These are my favorite films (by director, in no particular order)


Andrei Tarkovsky

Wim Wenders

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ingmar Bergman

Bernardo Bertolucci

Michelangelo Antonioni

Makoto Shinkai

Sunao Katabuchi

Alejandro González Ińárritu

Alfonso Cuarón

Guillermo del Toro

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Ildikó Enyedi

The Coen Brothers: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson

Robert Zemeckis

Clint Eastwood

Ridley Scott

Spike Jonze

Stanley Kubrick

Giuseppe Tornatore

Ettore Scola

Luchino Visconti

Luis Buńuel

Francis Ford Coppola

Milos Forman

Bob Fosse

Martin Scorsese

Denys Arcand

Terrence Malick

George Roy Hill

Steven Spielberg

Barry Levinson

Jane Campion

Steven Soderbergh

Frank Darabont

Bryan Singer

Anthony Minghella

Curtis Hanson

Sam Mendes

David Lynch

Darren Aronofsky

Ron Howard

Terry Zwigoff

Vadim Perelman

Sofia Coppola

Michel Gondry

Fernando Meirelles

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

Kathryn Bigelow

Stephen Daldry

David Fincher

Morten Tyldum

Alan Parker

Richard Attenborough

Oliver Stone

Peter Greenaway

Akira Kurosawa

Shôhei Imamura

Kaige Chen

Yimou Zhang

Ang Lee

István Szabó

Marlen Khutsiyev & Feliks Mironer

Grigori Chukhrai

Grigori Kozintsev

Eldar Ryazanov

Vasili Shukshin

Vladimir Motyl

Andrei Konchalovsky

Nikita Mikhalkov

Alexandr Alov & Vladimir Naumov

Elem Klimov

Mark Zakharov