Stuff I really enjoyed or connected with on a deep emotional level in italics, stuff I didn't care for in strikethrough.
AKIRA KUROSAWA
High and Low (1963)
Ran (1985)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Yojimbo (1961)
BRIAN DE PALMA
Body Double (1984)
Carlito’s Way (1993)
Casualties of War (1989)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Femme Fatale (2002)
Scarface (1983)
Sisters (1973)
OLIVER STONE
Platoon (1986)
Savages (2012)
Wall Street (1987)
STANLEY KUBRICK
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Lolita (1962)
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler’s List (1993)
WERNER HERZOG
Grizzly Man (2005)
My Best Fiend (1999)
Into the Abyss (2011)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
ERROL MORRIS
Tabloid (2011)
The Unknown Known (2013)
The Thin Blue Line (1984)
STEVEN SODERBERGH
Out of Sight (1998)
Traffic (2000)
Contagion (2011)
THE REST
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
For All Mankind (1989) - Al Reinert
The Fugitive (1993) - Andrew Davis
Foxcatcher (2014) - Bennett Miller
The Last Emperor (1987) - Bernardo Bertolucci
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - Billy Wilder
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Billy Wilder
The Machinist (2004) - Brad Anderson
The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton
Interstellar (2014) - Christopher Nolan
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
Nightcrawler (2014) - Dan Gilroy
Black Swan (2010) - Darren Aronofsky
The Hit (1984) - Stephen Frears
Videodrome (1983) - David Cronenberg
Panic Room (2002) - David Fincher
Blue Velvet (1986) - David Lynch
House of Games (1987) - David Mamet
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Don Siegel
Performance (1970) - Donald Cåmmell (unless you really love Mick Jagger)
The Lives of Others (2006) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) - George Armitage
The Vanishing (1988) - George Sluizer
Pan’s Labyrinth (2007) - Guillermo del Toro
Cries & Whispers (1973) - Ingmar Bergman
Aliens (1986) - James Cameron
Contempt (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard
The Army of Shadows (1969) - Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Samouraï (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville
Miller’s Crossing (1990) - Joel Coen
The Thing (1982) - John Carpenter
Rolling Thunder (1977) - John Flynn
The Maltese Falcon (1941) - John Huston
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) - John Schlesinger
Hard Boiled (1992) - John Woo
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Joseph Sargent
Chungking Express (1996) - Kar Wai Wong
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Kar Wai Wong
La Femme Nikita (1991) - Luc Besson
Léon: The Professional (1994) - Luc Besson
Belle de Jour (1968) - Luis Buñuel
Apocalypto (2006) - Mel Gibson
Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell
L’Avventura (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) - Milos Forman
Bad Timing (1980) - Nicolas Roeg
Captain Phillips (2013) - Paul Greengrass
Talk to Her (2002) - Pedro Almodóvar
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) - Pedro Almodóvar
Witness (1985) - Peter Weir
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) - Roman Polanski
Straw Dogs (1971) - Sam Peckinpah (great ending but no depth to characterization and frankly sexist as hell)
The Icpress File (1965) - Sidney J. Furie
The Thin Red Line (1999) - Terrence Malick
Run Lola Run (1998) - Tom Tykwer
Michael Clayton (2007) - Tony Gilroy
True Romance (1993) - Tony Scott
The American Friend (1977) - Wim Wenders
Däs Boot (1981) - Wolfgang Petersen
Caché (2005) - Michael Haneke
The Act of Killing (2014) - Josh Oppenheimer
The Parallax View (1974) - Alan J. Pakula
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) [2009] - Juan José Campanella
Oldboy (2003) - Chan-wook Park
Clear and Present Danger (1994) - Phillip Noyce
Patriot Games (1992) - Phillip Noyce
Odd Man Out (1947) - Carol Reed