This is a list of my 7 favorite directors (in alphabetical order) along with three of my favorite movies by that director.

Darren Aronofsky: Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain

Ethan & Joel Coen: Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men

David Fincher: Fight Club, The Game, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Terry Gilliam: Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil

Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo

Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut

David Lynch: Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire, Twin Peaks

Christopher Nolan: Inception, Memento, The Prestige