The top 250 directors and their best film according to TSPDT/DtC (2012)

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This list contains 250 films by the 250 greatest directors of all time, according to "they shoot pictures don't they?". Each director has one entry; their most critically acclaimed film. Two directors appear more than once on the list (Michael Powell and Stanley Donen) and all together there are 5 director couples (Powell/Pressburger, Donen/Kelly, Coen Brothers, Cooper/Schoedsack and Straub/Huillet). #76 is a TV-mini-series; #81, #151, #157, #180, #190 and #202 are short features, the rest of the entries are featured films.

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  1. 202 new

    Le voyage dans la lune

    1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 188 new

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  3. 35 new

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  4. 77 new

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  5. 113 new

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  6. 43 new

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  7. 10 new

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  8. 22 new

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  9. 247 new

    7th Heaven

    1927, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 62 new

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    The Crowd

    1928, in 20 top lists Check
  13. 18 new

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  14. 226 new

    Potomok Chingis-Khana

    1928 — a.k.a. Storm Over Asia, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 144 new

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  16. 56 new

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  18. 164 new

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
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    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 17 top lists Check
  20. 74 new

    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
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    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  23. 138 new

    Le million

    1931 — a.k.a. Le Million, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 84 new

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  25. 181 new

    Love Me Tonight

    1932, in 11 top lists Check
  26. 60 new

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
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    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
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    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
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    A Night at the Opera

    1935, in 17 top lists Check
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    Top Hat

    1935, in 14 top lists Check
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    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  33. 215 new

    Le roman d'un tricheur

    1936 — a.k.a. The Story of a Cheat, in 7 top lists Check
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
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    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
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    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 38 top lists Check
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    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  38. 83 new

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  40. 63 new

    The Lady Eve

    1941, in 20 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  42. 180 new

    Listen to Britain

    1942, in 7 top lists Check
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    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
  44. 151 new

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  45. 248 new

    The Ox-Bow Incident

    1943, in 14 top lists Check
  46. 186 new

    The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...

    1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check
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    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
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    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
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Last updated on Feb 22, 2012; source