The Film-Lover's Check List: Directors Favorite Films

Total:

268

Seen:

(26.1%)

See Again:

(1.5%)

Unseen:

194

(72.4%)

Director's Favorite Films (Updated: November 2012)

Woody Allen


	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Amarcord (1973)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	The 400 Blows (1959)
	Rashomon (1950)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
	Paths of Glory (1957)

Bong Joon-Ho


	A City of Sadness (1989)
	Cure (1997)
	The Housemaid (1960)
	Fargo (1996)
	Psycho (1960)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	Touch of Evil (1958)
	Vengeance Is Mine (1974)
	The Wages of Fear (1953)
	Zodiac (2007)

Francis Ford Coppola


	Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	I Vitelloni (1953)
	The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
	Yojimbo (1961)
	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
	The King of Comedy (1982)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	The Apartment (1960)
	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Guillermo Del Toro


	Frankenstein (1931)
	Freaks (1932)
	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
	Greed (1924)
	Modern Times (1936)
	Beauty and the Beast (1946)
	Goodfellas (1990)
	Los Olvidados (1950)
	Nosferatu (1922)
	8 1/2 (1963)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne


	Accattone (1961)
	The Big Heat (1953)
	Dodes'ka-den (1970)
	Germany: Year Zero (1948)
	Loulou (1980)
	Modern Times (1936)
	The Searchers (1956)
	Shoah (1985)
	Street of Shame (1956)
	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Asghar Farhadi


	Rashomon (1950)
	La Strada (1954)
	The Godfather (1972)
	Tokyo Story (1953)
	The Apartment (1960)
	Red (1994)
	Take the Money and Run (1969)
	Scenes From a Marriage (1973)
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	Modern Times (1936)

Michel Hazavanicius


	City Girl (1930)
	City Lights (1931)
	To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Apartment (1960)
	The Shining (1980)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	The Third Man (1949)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Mike Leigh


	American Madness (1932)
	Andrei Rublev (1966)
	I Am Cuba (1964)
	The Emigrants (1971)
	How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
	Jules and Jim (1962)
	Radio Days (1987)
	Songs From the Second Floor (2000)
	Tokyo Story (1953)

Michael Mann


	Apocalypse Now (1979)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Avatar (2009)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	Biutiful (2010)
	My Darling Clementine (1946)
	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	The Wild Bunch (1969)

Steve McQueen (dir.)


	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
	Zero For Conduct (1933)
	The Rules of the Game (1939)
	Tokyo Story (1953)
	The Couch (1962)
	Contempt (1963)
	Beau Travail (2000)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
	The Wages of Fear (1953)
	Do the Right Thing (1989)

David O. Russell


	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	Chinatown (1974)
	Goodfellas (1990)
	Vertigo (1958)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	Young Frankenstein (1974)
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
	The Godfather (1972)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	Groundhog Day (1993)

Martin Scorsese


	8 1/2 (1963)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Leopard (1963)
	The Red Shoes (1948)
	The River (1951)
	Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
	The Searchers (1956)
	Ugetsu (1953)
	Vertigo (1958)

Quentin Tarantino


	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
	Apocalypse Now (1979)
	The Bad News Bears (1976)
	Carrie (1976)
	Dazed and Confused (1993)
	The Great Escape (1963)
	His Girl Friday (1940)
	Jaws (1975)
	Pretty Maids All In a Row (1971)
	Rolling Thunder (1977)
	Sorcerer (1977)
	Taxi Driver (1976)

Edgar Wright


	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	An American Werewolf In London (1981)
	Carrie (1976)
	Dames (1934)
	Don't Look Now (1973)
	Duck Soup (1933)
	Psycho (1960)
	Raising Arizona (1987)
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	The Wild Bunch (1969)

Pedro Almodovar


	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
	The Rules of the Game (1939)
	All About Eve (1950)
	Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	Out of the Past (1947)
	Midnight (1939)
	Some Like It Hot (1959)
	Touch of Evil (1958)
	Senso (1954)

John Boorman


	Ugetsu (1953)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	Amarcord (1973)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
	The Sacrifice (1986)
	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Danny Boyle


	Fearless (1993)
	The Wrong Trousers (1993)
	The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
	Groundhog Day (1993)
	The Piano (1993)
	Sonatine (1993)
	Riff-Raff (1991)
	Edward Scissorhands (1990)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Coen Brothers


	Ethan Coen
	Brother's Keeper (1992)
	The Swindle (1955)
	Salesman (1969)
	The Bad News Bears (1976)
	The Fortune (1975)
	Joel Coen
	The Fortune (1975)
	High and Low (1963)
	Dames (1934)
	Separate Tables (1958)
	Where Eagles Dare (1968)

Terry Gilliam


	Citizen Kane (1941)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	Pinocchio (1940)
	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	Napoleon (1927)
	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
	Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
	The Exterminating Angel (1962)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Krzysztof Kieslowski


	La Strada (1954)
	Kes (1970)
	ITV Play of the Week: The Quare Fellow (1958)
	The 400 Blows (1959)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Kid (1921)
	Ivan's Childhood (1962)
	The Musicians (1960)
	Intimate Lighting (1965)

Takeshi Kitano


	Children of Paradise (1945)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	To Live and Die In L.A. (1985)
	Wild At Heart (1990)
	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
	Darkman (1990)
	Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
	The Railroad Man (1956)

Richard Linklater


	Some Came Running (1958)
	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)
	In a Year With 13 Moons (1978)
	The Crowd (1928)
	They Were Expendable (1945)
	Bigger Than Life (1956)
	New York, New York (1977)
	O Lucky Man! (1973)
	El (1953)

Roman Polanski


	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Odd Man Out (1947)
	Hamlet (1948)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	The Circus (1928)

Billy Wilder


	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	The Conformist (1970)
	Diabolique (1955)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)
	42nd Street (1933)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Seduced and Abandoned (1964)
	The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

John Woo


	The 400 Blows (1959)
	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
	Le Samourai (1967)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	West Side Story (1961)
	The Wild Bunch (1969)
	Mean Streets (1973)
	The Godfather (1972)
	Psycho (1960)

Bernardo Bertolucci


	The Rules of the Game (1939)
	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
	Germany: Year Zero (1948)
	Breathless (1960)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	City Lights (1931)
	Marnie (1964)
	Accattone (1961)
	Touch of Evil (1958)

Luis Bunuel


	Underworld (1927)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Portrait of Jennie (1948)
	Cavalcade (1933)
	White Shadows In the South Seas (1928)
	Dead of Night (1945)
	L'Age D'Or (1930)
	I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

Vittorio De Sica


	Man of Aran (1934)
	The Kid (1921)
	La Chienne (1931)
	Le Million (1931)
	L'Atalante (1934)
	Kameradschaft (1931)
	Storm Over Asia (1928)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Hallelujah! (1929)
	Carnival In Flanders (1935)

Milos Forman


	Amarcord (1973)
	American Graffiti (1973)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	City Lights (1931)
	The Deer Hunter (1978)
	Children of Paradise (1945)
	Giant (1956)
	The Godfather (1972)
	Miracle In Milan (1951)
	Raging Bull (1980)

Elia Kazan


	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Frontier (1935)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	Flesh and the Devil (1926)
	Rome, Open City (1945)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	Shoulder Arms (1918)
	The Baker's Wife (1938)

Stanley Kubrick


	I Vitelloni (1953)
	Wild Strawberries (1957)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
	City Lights (1931)
	Henry V (1944)
	La Notte (1961)
	The Bank Dick (1940)
	Roxie Hart (1942)
	Hell's Angels (1930)

David Lean


	Intolerance (1916)
	Variety (1925)
	The Crowd (1928)
	City Lights (1931)
	White Shadows In the South Seas (1928)
	A Nous La Liberte (1931)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Children of Paradise (1945)
	Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
	Citizen Kane (1941)

Sidney Lumet


	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	Fanny and Alexander (1982)
	The Godfather (1972)
	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
	Intolerance (1916)
	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
	Ran (1985)
	Roma (1972)
	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Sydney Pollack


	Casablanca (1942)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	The Conformist (1970)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	The Leopard (1963)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Steven Spielberg


	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	Fantasia (1940)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	A Guy Named Joe (1943)
	The War of the Worlds (1953)
	Psycho (1960)
	Day For Night (1973)
	The Godfather (1972)

Orson Welles


	City Lights (1931)
	Greed (1924)
	Intolerance (1916)
	Nanook of the North (1922)
	Shoe-Shine (1946)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	The Baker's Wife (1938)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	Our Daily Bread (1934)

Sam Fuller


	The Informer (1935)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Rashomon (1950)
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
	The 400 Blows (1959)
	The Last Emperor (1987)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)
	Brief Encounter (1945)

Cameron Crowe


	The Apartment (1960)
	The Rules of the Game (1939)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)
	Manhattan (1979)
	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
	Harold and Maude (1971)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)
	Quadrophenia (1979)
	Ninotchka (1939)

Jim Jarmusch


	L'Atalante (1934)
	Tokyo Story (1953)
	They Live By Night (1948)
	Bob le Flambeur (1956)
	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
	The Cameraman (1928)
	Mouchette (1967)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	Broken Blossoms (1919)
	Rome, Open City (1945)

Alex Proyas


	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	The Exorcist (1973)
	The Godfather (1972)
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	The Third Man (1949)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)

George A. Romero


	The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
	Casablanca (1942)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	High Noon (1952)
	King Solomon's Mines (1950)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	The Quiet Man (1952)
	Repulsion (1965)
	Touch of Evil (1958)
	The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Joel Schumacher


	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	Breaking the Waves (1996)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	The Conversation (1974)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
	Stalker (1979)
	The Conformist (1970)

Gore Verbinski


	Chinatown (1974)
	The Conversation (1974)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
	The Sacrifice (1986)
	The Servant (1963)
	The Tenant (1976)
	The Wages of Fear (1953)

Sergio Leone


	Modern Times (1936)
	Duel (1971)
	High Noon (1952)
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
	Shane (1953)
	Yojimbo (1961)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	The Magnificent Seven (1960)
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
	The Searchers (1956)