This is a list of the best films I have encountered (so far) with links to their respective reviews as they are written.
- Roman Polański - Chinatown (1974)
- Robert Eggers - The Lighthouse (2019)
- Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Jean-Luc Godard - Vivre sa vie (1962)
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Cure (1997)
- Werner Herzog - Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
- Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Robert Altman - The Long Goodbye (1973)
- Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men (1957)
- William Friedkin - To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Billy Wilder - The Apartment (1960)
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)
- Albert Brooks - Modern Romance (1981)
- David Lynch - Eraserhead (1977)
- Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita (1960)
- Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samouraï (1967)
- Joel Coen - Raising Arizona (1987)
- Sergio Leone - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
- Stanley Kubrick - Paths of Glory (1957)
- Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho (1960)
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights (1997)
- Akira Kurosawa - Yojimbo (1961)
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather (1972)
- Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront (1954)
- Sergio Leone - For a Few Dollars More (1967)
- John Huston - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest (1959)
- Stanley Kubrick - The Shining (1980)
- John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
- Joel Coen / Ethan Coen - The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Bong Joon-ho - Parasite (2019)
- Billy Wilder - Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Elaine May - Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- Quentin Tarantino - Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai (1954)
- Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window (1954)
- Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (1941)
- Michael Powell - Peeping Tom (1960)
- Jean Eustache - The Mother and the Whore (1973)
- Frank Perry - The Swimmer (1968)
- Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo (1958)
- Fritz Lang - M (1931)
- Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Terry Gilliam / Terry Jones - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Carl Theodor Dreyer - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Federico Fellini - 8½ (1963)