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Top 250 Directors Challenge

Original list by Graham
One film from each of the "top 100" directors. First time watches for all. Probably just going in random order.

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  • Psycho

    1

  • Touch of Evil

    2

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    3

  • I Vitelloni

    4

  • Breathless

    5

  • The Godfather

    6

  • The Magician

    7

  • A Day in the Country

    8

  • My Darling Clementine

    9

  • Rashomon

    10

  • After Hours

    11

  • An Inn in Tokyo

    12

  • The Milky Way

    13

  • Andrei Rublev

    14

  • City Lights

    15

  • Sunset Boulevard

    16

  • L'Argent

    17

  • Vampyr

    18

  • Nosferatu

    19

  • Red Desert

    20

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    21

  • Metropolis

    22

  • Day for Night

    23

  • Schindler's List

    24

  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I

    25

  • Sisters of the Gion

    26

  • Mulholland Drive

    27

  • The Flowers of St. Francis

    28

  • Annie Hall

    29

  • Le Notti Bianche

    30

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    31

  • Brief Encounter

    32

  • The Children Are Watching Us

    33

  • Knife in the Water

    34

  • The Grandmaster

    35

  • Faces

    36

  • Trouble in Paradise

    37

  • A Fistful of Dollars

    38

  • Life, and Nothing More…

    39

  • A Matter of Life and Death

    40

  • Thelma & Louise

    41

  • L'Atalante

    42

  • Letter from an Unknown Woman

    43

  • The Hero

    44

  • Badlands

    45

  • 3 Women

    46

  • La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    47

  • Singin' in the Rain

    48

  • Millennium Mambo

    49

  • Raising Arizona

    50

  • The General

    51

  • Theorem

    52

  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    53

  • Fat City

    54

  • The Unchanging Sea

    55

  • Reservoir Dogs

    56

  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

    57

  • Blind Chance

    58

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    59

  • La Commare Secca

    60

  • Casablanca

    61

  • La Jetée

    62

  • There Will Be Blood

    63

  • Cross of Iron

    64

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    65

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    66

  • The Band Wagon

    67

  • Breaking the Waves

    68

  • Johnny Guitar

    69

  • The American Friend

    70

  • Make Way for Tomorrow

    71

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    72

  • Odd Man Out

    73

  • Sullivan's Travels

    74

  • Bombshell

    75

  • The Fly

    76

  • Amour

    77

  • A Face in the Crowd

    78

  • Children of Paradise

    79

  • My Night at Maud's

    80

  • Amadeus

    81

  • Damnation

    82

  • All That Heaven Allows

    83

  • Porco Rosso

    84

  • Greed

    85

  • The Bridges of Madison County

    86

  • Beau Travail

    87

  • Le Samouraï

    88

  • Tropical Malady

    89

  • Don't Look Now

    90

  • Dream of Light

    91

  • Volver

    92

  • Vagabond

    93

  • The Nun

    94

  • Bay of Angels

    95

  • Phantom of the Paradise

    96

  • Cat People

    97

  • The Docks of New York

    98

  • All About Eve

    99

  • The Philadelphia Story

    100