TSPDT

FRANKLIN ADREON
The Man is Armed (1956, USA)
No Man's Woman (1955, USA)
Terror at Midnight (1956, USA)

BEN AFFLECK
Gone Baby Gone (2007, USA)

ROBERT ALDRICH
The Big Knife (1955, USA)
Hustle (1975, USA)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, USA)
World for Ransom (1954, USA)

YVES ALLÉGRET
Dédée d'Anvers (1948, France)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (1949, France-Netherlands)

LEWIS ALLEN
Appointment with Danger (1951, USA)
A Bullet for Joey (1955, USA)
Chicago Deadline (1949, USA)
Desert Fury (1947, USA)
Illegal (1955, USA)
So Evil My Love (1948, USA-UK)
Suddenly (1954, USA)
The Unseen (1945, USA)

ROBERT ALTMAN
The Long Goodbye (1973, USA)
Thieves Like Us (1974, USA)

MICHAEL ANDERSON
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958, UK)

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
Hard Eight (1996, USA)
Inherent Vice (2014, USA)

MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Story of a Love Affair (1950, Italy)

GEORGE ARCHAINBAUD
Hunt the Man Down (1950, USA)

GEORGE ARMITAGE
Miami Blues (1990, USA)

JACK ARNOLD
The Glass Web (1953, USA)
The Tattered Dress (1957, USA)

HAL ASHBY
8 Million Ways to Die (1986, USA)

WILLIAM ASHER
The Shadow on the Window (1957, USA)

JOHN H. AUER
City That Never Sleeps (1953, USA)
The Flame (1947, USA)
Hell's Half Acre (1954, USA)
I, Jane Doe (1948, USA)

JOHN BAILEY
China Moon (1994, USA)

ROY WARD BAKER
Don't Bother to Knock (1952, USA)
Night Without Sleep (1952, USA)
The October Man (1947, UK)
Tiger in the Smoke (1956, UK)

RICHARD L. BARE
Flaxy Martin (1949, USA)
This Side of the Law (1950, USA)

ALLEN BARON
Blast of Silence (1961, USA)

WILLIAM BEAUDINE
Incident (1948, USA)

HAROLD BECKER
The Onion Field (1979, USA)
Sea of Love (1989, USA)

JACQUES BECKER
Casque d'or (1952, France)
Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954, France)
Le Trou (1960, France-Italy)

JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX
Diva (1981, France)

LASZLO BENEDEK
Affair in Havana (1957, USA-Cuba)
Port of New York (1949, USA)

CHARLES BENNETT
No Escape (1953, USA)

COMPTON BENNETT
Daybreak (1948, UK)

ROBERT BENTON
The Late Show (1977, USA)
Still of the Night (1982, USA)
Twilight (1998, USA)

WILLIAM BERKE
Cop Hater (1958, USA)
FBI Girl (1951, USA)
Shoot to Kill (1947, USA)

EDWARD BERNDS
Calling Homicide (1956, USA)

JACK BERNHARD
Blonde Ice (1948, USA)
Decoy (1946, USA)
The Hunted (1948, USA)
Violence (1947, USA)

CURTIS BERNHARDT
Conflict (1945, USA)
High Wall (1947, USA)
Possessed (1947, USA)
Sirocco (1951, USA)

JOHN BERRY
He Ran All the Way (1951, USA)
Tension (1950, USA)

LUC BESSON
Léon (1994, France)
Nikita (1990, France-Italy)

ABNER BIBERMAN
Behind the High Wall (1956, USA)
The Night Runner (1957, USA)
The Price of Fear (1956, USA)

FABIÁN BIELINSKY
The Aura (2005, Argentina-Spain-France)

KATHRYN BIGELOW
Point Break (1991, USA-Japan)
Strange Days (1995, USA)

RUSSELL BIRDWELL
The Come On (1956, USA)

SHANE BLACK
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005, USA)

GEORGE BLAIR
Unmasked (1950, USA)

BUDD BOETTICHER
Behind Locked Doors (1948, USA)
Escape in the Fog (1945, USA)
The Killer is Loose (1956, USA)

PAUL BOGART
Marlowe (1969, USA)

JOHN BOORMAN
Point Blank (1967, USA)

FRANK BORZAGE
Moonrise (1948, USA)

JOHN BOULTING
Brighton Rock (1947, UK)

CHARLES BRABIN
The Beast of the City (1932, USA)

JULIO BRACHO
Distinto amanecer (1943, Mexico)

DAVID BRADLEY
Talk About a Stranger (1952, USA)

JOHN BRAHM
The Brasher Doubloon (1947, USA)
Guest in the House (1944, USA)
Hangover Square (1945, USA)
The Locket (1946, USA)
The Lodger (1944, USA)
Singapore (1947, USA)

KENNETH BRANAGH
Dead Again (1991, USA)

HOWARD BRETHERTON
Whispering Footsteps (1943, USA)

JAMES BRIDGES
Mike's Murder (1984, USA)

RICHARD BROOKS
Deadline U.S.A. (1952, USA)

OTTO BROWER
Behind Green Lights (1946, USA)

JAMES CAGNEY
Short Cut to Hell (1957, USA)

EDWARD L. CAHN
Destination Murder (1950, USA)

RICHARD CARLSON
Appointment with a Shadow (1957, USA)

MARCEL CARNÉ
Le Jour se lève (1939, France)
Port of Shadows (1938, France)
Thérèse Raquin (1953, France-Italy)

JOHN PADDY CARSTAIRS
Dancing with Crime (1947, UK)

D.J. CARUSO
The Salton Sea (2002, USA)

JOHN CASSAVETES
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, USA)

WILLIAM CASTLE
Hollywood Story (1951, USA)
The Houston Story (1956, USA)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949, USA)
The Mark of the Whistler (1944, USA)
Mysterious Intruder (1946, USA)
Undertow (1949, USA)
Voice of the Whistler (1945, USA)
When Strangers Marry (1944, USA)
The Whistler (1944, USA)

ALBERTO CAVALCANTI
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947, UK)

ALBERTO CAVALCANTI, BASIL DEARDEN, ROBERT HAMER & CHARLES CRICHTON
Dead of Night (1945, UK)

PIERRE CHENAL
Le Dernier tournant (1939, France)

MICHAEL CIMINO
Year of the Dragon (1985, USA)

RENÉ CLÉMENT
Plein soleil (1960, France-Italy)

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT
Le Corbeau (1943, France)
Les Diaboliques (1955, France)
Quai des Orfèvres (1947, France)
The Wages of Fear (1953, France-Italy)

ST. JOHN LEGH CLOWES
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948, UK)

HAROLD CLURMAN
Deadline at Dawn (1946, USA)

JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN
The Big Lebowski (1998, USA-UK)
Blood Simple (1984, USA)
Fargo (1996, USA)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, USA-UK)
Miller's Crossing (1990, USA)
No Country for Old Men (2007, USA)

WALTER COLMES
Accomplice (1946, USA)

CARL COLPAERT
Delusion (1991, USA)

LANCE COMFORT
Bedelia (1946, UK)
Daughter of Darkness (1948, UK)

WILLIAM CONRAD
Brainstorm (1965, USA)

JACK CONWAY
Crossroads (1942, USA)

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The Conversation (1974, USA)

ALAIN CORNEAU
Série noire (1979, France)

HUBERT CORNFIELD
Plunder Road (1957, USA)
Sudden Danger (1955, USA)

ALLEN COULTER
Hollywoodland (2006, USA)

ARTHUR CRABTREE
Dear Murderer (1947, UK)

JOHN CROMWELL
Caged (1950, USA)
Dead Reckoning (1947, USA)
The Racket (1951, USA)

DAVID CRONENBERG
A History of Violence (2005, USA-Germany)

GEORGE CUKOR
A Double Life (1947, USA)
Gaslight (1944, USA)
A Woman's Face (1941, USA)

ROBERT CULP
Hickey & Boggs (1972, USA)

MICHAEL CURTIZ
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938, USA)
The Breaking Point (1950, USA)
Casablanca (1942, USA)
Flamingo Road (1949, USA)
Mildred Pierce (1945, USA)
The Unsuspected (1947, USA)

JOHN DAHL
Kill Me Again (1989, USA)
The Last Seduction (1994, USA)
Red Rock West (1993, USA)

HAROLD DANIELS
Date with Death (1959, USA)
Roadblock (1951, USA)

JULES DASSIN
Brute Force (1947, USA)
The Naked City (1948, USA)
Night and the City (1950, USA-UK)
Rififi (1955, France)
Thieves' Highway (1949, USA)

DELMER DAVES
Dark Passage (1947, USA)
The Red House (1947, USA)

CHARLES DAVID
Lady on a Train (1945, USA)

TAMRA DAVIS
Guncrazy (1992, USA)

FREDERICK DE CORDOVA
Her Kind of Man (1946, USA)
Illegal Entry (1949, USA)

BRIAN DE PALMA
The Black Dahlia (2006, USA-Germany-France
Blow Out (1981, USA)
Body Double (1984, USA)
Femme Fatale (2002, France-Switzerland)

ANDRÉ DE TOTH
Crime Wave (1954, USA)
Dark Waters (1944, USA)
Pitfall (1948, USA)
Ramrod (1947, USA)

BASIL DEARDEN
The Blue Lamp (1950, UK)
Pool of London (1951, UK)

JAMES DEARDEN
A Kiss Before Dying (1991, USA-UK)

HENRI DECOIN
Razzia sur la chnouf (1955, France)

EDWARD DEIN
Shack Out on 101 (1955, USA)

ROY DEL RUTH
The Maltese Falcon (1931, USA)
Red Light (1949, USA)

JONATHAN DEMME
Last Embrace (1979, USA)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, USA)

THOROLD DICKINSON
Gaslight (1940, UK)

WILLIAM DIETERLE
The Accused (1949, USA)
Dark City (1950, USA)
Rope of Sand (1949, USA)
The Turning Point (1952, USA)

EDWARD DMYTRYK
Cornered (1945, USA)
Crossfire (1947, USA)
Mirage (1965, USA)
Murder, My Sweet (1944, USA)
Obsession (1949, UK)
The Sniper (1952, USA)

ROGER DONALDSON
The Getaway (1994, USA)
No Way Out (1987, USA)
White Sands (1992, USA)

VINCENT J. DONEHUE
Lonelyhearts (1958, USA)

WALTER DONIGER
The Steel Jungle (1956, USA)

RICHARD DONNER
Lethal Weapon (1987, USA)

GORDON DOUGLAS
Between Midnight and Dawn (1950, USA)
The Detective (1968, USA)
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951, USA)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950, USA)
Lady in Cement (1968, USA)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948, USA)

BILL DUKE
Deep Cover (1992, USA)

E.A. DUPONT
The Scarf (1951, USA)

JULIEN DUVIVIER
Deadlier Than the Male (1956, France)
Panique (1946, France)
Pépé le Moko (1937, France)

ALLAN DWAN
Slightly Scarlet (1956, USA)

BLAKE EDWARDS
Experiment in Terror (1962, USA)

CY ENDFIELD
Hell Drivers (1957, UK)
Impulse (1954, UK)
The Limping Man (1953, UK)
Try and Get Me! (1950, USA)
The Underworld Story (1950, USA)

CHESTER ERSKINE
Take One False Step (1949, USA)

HARRY ESSEX
I, the Jury (1953, USA)

JOHN FARROW
Alias Nick Beal (1949, USA)
The Big Clock (1948, USA)
Calcutta (1947, USA)
His Kind of Woman (1951, USA)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948, USA)
The Unholy Wife (1957, USA)
Where Danger Lives (1950, USA)

FELIX E. FEIST
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947, USA)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950, USA)
This Woman is Dangerous (1952, USA)
The Threat (1949, USA)
Tomorrow is Another Day (1951, USA)

ABEL FERRARA
Bad Lieutenant (1992, USA)
Fear City (1984, USA)
King of New York (1990, USA)
Ms. 45 (1981, USA)

MEL FERRER
The Secret Fury (1950, USA)

MIKE FIGGIS
Internal Affairs (1990, USA)
Liebestraum (1991, USA)
Stormy Monday (1988, UK)

DAVID FINCHER
Fight Club (1999, USA-Germany)
The Game (1997, USA)
Se7en (1995, USA)
Zodiac (2007, USA)

TERENCE FISHER
Face the Music (1954, UK-USA)
The Last Page (1952, UK)
Murder by Proxy (1954, UK)
Stolen Face (1952, UK)
The Stranger Came Home (1954, UK)

GARY FLEDER
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995, USA)

RICHARD FLEISCHER
Armored Car Robbery (1950, USA)
Bodyguard (1948, USA)
The Clay Pigeon (1949, USA)
Follow Me Quietly (1949, USA)
The Narrow Margin (1952, USA)
Trapped (1949, USA)
Violent Saturday (1955, USA)

ROBERT FLOREY
The Crooked Way (1949, USA)
Danger Signal (1945, USA)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941, USA)

JOHN FLYNN
Best Seller (1987, USA)
The Outfit (1973, USA)
Rolling Thunder (1977, USA)

JAMES FOLEY
After Dark, My Sweet (1990, USA)
At Close Range (1986, USA)

PHILIP FORD
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946, USA)

EUGENE FORDE
Backlash (1947, USA)

LEWIS R. FOSTER
Crashout (1955, USA)
Manhandled (1949, USA)

NORMAN FOSTER
Journey Into Fear (1943, USA)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, USA)
Woman on the Run (1950, USA)

JOHN FRANKENHEIMER
52 Pick-Up (1986, USA)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, USA)
Seconds (1966, USA)

CARL FRANKLIN
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, USA)
One False Move (1992, USA)
Out of Time (2003, USA)

HOWARD FRANKLIN
The Public Eye (1992, USA)

STEPHEN FREARS
The Grifters (1990, USA)
The Hit (1984, UK)

HUGO FREGONESE
Black Tuesday (1954, USA)
Man in the Attic (1953, USA)
One Way Street (1950, USA)

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN
The French Connection (1971, USA)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985, USA)

SEYMOUR FRIEDMAN
Chinatown at Midnight (1949, USA)
Loan Shark (1952, USA)

SAMUEL FULLER
The Crimson Kimono (1959, USA)
House of Bamboo (1955, USA)
The Naked Kiss (1964, USA)
Pickup on South Street (1953, USA)
Shock Corridor (1963, USA)
Underworld, U.S.A. (1961, USA)

ANTOINE FUQUA
Training Day (2001, USA-Australia)

TAKUMI FURUKAWA
Cruel Gun Story (1964, Japan)

MARTIN GABEL
The Lost Moment (1947, USA)

JACK GAGE
The Velvet Touch (1948, USA)

TAY GARNETT
Cause for Alarm! (1951, USA)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, USA)

ROBERTO GAVALDÓN
In the Palm of Your Hand (1951, Mexico)
Night Falls (1952, Mexico)
La Otra (1946, Mexico)

LEWIS GILBERT
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955, UK)
Cosh Boy (1953, UK)
The Good Die Young (1954, UK)

SIDNEY GILLIAT
Fortune is a Woman (1957, UK-USA)
Green for Danger (1946, UK)

DAN GILROY
Nightcrawler (2014, USA)

JONATHAN GLAZER
Sexy Beast (2000, UK-Spain-USA)

JEAN-LUC GODARD
Alphaville (1965, France)
Bande à part (1964, France)
Breathless (1960, France)

PETER GODFREY
Cry Wolf (1947, USA)
Please Murder Me! (1956, USA)
Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947, USA)

MICHAEL GORDON
The Lady Gambles (1949, USA)
The Web (1947, USA)
Woman in Hiding (1950, USA)

ROBERT GORDON
Blind Spot (1947, USA)

EDMUND GOULDING
Nightmare Alley (1947, USA)

MAGGIE GREENWALD
The Kill-Off (1989, USA)

EDMOND T. GRÉVILLE
Noose (1948, UK)

ULU GROSBARD
Straight Time (1978, USA)
True Confessions (1981, USA)

VAL GUEST
Hell is a City (1960, UK)

PAUL GUILFOYLE
A Life at Stake (1954, USA)

CHARLES F. HAAS
The Beat Generation (1959, USA)

HUGO HAAS
Bait (1954, USA)
Hit and Run (1957, USA)
The Other Woman (1954, USA)
Pickup (1951, USA)
Strange Fascination (1952, USA)

TAYLOR HACKFORD
Against All Odds (1984, USA)

ROBERT HAMER
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947, UK)
The Long Memory (1953, UK)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945, UK)

CURTIS HANSON
Bad Influence (1990, USA)
L.A. Confidential (1997, USA)

JOHN HARLOW
Appointment with Crime (1946, UK)

JAMES B. HARRIS
Cop (1988, USA)

BYRON HASKIN
I Walk Alone (1948, USA)
Too Late for Tears (1949, USA)

HENRY HATHAWAY
Call Northside 777 (1948, USA)
The Dark Corner (1946, USA)
Fourteen Hours (1951, USA)
The House on 92nd Street (1945, USA)
Kiss of Death (1947, USA)
Niagara (1953, USA)

HOWARD HAWKS
The Big Sleep (1946, USA)
Scarface (1932, USA)
To Have and Have Not (1944, USA)

SIDNEY HAYERS
Payroll (1961, UK)

BEN HECHT
Specter of the Rose (1946, USA)

BEN HECHT & LEE GARMES
Angels Over Broadway (1940, USA)

RICHARD T. HEFFRON
I, the Jury (1982, USA)

STUART HEISLER
Among the Living (1941, USA)
The Glass Key (1942, USA)
I Died a Thousand Times (1955, USA)
Storm Warning (1951, USA)

BRIAN HELGELAND
Payback (1999, USA)

PAUL HENREID
A Woman's Devotion (1956, USA)

WALTER HILL
The Driver (1978, USA)
Johnny Handsome (1989, USA)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK
I Confess (1953, USA)
Notorious (1946, USA)
The Paradine Case (1947, USA)
Psycho (1960, USA)
Rear Window (1954, USA)
Rebecca (1940, USA)
Rope (1948, USA)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, USA)
Spellbound (1945, USA)
Stage Fright (1950, UK)
Strangers on a Train (1951, USA)
Suspicion (1941, USA)
Vertigo (1958, USA)
The Wrong Man (1956, USA)

JACK HIVELY
Street of Chance (1942, USA)

MIKE HODGES
Croupier (1998, Ireland-UK-France-Germany)
Get Carter (1971, UK)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003, UK-USA)

SETH HOLT
Nowhere to Go (1958, UK)

DENNIS HOPPER
The Hot Spot (1990, USA)

JERRY HOPPER
Naked Alibi (1954, USA)

HARRY HORNER
Beware, My Lovely (1952, USA)
Vicki (1953, USA)

KEN HUGHES
Confession (1955, UK)
The House Across the Lake (1954, UK)
The Long Haul (1957, UK-USA)
Wicked as They Come (1956, UK)

H. BRUCE HUMBERSTONE
I Wake Up Screaming (1941, USA)

LAWRENCE HUNTINGTON
The Upturned Glass (1947, UK)
Wanted for Murder (1946, UK)

BRIAN DESMOND HURST
The Mark of Cain (1947, UK)
On the Night of the Fire (1939, UK)

JOHN HUSTON
The Asphalt Jungle (1950, USA)
Beat the Devil (1953, UK-Italy-USA)
Key Largo (1948, USA)
The Kremlin Letter (1970, USA)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, USA)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, USA)

PETER HYAMS
Narrow Margin (1990, USA)

BORIS INGSTER
Southside 1-1000 (1950, USA)
The Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, USA)

JOHN IRVIN
City of Industry (1997, USA)

PAT JACKSON
Shadow on the Wall (1950, USA)

PATRICK JENKINS & SAM NEWFIELD
Gambler and the Lady (1952, UK)

PHIL JOANOU
Final Analysis (1992, USA)
State of Grace (1990, USA-UK)

NUNNALLY JOHNSON
Black Widow (1954, USA)

RIAN JOHNSON
Brick (2005, USA)

NEIL JORDAN
Mona Lisa (1986, UK)

NATHAN JURAN
The Crooked Web (1955, USA)
Highway Dragnet (1954, USA)

JOSEPH KANE
Accused of Murder (1956, USA)
Hoodlum Empire (1952, USA)

LÁSZLÓ KARDOS
The Strip (1951, USA)

PHIL KARLSON
The Brothers Rico (1957, USA)
5 Against the House (1955, USA)
Hell's Island (1955, USA)
Kansas City Confidential (1952, USA)
99 River Street (1953, USA)
The Phenix City Story (1955, USA)
Scandal Sheet (1952, USA)
Tight Spot (1955, USA)

LAWRENCE KASDAN
Body Heat (1981, USA)

ELIA KAZAN
Boomerang! (1947, USA)
Panic in the Streets (1950, USA)

VERNON KEAYS
Dangerous Intruder (1945, USA)

WILLIAM KEIGHLEY
The Street with No Name (1948, USA)

HARRY KELLER
Step Down to Terror (1958, USA)

BURT KENNEDY
The Killer Inside Me (1976, USA)
The Money Trap (1965, USA)

JAMES V. KERN
The Second Woman (1951, USA)

ANTHONY KIMMINS
Mine Own Executioner (1947, UK)

TAKESHI KITANO
Violent Cop (1989, Japan)

HOWARD W. KOCH
The Last Mile (1959, USA)

ZOLTAN KORDA
The Macomber Affair (1947, USA)

WAYNE KRAMER
The Cooler (2003, USA)

HAROLD F. KRESS
No Questions Asked (1951, USA)

STANLEY KUBRICK
Killer's Kiss (1955, USA)
The Killing (1956, USA)

BUZZ KULIK
Warning Shot (1967, USA)

KOREYOSHI KURAHARA
I Am Waiting (1957, Japan)

AKIRA KUROSAWA
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Japan)
Drunken Angel (1948, Japan)
High and Low (1963, Japan)
Stray Dog (1949, Japan)

LEW LANDERS
Inner Sanctum (1948, USA)
Man in the Dark (1953, USA)
The Mask of Diijon (1946, USA)
The Power of the Whistler (1945, USA)

SIDNEY LANFIELD
Station West (1948, USA)

FRITZ LANG
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956, USA)
The Big Heat (1953, USA)
The Blue Gardenia (1953, USA)
Clash by Night (1952, USA)
Fury (1936, USA)
Hangmen Also Die! (1943, USA)
House by the River (1950, USA)
Human Desire (1954, USA)
M (1931, Germany)
Ministry of Fear (1944, USA)
Scarlet Street (1945, USA)
Secret Beyond the Door… (1948, USA)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Germany)
While the City Sleeps (1956, USA)
The Woman in the Window (1944, USA)
You Only Live Once (1937, USA)

JOHN LARKIN
Circumstantial Evidence (1945, USA)

CHARLES LAUGHTON
The Night of the Hunter (1955, USA)

ARNOLD LAVEN
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957, USA)
Without Warning (1952, USA)

REGINALD LE BORG
Destiny (1944, USA)
Fall Guy (1947, USA)
The Flanagan Boy (1953, UK)

CHARLES LEDERER
Fingers at the Window (1942, USA)

D. ROSS LEDERMAN
Key Witness (1947, USA)
The Return of the Whistler (1948, USA)

MITCHELL LEISEN
No Man of Her Own (1950, USA)

JOHN LEMONT
The Frightened City (1961, UK)

ROBERT Z. LEONARD
The Bribe (1949, USA)

IRVING LERNER
City of Fear (1959, USA)
Murder by Contract (1958, USA)

JOSEPH LERNER
C-Man (1949, USA)
Guilty Bystander (1950, USA)

MERVYN LEROY
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, USA)
Johnny Eager (1941, USA)
Little Caesar (1931, USA)

HENRY LEVIN
Convicted (1950, USA)
Night Editor (1946, USA)
Two of a Kind (1951, USA)

JOSEPH H. LEWIS
The Big Combo (1955, USA)
Cry of the Hunted (1953, USA)
Gun Crazy (1950, USA)
A Lady Without Passport (1950, USA)
My Name is Julia Ross (1945, USA)
So Dark the Night (1946, USA)
The Undercover Man (1949, USA)

ANATOLE LITVAK
Blues in the Night (1941, USA)
City for Conquest (1940, USA)
The Long Night (1947, USA)
Out of the Fog (1941, USA)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948, USA)

PETER LORRE
The Lost One (1951, West Germany)

JOSEPH LOSEY
The Big Night (1951, USA)
Blind Date (1959, UK)
The Criminal (1960, UK)
The Intimate Stranger (1956, UK)
The Lawless (1950, USA)
M (Joseph Losey, 1951, USA)
The Prowler (1951, USA)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954, UK)
Time Without Pity (1957, UK)

ARTHUR LUBIN
Footsteps in the Fog (1955, UK)
Impact (1949, USA)

SIDNEY LUMET
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, USA)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, USA)
The Morning After (1986, USA)
Serpico (1973, USA)

IDA LUPINO
The Bigamist (1953, USA)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953, USA)
Outrage (1950, USA)

DAVID LYNCH
Blue Velvet (1986, USA)
Lost Highway (1997, USA-France)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, France-USA)

ADRIAN LYNE
Fatal Attraction (1987, USA)

DAVID MACDONALD
Good Time Girl (1948, UK)
The Lost Hours (1952, UK)

RANALD MACDOUGALL
Queen Bee (1955, USA)

GUSTAV MACHATÝ
Jealousy (1945, USA)

ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, USA)

JOHN MACKENZIE
The Long Good Friday (1980, UK)

PAUL MAGWOOD
Chandler (1971, USA)

TERRENCE MALICK
Badlands (1973, USA)

LOUIS MALLE
Atlantic City (1980, Canada-France)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958, France)

DAVID MAMET
Heist (2001, USA-Canada)
Homicide (1991, USA)
House of Games (1987, USA)
The Spanish Prisoner (1997, USA)

ROUBEN MAMOULIAN
City Streets (1931, USA)

JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
Dragonwyck (1946, USA)
Escape (1948, UK-USA)
House of Strangers (1949, USA)
No Way Out (1950, USA)
Somewhere in the Night (1946, USA)

ANTHONY MANN
Border Incident (1949, USA)
Desperate (1947, USA)
Devil's Doorway (1950, USA)
The Furies (1950, USA)
The Great Flamarion (1945, USA)
The Naked Spur (1953, USA)
Railroaded! (1947, USA)
Raw Deal [1948] (1948, USA)
Reign of Terror (1949, USA)
Side Street (1950, USA)
Strange Impersonation (1946, USA)
Strangers in the Night (1944, USA)
The Tall Target (1951, USA)
T-Men (1947, USA)
Two O'Clock Courage (1945, USA)

MICHAEL MANN
Collateral (2004, USA)
Heat (1995, USA)
Manhunter (1986, USA)
Thief (1981, USA)

EDWIN L. MARIN
Johnny Angel (1945, USA)
Nocturne (1946, USA)
Race Street (1948, USA)

FLETCHER MARKLE
Jigsaw (1949, USA)

RICHARD MARQUAND
Jagged Edge (1985, USA)

GEORGE MARSHALL
The Blue Dahlia (1946, USA)

CHARLES MARTIN
Death of a Scoundrel (1956, USA)

TOSHIO MASUDA
Rusty Knife (1958, Japan)

RUDOLPH MATÉ
D.O.A. (1950, USA)
The Dark Past (1948, USA)
Forbidden (1953, USA)
The Green Glove (1952, USA-France)
Second Chance (1953, USA)
Union Station (1950, USA)

GERALD MAYER
Dial 1119 (1950, USA)
The Sellout (1952, USA)

ARCHIE MAYO
The House Across the Bay (1940, USA)
Moontide (1942, USA)
The Petrified Forest (1936, USA)

JIM MCBRIDE
The Big Easy (1986, USA)
Breathless (1983, USA)

RAY MCCAREY
Strange Triangle (1946, USA)

EARL MCEVOY
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950, USA)

SCOTT MCGEHEE & DAVID SIEGEL
The Deep End (2001, USA)
Suture (1993, USA

ANDREW V. MCLAGLEN
Man in the Vault (1956, USA)

PETER MEDAK
Romeo is Bleeding (1993, USA)

JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
Bob le flambeur (1955, France)
Le Doulos (1963, France-Italy)
Un Flic (1972, France-Italy)
The Red Circle (1970, France-Italy)
Le Samouraï (1967, France)
Second Breath (1966, France)
Two Men in Manhattan (1959, France)

SAM MENDES
Road to Perdition (2002, USA)

WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES
The Whip Hand (1951, USA)

LEWIS MILESTONE
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946, USA)

DAVID MILLER
Beautiful Stranger (1954, UK-USA)
Sudden Fear (1952, USA)

VINCENTE MINNELLI
Undercurrent (1946, USA)

LÉONIDE MOGUY
Whistle Stop (1946, USA)

EDWARD MONTAGNE
The Man with My Face (1951, USA)
The Tattooed Stranger (1950, USA)

ROBERT MONTGOMERY
Lady in the Lake (1947, USA)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947, USA)

ROCKY MORTON & ANNABEL JANKEL
D.O.A. (1988, USA)

ROBERT MULLIGAN
The Nickel Ride (1975, USA)

RONALD NEAME
Take My Life (1947, UK)

JEAN NEGULESCO
Deep Valley (1947, USA)
Humoresque (1946, USA)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944, USA)
Nobody Lives Forever (1946, USA)
Road House (1948, USA)
Three Strangers (1946, USA)

ROY WILLIAM NEILL
Black Angel (1946, USA)

SAM NEWFIELD
Apology for Murder (1945, USA)
The Lady Confesses (1945, USA)
Money Madness (1948, USA)

JOSEPH M. NEWMAN
Abandoned (1949, USA)
Dangerous Crossing (1953, USA)
The Human Jungle (1954, USA)
711 Ocean Drive (1950, USA)

JOEL NEWTON
Jennifer (1953, USA)

JACK NICHOLSON
The Two Jakes (1990, USA)

WILLIAM NIGH
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948, USA)

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN
The Dark Knight (2008, USA-UK)
Following (1998, UK)
Insomnia (2002, USA)
Memento (2000, USA)

TAKASHI NOMURA
A Colt is My Passport (1967)

YOSHITARO NOMURA
Zero Focus (1961, Japan)

MAX NOSSECK
Dillinger (1945, USA)
The Hoodlum (1951, USA)

ELLIOTT NUGENT
My Favorite Brunette (1947, USA)

MICHAEL OBLOWITZ
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997, USA)

ARCH OBOLER
The Arnelo Affair (1947, USA)
Bewitched (1945, USA)

EDMOND O’BRIEN & HOWARD W. KOCH
Shield for Murder (1954, USA)

MAX OPHÜLS
Caught (1949, USA)
The Reckless Moment (1949, USA)

GERD OSWALD
Crime of Passion (1957, USA)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956, USA)
Screaming Mimi (1958, USA)

FYODOR OTSEP
Whispering City (1947, Canada)

ALAN J. PAKULA
Klute (1971, USA)
The Parallax View (1974, USA)

NORMAN PANAMA
The Trap (1959, USA)

PARK CHAN-WOOK
Oldboy (2003, South Korea)

ALAN PARKER
Angel Heart (1987, USA)

ROBERT PARRISH
Cry Danger (1951, USA)
The Mob (1951, USA)

GORDON PARRY
Tread Softly Stranger (1958, UK)

IVAN PASSER
Cutter's Way (1981, USA)

SAM PECKINPAH
The Getaway (1972, USA)

ARTHUR PENN
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, USA)
Night Moves (1975, USA)

WOLFGANG PETERSEN
Shattered (1991, USA)

JOSEPH PEVNEY
Female on the Beach (1955, USA)
Iron Man (1951, USA)
The Midnight Story (1957, USA)
Playgirl (1954, USA)
Shakedown (1950, USA)

IRVING PICHEL
Quicksand (1950, USA)
Temptation (1946, USA)
They Won't Believe Me (1947, USA)
Tomorrow is Forever (1946, USA)
Without Honor (1949, USA)

ROMAN POLANSKI
Chinatown (1974, USA)
Frantic (1988, USA-France)

SYDNEY POLLACK
The Yakuza (1974, USA-Japan)

ABRAHAM POLONSKY
Force of Evil (1948, USA)

LEO POPKIN & RUSSELL ROUSE
The Well (1951, USA)

DICK POWELL
Split Second (1953, USA)

MICHAEL POWELL
Contraband (1940, UK)
Peeping Tom (1960, UK)

MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
The Small Back Room (1949, UK)

OTTO PREMINGER
Angel Face (1953, USA)
Fallen Angel (1945, USA)
Laura (1944, USA)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, USA)
The 13th Letter (1951, USA)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950, USA)
Whirlpool (1949, USA)

WILL PRICE
Strange Bargain (1949, USA)

ALEX PROYAS
Dark City (1998, USA-Australia)

RICHARD QUINE
Drive a Crooked Road (1954, USA)
Pushover (1954, USA)

BOB RAFELSON
Black Widow (1987, USA)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981, USA)

SAM RAIMI
A Simple Plan (1998, USA)

IRVING RAPPER
Another Man's Poison (1951, UK)
Deception (1946, USA)

GREGORY RATOFF
Moss Rose (1947, USA)

NICHOLAS RAY
Born to Be Bad (1950, USA)
In a Lonely Place (1950, USA)
Johnny Guitar (1954, USA)
Knock on Any Door (1949, USA)
On Dangerous Ground (1951, USA) Pasted Graphic
Party Girl (1958, USA)
They Live by Night (1948, USA)
A Woman's Secret (1949, USA)

CAROL REED
The Fallen Idol (1948, UK)
The Man Between (1953, UK)
Odd Man Out (1947, UK)
The Third Man (1949, UK)

NICOLAS WINDING REFN
Drive (2011, USA)

MARCUS REICHERT
Union City (1980, USA)

CARL REINER
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982, USA)

JOHN REINHARDT
For You I Die (1947, USA)
The Guilty (1947, USA)
High Tide (1947, USA)
Open Secret (1948, USA)

IRVING REIS
All My Sons (1948, USA)
Crack-Up (1946, USA)

KAREL REISZ
Who'll Stop the Rain? (1978, USA)

JEAN RENOIR
La Bête humaine (1938, France)
La Chienne (1931, France)
La Nuit du carrefou (1932, France)
The Woman on the Beach (1947, USA)

BURT REYNOLDS
Sharky's Machine (1981, USA)

DICK RICHARDS
Farewell, My Lovely (1975, USA)

TONY RICHARDSON
The Border (1982, USA)

WOLF RILLA
Marilyn (1953, UK)

ARTHUR RIPLEY
The Chase (1946, USA)
Voice in the Wind (1944, USA)

MARTIN RITT
Edge of the City (1957, USA)

MARK ROBSON
Champion (1949, USA)
Edge of Doom (1950, USA)
The Harder They Fall (1956, USA)
The Seventh Victim (1943, USA)

ROBERT RODRIGUEZ & FRANK MILLER
Sin City (2005, USA)

STUART ROSENBERG
The Drowning Pool (1975, USA)

RICK ROSENTHAL
Bad Boys (1983, USA)

ROBERT ROSSEN
All the King's Men (1949, USA)
Body and Soul (1947, USA)
Johnny O'Clock (1947, USA)

RUSSELL ROUSE
House of Numbers (1957, USA)
New York Confidential (1955, USA)
The Thief (1952, USA)
Wicked Woman (1953, USA)

ROY ROWLAND
Rogue Cop (1954, USA)
Scene of the Crime (1949, USA)
Witness to Murder (1954, USA)

SIDNEY SALKOW
Chicago Confidential (1957, USA)

JOSEPH SANTLEY
Shadow of a Woman (1946, USA)

CHARLES SAUNDERS
Kill Her Gently (1957, UK)

CLAUDE SAUTET
Classe tous risques (1960, France)

VICTOR SAVILLE
The Long Wait (1954, USA)

VICTOR SAVILLE & GEORGE WHITE
My Gun is Quick (1957, USA)

PAUL SCHRADER
Hardcore (1979, USA)

BARBET SCHROEDER
Kiss of Death (1995, USA)

HAROLD D. SCHUSTER
Finger Man (1955, USA)
Loophole (1954, USA)

MARTIN SCORSESE
Cape Fear (1991, USA)
The Departed (2006, USA-Hong Kong)
Mean Streets (1973, USA)
Taxi Driver (1976, USA)

RIDLEY SCOTT
Black Rain (1989, USA)
Blade Runner (1982, USA)
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987, USA)

TONY SCOTT
True Romance (1993, USA)

FRANCIS SEARLE
Cloudburst (1951, UK)

FRED F. SEARS
Miami Exposé (1956, USA)

LEWIS SEILER
Over-Exposed (1956, USA)
The System (1953, USA)
Whiplash (1948, USA)
Women's Prison (1955, USA)

WILLIAM A. SEITER
Borderline (1950, USA)
Make Haste to Live (1954, USA)

LESLEY SELANDER
Blackmail (1947, USA)

STEVE SEKELY
Hollow Triumph (1948, USA)
Lady in the Death House (1944, USA)

VERNON SEWELL
Soho Incident (1956, UK)

MAXWELL SHANE
City Across the River (1949, USA)
Fear in the Night (1947, USA)
The Glass Wall (1953, USA)
The Naked Street (1955, USA)
Nightmare (1956, USA)

BARRY SHEAR
Across 110th Street (1972, USA)

GEORGE SHERMAN
Larceny (1948, USA)
The Raging Tide (1951, USA)
The Secret of the Whistler (1946, USA)
The Sleeping City (1950, USA)

VINCENT SHERMAN
Affair in Trinidad (1952, USA)
Backfire (1950, USA)
The Damned Don't Cry (1950, USA)
The Garment Jungle (1957, USA)
Nora Prentiss (1947, USA)
The Unfaithful (1947, USA)

MASAHIRO SHINODA
Pale Flower (1964, Japan)

LEE SHOLEM
Crime Against Joe (1956, USA)

HERMAN SHUMLIN
Confidential Agent (1945, USA)

DON SIEGEL
Baby Face Nelson (1957, USA)
The Big Steal (1949, USA)
Charley Varrick (1973, USA)
Crime in the Streets (1956, USA)
Dirty Harry (1971, USA)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, USA)
The Killers (1964, USA)
The Lineup (1958, USA)
Madigan (1968, USA)
Private Hell 36 (1954, USA)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954, USA)
The Verdict (1946, USA)

S. SYLVAN SIMON
I Love Trouble (1948, USA)

BRYAN SINGER
The Usual Suspects (1995, USA)

ROBERT SIODMAK
Christmas Holiday (1944, USA)
Criss Cross (1949, USA)
Cry of the City (1948, USA)
The Dark Mirror (1946, USA)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950, USA)
The Killers (1946, USA)
Phantom Lady (1944, USA)
The Spiral Staircase (1945, USA)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945, USA)
The Suspect (1944, USA)

DOUGLAS SIRK
Lured (1947, USA)
Shockproof (1949, USA)
Sleep, My Love (1948, USA)

ERIK SKJOLDBJÆRG
Insomnia (1997, Norway)

PAUL SLOANE
The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950, USA)

JACK SMIGHT
Harper (1966, USA)

STEVEN SODERBERGH
The Limey (1999, USA)
The Underneath (1995, USA)

STEVEN SPIELBERG
Minority Report (2002, USA)

R.G. SPRINGSTEEN
The Red Menace (1949, USA)

JOHN M. STAHL
Leave Her to Heaven (1945, USA)

PAUL STANLEY
Cry Tough (1959, USA)

WOLFGANG STAUDTE
The Murderers Are Among Us (1946, Germany)

GEORGE STEVENS
A Place in the Sun (1951, USA)

MARK STEVENS
Cry Vengeance (1954, USA)
Time Table (1956, USA)

ROBERT STEVENSON
The Las Vegas Story (1952, USA)
To the Ends of the Earth (1948, USA)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950, USA)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949, USA)

ANDREW L. STONE
A Blueprint for Murder (1953, USA)
Cry Terror! (1958, USA)
Highway 301 (1950, USA)
Julie (1956, USA)
The Night Holds Terror (1955, USA)
The Steel Trap (1952, USA)

OLIVER STONE
Natural Born Killers (1994, USA)
U Turn (1997, USA-France)

WALTER STRATE
Violated (1953, USA)

JOHN STURGES
The Capture (1950, USA)
Jeopardy (1953, USA)
Mystery Street (1950, USA)
The People Against O'Hara (1951, USA)
The Sign of the Ram (1948, USA)

PRESTON STURGES
Unfaithfully Yours (1948, USA)

SEIJUN SUZUKI
Branded to Kill (1967, Japan)
Take Aim at the Police Van (1960, Japan)
Tokyo Drifter (1966, Japan)

LEE TAMAHORI
Mulholland Falls (1996, USA)

QUENTIN TARANTINO
Jackie Brown (1997, USA)
Pulp Fiction (1994, USA)
Reservoir Dogs (1992, USA)

BERTRAND TAVERNIER
Clean Slate (English title)

TED TETZLAFF
A Dangerous Profession (1949, USA)
Gambling House (1950, USA)
Riff-Raff (1947, USA)
Under the Gun (1951, USA)
The Window (1949, USA)

RALPH THOMAS
The Clouded Yellow (1950, UK)

WILLIAM C. THOMAS
They Made Me a Killer (1946, USA)

J. LEE THOMPSON
Cape Fear (1962, USA)
Yield to the Night (1956, UK)

RICHARD THORPE
Black Hand (1950, USA)
The Unknown Man (1951, USA)

JACQUES TOURNEUR
Berlin Express (1948, USA)
Cat People (1942, USA)
Experiment Perilous (1944, USA)
The Leopard Man (1943, USA)
Nightfall (1956, USA)
Out of the Past (1947, USA)

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT
The Bride Wore Black (1967, France)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960, France)

RICHARD TUGGLE
Tightrope (1984, USA)

MONTGOMERY TULLY
Five Days (1954, UK)
36 Hours (1953, UK)

FRANK TUTTLE
A Cry in the Night (1956, USA)
Gunman in the Streets (1950, France-USA)
Suspense (1946, USA)
This Gun for Hire (1942, USA)

EDGAR G. ULMER
Bluebeard (1944, USA)
Detour (1945, USA)
Murder is My Beat (1955, USA)
Ruthless (1948, USA)
Strange Illusion (1945, USA)
The Strange Woman (1946, USA)

W.S. VAN DYKE
Rage in Heaven (1941, USA)
The Thin Man (1934, USA)

MARIO VAN PEEBLES
New Jack City (1991, USA)

PAUL VERHOEVEN
Basic Instinct (1992, USA)

BRUNO VESOTA
Female Jungle (1955, USA)

CHARLES VIDOR
Blind Alley (1939, USA)
Gilda (1946, USA)
Ladies in Retirement (1941, USA)

KING VIDOR
Beyond the Forest (1949, USA)
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951, USA)

LUCHINO VISCONTI
Ossessione (1943, Italy)

GUNTHER VON FRITSCH
Stolen Identity (1953, Austria-USA)

JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Macao (1952, USA)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941, USA)
Underworld (1927, USA)

LARS VON TRIER
The Element of Crime (1984, Denmark)

BERNARD VORHAUS
The Amazing Mr. X (1948, USA)
Bury Me Dead (1947, USA)

LANA WACHOWSKI & LILLY WACHOWSKI
Bound (1996, USA)

RICHARD WALLACE
The Fallen Sparrow (1943, USA)
Framed (1947, USA)

RAOUL WALSH
High Sierra (1941, USA)
The Man I Love (1946, USA)
Pursued (1947, USA)
They Drive By Night (1940, USA)
White Heat (1949, USA)

WAYNE WANG
Slam Dance (1987, USA-UK)

ROBERT D. WEBB
The Spider (1945, USA)

ORSON WELLES
Citizen Kane (1941, USA)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948, USA)
Mr. Arkadin (1955, France-Spain-Switzerland)
The Stranger (1946, USA)
Touch of Evil (1958, USA)

WILLIAM WELLMAN
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, USA)
The Public Enemy (1931, USA)

WIM WENDERS
The American Friend (1977, West Germany-France)
Hammett (1982, USA)

PAUL WENDKOS
The Burglar (1957, USA)

ALFRED L. WERKER
He Walked by Night (1948, USA)
Repeat Performance (1947, USA)
Shock (1946, USA)
Walk East on Beacon! (1952, USA)

RICHARD WHORF
Love from a Stranger (1947, USA)

ROBERT WIENE
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)

CRANE WILBUR
Canon City (1948, USA)
Outside the Wall (1950, USA)
The Story of Molly X (1949, USA)

CORNEL WILDE
Storm Fear (1955, USA)

BILLY WILDER
Ace in the Hole (1951, USA)
Double Indemnity (1944, USA)
The Lost Weekend (1945, USA)
Sunset Blvd. (1950, USA)

W. LEE WILDER
The Big Bluff (1955, USA)
The Glass Alibi (1946, USA)
Once a Thief (1950, USA)
The Pretender (1947, USA)
Three Steps North (1951, Italy-USA)

GORDON WILES
The Gangster (1947, USA)

BRETAIGNE WINDUST
The Enforcer (1951, USA)

IRWIN WINKLER
Night and the City (1992, USA)

MICHAEL WINNER
The Big Sleep (1978, UK)
Death Wish (1974, USA)

MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM
The Killer Inside Me (2010, USA-UK-Sweden-France)

ROBERT WISE
Blood on the Moon (1948, USA)
Born to Kill (1947, USA)
The Captive City (1952, USA)
Criminal Court (1946, USA)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951, USA)
I Want to Live! (1958, USA)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959, USA)
The Set-Up (1949, USA)

WILLIAM WITNEY
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958, USA)

SAM WOOD
Ivy (1947, USA)

EDWARD D. WOOD JR.
Jail Bait (1954, USA)

ARTHUR B. WOODS
They Drive by Night (1938, UK)

WILLIAM WYLER
The Desperate Hours (1955, USA)
Detective Story (1951, USA)
The Letter (1940, USA)

JEAN YARBROUGH
Footsteps in the Night (1957, USA)
Inside Job (1946, USA)
Shed No Tears (1948, USA)

PETER YATES
Bullitt (1968, USA)
Eyewitness (1981, USA)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973, USA)

TERENCE YOUNG
Corridor of Mirrors (1948, UK)

ALFRED ZEISLER
Fear (1946, USA)
Parole, Inc. (1948, USA)

ROBERT ZEMECKIS
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988, USA)

FRED ZINNEMANN
Act of Violence (1949, USA)