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Letterboxd Showdown: Remarkable Directorial Debuts

These are acclaimed feature debuts, all included in the Top 1000 list by They Shoot Pictures Don't They. Organized by TSPDT ranking.

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  • This Is Spinal Tap

    20

  • Reservoir Dogs

    17

  • Blood Simple

    32

  • Nanook of the North

    12

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    30

  • Breathless

    2

  • L'Atalante

    3

  • Citizen Kane

    1

  • The 400 Blows

    4

  • The Night of the Hunter

    5

  • Eraserhead

    16

  • The Maltese Falcon

    15

  • Pather Panchali

    6

  • Night of the Living Dead

    13

  • Performance

    11

  • The Kid

    19

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    7

  • L'Âge d'or

    8

  • Strike

    27

  • Killer of Sheep

    18

  • On the Town

    38

  • The Spirit of the Beehive

    10

  • Badlands

    9

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

    14

  • Shadows

    21

  • Ivan's Childhood

    22

  • Lola

    23

  • Yellow Earth

    24

  • 12 Angry Men

    25

  • Accattone

    26

  • Titicut Follies

    28

  • They Live by Night

    29

  • Red Sorghum

    31

  • The Producers

    33

  • Obsession

    34

  • Kaagaz Ke Phool

    35

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    36

  • Knife in the Water

    37

  • Naked Childhood

    39

  • The Blood of a Poet

    40