Letterboxd Top 250 Narrative Feature Films - Directors

Name the Directors of the 250 Best Films according to Letterboxd Users. The List is always changing and may not be 100% the same as in the App. The List is created and updated by the User Dave Vis (thanks for doing that :)

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	Film	Director
1	Come and See	Elem Klimov
2	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
3	A Dog's Will	Guel Arraes
4	Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi
5	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola
6	The Godfather II	Francis Ford Coppola
7	The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer	Masaki Kobayashi
8	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
9	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
10	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
11	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki
12	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
13	Central Station	Walter Salles
14	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
15	Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse	Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti
16	City of God	Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
17	Yi Yi	Edward Yang
18	A Brighter Summer Day	Edward Yang
19	GoodFellas	Martin Scorsese
20	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
21	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
22	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
23	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion	Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
24	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	Masaki Kobayashi
25	Potrait of a Lady on Fire	Céline Sciamma
26	Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
27	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
28	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	Sergio Leone
29	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz
30	The Empire Strikes Back	Irvin Kershner
31	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
32	Perfect Blue	Satoshi Kon
33	Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky
34	Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata
35	The Handmaiden	Park Chan-wook
36	Ran	Akira Kurosawa
37	Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore
38	In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
39	Persona	Ingmar Bergman
40	Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder
41	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola
42	The Passion of Joan Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer
43	Woman in the Dunes	Hiroshi Teshigahara
44	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky
45	The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity	Masaki Kobayashi
46	Tokyo Story	Yasujiro Ozu
47	Autumn Sonata	Ingmar Bergman
48	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders
49	Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick
50	Princess Mononoke	Hayao Miyazaki
51	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
52	Santango	Béla Tarr
53	Before Sunrise	Richard Linklater
54	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
55	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson
56	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader
57	Apar Sansar	Satyajit Ray
58	Howl's Moving Castle	Hayao Miyazaki
59	The Thing	John Carpenter
60	The Apartment	Billy Wilder
61	Macario	Roberto Gavaldón
62	Oldboy	Park Chan-wook
63	Eternity and a Day	Theo Angelopoulos
64	Le Trou	Jacques Becker
65	Rear Window	Alfred Hitchcock
66	Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman
67	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme
68	The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov
69	It's Such a Beautiful Day	Don Hertzfeldt
70	Before Sunset	Richard Linklater
71	Memories of Murder	Bong Joon-ho
72	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
73	I Am Cuba	Mikhail Kalatozov
74	It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra
75	The Given Word	Anselmo Duarte
76	The Red Shoes	Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
77	Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman
78	Fight Club	David Fincher
79	Sansho the Bailiff	Kenji Mizoguchi
80	War and Peace	Sergey Bondarchuk
81	The Second Mother	Anna Muylaert
82	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
83	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock
84	The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko
85	Once Upon a Time in the West	Sergio Leone
86	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick
87	Se7en	David Fincher
88	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
89	Love Exposure	Sion Sono
90	Incendies	Denis Villeneuve
91	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick
92	Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky
93	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Milos Forman
94	The Pianist	Roman Polanski
95	Interstellar	Christopher Nolan
96	Nights of Cabiria	Federico Fellini
97	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo
98	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
99	The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman
100	Panther Panchali	Satyajit Ray
101	Puss in Boots: The Last Wish	Joel Crawford
102	Farewell My Concubine	Chen Kaige
103	Ordet	Carl Theodor Dreyer
104	Alien	Ridley Scott
105	Chungking Express	Wong Kar-wai
106	Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr
107	The Shining	Stanley Kubrick
108	Singin' in the Rain	Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
109	The Best of Youth	Marco Tullio Giordana
110	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
111	Landscape in the Mist	Theo Angelopoulos
112	Late Spring	Yasujiro Ozu
113	An Elephant Sitting Still	Hu Bo
114	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
115	8½	Federico Fellini
116	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
117	Sherlock, Jr.	Buster Keaton
118	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
119	Funeral Parade of Roses	Toshio Matsumoto
120	Tampopo	Juzo Itami
121	A Special Day	Ettore Scola
122	Mommy	Xavier Dolan
123	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
124	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
125	Where Is My Friend's House	Abbas Kiarostami

	Film	Director
126	Marcel the Shell with Shoes On	Dean Fleischer Camp
127	Three Colors: Red	Krzysztof Kieslowski
128	Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio de Sica
129	A Separation	Ashgar Farhadi
130	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
131	They Don't Wear Black Tie	Leon Hirszman
132	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman
133	Red Beard	Akira Kurosawa
134	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
135	Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean
136	M	Fritz Lang
137	Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick
138	Prisoners	Denis Villeneuve
139	Young Girls of Rochefort	Jacques Demy
140	Dead Poets Society	Peter Weir
141	Good Will Hunting	Gus Van Sant
142	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
143	Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville
144	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry
145	Nobody Knows	Hirokazu Kore-eda
146	Casablanca	Michael Curtiz
147	The Father	Florian Zeller
148	The Sacrifice	Andrei Tarkovsky
149	Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time	Hideaki Anno
150	Paper Moon	Peter Bogdanovich
151	Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders
152	Dog Day Afternoon	Sidney Lumet
153	Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa
154	The Young and the Damned	Luis Buñuel
155	Rocco and His Brothers	Luchino Visconti
156	We All Loved Each Other So Much	Ettore Scola
157	Akira	Katsuhiro Otomo
158	Amadeus	Milos Forman
159	Children of Paradise	Marcel Carné
160	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot
161	Still Walking	Hirokazu Kore-eda
162	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
163	La Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini
164	Brief Encounter	David Lean
165	The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
166	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuarón
167	Terminator 2: Judgement Day	James Cameron
168	Ritual	Hideaki Anno
169	Raise the Red Lantern	Zhang Yimou
170	The Great Dictator	Charlie Chaplin
171	To Be or Not to Be	Ernst Lubitsch
172	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
173	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
174	Chinatown	Roman Polanski
175	Mars One	Gabriel Martins
176	Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin
177	Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder
178	Napoleon	Abel Gance
179	Taste of Cherry	Abbas Kiarostami
180	Get Out	Jordan Peele
181	Eureka	Shinji Aoyama
182	Z	Costa Gavras
183	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
184	My Neighbor Totoro	Hayao Miyazaki
185	Fargo	Joel Coen
186	Nostalgia	Andrei Tarkovsky
187	Star Wars	George Lucas
188	To Live	Zhang Yimou
189	Aparajito	Satyajit Ray
190	Güeros	Alonso Ruizpalacios
191	La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni
192	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
193	The Lion King	Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers
194	I Dream In Another Language	Ernesto Contreras
195	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis
196	Underground	Emir Kusturica
197	Manila in Claws of Light	Lino Brocka
198	The Third Man	Carol Reed
199	The Hunt	Thomas Vinterberg
200	The Truman Show	Peter Weir
201	Shoplifters	Hirokazu Kore-eda
202	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
203	Fallen Angels	Wong Kar-wai
204	Your Name	Makoto Shinkai
205	Opening Night	John Cassavetes
206	Il Sorpasso	Dino Risi
207	Once Upon a Time in America	Sergio Leone
208	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock
209	The Cremator	Juraj Herz
210	The Big City	Satyajit Ray
211	Burning Days	Emin Alper
212	Gangs of Wasseypur- Part 2	Anurag Kashyap
213	Happy Hour	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
214	Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles	Chantal Akerman
215	Happy Together	Wong Kar-wai
216	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
217	A Matter of Life and Death	Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
218	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese
219	Make Way for Tomorrow	Leo McCarey
220	Metropolis	Fritz Lang
221	Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese
222	Paddington 2	Paul King
223	Heat	Michael Mann
224	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston
225	Inception	Christopher Nolan
226	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
227	Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
228	The Iron Giant	Brad Bird
229	Hope	Lee Joon-ik
230	Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa
231	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder
232	The Tale of the Princess Kaguya	Isao Takahata
233	Time of the Gypsies	Emir Kusturica
234	Life, and Nothing More...	Abbas Kiarostami
236	Ugetsu	Kenji Mizoguchi
237	The Shop on Main Street	Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
238	Little Women	Greta Gerwig
239	The Devils	Ken Russell
240	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
241	Coco	Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
242	All About Lily Chou-Chou	Shunji Iwai
243	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky
244	Coraline	Henry Selick
245	Umberto D.	Vittorio de Sica
246	RRR	S.S. Rajamouli
247	Samurai Rebellion	Masaki Kobayashi
248	A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan
249	Network	Sidney Lumet
250	Son of a White Mare	Marcell Jankovics
250	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder

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Level 19

Oct 4, 2021

Very nice quizz but The Wage Of Fears is from Clouzot not Clouzet.

Level 68

Oct 4, 2021

Thanks! I will fix it :)

Level 60

Apr 26, 2023

Wong Kar-Wai not Wong Kar-Wei for Fallen Angels.

Level 68

Apr 29, 2023

Thank you! I will fix it!

Level 13

Feb 7, 2024

In Chungking Express says "War Wai" instead "Kar Wai"

Level 68

Feb 14, 2024

I will fix it. Thanks for letting me know.

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