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3 chapters · 69 cards
  1. 01
    Classical cinema and influential auteurs9 cards · ~2 min
  2. 02
    New Hollywood and popular cinema12 cards · ~2 min
  3. 03
    Contemporary and international cinema48 cards · ~8 min

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Prompt: This filmmaker directed the 1960 film Psycho.
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Directors · RECALLThis filmmaker directed the 1960 film Psycho.Think it. Then flip it.
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Prompt: This filmmaker directed the 1958 film Vertigo.
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Directors · RECALLThis filmmaker directed the 1958 film Vertigo.Think it. Then flip it.
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Prompt: This filmmaker directed the 1954 film Rear Window.
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  1. 01This filmmaker directed the 1960 film Psycho.RECALL
    Alfred Hitchcock

    A suspense classic built around identity, fear and perception.

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  2. 02This filmmaker directed the 1958 film Vertigo.RECALL
    Alfred Hitchcock

    A psychological mystery about obsession and mistaken identity.

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  3. 03This filmmaker directed the 1954 film Rear Window.RECALL
    Alfred Hitchcock

    A photographer suspects a neighbour of murder from across a courtyard.

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  4. 04This filmmaker directed the 1954 film Seven Samurai.RECALL
    Akira Kurosawa

    A landmark 1954 Japanese epic about villagers and hired protectors.

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  5. 05This filmmaker directed the 1950 film Rashomon.RECALL
    Akira Kurosawa

    A story of conflicting accounts of a violent encounter.

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  6. 06This filmmaker directed the 1952 film Ikiru.RECALL
    Akira Kurosawa

    A dying civil servant searches for meaning in the time he has left.

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  7. 07This filmmaker directed the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.RECALL
    Stanley Kubrick

    A landmark science-fiction film spanning human evolution and space exploration.

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  8. 08This filmmaker directed the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.RECALL
    Stanley Kubrick

    A dystopian study of violence, choice and social conditioning.

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  9. 09This filmmaker directed the 1980 film The Shining.RECALL
    Stanley Kubrick

    A psychological horror film set in an isolated mountain hotel.

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  10. 10This filmmaker directed the 1975 film Jaws.RECALL
    Steven Spielberg

    A coastal town faces a great white shark and the hunt to stop it.

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  11. 11This filmmaker directed the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.RECALL
    Steven Spielberg

    A stranded visitor from another world befriends a young boy.

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  12. 12This filmmaker directed the 1993 film Jurassic Park.RECALL
    Steven Spielberg

    A theme park of cloned dinosaurs descends into chaos.

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  13. 13This filmmaker directed the 1976 film Taxi Driver.RECALL
    Martin Scorsese

    A lonely New York cab driver descends into violent obsession.

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  14. 14This filmmaker directed the 1980 film Raging Bull.RECALL
    Martin Scorsese

    A portrait of boxer Jake LaMotta and his turbulent life.

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  15. 15This filmmaker directed the 1990 film Goodfellas.RECALL
    Martin Scorsese

    The rise and fall of a mob associate and his circle.

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  16. 16This filmmaker directed the 1972 film The Godfather.RECALL
    Francis Ford Coppola

    A crime-family saga centred on succession and power.

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  17. 17This filmmaker directed the 1974 film The Conversation.RECALL
    Francis Ford Coppola

    A surveillance expert becomes consumed by a recording he made.

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  18. 18This filmmaker directed the 1979 film Apocalypse Now.RECALL
    Francis Ford Coppola

    A captain travels upriver during the Vietnam War to find a renegade colonel.

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  19. 19This filmmaker directed the 1994 film Pulp Fiction.RECALL
    Quentin Tarantino

    Interlocking stories of crime, chance and conversation in Los Angeles.

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  20. 20This filmmaker directed the 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1.RECALL
    Quentin Tarantino

    An assassin seeks revenge after surviving an attack on her wedding day.

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  21. 21This filmmaker directed the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.RECALL
    Quentin Tarantino

    A wartime revenge story set in occupied France.

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  22. 22This filmmaker directed the 2010 film Inception.RECALL
    Christopher Nolan

    An extractor enters dreams to plant an idea.

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  23. 23This filmmaker directed the 2008 film The Dark Knight.RECALL
    Christopher Nolan

    Batman confronts a criminal mastermind who wants to expose Gotham's chaos.

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  24. 24This filmmaker directed the 2023 film Oppenheimer.RECALL
    Christopher Nolan

    A historical drama about the physicist and the Manhattan Project.

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  25. 25This filmmaker directed the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro.RECALL
    Hayao Miyazaki

    Two sisters encounter gentle spirits in the Japanese countryside.

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  26. 26This filmmaker directed the 1997 film Princess Mononoke.RECALL
    Hayao Miyazaki

    A young warrior becomes caught between industry and the forest gods.

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  27. 27This filmmaker directed the 2001 film Spirited Away.RECALL
    Hayao Miyazaki

    A girl enters a spirit world and works to rescue her transformed parents.

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  28. 28This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Lady Bird.RECALL
    Greta Gerwig

    A coming-of-age story about a teenager and her mother in Sacramento.

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  29. 29This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Little Women.RECALL
    Greta Gerwig

    A new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's story of the March sisters.

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  30. 30This filmmaker directed the 2023 film Barbie.RECALL
    Greta Gerwig

    A Barbie leaves her perfect world to investigate an unexpected crisis in the real world.

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  31. 31This filmmaker directed the 1944 film Double Indemnity.RECALL
    Billy Wilder

    A salesman and an insurance agent plot a murder for financial gain.

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  32. 32This filmmaker directed the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard.RECALL
    Billy Wilder

    A forgotten screenwriter becomes entangled with a fading silent-film star.

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  33. 33This filmmaker directed the 1959 film Some Like It Hot.RECALL
    Billy Wilder

    Two musicians disguise themselves as women after witnessing a mob hit.

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  34. 34This filmmaker directed the 1960 film The Apartment.RECALL
    Billy Wilder

    An office worker lends his apartment to executives and falls for an elevator operator.

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  35. 35This filmmaker directed the 1995 film Se7en.RECALL
    David Fincher

    Two detectives hunt a killer whose crimes are based on the seven deadly sins.

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  36. 36This filmmaker directed the 1999 film Fight Club.RECALL
    David Fincher

    An insomniac forms an underground club that grows beyond its founders' control.

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  37. 37This filmmaker directed the 2010 film The Social Network.RECALL
    David Fincher

    A drama about the founding of Facebook and the disputes that followed.

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  38. 38This filmmaker directed the 2014 film Gone Girl.RECALL
    David Fincher

    A husband's public image collapses when his wife disappears.

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  39. 39This filmmaker directed the 1989 film Do the Right Thing.RECALL
    Spike Lee

    Tensions rise on a hot day in a Brooklyn neighbourhood.

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  40. 40This filmmaker directed the 1992 film Malcolm X.RECALL
    Spike Lee

    A biographical film about the influential civil-rights leader.

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  41. 41This filmmaker directed the 2018 film BlacKkKlansman.RECALL
    Spike Lee

    A Black police officer infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with help from a colleague.

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  42. 42This filmmaker directed the 2006 film Inside Man.RECALL
    Spike Lee

    A detective negotiates during a carefully planned bank robbery.

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  43. 43This filmmaker directed the 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7.RECALL
    Agnès Varda

    A singer wanders Paris while awaiting the results of a medical test.

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  44. 44This filmmaker directed the 1985 film Vagabond.RECALL
    Agnès Varda

    A woman's death is reconstructed through the people who encountered her.

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  45. 45This filmmaker directed the 2000 film The Gleaners and I.RECALL
    Agnès Varda

    A personal documentary about gleaning, waste and people living at the margins.

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  46. 46This French filmmaker co-directed the 2017 documentary Faces Places with the artist JR.RECALL
    Agnès Varda

    Varda and artist JR travel through rural France making giant photographic portraits.

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  47. 47This filmmaker directed the 1999 film All About My Mother.RECALL
    Pedro Almodóvar

    A grieving mother travels to Barcelona after the death of her son.

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  48. 48This filmmaker directed the 2002 film Talk to Her.RECALL
    Pedro Almodóvar

    Two men form an unexpected friendship while caring for women in comas.

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  49. 49This filmmaker directed the 2006 film Volver.RECALL
    Pedro Almodóvar

    Women in a Spanish family confront grief, memory and a mysterious return.

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  50. 50This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Pain and Glory.RECALL
    Pedro Almodóvar

    An aging filmmaker reflects on his life, work and past relationships.

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  51. 51This filmmaker directed the 2003 film Memories of Murder.RECALL
    Bong Joon-ho

    Detectives investigate a series of murders in rural South Korea.

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  52. 52This filmmaker directed the 2006 film The Host.RECALL
    Bong Joon-ho

    A family tries to rescue a child taken by a creature in the Han River.

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  53. 53This filmmaker directed the 2013 film Snowpiercer.RECALL
    Bong Joon-ho

    The last survivors of a frozen world live aboard a train divided by class.

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  54. 54This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Parasite.RECALL
    Bong Joon-ho

    A struggling family gradually enters the household of a wealthy family.

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  55. 55This filmmaker directed the 1960 film Breathless.RECALL
    Jean-Luc Godard

    A young thief on the run hides with an American student in Paris.

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  56. 56This filmmaker directed the 1963 film Contempt.RECALL
    Jean-Luc Godard

    A screenwriter's marriage fractures during the production of a film adaptation.

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  57. 57This filmmaker directed the 1964 film Band of Outsiders.RECALL
    Jean-Luc Godard

    Three young people become involved in a plan to rob a wealthy household.

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  58. 58This filmmaker directed the 1962 film Vivre sa vie.RECALL
  59. 59This filmmaker directed the 1991 film Point Break.RECALL
    Kathryn Bigelow

    An undercover FBI agent infiltrates a group of surfing bank robbers.

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  60. 60This filmmaker directed the 2008 film The Hurt Locker.RECALL
    Kathryn Bigelow

    A bomb-disposal team serves during the Iraq War.

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  61. 61This filmmaker directed the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty.RECALL
    Kathryn Bigelow

    An intelligence analyst pursues Osama bin Laden over a decade.

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  62. 62This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Detroit.RECALL
    Kathryn Bigelow

    A night of violence unfolds during the 1967 Detroit uprising.

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  63. 63This filmmaker directed the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums.RECALL
    Wes Anderson

    An eccentric family reunites after the father announces a terminal illness.

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  64. 64This filmmaker directed the 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.RECALL
    Wes Anderson

    An oceanographer assembles a crew to hunt the shark that killed his partner.

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  65. 65This filmmaker directed the 2009 film Fantastic Mr. Fox.RECALL
    Wes Anderson

    A clever fox risks his family's safety by returning to a life of theft.

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  66. 66This filmmaker directed the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel.RECALL
    Wes Anderson

    A concierge and his lobby boy become entangled in a stolen painting and an inheritance.

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  67. 67This filmmaker directed the 2017 film Get Out.RECALL
    Jordan Peele

    A young man visits his girlfriend's family and uncovers a disturbing secret.

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  68. 68This filmmaker directed the 2019 film Us.RECALL
    Jordan Peele

    A family is confronted by terrifying doubles of themselves.

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  69. 69This filmmaker directed the 2022 film Nope.RECALL
    Jordan Peele

    Siblings running a California horse ranch encounter a strange presence in the sky.

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