Important filmmakers who have only directed few films or whose films are lost
by Vade-Lepisto | created - 19 Feb 2021 | updated - 19 Feb 2021 | PublicSome of these filmmakers are still working so the number of their films might change.
1. Sadao Yamanaka
Writer | Kuchibue o fuku bushi
The director and screenwriter Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938) is a key figure in the development of early Japanese cinema. Although he made 27 films over a six-year period, only three of them survived in nearly complete form: Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935), Humanity and Paper Balloons...
2. Jean Vigo
Writer | Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège
Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people ...
3. Nyrki Tapiovaara
Director | Herra Lahtinen lähtee lipettiin
Nyrki Tapiovara (1911-1940) is considered the first film theoretician in Finland.During a repressive period in the 1930s when his country was dominated by the Lapua (Fascist) movement, he was a prominent member of the short lived Projektio film society where aspiring artists could learn about the ...
4. Heiny Srour
Director | Leila wa al ziap
Heiny Srour is known for Leila wa al ziap (1984), Saat el Tahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar (1974) and Rising Above: Women of Vietnam (1995).
5. Forugh Farrokhzad
Editor | Khaneh siah ast
Farugh Farrokhzad was primarily a poet. Indeed, she is regarded as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century in Iran, which has a millennium of poetic tradition behind it. Although she only made one film, the 22 minute so-called documentary "The House is Black", this work is ...
6. 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).
7. Charles Laughton
Actor | Witness for the Prosecution
Charles Laughton was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, to Eliza (Conlon) and Robert Laughton, hotel keepers of Irish and English descent, respectively. He was educated at Stonyhurst (a highly esteemed Jesuit college in England) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (received gold medal). ...
8. Moufida Tlatli
Editor | Samt El Qusur
Was raised in Tunisia in a tradition-oriented family. It was in high school, thanks to her philosophy teacher, who ran a film club, that she developed a taste for the cinema. After graduating from the IDHEC film school in 1968, in the editing department, she went back to live in Tunisia in 1972. ...
9. Vasiliy Shukshin
Writer | Kalina krasnaya
Vasili Shukshin, one of Russian cinema's notable figures, was born Vasili Makarovich Shukshin into a peasant family on July 25, 1929, in the village of Srostki, Altai province, Siberian Russia. His father, named Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was a landlord who refused to join a collective farm and ...
10. Ahmed Bouanani
Editor | Assarab
Ahmed Bouanani was born on November 16, 1938 in Casablanca, Morocco. He was an editor and writer, known for Assarab (1979), Bye-Bye Souirty (1998) and Aoud rih (2001). He died on February 6, 2011 in Demnate, Morocco.
11. Lizzie Borden
Director | Working Girls
Lizzie Borden was born on February 3, 1958 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Working Girls (1986), Born in Flames (1983) and To Die Quietly (1997).
12. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
Director | Forbidden Letters
One of the pioneers of independent gay cinema in the 1970s and '80s, Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. is best known for his 1985 drama, Buddies (the first feature film about AIDS). Working across multiple genres including documentary, narrative, adult and short form filmmaking, Bressan's boldness and ...
13. Marzieh Makhmalbaf
Writer | Roozi ke zan shodam
Marziyeh Meshkini Born in 1969 in Tehran. She is the wife of celebrated Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She studied Cinema in Makhmalbaf Film school for 8 years. Her first film 'The Day I Became a Woman", (a 3-episode story) attended the Critics Week category in Venice International Film ...
14. Philip Ridley
Writer | Heartless
Philip was born in the East End of London where he still lives and works. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and has exhibited widely throughout Europe. As a novelist his credits include Crocodilia (1988), In The Eyes Of Mr. Fury (Penguin, 1989), Flamingoes In Orbit (Hamish Hamilton, ...
15. Nabil Maleh
Director | Bikaya suar
Nabil Maleh was born on September 28, 1936 in Damascus, Syria. He was a director and writer, known for Bikaya suar (1980), Al-kompars (1993) and Al-fahd (1972). He was married to Feryal Abedrabou. He died on February 24, 2016 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
16. Chadi Abdel Salam
Writer | Al-mummia
Chadi Abdel Salam was born on March 9, 1930 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was an art director and writer, known for The Mummy (1969), El Fetewa (1957) and Zaman el ajab (1952). He died on October 9, 1986 in Cairo, Egypt.
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