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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