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Director Debuts

Famous directors’ debut feature length films so no shorts or TV movies. Feel free to add.
1. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
2.
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 Judo Saga aka Sanshiro Sugata
by Akira Kurosawa
  
3. Grand Theft Auto  
4.
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 The Pleasure Garden
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
5. Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Kelly (II)
  
6. THX 1138 - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by George Lucas
  
7. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
8. Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
by Joel Coen
  
9. Eraserhead
by David Lynch
  
10. Who's That Knocking at My Door?  
11. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
  
12.
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 The Slender Thread
by Sydney Pollack
  
13. 12 Angry Men  
14. Play Misty for Me  
15. The Sugarland Express
by Steven Spielberg
  
16. Knife in the Water - Criterion Collection  
17.
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 Crisis
by Ingmar Bergman
  
18. Story of a Love Affair
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
19. Variety Lights - Criterion collection
by Federico Fellini
  
20.
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 Take My Life  
21.
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 Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum)
by Zhang Yimou
  
22. As Tears Go By
by Kar Wai Wong
  
23. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
24.
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 Breathless - Criterion Collection  
25. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
by Senkichi Taniguchi
  
26. The Birth of a Nation  
27. Following
by Christopher Nolan
  
28. Shaun of the Dead
by Edgar Wright
  
29.
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 Praying with anger
by M. Night Shyamalan
  
30.
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 Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition)  
31. Clerks  
32. El Mariachi (Special Edition)
by Robert Rodriguez
  
33. Mademoiselle Fifi [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
by Robert Wise
  
34. On the Town
by Gene Kelly
  
35. Signs of Life
by Werner Herzog
  
36. The Producers (Deluxe Edition)
by Mel Brooks
  
37. Mauvaise Graine (B&W Sub)
by Billy Wilder
  
38. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn [PAL, Region Free, Import - Great Britain]  
39. Duellists (Ws Sub)
by Ridley Scott
  
40. The Hunger
by Tony Scott
  
41.
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 The Landlord (1970)
by Hal Ashby
  
42. Targets  
43.
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 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
by Herbert Ross
  
44.
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 The Sterile Cuckoo
by Alan J. Pakula
  
45. Pi
by Darren Aronofsky
  
46.
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 The Careless Years (1957)  
47.
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 The Great McGinty
by Preston Sturges
  
48.
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 Nazi Agent (1942)
by Jules Dassin
  
49. Yentl (Two-Disc Directors Cut)  
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Created by IYG on Dec 29, 2007.