The 2011 They Shoot Pictures Don't They? Top 250
By: MUBI
One of the largest, most debated canons on the internet, the They Shoot Pictures list is an annual poll made of up of lists by filmmakers and critics. We present the top 250 films of their latest poll.
See the full list here.
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01Orson Welles
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02Alfred Hitchcock
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03Jean Renoir
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04Stanley Kubrick
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05Francis Ford Coppola
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06Federico Fellini
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07Akira Kurosawa
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08John Ford
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09Stanley Donen
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10Sergei Eisenstein
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11Yasujirô Ozu
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12F.W. Murnau
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13David Lean
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14Vittorio De Sica
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15Francis Ford Coppola
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16Michael Curtiz
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17Jean Vigo
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18Akira Kurosawa
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19Martin Scorsese
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20Carl Theodor Dreyer
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21Orson Welles
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22Jean Renoir
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23Billy Wilder
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24Charlie Chaplin
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25Federico Fellini
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26Martin Scorsese
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27Francis Ford Coppola
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28Buster Keaton
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29Carol Reed
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30Jean-Luc Godard
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31Billy Wilder
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32Alfred Hitchcock
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33Stanley Kubrick
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34Marcel Carné
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35Charlie Chaplin
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36François Truffaut
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37Roman Polanski
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38Ridley Scott
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39Charles Laughton
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40Carl Theodor Dreyer
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41Michelangelo Antonioni
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42Ingmar Bergman
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43Frank Capra
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44Fritz Lang
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45François Truffaut
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46Andrei Tarkovsky
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47Jeff Bleckner
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48Sam Peckinpah
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49Kenji Mizoguchi
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50Jean-Luc Godard
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51Orson Welles
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52Federico Fellini
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53Ingmar Bergman
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54D.W. Griffith
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55Charlie Chaplin
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56Ingmar Bergman
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57Alfred Hitchcock
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58Billy Wilder
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59Howard Hawks
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60Robert Bresson
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61Sergio Leone
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62Bernardo Bertolucci
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63Satyajit Ray
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64Victor Fleming
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65Luchino Visconti
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66Victor Fleming
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67Andrei Tarkovsky
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68Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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69Erich von Stroheim
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70Luis Buñuel
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71Fritz Lang
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72John Ford
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73Ernst Lubitsch
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74Federico Fellini
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75Steven Spielberg
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76Robert Altman
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77Stanley Kubrick
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78Ingmar Bergman
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79Gillo Pontecorvo
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80Alfred Hitchcock
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81John Ford
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82Kenji Mizoguchi
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83Akira Kurosawa
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84Stanley Kubrick
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85Max Ophüls
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86Jean-Luc Godard
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87Roberto Rossellini
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88Robert Bresson
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89Werner Herzog
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90Elia Kazan
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91Max Ophüls
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92Jacques Tati
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93Martin Scorsese
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94Howard Hawks
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95John Ford
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96Woody Allen
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97Roberto Rossellini
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98Billy Wilder
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99Alain Resnais
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100George Lucas
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101Howard Hawks
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102Dziga Vertov
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103F.W. Murnau
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104Leo McCarey
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105David Lynch
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106Luis Buñuel
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107Abel Gance
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108Merian C. Cooper
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109Alain Resnais
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110Preston Sturges
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111Carl Theodor Dreyer
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112Andrei Tarkovsky
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113Luis Buñuel
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114Steven Spielberg
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115Martin Scorsese
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116Akira Kurosawa
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117Stanley Kubrick
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118Woody Allen
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119Jacques Tourneur
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120Robert Altman
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121John Ford
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122John Huston
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123Quentin Tarantino
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124Roberto Rossellini
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125D.W. Griffith
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126Andrzej Wajda
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127Luis Buñuel
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128Steven Spielberg
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129Buster Keaton
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130William Wyler
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131Vittorio De Sica
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132Miloš Forman
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133Jean-Luc Godard
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134D.W. Griffith
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135Aleksandr Dovzhenko
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136Preston Sturges
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137Michael Powell
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138Michael Powell
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139Terrence Malick
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140Krzysztof Kieślowski
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141Terrence Malick
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142Chris Marker
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143Sergio Leone
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144Orson Welles
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145Robert Bresson
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146Arthur Penn
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147Nicolas Roeg
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148John Ford
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149John Cassavetes
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150Vincente Minnelli
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151Francis Ford Coppola
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152Michael Powell
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153David Lean
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154Michael Powell
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155Robert Wiene
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156George Cukor
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157Chantal Akerman
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158Terry Gilliam
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159Howard Hawks
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160Luchino Visconti
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161Luis Buñuel
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162John Huston
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163William Friedkin
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164Tod Browning
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165Jean Renoir
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166Claude Lanzmann
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167Federico Fellini
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168Ernst Lubitsch
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169Sergei Eisenstein
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170Luis Buñuel
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171Sergio Leone
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172Michael Cimino
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173Alexander Mackendrick
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174Sergei Eisenstein
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175Ingmar Bergman
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176Spike Lee
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177Theodoros Angelopoulos
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178Henri-Georges Clouzot
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179Pier Paolo Pasolini
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180Preston Sturges
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181Jean Cocteau
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182Steven Spielberg
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183F.W. Murnau
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184Jean Eustache
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185Charlie Chaplin
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186Ridley Scott
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187Satyajit Ray
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188Carl Theodor Dreyer
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189Luis Buñuel
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190Luchino Visconti
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191Donald Cammell
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192Stanley Kubrick
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193Charlie Chaplin
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194Mike Nichols
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195Yasujirô Ozu
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196Ernst Lubitsch
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197Frank Capra
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198Steven Spielberg
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199Jean Renoir
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200Clint Eastwood
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201George A. Romero
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202David Lean
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203James Whale
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204Satyajit Ray
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205Jacques Rivette
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206Akira Kurosawa
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207Michelangelo Antonioni
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208Roman Polanski
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209Nicholas Ray
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210Michelangelo Antonioni
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211Wong Kar-wai
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212Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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213Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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214Jacques Demy
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215Michael Powell
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216Chris Marker
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217King Vidor
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218Abbas Kiarostami
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219François Truffaut
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220Tobe Hooper
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221Howard Hawks
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222Douglas Sirk
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223Jean-Pierre Melville
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224William Cottrell
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225Robert Hamer
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226Víctor Erice
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227F.W. Murnau
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228Robert Bresson
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229Jacques Tati
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230Andrei Tarkovsky
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231Giuseppe Tornatore
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232Sergei Eisenstein
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233Douglas Sirk
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234Woody Allen
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235Jean Cocteau
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236Alfred Hitchcock
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237Robert Mulligan
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238Michelangelo Antonioni
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239Robert J. Flaherty
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240Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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241Irvin Kershner
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242Vincente Minnelli
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243Roberto Rossellini
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244Michelangelo Antonioni
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245George Cukor
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246Robert Bresson
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247Jean-Luc Godard
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248Béla Tarr
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249James Algar
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250Jean-Luc Godard
