The Film-Lover's Check List: Ebert's Great Movies by Director

Ebert's Great Movies by Director

Robert Aldrich


	What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)

Woody Allen


	Annie Hall (1977)
	Manhattan (1979)
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Paul Almond


	7 Up (1964)

Robert Altman


	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
	The Long Goodbye (1973)
	Nashville (1975)
	3 Women (1977)
	A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Paul Thomas Anderson


	Magnolia (1999)

Michelangelo Antonioni


	L'Avventura (1960)
	Blowup (1966)

Michael Apted


	7+7 (1970)
	21 Up (1977)
	28 Up (1985)
	35 Up (1991)
	42 Up (1998)
	49 Up (2005)

Hal Ashby


	Being There (1979)

Hector Babenco


	Pixote (1981)

John Badham


	Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Ramin Bahrani


	Chop Shop (2007)

Jacques Becker


	Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)

Jean-Jacques Beineix


	Diva (1981)

Bruce Beresford


	Tender Mercies (1983)

Ingmar Bergman


	Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
	Winter Light (1963)
	The Silence (1963)
	Persona (1966)
	Cries and Whispers (1972)
	Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Bernardo Bertolucci


	Last Tango In Paris (1972)

Peter Bogdanovich


	The Last Picture Show (1971)

Robert Bresson


	Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
	A Man Escaped (1956)
	Pickpocket (1959)
	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

Mel Brooks


	The Producers (1968)

Richard Brooks


	In Cold Blood (1967)

Tod Browning


	Dracula (1931)

Luis Bunuel


	Un Chien Andalou (1929)
	Viridiana (1961)
	The Exterminating Angel (1962)
	Belle de Jour (1967)
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Charles Burnett


	Killer of Sheep (1978)

Frank Capra


	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Marcel Carne


	Children of Paradise (1945)

John Cassavetes


	A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Claude Chabrol


	Le Boucher (1970)
	La Ceremonie (1995)

Charlie Chaplin


	The Circus (1928)
	City Lights (1931)
	The Great Dictator (1940)

Bob Clark


	A Christmas Story (1983)

Rene Clement


	Forbidden Games (1952)

Edward F. Cline


	The Bank Dick (1940)

Jean Cocteau


	Beauty and the Beast (1946)
	Orpheus (1950)

Joel & Ethan Coen


	Fargo (1996)
	The Big Lebowski (1998)

Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack


	King Kong (1933)

Francis Ford Coppola


	The Godfather (1972)
	The Conversation (1974)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
	Apocalypse Now (1979)

Sofia Coppola


	Lost In Translation (2003)

Paul Cox


	A Woman's Tale (1991)

Cameron Crowe


	Say Anything... (1989)

Michael Curtiz


	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
	Casablanca (1942)

Frank Darabont


	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Jules Dassin


	Rififi (1955)

Basil Dearden


	Victim (1961)

Guillermo del Toro


	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Jonathan Demme


	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Brian De Palma


	Scarface (1983)

Vittorio De Sica


	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	Umberto D (1952)

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly


	Singin' In the Rain (1952)

Richard Donner


	Superman (1978)

Carl Theodor Dreyer


	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
	Ordet (1955)

George Dunning


	Yellow Submarine (1968)

Clint Eastwood


	Unforgiven (1992)

Blake Edwards


	My Fair Lady (1964)

Tim Blake Edwards


	The Grey Zone (2001)

Atom Egoyan


	Exotica (1994)

Sergei Eisenstein


	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
	Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1958)

Jean Epstein


	The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Victor Erice


	The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder


	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
	The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
	Veronika Voss (1982)

Federico Fellini


	Nights of Cabiria (1957)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)
	8 1/2 (1963)
	Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
	Amarcord (1973)

Mike Figgis


	Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

David Fincher


	Seven (1995)

Robert J. Flaherty


	Nanook of the North (1922)

Victor Fleming


	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)

James Foley


	After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

John Ford


	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
	My Darling Clementine (1946)
	The Searchers (1956)
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Milos Forman


	The Firemen's Ball (1967)
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	Amadeus (1984)

John Frankenheimer


	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Ron Fricke


	Baraka (1992)

Samuel Fuller


	The Big Red One (1980)

Jean-Luc Godard


	Breathless (1960)
	My Life To Live (1962)

Michel Gondry


	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

D. W. Griffith


	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
	Broken Blossoms (1919)

Robert Hamer


	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Guy Hamilton


	Goldfinger (1964)

David Hand


	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Michael Haneke


	Cache (2005)

Curtis Hanson


	L.A. Confidential (1997)

Howard Hawks


	The Big Sleep (1946)
	Red River (1948)
	Rio Bravo (1959)

Werner Herzog


	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
	Heart of Glass (1976)
	Stroszek (1977)
	Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
	Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Alfred Hitchcock


	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
	Notorious (1946)
	Strangers On a Train (1951)
	Rear Window (1954)
	Vertigo (1958)
	Psycho (1960)

Dennis Hopper


	Easy Rider (1969)

John Hughes


	Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

Rupert Hughes


	Souls For Sale (1923)

John Huston


	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
	Beat the Devil (1953)
	The Dead (1987)

Shohei Imamura


	Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu


	Babel (2006)

James Ivory


	Howards End (1992)

Steve James


	Hoop Dreams (1994)

Jim Jarmusch


	Mystery Train (1989)

Norman Jewison


	Moonstruck (1987)

Alejandro Jodorowsky


	El Topo (1970)
	Santa Sangre (1989)

Chuck Jones


	Duck Amuck (1953)
	One Froggy Evening (1955)
	What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

Spike Jonze


	Adaptation (2002)

Rupert Julian


	The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Claude Jutra


	Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)

Lawrence Kasdan


	Body Heat (1981)

Philip Kaufman


	The Right Stuff (1983)

Aki Kaurismaki


	The Match Factory Girl (1990)

Elia Kazan


	On the Waterfront (1954)

Buster Keaton


	The Scarecrow (1920)
	Neighbors (1920)
	Our Hospitality (1923)
	The Navigator (1924)
	Seven Chances (1925)
	Go West (1925)
	The General (1927)
	Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Krzysztof Kieślowski


	The Decalogue (1989)
	The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
	Blue (1993)
	White (1994)
	Red (1994)

Kim Ki-Duk


	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003)

Keisuke Kinoshita


	Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Elem Klimov


	Come and See (1985)

Masaki Kobayashi


	Harakiri (1962)
	Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Stanley Kramer


	Inherit the Wind (1960)

Stanley Kubrick


	The Killing (1956)
	Paths of Glory (1957)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)
	The Shining (1980)

Akira Kurosawa


	Rashomon (1950)
	Ikiru (1952)
	The Seven Samurai (1954)
	Yojimbo (1961)
	Red Beard (1965)
	Ran (1985)

Gregory La Cava


	My Man Godfrey (1936)

Fritz Lang


	Metropolis (1927)
	M (1931)
	The Big Heat (1953)

Claude Lanzmann


	Shoah (1985)

Charles Laughton


	The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Jean-Claude Lauzon


	Leolo (1992)

David Lean


	Great Expectations (1946)
	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Patrice Leconte


	Monsieur Hire (1989)
	The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)

Spike Lee


	Do the Right Thing (1989)
	25th Hour (2002)

Mike Leigh


	Secrets & Lies (1996)

Paul Leni


	The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Sergio Leone


	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)

Richard Lester


	A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Richard Linklater


	Waking Life (2001)

Richard Loncraine


	Richard III (1995)

Ernst Lubitsch


	Trouble In Paradise (1932)

George Lucas


	Star Wars (1977)

Sidney Lumet


	12 Angry Men (1957)
	Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
	Network (1976)

David Lynch


	Mulholland Drive (2001)

Alexander Mackendrick


	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Dusan Makavejev


	W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)

Terrence Malick


	Badlands (1973)
	Days of Heaven (1978)

Louis Malle


	Atlantic City (1980)
	My Dinner With Andre (1981)
	Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

David Mamet


	House of Games (1987)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz


	All About Eve (1950)

Leo McCarey


	Duck Soup (1933)
	Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)

Jean-Pierre Melville


	Bob le Flambeur (1956)
	Leon Morin, Priest (1961)
	Le Samourai (1967)
	Army of Shadows (1969)

Vincente Minnelli


	The Band Wagon (1953)

Hayao Miyazaki


	My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
	Spirited Away (2001)

Kenji Mizoguchi


	Life of Oharu (1952)
	Ugetsu (1953)
	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Errol Morris


	Gates of Heaven (1978)

F. W. Murnau


	Nosferatu (1922)
	The Last Laugh (1924)
	Faust (1926)
	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

Gregory Nava


	El Norte (1983)

Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor


	Safety Last (1923)

Max Ophuls


	The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)

Yasujirō Ozu


	The Only Son (1936)
	Late Spring (1949)
	Tokyo Story (1953)
	Floating Weeds (1959)
	An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Georg Wilhelm Pabst


	Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
	Pandora's Box (1929)

Alan Parker


	Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)

Pier Paolo Pasolini


	The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)

Giovanni Pastrone


	Cabiria (1914)

Sam Peckinpah


	The Wild Bunch (1969)
	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Arthur Penn


	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
	Night Moves (1975)

Sean Penn


	The Pledge (2001)

Roman Polanski


	Chinatown (1974)

Gillo Pontecorvo


	The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Michael Powell


	Peeping Tom (1960)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger


	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
	The Red Shoes (1948)

Michael Powell & Tim Whelan


	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Otto Preminger


	Laura (1944)

Alex Proyas


	Dark City (1998)

Bob Rafelson


	Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Harold Ramis


	Groundhog Day (1993)

Nicholas Ray


	In a Lonely Place (1950)
	Johnny Guitar (1954)
	Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Satyajit Ray


	Pather Panchali (1955)
	Aparajito (1956)
	The Music Room (1958)
	The World of Apu (1959)

Carol Reed


	The Third Man (1949)

Rob Reiner


	This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Jean Renoir


	Grand Illusion (1937)
	The Rules of the Game (1939)
	The River (1951)
	French Cancan (1954)

Alain Resnais


	Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
	Mon Oncle D'Amerique (1980)

Leni Riefenstahl


	Triumph of the Will (1935)

Jacques Rivette


	La Belle Noiseuse (1991)

Bruce Robinson


	Withnail & I (1987)

Nicolas Roeg


	Walkabout (1971)
	Don't Look Now (1973)

Eric Rohmer


	La Collectionneuse (1967)
	A Tale of Winter (1992)

Stuart Rosenberg


	Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Robert Rossen


	The Hustler (1961)

Mark Sandrich


	Top Hat (1935)

Franklin J. Schaffner


	Patton (1970)

Paul Schrader


	Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)

Martin Scorsese


	Mean Streets (1973)
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	Raging Bull (1980)
	After Hours (1985)
	The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
	Goodfellas (1990)
	The Age of Innocence (1993)

Ridley Scott


	Alien (1979)
	Blade Runner (1982)

Ousmane Sembene


	Moolaade (2004)

Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske


	Pinocchio (1940)

Masahiro Shinoda


	Pale Flower (1964)

Douglas Sirk


	Written On the Wind (1956)

Santosh Sivan


	The Terrorist (1999)

Steven Spielberg


	Jaws (1975)
	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
	The Color Purple (1985)
	Schindler's List (1993)
	Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001)

Josef von Sternberg


	The Scarlet Empress (1934)

George Stevens


	Swing Time (1936)
	Shane (1953)

Oliver Stone


	JFK (1991)

Erich von Stroheim


	Greed (1924)

Preston Sturges


	The Lady Eve (1941)

Istvan Szabo


	Mephisto (1981)

Isao Takahata


	Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Yojiro Takita


	Departures (2008)

Quentin Tarantino


	Pulp Fiction (1994)

Andrei Tarkovsky


	Solaris (1972)

Bela Tarr


	Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

Jacques Tati


	Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
	Mon Oncle (1958)
	Playtime (1967)

Bertrand Tavernier


	A Sunday In the Country (1984)

Hiroshi Teshigahara


	Woman In the Dunes (1964)

Jacques Tourneur


	Cat People (1942)
	Out of the Past (1947)

Francois Truffaut


	The 400 Blows (1959)
	Jules and Jim (1962)
	Day For Night (1973)

Edgar G. Ulmer


	Detour (1945)

W. S. Van Dyke


	The Thin Man (1934)

Agnes Varda


	Cleo From 5 To 7 (1962)

Dziga Vertov


	Man With the Movie Camera (1929)

Jean Vigo


	L'Atalante (1934)

Luchino Visconti


	Senso (1954)
	Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
	The Leopard (1963)

Michael Wadleigh


	Woodstock (1970)

Peter Weir


	Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)

Orson Welles


	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Touch of Evil (1958)
	Chimes At Midnight (1965)

Wim Wenders


	Paris, Texas (1984)
	Wings of Desire (1987)

James Whale


	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Robert Wiene


	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Billy Wilder


	Double Indemnity (1944)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
	Ace In the Hole (1951)
	Some Like It Hot (1959)
	The Apartment (1960)

Robert Wise


	West Side Story (1961)

William Wyler


	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Zhang Yimou


	Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Krzysztof Zanussi


	A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)

Franco Zeffirelli


	Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Tian Zhuangzhuang


	The Blue Kite (1993)

Terry Zwigoff


	Crumb (1995)