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- 01Classical cinema and influential auteurs9 cards · ~2 min
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01This filmmaker directed the 1960 film Psycho.RECALL
Alfred HitchcockA suspense classic built around identity, fear and perception.
Share this card ↗Source: Psycho (1960 film) ↗02This filmmaker directed the 1958 film Vertigo.RECALL
Alfred HitchcockA psychological mystery about obsession and mistaken identity.
Share this card ↗Source: Vertigo (film) ↗03This filmmaker directed the 1954 film Rear Window.RECALL
Alfred HitchcockA photographer suspects a neighbour of murder from across a courtyard.
Share this card ↗Source: Rear Window ↗04This filmmaker directed the 1954 film Seven Samurai.RECALL
Akira KurosawaA landmark 1954 Japanese epic about villagers and hired protectors.
Share this card ↗Source: Seven Samurai ↗05This filmmaker directed the 1950 film Rashomon.RECALL
Akira KurosawaA story of conflicting accounts of a violent encounter.
Share this card ↗Source: Rashomon ↗06This filmmaker directed the 1952 film Ikiru.RECALL
Akira KurosawaA dying civil servant searches for meaning in the time he has left.
Share this card ↗Source: Ikiru ↗07This filmmaker directed the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.RECALL
Stanley KubrickA landmark science-fiction film spanning human evolution and space exploration.
Share this card ↗Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey ↗08This filmmaker directed the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.RECALL
Stanley KubrickA dystopian study of violence, choice and social conditioning.
Share this card ↗Source: A Clockwork Orange (film) ↗09This filmmaker directed the 1980 film The Shining.RECALL
Stanley KubrickA psychological horror film set in an isolated mountain hotel.
Share this card ↗Source: The Shining (film) ↗10This filmmaker directed the 1975 film Jaws.RECALL
Steven SpielbergA coastal town faces a great white shark and the hunt to stop it.
Share this card ↗Source: Jaws (film) ↗11This filmmaker directed the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.RECALL
Steven SpielbergA stranded visitor from another world befriends a young boy.
Share this card ↗Source: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↗12This filmmaker directed the 1993 film Jurassic Park.RECALL
Steven SpielbergA theme park of cloned dinosaurs descends into chaos.
Share this card ↗Source: Jurassic Park (film) ↗13This filmmaker directed the 1976 film Taxi Driver.RECALL
Martin ScorseseA lonely New York cab driver descends into violent obsession.
Share this card ↗Source: Taxi Driver ↗14This filmmaker directed the 1980 film Raging Bull.RECALL
Martin ScorseseA portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta and his turbulent life.
Share this card ↗Source: Raging Bull ↗15This filmmaker directed the 1990 film Goodfellas.RECALL
Martin ScorseseThe rise and fall of a mob associate and his circle.
Share this card ↗Source: Goodfellas ↗16This filmmaker directed the 1972 film The Godfather.RECALL
Francis Ford CoppolaA crime-family saga centred on succession and power.
Share this card ↗Source: The Godfather ↗17This filmmaker directed the 1974 film The Conversation.RECALL
Francis Ford CoppolaA surveillance expert becomes consumed by a recording he made.
Share this card ↗Source: The Conversation ↗18This filmmaker directed the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.RECALL
Francis Ford CoppolaA captain travels upriver during the Vietnam War to find a renegade colonel.
Share this card ↗Source: Apocalypse Now ↗19This filmmaker directed the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.RECALL
Quentin TarantinoInterlocking stories of crime, chance and conversation in Los Angeles.
Share this card ↗Source: Pulp Fiction ↗20This filmmaker directed the 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1.RECALL
Quentin TarantinoAn assassin seeks revenge after surviving an attack on her wedding day.
Share this card ↗Source: Kill Bill: Volume 1 ↗21This filmmaker directed the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.RECALL
Quentin TarantinoA wartime revenge story set in occupied France.
Share this card ↗Source: Inglourious Basterds ↗22This filmmaker directed the 2010 film Inception.RECALL
23This filmmaker directed the 2008 film The Dark Knight.RECALL
Christopher NolanBatman confronts a criminal mastermind who wants to expose Gotham's chaos.
Share this card ↗Source: The Dark Knight ↗24This filmmaker directed the 2023 film Oppenheimer.RECALL
Christopher NolanA historical drama about the physicist and the Manhattan Project.
Share this card ↗Source: Oppenheimer (film) ↗25This filmmaker directed the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro.RECALL
Hayao MiyazakiTwo sisters encounter gentle spirits in the Japanese countryside.
Share this card ↗Source: My Neighbor Totoro ↗26This filmmaker directed the 1997 film Princess Mononoke.RECALL
Hayao MiyazakiA young warrior becomes caught between industry and the forest gods.
Share this card ↗Source: Princess Mononoke ↗27This filmmaker directed the 2001 film Spirited Away.RECALL
Hayao MiyazakiA girl enters a spirit world and works to rescue her transformed parents.
Share this card ↗Source: Spirited Away ↗28This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Lady Bird.RECALL
Greta GerwigA coming-of-age story about a teenager and her mother in Sacramento.
Share this card ↗Source: Lady Bird (film) ↗29This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Little Women.RECALL
Greta GerwigA new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's story of the March sisters.
Share this card ↗Source: Little Women (2019 film) ↗30This filmmaker directed the 2023 film Barbie.RECALL
Greta GerwigA Barbie leaves her perfect world to investigate an unexpected crisis in the real world.
Share this card ↗Source: Barbie (film) ↗31This filmmaker directed the 1944 film Double Indemnity.RECALL
Billy WilderA salesman and an insurance agent plot a murder for financial gain.
Share this card ↗Source: Double Indemnity ↗32This filmmaker directed the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.RECALL
Billy WilderA forgotten screenwriter becomes entangled with a fading silent-film star.
Share this card ↗Source: Sunset Boulevard (film) ↗33This filmmaker directed the 1959 film Some Like It Hot.RECALL
Billy WilderTwo musicians disguise themselves as women after witnessing a mob hit.
Share this card ↗Source: Some Like It Hot ↗34This filmmaker directed the 1960 film The Apartment.RECALL
Billy WilderAn office worker lends his apartment to executives and falls for an elevator operator.
Share this card ↗Source: The Apartment ↗35This filmmaker directed the 1995 film Se7en.RECALL
David FincherTwo detectives hunt a killer whose crimes are based on the seven deadly sins.
Share this card ↗Source: Se7en ↗36This filmmaker directed the 1999 film Fight Club.RECALL
David FincherAn insomniac forms an underground club that grows beyond its founders' control.
Share this card ↗Source: Fight Club (film) ↗37This filmmaker directed the 2010 film The Social Network.RECALL
David FincherA drama about the founding of Facebook and the disputes that followed.
Share this card ↗Source: The Social Network ↗38This filmmaker directed the 2014 film Gone Girl.RECALL
David FincherA husband's public image collapses when his wife disappears.
Share this card ↗Source: Gone Girl (film) ↗39This filmmaker directed the 1989 film Do the Right Thing.RECALL
Spike LeeTensions rise on a hot day in a Brooklyn neighbourhood.
Share this card ↗Source: Do the Right Thing ↗40This filmmaker directed the 1992 film Malcolm X.RECALL
Spike LeeA biographical film about the influential civil-rights leader.
Share this card ↗Source: Malcolm X (1992 film) ↗41This filmmaker directed the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman.RECALL
Spike LeeA Black police officer infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with help from a colleague.
Share this card ↗Source: BlacKkKlansman ↗42This filmmaker directed the 2006 film Inside Man.RECALL
Spike LeeA detective negotiates during a carefully planned bank robbery.
Share this card ↗Source: Inside Man ↗43This filmmaker directed the 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7.RECALL
Agnès VardaA singer wanders Paris while awaiting the results of a medical test.
Share this card ↗Source: Cléo from 5 to 7 ↗44This filmmaker directed the 1985 film Vagabond.RECALL
Agnès VardaA woman's death is reconstructed through the people who encountered her.
Share this card ↗Source: Vagabond (1985 film) ↗45This filmmaker directed the 2000 film The Gleaners and I.RECALL
Agnès VardaA personal documentary about gleaning, waste and people living at the margins.
Share this card ↗Source: The Gleaners and I ↗46This French filmmaker co-directed the 2017 documentary Faces Places with the artist JR.RECALL
Agnès VardaVarda and artist JR travel through rural France making giant photographic portraits.
Share this card ↗Source: Faces Places ↗47This filmmaker directed the 1999 film All About My Mother.RECALL
Pedro AlmodóvarA grieving mother travels to Barcelona after the death of her son.
Share this card ↗Source: All About My Mother ↗48This filmmaker directed the 2002 film Talk to Her.RECALL
Pedro AlmodóvarTwo men form an unexpected friendship while caring for women in comas.
Share this card ↗Source: Talk to Her ↗49This filmmaker directed the 2006 film Volver.RECALL
Pedro AlmodóvarWomen in a Spanish family confront grief, memory and a mysterious return.
Share this card ↗Source: Volver ↗50This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Pain and Glory.RECALL
Pedro AlmodóvarAn aging filmmaker reflects on his life, work and past relationships.
Share this card ↗Source: Pain and Glory ↗51This filmmaker directed the 2003 film Memories of Murder.RECALL
Bong Joon-hoDetectives investigate a series of murders in rural South Korea.
Share this card ↗Source: Memories of Murder ↗52This filmmaker directed the 2006 film The Host.RECALL
Bong Joon-hoA family tries to rescue a child taken by a creature in the Han River.
Share this card ↗Source: The Host (2006 film) ↗53This filmmaker directed the 2013 film Snowpiercer.RECALL
Bong Joon-hoThe last survivors of a frozen world live aboard a train divided by class.
Share this card ↗Source: Snowpiercer ↗54This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Parasite.RECALL
Bong Joon-hoA struggling family gradually enters the household of a wealthy family.
Share this card ↗Source: Parasite (2019 film) ↗55This filmmaker directed the 1960 film Breathless.RECALL
Jean-Luc GodardA young thief on the run hides with an American student in Paris.
Share this card ↗Source: Breathless (1960 film) ↗56This filmmaker directed the 1963 film Contempt.RECALL
Jean-Luc GodardA screenwriter's marriage fractures during the production of a film adaptation.
Share this card ↗Source: Contempt (film) ↗57This filmmaker directed the 1964 film Band of Outsiders.RECALL
Jean-Luc GodardThree young people become involved in a plan to rob a wealthy household.
Share this card ↗Source: Band of Outsiders ↗58This filmmaker directed the 1962 film Vivre sa vie.RECALL
Jean-Luc GodardShare this card ↗Source: Vivre sa vie ↗59This filmmaker directed the 1991 film Point Break.RECALL
Kathryn BigelowAn undercover FBI agent infiltrates a group of surfing bank robbers.
Share this card ↗Source: Point Break ↗60This filmmaker directed the 2008 film The Hurt Locker.RECALL
Kathryn BigelowA bomb-disposal team serves during the Iraq War.
Share this card ↗Source: The Hurt Locker ↗61This filmmaker directed the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty.RECALL
Kathryn BigelowAn intelligence analyst pursues Osama bin Laden over a decade.
Share this card ↗Source: Zero Dark Thirty ↗62This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Detroit.RECALL
Kathryn BigelowA night of violence unfolds during the 1967 Detroit uprising.
Share this card ↗Source: Detroit (film) ↗63This filmmaker directed the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums.RECALL
Wes AndersonAn eccentric family reunites after the father announces a terminal illness.
Share this card ↗Source: The Royal Tenenbaums ↗64This filmmaker directed the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.RECALL
Wes AndersonAn oceanographer assembles a crew to hunt the shark that killed his partner.
Share this card ↗Source: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ↗65This filmmaker directed the 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox.RECALL
Wes AndersonA clever fox risks his family's safety by returning to a life of theft.
Share this card ↗Source: Fantastic Mr. Fox (film) ↗66This filmmaker directed the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel.RECALL
Wes AndersonA concierge and his lobby boy become entangled in a stolen painting and an inheritance.
Share this card ↗Source: The Grand Budapest Hotel ↗67This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Get Out.RECALL
Jordan PeeleA young man visits his girlfriend's family and uncovers a disturbing secret.
Share this card ↗Source: Get Out ↗68This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Us.RECALL
Jordan PeeleA family is confronted by terrifying doubles of themselves.
Share this card ↗Source: Us (2019 film) ↗69This filmmaker directed the 2022 film Nope.RECALL
Jordan PeeleSiblings running a California horse ranch encounter a strange presence in the sky.
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