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Directorial Debuts

Impressive feature-length directorial debuts personally considered 3.5 stars+.

  • Eraserhead

    1

  • Akira

    2

  • Aftersun

    3

  • Night of the Living Dead

    4

  • The Evil Dead

    5

  • No Telling

    6

  • Monster House

    7

  • Nightcrawler

    8

  • Toy Story 3

    9

  • Napoleon Dynamite

    10

  • Targets

    11

  • Thief

    12

  • The Ninth Configuration

    13

  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death

    14

  • Hereditary

    15

  • The Slumber Party Massacre

    16

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    17

  • Looking for an Angel

    18

  • Versus

    19

  • Vampire Hunter D

    20

  • Three Outlaw Samurai

    21

  • Together

    22

  • Goodbye CP

    23

  • Not a Pretty Picture

    24

  • Tokyo Uber Blues

    25

  • Shock Waves

    26

  • Black Past

    27

  • Hit the Road

    28

  • Bouchra

    29

  • 12 Angry Men

    30

  • Night of the Creeps

    31

  • In Bruges

    32

  • The Passing

    33

  • Reprise

    34

  • Rye Lane

    35

  • Sound of Metal

    36

  • Apples

    37

  • I Like Bats

    38

  • Pi

    39

  • The Night of the Hunter

    40

  • Blood Simple

    41

  • Ratcatcher

    42

  • El Mariachi

    43

  • Duel to the Death

    44

  • Being John Malkovich

    45

  • Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

    46

  • Begotten

    47

  • Obsession: A Taste for Fear

    48

  • Pitfall

    49

  • Green Fish

    50

  • Dangan Runner

    51

  • The Carpenter

    52

  • Sorry, Baby

    53

  • Blue Heron

    54

  • Too Beautiful to Die

    55

  • Female Perversions

    56

  • Clean, Shaven

    57

  • Dark Waters

    58

  • Backrooms

    59

  • Dìdi (弟弟)

    60

  • Problemista

    61

  • Take Me Somewhere Nice

    62

  • The Castle of Cagliostro

    63

  • Boys Go to Jupiter

    64

  • $POSITIONS

    65

  • Past Lives

    66

  • Paris Is Burning

    67

  • Scrapper

    68

  • Me and You and Everyone We Know

    69

  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

    70

  • Boyz n the Hood

    71

  • Splinter

    72

  • Dog Soldiers

    73

  • Get Out

    74

  • Menace II Society

    75

  • Little Miss Sunshine

    76

  • Hot Rod

    77

  • Daddy Longlegs

    78

  • The Return of the Living Dead

    79

  • Take Out

    80

  • Clerks

    81

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane

    82

  • MouseHunt

    83

  • I Stand Alone

    84

  • Primal Rage

    85

  • The Laughing Dead

    86

  • Nomads

    87

  • The Toolbox Murders

    88

  • In a Violent Nature

    89

  • Dead Heat

    90

  • Arachnophobia

    91

  • The Sadness

    92

  • Ex Machina

    93

  • Handling the Undead

    94

  • Violent Cop

    95

  • Bait

    96

  • Organ

    97

  • Black Tight Killers

    98

  • Hollywood 90028

    99

  • Bone Tomahawk

    100