What are the best directorial debuts?
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Blind Husbands (1919)
%
(8 votes)
Emerald of Death (1919)
%
(4 votes)
The Road to Glory (1926)
%
(7 votes)
Blade of Penitence (1927)
%
(5 votes)
L'Atalante (1934)
%
(22 votes)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
%
(170 votes)
Citizen Kane (1941)
%
(808 votes)
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
%
(5 votes)
Angels of Sin (1943)
%
(2 votes)
Ossessione (1943)
%
(8 votes)
Henry V (1944)
%
(23 votes)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
%
(11 votes)
Crisis (1946)
%
(2 votes)
Variety Lights (1951)
%
(2 votes)
Fear and Desire (1953)
%
(12 votes)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
%
(110 votes)
Pather Panchali (1955)
%
(33 votes)
La Pointe Courte (1955)
%
(4 votes)
Marty (1955)
%
(12 votes)
12 Angry Men (1957)
%
(593 votes)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
%
(19 votes)
The 400 Blows (1959)
%
(169 votes)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)
%
(61 votes)
Breathless (1960)
%
(112 votes)
The Alamo (1960)
%
(11 votes)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
%
(12 votes)
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
%
(4 votes)
Accattone (1961)
%
(10 votes)
Knife in the Water (1962)
%
(23 votes)
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
%
(80 votes)
The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962)
%
(2 votes)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
%
(72 votes)
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
%
(6 votes)
The Producers (1967)
%
(101 votes)
Fando and Lis (1968)
%
(6 votes)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
%
(206 votes)
Naked Childhood (1968)
%
(5 votes)
Easy Rider (1969)
%
(84 votes)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
%
(13 votes)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
%
(15 votes)
Get Carter (1971)
%
(15 votes)
THX 1138 (1971)
%
(69 votes)
Fritz the Cat (1972)
%
(15 votes)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
%
(28 votes)
Badlands (1973)
%
(132 votes)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
%
(20 votes)
Dark Star (1974)
%
(13 votes)
Hard Times (1975)
%
(7 votes)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
%
(393 votes)
Eraserhead (1977)
%
(263 votes)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
%
(18 votes)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
%
(88 votes)
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
%
(11 votes)
Mad Max (1979)
%
(239 votes)
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
%
(45 votes)
Ordinary People (1980)
%
(20 votes)
The Evil Dead (1981)
%
(246 votes)
Thief (1981)
%
(42 votes)
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
%
(1 votes)
Body Heat (1981)
%
(9 votes)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
%
(105 votes)
Terms of Endearment (1983)
%
(13 votes)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
%
(12 votes)
Repo Man (1984)
%
(36 votes)
Blood Simple. (1984)
%
(131 votes)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
%
(177 votes)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
%
(24 votes)
The Killing Fields (1984)
%
(21 votes)
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
%
(76 votes)
In a Glass Cage (1986)
%
(1 votes)
Bad Taste (1987)
%
(15 votes)
House of Games (1987)
%
(7 votes)
Chocolat (1988)
%
(10 votes)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
%
(65 votes)
The Unbelievable Truth (1989)
%
(3 votes)
Sweetie (1989)
%
(5 votes)
Violent Cop (1989)
%
(9 votes)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
%
(41 votes)
Metropolitan (1990)
%
(10 votes)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
%
(125 votes)
Poison (1991)
%
(4 votes)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
%
(127 votes)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
%
(5 votes)
The Indian Runner (1991)
%
(4 votes)
Delicatessen (1991)
%
(24 votes)
The Addams Family (1991)
%
(59 votes)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
%
(877 votes)
Juice (1992)
%
(8 votes)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
%
(9 votes)
Pushing Hands (1992)
%
(2 votes)
Encino Man (1992)
%
(18 votes)
El Mariachi (1992)
%
(53 votes)
Cronos (1993)
%
(33 votes)
Demolition Man (1993)
%
(52 votes)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
%
(13 votes)
Shallow Grave (1994)
%
(34 votes)
Speed (1994)
%
(101 votes)
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
%
(139 votes)
Kids (1995)
%
(42 votes)
Maborosi (1995)
%
(7 votes)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
%
(92 votes)
Hard Eight (1996)
%
(76 votes)
Pusher (1996)
%
(32 votes)
Bound (1996)
%
(12 votes)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
%
(49 votes)
Gummo (1997)
%
(32 votes)
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
%
(6 votes)
In the Company of Men (1997)
%
(11 votes)
Con Air (1997)
%
(69 votes)
Pi (1998)
%
(105 votes)
Following (1998)
%
(49 votes)
Buffalo ’66 (1998)
%
(25 votes)
I Stand Alone (1998)
%
(12 votes)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
%
(319 votes)
Ratcatcher (1999)
%
(24 votes)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
%
(64 votes)
American Beauty (1999)
%
(398 votes)
Amores Perros (2000)
%
(71 votes)
George Washington (2000)
%
(22 votes)
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
%
(4 votes)
Sexy Beast (2000)
%
(42 votes)
You Can Count on Me (2000)
%
(19 votes)
Chopper (2000)
%
(20 votes)
The Cell (2000)
%
(20 votes)
Donnie Darko (2001)
%
(294 votes)
In the Bedroom (2001)
%
(18 votes)
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
%
(112 votes)
Spring Subway (2002)
%
(2 votes)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
%
(21 votes)
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
%
(29 votes)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
%
(175 votes)
Primer (2004)
%
(153 votes)
Innocence (2004)
%
(2 votes)
Brick (2005)
%
(146 votes)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
%
(242 votes)
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
%
(85 votes)
Joni’s Promise (2005)
%
(1 votes)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
%
(189 votes)
13 Tzameti (2005)
%
(3 votes)
Sin City (2005)
%
(134 votes)
The Lives of Others (2006)
%
(63 votes)
Hot Rod (2007)
%
(108 votes)
Shotgun Stories (2007)
%
(21 votes)
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
%
(170 votes)
Asyl: Park and Love Hotel (2007)
%
(1 votes)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
%
(198 votes)
Hunger (2008)
%
(91 votes)
In Bruges (2008)
%
(418 votes)
Fiksi (2008)
%
(2 votes)
The Chaser (2008)
%
(10 votes)
I Killed My Mother (2009)
%
(16 votes)
Sin Nombre (2009)
%
(18 votes)
Moon (2009)
%
(277 votes)
District 9 (2009)
%
(481 votes)
A Single Man (2009)
%
(59 votes)
Macabre (2009)
%
(2 votes)
Possessed (2009)
%
(4 votes)
Zombieland (2009)
%
(230 votes)
Lebanon (2009)
%
(1 votes)
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
%
(221 votes)
Four Lions (2010)
%
(90 votes)
Submarine (2010)
%
(45 votes)
Animal Kingdom (2010)
%
(37 votes)
Attack the Block (2011)
%
(91 votes)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
%
(41 votes)
Margin Call (2011)
%
(33 votes)
Pariah (2011)
%
(6 votes)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
%
(250 votes)
Chronicle (2012)
%
(97 votes)
Restless City (2012)
%
(3 votes)
The Dirties (2013)
%
(23 votes)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
%
(112 votes)
Evil Dead (2013)
%
(62 votes)
The Way Way Back (2013)
%
(63 votes)
Hummingbird (2013)
%
(3 votes)
John Wick (2014)
%
(441 votes)
Ex Machina (2014)
%
(682 votes)
Nightcrawler (2014)
%
(566 votes)
The Babadook (2014)
%
(142 votes)
Lost River (2014)
%
(11 votes)
The Maze Runner (2014)
%
(14 votes)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
%
(91 votes)
Son of Saul (2015)
%
(52 votes)
The Fits (2015)
%
(4 votes)
The Witch (2015)
%
(248 votes)
James White (2015)
%
(12 votes)
Krisha (2015)
%
(22 votes)
Kaili Blues (2015)
%
(4 votes)
Son of Saul (2015)
%
(49 votes)
The Gift (2015)
%
(47 votes)
Swiss Army Man (2016)
%
(186 votes)
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
%
(295 votes)
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
%
(160 votes)
Deadpool (2016)
%
(298 votes)
Lion (2016)
%
(59 votes)
Raw (2016)
%
(61 votes)
The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
%
(92 votes)
Get Out (2017)
%
(668 votes)
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
%
(115 votes)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
%
(53 votes)
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