
The Duellists
Anthony Minghella
The English Patient
Tarsem Singh
The Fall
Thomas Vinterberg
The Hunt
Anne Fontaine
The Innocents
Oriol Paulo
The Invisible Guest
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Lives of Others
Yorgos Lanthimos
The Lobster
Roman Polanski
The Pianist
Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Return
Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
Víctor Erice
The Spirit of the Beehive
Atom Egoyan
The Sweet Hereafter
John Frankenheimer
The Train
Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects
Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear
Jonathan Glazert
The Zone of Interest
Robert Mulligan
To Kill a Mockingbird
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution