Movies do not provide us with an interactive world like games; they are quiet, like a star in a distant galaxy. Only when you gaze at them do you discover them and become enchanted. True interaction is not about making choices with logic, but with the heart.
On lonely nights, I often open this document. It can truly take you into another time, allowing you to experience another life as if it were a dream.
The directory is divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, allowing for gradual selection or skipping levels.
This directory comes from a teacher who has immersed himself in film for many years. Although your name has not been revealed, one day it will be, and I thank you once again.
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
Beginner#
| Director | Title | Year | Country/Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Elliot | Mary and Max | 2009 | Australia |
| Fernando Meirelles | City of God | 2002 | Brazil |
| Walter Salles | Central Station | 1998 | Brazil |
| Roman Polanski | The Pianist | 2002 | Poland/USA |
| Wim Wenders | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Germany/USA |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lola | 1981 | Germany |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Germany |
| Tom Tykwer | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Germany |
| Jacques Audiard | The Eight Day | 1996 | France/Belgium |
| Luc Besson | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | France/USA |
| Jacques Perrin | Winged Migration | 2001 | France/Italy |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Band of Outsiders | 1964 | France |
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Amélie | 2001 | France |
| François Truffaut | Jules and Jim | 1962 | France |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | Three Colors: Blue, White, Red | 1992-1994 | France/Poland |
| Lee Chang-dong | Peppermint Candy | 2000 | South Korea |
| Park Chan-wook | Joint Security Area | 2000 | South Korea |
| Richard Linklater | Before... Trilogy | 1995 | USA/Austria/Switzerland |
| Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | 2003 | USA/New Zealand |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | 1960 | USA |
| Oliver Stone | JFK | 1991 | USA |
| Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | USA |
| Charlie Chaplin | Modern Times | 1936 | USA |
| David Fincher | Se7en | 1995 | USA |
| Tim Burton | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | USA |
| Ernst Lubitsch | To Be or Not to Be | 1942 | USA |
| Frank Darabont | The Shawshank Redemption | 1994 | USA |
| Frank Capra | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1938 | USA |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Trilogy | 1972-1990 | USA |
| Fred Zinnemann | High Noon | 1952 | USA |
| Jim Jarmusch | Stranger Than Paradise | 1984 | USA |
| Gus Van Sant | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | USA |
| Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves | 1990 | USA |
| Coen Brothers | No Country for Old Men | 2008 | USA |
| Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | 2003 | USA |
| Ron Fricke | Baraka | 1992 | USA |
| Ridley Scott | Thelma & Louise | 1992 | USA |
| Louis Malle | The Dolphin Bay | 2009 | USA |
| Roger Allers/Rob Minkoff | The Lion King | 1994 | USA |
| Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | 1994 | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull | 1980 | USA |
| Mel Gibson | Braveheart | 1995 | USA |
| Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | USA |
| Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | USA |
| George Lucas | American Graffiti | 1973 | USA |
| Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List | 1992 | USA |
| Wachowski Sisters | The Matrix | 1999 | USA |
| Sidney Lumet | 12 Angry Men | 1957 | USA |
| James Cameron | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1991 | USA |
| Nagisa Oshima | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence! | 1983 | Japan/UK |
| Takeshi Kitano | Kikujiro's Summer | 1999 | Japan |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Castle in the Sky | 1987 | Japan |
| Akira Kurosawa | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Japan |
| Yojiro Takita | Departures | 2008 | Japan |
| Shin'ichi Chiba | Battle Royale | 2000 | Japan |
| Masaki Kobayashi | Kwaidan | 1964 | Japan |
| Shunji Iwai | Love Letter | 1995 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Nakahara | The Taste of Tea | 2006 | Japan |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Soviet Union |
| Andrei Zvyagintsev | The Banishment | 2007 | Russia |
| Pedro Almodóvar | All About My Mother | 1999 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1928 | Spain |
| Abbas Kiarostami | Where Is My Friend's Home? | 1987 | Iran |
| Asghar Farhadi | A Separation | 2011 | Iran |
| Majid Majidi | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Iran |
| Sergio Leone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Italy/USA |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Italy/USA/China |
| Federico Fellini | La Strada | 1954 | Italy |
| Roberto Benigni | Life Is Beautiful | 1997 | Italy |
| Michelangelo Antonioni | China | 1972 | Italy |
| Giuseppe Tornatore | Cinema Paradiso | 1989 | Italy |
| Umesh Shukla | OMG | 2012 | India |
| Alan Parker | The Wall | 1982 | UK |
| David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | UK |
| Danny Boyle | Trainspotting | 1996 | UK |
| Guy Ritchie | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1998 | UK |
| Richard Attenborough | Gandhi | 1982 | UK |
| Richard Curtis | Love Actually | 2003 | UK |
| Hero Chen | The Taste of Green Papaya | 1993 | Vietnam/France |
| Chen Kaige | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | China |
| Fei Mu | Spring in a Small Town | 1948 | China |
| Gao Qunshu | Detective Hunter Zhang | 2012 | China |
| Jiang Wen | In the Heat of the Sun | 1994 | China |
| Ning Ying | Stories of the Police | 1995 | China |
| Tian Zhuangzhuang | Blue Kite | 1993 | China |
| Yuan Muzhi | The Road Angel | 1937 | China |
| Zhang Yimou | The Story of Qiu Ju | 1992 | China |
| Hsiao-Hsien Hou | The Assassin | 2015 | Taiwan |
| Wei Te-sheng | Seediq Bale | 2012 | Taiwan |
| Edward Yang | Yi Yi | 2000 | Taiwan |
| Peter Chan | The Love Eterne | 1992 | Hong Kong |
| Lau Wai-Kin/Alan Mak | Infernal Affairs Trilogy | 2002-2004 | Hong Kong |
| Stephen Chow | A Chinese Odyssey (Parts 1 & 2) | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| Johnnie To | Time of the Wolf | 2010 | Hong Kong |
| Wong Kar-wai | Chungking Express | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| John Woo | Hard Boiled | 1992 | Hong Kong |
| Tsui Hark | The Blade | 1995 | Hong Kong |
| Ann Hui | The Woman, Forty | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| Stephen Chow | Kung Fu | 2004 | Hong Kong |
Intermediate#
| Director | Title | Year | Country/Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Haneke | Amour | 2012 | Austria/France |
| Fritz Lang | M | 1931 | Germany |
| Werner Herzog | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Germany |
| Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain | 1976 | Germany |
| Volker Schlöndorff | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Germany |
| Tom Tykwer | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | 2006 | Germany |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Germany |
| Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Germany |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Russia |
| Pavel Chukhrai | The Thief | 1997 | Russia |
| Alain Resnais | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | France |
| Eric Rohmer | The Green Ray | 1986 | France |
| Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped | 1956 | France |
| Jean Renoir | Rules of the Game | 1939 | France |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Breathless | 1960 | France |
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Delicatessen | 1991 | France |
| François Truffaut | The 400 Blows | 1959 | France |
| Luc Besson | The Big Blue | 1988 | France/Greece |
| Bong Joon-ho | Memories of Murder | 2003 | South Korea |
| Kim Ki-duk | The Flag Flutters in the Wind | 2004 | South Korea |
| Kim Ki-duk | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter | 2003 | South Korea |
| Lee Chang-dong | Oasis | 2002 | South Korea |
| Park Chan-wook | Oldboy | 2003 | South Korea |
| Arthur Penn | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | USA |
| Oliver Stone | Wall Street | 1987 | USA |
| Orson Welles | Citizen Kane | 1941 | USA |
| David Fincher | Fight Club | 1999 | USA |
| David Lynch | Wild at Heart | 1990 | USA |
| David Lynch | Lost Highway | 1997 | USA |
| Dennis Hopper | Easy Rider | 1967 | USA |
| Tim Burton | Big Fish | 2003 | USA |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | USA |
| Gus Van Sant | My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | USA |
| Coen Brothers | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2013 | USA |
| Christopher Nolan | The Dark Knight | 2008 | USA |
| Christopher Nolan | Inception | 2010 | USA |
| Ang Lee | Life of Pi | 2012 | USA |
| Ridley Scott | Blade Runner | 1982 | USA |
| Rob Reiner | Stand by Me | 1986 | USA |
| Robert Zemeckis | Back to the Future Trilogy | 1985-1989 | USA |
| Robert Zemeckis | Contact | 1997 | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | Taxi Driver | 1976 | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas | 1990 | USA |
| Michael Moore | Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | USA |
| Miloš Forman | Amadeus | 1984 | USA |
| Sam Peckinpah | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | USA |
| Quentin Tarantino | Kill Bill: Volume 1 | 2003 | USA |
| Wachowski Sisters | Bound | 1996 | USA |
| Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon | 1972 | USA |
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel | 2006 | USA |
| John Ford | The Searchers | 1954 | USA |
| Roman Polanski | Chinatown | 1974 | USA/Poland |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Rear Window | 1954 | USA/UK |
| Alfred Hitchcock | The Birds | 1963 | USA/UK |
| Stanley Kubrick | The Shining | 1980 | USA/UK |
| Takeshi Kitano | Fireworks | 1997 | Japan |
| Nagisa Oshima | Cruel Story of Youth | 1960 | Japan |
| Akira Kurosawa | Ikiru | 1952 | Japan |
| Akira Kurosawa | Ran | 1985 | Japan |
| Yojiro Takita | The Twilight Samurai | 2002 | Japan |
| Masaki Kobayashi | Harakiri | 1962 | Japan |
| Shōhei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Japan |
| Shunji Iwai | The Taste of Tea | 1996 | Japan |
| Juzo Itami | Tampopo | 1985 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Japan |
| Ingmar Bergman | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Sweden |
| Ingmar Bergman | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Sweden |
| Kusturica | Underground | 1995 | Serbia |
| Karagöz | The Geese Fly South | 1957 | Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Kalatozov | I Am Cuba | 1964 | Soviet Union |
| Michal Kalatozov | The Fourth | 1956 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Nostalgia | 1983 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Soviet Union |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Turkey |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | 2002 | Spain |
| Carlos Saura | Flamenco | 1995 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1929 | Spain |
| Victor Erice | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Spain/France |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Greece |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Landscape in Fog | 1988 | Greece |
| Béla Tarr | Satan's Tango | 1994 | Hungary |
| Alan Kohler | The Band Visit | 2007 | Israel |
| Ari Folman | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Israel/France |
| Sergio Leone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Italy/USA |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Italy/USA/China |
| Emanuele Crialese | The Wooden Tree | 1978 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Blow-Up | 1966 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Red Desert | 1964 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | 1900 | 1976 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | The Conformist | 1970 | Italy |
| De Santis | Eleven O'Clock in Rome | 1952 | Italy |
| De Sica | Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Italy |
| De Sica | Umberto D. | 1952 | Italy |
| Fellini | The Road | 1954 | Italy |
| Fellini | 8½ | 1963 | Italy |
| Fellini | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Italy |
| Rossellini | Germany Year Zero | 1948 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Leopard | 1963 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Earth Trembles | 1948 | Italy |
| Carol Reed | The Third Man | 1949 | UK |
| Ken Loach | Kes | 1970 | UK |
| Lindsay Anderson | The Lucky One | 1982 | UK |
| Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | UK |
| Bi Gan | Long Day's Journey into Night | 2015 | China |
| Cai Chusheng/Zheng Junli | A River Flows Eastward | 1947 | China |
| Huang Jianxin | Back to Back, Face to Face | 1994 | China |
| Jia Zhangke | Still Life | 2006 | China |
| Jiang Wen | The Sun Also Rises | 2007 | China |
| Shi Hui | This Life | 1950 | China |
| Wang Quan'an | Tuya's Marriage | 2006 | China |
| Xie Fei | The Year of the Monkey | 1990 | China |
| Tsai Ming-liang | Vive L'Amour | 1994 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | A Time to Live and a Time to Die | 1985 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | The Assassin | 2016 | Taiwan |
| Edward Yang | Terrorist | 1986 | Taiwan |
| Sylvia Chang | Today I Won't Go Home | 1996 | Taiwan |
| Gordon Chan | The Thirteen Hongs of the South | 1997 | Hong Kong |
| Wong Kar-wai | Ashes of Time | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| Ann Hui | The Way We Are | 1999 | Hong Kong |
| Derek Yee | The Love Eterne | 1997 | Hong Kong |
Advanced#
| Director | Title | Year | Country/Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Austria/Germany/France |
| Jean-Pierre/Luc Dardenne | Rosetta | 1999 | Belgium/France |
| Andrzej Wajda | Kanal | 1957 | Poland |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | The Double Life of Véronique | 1991 | Poland |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | The Decalogue | 1989 | Poland |
| Bille August | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Denmark |
| Bille August | The Best Intentions | 1992 | Denmark/Sweden |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Denmark |
| Lars von Trier | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Denmark |
| Thomas Vinterberg | The Hunt | 2013 | Denmark |
| Lars von Trier | Dogville | 2003 | Denmark/Netherlands/USA |
| F.W. Murnau | Sunrise | 1927 | Germany |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Veronica Voss's Desire | 1982 | Germany |
| Fritz Lang | Metropolis | 1927 | Germany |
| Robert Wiene | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Germany |
| Alain Resnais | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | France |
| Agnès Varda | The Beach of Agnès | 2008 | France |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | France |
| René Clément | Forbidden Games | 1952 | France |
| Robert Bresson | Pickpocket | 1959 | France |
| Pialat/Chantal Akerman | I Was Born in Iran | 2007 | France |
| Jean Renoir | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | France |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud | The Bear | 1988 | France |
| François Truffaut | The 400 Blows | 1959 | France |
| Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | France |
| Kim Ki-duk | 3-Iron | 2004 | South Korea |
| Sălănică Nicolae | The Death of Ippolit | 1972 | Romania |
| Milcho Manchevski | Before the Rain | 1994 | Macedonia |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Vertigo | 1958 | USA |
| Oliver Stone | Platoon | 1986 | USA |
| Buster Keaton | Sherlock Jr. | 1924 | USA |
| Charlie Chaplin | The Great Dictator | 1941 | USA |
| Darren Aronofsky | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | USA |
| D.W. Griffith | Intolerance | 1916 | USA |
| David Lynch | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | USA |
| Coen Brothers | Barton Fink | 1991 | USA |
| Christopher Nolan | Memento | 2000 | USA |
| Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1987 | USA |
| Miloš Forman | Man on the Moon | 1999 | USA |
| Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | USA |
| Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | USA |
| Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1967 | USA |
| Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | USA |
| Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business | 1985 | Yugoslavia |
| Mikio Naruse | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Japan |
| Kenji Mizoguchi | Ugetsu | 1953 | Japan |
| Satoshi Kon | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Japan |
| Sabu | The Last Message | 1997 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Japan |
| Shōhei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Kurosawa | The Taste of Tea | 1996 | Japan |
| Itami Juzo | Tampopo | 1985 | Japan |
| Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Pulse | 2001 | Japan |
| Ingmar Bergman | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Sweden |
| Ingmar Bergman | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Sweden |
| Ingmar Bergman | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Sweden |
| Kusturica | Underground | 1995 | Serbia |
| Kusturica | Life is a Miracle | 1998 | Serbia/France/Italy |
| Andrei Zvyagintsev | The Return | 2003 | Russia |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Soviet Union |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Kalatozov | The Cranes Are Flying | 1957 | Soviet Union |
| Andrei Zvyagintsev | The Banishment | 2007 | Russia |
| Michal Kalatozov | The Fourth | 1956 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Nostalgia | 1983 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Soviet Union |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Turkey |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | 2002 | Spain |
| Carlos Saura | Flamenco | 1995 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1929 | Spain |
| Victor Erice | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Spain/France |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Greece |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Landscape in Fog | 1988 | Greece |
| Béla Tarr | Satan's Tango | 1994 | Hungary |
| Alan Kohler | The Band Visit | 2007 | Israel |
| Ari Folman | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Israel/France |
| Sergio Leone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Italy/USA |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Italy/USA/China |
| Emanuele Crialese | The Wooden Tree | 1978 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Blow-Up | 1966 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Red Desert | 1964 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | 1900 | 1976 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | The Conformist | 1970 | Italy |
| De Santis | Eleven O'Clock in Rome | 1952 | Italy |
| De Sica | Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Italy |
| De Sica | Umberto D. | 1952 | Italy |
| Fellini | The Road | 1954 | Italy |
| Fellini | 8½ | 1963 | Italy |
| Fellini | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Italy |
| Rossellini | Germany Year Zero | 1948 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Leopard | 1963 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Earth Trembles | 1948 | Italy |
| Carol Reed | The Third Man | 1949 | UK |
| Ken Loach | Kes | 1970 | UK |
| Lindsay Anderson | The Lucky One | 1982 | UK |
| Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | UK |
| Bi Gan | Long Day's Journey into Night | 2015 | China |
| Cai Chusheng/Zheng Junli | A River Flows Eastward | 1947 | China |
| Huang Jianxin | Back to Back, Face to Face | 1994 | China |
| Jia Zhangke | Still Life | 2006 | China |
| Jiang Wen | The Sun Also Rises | 2007 | China |
| Shi Hui | This Life | 1950 | China |
| Wang Quan'an | Tuya's Marriage | 2006 | China |
| Xie Fei | The Year of the Monkey | 1990 | China |
| Tsai Ming-liang | Vive L'Amour | 1994 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | A Time to Live and a Time to Die | 1985 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | The Assassin | 2016 | Taiwan |
| Edward Yang | Terrorist | 1986 | Taiwan |
| Sylvia Chang | Today I Won't Go Home | 1996 | Taiwan |
| Gordon Chan | The Thirteen Hongs of the South | 1997 | Hong Kong |
| Wong Kar-wai | Ashes of Time | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| Ann Hui | The Way We Are | 1999 | Hong Kong |
| Derek Yee | The Love Eterne | 1997 | Hong Kong |
Summary Table#
| Director | Title | Year | Country/Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Haneke | The White Ribbon | 2009 | Austria/Germany/France |
| Michael Haneke | Amour | 2012 | Austria/France |
| Adam Elliot | Mary and Max | 2009 | Australia |
| Fernando Meirelles | City of God | 2002 | Brazil |
| Walter Salles | Central Station | 1998 | Brazil |
| Jean-Pierre/Luc Dardenne | Rosetta | 1999 | Belgium/France |
| Andrzej Wajda | Kanal | 1957 | Poland |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | The Double Life of Véronique | 1991 | Poland |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski | The Decalogue | 1989 | Poland |
| Roman Polanski | The Pianist | 2002 | Poland/USA |
| Bille August | Pelle the Conqueror | 1987 | Denmark |
| Carl Theodor Dreyer | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Denmark |
| Lars von Trier | Dancer in the Dark | 2000 | Denmark |
| Thomas Vinterberg | The Hunt | 2013 | Denmark |
| Lars von Trier | Dogville | 2003 | Denmark/Netherlands/USA |
| Bille August | The Best Intentions | 1992 | Denmark/Sweden |
| Wim Wenders | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Germany/USA |
| F.W. Murnau | Sunrise | 1927 | Germany |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Lola | 1981 | Germany |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Veronica Voss's Desire | 1982 | Germany |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | The Lives of Others | 2006 | Germany |
| Fritz Lang | M | 1931 | Germany |
| Fritz Lang | Metropolis | 1927 | Germany |
| Werner Herzog | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Germany |
| Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain | 1976 | Germany |
| Robert Wiene | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Germany |
| Volker Schlöndorff | The Tin Drum | 1979 | Germany |
| Tom Tykwer | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Germany |
| Tom Tykwer | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | 2006 | Germany |
| Werner Fassbinder | The Marriage of Maria Braun | 1979 | Germany |
| Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Germany |
| Nikita Mikhalkov | Burnt by the Sun | 1994 | Russia |
| Pavel Chukhrai | The Thief | 1997 | Russia |
| Jacques Audiard | The Eight Day | 1996 | France/Belgium |
| Luc Besson | Léon: The Professional | 1994 | France/USA |
| Jacques Perrin | Winged Migration | 2001 | France/Italy |
| Alain Resnais | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 1959 | France |
| Alain Resnais | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | France |
| Agnès Varda | The Beach of Agnès | 2008 | France |
| Eric Rohmer | The Green Ray | 1986 | France |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | France |
| René Clément | Forbidden Games | 1952 | France |
| Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped | 1956 | France |
| Robert Bresson | Pickpocket | 1959 | France |
| Pialat/Chantal Akerman | I Was Born in Iran | 2007 | France |
| Jean Renoir | The Grand Illusion | 1937 | France |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud | The Bear | 1988 | France |
| François Truffaut | The 400 Blows | 1959 | France |
| Jacques Demy | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | 1964 | France |
| Kim Ki-duk | 3-Iron | 2004 | South Korea |
| Sălănică Nicolae | The Death of Ippolit | 1972 | Romania |
| Milcho Manchevski | Before the Rain | 1994 | Macedonia |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Vertigo | 1958 | USA |
| Oliver Stone | Platoon | 1986 | USA |
| Buster Keaton | Sherlock Jr. | 1924 | USA |
| Charlie Chaplin | The Great Dictator | 1941 | USA |
| Darren Aronofsky | Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | USA |
| D.W. Griffith | Intolerance | 1916 | USA |
| David Lynch | Mulholland Drive | 2001 | USA |
| Coen Brothers | Barton Fink | 1991 | USA |
| Christopher Nolan | Memento | 2000 | USA |
| Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | USA |
| Martin Scorsese | The Last Temptation of Christ | 1987 | USA |
| Miloš Forman | Man on the Moon | 1999 | USA |
| Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | USA |
| Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing | 1989 | USA |
| Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1967 | USA |
| Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2014 | USA |
| Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business | 1985 | Yugoslavia |
| Mikio Naruse | When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | 1960 | Japan |
| Kenji Mizoguchi | Ugetsu | 1953 | Japan |
| Satoshi Kon | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Japan |
| Sabu | The Last Message | 1997 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Teshigahara | Woman in the Dunes | 1964 | Japan |
| Shōhei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama | 1983 | Japan |
| Hiroshi Kurosawa | The Taste of Tea | 1996 | Japan |
| Itami Juzo | Tampopo | 1985 | Japan |
| Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Pulse | 2001 | Japan |
| Ingmar Bergman | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Sweden |
| Ingmar Bergman | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Sweden |
| Ingmar Bergman | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Sweden |
| Kusturica | Underground | 1995 | Serbia |
| Kusturica | Life is a Miracle | 1998 | Serbia/France/Italy |
| Andrei Zvyagintsev | The Return | 2003 | Russia |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Soviet Union |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Kalatozov | The Cranes Are Flying | 1957 | Soviet Union |
| Andrei Zvyagintsev | The Banishment | 2007 | Russia |
| Michal Kalatozov | The Fourth | 1956 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Nostalgia | 1983 | Soviet Union |
| Tarkovsky | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Soviet Union |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | 2011 | Turkey |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Talk to Her | 2002 | Spain |
| Carlos Saura | Flamenco | 1995 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1929 | Spain |
| Victor Erice | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Spain |
| Luis Buñuel | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Spain/France |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Eternity and a Day | 1998 | Greece |
| Theo Angelopoulos | Landscape in Fog | 1988 | Greece |
| Béla Tarr | Satan's Tango | 1994 | Hungary |
| Alan Kohler | The Band Visit | 2007 | Israel |
| Ari Folman | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Israel/France |
| Sergio Leone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 | Italy/USA |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Italy/USA/China |
| Emanuele Crialese | The Wooden Tree | 1978 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Blow-Up | 1966 | Italy |
| Antonioni | Red Desert | 1964 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | 1900 | 1976 | Italy |
| Bertolucci | The Conformist | 1970 | Italy |
| De Santis | Eleven O'Clock in Rome | 1952 | Italy |
| De Sica | Bicycle Thieves | 1948 | Italy |
| De Sica | Umberto D. | 1952 | Italy |
| Fellini | The Road | 1954 | Italy |
| Fellini | 8½ | 1963 | Italy |
| Fellini | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Italy |
| Rossellini | Germany Year Zero | 1948 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Leopard | 1963 | Italy |
| Visconti | The Earth Trembles | 1948 | Italy |
| Carol Reed | The Third Man | 1949 | UK |
| Ken Loach | Kes | 1970 | UK |
| Lindsay Anderson | The Lucky One | 1982 | UK |
| Mike Leigh | Secrets & Lies | 1996 | UK |
| Bi Gan | Long Day's Journey into Night | 2015 | China |
| Cai Chusheng/Zheng Junli | A River Flows Eastward | 1947 | China |
| Huang Jianxin | Back to Back, Face to Face | 1994 | China |
| Jia Zhangke | Still Life | 2006 | China |
| Jiang Wen | The Sun Also Rises | 2007 | China |
| Shi Hui | This Life | 1950 | China |
| Wang Quan'an | Tuya's Marriage | 2006 | China |
| Xie Fei | The Year of the Monkey | 1990 | China |
| Tsai Ming-liang | Vive L'Amour | 1994 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | A Time to Live and a Time to Die | 1985 | Taiwan |
| Hou Hsiao-hsien | The Assassin | 2016 | Taiwan |
| Edward Yang | Terrorist | 1986 | Taiwan |
| Sylvia Chang | Today I Won't Go Home | 1996 | Taiwan |
| Gordon Chan | The Thirteen Hongs of the South | 1997 | Hong Kong |
| Wong Kar-wai | Ashes of Time | 1994 | Hong Kong |
| Ann Hui | The Way We Are | 1999 | Hong Kong |
| Derek Yee | The Love Eterne | 1997 | Hong Kong |