Marcel Carné “Children of Paradise”
Mervyn Leroy “The Bad Seed”
Jean Renoir “Grand Illusion”
Chris Marker "The Last Bolshevik" & “The Case Of The Grinning Cat”
Robert Altman “Buffalo Bill and the Indians”
Michael Powell “Peeping Tom” & “The Red Shoes”
Orson Welles “Touch of Evil” & “F For Fake”
John Ford “The Searchers”
Howard Hawks “Scarface”
You can also check out Jonathan Rosenbaum’s list - http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/100best.html
Greg