Criterion Top Ten

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Terry Gilliam

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Carol Reed

Director: Charles Laughton

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Spike Lee

Director: David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin

Director: Rob Reiner

Director: David Lynch

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Mike Leigh

Director: Marcel Carné

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Director: Hal Ashby

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Terrence Malick

Director: Chantal Akerman

Director: François Truffaut

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Robert Bresson

Director: Preston Sturges

Director: David Lynch

Director: Spike Jonze

Director: Monte Hellman

Director: Roman Polanski

Director: Steve James

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Víctor Erice

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Preston Sturges

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Director: Wim Wenders

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Bob Fosse

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: Richard Linklater

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Jacques Tati

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Director: David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer

Director: Terrence Malick

Director: Richard Linklater

Director: Wong Kar Wai

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Andrea Arnold

Director: Todd Haynes

Director: James L. Brooks

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Jean Cocteau

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Barbara Loden

Director: Gus Van Sant

Director: Douglas Sirk

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Director: Paul Schrader

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Marcel Camus

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: Terry Gilliam

Director: Edward Yang

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Les Blank

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Jonathan Demme

Director: Ang Lee

Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Max Ophuls

Director: D. A. Pennebaker

Director: Fritz Lang

Director: Catherine Breillat

Director: Edward Cline

Director: Brian De Palma

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Director: Wim Wenders

Director: Wong Kar Wai

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: Chantal Akerman

Director: Douglas Sirk

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Jacques Tati

Director: Luchino Visconti

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Robert Bresson

Director: Georges Franju

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: Stan Brakhage

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Director: John Schlesinger

Director: Lindsay Anderson

Director: Godfrey Reggio

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Director: Lars von Trier

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Chris Marker

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: François Truffaut

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Director: George Sluizer

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Jules Dassin

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: John Lurie

Director: Roman Polanski

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: David Lean

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Billy Wilder

Director: Peter Weir

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Lasse Hallström

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Orson Welles

Director: Lucrecia Martel

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Director: Ken Loach

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Director: Jean Vigo

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Jacques Tati

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Larisa Shepitko

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Director: Mike Nichols

Director: Michael Powell

Director: Maurice Pialat

Director: Bob Rafelson

Director: Alex Cox

Director: Sidney Lumet

Director: Lynne Ramsay

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Director: Miloš Forman

Director: Herk Harvey

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: Whit Stillman

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: John Frankenheimer

Director: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde

Director: Robert Altman

Director: David Lean

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Terry Jones

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Director: Bruce Robinson

Director: Perry Henzell

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Leonard Kastle

Director: René Laloux

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Peter Medak

Director: Steve McQueen

Director: Ousmane Sembène

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Director: Wim Wenders

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: John Woo

Director: Lee Chang-dong

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Preston Sturges

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: Andrew Haigh

Director: Jonathan Demme

Director: David Lean

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Sydney Pollack

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Mike Leigh

Director: Peter Yates

Director: Terrence Malick

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Director: John Ford

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Director: Barbara Kopple

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Gregory La Cava

Director: David Lean

Director: Robert Aldrich

Director: Stanley Donen

Director: Robert Flaherty

Director: Don Siegel

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Elia Kazan

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: G. W. Pabst

Director: Gus Van Sant

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Director: David Mamet

Director: Orson Welles

Director: Alex Cox

Director: René Clair

Director: John Ford

Director: Jules Dassin

Director: David Lynch

Director: Various

Director: Russ Meyer

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Michael Haneke

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Hal Ashby

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Director: Michael Ritchie

Director: Alain Resnais

Director: Jacques Demy

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Director: Chris Marker

Director: František Vláčil

Director: Albert Lamorisse

Director: Robert Bresson

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Roman Polanski

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Director: Max Ophuls

Director: Errol Morris

Director: Roman Polanski

Director: Susan Seidelman

Director: Martin Rosen

Director: Jean Painlevé

Director: Jacques Demy

Director: Alfonso Cuarón

Director: Jane Campion

Director: Richard Lester

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Director: Neil Jordan

Director: Kaneto Shindo

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Director: Edward Yang

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Director: James Ivory

Director: Terence Davies

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Director: Stanley Kramer

Director: Terry Gilliam

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Director: Nicholas Ray

Director: Al Reinert

Director: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan

Director: Sidney Lumet

Director: Jean Vigo

Director: D. A. Pennebaker

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Ronald Neame

Director: Charles Chaplin

Director: Alain Resnais

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Kon Ichikawa

Director: David Gordon Green

Director: Roger Vadim

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Eric Rohmer

Director: Michael Mann

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Louis Malle

Director:

Director: Benjamin Christensen

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Director: Elaine May

Director: Robert Montgomery

Director: John Huston

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: David Fincher

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Director: Stan Brakhage

Director: Jacques Becker

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Guy Maddin

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: John Hughes

Director: Céline Sciamma

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Director: Les Blank

Director: Chantal Akerman

Director: Nicholas Ray

Director: Michael Cimino

Director: John Schlesinger

Director: Les Blank

Director: Tony Richardson

Director: Costa-Gavras

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Director: Carl Th. Dreyer

Director: William Greaves

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov

Director: Allen Baron

Director: Götz Spielmann

Director: Bob Rafelson

Director: Alexander Payne

Director: John Waters

Director: David Lynch

Director: Whit Stillman

Director: Jack Clayton

Director: Shohei Imamura

Director: Paul Bartel

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Director: Lars von Trier

Director: Olivier Assayas

Director: Ronald Neame

Director: François Truffaut

Director: Mike Leigh

Director: Carroll Ballard

Director: Noah Baumbach

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Director: Lars von Trier

Director: Francesco Rosi

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Kirsten Johnson

Director: Errol Morris

Director: Allan King

Director: Milcho Manchevski

Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Ahmed El Maanouni

Director: Joel Coen

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Director: Preston Sturges

Director: Philip Kaufman

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Luchino Visconti

Director: Dennis Hopper

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Whit Stillman

Director: John Woo

Director: Haskell Wexler

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Charles Kiselyak

Director: Robert Bresson

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Shohei Imamura

Director: Larisa Shepitko

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Director: Robert Hamer

Director: Charles Chaplin

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Liliana Cavani

Director: Brian De Palma

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Director: Kaneto Shindo

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Stephen Frears

Director: Alain Resnais

Director: Martin Ritt

Director: Carol Reed

Director: Ronald Neame

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Marcel Carné

Director: John Ford

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Federico Fellini

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.

Director: René Clément

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Director: Jack Woods

Director: Mikio Naruse

Director: Jules Dassin

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Director: Mario Monicelli

Director: Byron Haskin

Director: Laurence Olivier

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Director: René Clair

Director: Shohei Imamura

Director: Jacques Becker

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Edwin Middleton, Leslie Pearce, and Arthur Ripley

Director:

Director: Nicholas Ray

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: William Wyler

Director: Michael Haneke

Director: Bruce Robinson

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Director: Cristian Mungiu

Director: Wong Kar Wai

Director: Carlos Saura

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Jean Grémillon

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Director: Mikio Naruse

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Director: George Cukor

Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien

Director: Claire Denis

Director: Dudley Murphy

Director: Orson Welles

Director: Daniel Petrie

Director: Edmund Goulding

Director: Jacques Rivette

Director: Yoshimitsu Banno

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: Chantal Akerman

Director: Jacques Tati

Director: Charles Chaplin

Director: Jackie Chan

Director: Sofia Coppola

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Director: Howard Hawks

Director: Paul Mazursky

Director: Juraj Herz

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: Elem Klimov

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Director: Lino Brocka

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: René Clément

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: John Cassavetes

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: Miranda July

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Director: Chantal Akerman

Director: Marlon Brando

Director: Mário Peixoto

Director: Robert Bresson

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Ken Russell

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Bruno Dumont

Director: Bruno Dumont

Director: Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin

Director: Hollis Frampton

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Director: Pedro Costa

Director: Sidney Gilliat

Director: John Huston

Director: John Mackenzie

Director: Arthur Hiller

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Paul Morrissey

Director: Erle C. Kenton

Director: Orson Welles

Director: Leo McCarey

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: George A. Romero

Director: Bob Rafelson

Director: Billy Wilder

Director: Felipe Cazals

Director: Víctor Erice

Director:

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Director: Sergei Parajanov

Director: Rob Reiner

Director: Lena Dunham

Director: Jack Nicholson

Director: Jim Jarmusch

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Director: Martin Scorsese

Director: Andrew Haigh

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: Carlos Saura

Director: Michael Haneke

Director: Charles Chaplin

Director: Howard Hawks

Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Director: Terrence Malick

Director: David Fincher

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Director: Kaneto Shindo

Director: Juzo Itami

Director: Olivier Assayas

Director: Nagisa Oshima

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Director: Lodge Kerrigan

Director: Errol Morris

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Leo McCarey

Director: Gregory Nava

Director: John Frankenheimer

Director: Richard Linklater

Director: Gabriel Axel

Director: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Wes Anderson

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Robert Epstein

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Terry Zwigoff

Director: Wim Wenders

Director: Brian De Palma

Director: Charles Vidor

Director: François Truffaut

Director: Antonio Pietrangeli

Director: Stuart Cooper

Director: Matteo Garrone

Director: Marco Ferreri

Director: David Cronenberg

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Robert Altman

Director: Franc Roddam

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski

Director: Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer

Director: Terry Gilliam

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Director: Giuseppe De Santis

Director: Jacques Demy

Director: Satyajit Ray

Director: Alf Sjöberg

Director: Carol Reed

Director: Sacha Guitry

Director: David Lean

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Agnès Varda

Director: Francesco Rosi

Director: Claire Denis

Director: Noah Baumbach

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Director: Sacha Guitry

Director: Georges Franju

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Director: Ritwik Ghatak

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Director: Dušan Makavejev

Director: François Truffaut

Director: François Truffaut

Director: François Truffaut

Director: Paul Fejos

Director: Stan Brakhage

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Director: Lars von Trier

Director: William Klein

Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara

Director: Věra Chytilová

Director: Jiří Menzel

Director: Dušan Makavejev

Director: Albert Maysles and David Maysles

Director: Keisuke Kinoshita

Director: William Cameron Menzies

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel

Director: Hiroshi Matsuno

Director: Lewis Allen

Director: Dušan Makavejev

Director: Derek Jarman

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Director: Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: Claude Chabrol

Director: Jacques Becker

Director: Fritz Lang

Director: Alberto Lattuada

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Director: Shohei Imamura

Director: Pietro Germi

Director: Vilgot Sjöman

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Douglas Sirk

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Claude Jutra

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Director: Paul Morrissey

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Director: Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman

Director: Michael Powell

Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Director: D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus

Director: Louis Malle

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Max Ophuls

Director: Max Ophuls

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Jean Renoir

Director: Shohei Imamura

Director: Roberto Rossellini

Director: Claude Sautet

Director: Maurice Pialat

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Director: William Mason

Director: Anthony Asquith

Director: Cornel Wilde

Director: Masahiro Shinoda

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Director: John Huston

Director: Arthur Crabtree

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Juan Antonio Bardem

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Director: Anthony Mann

Director: Francesco Rosi

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi

Director: Roy Ward Baker

Director: Samuel Fuller

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Director: Peter Weir

Director: Peter Brook

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director: Pietro Germi

Director: Kô Nakahira

Director: Miloš Forman

Director: Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Director: Kihachi Okamoto