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The country of each film’s production is in the notes section.

Most selected directors:

8 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky

6 entries - John Carpenter // Lucio Fulci

5 entries - Rouzbeh Rashidi // King Hu // Béla Tarr // Humberto Solás // Mikhail Kalatozov

4 entries - Ingmar Bergman // Robert Bresson // Kiyoshi Kurosawa // Claudio Caldini // David Cronenberg // Fernando Pérez // Leida Laius // Theo Angelopoulos// Stanley Kubrick // Terence Fisher // Ali Khamraev // Sandy Ding // Jean-Luc Godard // Michelangelo Antonioni

Most films by country (minimum of 3 per country by at least 2 different directors):

115 entries - USSR
63 entries - US
47 entries - Cuba
27 entries - France…

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  • Battleship Potemkin
  • By the Law
  • Mother
  • A Sixth Part of the World
  • Amoki
  • Metropolis
  • The Peasant Women of Ryazan
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Storm Over Asia
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • My Grandmother
  • Arsenal
  • The Happy Canary
  • Earth
  • Sasha
  • Enthusiasm
  • Pigs Will Be Pigs
  • The Komsomol - Chief of Electrification
  • Outskirts
  • Cheerless
  • Prometey
  • The Man with the Gun
  • The Letter
  • The Maltese Falcon
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  • Double Indemnity
  • Spellbound
  • The Turning Point
  • The Murderers Are Among Us
  • Notorious
  • Dead Reckoning
  • The Big Sleep
  • Out of the Past
  • The Big Clock
  • Too Late for Tears
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Rashomon
  • Gun Crazy
  • Umberto D.
  • Europe '51
  • After the Curfew
  • Ordet
  • The First Echelon
  • In Square 45
  • The Sword and the Dragon
  • A Man Escaped
  • In Our Courtyard
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • Man on the Tracks
  • The Horse That Cried
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
  • Road to the Stars
  • The Music Room
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
  • Poem of the Sea
  • Rainy July
  • Dracula
  • The Captain's Daughter
  • Night Train
  • Ballad of a Soldier
  • Mise Éire
  • Letter Never Sent
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
  • Night and Fog in Japan
  • Mother Joan of the Angels
  • The Red Detachment of Women
  • Dancing in the Rain
  • Clear Skies
  • April
  • But What If This Is Love?
  • Realengo 18
  • The Golden Ger
  • La Notte
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • Taste of Fear
  • A Phu and His Wife
  • Cuba, a People Armed
  • A Noisy Day
  • The Curse of the Werewolf
  • Hands of Purple Distances
  • The Trial
  • Locust Tree Village
  • Ivan's Childhood
  • Amphibian Man
  • White Smoke
  • Nine Days of One Year
  • L'Eclisse
  • Introduction to Life
  • Miss Tu Hau
  • Ikarie XB 1
  • The House Is Black
  • For Eyes Only
  • The Enchanted Desna
  • Blood and Black Lace
  • Divided Heaven
  • I Am Cuba
  • Walking the Streets of Moscow
  • Hamlet
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