Favorite Directors

1. Ingmar Bergman

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 (...

Feature Films (169/24=7.04) 1. Det sjunde inseglet (1957) 9/10 FAV 2. Höstsonaten (1978) 9/10 FAV 3. Smultronstället (1957) 9/10 FAV 4. Viskningar och rop (1972) 8/10 FAV 5. Persona (1966) 8/10 FAV 6. Såsom i en spegel (1961) 8/10 FAV 7. Fängelse (1949) 8/10 FAV 8. Skammen (1968) 7/10 FAV 9. Scener ur ett äktenskap (1974) 7/10 10. Fanny och Alexander (1982) 7/10 FAV 11. Ansikte mot ansikte (1976) 7/10 FAV 12. Sommarnattens leende (1955) 7/10 FAV 13. Ansiktet (1958) 7/10 FAV 14. En lektion i kärlek (1954) 7/10 15. Jungfrukällan (1960) 7/10 16. Sommaren med Monika (1953) 7/10 17. Tystnaden (1963) 6/10 18. Larmar och gör sig till (TV Movie, 1997) 6/10 19. Vargtimmen (1968)6/10 20. Nära livet (1958) 6/10 21. Kris (1946) 6/10 22. Musik i mörker (1948) 6/10 23. Sommarlek (1951) 6/10 24. Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (TV Movie, 1980) 5/10

Average: 7.04 12 FAV

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2. 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 ...

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Feature Films (8.46) 1. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 10/10 FAV 2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 10/10 FAV 3. Barry Lyndon (1975) 10/10 FAV 4. The Shning (1980) 10/10 FAV 5. Eyes Wide SHut (1999) 9/10 FAV 6. Paths of Glory (1957) 9/10 FAV 7. The Killing (1956) 9/10 FAV 8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 8/10 FAV 9. Spartacus (1960) 8/10 10. Full Metal Jacket (1987) 6/10 11. Lolita (1962) 6/10 12. Fear and Desire (1953) 5/10 13. Killer's Kiss (1955) 5/10

Short Films (7) 1. Day of the Fight (1951) 8/10 2. Flying Padre (1951) 7/10 3. The Seafarers (1953) 6/10

Total: 8.19 16 titles 8 FAV

3. 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...

Feature Films (137/19=7.21) 1. Shichinin no samurai (1954) 10/10 FAV 2. Kagemusha (1980) 10/10 FAV 3. Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960) 8/10 FAV 4. Ran (1985) 8/10 FAV 5. Rashômon (1950) 8/10 FAV 6. Yôjinbô (1961) 8/10 FAV 7. Akahige (1965) 7/10 FAV 8. Yume (1990) 7/10 FAV 9. Tengoku to jigoku (1963) 7/10 FAV 10. Dersu Uzala (1975) 7/10 FAV 11. Shizukanaru kettô (1949) 7/10 12. Yoidore tenshi (1948) 7/10 13. Shûbun (1950) 7/10 14. Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962) 7/10 15. Ikiru (1952) 6/10 16. Dodesukaden (1970) 6/10 17. Nora inu (1949) 6/10 18. Kumonosu-jô (1957) 6/10 19. Waga seishun ni kuinashi (1946) 5/10

Average: 7.21 10 FAV

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4. 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 ...

Feature Films (134/20=6.7) 1. À bout de souffle (1960) 9/10 FAV 2. Une femme est une femme (1961) 8/10 FAV 3. Pierrot le fou (1965) 8/10 FAV 4. Le mépris (1963) 8/10 FAV 5. La chinoise (1967) 8/10 FAV 6. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962) 7/10 FAV 7. Week End (1967) 7/10 8. Le petit soldat (1963) 7/10 9. Nouvelle vague (1990) 7/10 10. Bande à part (1964) 7/10 11. Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1980) 7/10 12. Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) 6/10 13. Masculin féminin (1966) 6/10 14. Paris vu par... (Segment, 1965) 6/10 15. 'Je vous salue, Marie' (1985) 6/10 16. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967) 6/10 17. Éloge de l'amour (2001) 6/10 18. Made in U.S.A (1966) 6/10 19. Prénom Carmen (1983) 5/10 20. Film socialisme (2010) 4/10

Shorts (24/3=8) 1. Je vous salue, Sarajevo (2006) 9/10 2. Une histoire d'eau (1961) 8/10 3. Dans le noir du temps (2002) 7/10

Documentary (6/1=6) 1. The King of Ads (1991) 6/10 (segment)

Average: 6.83 6 FAV

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5. 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 ...

Feature Films (75/11) 1. Caché (2005) 9/10 FAV 2. Der siebente Kontinent (1989) 8/10 FAV 3. Amour (2012) 8/10 FAV 4. Funny Games (1997) 8/10 FAV 5. Benny's Video (1992) 7/10 FAV 6. Das Schloß (1997) 7/10 FAV 7. Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) 7/10 8. La pianiste (2001) 7/10 9. Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (2000) 6/10 10. 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) 6/10 11. Funny Games US (2007) 2/10

Average: 7.3 (6.82) 6 FAV

11/05/20

6. Ethan Coen

Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...

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Feature Films (87/12=7.25) 1.The Big Lebowski (1998) 10/10 FAV 2. Barton Fink (1991) 10/10 FAV 3. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 8/10 FAV 4. Raising Arizona (1987) 8/10 FAV 5. True Grit (2010) 8/10 FAV 6. Burn After Reading (2008) 7/10 7. Blood Simple (1984) 7/10 8. Hail, Caesar! (2016) 6/10 9. Paris, je t'aime (Segment, 2006) 6/10 10. No Country for Old Men (2007) 6/10 11. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 6/10 12. Fargo (1996) 5/10

Average: 7.25 5 FAV

10/05/20

7. Takashi Miike

Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...

Feature Films (126/18=7) 1. Koroshiya 1 (2001) 10/10 FAV 2. Bijitâ Q (2001) 9/10 FAV 3. Katakuri-ke no kôfuku (2001) 9/10 FAV 4. Ôdishon (1999) 8/10 FAV 5. Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu (2003) 8/10 FAV 6. Full Metal gokudô (1997) 8/10 FAV 7. Chakushin ari (2003) 7/10 8. Ichimei (2011) 7/10 9. Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999) 7/10 10. Dead or Alive: Final (2002) 7/10 11. Aku no kyôten (2012) 6/10 12. 46-okunen no koi (2006) 6/10 13. Ryû ga gotoku: Gekijô-ban (2007) 6/10 14. Zebraman (2004) 6/10 15. Kikoku (2003) 6/10 16. Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha (2000) 6/10 17. Jûsan-nin no shikaku (2010) 5/10 18. Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô (1996) 5/10

Average: 7 6 FAV

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8. 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...

Feature Films (48/7=6.86) 1. Fitzcarraldo (1982) 8/10 FAV 2. Herz aus Glas (1976) 8/10 FAV 3. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) 7/10 FAV 4. Stroszek (1977) 7/10 5. Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974) 7/10 6. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) 6/10 7. Lebenszeichen (1968) 5/10

Documentary (14/2=7) 1. Lektionen in Finsternis (1992) 8/10 FAV 2. Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski (1999) 6/10

Short Films (7/1=7) 1. Herakles (1962) 7/10

Average: 6.9 4 FAV

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9. 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 ...

Feature Films (7.5) 1. Les diaboliques (1955) 10/10 FAV 2. Le salaire de la peur (1953) 8/10 FAV 3. Le corbeau (1943) 8/10 FAV 4. Les espions (1957) 7/10 FAV 5. Quai des Orfèvres (1947) 7/10 FAV 6. L'assassin habite... au 21 (1942) 7/10 7. La vérité (1960) 7/10 8. La prisonnière (1968) 6/10

Documentary 1. Le mystère Picasso (1956) 6/10

Average: 7.33 5 FAV

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10. 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).

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

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Feature Films (6.17) 1. L'âge d'or (1930) 8/10 FAV 2. La voie lactée (1969) 8/10 FAV 3. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) 8/10 FAV 4. Ensayo de un crimen (1955) 8/10 FAV 5. Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964) 8/10 FAV 6. El ángel exterminador (1962) 7/10 FAV 7. Le fantôme de la liberté (1974) 7/10 FAV 8. Nazarín (1959) 7/10 9. Viridiana (1961) 7/10 10. Belle de jour (1967) 7/10 11. Robinson Crusoe (1954) 6/10 12. Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1956) 6/10 13. El gran calavera (1949) 6/10 14. La ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954) 6/10 15. La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959) 6/10 16. El río y la muerte (1954) 6/10 17. Subida al cielo (1952) 6/10 18. Tristana (1970) 6/10 19. El (1953) 6/10 20. Una mujer sin amor (1952) 6/10 21. The Young One (1960) 6/10 22. La hija del engaño (1951) 5/10 23. Los olvidados (1950) 5/10 24. Cet obscur objet du désir (1977) 5/10 25. Susana (1951) 5/10 26. Gran Casino (1947) 5/10 27. El bruto (1953) 5/10 28. Abismos de pasión (1954) 5/10 29. La mort en ce jardin (1956) 5/10 30. ¡Centinela, alerta! (1937) 5/10

Short Films (7.67) 1. Un chien andalou (1929) 9/10 FAV 2. Simón del desierto (1965) 8/10 3. Las Hurdes (1933) 6/10

*Not Included* -¿Quién me quiere a mí? (1936) (no subs) -El Vaticano de Pio XII (1940) (lost)

Total: 6.30 33 titles 8 FAV

13. 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 ...

Feature Films (100/12=8.33) 1. Taxi Driver (1976) 10/10 FAV 2. Goodfellas (1990) 10/10 FAV 3. After Hours (1985) 10/10 FAV 4. Raging Bull (1980) 10/10 FAV 5. Hugo (2011) 9/10 FAV 6. Casino (1995) 9/10 7. Shutter Island (2010) 9/10 8. The Departed (2006) 8/10 9. The King of Comedy (1982) 7/10 10. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 6/10 11. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) 6/10 12. Mean Streets (1973) 6/10

Short (8/1=8) 1. The Big Shave (1967) 8/10

Documentary (6/1=6) 1. The King of Ads (1991) 6/10 (segment)

Average: 8.14 5 FAV

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14. 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 ...

Feature Films (59/8=7.37) 1. The Elephant Man (1980) 9/10 2. Mulholland Dr. (2001) 8/10 FAV 3. Inland Empire (2006) 8/10 FAV 4. The Straight Story (1999) 8/10 5. Eraserhead (1977) 7/10 FAV 6. Blue Velvet (1986) 7/10 7. Lost Highway (1997) 7/10 8. Dune (1984) 5/10

Shorts (30/5=6) 1. Rabbits (2002) 7/10 2. The Alphabet (1969) 7/10 3. The 3 Rs (2011) 6/10 4. The Grandmother (1970) 5/10 5. The Amputee (1974) 5/10

Documentary (6/1=6) 1. The King of Ads (1991) 6/10 (segment)

TV Episodes (48/6=8) 1. Twin Peaks S1E1 Pilot (1990) 7/10 2. Twin Peaks S1E3 Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer (1990) 8/10 3. Twin Peaks S2E2 Episode #2.1 (1990) 8/10 4. Twin Peaks S2E2 Episode #2.2 (1990) 8/10 5. Twin Peaks S2E2 Episode #2.7 (1990) 8/10 6. Twin Peaks S2E22 Episode #2.22 (1991) 9/10

Average: 143/20=7.15 3 FAV

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15. 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 ...

Feature Films (100/15=6.67) 1.Sanshô dayû (1954) 9/10 FAV 2. Ugetsu monogatari (1953) 8/10 FAV 3. Akasen chitai (1956) 8/10 FAV 4. Shin Heike monogatari (1955) 7/10 5. Zangiku monogatari (1939) 7/10 6. Saikaku ichidai onna (1952) 7/10 7. Gion no shimai (1936) 7/10 8. Gubijinsô (1935) 7/10 9. Naniwa erejî (1936) 7/10 10. Yôkihi (1955) 6/10 11. Oyû-sama (1951) 6/10 12. Chikamatsu monogatari (1954) 6/10 13. Gion bayashi (1953) 5/10 14. Uwasa no onna (1954) 5/10 15. Maria no Oyuki (1935) 5/10

Average: 6.67 3 FAV

27/05/20

16. 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 ...

Feature Films (82/12=6.83) 1.Mahanagar (1963) 8/10 FAV 2. Jalsaghar (1958) 8/10 FAV 3. Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) 7/10 FAV 4. Nayak (1966) 7/10 5. Devi (1960) 7/10 6. Charulata (1964) 7/10 7. Agantuk (1991) 7/10 8. Apur Sansar (1959) 7/10 9. Ghare-Baire (1984) 6/10 10. Kanchenjungha (1962) 6/10 11. Pather Panchali (1955) 6/10 12. Aparajito (1956) 6/10

Average: 6.83 3 FAV

17/05/20

17. 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 (...

Feature Films (67/10=6.7) 1. Amator (1979) 8/10 FAV 2. Krótki film o zabijaniu (1988) 8/10 FAV 3. Krótki film o milosci (1988) 7/10 FAV 4. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) 7/10 FAV 5. Przypadek (1987) 7/10 FAV 6. Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) 6/10 7. Blizna (1976) 6/10 8. Bez konca (1985) 6/10 9. La double vie de Véronique (1991) 6/10 10. Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994) 6/10

Average: 6.7 5 FAV

18/05/20

18. 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...

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Feature Films (7) 1. Stalker (1979) 8/10 FAV 2. Nostalghia (1983) 8/10 FAV 3. Offret (1986) 8/10 FAV 4. Andrey Rublyov (1966) 7/10 FAV 5. Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet 7/10 6. Solyaris (1972) 6/10 7. Zerkalo (1975) 6/10 8. Ivanovo detstvo (1962) 6/10

Short Films (6.5) 1. Katok i skripka (1961) 7/10 2. Ubiytsy (1956) 6/10

Documentary (8) 1. Tempo di viaggio (1983) 8/10

*Not Included* -Pervyy den (1979) (Lost Film)

Total: 7.00 11 titles 4 FAV

19. 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 ...

Feature Films (64/9=7.11) 1. Citizen Kane (1941) 9/10 FAV 2. The Lady from Shanghai (1947) 9/10 FAV 3. Le procès (1962) 8/10 FAV 4. Campanadas a medianoche (1965) 7/10 FAV 5. The Stranger (1946) 7/10 6. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1951) 7/10 7. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 6/10 8. Touch of Evil (1958) 6/10 9. The Other Side of the Wind (2018) 5/10

Documentary (7/1=7) 1. F for Fake (1973) 7/10

Short Films (13/2=6.5) 1. The Fountain of Youth (TV, 1958) 8/10 2. The Hearts of Age (1934) 5/10

Average: 7 4 FAV

10/05/20

20. Pedro Almodóvar

Writer | Hable con ella

The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...

Feature Films (39/5=7.8) 1. Hable con ella (2002) 9/10 FAV 2. La piel que habito (2011) 8/10 FAV 3. Todo sobre mi madre (1999) 8/10 FAV 4. Volver (2006) 8/10 FAV 5. La mala educación (2004) 6/10

Average: 7.8 4 FAV

10/05/20

21. 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. ...

Feature Films (37/5=7.4) 1. Only God Forgives (2013) 8/10 FAV 2. The Neon Demon (2016) 8/10 FAV 3. Bronson (2008) 7/10 FAV 4. Valhalla Rising (2009) 7/10 5. Drive (2011) 7/10

Average: 7.4 3 FAV

10/05/20

22. Jan Svankmajer

Director | Otesánek

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...

23. Aleksandr Sokurov

Director | Russkiy kovcheg

He was born with a disability because of an anatomic defect of his leg, in 1951 in Podorvikha village in Siberian Russia. His father was a Red Army veteran of WW2. One of most important contemporary filmmakers, Sokurov worked extensively in television and later graduated from the prestigious film ...

Feature Films (66/10=6.6) 1. Russkiy kovcheg (2002) 8/10 FAV 2. Faust (2011) 8/10 FAV 3. Krug vtoroy (1990) 7/10 FAV 4. Tikhiye stranitsy (1994) 7/10 FAV 5. Mat i syn (1997) 7/10 6. Dni zatmeniya (1988) 6/10 7. Kamen (1992) 6/10 8. Solntse (2005) 6/10 9. Aleksandra (2007) 6/10 10. Molokh (1999) 5/10

Average: 6.6 4 FAV

10/05/20

24. Terry Gilliam

Writer | Brazil

Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...

Feature Films (47/6=7.83) 1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 10/10 FAV 2. The Meaning of Life (1983) 10/10 FAV 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 7/10 FAV 4. Brazil (1985) 7/10 5. Twelve Monkeys (1995) 7/10 6. Tideland (2005) 6/10

Short Films (17/2=8.5) 1. Storytime (1968) 9/10 2. Miracle of Flight (1975) 8/10

Average: 8 3 FAV

11/05/20

25. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Writer | Gertrud

The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...

Feature Films (54/8=6.75) 1. Ordet (1955) 8/10 FAV 2. Vampyr (1932) 8/10 3. Vredens dag (1943) 7/10 FAV 4. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) 7/10 5. Præsidenten (1919) 7/10 6. Prästänkan (1920) 6/10 7. Gertrud (1964) 6/10 8. Michael (1924) 5/10

Average: 6.75 2 FAV

14/05/20

26. 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 ...

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Feature Films (6.92) 1. Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut/A Man Escaped (1956) 8/10 FAV 2. Journal d'un curé de campagne/Diary of a country priest (1951) 8/10 FAV 3. Pickpocket (1959) 8/10 FAV 4. L'argent/Money (1983) 8/10 FAV 5. Procès de Jeanne d'Arc (1962) 7/10 FAV 6. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur/Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) 7/10 7. Les anges du péché (1943) 7/10 8. Mouchette (1967) 7/10 9. Les dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945) 6/10 10. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) 6/10 11. Lancelot du lac (1974) 6/10 12. Le diable probablement (1977) 6/10 13. Une femme douce/A Gentle Creature (1969) 6/10

Short Film (6) 1. Affaires publiques (1934) 6/10

Total: 6.86 14 titles 5 FAV

27. David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...

Feature Films (38/5=7.6) 1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 10/10 FAV 2. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 9/10 FAV 3. Brief Encounter (1945) 7/10 FAV 4. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 6/10 5. Great Expectations (1946) 6/10

Average: 7.6 3 FAV

10/05/20

28. 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...

Feature Films (64/10=6.4) 1. Welt am Draht (1973) 8/10 FAV 2. Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972) 7/10 FAV 3. In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (1978) 7/10 4. Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979) 7/10 5. Angst essen Seele auf (1974) 7/10 6. Chinesisches Roulette (1976) 6/10 7. Lola (1981) 6/10 8. Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (1982) 6/10 9. Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1972) 5/10 10. Der amerikanische Soldat (1970) 5/10

Average: 6.4 2 FAV

24/05/20

29. 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.

Feature Films (84/13=6.46) 1. L'oeil du malin (1962) 8/10 FAV 2. Le boucher (1970) 7/10 FAV 3. Que la bête meure (1969) 7/10 FAV 4. La femme infidèle (1969) 7/10 5. Les cousins (1959) 7/10 6. Le beau Serge (1958) 6/10 7. L'ivresse du pouvoir (2006) 6/10 8. Violette Nozière (1978) 6/10 9. Paris vu par... (1965) 6/10 (segment) 10. La cérémonie (1995) 6/10 11. Les noces rouges (1973) 6/10 12. Une affaire de femmes (1988) 6/10 13. Les bonnes femmes (1960) 6/10

Documentary (6/1=6) 1. The King of Ads (1991) 6/10 (segment)

Average: 6.43 3 FAV

07/07/20

30. 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 ...

Feature Films (53/8=6.62) 1. Il deserto rosso (1964) 8/10 FAV 2. Blowup (1966) 7/10 FAV 3. L'eclisse (1962) 7/10 4. Il grido (1957) 7/10 5. L'avventura (1960) 7/10 6. Professione: reporter (1975) 6/10 7. La notte (1961) 6/10 8. La signora senza camelie (1953) 5/10

Average: 6.62 2 FAV

07/07/20

31. 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 ...

Feature Films (75/10=7.5) 1. The Lost Weekend (1945) 8/10 FAV 2. Ace in the Hole (1951) 8/10 FAV 3. Sunset Blvd. (1950) 9/10 FAV 4. Double Indemnity (1944) 8/10 FAV 5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 10/10 FAV 6. The Apartment (1960) 8/10 7. Some Like It Hot (1959) 7/10 8. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) 6/10 9. Fedora (1978) 6/10 10. The Front Page (1974) 5/10

Average: 7.5 5 FAV

07/07/20

32. John Ford

Director | The Quiet Man

John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...

33. F.W. Murnau

Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...

Feature Films (58/8=7.25) 1. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 10/10 FAV 2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 8/10 FAV 3. City Girl (1930) 8/10 FAV 4. Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926) 7/10 5. Der letzte Mann (1924) 7/10 6. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) 7/10 7. Schloß Vogelöd (1921) 6/10 8. Herr Tartüff (1925) 5/10

Average: 7.25 3 FAV

10/05/20

34. 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 ...

35. 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.

Feature Films (35/5=7) 1. Kaidan (1964) 8/10 FAV 2. Ningen no jôken I (1959) 7/10 FAV 3. Ningen no jôken II (1959) 7/10 FAV 4. Ningen no jôken III (1961) 6/10 FAV 5. Seppuku (1962) 7/10 FAV

Average: 7 5 FAV

12/05/20

36. 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 ...

37. 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 ...

38. Costa-Gavras

Director | Z

Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.

39. 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 ...

40. 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, ...

41. 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 ...

42. 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 ...

43. 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...

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Feature Film (6.86) 1. Orphée (1950) 8/10 FAV 2. La belle et la bête (1946) 8/10 FAV 3. Les parents terribles (1948) 7/10 4. Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi (1960) 7/10 5. Le sang d'un poète (1930) 7/10 6. L'aigle à deux têtes (1948) 6/10 7. 8 X 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957) 5/10

Short Films (7) 1. La villa Santa Sospir (1952) 8/10 2. Jean Cocteau s'adresse... à l'an 2000 (1962) 6/10

*Not Included* -Jean Cocteau fait du cinéma (1925) lost -Coriolan (1950) unavailable

Total: 6.89 9 titles 2 FAV

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 ...

45. 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 ...

46. Roberto Rossellini

Writer | Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...

47. Peter Jackson

Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...

48. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

49. 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 ...

50. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

51. Ermanno Olmi

Director | L'albero degli zoccoli

Ermanno Olmi was born on July 24, 1931 in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) and Il posto (1961). He was married to Loredana Detto. He died on May 5, 2018 in Asiago, Veneto, Italy.

52. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

53. 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...

54. Bertrand Blier

Writer | Le bruit des glaçons

Bertrand Blier was born on March 14, 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He is a writer and director, known for The Clink of Ice (2010), Too Beautiful for You (1989) and 1, 2, 3, Freeze (1993).

55. Juraj Herz

Director | Habermann

Juraj Herz was born on September 4, 1934 in Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and actor, known for Habermann (2010), The Cremator (1969) and Beauty and the Beast (1978). He was married to Therese Herz. He died on April 8, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.

56. 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 ...

57. Yoshishige Yoshida

Director | Ningen no yakusoku

Yoshishige Yoshida was born on February 16, 1933 in Fukui, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for A Promise (1986), Akitsu Springs (1962) and Wuthering Heights (1988). He was married to Mariko Okada. He died on December 8, 2022 in Japan.