1. Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954)
2. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane (1941)
3. Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu (1953)
4. Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
5. Luis Bunuel: Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
6. Carl Dreyer: Day of Wrath (1943)
7. F.W. Murnau: The Last Laugh (1924)
8. Abe Polanski: Force of Evil (1948)
9. Jacque Rivette: Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974)
10. Charles Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)
11. Nicolas Ray: In a Lonely Place (1950)
12. Alain Resnais: Muriel (1963)
13. Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove (1963)
14. Jean Renoir: Rules of the Game (1939)
15. Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve (1941)
16. Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep (1946)
17. Robert Altman: 3 Women (1977)
18. Anthony Mann: The Man From Laramie (1955)
19. Peter Bogdonavich: The Last Picture Show (1971)
20. John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
21. Martin Scorsese: Goodfellas (1990)
22. Fritz Lang: You Only Live Once (1937)
23. Jean-Luc Godard: Alphaville (1965)
24. Brian DePalma: Carlitto’s Way (1993)
25. Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura (1960)
26. Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966)
27. Nicolas Roeg: Walkabout (1971)
28. Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway (1972)
29. David Lynch: Eraserhead (1977)
30. Peter Weir: Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
31. Woody Allen: Manhattan (1979)
32. Joel & Ethan Coen: Miller’s Crossing (1990)
33. Ernst Lubitsch: Ninotchka (1939)
34. Joseph Von Sternberg: Morocco (1930)
35. Gillo Pontecorvo: Battle of Algiers (1966)
36. Frank Capra: Meet John Doe (1941)
37. Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction (1994)
38. Henri-Georges Clouzot: Le Corbeau (1943)
39. John Houston: Maltese Falcon (1941)
40. Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing (1989)
41. Claube Chabrol: Cry of the Owl (1987)
42. Roman Polanski: Knife in the Water (1962)
43. Robert Aldrich: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
44. Jacque Tourneur: Out of the Past (1947)
45. Max Ophuls: Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
46. Donald Siegal: The Killers (1964)
47. Robert Siodmak: The Killers (1946)
48. Joseph Lewis: Gun Crazy (1949)
49. Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr. (1924)
50. Sergie Eisenstein: October (1927)
51. Francois Truffaut: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
52. Arthur Penn: Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
53. Edgar Ulmer: Detour (1946)
54. Stanley Donen: On the Town (1949)
55. Budd Boetticher: The Bullfighter & the Lady (1951)
56. Raoul Walsh: They Drive By Night (1940)
57. David Mamet: The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
58. Otto Preminger: Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
59. Vincente Minnelli: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
60. Leo McCarey: Duck Soup ((1933)
61. Richard Lester: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
62. William Wyler: The Collector (1965)
63. George Cukor: The Women (1939)
64. Frank Borzage: Moonrise (1948)
65. George Axelrod: Lord Love a Duck (1966)
66. John Boorman: Point Blank (1967)
67. Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
68. David Fincher: Seven (1997)
69. Carol Reed: The Third Man (1949)
70. Clint Eastwood: The Unforgiven (1993)
71. Eric Rohmer: Clair’s Knee (1970)
72. George Romero: Dawn of the Dead (1979)
73. Jules Dassin: Night and the City (1950)
74. Michael Curtiz: Casablanca (1943)
75. John Carpenter: The Thing (1982)
76. David Cronenberg: Spider (2000)
77. Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity (1944)
78. David Miller: Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
79. Mike Nichols: The Graduate (1968)
80. Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter (1955)
81. Gene Kelly: Singin’ In the Rain (1952)
82. Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather (1972)
83. Robert Wise: The Set-Up (1949)
84. J. Lee Thompson: Cape Fear (1961)
85. Sidney Lumet: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
86. John Frankenheimer: Manchurian Candidate (1962)
87. Wachowski Brothers: The Matrix (1999)
88. Ridley Scott: Alien (1979)
89. Richard Brooks: In Cold Blood (1967)
90. James Whale: Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
91. Elia Kazen: On the Waterfront (1943)
92. Tay Garnett: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
93. Abel Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant (1992)
94. Terrance Malick: Badlands (1973)
95. Sam Raimi: A Simple Plan (1998)
96. Terry Gillam: Twelve Monkeys (1995)
97. Hughes Brothers: Menace 2 Society (1993)
98. Joss Whedon: Serenity (2005)
99. Sam Mendes: American Beauty (1999)