Should see more of (Directors)
by evelyn-www | created - 12 Apr 2013 | updated - 24 Jul 2019 | PublicShould see more of (Directors)
101. Hector Babenco
Director | Carandiru
Hector Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Carandiru (2003), Pixote (1980) and Foolish Heart (1998). He was married to Bárbara Paz, Xuxa Lopes and Raquel Arnaud. He died on July 13, 2016 in São Paulo, São Paulo, ...
102. Aleksey Balabanov
Director | Brat
Aleksey Balabanov was born on February 25, 1959 in Sverdlovsk, Sverdlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Ekaterinburg, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Brother (1997), Cargo 200 (2007) and Of Freaks and Men (1998). He was married to Irina ? and Nadezhda Vasileva. He died on May 18, ...
103. Roman Balayan
Director | Biryuk
Roman Balayan was born on April 15, 1941 in Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh AO, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR. He is a director and writer, known for Biryuk (1978), Khrani menya, moy talisman (1986) and Noch svetla (2005).
104. Art Carney
Actor | Harry and Tonto
Art Carney was an American actor with a lengthy career but is primarily remembered for two roles. In television, Carney played municipal sewer worker Ed Norton in the influential sitcom "The Honeymooners" (1955-1956). In film, Carney played senior citizen Harry Coombes in the road movie "Harry and ...
105. Lidiya Bobrova
Writer | Babusya
Lidiya Bobrova was born on June 13, 1952 in Zabaykalsk, Chita Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia]. She is a writer and director, known for Babusya (2003), In That Land... (1998) and Hey, Lads and Lasses (1991).
106. Bong Joon Ho
Writer | Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterized by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the ...
107. Vladimir Bortko
Director | Idiot
Vladimir Bortko was born on May 7, 1946 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a director and writer, known for The Idiot (2003), Dusha shpiona (2015) and Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis (1998).
108. Stan Brakhage
Director | The Loom
Stan Brakhage was born on January 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Loom (1986), The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000) and Visions in Meditation (1990). He was married to Marilyn Jull and Jane Wodening. He died on March 9, 2003 in ...
109. Tinto Brass
Writer | La vacanza
Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.
Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied...
110. Catherine Breillat
Writer | À ma soeur!
Catherine Breillat is a Paris based filmmaker and writer who became famous for her distinctively personal films on sexuality, gender trouble and sibling rivalry. Accused of being a "porno auteuriste", Breillat allowed for an unbiased view of sexuality and extended the language of mainstream movies....
111. Günter Brus
Writer | Manopsychotisches Ballett
Günter Brus was born on September 27, 1938 in Ardning, Styria, Austria. He was an actor and director. He was married to Anna. He died on February 10, 2024 in Graz, Austria.
112. Antonio Campos
Producer | The Staircase
Antonio Campos is an American filmmaker
Campos made his feature-length debut on Afterschool, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was later acquired by IFC Films. It was released in a limited release on October 2, 2009. Campos then went on to direct Simon Killer. The ...
113. Liliana Cavani
Director | L'ospite
Liliana Cavani was born on January 12, 1933 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for L'ospite (1971), Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993) and The Night Porter (1974).
114. Charles Burnett
Director | Killer of Sheep
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 13, 1944, Charles Burnett moved with his family to the Watts area of Los Angeles at an early age. He describes the community of having a robust mythical connection with the South as a result of having so many Southern transplants, an atmosphere which has ...
115. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. ...
116. Claude Chabrol
Director | Le beau Serge
Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.
117. Grigoriy Chukhray
Director | Ballada o soldate
Studied at the Moscow Cinema Institute under Soviet film master Mikhail Romm. He found fame after his 1959 film "Ballad of a Soldier" which is considered one of the best Soviet war films and which has played all over the world.
118. Vera Chytilová
Director | O necem jiném
Vera Chytilová was born on February 2, 1929, in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). She studied philosophy and architecture in Brno for two years, then worked as a technical draftsman, a designer, a fashion model, a photo re-toucher, then worked as a clapper girl for Barrandov Film ...
119. Renay Clair
Actress | Michelene and the Device
Renay Clair is known for Michelene and the Device (1968) and The Corporate Queen (1969).
120. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer | Le salaire de la peur
Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...
121. Jean Cocteau
Writer | La Belle et la Bête
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...
122. Pedro Costa
Director | Cavalo Dinheiro
Pedro Costa was born on December 30, 1958 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Horse Money (2014), Vitalina Varela (2019) and Colossal Youth (2006).
124. Sergei Eisenstein
Director | Ivan Groznyy
The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...
125. Víctor Erice
Director | Cerrar los ojos
Víctor Erice was born on June 30, 1940 in Karrantza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Close Your Eyes (2023), El Sur (1983) and The Spirit of the Beehive (1973).
126. Valie Export
Director | Die Praxis der Liebe
Valie Export was born on May 17, 1940 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for The Practice of Love (1985), Body Tape (1970) and Die süße Nummer: Ein friedliches Konsumerlebnis (1969).
127. Aleksey Fedorchenko
Director | Angely revolyutsii
Aleksey Fedorchenko was born on September 29, 1966 in Sol-Iletsk, Sol-Iletskiy rayon, Orenburgskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a director and producer, known for Angels of Revolution (2014), The Last Darling Bulgaria (2021) and First on the Moon (2005).
128. Erik Gandini
Producer | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Erik Gandini was born on August 14, 1967 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. He is a producer and director, known for Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers (2003), Videocracy (2009) and Gitmo (2005).
129. Aleksey German
Writer | Khrustalyov, mashinu!
Aleksey German was born on July 20, 1938 in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998), Hard to Be a God (2013) and Moy drug Ivan Lapshin (1985). He was married to Svetlana Karmalita. He died on February 21, 2013 in ...
130. Valeriya Gay Germanika
Director | Vse umrut a ya ostanus
Valeriya Gay Germanika (born on March 1, 1984, Moscow, USSR) - a Russian film director. Guild member of the Filmmakers Union of the Russian Federation. Graduated from the School of Cinematography and Television "Internews" in 2008. General director of the film company "Leosfilm". Was awarded with "...
131. Miguel Gomes
Director | Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto
Miguel Gomes was born in 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (2015) and Tabu (2012).
132. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Director | Mathilukal
Adoor Gopalakrishnan is India's most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker. Born in 1941 in Kerala, a state in south India, he belongs to a family with strong links to the performing arts, especially Kathakali, a highly-stylised form of dance drama. From the age of eight Adoor began acting for the stage...
133. Evgeniy Yufit
Director | Serebryanye golovy
Evgeniy Yufit was born on January 17, 1961 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Serebryanye golovy (1999), Pryamokhozhdenie (2005) and Ubitye molniey (2002). He died on December 13, 2016 in Petergof, Petrodvortsovyy rayon, St. Petersburg, ...
134. Andrzej Wajda
Director | Katyn
Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).
He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, ...
135. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Director | Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the ...
136. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
(1979) Stalker - 10
(1966) Andrei Rublev - 10
(1975) The Mirror - 10
(1972) Solyaris - 10
(1962) Ivan's Childhood - 9
(1986) The Sacrifice - 8.5
(1983) Nostalghia - 8.5
(1960) The Steamroller and the Violin - 8 (Short Film)
Score: 9.25
137. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
(1972) Cries and Whispers - 9.5
(1978) Autumn Sonata - 9.5
(1960) The Virgin Spring - 9
(1966) Persona - 9
(1957) The Seventh Seal - 9
(1953) Sawdust and Tinsel - 8.6
(1957) Wild Strawberries - 8
(1958) The Magician - 8
(1982) Fanny and Alexander - 8
(1951) Summer Interlude - 7.5
Next:
(1968) Hour of the Wolf
Score: 8.6
138. Béla Tarr
Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák
Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.
(1994) Satantango - 10
(2011) The Turin Horse - 10
(2000) Werckmeister Harmonies - 10
(1987) Damnation - 9
(1984) Almanac of Fall - 9
Score: 9.5
139. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
(1990-1991) Twin Peaks - 10 (TV Series)
(2001) Mulholland Drive - 10
(1980) The Elephant Man - 10
(1995) Lost Highway - 9
(1977) Eraserhead - 9
(1986) Blue Velvet - 9
(1992) Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - 8.5
(1999) The Straight Story - 8.5
(2006) Inland Empire - 8
(1990) Wild at Heart - 7.5
(1970) The Grandmother - 6 (Short Film)
Score: 8.68
140. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
(1963) 8½ - 10
(1954) La Strada - 9
(1957) Nights of Cabiria - 8.5
(1955) Il Bidone - 8
Next:
(1960) La dolce vita
(1973) Amarcord
Score: 8.87
141. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
(1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey - 10
(1971) A Clockwork Orange - 10
(1980) The Shining - 10
(1957) Paths of Glory - 10
(1987) Full Metal Jacket - 9
(1999) Eyes Wide Shut - 9
(1964) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 8.5
(1962) Lolita - 8
(1956) The Killing - 8
(1960) Spartacus - 7.5
(1953) Fear and Desire - 6.5
Next:
(1975) Barry Lyndon
Score: 8.77
142. Terrence Malick
Writer | Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...
(2011) The Tree of Life - 10
(1998) The Thin Red Line - 9
(1978) Days of Heaven - 8.5
(1973) Badlands - 8
(2005) The New World - 8
(2012) To the Wonder - 7.5
Score: 8.5
143. Theodoros Angelopoulos
Director | Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and ...
(1988) Landscape in the Mist - 9
(1995) Ulysses' Gaze - 8.5
(1975) The Travelling Players - 8.5
(1998) Eternity and a Day - 8
Score: 8.5
144. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
(1975) Taxi Driver - 10
(1995) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies - 9.5 (Documentary)
(1992) Goodfellas - 9
(1982) King of Comedy - 8.5
(1985) After Hours - 8
(2006) The Departed - 8
(2002) Gangs of New York - 8
(1973) Mean Streets - 8
(1974) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - 7.5
(1991) Cape Fear - 7.5
(2010) Shutter Island - 7.5
(2013) The Wolf of Wall Street - 7.5
(2011) Hugo - 7.5
(1993) The Age of Innocence - 6.5
(1999) Bringing Out the Dead - 6
(2004) The Aviator - 6
Next:
(1980) Raging Bull
Score: 7.81
145. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
(1968) Teorema - 9
(1961) Accatone - 8.5
(1964) The Gospel According to Matthew - 8
(1971) The Decameron - 8
(1974) Arabian Nights - 7.5
(1972) The Canterbury Tales - 7
(1975) Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom - 5.5
Score: 7.64
146. Éric Rohmer
Director | Ma nuit chez Maud
Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...
(1970) Claire's Knee - 9 (1969) My Night with Maud - 8.5 (1986) The Green Ray - 7
147. Kenji Mizoguchi
Director | Ugetsu monogatari
Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...
(1954) Sansho the Bailiff - 9
(1953) Ugetsu Monogatari - 8.5
(1954) The Crucified Lovers - 8
(1936) Sisters of Gion - 8
(1952) Life of Oharu - 8
(1956) Street of Shame - 7.5
(1939) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums - 7
Score: 8
148. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
(1936) The Only Son - 8.7
(1932) I Was Born, But... - 8.5
(1953) Tokyo Story - 8
(1948) Late Spring - 7
Score: 8.05
149. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
(1972) Aguirre, Wrath of God - 9.5
(1982) Fitzcarraldo - 9
(1992) Lessons of Darkness - 8.5 (Documentary)
(1974) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - 8.5
(2007) Encounters at the End of the World - 8.5 (Documentary)
(1977) Stroszek - 8
(1979) Nosferatu the Vampyre - 8
(2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams - 8 (Documentary)
(2005) Grizzly Man - 8 (Documentary)
(2011) Into the Abyss - 8 (Documentary)
(1979) Woyzeck - 7.5
(2009) Bad Lieutenant - 7
Score: 8.20
150. Andrzej Zulawski
Writer | Possession
Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father Miroslaw Zulawski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was ...
(1981) Possession - 8.5 (1975) That Most Important Thing: Love - 8 (1989) My Nights are More Beautiful Than Your Days - 8 (1996) Szamanka - 7
151. Masaki Kobayashi
Director | Seppuku
Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.
(1962) Seppuku - 9.5
(1961) The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer - 9
(1959) The Human Condition I: No Greater Love - 8.5
(1959) The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity - 8.5
(1964) Kwaidan - 7.5
Score: 8.6
152. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
(1974) Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - 8.5 (1979) The Marriage of Maria Braun - 8 (1978) In A Year with 13 Moons - 8
153. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
(1954) Seven Samurai - 10
(1960) The Bad Sleep Well - 9
(1949) Stray Dog - 9
(1950) Rashomon - 9
(1961) Yojimbo - 9
(1962) Sanjuro - 9
(1958) The Hidden Fortress - 8.5
(1975) Dersu Uzala - 8.5
(1963) High and Low - 8.5
(1970) Dodes'ka-den - 8
(1985) Ran - 8
(1980) Kagemusha - 8
(1952) Ikiru - 8
(1948) The Quiet Duel - 8
(1957) Throne of Blood - 7.5
Score: 8.53
154. Robert Altman
Director | Gosford Park
Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...
(1993) Short Cuts - 9
(1973) The Long Goodbye - 9
(1977) 3 Women - 9
(1992) The Player - 8.5
(1970) MASH - 8.5
(1972) Images - 8.5
(1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
(2001) Gosford Park - 7.5
Next:
(1975) Nashville
Score: 8.5
155. John Cassavetes
Actor | Rosemary's Baby
John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.
Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...
(1974) A Woman Under the Influence - 9.5
(1968) Faces - 9
(1976) The Killing of a Chinese Bookie - 9
(1984) Love Streams - 8.5
(1970) Husbands - 8.5
(1977) Opening Night - 8
(1969) Shadows - 6.5
Score: 8.42
156. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
(1958) Vertigo - 10
(1954) Rear Window - 9
(1959) North by Northwest - 9
(1960) Psycho - 9
(1954) Dial M For Murder - 8.5
(1944) Lifeboat - 8.5
(1938) The Lady Vanishes - 8.5
(1951) Strangers on a Train - 8.5
(1964) The Birds - 8.5
(1948) Rope - 8
(1946) Notorious - 8
(1935) The 39 Steps - 8
(1940) Rebecca - 8
(1964) Marnie - 7.5
(1956) The Man who Knew to Much - 7.5
(1972) Frenzy - 7.5
(1943) Shadow of a Doubt - 7.5
(1945) Spellbound - 7
(1955) The Trouble with Harry - 6
Score: 8.13
157. Luchino Visconti
Writer | Il gattopardo
Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...
(1948) La terra trema - 9 (1960) Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli - 8.5 (1963) Il Gattopardo - 8 (1971) Morte a Venezia - 7.5
158. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
(1961) Viridiana - 10
(1967) Belle de Jour - 9
[1950] Los olvidados - 9
(1977) That Obscure Object of Desire - 9
(1964) The Diary of a Chambermaid - 9
(1962) The Exterminating Angel - 9
(1933) Land without Bread - 9 (Short Documentary)
(1972) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 8.5
(1965) Simon of the Desert - 8.5
(1970) Tristana - 8
(1929) Un Chien Andalou - 8 (Short Film)
(1953) El - 8
(1930) L'Age d'Or - 8
(1974) The Phantom of Liberty - 7.5
(1955) The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz - 7.5
(1959) Fever Mounts at El Pao - 7
Score: 8.43
159. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
(1953) Stalag 17 - 9
(1945) The Lost Weekend - 9
(1950) Sunset Blvd. - 9
(1960) The Apartment - 9
(1951) Ace In the Hole - 8.5
(1959) Some Like It Hot - 8
(1954) Sabrina - 8
(1957) Witness For the Prosecution - 7.5
(1961) One, Two, Three - 6.5
Next:
(1944) Double Indemnity
Score: 8.27
160. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
(2001) A.I. Artificial Intelligence - 8.5
(1993) Schindler's List - 8.5
(1977) Jaws - 8.5
(1971) Duel - 8 (TV Movie)
(1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 7.5
(1998) Saving Private Ryan - 7.5
(2005) Munich - 7.5
(1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark - 7.5
(2012) Lincoln - 7.5
(2011) The Adventures of Tintin - 7
(2002) Minority Report - 7
(1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - 7
(1984) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 7
(2002) Catch Me If You Can - 6.5
(2004) The Terminal - 6.5
(2005) War of the Worlds - 6
(1991) Hook - 5.5
(2008) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2
(2011) War Horse - 1
Score: 6.65
161. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
(1968) Rosemary's Baby - 9
(1974) Chinatown - 9
(1965) Repulsion - 8.5
(1976) The Tenant - 8
(2002) The Pianist - 8
(2011) Carnage - 8
(1967) The Fearless Vampire Killer - 7.5
(2013) Venus in Fur - 7
(1992) Bitter Moon - 7
(2010) The Ghost Writer - 7
(1999) The Ninth Gate - 7
Score: 7.81
162. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
(1979) Apocalypse Now - 10
(1972) The Godfather: Part I - 8.5
(1974) The Conversation - 8.5
(1974) The Godfather: Part II - 8
(1992) Dracula - 7.5
(1997) The Rainmaker - 6
(1990) The Godfather: Part III - 4
Score: 7.5
163. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
(2001) The Piano Teacher - 9
(1989) The Seventh Continent - 8.5
(1997) Funny Games - 8
(2012) Amour - 8
(1992) Benny's Video - 8
(2005) Caché - 7.5
(2000) Code inconnu - 7.5
(2009) The White Ribbon - 7
(2007) Funny Games U.S. - 6
Score - 7.72
164. Mike Leigh
Director | Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...
(1993) Naked - 9
(1996) Secrets & Lies - 8.5
(2010) Another Year - 7.5
(2008) Happy-Go-Lucky - 7
(2004) Vera Drake - 7
Soon:
(2014) Mr. Turner
Score: 7.8
165. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
(1960) L'avventura - 9
(1966) Blow-Up - 9
(1964) Red Desert - 9
(1961) La notte - 8.5
(1957) Il Grido - 8
(1962) L'eclisse - 8
(1975) The Passenger - 8
(1970) Zabriskie Point - 8
Score: 8.43
166. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
(1999) Magnolia - 10
(2007) There Will Be Blood - 10
(2012) The Master - 9
(1997) Boogie Nights - 9
(2002) Punch-Drunk Love - 8
(1996) Sydney - 7.5
Soon:
(2014) Inherent Vice
Score: 8.91
167. Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer | The Neon Demon
Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. ...
(2011) Drive - 10
(2009) Valhalla Rising - 9
(2013) Only God Forgives - 8
(2008) Bronson - 8
Score: 8.75
168. Asghar Farhadi
Writer | Forooshande
Asghar Farhadi was born in 1972 in Iran. He became interested in cinema in his teenage years and started his filmmaking education by joining the Youth Cinema Society of Esfahan in 1986 where he made 8mm and 16mm short films. He received his Bachelors in Theater from University of Tehran's School of...
(2012) A Separation - 9 (2013) The Past - 8.5 (2009) About Elly - 8.5
169. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
(2003) Dogville - 10
(2000) Dancer in the Dark - 9.5
(1996) Breaking the Waves - 9
(2011) Melancholia - 8.5
(1994) Riget I - 8.5
(2013) Nymphomaniac: Volume I - 8
(2013) Nymphomaniac: Volume II - 7.5
(2009) The Antichrist - 7
Score: 8.5
170. Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Producer | Deux jours, une nuit
After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.
In 1978 ...
& Luc Dardenne
(1999) Rosetta - 9
(2002) The Son - 8.5
(2011) The Kid With a Bike - 8.5
(2014) Two Days, One Night - 8
(2005) The Child - 8
(1996) La Promesse - 7.5
Score: 8.25
171. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
(1991) Night on Earth - 9
(2005) Broken Flowers - 8.5
(2013) Only Lovers Left Alive - 8.5
(1999) Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - 8.5
(1995) Dead Man - 8.5
(1989) Mystery Train - 8
(1986) Down by Law - 7.5
(1984) Stranger Than Paradise - 7.5
Score - 8.25
172. Denis Villeneuve
Director | Dune
Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...
(2011) Incendies - 9 (2013) Prisoners - 8 (2013) Enemy - 7.5
173. Steve McQueen
Director | 12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.
(2011) Shame - 9 (2008) Hunger - 8 (2013) 12 Years a Slave - 7.5
174. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
(1994) Pulp Fiction - 10
(2009) Inglourious Basterds - 9
(1992) Reservoir Dogs - 9
(2003) Kill Bill: Vol. I - 8
(2004) Kill Bill: Vol II - 8
(2012) Django Unchained - 7.5
(2007) Death Proof - 7
(1997) Jackie Brown - 7
Score: 8.12
175. Richard Linklater
Director | Waking Life
Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...
(1995) Before Sunrise - 9
(2014) Boyhood - 8.5
(1993) Dazed and Confused - 7.5
(2004) Before Sunset - 7.5
(2001) Tape - 7.5
(2013) Before Midnight - 7
Score: 7.83
176. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
& Ethan Coen
(1998) The Big Lebowski - 10
(2007) No Country for Old Men - 9
(1996) Fargo - 8.5
(1991) Barton Fink - 8.5
(1990) Miller's Crossing - 8
(2000) O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 8
(2010) True Grit - 8
(2008) Burn After Reading - 7.5
(2011) Inside Llewyn Davis - 7.5
(2001) The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
(1994) The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
(2009) A Serious Man - 6
Score: 7.91
177. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
(1999) Fight Club - 10
(1995) Se7en - 9
(2011) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 8.5
(2007) Zodiac - 8
(2010) The Social Network - 8
(1997) The Game - 7.5
(2014) Gone Girl - 7.2
(2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 6.5
(1992) Alien³ - 5
Score: 7.74
178. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Director | Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the ...
(2006) Syndromes and a Century - 9
(2010) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - 8
(2002) Blissfully Yours - 8
(2004) Tropical Malady - 7
(2009) Letter to Uncle Boonmee - 7 (Short Film)
Score: 7.8
179. Jonathan Glazer
Director | Under the Skin
Jonathan first found fame for his revolutionary work on Radiohead's 'Street Spirit' and Jamiroquai's multi-MTV award winning 'Virtual Insanity' video.
In 1999 he directed the ground-breaking Guinness 'Surfer', which picked up 2 D&AD Black Pencils and the top spot at most of the other awards ...
(2013) Under the Skin - 8.5 (2004) Birth - 7.5 (2000) Sexy Beast - 7
180. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
(1998) Rushmore - 8.5
(2012) Moonrise Kingdom - 8
(2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel - 8
(2007) The Darjeeling Limited - 7.5
(2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox - 7.5
(2004) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 7
(1996) Bottle Rocket - 6.5
Score: 7.57
181. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
(2000) Memento - 9
(2008) The Dark Knight - 8.5
(2005) Batman Begins - 8
(1998) Following - 7.5
(2010) Inception - 7
(2012) The Dark Knight Rises - 7
(2006) The Prestige - 7
(2002) Insomnia - 6.5
Soon:
(2014) Interstellar
Score: 7.56
182. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
(2005) A History of Violence - 8.5
(2007) Eastern Promises - 8.5
(1983) Videodrome - 8
(1986) The Fly - 8
(1988) Dead Ringers - 8
(2014) Maps to the Stars - 7.5
(1983) The Dead Zone - 7.5
(1999) eXistenZ - 7
(1996) Crash - 7
(2012) Cosmopolis - 7
(1983) The Dead Zone - 7
(1991) Naked Lunch - 7
(2011) A Dangerous Method - 6.5
Score: 7.5
183. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
(2001) Y tu mama tambien - 8
(2006) Children of Men - 7.5
(2004) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 7
(2013) Gravity - 6.5
Score: 7.25
184. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
(2008) The Wrestler - 9
(2010) Black Swan - 8.5
(2000) Requiem for a Dream - 7.5
(1998) Pi - 7.5
(2006) The Fountain - 7
(2014) Noah - 4
Score: 7.25
185. Lav Diaz
Writer | Ang babaeng humayo
Lav Diaz was born on December 30, 1958 in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines. He is a writer and director, known for The Woman Who Left (2016), Season of the Devil (2018) and From What Is Before (2014).
(2013) Norte, the End of History - 9 (2004) Evolution of a Filipino Family - 7.5
186. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. ...
(2014) Winter Sleep - 8.55
(2011) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - 8.5
(2002) Uzak - 8
(2008) Three Monkeys - 8
(1997) Kasaba - 7
Score: 8.01
187. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
188. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
189. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
190. Claire Denis
Director | High Life
The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...
191. Bruno Dumont
Writer | P'tit Quinquin
Bruno Dumont was born on March 14, 1958 in Bailleul, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He is a writer and director, known for Li'l Quinquin (2014), The Life of Jesus (1997) and Camille Claudel 1915 (2013).
192. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit
Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...
193. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
194. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
195. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
196. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer | El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...
197. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
198. Tsai Ming-liang
Director | Qingshaonian Nuozha
Born in Kuching, Malaysia, he graduated from the Drama and Cinema Department of the Chinese Cultural University of Taiwan and worked as a theatrical producer and TV director. His second feature film, Vive L'Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion (best picture) at the 1994 Venice Film Festival. His ...
199. Gaspar Noé
Director | Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...
200. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
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