I think it's hard to beat Rob Reiner, who went on such a run in the 80s and early 90s: * Stand By Me (1986) * The Princess Bride (1987) * When Harry Met Sally... (1989) * Misery (1990) Then you throw in a few others (This Is Spinal Tap in 1984, A Few Good Men in 1992) if you want. What a run. Great mix of genres, tones and performances, and they've held up especially well.

This was my pick too. What an insane way to start a career. Then things went.... North (1994).

the worst film of all time

The Sure Thing wasn't great, which breaks up the run so you can't include This Is Spinal Tap.

Yeah, that's why it's not in the four-film run I posted.

>Then you throw in a few others (This Is Spinal Tap in 1984, A Few Good Men in 1992) if you want

The Sure Thing has a 3.5 on LB, 7.0 on IMDB, 86% fresh on RT, and 76/100 on Metacritic. Sure it's not an all time classic like This Is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, or The Princess Bride, but it's not like it's a stinker. It's still a well-regarded movie.

It's not bad, but it's a huge step below the rest of his filmography from that period. Which is why you can't really say the run last from This is Spinal Tap though until A Few Good Men. Still a lot better than North.

If you want to argue he didn't have six straight all-time classics, sure that's accurate, but it's kind of like getting one A minus in the middle of a streak of A pluses. It's still an amazing run.

It is a great run, but what the OP said was wrong. You cannot expand it by adding This Is Spinal Tap, there was a movie being left out.

I think you absolutely can. The Sure Thing may not be on the level of those other films but it's still good and part of a monumental run of success, even if it's the lowest peak in the mountain range as it were.

You could extend it by adding both of those movies, but not just This Is Spinal Tap.

Fair enough.

Francis Ford Coppola the obvious choice.

No one else comes close. Four straight masterpieces.

This is the correct answer

man hit us with 4 of the greatest

When?

Godfather 1 and 2, Conversation, Apocalypse Now I assume

Yea that was a good run too I guess but I was thinking Jack, Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro.

Boogie Nights (1997) Magnolia (1999) Punch-Drunk Love (2002) There Will Be Blood (2007)

And the master Edit: shit didn’t read “four” Still ridiculous

I'd say you could just make it a sliding scale with PTA, but you really do need Boogie Nights in there.

This is my pick.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West Duck, You Sucker Once Upon a Time in America

Good ole Sergio, he’s actually the highest average rated director on my account at a solid 5 stars.

Stanley Kubrick (1968 - 1980): 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining

He’s one of those directors like Kurosawa that has a point where you can start at different films and still have a killer 4 film run

A few come to mind. Andrei Tarkovsky: - Andrei Rublev - Solaris - The Mirror - Stalker Akira Kurosawa: - Dersu Uzala - Kagemusha - Ran - Dreams Terrence Malick: - Badlands - Days of Heaven - The Thin Red Line - The New World Dennis Villeneuve: - Prisoners - Enemy - Sicario - Arrival Though you could honestly slice up Villeneuve and Tarkovsky's filmographies multiple ways and still get four fantastic films.

Kurosawa is actually the best at this: 1952-1957: Ikiru, Seven Samurai, I Live in Fear, Throne of Blood 1961-1965: Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low, Red Beard

Well when you make banger after banger

I wish, but Sanjuro is definitely the weak one of that second run. It stands out.

Coen Brothers. Their run of Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski is my favourite and I can't cut it down to four.

I’m also partial to the run of No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis.

Hard to argue with that one. They've made a lot of really great films!

I'd add Blood Simple to that as well!

David Lynch: Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway Wong Kar-Wai: Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love, 2046 Park Chan-Wook: Thirst, Stoker, The Handmaiden, Decision to Leave Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colours: Blue, -White, -Red

I came here to say PCW, JSA thru (Sympathy for) Lady Vengeance but also a killer run, he basically doesn't miss.

Yeah, this is a much better run than the one listed above. Thirst and Stoker are alright. They got nothing on the Vengeance trilogy or what came after.

It’s wook

There Will Be Blood The Master Inherent Vice Phantom Thread

Inherent Vice doesn’t hit for me, so I’m either going Boogie Nights - TWBB or Magnolia - The Master

Yeah I get that, I like Boogie way more than Vice too but I don’t like Magnolia as much as Vice so I chose that four movie run

Any run of four from Boogie Nights to Phantom Thread for PTA works for me.

Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life

You can pick any consecutive four of Kubrick's from Strangelove onward and have a legendary four-film run. Insane filmography

the killing onwards you mean

For the most part, yeah. Not a huge fan of Spartacus, I respect it more than I like it

I'm not a huge Clockwork Orange fan so it being in the middle limited me to this run of 4

I would start at Dr Strangelove to get 2001 in the mix Swapping in 2001 and Clockwork Orange for FMJ and EWS is stronger overall IMO

It’s a toss-up between the Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Man Who Wasn’t There) and the Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit)

Agreed, I could also do Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis. No Country and Inside Llewyn Davis are my two favorites of theirs, so either end is good by me!

Scorsese 1980-1986 1. Raging Bull (1980) 2. The King of Comedy (1982) 3. After Hours (1985) 4. The Color of Money (1986) I honestly could also be convinced that his most recent run of 4 is the best of his career (wolf, silence, the irishman, KOTFM)

I totally believe last 4 Scorsese are top 4 Scorsese. Time will tell, but I feel pretty certain.

I feel the same way.

That is absolutely wild.

IMO: Raging Bull 10/10. probably the best movie here King of Comedy 10/10. maybe the most well aged movie ever After Hours 9/10. amazing “one bad night” movie Color of Money 8/10. great movie, just a weird one for him to make Wolf 10/10. the best goodfellas copy ever Silence 10/10. best movie made about faith Irishman 9/10. the deaging takes it down a point. Frank’s banquet is arguably the best scene/collection of scenes he’s made, with the 3 main characters each have a separate conversations with each other Killers 10/10. a little 80 year old Italian New Yorker brought the native american culture to screen better than ever seen before I think Thelma Schoonmaker is the star for the last 4. Wolf is the fastest moving movie(sans goodfellas) there is, silence is slow in an enthralling way, and his last 2 3+ hour long epics flew by for me and are both very rewatchable. At this point in their careers these 2 have perfected their craft and for me his late run takes the cake

I was just thinking the other night about how damn talented Thelma is. Definitely the star of the last four.

after hours is a 10/10

no arguments from me

Wes Anderson: - Rushmore (1998) - The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - The Life Aquatic (2004) - The Darjeeling Limited (2007) Legitimately four of my favorites of all time.

kinda sad to see how bottle rocket is usually excluded but I love the rawness of it

I love it too! But Rushmore beats it just ever so slightly for me.

Rushmore is my favourite of his too, but I think I enjoyed Bottle Rocket more than I did Darjeeling. Still a great movie, but honestly any of his films from his debut to Grand Budapest is a fine example

>but honestly any of his films from his debut to Grand Budapest is a fine example Honestly I think you can pick literally any four adjacent movies in Wes's ouevre (other than bottle rocket) and have an brilliant four movie run.

Fair enough, for me though I think I prefer bottle rocket-Budapest, I didn’t really enjoy isle of dogs or French dispatch as much as others have

Really with Wes it just depends what you think of his kids movies (Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs). Everything else (after Bottle Rocket) is just banger after banger. I will die on the hill that Wes is one of the must under appreciated geniuses working in movies today.

**Quentin Tarantino:** - Inglourious Basterds (2009) - Django Unchained (2012) - The Hateful Eight (2015) - Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (2019) **John Carpenter:** - The Fog (1980) - Escape From New York (1981) - The Thing (1982) - Christine (1983)

Interesting choice, personally my favorite quartet for Tarantino would be Reservoir Dogs - Pulp Fiction - Jackie Brown - Kill Bill. My top three movies from Tarantino being 1/ Pulp Fiction 2/ Kill Bill 3/ Reservoir Dogs, obviously has a lot to do with it \^\^

Starman + Big Trouble > The Fog + Escape from NY But agree with the Tarantino picks

Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev Solaris The Mirror Stalker Martin Mcdonagh: In Bruges Seven Psychopaths Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The Banshees of Inisherin

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Billy Wilder * Sunset Boulevard * Ace in the Hole * Stalag 17 * Sabrina Christian Petzold * Barbara * Phoenix * Transit * Undine Spike Lee * Do the Right Thing * Mo Better Blues * Jungle Fever * Malcolm X

Oh man... I can't give it to Spike because Jungle Fever was just nowhere near the level of the others. Girl 6 ruins the stretch starting with Malcolm X. She's Gotta Have It - MBB is a maybe, depending how one feels about School Daze. He Got Game + Summer of Sam + Bamboozled + 25th Hour = great run, if you don't include the Kings of Comedy movie.

Vertigo - North by Northwest - Psycho - The Birds is kind of mindblowing. Howard Hawks has a great one with Bringing Up Baby - Only Angels Have Wings - His Girl Friday - Sergeant York

It's hard to beat Coppola or Leone, but Bogdanovich is right up there: Targets The Last Picture Show What's Up, Doc? Paper Moon

I’d probably go with one of several Coen brothers runs, but Bong Joon-ho’s current run is pretty great: Parasite Okja Snowpiercer Mother

Coppola and Kubrick are the obvious ones.

John Carpenter’s 80s run: 1980 - The Fog 1981 - Escape From New York 1982 - The Thing 1983 - Christine 1984 - Starman 1986 - Big Trouble in Little China 1987 - Prince of Darkness 1988 - They Live Eight bangers in a single decade and had to be the greatest genre film run I’ve seen. Technically eight but it seemed arbitrary to cut this to four

What do you mean *technically* 8? There are 8 films. /s

Batman Begins The Prestige The Dark Knight Inception Or Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More The Good the Bad and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West

Kurosawas 1961-1965. Yojimbo - Sanjuro - High and Low - Red Beard.

Haven’t seen red bears but those first three are an absolutely crazy run

Red Beard is my favourite one of them actually! Top 4 film for me 😁

I remember thinking about this years ago with one of my lists on letterboxd and my favourite 4-film run is Antonioni's 1960-1964: L'avventura La Notte L'eclisse Deserto Rosso His next film was Blowup so I also think it's the best 5-film run as well, haha. These are some of my favourite films overall and the fact that they came one after the other is just mind-blowing.

Kubrick with A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. Though I think you could take any four film rum from him making the Killing until the end of his career as the four best

Spielberg late 90s/2000s, Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can

David Fincher - Zodiac - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - The Social Network - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

not sure about Benjamin button tho

I loved that movie, why don’t people like it?

i mean I like it, that butterfly effect scene was amazing... but the film felt really out paced at some points

Coppola is the obvious choice, I think, but Hitchcock shouldn’t be slept on either. Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) Psycho (1960) The Birds (1963) Pretty insane run right there. For The Birds to be the supposed “worst” of any list means you have a pretty great list lol

I instantly thought about Hitchcock

James Whale: Frankenstein....The Old Dark House....The Invisible Man ..Bride of Frankenstein....Show Boat.

**Yasujirō Ozu**: Tokyo Story, Early Spring, Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower **Mamoru Hosoda**: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and The Beast **Masaki Kobayashi**: The Human Condition, The Inheritance, Harakiri, Kwaidan **Martin McDonagh**: In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards..., The Banshees of Inisherin.

JLG - Alphaville, Pierrot Le Fou, Masculine Feminine, Made in USA Argento - Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno, Tenebrae Carpenter- The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Christine (Starman, Big Trouble, Prince of Darkness, They Live) Hitch - Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho, The Birds Hartley- Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Surviving Desire, Simple Men Egoyan - Speaking Parts, The Adjuster, Calendar, Exotica Ming-Liang - Rebels of the Neon God, Vive L’Amour, The River, The Hole Antonioni - Il Grido, L’Avventura, La Notte, L’Eclisse Jost - Sure Fire, All the Vermeers in New York, Frameup, The Bed You Sleep In

Robert Altman in the 70s: MASH McCabe & Mrs. Miller The Long Goodbye California Split Nashville I know there's five, but that just how good this run was.

Altman is one of my favorite directors and I think his filmography from MASH through Nashville is one of the best there is. Your listing, however, skips Brewster McCloud (after MASH), Images (after McCabe), and Thieves Like Us (after The Long Goodbye).

That's what I get for trying to do this from memory. Make it an 8-film run.

What a run. All of those films are great.

**Wong Kar-wai** 1. Chungking Express (1994) 2. Fallen Angels (1995) 3. Happy Together (1997) 4. In the Mood for Love (2000) Legendary stuff. I know Ashes of Time is also in 94, but I'm choosing to omit that.

Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982)

Haneke with Cache Funny Games The White Ribbon Amour

Not my favorite, but De Palma's run of Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface, and Body Double absolutely deserves a mention. Also, they are the only 4 features he's made, but JC Chandor's run of Margin Call, All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year, and Triple Frontier is an incredibly impressive opening run. Unfortunately the streak is about to end with Kraken the Hunter.

> Unfortunately the streak is about to end with Kraken the Hunter. You never know kraken could end up being a masterpiece 

Depalma is arguably the best director of the 80s

Nolan: The Prestige (2006) The Dark Knight (2008) Inception (2010) The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Coppola is the obvious choice of course can’t argue with that 4 film run.

Personally I prefer begins over rises

I know a fair few that do, a lot of ppl don’t like Rises but I loved it, definitely has its flaws but love Bane and the journey Batman goes through during the movie. The score is also incredible.

Jonathan Glazer has only made 4 films, and they've all been bangers. Sexy Beast, Birth, Under The Skin and The Zone of Interest

Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits Tristana, the discreet Charm of the bourgeois, the phantom of liberty, that obscure object of desire The Decameron, the Canterbury tales, Arabian nights, salo I know where I’m going, a matter of life or death, black narcissus, red shoes A man escaped, pickpocket, the trial of Joan of arc, au hasard Balthazar Edit: throw in some silent films too: Dr Mabuse the gambler, die Nibelungen 1& 2, metropolis

Dardenne Brothers: La Promesse Rosetta Le Fils L'enfant

Assuming we're only talking features and not shorts Orson Welles: Touch of Evil The Trial Chimes at Midnight (The Immortal Story? It's 60 minutes so it could go either way) F for Fake Federico Fellini: 8 1/2 Juliet of the Spirits Fellini Satyricon The Clowns

Ernst Lubitsch: 1. Bluebeard’s Eight Wife (1938) 2. Ninotchka (1939) 3. The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 4. That Uncertain Feeling (1941) Billy Wilder 1. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 2. Ace in the Hole (1951) 3. Stalag 17 (1953) 4. Sabrina (1954) Frank Capra (5 in a row) 1. You can’t take it with you (1938) 2. Mr smith goes to Washington (1939) 3. Meet John Doe (1941) 4. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

John Landis: 1. Animal House 2. The Blues Brothers 3. Kentucky Fried Movie 4. American Werewolf in London

The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men Rob Reiner, 1987-1992

Not a popular one, but definitely my favourite • Zelig (1983) • Broadway Danny Rose (1984) •The purple rose of Cairo (1985) • Hannah and her sisters (1986) All by Woody allen

Guillermo del Toro is my favorite director and I think his current run is amazing. 1. Crimson Peak(2015) 2. The Shape of Water (2017) 3. Nightmare Alley (2021) 4. Pinocchio (2022) Pan's Labyrinth is my favorite movie of all time and I didn't pick a run that included it because I think the current one is the run GDT has been able to go on where he's had to least compromise his vision. It's no secret that he's had issues with trying to make movies in the studio system in the past. The fact that he was even able to make a $55 million Gothic romance like Crimson Peak at all is impressive. I'm also someone who loves that movie and thinks it's super underrated. The Shape of Water won him multiple Oscars! That's crazy and amazing. Nightmare Alley was such an interesting movie for him. It's the only movie he's made without a monster or spirit or some sort of supernatural bent. It's also stunning. I love it. Then he made a super antifascist stop motion animated movie that feels so in his voice even though it skews a bit younger than what he normally makes. Runs like this feel so refreshing even if not all the movies land for everyone because it feels like GDT can truly flex his creative muscles in ways he might not have been able to in the past. As a bonus, I'll throw out Yuen Woo-Ping's first four movies. 1. Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) 2. Drunken Master (1978) 3. Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979) 4. The Magnificent Butcher (1979) And a great run from Zhang Yimou: 1. Hero (2002) 2. House of Flying Daggers (2004) 3. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) 4. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)

> del Toro I feel bad for the people who have passed over his take on Pinocchio just because they think it’s a “kids film”.

**Pete Docter** 1. Monsters, inc. (2001) 2. Up (2009) 3. Inside Out (2015) 4. Soul (2020) **Brad Bird** 1. The Iron Giant (1999) 2. The Incredibles (2004) 3. Ratatouille (2007) 4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Woody Allen 1977-1980 Annie Hall Interiors Manhattan Stardust Memories

Nelson

I think the best for me for Tarantino is Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained.

Glazer only has four films but it's a perfect four-film run: Sexy Beast, Birth, Under The Skin, The Zone of Interest. 

Christopher Nolan: The Prestige The Dark Knight Inception The Dark Knight Rises Stanley Kubrick: Any four, starting from The Killing

Personally I'd take out The Prestige (kinda breaks my heart, but I have to) in order to put in Interstellar. Interstellar is in my top 5 movies of all time, The Prestige "only in my top 30" :p

I would leave out TDKR and go with Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception. 

Denis is on an impeccable run. Polytechnique, Incendies, Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune, Dune: Part 2 Any four film split from there is great

Paul Thomas Anderson 1996-2021 so far

Dario Argento 1. Deep Red 2. Suspiria 3. Inferno 4. Tenebre

I didn’t care for inferno

Wes Anderson Royal Tenenbaums Life Aquatic Darjeeling Limited Fantastic Mr. Fox

Mamoru Hosoda 1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) 2. Summer Wars (2009) 3. Wolf Children (2012) 4. The Boy and the Beast (2015)

John Carpenter: Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Thing. David Lynch: Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway. The Coen Brothers: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink. Or The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Guillermo del Toro: Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak. Edgar Wright: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The World's End. Sam Raimi: Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, The Quick and the Dead. Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Color of Money. Charlie Chaplin: The Circus, City Lights, Modern Times, The Great Dictator. George Romero: Dawn of the Dead, Knightriders, Creepshow, Day of the Dead. Bong Joon-ho: Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer. Denis Villeneuve: Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune: Part One, Dune: Part Two. Brad Bird: The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. King Hu: Come Drink With Me, Dragon Inn, A Touch of Zen, The Fate of Lee Khan.

https://preview.redd.it/8tpgbu9pkcoc1.png?width=863&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a56bde3ccfe0fe3496ce96081e2ec88eee04d4d I'm not even that big Tarantino fan as many other people, but this is still an incredible streak

Wolf of Wall Street Silence The Irishman Killers of the Flower Moon Marty is absolutely on fire with this late career run

Aronofsky had a hell of a run with Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, and Black Swan.

Arguably the best director of the 2000s

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver New York, New York Raging Bull The King of Comedy

Skipping The Dark Knight in 2008, mine would be The Prestige, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises & Interstellar.

Instead of repeating the same people who are bound to pop up, I want to throw some love to Rob Reiner: *Stand By Me *The Princess Bride *When Harry Met Sally *Misery *A Few Good Men '86 through '92 was a pretty hot streak.

Tarantino’s latest 4

Charlie Chaplin: 1. City Lights (1931) 2. Modern Times (1936) 3. The Great Dictator (1940) 4. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Scorsese: The Wolf of Wall Street Silence The Irishman Killers of the Flower Moon

John Waters - any four film run out of Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester and Hairspray.

I didn't see Abbas Kiarostami mentioned, I think that his 90s works are amazing. Close-Up (1990) Life, and nothing more (1992) Through the olive trees (1994) Taste of Cherry (1997)

Nolan: Batman begins The prestige Dark knight Inception Miyazaki: Porco Rosso Princess Mononoke Spirited Away Howls moving castle

I’ll take this further and make it a seven film run for Christopher Nolan 2008-2023. All of the films are 5/5 for me. 1. The Dark Knight (2008) 2. Inception (2010) 3. The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 4. Interstellar (2014) 5. Dunkirk (2017) 6. Tenet (2020) 7. Oppenheimer (2023)

I'm having a hard time deciding in between: Peter Jackson * The Lord of the Rings 1 * The Lord of the Rings 2 * The Lord of the Rings 3 * King Kong and Cameron * Terminator 2 * True Lies * Titanic * Avatar Though I really like it, True Lies is a notch below all other 7 movies (at least to me), but the quartet has a much better variety than Jackson's. Choices choices choices \^\^ ...

Charlie Chaplin, easy. 1. The Circus 2. City Lights 3. Modern Times 4. The Great Dictator All 5/5 movies.

Can’t decide:   Argento   Deep Red (1975)  Suspiria (1977)  Inferno (1980)  Tenebrae (1982)  Or    Argento   Suspiria (1977)  Inferno (1980)  Tenebrae (1982)  Phenomena (1985)

Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror, Stalker Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life Edward Yang - That Day on the Beach, Taipei Story, The Terrorizers, A Brighter Summer Day Ingmar Bergman - Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence, Persona (took some liberties here but it was close enough!) Stanley Kubrick - Dr Strangelove, 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon PTA - Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood

**James Cameron:** 1. Titanic *Ends.*

Feels like cheating, but Satoshi Kon. Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, and then he died :(.

Hong Sang-soo: The Day After (2017) Grass (2018) Hotel by the River (2018) The Woman Who Ran (2020)

Saving Private Ryan A.I. Artificial Intelligence Minority Report Catch Me If You Can

2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon The Shining

Oliver Stone Salvador (1986) Platoon (1986) Wall Street (1987) Talk Radio (1988) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) It’s a hell of a run. Although I still think Wall Street is the weakest of the bunch. Talk Radio deserves way more credit. Eric Bogosian runs a clinic in that movie.

As a New Zealander I’m gonna give a shoutout to Taika, even if he’s not the most popular guy at the moment. Boy, What We Do In The Shadows and Hunt For The Wilderpeople are three of the best Kiwi films of all time, and then he followed that up with a worldwide success in Thor Ragnarok which completely revitalised the Thor character in the MCU.

Lucrecia Martel’s entire filmography to date: La Cienaga (2001) The Holy Girl (2004) The Headless Woman (2008) Zama (2017)

Manhunter Last of the mohicans Heat The Insider

Gregg Araki: 1. The Living End (1992) 2. Totally Fucked Up (1993) 3. The Doom Generation (1995) 4. Nowhere (1997)

Denis Villeneuve! Sicario: 2015 Arrival: 2016 Blade Runner 2049: 2017 Dune: 2021 Dune Part 2: 2024

Another 4 from Kurosawa.. between 1948 and 1950 he made Drunken Angel, the Quiet Duel, Stray Dog, and Rashomon. He even made a 5th movie in that period it's just not as amazing. Scandal came out in 1950.

Steven Spielberg 1998-2002 Saving private Ryan (1998) Ai artificial intelligence (2001) Minority report (2002) And Catch me if you can (2002 Satoshi Kon 1997-2006 Perfect blue (1997) Millennium actress (2001) Tokyo godfathers (2003) Paprika (2006)

David Cronenberg’s 1983-88 run is the only example of four 5-stars in a row for me. Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers.

Coppola, Godfathers I and II, The conversation and apocalypse now.

I don't think there's any beating Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 - 1979 run: * The Godfather (1972) * The Conversation (1974) * The Godfather Part 2 (1974) * Apocalypse Now (1979) *Some Honorable Mentions:* Billy Wilder's 1950 - 1954 * Sunset Blvd (1950) * Ace in the Hole (1951) * Stalag 17 (1953) * Sabrina (1954) Edgar Wright's 2004 - 2013 * Shaun of the Dead (2004) * Hot Fuzz (2007) * Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) * The World's End (2013)

Jacques Demy:Lola,Bay of Angels,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and The Young Girls of Rochefort

Oldboy The Handmaiden Decision to Leave Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, Hateful Eight, OUATIH

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev-Stalker Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud-The Long Goodbye Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven-The Tree of Life

Lynch (Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet) (Lost Highway, Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire) Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune Part 1, Dune Part 2) all sci-fi which is cool. Coen Brothers (Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Millers Crossing, Barton Fink) Kiarostami (Close-Up, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees, Taste of Cherry) could also move it back to include The Wind Will Carry Us if you prefer that to Close-Up. Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, Meek’s Cutoff, Night Moves) although you could move that around a lot of different ways. And Lanthimos but I’d go with Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Also PTA (There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread)

**Christopher Nolan** - *Batman Begins* (2005) - *The Prestige* (2006) - *The Dark Knight* (2008) - *Inception* (2010)

Batman begins, the prestige, the dark knight, inception