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How Many Of These First Films From Famous Directors Have You Seen?

Some of your favorite filmmakers earned instant acclaim and fame with their debuts. Others got their starts with pornos.

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    Orson Welles launched his career as a director with Citizen Kane, one of the greatest movies ever made. Francis Ford Coppola? He began with a Western softcore comedy. Everyone's got to start somewhere — how well do you know the debuts of these 200 famous filmmakers? Check off every film that you’ve watched all the way through. (Note: For the purposes of this list, a directorial debut is someone's first full-length feature — no shorts and nothing for TV.)