This is a list of 124 films that I eliminated from a wider selection of 235 making my 1.11%. These excellent films (and a couple of quirks) are well worth their own list. The list is not and cannot be hierarchical. It is initially ordered by the production year, but you can reorder it by all three headers, and click any title to search for it on the IMDb.
| Director | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Böse & Paul Wegener | Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem: How He Came into the World) | 1920 |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Der Letzte Mann (German Version) | 1924 |
| René Clair | Entr’acte | 1924 |
| Erich von Stroheim | Greed | 1924 |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau | Faust (German Version) | 1926 |
| Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kurutta Ippeji (A Page of Madness) | 1926 |
| Alberto Cavalcanti | Rien que les Heures (Nothing but Time) | 1926 |
| Buster Keaton | Steamboat Bill Jr. | 1928 |
| Josef von Sternberg | Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) | 1930 |
| Tod Browning | Freaks | 1932 |
| Jean Vigo | Zero de Conduite (Zero for Conduct) | 1933 |
| Billy Wilder | The Major and the Minor | 1942 |
| Zoltan Korda | Sahara | 1943 |
| Charles Vidor | Gilda | 1946 |
| Robert Montgomery | Lady in the Lake | 1947 |
| Anthony Mann | T-Men | 1947 |
| William Keighley | The Street With No Name | 1948 |
| Joseph H. Lewis | Deadly is the Female (Gun Crazy) | 1949 |
| Don Siegel | The Big Steal | 1949 |
| Vincent Sherman | Backfire | 1950 |
| Billy Wilder | Sunset Boulevard | 1950 |
| Rudolph Maté | Union Station | 1950 |
| Robert Wise | The Day the Earth Stood Still | 1951 |
| Anthony Mann | The Tall Target | 1951 |
| Richard Fleischer | The Narrow Margin | 1952 |
| Edward Dmytryk | The Sniper | 1952 |
| Russell Rouse | The Thief | 1952 |
| Morris Engel | Little Fugitive | 1953 |
| Jack Arnold | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 |
| André De Toth | Crime Wave | 1954 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Rear Window | 1954 |
| Robert Aldrich | Vera Cruz | 1954 |
| Stanley Kubrick | Killer’s Kiss | 1955 |
| Akira Kurosawa | Kumonosu jô (Throne of Blood) | 1957 |
| Ingmar Bergman | Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) | 1957 |
| Robert Wise | Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 |
| Arthur Ripley | Thunder Road | 1958 |
| Edward Dmytryk | Warlock | 1959 |
| Jacques Becker | Le Trou (The Hole) | 1960 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | 1960 |
| Masaki Kobayashi | Seppuku | 1962 |
| Kenji Misumi | Zatôichi Monogatari | 1962 |
| Akira Kurosawa | Tengoku to jigoku (Heaven and Hell) | 1963 |
| Herschell Gordon Lewis | Two Thousand Maniacs | 1964 |
| James B. Harris | The Bedford Incident | 1965 |
| Sergio Leone | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 1966 |
| Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night | 1967 |
| Živojin Pavlović | Kad’ budem mrtav i beo (When I Am Dead And Gone) | 1967 |
| Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 |
| Jean-Pierre Melville | L’Armee des ombres (Army of Shadows) | 1969 |
| Živojin Pavlović | Zaseda (The Ambush) | 1969 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather | 1971 |
| Jean-Pierre Melville | Un flic (Dirty Money) | 1972 |
| David Miller | Executive Action | 1973 |
| Philip D’Antoni | The Seven-Ups | 1973 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation | 1974 |
| Liliana Cavani | The Night Porter | 1974 |
| Joseph Sargent | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 |
| Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 |
| Steven Spielberg | Jaws | 1975 |
| Brian De Palma | Carrie | 1976 |
| Irvin Kershner | The Eyes of Laura Mars | 1978 |
| George Miller & Byron Kennedy | Mad Max | 1979 |
| Paul Schrader | American Gigolo | 1980 |
| Slobodan Šijan | Ko to tamo peva? (Who’s Singin’ Over There?) | 1980 |
| Lawrence Kasdan | Body Heat | 1981 |
| Walter Hill | Southern Comfort | 1981 |
| Sam Raimi | Evil Dead | 1982 |
| Peter Greenaway | The Draughtsman’s Contract | 1982 |
| Sidney Lumet | The Verdict | 1982 |
| David Cronenberg | Videodrome | 1982 |
| John Badham | WarGames | 1983 |
| Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields | 1984 |
| John Boorman | The Emerald Forest | 1985 |
| John Flynn | Best Seller | 1987 |
| Roger Donaldson | No Way Out | 1987 |
| John Carpenter | They Live | 1988 |
| Ethan & Joel Cohen | Miller’s Crossing | 1990 |
| John McTiernan | The Hunt for Red October | 1990 |
| Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 |
| Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven | 1992 |
| Sidney Pollack | The Firm | 1993 |
| Ang Lee | Eat Drink Man Woman | 1994 |
| Jan Švankmajer & Ernst Gossner | Faust | 1994 |
| Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump | 1994 |
| Martin Scorsese | Casino | 1995 |
| Michael Mann | Heat | 1995 |
| Philip Davis | I. D. | 1995 |
| David Fincher | Se7en | 1995 |
| Joel Sschumacher | A Time to Kill | 1996 |
| Stuart Baird | Executive Decision | 1996 |
| Ethan & Joel Cohen | Fargo | 1996 |
| Phil Joanou | Heaven’s Prisoners | 1996 |
| Gregory Hoblit | Primal Fear | 1996 |
| Quentin Tarantino | Jackie Brown | 1997 |
| Clint Eastwood | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | 1997 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Rainmaker | 1997 |
| Mike Hodges | Croupier | 1998 |
| Darren Aronofsky | Pi | 1998 |
| John Dahl | Rounders | 1998 |
| Stanley Kubrick | Eyes Wide Shut | 1999 |
| Aleksandar Sokurov | Moloch | 1999 |
| Spike Lee | Summer of Sam | 1999 |
| John Waters | Cecil B. Demented | 2000 |
| Frank Oz | The Score | 2001 |
| Spike Lee | 25th Hour | 2002 |
| Ron Shelton | Dark Blue | 2002 |
| Rowdy Herrington | The Stickup | 2002 |
| Kim Ki-duk | Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) | 2003 |
| Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | 2003 |
| Ryan Little | Saints and Soldiers | 2003 |
| Yôji Yamada | Kakushi-ken: oni no tsume (The Hidden Blade) | 2004 |
| Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men | 2006 |
| Martin Scorcese | The Departed | 2006 |
| Paul Haggis | In the Valley of Elah | 2007 |
| Tony Gilroy | Michael Clayton | 2007 |
| José Padilha | The Elite Squad | 2007 |
| Tomas Alfredson | Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In) | 2008 |
| Fred Cavayé | Pour Elle | 2008 |
| Tom Tykwer | The International | 2009 |
| Jean-Marc Vallée | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 |
| Philipp Kadelbach | Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our Mothers, Our Fathers) | 2013 |
| Dan Gilroy | Nightcrawler | 2014 |
| Denis Villeneuve | Sicario | 2015 |