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Top 100 Directors Challenge

Rules: Challenge to watch one film from each of the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They Top 100 Directors, from their TSPDT The 1,000 greatest films (Top 250 Directors) list, containing the 250 most critically acclaimed filmmakers of all-time.

Links to Director pages below. Rewatches and shorts are OK. When reviewing, tag with #top100dir

Watch as many as you like, take as long as you need... just have fun!

## Updated to include the 2024 edition of the list ##
I've left the original ranking (posted using the 2022 edition of the TSPDT list) at the bottom for anyone that is still pressing through it and just doesn't like change 🙂

2024 Edition
1. Alfred Hitchcock
2. Orson Welles
3. Stanley…

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  • Shadow of a Doubt

    1

  • Touch of Evil

    2

  • Lolita

    3

  • Satyricon

    4

  • Hail Mary

    5

  • Bram Stoker's Dracula

    6

  • Summer Interlude

    7

  • The River

    8

  • Stagecoach

    9

  • The Hidden Fortress

    10

  • After Hours

    11

  • Floating Weeds

    12

  • Un Chien Andalou

    13

  • Stalker

    14

  • A Dog's Life

    15

  • Love in the Afternoon

    16

  • L'Argent

    17

  • Day of Wrath

    18

  • Faust

    19

  • The Passenger

    20

  • Rio Bravo

    21

  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

    22

  • Stolen Kisses

    23

  • Jurassic Park

    24

  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    25

  • The Life of Oharu

    26

  • The Grandmother

    27

  • Journey to Italy

    28

  • Manhattan

    29

  • The Leopard

    30

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    31

  • Doctor Zhivago

    32

  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

    33

  • The Tenant

    34

  • 2046

    35

  • Love Streams

    36

  • The Shop Around the Corner

    37

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    38

  • The Wind Will Carry Us

    39

  • A Canterbury Tale

    40

  • Alien: Covenant

    41

  • L'Atalante

    42

  • The Earrings of Madame de...

    43

  • Devi

    44

  • The Tree of Life

    45

  • The Long Goodbye

    46

  • Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

    47

  • On the Town

    48

  • The Assassin

    49

  • Fargo

    50

  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    51

  • Theorem

    52

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    53

  • Escape to Victory

    54

  • Way Down East

    55

  • Death Proof

    56

  • Mon Oncle

    57

  • The Double Life of VĂ©ronique

    58

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    59

  • The Conformist

    60

  • Mildred Pierce

    61

  • Sans Soleil

    62

  • Phantom Thread

    63

  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    64

  • Terrorizers

    65

  • Arsenic and Old Lace

    66

  • An American in Paris

    67

  • Europa

    68

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    69

  • Alice in the Cities

    70

  • Liberty

    71

  • The Meetings of Anna

    72

  • Oliver!

    73

  • The Lady Eve

    74

  • Hula

    75

  • Eastern Promises

    76

  • Benny's Video

    77

  • East of Eden

    78

  • Port of Shadows

    79

  • Love in the Afternoon

    80

  • Loves of a Blonde

    81

  • The Turin Horse

    82

  • All That Heaven Allows

    83

  • Porco Rosso

    84

  • Hello, Sister!

    85

  • Changeling

    86

  • Beau Travail

    87

  • Le Cercle Rouge

    88

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    89

  • Performance

    90

  • El Sur

    91

  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

    92

  • Black Panthers

    93

  • Out 1

    94

  • Donkey Skin

    95

  • Dressed to Kill

    96

  • Out of the Past

    97

  • Shanghai Express

    98

  • Sleuth

    99

  • My Fair Lady

    100