In no particular order:
- John Ford: The Searchers
- Buster Keaton: The General
- Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep
- Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo
- Carl Theodor Dreyer: Day of Wrath
- Jean-Luc Godard: Alphaville
- Jean-Pierre Melville: Touchez Pas au Grisbi
- Yasujiro Ozu: Late Spring
- Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff
- Federico Fellini: La Strada
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