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Modern Times (1936) – Charles Chaplin
Citizen Kane (1941) – Orson Welles
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) – Frank Capra
The Third Man (1948) – Carol Reed
N Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – David Lean
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) – Sergio Leone
Apocalypse Now (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola
Raging Bull (1980) – Martin Scorsese
Unforgiven (1992) – Clint Eastwood
Fearless (1993) – Peter Weir
 
The Searchers (1956) – John Ford
Vertigo (1958) – Alfred Hitchcock
Some Like It Hot (1959) – Billy Wilder
One, Two, Three (1961) – Billy Wilder
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Stanley Kubrick
The Godfather (1972) – Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Milos Forman
Taxi Driver (1976) – Martin Scorsese
Annie Hall (1977) – Woody Allen
Mad Max 2 (1981) – George Miller
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Steven Spielberg
Raising Arizona (1987) – Joel Coen
Ed Wood (1994) – Tim Burton
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) – Joel Coen
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino
Smoke (1995) – Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
The Truman Show (1998) – Peter Weir
N Being John Malkovich (1999) – Spike Jonze
N Magnolia (1999) – Paul Thomas Anderson
 
The Kid (1921) – Charles Chaplin
The Gold Rush (1925) – Charles Chaplin
The General (1926) – Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Horse Feathers (1932) – Norman McLeod
The Great Dictator (1940) – Charles Chaplin
How Green Was My Valley (1941) – John Ford
The Maltese Falcon (1941) – John Huston
Casablanca (1942) – Michael Curtiz
To Be Or Not to Be (1942) – Ernst Lubitch
The Killers (1946) – Robert Siodmak
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) – John Huston
Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Billy Wilder
The African Queen (1951) – John Huston
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) – Robert Wise
Strangers On a Train (1951) – Alfred Hitchcock
N The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) – Vincente Minnelli
The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford
Rear Window (1954) – Alfred Hitchcock
N Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
Rio Bravo (1958) – Howard Hawks
N Touch of Evil (1958) – Orson Welles
Psycho (1960) – Alfred Hitchcock
N The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – John Frankenheimer
Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Stanley Kubrick
A Shot in the Dark (1964) – Blake Edwards
The Graduate (1967) – Mike Nichols
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – John Schlesinger
The Wild Bunch (1969) – Sam Peckinpah
Dirty Harry (1971) – Don Siegel
N O Lucky Man! (1973) – Lindsay Anderson
The Deer Hunter (1978) – Michael Cimino
The Shining (1980) – Stanley Kubrick
Body Heat (1981) – Lawrence Kasdan
Blade Runner (1982) – Ridley Scott
The Man With Two Brains (1983) – Carl Reiner
Amadeus (1984) – Milos Forman
N Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – Sergio Leone
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – Rob Reiner
Witness (1985) – Peter Weir
Stand By Me (1986) – Rob Reiner
Barfly (1987) – Barbet Schroeder
Hellraiser (1987) – Clive Barker
Robocop (1987) – Paul Verhoeven
Edward Scissorhands (1990) – Tim Burton
Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
Jacob’s Ladder (1990) – Adrian Lyne
Wild at Heart (1990) – David Lynch
Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese
The Fisher King (1991) – Terry Gilliam
JFK (1991) – Oliver Stone
Terminator 2: The Judgment Day (1991) – James Cameron
The Crying Game (1992) – Neil Jordan
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – James Foley
Reservoir Dogs (1992) – Quentin Tarantino
Groundhog Day (1993) – Harold Ramis
The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
Schindler’s List (1993) – Steven Spielberg
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – Frank Darabont
Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
Dead Man Walking (1995) – Tim Robbins
SE7En (1995) – David Fincher
Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen
Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle
Gods and Monsters (1998) – Bill Condon
Happiness (1998) – Todd Solondz
N American Beauty (1999) – Sam Mendes
N The Matrix (1999) – Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
The Sixth Sense (1999) – M. Night Shyamalan
N O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) – Joel Coen
N Moulin Rouge (2001) – Baz Luhrmann

THE SYMBOLS

N = New Entry
↑ = On an Upward Trend
↓ = On a Downward Trend
 
DROPPED OFF THE 2000 LIST:

Sons of the Desert (1933)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Year of the Dragon (1985)
My Left Foot (1989)
Raising Cain (1992)
Carlito’s Way (1993)
Quiz Show (1994)
Casino (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)

 
THE MOST PROMINENT DIRECTORS:
4  Charles Chaplin, Joel Coen, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese
3  Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Weir, Billy Wilder
 
Other TOP 100 lists:

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