Directores
by rilianx | created - 11 Nov 2012 | updated - 28 Dec 2014 | Public1. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
A Roma con amor (2012); Medianoche en París (2011); Conocerás al hombre de tus sueños (2010); Whatever Works (2009)Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Cassandra's Dream (2007); Scoop (2006); Match Point (2005); Melinda and Melinda (2004); Anything Else (2003); Hollywood Ending (2002); La maldición del escorpión de Jade (2001); Small Time Crooks (2000); Dulce y melancólico (1999); Celebrity (1998); Deconstructing Harry (1997); Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Don't Drink the Water (1994); Bullets Over Broadway (1994); Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993); Husbands and Wives (1992); Sombras y niebla (1991); Alice (1990); Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989); Another Woman (1988); September (1987); Radio Days (1987); Broadway Danny Rose (1984); A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982); Manhattan (1979); Interiors (1978); Annie Hall (1977); Love and Death (1975); Sleeper (1973); Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972); Bananas (1971); Take the Money and Run (1969); What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966);
2. Brillante Mendoza
Director | Alpha: The Right to Kill
Brillante Mendoza is a Philippine director and producer. He is the first Filipino to receive the Best Director award at Cannes for his film Kinatay in 2009. He is also the only Filipino to receive France's "Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres" (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in ...
Thy Womb (2012); Captive (2012/I); 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (short) (2011); Quattro Hongkong 2 (segment) (2011); Purple (short) (2011); Maalaala mo kaya (TV series) (2011); Ayos ka (short) (2010); Grandmother (2009); Kinatay (2009); Service (2008); Slingshot (2007); Foster Child (2007); Pantasya (2007); Manoro (2006); Summer Heat (2006); The Masseur (2005); ;
3. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
Director de Paprika y Millenium Actress
Ani*Kuri15 (TV series) (2007); Paprika (2006); Paranoia Agent (TV series) (2004); Tokyo Godfathers (2003); Millennium Actress (2001); Perfect Blue (1997);
4. Sidney Lumet
Director | 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...
Director de 12 Angry Men Antes que el diablo sepa que has muerto (2007); Find Me Guilty (2006); Strip Search (2004); Gloria (1999); Critical Care (1997); Night Falls on Manhattan (1996); Guilty as Sin (1993); A Stranger Among Us (1992); Q & A (1990); Family Business (1989); Running on Empty (1988); La mañana siguiente (1986); Power (1986); Garbo Talks (1984); Daniel (1983); The Verdict (1982); Deathtrap (1982); Prince of the City (1981); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); The Wiz (1978); Equus (1977); Network (1976); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); Lovin' Molly (1974); Serpico (1973); Child's Play (1972); The Offence (1972); The Anderson Tapes (1971); King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970); Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970); The Appointment (1969); The Sea Gull (1968); Bye Bye Braverman (1968); The Deadly Affair (1966); The Group (1966); The Hill (1965); Fail-Safe (1964); The Pawnbroker (1964); Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962); Vu du pont (1962); Rashomon (1960); The Iceman Cometh (1960); John Brown's Raid (1960); The Fugitive Kind (1959); That Kind of Woman (1959); All the King's Men (1958); Stage Struck (1958); Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958); Mr. Broadway (1957); Producers' Showcase (1957); 12 Angry Men (1957); ;
5. 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 ...
Director de Another Year (2010) A Running Jump (short) (2012); Another Year (2010); Happy-Go-Lucky (2008); Vera Drake (2004); All or Nothing (2002); Topsy-Turvy (1999); Career Girls (1997); Secrets & Lies (1996); Naked (1993); Life Is Sweet (1990); High Hopes (1988); Four Days in July (1985); Meantime (1984);
6. Paul Verhoeven
Director | RoboCop
Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...
Director de Robocop, Flesh+Blood, Total Recall Hidden Force (2013); Steekspel (2011); Black Book (2006); Hollow Man (2000); Starship Troopers (1997); Showgirls (1995); Basic Instinct (1992); Total Recall (1990); RoboCop (1987); Flesh+Blood (1985); De vierde man (1983); Spetters (1980); Voorbij, voorbij (1979); Soldier of Orange (1977); Soldaat van Oranje (TV mini-series) (1977); Keetje Tippel (1975); Turks fruit (1973); Wat zien ik (1971); Floris (TV series) (1969)
7. 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 ...
¡Que Viva Mexico! - Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! (1979); Eisenstein's Mexican Project (1958); Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958); Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944); Seeds of Freedom (1943); Conquering Cross (1941); Idol of Hope (1941); Land and Freedom (1941); Mexican Symphony (1941); Mexico Marches (1941); Spaniard and Indian (1941); Zapotecan Village (1941); Time in the Sun (1940); Alexander Nevsky (1938); Eisenstein in Mexico (1933); Thunder Over Mexico (1933); ¡Que viva Mexico! (1932); Staroye i novoye (1929); The Storming of La Sarraz (1929); October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928); Battleship Potemkin (1925); Strike (1925)
8. 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...
Fue director de cine, teatro y televisión alemán además de actor, productor y escritor, siendo el más importante representante del nuevo cine alemán. Llegó a encargarse también de la fotografía y, sobre todo, del montaje de muchas de sus obras. Querelle (1982); Veronika Voss (1982); Theater in Trance (1981); Lola (1981); Lili Marleen (1981); Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980); The Third Generation (1979); The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979); In a Year with 13 Moons (1978); Despair (1978); Germany in Autumn (1978); The Stationmaster's Wife (1977); Women in New York (1977); Chinese Roulette (1976); Satan's Brew (1976); I Only Want You to Love Me (1976); Fear of Fear (1975); Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975); Fox and His Friends (1975); Like a Bird on a Wire (1975); Effi Briest (1974); Martha (1974/I); Angst essen Seele auf (1974); Nora Helmer (1974); World on a Wire (1973); Eight Hours are Not a Day (TV mini-series) (1972-1973); Wildwechsel (1973); Bremen Freedom (1972); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972); The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971); Beware of a Holy Whore (1971); Whity (1971); Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971); Rio das Mortes (1971); The Niklashausen Journey (1970); The American Soldier (1970); Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970); Das Kaffeehaus (1970); Gods of the Plague (1970); Katzelmacher (1969); Love is Colder Than Death (1969); This Night (short) (1966); Der Stadtstreicher (short) (1966); Das kleine Chaos (short) (1966)
9. Zhangke Jia
Producer | Jiang hu er nü
Zhangke Jia was born on May 24, 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi, China. He is a producer and director, known for Jiang hu er nü (2018), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Mountains May Depart (2015). He has been married to Tao Zhao since January 7, 2012.
Top Chinese Directors of the 2000s, Degenerate Films (lugar 1)
Yulu (2011); I Wish I Knew (2010); Shi nian (short) (2009); Stories on Human Rights (segment) (2008); Heshang aiqing (short) (2008); 24 City (2008); Our Ten Years (short) (2007); Wuyong (2007); Dong (2006); Still Life (2006); The World (2004); Unknown Pleasures (2002); In Public (short) (2001); The Condition of Dogs (short) (2001); Platform (2000); Pickpocket (1998); Xiaoshan huijia (1995);
10. 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 ...
Top Chinese Directors of the 2000s, Degenerate Films (lugar 3)
No Form (short) (2012); Walker (short) (2012/I); Beautiful 2012 (segment) (2012); Madame Butterfly (short) (2009); Face (2009); Sleeping on Dark Waters (2008); To Each His Own Cinema (segment) (2007); I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006); The Wayward Cloud (2005); Welcome to São Paulo (segment) (2004); Good Bye, Dragon Inn (2003); The Skywalk Is Gone (short) (2002); What Time Is It Over There? (2001); Fish, Underground (short) (2001); The Hole (1998); The River (1997); Wo xin renshi de pengyou (1995); Vive L'Amour (1994); Rebels of the Neon God (1992); Boys (1991); All the Corners of the World (1989);
11. Edward Yang
Writer | Yi yi
Born on November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China, Edward Yang has become one of the most talented international filmmakers of his generation. Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang, Yang ranks among the leading artists of the Taiwanese New Wave, and one of the world's most brilliant auteurs. ...
Top Chinese Directors of the 2000s, Degenerate Films (lugar 6)
Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000); Mahjong (1996); A Confucian Confusion (1994); A Brighter Summer Day (1991); The Terrorizers (1986); Qing mei zhu ma (1985); That Day, on the Beach (1983); Guang yin de gu shi (1982);
12. Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer | Cike Nie Yin Niang
Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...
Top Chinese Directors of the 2000s, Degenerate Films (lugar 9) To Each His Own Cinema (segment) (2007); Flight of the Red Balloon (2007); Three Times (2005); Café Lumière (2003); Millennium Mambo (2001); Flowers of Shanghai (1998); Goodbye, South, Goodbye (1996); Good Men, Good Women (1995); In the Hands of a Puppet Master (1993); A City of Sadness (1989); Daughter of the Nile (1987); Dust in the Wind (1987); A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985); A Summer at Grandpa's (1984); The Sandwich Man (1983); Feng gui lai de ren (1983); Zai na he pan qing cao qing (1983); Feng er ti ta cai (1981); Jiu shi liu liu de ta (1980);
13. 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...
The Killers: Unstaged (2012); On Death Row (2012); Into the Abyss (2011); Ode to the Dawn of Man (documentary short) (2011); Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010); Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010); My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009); La bohème (documentary short) (2009); Un policía corrupto (2009); Encounters at the End of the World (2007); Rescue Dawn (2006); The Wild Blue Yonder (2005); Grizzly Man (2005); The White Diamond (2004); Wheel of Time (2003); Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (segment) (2002); Invincible (2001); Pilgrimage (documentary short) (2001); Wings of Hope (2000); My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski (1999); 2000 Jahre Christentum (TV series) (1999); Höllenfahrten (TV series documentary) (1998); Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997); Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere (1996); Death for Five Voices (1995); Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (1993); Lessons of Darkness (1992); Filmstunde (TV mini-series documentary) (1991); Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991); Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur (1991); Echos aus einem düsteren Reich (1990); Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (TV documentary short) (1989); Giovanna d'Arco (1989); Les Français vus par (TV mini-series documentary) (1988); Cobra Verde (1987); Werner Herzog Filmemacher (documentary short) (1986); Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg (1985); Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten (1984); Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (1984); Fitzcarraldo (1982); Huie's Predigt (TV documentary short) (1981); God's Angry Man (TV documentary short) (1981); Woyzeck (1979); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe (documentary short) (1977); Stroszek (1977); Heart of Glass (1976); How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (TV documentary short) (1976); No One Will Play with Me (short) (1976); The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974); Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (1974); Aguirre: la ira de Dios (1972); Land of Silence and Darkness (1971); Fata Morgana (1971); Handicapped Future (1971); Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970); Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker (short) (1969); Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika (1969); Signs of Life (1968); Letzte Worte (short) (1968); The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (short) (1967); Game in the Sand (short) (1964); Herakles (short) (1962);
14. 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 ...
Silence (2013/I); Untitled Bill Clinton Documentary (2014); The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); La invención de Hugo Cabret (2011); George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011); Public Speaking (2010); Boardwalk Empire (TV series) (2010); Shutter Island (2010); Shine a Light (2008); The Key to Reserva (short) (2007); The Departed (2006); El aviador (2004); Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty (2004); The Blues (TV series documentary) (2003); Gangs of New York (2002); The Neighborhood (short) (2001); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); My Voyage to Italy (1999); Kundun (1997); Casino (1995); A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995); The Age of Innocence (1993); The King of Ads (1993); Cape Fear (1991); Goodfellas (1990); Made in Milan (documentary short) (1990); New York Stories (segment) (1989); The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988); Bad (video short) (1987); The Color of Money (1986); Amazing Stories (TV series) (1986); After Hours (1985); The King of Comedy (1983); Raging Bull (1980); American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978); The Last Waltz (1978); New York, New York (1977); Taxi Driver (1976); Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974); Italianamerican (1974); Mean Streets (1973); Boxcar Bertha (1972); Street Scenes (1970); The Big Shave (short) (1968); I Call First (1967); It's Not Just You, Murray! (short) (1964); What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (short) (1963); Vesuvius VI (short) (1959);
15. François Truffaut
Writer | La nuit américaine
French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...
Vivement dimanche! (1983); La femme d'à côté (1981); The Last Metro (1980); L'amour en fuite (1979); La chambre verte (1978); The Man Who Loved Women (1977); Small Change (1976); L'histoire d'Adèle H. (1975); Day for Night (1973); A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (1972); Two English Girls (1971); Domicile conjugal (1970); The Wild Child (1970); Mississippi Mermaid (1969); Stolen Kisses (1968); The Bride Wore Black (1968); Fahrenheit 451 (1966); The Soft Skin (1964); Jules and Jim (1962); The Sad Sack (1960); Shoot the Piano Player (1960); The 400 Blows (1959)
16. Carlos Saura
Writer | Carmen
Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest in cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to ...
33 días (2013); Flamenco, Flamenco (2010); I, Don Giovanni (2009); Fados (2007); Iberia (2005); The 7th Day (2004); Salomé (2002); Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001); Goya en Burdeos (1999); Tango (1998); Pajarico (1997); Taxi (1996); Flamenco (de Carlos Saura) (1995); ¡Dispara! (1993); Sevillanas (1992); El sur (1992); L'encyclopédie audio-visuelle (TV series documentary) (1992); Marathon (1992); ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990); La noche oscura (1989); El Dorado (1988); El amor brujo (1986); Los zancos (1984); Carmen (1983/I); Antonieta (1982); Dulces horas (1982); Bodas de sangre (1981); Deprisa, deprisa (1981); Mamá cumple 100 años (1979); Blindfolded Eyes (1978); Elisa, My Life (1977); Cria Cuervos (1976); La prima Angélica (1974); Anna and the Wolves (1973); El jardín de las delicias (1970); La madriguera (1969); Stress Is Three (1968); Peppermint Frappé (1967); La caza (1966); Weeping for a Bandit (1964); The Delinquents (1960)
17. Raúl Ruiz
Director | La Telenovela Errante
Chilean director Raúl, or Raoul, Ruiz (1941-2011) was one of the most exciting and innovative filmmakers to emerge from 1960s World Cinema, providing more intellectual fun and artistic experimentation, shot for shot, than any filmmaker since Jean-Luc Godard. A guerrilla who uncompromisingly ...
La noche de enfrente (2012); Mysteries of Lisbon (2011); Ballet aquatique (2011); Mysteries of Lisbon (2010); A Closed Book (2010); L'estate breve (2010); El pasaporte amarillo (2009); La maison Nucingen (2008); Litoral (TV mini-series) (2008); Agathopedia (2008); La Recta Provincia (TV series) (2007); To Each His Own Cinema (segment) (2007); Klimt (2006); Le domaine perdu (2005); Días de campo (2004); Edipo (2004); Responso (2004); Vertige de la page blanche (2003); Une place parmi les vivants (2003); That Day (2003); Médée (2003); Cofralandes, rapsodia chilena (2002); Miotte vu par Raúl Ruiz (2002); Cofralandes, segunda parte: Rostros y rincones (2002); Cofralandes, tercera parte: Museos y clubes en la región antártica (2002); Cofralandes, cuarta parte: Evocaciones y valses (2002); Les âmes fortes (2001); Son of Two Mothers or The Comedy of Innocence (2000); Combat d'amour en songe (2000); Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust (1999); Shattered Image (1998); Généalogies d'un crime (1997); Trois vies & une seule mort (1996); À propos de Nice, la suite (segment) (1995); Wind Water (short) (1995); Fado majeur et mineur (1994); Viaggio clandestino - Vite di santi e di peccatori (1994); Miroirs de Tunisie (1993); Capítulo 66 (1993); L'oeil qui ment (1992); Visione e meraviglia della religione cristiana (short) (1992); Las soledades (1992); L'exote (1991); Basta la palabra (1991); A TV Dante (TV mini-series) (1991); The Golden Boat (1990); La chouette aveugle (1990); La novela errante (1990); Le livre de Christophe Colombe (short) (1990); Il pozzo dei pazzi (short) (1989); Derrière le mur (1989); Brise-glace (1988); Paya e tala, une visite chez Farid Belkahia (documentary short) (1988); Tous les nuages sont des horloges (1988); Allegoria (1988); Mémoire des apparences (1987); Le professeur Taranne (1987); Mammame (1986); Richard III (1986); Dans un miroir (1986); Régime sans pain (1985); The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985); Screen Pioneers No:3 Raul Ruiz (TV documentary short) (1985); Voyage d'une main (short) (1985); Treasure Island (1985); Cinéma cinémas (TV series documentary) (1984); La présence réelle (1984); Point de fuite (1984); Manoel's Destinies (TV mini-series) (1984); La ville des pirates (1983); Las tres coronas del marinero (1983); Bérénice (1983); La ville de Paris (1983); Het dak van de Walvis (1982); Querelle de jardins (short) (1982); Le petit théâtre (documentary short) (1982); Ombres chinoises (short) (1982); The Territory (1981); Image de sable (documentary short) (1981); L'image en silence (1980); La ville nouvelle (short) (1980); Teletests (short) (1980); Musée Dali (1980); Fahlstrom (short) (1980); Le borgne (1980); Petit manuel d'histoire de France (1979); The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979); Jeux (1979); Images de débat (1979); De grands événements et des gens ordinaires (1979); La vocation suspendue (1978); Les divisions de la nature (short) (1978); Colloque de chiens (short) (1977); Utopia (1976); Sotelo (short) (1976); Diálogos de exiliados (1975); La expropiación (1974); El realismo socialista (1973); Palomita brava (1973); Palomita blanca (1973); Abastecimiento (short) (1973); Poesía popular: La teoría y la práctica (short) (1972); Los minuteros (short) (1972); Nadie dijo nada (1971); Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (short) (1971); ¡Qué hacer! (1970); La colonia penal (1970); Militarismo y tortura (short) (1969); La catanaria (1969); Tres tristes tigres (1968); El tango del viudo (1967); El regreso (short) (1964); La maleta (short) (1963);
18. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
Three Colors: Red (1994); Three Colors: White (1994); Three Colors: Blue (1993); The Double Life of Veronique (1991); Dekalog (TV mini-series) (1989-1990); A Short Film About Love (1988); A Short Film About Killing (1988); No End (1985); Blind Chance (1981); Short Working Day (1981); The Calm (1980); Kartoteka (1979); Camera Buff (1979); Nie wiem (1977); The Scar (1976); Personel (1976); First Love (1974); Robotnicy 1971 - Nic o nas bez nas (1971)
19. Joe Wright
Director | Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright is an English film director. He is best known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017).
Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings...
Director de Atonement, Hanna, Pride & Prejudice Anna Karenina (2012/I); Hanna (2011); The Soloist (2009); Atonement (2007); Pride & Prejudice (2005);
20. Shôhei Imamura
Director | Kuroi ame
Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Ôshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan....
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001); Dr. Akagi (1998); Unagi (1997); Black Rain (1989); Zegen (1987); The Ballad of Narayama (1983); Eijanaika (1981); Vengeance is Mine (1979); Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975); Muhomatsu Returns Home (1973); Buban No Kaizoku (1972); Mikikan-hei o otte: Tai-hen (1971); Mikikan-hei o otte: Marei-hen (1970); History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970); Profound Desires of the Gods (1968); A Man Vanishes (1967); The Pornographers (1966); Intentions of Murder (1964); The Insect Woman (1963); Pigs and Battleships (1961); Nianchan (1960); Endless Desire (1958); Nishi Ginza ekimae (1958); Stolen Desire (1958)
21. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
Il viaggio (1974); Una breve vacanza (1973); Lo chiameremo Andrea (1972); I cavalieri di Malta (1971); Dal referendum alla costituzione: Il 2 giugno (1971); Le coppie (segment) (1970); The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970); Sunflower (1970); Amanti (1968); Woman Times Seven (1967); Le streghe (segment) (1967); Caccia alla volpe (1966); Un monde nouveau (1966); Marriage Italian Style (1964); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Il boom (1963); I sequestrati di Altona (1962); Boccaccio '70 (segment) (1962); Il giudizio universale (1961); Two Women (1960); Anna di Brooklyn (1958); The Roof (1956); L'oro di Napoli (1954); Villa Borghese (1953); Indiscreción de una esposa (1953); Umberto D. (1952); Miracle in Milan (1951); Bicycle Thieves (1948); Shoeshine (1946); La porta del cielo (1945); The Children Are Watching Us (1944); Un garibaldino al convento (1942); Teresa Venerdì (1941); Maddalena... zero in condotta (1940); Rose scarlatte (1940);
22. Yimou Zhang
Director | Ying xiong
Yimou Zhang was born on November 14, 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a director and writer, known for Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). He has been married to Ting Chen since December 2011. They have three children. He was previously married to ...
The Flowers of War (2011); Zhongguó tielù (TV documentary short) (2011); Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010); A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009); Beijing 2008 Olympics Games Opening Ceremony (2008); The Bright Red Lanterns Hung High (2008); To Each His Own Cinema (segment) (2007); Curse of the Golden Flower (2006); Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005); La casa de las dagas voladoras (2004); Hero (2002); Happy Time (2000); The Road Home (1999); Not One Less (1999); Keep Cool (1997); Lumière and Company (1995); Shanghai Triad (1995); Huozhe (1994); A Soul Haunted by Painting (1994); The Story of Qiu Ju (1992); Raise the Red Lantern (1991); Ju Dou (1990); Daihao meizhoubao (1989); Red Sorghum (1987);
23. 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...
Director de Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master
Inherent Vice (2014); The Master (2012); There Will Be Blood (2007); Punch-Drunk Love (2002); Saturday Night Live (TV series) (2000); Magnolia (1999);
24. Kaneto Shindô
Writer | Ichimai no hagaki
Kaneto Shindô was born on April 22, 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Naked Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on May 29, 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.
Reportaje tras su muerte en Miradas de Cine.
http://www.miradas.net/2012/07/zeitgeist/recuerdo-de-kaneto-shindo.html
Postcard (2010); Teacher and Three Children (2008); Owl (2003); By Player (2000); Ikitai (1999); A Last Note (1995); Bokuto kidan (1992); Sakura-tai Chiru (1988); Tree Without Leaves (1986); Black Board (1986); Chihei-sen (1984); Hokusai manga (1981); The Strangling (1979); The Life of Chikuzan (1977); Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai (1975); My Way (1974); The Heart (1973); Sanka (1972); Kanawa (1972); Hadaka no Jukyu-sai (1970); Strange Affinity (1970); Kagerô (1969); Strong Women, Weak Men (1968); Kuroneko (1968); Libido (1967); Honnô (1966); A Scoundrel (1965); Onibaba (1964); Haha (1963); Human (1962); The Naked Island (1960); Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi (1959); Daigo Fukuryu-Maru (1959); Kanashimi wa onna dakeni (1958); Umi no yarodomo (1957); Joyu (1956); Ryûri no kishi (1956); Gin shinju (1956); Okami (1955); Dobu (1954); Onna no issho (1953); Shukuzu (1953); Gembaku no ko (1952); Nadare (1952); Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)
25. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer | Gabbeh
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is known as one of the most influential filmmakers and founders of the new wave of Iranian cinema in the world today.
Many of his films like Salam Cinema, A Moment Of Innocence, Gabbeh, Kandahar and The President have been widely well received across the globe and have brought him ...
Director iraní (Gabbeh, Kandahar)
The Man Who Came with the Snow (2009); Scream of the Ants (2006); Sex & Philosophy (2005); Kandahar (2001); The Silence (1998); A Moment of Innocence (1996); Gabbeh (1996); Salaam Cinema (1995); The Actor (1993); Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema (1992); The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1991); A Time for Love (1990); Dastforoush (1989); Arousi-ye Khouban (1989); The Cyclist (1987); Boycott (1985); Do Cheshman Beesu (1984); Este'aze (1984); Tobeh Nosuh (1983)
26. 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 (...
On Set Home Movies (short) (2008); Spöksonaten (2007); Saraband (2003); The Image Makers (2000); In the Presence of a Clown (1997); Harald & Harald (1996); The Last Gasp (1995); Backanterna (1993); Madame de Sade (1992); The Blessed Ones (1986); The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1986); Dom Juan (1985); After the Rehearsal (1984); Karin's Face (short) (1984); Hustruskolan (1983); Fanny and Alexander (1982); Fårö-dokument 1979 (1980); From the Life of the Marionettes (1980); Autumn Sonata (1978); The Serpent's Egg (1977); De fördömda kvinnornas dans (short) (1976); Face to Face (1976); The Magic Flute (1975); The Misanthrope (1974); Scenes from a Marriage (TV mini-series) (1973); Viskningar och rop (1972); The Touch (1971); Fårödokument 1969 (1970); The Passion of Anna (1969); The Rite (1969); Shame (1968); Hour of the Wolf (1968); Stimulantia (segment) (1967); Persona (1966); Don Juan (1965/I); All These Women (1964); The Silence (1963); A Dream Play (1963); Winter Light (1963); Through a Glass Darkly (1961); The Devil's Eye (1960); The Virgin Spring (1960); Storm Weather (1960); The Magician (1958); Rabies (1958); Nära livet (1958); The Venetian (1958); Wild Strawberries (1957); Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (1957); The Seventh Seal (1957); Bakomfilm smultronstället (short) (1957); Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); Dreams (1955); A Lesson in Love (1954); Sawdust and Tinsel (1953); Summer with Monika (1953); Secrets of Women (1952); Summer Interlude (1951); This Can't Happen Here (1950); To Joy (1950); Thirst (1949); Prison (1949); Port of Call (1948); Music in Darkness (1948); A Ship Bound for India (1947); It Rains on Our Love (1946); Crisis (1946);
27. Jacques Audiard
Writer | De rouille et d'os
Born in Paris, France, in 1952. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. His father, Michel, was a popular screenwriter and director and his uncle a producer. But in his teens he refused that world and wanted to be a teacher. He studied literature and philosophy at the ...
28. 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 ...
Goodbye to Language 3D (2013); Film socialisme (2010); Reportage amateur Maquette expo (2006); Vrai faux passeport (2006); Four Short Films (2006); Notre musique (2004); Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma (2004); In Praise of Love (2001); The Old Place (2000); For Ever Mozart (1996); Deux fois cinquante ans de cinéma français (1995); JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December (1994); Oh, Woe Is Me (1993); Les enfants jouent à la Russie (1993); The King of Ads (1993); Allemagne 90 neuf zéro (1991); Nouvelle vague (1990); Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule (1989); Le rapport Darty (1989); Histoire(s) du cinéma: Toutes les histoires (1988); Les Français vus par (TV mini-series documentary) (1988); Keep Your Right Up (1987); Aria (segment) (1987); King Lear (1987); Série noire (TV series) (1986); Soft and Hard (1986); Détective (1985); 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1985); Prénom Carmen (1983); Changer d'image - Lettre à la bien-aimée (1982); Passion (1982); Scénario du film 'Passion' (1982); Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980); Comment ça va? (1978); France/tour/detour/deux/enfants (TV mini-series documentary) (1977); Here and Elsewhere (1976); Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (TV mini-series) (1976); Numéro deux (1975); Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972); Tout va bien (1972); 1 P.M. (1972); Vladimir et Rosa (1971); Lotte in Italia (1971); Wind from the East (1970); Pravda (1970); British Sounds (1970); Joy of Learning (1969); Sympathy for the Devil (1968); A Film Like Any Other (1968); Weekend (1967); La chinoise (1967); 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967); Made in U.S.A (1966); Masculin Féminin (1966); Pierrot le fou (1965); Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965); Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 (1964); Bande à part (1964); Contempt (1963); The Carabineers (1963); The Little Soldier (1963); Vivre Sa Vie (1962); Une femme est une femme (1961); Breathless (1960)
29. 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). ...
Big Trouble (1986); Love Streams (1984); Gloria (1980); Opening Night (1977); The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976); A Woman Under the Influence (1974); Columbo (TV series) (1972); Minnie and Moskowitz (1971); Husbands (1970); Faces (1968/I); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV series) (1966); A Child Is Waiting (1963); Too Late Blues (1961); Johnny Staccato (TV series) (1959-1960); Shadows (1959)
30. 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 ...
An Autumn Afternoon (1962); The End of Summer (1961); Late Autumn (1960); Floating Weeds (1959); Good Morning (1959); Equinox Flower (1958); Tokyo Twilight (1957); Early Spring (1956); Tokyo Story (1953); Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952); Early Summer (1951); The Munekata Sisters (1950); Late Spring (1949); A Hen in the Wind (1948); Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947); There Was a Father (1942); The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941); Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (1937); The Only Son (1936); College Is a Nice Place (1936); Kagamijishi (documentary short) (1936); An Inn in Tokyo (1935); An Innocent Maid (1935); A Story of Floating Weeds (1934); A Mother Should Be Loved (1934); Passing Fancy (1933); Dragnet Girl (1933); Woman of Tokyo (1933); Until the Day We Meet Again (1932); Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932); I Was Born, But... (1932); Spring Comes from the Ladies (1932); Tokyo Chorus (1931); The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman (1931); The Lady and the Beard (1931); Ojosan (1930); The Luck Which Touched the Leg (1930); The Revengeful Spirit of Eros (short) (1930); I Flunked, But... (1930); Walk Cheerfully (1930); Kekkongaku nyûmon (1930); That Night's Wife (1930); A Straightforward Boy (short) (1929); The Life of an Office Worker (1929); I Graduated, But... (1929); Fighting Friends (short) (1929); Days of Youth (1929); Treasure Mountain (1929); Body Beautiful (1928); A Couple on the Move (1928); Pumpkin (1928); Wife Lost (1928); Dreams of Youth (1928); Blade of Penitence (1927)
31. 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 ...
Meditation, Creativity, Peace (2012); Duran Duran: Unstaged (2011); Boat (video short) (2007); Island Empire (2006); The Short Films of David Lynch (video documentary) (2002); DumbLand (TV mini-series) (2002); Rabbits (2002); Eraserhead Stories (video documentary) (2001); Mulholland Dr. (2001); The Straight Story (1999); Mulholland Dr. (TV movie) (1999); Lost Highway (1997); Lumière and Company (segment) (1995); Hotel Room (TV mini-series) (1993); On the Air (TV mini-series) (1992); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992); Twin Peaks (TV series) (1990-1991); Blue Velvet (1986); Duna (1984); The Elephant Man (1980); Eraserhead (1977)
32. 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...
White Material (2009); 35 Shots of Rum (2008); Vers Mathilde (2005); The Intruder (2004); Friday Night (2002); Trouble Every Day (2001); Beau Travail (1999); Nénette et Boni (1996); Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (TV series) (1994); I Can't Sleep (1994); Boom-Boom (1994); Monologues (TV series) (1993); No Fear, No Die (1990); Man No Run (documentary) (1989); Chocolat (1988)
33. Andrew Dominik
Director | Chopper
Andrew Dominik was born on October 7, 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a director and writer, known for Chopper (2000), Blonde (2022) and Killing Them Softly (2012).
34. Takeshi Kitano
Actor | Zatôichi
Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior. He learned comedy, singing and dancing from famed comedian Senzaburô Fukami. Working as a lift boy on a nightclub with such features as comic sketches and striptease dancing, Kitano saw ...
Outrage Beyond (2012); Outrage (2010); Achilles and the Tortoise (2008); Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007); Takeshis' (2005); Zatoichi (2003); Dolls (2002); Brother (2000/I); Kikujiro (1999); Hana-bi (1997); Kids Return (1996); Minnâ-yatteruka! (1994); Sonatine (1993); A Scene at the Sea (1991); Boiling Point (1990); Violent Cop (1989);
35. 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 ...
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); Cousin Ben Troop Screening with Jason Schwartzman (short) (2012); Moonrise Kingdom (2012); Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009); Hotel Chevalier (short) (2007); The Darjeeling Limited (2007); Vida acuática, con Steve Zissou (2004); The Royal Tenenbaums (2001); Rushmore (1998); Bottle Rocket (1996); Bottle Rocket (short) (1994)
36. 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.
37. 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...
Maps to the Stars (2013); Cosmopolis (2012); Un método peligroso (2011); Promesas del este (2007); A History of Violence (2005); Spider (2002); eXistenZ (1999); Crash (1996); M. Butterfly (1993); Naked Lunch (1991); Scales of Justice (TV series) (1990); Mortalmente parecidos (1988); Friday the 13th (TV series) (1988); The Fly (1986); The Dead Zone (1983); Videodrome (1983); Scanners (1981); The Brood (1979); Fast Company (1979); Rabid (1977); Teleplay (TV series) (1976); Shivers (1975); Peep Show (TV series) (1975); Tourettes (1971); Letter from Michelangelo (1971); Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971); Crimes of the Future (1970); Stereo (1969)
38. 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...
39. Shane Carruth
Composer | Upstream Color
Writer-director Shane Carruth, a former software engineer, burst onto the independent movie scene with his extremely low-budget science-fiction film Primer (2004) in 2004. Carruth also played one of the two leads in the film and composed its music. "Primer" won the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P...
40. 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...
41. 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 ...
Nymphomaniac (2013); Melancholia (2011); Antichrist (2009); The Boss of It All (2006); Manderlay (2005); The Five Obstructions (2003); Dogville (2003); D-dag - Den færdige film (2001); Dancer in the Dark (2000); D-dag - Lise (2000); D-dag (2000); The Idiots (1998); The Kingdom II (TV mini-series) (1997); Breaking the Waves (1996); The Kingdom (TV mini-series) (1994); The Teacher's Room (TV series) (1994); Europa (1991); Medea (1988); Epidemic (1987); Forbrydelsens element (1984); Befrielsesbilleder (1982)
42. Gus Van Sant
Director | Elephant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...
Promised Land (2012); My Own Private River (2012); Restless (2011/I); Milk (2008/I); 8 (segment "Mansion on the hill") (2008); Paranoid Park (2007); Last Days (2005); Elephant (2003); Gerry (2002); Finding Forrester (2000); Psycho (1998); Good Will Hunting (1997); To Die For (1995); Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993); My Own Private Idaho (1991); Drugstore Cowboy (1989); Mala Noche (1986)
43. 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...
44. 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 ...
Family Plot (1976); Frenzy (1972); Topaz (1969); Torn Curtain (1966); Marnie (1964); The Birds (1963); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1961) (TV series); Psycho (1960); North by Northwest (1959); Vertigo (1958); The Wrong Man (1956); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Trouble with Harry (1955); To Catch a Thief (1955); Rear Window (1954); Dial M for Murder (1954); I Confess (1953); Strangers on a Train (1951); Stage Fright (1950); Under Capricorn (1949); Rope (1948); Agonía de amor (1947); Notorious (1946); Spellbound (1945); Lifeboat (1944); Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Saboteur (1942); Suspicion (1941); Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); Foreign Correspondent (1940); Rebecca (1940); Jamaica Inn (1939); The Lady Vanishes (1938); Young and Innocent (1937); Sabotage (1936); Secret Agent (1936); The 39 Steps (1935); The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); Waltzes from Vienna (1934); Number Seventeen (1932); Rich and Strange (1931); Mary (1931); The Skin Game (1931); Murder! (1930); Juno and the Paycock (1929); Blackmail (1929); The Manxman (1929); Champagne (1928); Easy Virtue (1928); The Farmer's Wife (1928); Downhill (1927); The Ring (1927/I); The Lodger (1927); The Mountain Eagle (1926); The Pleasure Garden (1925)
45. 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 ...
Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Full Metal Jacket (1987); The Shining (1980); Barry Lyndon (1975); A Clockwork Orange (1971); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964); Lolita (1962); Spartacus (1960); Paths of Glory (1957); The Killing (1956); Killer's Kiss (1955); Fear and Desire (1953); ;
46. 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...
Madadayo (1993); Rapsodia en agosto (1991); Dreams (1990); Ran (1985); Kagemusha (1980); Dersu Uzala (1975); Dodes'ka-den (1970); Red Beard (1965); High and Low (1963); Sanjuro (1962); Yojimbo (1961); The Bad Sleep Well (1960); The Hidden Fortress (1958); The Lower Depths (1957); Throne of Blood (1957); I Live in Fear (1955); Seven Samurai (1954); Ikiru (1952); The Idiot (1951); Rashômon (1950); Scandal (1950); Stray Dog (1949); The Quiet Duel (1949); Drunken Angel (1948); One Wonderful Sunday (1947); No Regrets for Our Youth (1946); Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946); Sanshiro Sugata Part Two (1945); The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945); The Most Beautiful (1944); Judo Saga (1943); ;
47. 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 ...
48. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
49. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
50. 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 ...
51. Richard Brooks
Writer | In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.
He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...
52. 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 ...
53. 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 ...
54. Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer | Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...
Del libro "Lecciones de Cine" The Conformist (1970) El último tango en París (1972) Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) The Last Emperor (1987) Stealing Beauty (1996)
55. 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 ...
56. D.W. Griffith
Director | The Birth of a Nation
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...
57. Vittorio De Sica
Director | Ladri di biciclette
Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...
58. 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.
59. Martin McDonagh
Writer | In Bruges
Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
60. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
61. 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 ...
62. Buster Keaton
Actor | The General
Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...
63. Abbas Kiarostami
Writer | Copie conforme
Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...
64. Sam Peckinpah
Writer | The Wild Bunch
"If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael. That ...
65. 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...
66. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
67. John Schlesinger
Director | Midnight Cowboy
Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who was born in London, on February 16, 1926, was the eldest child in a solidly middle-class Jewish family. Berbard Schlesinger, his father, was a pediatrician, and his mother, Winifred, was a musician. He served in the Army in the Far East during World War ...
68. 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 ...
69. Peter Weir
Director | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is a director and writer, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), The Way Back (2010) and Witness (1985). He has been married to Wendy Stites since 1966. They have two children.
Master and Commander (2003); The Way Back (2010)
70. Kathryn Bigelow
Director | The Hurt Locker
A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...
71. John Boorman
Producer | Hope and Glory
John Boorman attended Catholic school (Salesian Order) although his family was not, in fact, Roman Catholic. His first job was for a dry-cleaner. Later, he worked as a critic for a women's journal and for a radio station until he entered the television business, working for the BBC in Bristol. ...
En el libro "Lecciones de Cine" Excalibur (1981); Hope and Glory (1987); The General (1998)
72. Sydney Pollack
Director | Tootsie
Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films.
Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a professional boxer turned pharmacist...
En el libro "Lecciones de Cine" Out of Africa (1985) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) Tootsie (1982) Three Days of the Condor (1975)
73. Claude Sautet
Writer | Un coeur en hiver
Claude Sautet was born on February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a writer and director, known for A Heart in Winter (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995) and The Things of Life (1970). He was married to Graziella Sautet. He died on July 22, 2000 in Paris, ...
Del libro "Lecciones de Cine" Les choses de la vie (1970) A Heart in Winter (1992) Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
74. 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.
75. 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. ...
Up to Speed (TV series) (2012); Bernie (2011); Me and Orson Welles (2008); Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008); A Scanner Darkly (2006); Fast Food Nation (2006); Bad News Bears (2005); Before Sunset (2004); $5.15/Hr. (2004); School of Rock (2003); Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (short) (2003); Tape (2001); Waking Life (2001); The Newton Boys (1998); SubUrbia (1996); Before Sunrise (1995); Slacker (1991); Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991); It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988); Woodshock (short) (1985)
Watchlist: Dazed and Confused (1993); Before Midnight (2013); Boyhood (2015);
76. Yasuzô Masumura
Director | Daichi no komoriuta
Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined ...
77. 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).
78. Agnès Varda
Director | Cléo de 5 à 7
Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.
79. Makoto Shinkai
Writer | Suzume no Tojimari
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...
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