DIRECTORS' UNUSUAL FILMS

By: Umberto L.

A personal list of ‘out-of-canon’ films (considering the style and/or the typical themes of each director).

Movies missing in the database:

- “It’s All True” (1942-1993), by Orson Welles
- “Spy Kids” (2001) and “Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams” (2002), by Robert Rodriguez

Above: “Inglourious Basterds” (2009), by Quentin Tarantino.
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• 01
  The Cameraman
  Edward Sedgwick
• 02
  Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  F.W. Murnau
• 03
  Que Viva Mexico!
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 04
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Charlie Chaplin
• 05
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 06
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 07
  The Colossus of Rhodes
  Sergio Leone
• 08
  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick
• 09
  Spirits of the Dead
  Federico Fellini
• 10
  Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 11
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 12
  Fellini's Casanova
  Federico Fellini
• 13
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 14
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 15
  Thelma & Louise
  Ridley Scott
• 16
  The Last of the Mohicans
  Michael Mann
• 17
  The Fifth Element
  Luc Besson
• 18
  Jackie Brown
  Quentin Tarantino
• 19
  The Straight Story
  David Lynch
• 20
  Catch Me If You Can
  Steven Spielberg
• 21
  Dawn of the Dead
  Zack Snyder
• 22
  Sin City
  Frank Miller
• 23
  Revolver
  Guy Ritchie
• 24
  Match Point
  Woody Allen
• 25
  The Unknown Woman
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 26
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Clint Eastwood
• 27
  The Black Dahlia
  Brian De Palma
• 28
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 29
  Inglourious Basterds
  Quentin Tarantino