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Please post your lists.

My ranked list contains no more than one film per director:

Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Shotgun Stories (Nichols, 2007)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)
Harakiri (Kobayashi, 1962)
The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, 1962)
Point Blank (Boorman, 1967)
Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952)
Umberto D. (De Sica, 1952)
Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982)
Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey, 1937)
Shock Corridor (Fuller, 1963)
Badlands (Malick, 1973)
Lacombe Lucien (Malle, 1974)
The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1984)
Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987)
Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)
Le trou (Becker, 1960)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008)
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
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Argo, our tastes are eerily similar.

No particular order:

Snatch
Tombstone
Fellowship of the Ring
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Last Crusade
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Willow
Braveheart
Tommy Boy
Bourne Identity
National Lampoons Vacation
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Goonies
Three Amigos!
The Great Outdoors
Jurassic Park
Shawshank Redemption
Ghostbusters
Spaceballs
Toy Story 3
Karate Kid
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The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
The Naked City (Dassin, 1947)
Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)
L'avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
The Killers (Siegel, 1964)
Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966)
Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
Je t'aime je t'aime (Resnais, 1968)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
F for Fake (Welles, 1972)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
Ishtar (May, 1987)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991)
Naked (Leigh, 1993)
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
Va Savoir (Rivette, 2001)
Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)
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The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
The Iron Giant (Bird)
East of Eden (Kazan)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
The Indian Runner (Penn)
Boogie Nights (PTA)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
The Breakfast Club (Hughes)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Children of Men (Cuaron)
Moon (Jones)
Trainspotting (Boyle)
The Conversation (Coppola)
Sid and Nancy (Cox)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne)
Happiness (Solondz)
Restrepo (Hetherington, Junger)
Dancer in the Dark (von Trier)
Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
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daft twat wrote:Argo, our tastes are eerily similar.
Toy Story 3
was on my shortlist, actually.
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Empire Strikes Back
Jaws
Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan
Back To The Future
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
The Searchers
Pulp Fiction
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Enter The Dragon
The Guns Of Navarone
Princess Mononoke
Conan The Barbarian
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Army Of Darkness
The Quite Man
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
The Dark Crystal
A River Runs Through It
The Great Escape
Predator
Hope And Glory
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
To Kill A Mockingbird
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I'm loving the fact that there's two types so far - art fart vs blockbuster fan. I like the diversity.
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daft twat wrote:Argo, our tastes are eerily similar..
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No order:

Tombstone
Rabbit Proof Fence
Children of Men
The Road
Empire Strikes Back
Blazing Saddles
Jaws
Sunshine
Maria Full of Grace
New Jack City
13th Warrior
Apocalypse Now
Hamburger Hill
Hotel Rwanda
Godfather II
Mars Attacks
Hackers
Curse of the Golden Flower
Meet Joe Black
2001
Tron
Up
Clockwork Orange
30 Days of Night (only viewed in HD)
Lilies of the Field (stfu)
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Fight Club
Blue Valentine
Annie Hall
Mulholland Drive
Barton Fink
Vertigo
Memento
Fargo
The Graduate
Casablanca
Dancer In The Dark
2001: A Space Oddessy
The Godfather
Midnight In Paris
American History X
Happiness
Children of Men
Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces 2009)
The Shining
No Country for Old Men
The Shawshank Redemption
Magnolia
Taxi Driver
Rear Window
Hable con ella (Talk to Her 2002)
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in no particular order:

Dark Crystal
Rango
The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen
Brazil
Pan's Labyrinth
Labyrinth
District 9
Avengers
Big Lebowski
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Predator
Alien
Commando
Robocop
Pulp Fiction
Clerks
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Big Trouble in Little China
Adaptation
Redline
Fight Club
Coraline
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Darjeeling Limited
Miami Connection
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do documentaries count?
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The Argonaut wrote:
Malloy wrote:The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
Notorious (Hitchcock, 1946)
The Naked City (Dassin, 1947)
Bigger Than Life (Ray, 1956)
Forty Guns (Fuller, 1957)
L'avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
The Killers (Siegel, 1964)
Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966)
Mouchette (Bresson, 1967)
Je t'aime je t'aime (Resnais, 1968)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman, 1971)
F for Fake (Welles, 1972)
California Split (Altman, 1974)
Vengeance is Mine (Imamura, 1979)
Being There (Ashby, 1979)
Bad Timing (Roeg, 1980)
My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
Ishtar (May, 1987)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991)
Naked (Leigh, 1993)
The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999)
In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
Va Savoir (Rivette, 2001)
Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)
That's a damn fine list. Bigger Than Life was one of the last eliminations from my own list. I like your inclusion of California Split, too. I really love the play between those two characters. It might be my favorite Altman movie. I don't hear about it much, compared to his other movies.
Point Blank was this close to being on my list.
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BurtReynolds wrote: The Darjeeling Limited
woot. I didn't think I'd see that one in this thread, outside of my own list. I really do think it's his most successful film. It's fun and playful, but still feels very real emotionally.
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The Argonaut wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote: The Darjeeling Limited
woot. I didn't think I'd see that one in this thread, outside of my own list. I really do think it's his most successful film. It's fun and playful, but still feels very real emotionally.
I think so too. Sometimes his movies are lose the emotional part, but this one accomplished both.

I almost added Life Aquatic. Its not very popular it seems, but my list is mostly visual eye candy movies, that probably explains why I like it so much.
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Malloy wrote: Only God Forgives (Refn, 2013)

whatever.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Goodfellas
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
LA Confidential
The Usual Suspects
Jurassic Park
Rushmore
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jackie Brown
Mulholland Drive
The City of Lost Children
Children of Men
The Thin Red Line
Star Trek (Abrams)
Magnolia
The Big Lebowski
Howl's Moving Castle
Apocalypse Now
Dogville
Dr. Strangelove
The Prestige
The Pianist
Wait Until Dark
Fight Club
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shit i already want to change my list.
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