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The 1,000 Greatest Films The Top 250 Directors

• Introduction • The Top 500 Films • The Full List • The Top 250 Directors • PDF Companion • Links

The Top 500: •1-25 •26-50 •51-75 •76-100 •101-150 •151-200 •201-250 •251-300 •301-350 •351-400 •401-450 •451-500

• Listed below are, according to our calculations, the 250 most critically acclaimed filmmakers of all-time. For this update (and probably for beyond), we have expanded the list from 200 to 250.

• As per the 1,000 Greatest Films, this list has been compiled from a large resource of film lists. Additionally, also factored in are some 'Best Director' polls, as per those listed at the bottom of this page

• Alongside each director's name is the position each director held in January 2011's version.

• To qualify for this top 250, each director (or director team) needs to have a minimum of two films cited in ballots/lists that we have collated.

• Please note that the number of films cited includes those films in the 1,000 Greatest.

1	Orson Welles (1) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	2	Alfred Hitchcock (2) 13 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 39 films cited
3	Stanley Kubrick (3) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	4	Federico Fellini (4) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 19 films cited
5	John Ford (5) 15 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 38 films cited	6	Jean Renoir (6) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 26 films cited
7	Akira Kurosawa (7) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 24 films cited	8	Francis Ford Coppola (8) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited
9	Ingmar Bergman (9) 13 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 28 films cited	10	Jean-Luc Godard (10) 14 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 37 films cited
11↑	Martin Scorsese (13) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 24 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	12	Charles Chaplin (11) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 22 films cited
13	Billy Wilder (12) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 23 films cited	14	Luis Buñuel (14) 14 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 23 films cited
15	Howard Hawks (15) 11 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 28 films cited	16	Carl Dreyer (16) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
17	Sergei Eisenstein (17) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	18	F.W. Murnau (18) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited
19	Yasujiro Ozu (19) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 23 films cited	20	Fritz Lang (20) 16 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 32 films cited
21↑	Andrei Tarkovsky (22) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	22	Robert Bresson (21) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
23	David Lean (23) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited	24	François Truffaut (24) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 21 films cited
25	Kenji Mizoguchi (25) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 19 films cited	26	Steven Spielberg (26) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 20 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
27↑	Michelangelo Antonioni (28) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	28	Buster Keaton (27) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited
29	Roberto Rossellini (29) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 20 films cited	30	D.W. Griffith (30) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 28 films cited
31	Vittorio De Sica (31) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited	32↑	Woody Allen (34) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 27 films cited
33	Luchino Visconti (32) 9 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited	34	Ernst Lubitsch (33) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 27 films cited
35	Max Ophüls (35) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	36	John Huston (36) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 30 films cited
37↑	Roman Polanski (38) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	38	Satyajit Ray (37) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
39↑	Robert Altman (40) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 26 films cited	40↑	Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (42) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited \| See also #91 entry for Michael Powell
41	Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (39) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited \| See also #228 entry for Stanley Donen	42	Jean Vigo (41) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
43	Sergio Leone (43) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	44	Frank Capra (44) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 21 films cited
45	Michael Curtiz (45) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 24 films cited	46	Alain Resnais (46) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 20 films cited
47↑	Ridley Scott (48) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	48	Sam Peckinpah (47) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
49	Preston Sturges (49) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	50	Victor Fleming (50) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited



51	Bernardo Bertolucci (51) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited	52↑	Carol Reed (53) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
53↑	David Lynch (54) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	54	John Cassavetes (52) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
55↑	Werner Herzog (56) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 20 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	56	Marcel Carné (55) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited
57↑	Vincente Minnelli (58) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 23 films cited	58↑	Elia Kazan (61) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited
59	George Cukor (59) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 29 films cited	60	Erich von Stroheim (57) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
61	Leo McCarey (60) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	62	Josef von Sternberg (62) 8 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
63	Nicholas Ray (63) 7 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 16 films cited	64↑	Rainer Werner Fassbinder (65) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 22 films cited
65	Jacques Tati (64) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	66	Douglas Sirk (66) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
67↑	Pier Paolo Pasolini (68) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	68	Joseph L. Mankiewicz (67) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited
69	Krzysztof Kieslowski (69) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited	70↑	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (71) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
71	Terrence Malick (70) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	72↑	Abbas Kiarostami (73) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited
73	William Wyler (72) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 24 films cited	74↑	Wong Kar-wai (75) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
75	Jacques Tourneur (74) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited	76	Quentin Tarantino (76) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
77↑	Wim Wenders (80) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	78	Clint Eastwood (78) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 23 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
79↑	David Cronenberg (82) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	80	Chris Marker (77) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
81	Milos Forman (79) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	82	King Vidor (81) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 22 films cited
83	Eric Rohmer (83) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 22 films cited	84↑	Sidney Lumet (93) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 25 films cited
85	Jacques Rivette (84) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited	86	Jean-Pierre Melville (86) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
87	Hou Hsiao-hsien (85) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	88	Nicolas Roeg (88) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited
89	Jean Cocteau (87) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	90	George Lucas (90) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
91	Michael Powell (89) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited \| See also #40 entry for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	92↑	George A. Romero (95) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
93↑	Gillo Pontecorvo (94) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	94	Brian De Palma (92) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 18 films cited
95	James Cameron (91) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	96	Raoul Walsh (96) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 31 films cited
97	Jacques Demy (97) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	98	Otto Preminger (98) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 24 films cited
99↑	William Friedkin (100) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	100↑	Robert Flaherty (101) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited



101↑	James Whale (102) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	102↑	Hal Ashby (113) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
103	Alexander Dovzhenko (99) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	104↑	Terry Gilliam (111) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
105↑	Dziga Vertov (108) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	106↑	Samuel Fuller (109) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 20 films cited
107	Henri-Georges Clouzot (103) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	108	Andrzej Wajda (106) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
109↑	Spike Lee (112) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	110	René Clair (104) 5 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 18 films cited
111	Chantal Akerman (110) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited	112	George Stevens (107) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited
113	Abel Gance (105) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	114	Arthur Penn (114) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
115↑	John Carpenter (116) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	116↑	Peter Weir (117) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited
117	Theo Angelopoulos (115) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited	118↑	Alexander Mackendrick (122) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
119↑	Hayao Miyazaki (124) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	120	Lars von Trier (118) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
121	Anthony Mann (121) 6 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 18 films cited	122	Glauber Rocha (119) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
123↑	Mike Nichols (133) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	124↑	Pedro Almodóvar (125) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
125	Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (123) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 2 films cited	126↑	Robert Aldrich (127) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 19 films cited
127↑	John Boorman (130) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	128↑	Jim Jarmusch (129) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited
129	Jane Campion (120) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	130	G.W. Pabst (128) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
131	Stan Brakhage (126) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 25 films cited	132	Don Siegel (132) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 16 films cited
133↑	Paul Thomas Anderson (135) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	134	Tod Browning (131) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
135↑	Mike Leigh (151) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	136↑	Robert Wise (138) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited
137	Edward Yang (136) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	138↑	Tim Burton (141) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
139	Michael Cimino (134) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	140↑	Ken Loach (145) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited
141↑	Nagisa Oshima (148) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited	142↑	Rob Reiner (144) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited
143	Fred Zinnemann (142) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited	144	Mikio Naruse (137) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 14 films cited
145↑	Peter Bogdanovich (152) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	146↑	Louis Malle (154) 4 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited
147	Michael Mann (140) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	148	Bob Fosse (139) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
149	Victor Erice (143) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	150↑	Zhang Yimou (157) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited



151	Michael Snow (146) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	152	Oliver Stone (149) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
153	Ritwik Ghatak (147) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	154↑	Blake Edwards (156) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
155	David Hand (155) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 2 films cited	156	Robert Wiene (153) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
157↑	Béla Tarr (161) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	158	Jean Eustache (150) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited
159↑	Ben Sharpsteen (160) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited	160↑	Robert Zemeckis (163) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
161↑	Leni Riefenstahl (170) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited	162	Frank Borzage (158) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 19 films cited
163↑	John Schlesinger (167) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited	164	Claude Lanzmann (159) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
165	Victor Sjöström (165) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	166↑	Alan J. Pakula (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited
167	Sam Wood (164) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	168	Sydney Pollack (162) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
169	Georges Franju (166) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	170↑	Peter Jackson (174) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
171↑	John Woo (176) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	172↑	Joseph Losey (175) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
173↑	Tobe Hooper (181) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	174↑	Ousmane Sembene (179) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
175↑	Michael Haneke (193) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	176↑	Robert Hamer (196) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited
177	Agnès Varda (177) 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	178	Andy Warhol (171) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
179	Ermanno Olmi (168) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited	180↑	Charles Burnett (186) 2 filma in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
181	Claude Chabrol (169) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 21 films cited	182	Paul Verhoeven (178) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
183↑	Mel Brooks (185) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited	184	Robert Mulligan (173) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
185	Francesco Rosi (172) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	186↑	Dario Argento (192) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
187↑	Claire Denis (189) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	188	Shohei Imamura (180) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
189↑	Terence Davies (---) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	190↑	Kenneth Anger (191) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
191	George Roy Hill (190) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	192	Richard Linklater (188) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
193↑	Ang Lee (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	194↑	Gus Van Sant (---) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
195	William Wellman (194) 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 25 films cited	196	Emir Kusturica (182) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited
197	Luis García Berlanga (183) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	198	Manoel de Oliveira (184) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
199↑	Ken Russell (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	200↑	Sam Raimi (---) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
201	Rouben Mamoulian 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited	202	Lewis Milestone 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
203	Edgar G. Ulmer (187) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	204	Humphrey Jennings 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
205	John Landis 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	206	Georges Méliès 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited
207	Jacques Becker (195) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited	208	David Fincher 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 8 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
209	Giuseppe Tornatore (198) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	210	John Frankenheimer 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
211	Jonathan Demme 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 15 films cited	212	Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 17 films cited
213	Cecil B. DeMille (200) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 21 films cited	214	Louis Feuillade (199) 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
215	John Sturges 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 9 films cited	216	Irvin Kershner 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
217	Sergei Parajanov (197) 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	218	Todd Haynes 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
219	Monte Hellman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	220	Guru Dutt 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 2 films cited
221	Lindsay Anderson 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	222	Chen Kaige 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
223	Bill Forsyth 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	224	Seijun Suzuki 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
225	Aleksandr Sokurov 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	226	Peter Greenaway 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
227	Maya Deren 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	228	Stanley Donen 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited \| See also #41 entry for Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
229	Jerry Lewis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	230	Philip Kaufman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
231	Mikhail Kalatozov 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	232	Mark Sandrich 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
233	George Miller 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	234	John Sayles 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 11 films cited
235	Richard Lester 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 12 films cited	236	Wes Anderson 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors
237	Maurice Pialat 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited	238	John Hughes 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited
239	Harold Ramis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 5 films cited	240	Bob Rafelson 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
241	Laurence Olivier 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited	242	Frederick Wiseman 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited
243	Sacha Guitry 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 16 films cited	244	Dennis Hopper 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 3 films cited
245	René Clément 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 6 films cited	246	Takeshi Kitano 2 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 10 films cited
247	Vsevolod Pudovkin 3 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 4 films cited	248	Joseph H. Lewis 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited
249	Stephen Frears 0 films in the 1,000 Greatest \| 13 films cited \| See also The 21st Century's Top 50 Directors	250	Robert Rossen 1 film in the 1,000 Greatest \| 7 films cited


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