Not based on extensive rumination, certainly not exhaustive, and in no particular order… (and also based on consultations with my significant other):
1. Wages of Fear – Clouzot 2. Z – Costa-Gravas 3. Still Life – Jia 4. Day of the Jackal – Zinnemann 5. Andrei Rublev – Tarkovsky 6. The Conversation – Coppola 7. Come and See – Klimov 8. Siberiade – Konchalovsky 9. Fires on the Plain – Ichikawa 10. Gomorrah – Garrone (I just saw this one!) 11. The Killing – Kubrick 12. West of the Tracks – Wang 13. Blind Shaft – Li 14. Hands Over the City – Rosi 15. Husbands – Cassavettes 16. Central Station – Salles 17. Memories of Underdevelopment – Gutierrez Alea 18. Take the Money and Run – Allen 19. Burden of Dreams – Blank & Gosling 20. The Thing – Carpenter 21. The American Friend – Wenders 22. Company Limited – (Satyajit) Ray 23. The Promise – Dardenne 24. Safe – Haynes 25. Battleship Potemkin – Eisenstein 26. Cape Fear – Thompson (for Mitchum alone!) 27. The White Balloon – Panahi 28. Secret Sunshine (Miryang) – Lee 29. Videodrome – Cronenberg 30. Thief – Mann
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