Directors: A-C

A

Legend

Angelopoulos, Theodoros

(1935-2012)

The Beekeeper (1986)
Landscape in the Mist (1988)

Legend

Antonioni, Michelangelo

(1912-2007)

The Lady Without Camelias (1953)
L’avventura (1960)
La notte (1961)
Red Desert (1964)
Blow Up (1966)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Passenger (1975)

Master

Anderson, Paul Thomas

(1970-)

Boogie Nights (1997)
Magnolia (1999)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Master (2012)
Inherent Vice (2014)
Junun (2015)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Licorice Pizza (2021)

Master

Akerman, Chantal

(1950-2015)

One Day Pina Asked (1983)
Letters Home (1986)
Almayer’s Folly (2011)
No Home Movie (2015)

Master

Almodovar, Pedro

(1949-)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
All About My Mother (1999)
Volver (2006)
Broken Embraces (2009)
The Skin I Live In (2011)
Julieta (2016)
Pain & Glory (2019)
Parallel Mothers (2021)

Great Director

Anderson, Wes

(1969-)

Bottle Rocket (1996)
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Isle of Dogs (2018)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Asteroid City (2023)

Great Director

Andersson, Roy

(1943-)

A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
You, the Living (2007)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
About Endlessness (2019)

Great Director

Assayas, Olivier

(1955-)

Disorder (1986)
Irma Vep (1996)
Demonlover (2002)
Clean (2004)
Boarding Gate (2007)
Something in the Air (2012)
Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Personal Shopper (2016)
Non-Fiction (2018)
Wasp Network (2019)

Great Director

Arnold, Andrea

(1961-)

Fish Tank (2009)
American Honey (2016)
Cow (2021)

Great Director

Audiard, Jacques

(1952-)

Rust and Bone (2012)
Dheepan (2015)
The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Great Director

Aronofsky, Darren

(1969-)

Pi (1998)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The Wrestler (2008)
Black Swan (2010)
Noah (2014)
Mother! (2017)
The Whale (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Abrams, J.J.

(1968-)

Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Star Trek (2009)
Super 8 (2011)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Director-to-Follow

Abbasi, Ali

(1981-)

Border (2018)
Holy Spider (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Alper, Emin

(1974-)

A Tale of Three Sisters (2019)
Burning Days (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Akin, Fatih

(1973-)

Short Sharp Shock (1998)
Head-On (2004)
The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Soul Kitchen (2009)
The Cut (2014)
In the Fade (2017)
The Golden Glove (2019)

B

Legend

Bunuel, Luis

(1900-1983)

Legend

Bergman, Ingmar

(1918-2007)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Winter Light (1963)
Persona (1966)
Fårö Document (1970)
Face to Face (1976)
Autumn Sonata (1978)

Legend

Bresson, Robert

(1901-1999)

Master

Benegal, Shyam

(1934-)

Ankur (1974)
Nishant (1975)
Bhumika (1977)
Mandi (1983)
The Seventh Horse of the Sun (1992)

Great Director

Bellocchio, Marco

(1939-)

China Is Near (1967)
Vincere (2009)
Sweet Dreams (2016)
The Traitor (2019)
Marx Can Wait (2021)

Great Director

Boyle, Danny

(1956-)

Shallow Grave (1994)
28 Days Later… (2002)
Sunshine (2007)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
127 Hours (2010)
Trance (2013)
Steve Jobs (2015)
T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Great Director

Bong, Joon-ho

(1969-)

Memories of Murder (2003)
The Host (2006)
Mother (2009)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Okja (2017)
Parasite (2019)

Great Director

Bogdanovich, Peter

(1939-2022)

The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Great Buster (2018)

Director-to-Follow

Baumbach, Noah

(1969-)

Director-to-Follow

Bigelow, Kathryn

(1951-)

Near Dark (1987)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Director-to-Follow

Ben Hania, Kaouther

(1977-)

Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Four Daughters (2023)

Director-to-Follow

Bonello, Bertrand

(1968-)

Nocturama (2016)
Zombi Child (2019)
Coma (2022)
The Beast (2023)

C

Legend

Chaplin, Charles

(1889-1977)

The Kid (1921)
The Gold Rush (1925)
Modern Times (1936)

Master

Chabrol, Claude

(1930-2010)

Les bonnes femmes (1960)
Line of Demarcation (1966)
Poulet au vinaigre (1985)
Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Masques (1987)
Story of Women (1988)
Torment (1994)
La ceremonie (1995)
The Swindle (1997)
The Color of Lies (1999)
Nightcap (2000)

Master

Coppola, Francis Ford

(1939-)

Dementia 13 (1963)
The Conversation (1974)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
One from the Heart (1982)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Dracula (1992)
Youth Without Youth (2007)

Master

Costa-Gavras

(1933-)

The Confession (1970)
State of Siege (1972)
Missing (1982)

Master

Ceylan, Nuri Bilge

(1959-)

The Small Town (1997)
Climates (2006)
Three Monkeys (2008)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Winter Sleep (2014)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
About Dry Grasses (2023)

Master

Coen, Joel & Ethan

(1954/1957-)

Blood Simple (1984)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Barton Fink (1991)
Fargo (1996)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)
A Serious Man (2009)
True Grit (2010)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Hail Caesar! (2016)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen)

Master

Cocteau, Jean

(1889-1963)

The Blood of a Poet (1932)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Orpheus (1950)

Master

Cassevetes, John

(1929-1989)

Shadows (1959)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Opening Night (1977)
Love Streams (1984)

Great Director

Cuaron, Alfonso

(1961-)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Children of Men (2006)
Gravity (2013)
Roma (2018)

Great Director

Costa, Pedro

(1958-)

Horse Money (2014)
Vitalina Varela (2019)

Great Director

Cronenberg, David

(1943-)

Videodrome (1983)
The Fly (1986)
A Dangerous Method (2011)
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Crimes of the Future (2022)

Great Director

Chahine, Youssef

(1926-2008)

The Blazing Sun (1954)
Cairo Station (1958)
The Land (1969)
The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
Alexandria… Why? (1979)
Destiny (1997)

Great Director

Chytilova, Vera

(1929-2014)

Something Different (1963)
Daisies (1966)

Great Director

Cameron, James

(1954-)

The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Cote, Denis

(1973-)

Director-to-Follow

Cheung, Mabel

(1950-)

An Autumn’s Tale (1987)
The Soong Sisters (1997)

Director-to-Follow

Chazelle, Damien

(1985-)

Whiplash (2014)
La La Land (2016)
First Man (2018)
Babylon (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Chang, Tso-chi

(1961-)

Darkness and Light (1999)
Thanatos, Drunk (2015)
Synapses (2019)

Director-to-Follow

Chen, Anthony

(1984-)

Ilo Ilo (2013)
Wet Season (2019)
Drift (2023)
The Breaking Ice (2023)

Director-to-Follow

Coppola, Sofia

(1971-)

Somewhere (2010)
The Bling Ring (2013)
The Beguiled (2017)
On the Rocks (2020)

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