- C. T. Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Charlie Chaplin, City Lights (1931)
- Dziga Vertov, The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
- Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story (1953)
- Kurosawa, Seven Samurai (1954)
- Hitchcock, Vertigo (1958)
- Jean Luc Godard, Vivre sa vie (1962)
- Ingmar Bergman, Persona (1966)
- Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line (1998)
