A Top 100 Films of All-Time (One-Per-Director)

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  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
  3. Sunless (1983, Chris Marker)
  4. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  5. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  6. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  7. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  9. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
  10. Meet Me in St. Louis (1945, Vincente Minnelli)
  11. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  12. (nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
  13. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  14. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  15. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
  16. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  17. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
  18. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
  19. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
  20. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  21. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
  22. Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
  23. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
  24. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  25. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
  26. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
  27. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  28. Ordet (1955, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  29. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
  30. All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
  31. L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
  32. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  33. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  34. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  35. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  36. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
  37. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
  38. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  39. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  40. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  41. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F. W. Murnau)
  42. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  43. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  44. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
  45. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  46. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  47. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  48. Rose Hobart (1936, Joseph Cornell)
  49. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  50. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  51. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
  52. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  53. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
  54. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  55. Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
  56. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
  57. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
  58. Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)
  59. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
  60. Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  61. Yearning (1964, Naruse Mikio)
  62. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  63. Moses and Aaron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  64. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Anno Hideaki)
  65. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  66. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
  67. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  68. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  69. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
  70. The Trap (2007, Adam Curtis)
  71. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
  72. Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)
  73. Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung)
  74. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
  75. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
  76. Pyaasa (1957, Guru Dutt)
  77. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
  78. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  79. The Ceremony (1995, Claude Chabrol)
  80. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  81. Death by Hanging (1968, Oshima Nagisa)
  82. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
  83. PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati)
  84. Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
  85. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
  86. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  87. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
  88. Naked (1995, Mike Leigh)
  89. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
  90. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  91. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
  92. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
  93. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
  94. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
  95. Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
  96. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  97. Canyon Passage (1946, Jacques Tourneur)
  98. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
  99. Fort Apache (1948, John Ford)
  100. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)