I did a lot of Japanese Cinema Kurosawa and Kobayashi

French cinema and went onto the Top 250 LB narrative features to expand my tastes

I also did director runs

Hitchcock
Kurosawa
Kubrick
Scorsese
M. Night

Then a whole lot of French films

Three Colors trilogy
Le Samouraï
Varda
Godard
Truffaut

The French make some great films

Action thriller if you want to watch that then Melville is your guy