3: Films that are some combination of obscure, fereign, old, experimental or generally indigestible in mild ways

Experimental films will not be too daring. Highly sophisticated films will repulse the common sense at this level, and the old films will not be the ones by the popular and lauded filmmakers in the American consciousness. Those who do not follow film will not recognize the names here

Nicolas Winding Refn (Denmark) - Werner Herzog (Germany) - Terrence Malick (USA) - Jim Jarmusch (USA) - Godfrey Reggio (USA) - John Cassavetes (USA) - Park Chan-Wook (South Korea) - Lars von Trier (Denmark) - François Truffaut (France) - Akira Kurosawa (Japan) - Stanley Kubrick (USA) - Robert Bresson (France) - Fritz Lang (Austria) - Vittorio De Sica (Italy) - Sidney Lumet (USA) - Frederico Fellini (Italy) - David Lynch (USA) - Hirokazu Koreeda
(Japan)