There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
Once (dir. John Carney)
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird)
Brand Upon the Brain! (dir. Guy Maddin)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Michael Clayton (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Zoo (dir. Robinson Devor)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
No Country for Old Men (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(dir. Andrew Dominik)
Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Lookout (dir. Scott Frank)
Grindhouse (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
with a nod to Death Proof and a wink to Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth)
Starting Out in the Evening (dir. Andrew Wagner)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (dir. Scott Hicks)
Stephanie Daley (dir. Hilary Brougher)
You, The Living (dir. Roy Andersson)
The Savages (dir. Tamara Jenkins)
Away from Her (dir. Sarah Polley)
Juno (dir. Jason Reitman)
Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)
Margo at the Wedding (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Lake of Fire (dir. Tony Kaye)
Joshua (dir. George Ratliff)
Hot Fuzz (dir. Edgar Wright)
The Kite Runner (dir. Marc Forster)
Charlie Wilson’s War (dir. Mike Nichols)
Waitress (dir. Adrienne Shelly)
No End in Sight (dir. Charles Ferguson)
Paris, Je T’aime (dir. 22 Filmmakers)
Snow Angels (dir. David Gordon Green)
In the Valley of Elah (dir. Paul Haggis)
Bridges to Terabithia (dir. Gabor Csupo)
Terror’s Advocate (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Breach (dir. Billy Ray)
Boy A (dir. John Crowley)
Frownland (dir. Ronald Bronstein)
The Mist (dir Frank Darabont)
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
La Vie en Rose (dir. Olivier Dahan)
Romance & Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro)
Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck)
No Reservations (dir. Scott Hicks)
The Simpsons Movie (dir. David Silverman)
Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn)
Hairspray (dir. Adam Shankman)
The Darjeeling Limited (dir. Wes Anderson)
Please Vote for Me (dir. Weijun Chen)
3:10 to Yuma (dir. James Mangold)
The Bourne Ultimatum (dir. Paul Greengrass)
A Mighty Heart (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (dir. Seth Gordon)
1408 (dir. Mikael Håfström)
Your Mommy Kills Animals (dir. Curt Johnson)
Brick Lane (dir. Sarah Gavron)
Lars and the Real Girl (dir. Craig Gillespie)
An American Crime (dir. Tommy O’Haver)
Helvetica (dir. Gary Hustwit)
Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White)
The Great Debaters (dir. Denzel Washington)
Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) (dir. Patricia Riggen)
The Brave One (dir. Neil Jordon)
Shoot ‘Em Up (dir. Michael Davis)
American Gangster (dir. Ridley Scott)

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