During the pandemic I killed some time looking at directors who worked with the same actors multiple times. Denzel Washington, who the NY Times named the top actor of the 21st century, tends to work with the same directors a lot. Great foreign directors definitely found their alter-egos in certain male and female actors. Have fun with this and add your own names.
CINEMATIC DUOS
Spike Lee & Denzel Washington:
He Got Game
Malcolm X
Inside Man
Mo Better Blues
Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro:
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Good Fellas
Cape Fear
Casino
The King of Comedy
John Ford & John Wayne:
Rio Bravo
Fort Apache
The Searchers
Stagecoach
They Were Expendable
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Horse Soldiers
Quentin Tarantino & Samuel L. Jackson:
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
D’Jango Unchained
Akira Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifume:
Rashomon
Throne of Blood
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Stray Dog
Hidden Fortress
The Bad Sleep Well
Red Beard
Sanjuro
High and Low
The Lower Depths
Ingmar Bergman & Liv Ullman:
Shame
Hour of the Wolf
Face to Face
Saraband
Autumn Sonata
Cries & Whispers
The Passion of Anna
Persona
Scenes from a Marriage
Federico Fellini & Marcello Mastroianni:
La Dolce Vita
8 ½
City of Women
Fred & Ginger
Tony .Scott & Denzel Washington:
Crimson Tide
Man on Fire
Unstoppable
The Taking of Pelham 123
Ridley Scott & Russell Crowe:
Gladiator
American Gangster
A Good Year
Robin Hood
Body of Lies
Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson:
Bottle Rocket
The Royal Tenebaums
The Darjeeling Limited
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio:
Gangs of New York
Shutter Island
The Aviator
Wolf of Wall Street
The Departed
Woody Allen & Diane Keaton:
Annie Hall
Manhattan
Interiors
Sleeper
Love and Death
Radio Days
Manhattan Murder Mysteries
Play It Again Sam