Here are lists of my favorite films and filmmakers. I hope they will introduce you to films that you may have not seen and discover filmmakers that are not familiar to you (last updated on June 9, 2023).

Gertrud  (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era  (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1941)
The Searchers  (John Ford, 1956)
Arabic Numeral Series  (Stan Brakhage, 1980)
India: Matri Bhumi  (Roberto Rossellini, 1959)
Bringing Up Baby  (Howard Hawks, 1938)
Our Trip to Africa  (Peter Kubelka, 1966)
Vertigo  (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Flaming Creatures  (Jack Smith, 1963)
Les Vampires  (Louis Feuillade, 1915)

Robert Aldrich, Kenneth Anger
Bruce Baillie, Frank Borzage, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel
John Cassavetes, Jack Chambers, Charles Chaplin, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell,  George Cukor
Maya Deren, Alexander Dovzhenko, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Epstein
Louis Feuillade, Robert Flaherty, John Ford, Hollis Frampton, Georges Franju
Abel Gance, Ernie Gehr, D. W. Griffith
Marcel Hanoun, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock
Joris Ivens
Ken Jacobs, Humphrey Jennings, Chuck Jones, Larry Jordan
Bustor Keaton, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Dimitri Kirsanoff, Peter Kubelka
George Landow, Fritz Lang, Joseph Lewis, Marcel L’Herbier, Arthur Lipsett, Ernst Lubitsch, Louis Lumière
Christopher Maclaine, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Anthony Mann, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Leo McCarey,  Jonas Mekas, Georges Méliès, Marie Menken, Vincent Minnelli, Kenji Mizoguchi, F. W. Murnau
Mikio Naruse
Manuel de Oliveira, Max Ophuls, Yasujirō Ozu
Sidney Peterson, Otto Preminger
Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir, Ron Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Jacques Rivette, Roberto Rossellini, Jean Rouch
Hiroshi Shimizu, Douglas Sirk, Victor Sjöström, Harry Smith, Jack Smith, Michael Snow, Warren Sonbert, John M. Stahl, Joseph von Sternberg, Straub/Huillet, Erich von Stroheim
Frank Tashlin, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tourneur, Luis Trenker
Edgar G. Ulmer
King Vidor, Jean Vigo
Raoul Walsh, Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Joyce Wieland