Top 10 Directors of All Time: Recommendations

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My Top 5 Directors:

1.) Jean-Luc Godard
2.) Alejandro Jodorowsky
3.) John Cassavetes
4.) Stanley Kubrick
5.) Jean-Pierre Melville

If you have not seen any of the films by those directors, look them up! Some recommendations I would make from them would be "Faces", "Band of Outsiders", "The Holy Mountain", "A Clockwork Orange", and "Le Samourai".



Martin Scorcese
Quentin Tarantino
Francis Ford Coppola
Clint Eastwood
The Coen Brothers
Guy Ritchie
Danny Boyle
Akira Kurosawa
Pedro Almadovar
Lina Wertmuller
David Lean
Luc Besson
Ridley Scott
Deepa Mehta
Takeshi Kitano
Alehandro Gozales Inuritu
Guilermo Del Torro



Here are a few of the all time greats and some of the movies they are most well known for, in bold are the ones I've seen and really enjoyed, I've seen Titanic and whilst it's great wasn't the biggest of fans and felt it was highly overrated:

Steven Spielberg- Indiana Jones, Schindler's List, Jaws, ET

Akira Kurosawa- Yojimbo, The Seven Samurai

The Coen Brothers- No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Burn After Reading

David Fincher- Fight Club, Zodiac, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Se7en

Francis Ford Copolla- Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The Godfather Pt 2

Alfred Hitchcock- North By Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, Rear Window

Stanley Kuberick- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange

Martin Scorscese- Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Departed

Clint Eastwood- Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Letters From Iwo Jima, Mystic River

Billy Wilder- Double Indeminty, Some Like it Hot, Sunset Blvd, Witness for the Prosecution

James Cameroon- The Titanic, The Terminator, Aliens, T2

Tim Burton- Batman, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands

That Tarantino Guy- All his movies

I know they are not all time greats but guys I really enjoy:

Guy Ritchie- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barells, Snatch, Rock n Rolla

Darren Aronofsky- Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler

Danny Boyle- Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire
Can't fault your list. I would add the following just for action:

Luc Besson - La Famme Nikita, Leon - The Proffesional, Angel - A, The
Fifth Element, The Messenger, The Lady

Takeshi Kitano - Sonatine, Boiling Point, Violent Cop, Fireworks, Brother,
The Blind Swordsman - Zatoichi

Takeshi Miike - 13 Assassins, Hara Kiri, Graveyard Of Honor, Dead Or Alive
Trilogy, Fudoh: The Next Generation

John Woo - Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow,
Hard Target, Face/Off, Red Cliff, Mission Impossible II



1)William Wyler
2)Frank Capra
3)Alfred Hitchcock
4)Stanley Kubrick
5)Steven Spielberg
6)Francis Ford Coppola
7)Clint Eastwood
8)Martin Scorsese
9)Roman Polanski
10)James Cameron



1 Alfred Hitchcock
2 David Lynch
3 Steven Speilberg
4 Stanley Kubrick
5 John Ford
6 Martin Scorsese
7 Francis Ford Coppela
8 David Lean
9 Orson Welles
10 Frank Capra