Directors: J-L

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Master

Jarmusch, Jim

(1953-)

Permanent Vacation (1980)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Down by Law (1986)
Mystery Train (1989)
Night on Earth (1991)
Dead Man (1995)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Paterson (2016)
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

Master

Jia, Zhangke

(1970-)

Pickpocket (1998)
Still Life (2006)
24 City (2008)
I Wish I Knew (2010)
A Touch of Sin (2013)
Mountains May Depart (2015)
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)

Great Director

Jodorowsky, Alejandro

(1929-)

Fando and Lis (1968)
El Topo (1970)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
The Dance of Reality (2013)
Endless Poetry (2016)

Great Director

Jude, Radu

(1977-)

The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Aferim! (2015)
Uppercase Print (2020)
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)

Great Director

Jackson, Peter

(1961-)

The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)
The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)

Director-to-Follow

Johnson, Rian

(1973-)

Looper (2012)
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
Knives Out (2019)
Glass Onion (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Jenkins, Barry

(1979-)

Moonlight (2016)
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

K

Legend

Kubrick, Stanley

(1928-1999)

Fear and Desire (1953)
The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Lolita (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Shining (1980)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Legend

Kurosawa, Akira

(1910-1998)

One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Stray Dog (1949)
Rashomon (1950)
Seven Samurai (1954)
I Live in Fear (1955)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Sanjuro (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Red Beard (1965)
Ran (1985)

Legend

Kiarostami, Abbas

(1940-2016)

The Traveler (1974)
Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)
Close-Up (1990)
And Life Goes On (1992)
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Ten (2002)
Shirin (2008)
Certified Copy (2010)
Like Someone in Love (2012)
24 Frames (2017)

Master

Kim, Ki-young

(1919-1998)

The Housemaid (1960)
The Sea Knows (1961)
Woman of Fire (1971)
Iodo (1977)

Master

Kieslowski, Krzysztof

(1941-1996)

Camera Buff (1979)
No End (1985)
Dekalog (1988)
- One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten
A Short Film About Killing (1988)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Three Colors: White (1994)
Three Colors: Red (1994)

Master

Kore-eda, Hirokazu

(1962-)

After Life (1998)
Still Walking (2008)
Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Our Little Sister (2015)
After the Storm (2016)
The Third Murder (2017)
Shoplifters (2018)
The Truth (2019)
Broker (2022)
Monster (2023)

Master

Kon, Satoshi

(1963-2010)

Perfect Blue (1997)
Millennium Actress (2001)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Paprika (2006)

Master

Kaurismaki, Aki

(1957-)

Great Director

Kawase, Naomi

(1969-)

The Mourning Forest (2007)
Still the Water (2014)
True Mothers (2020)

Great Director

Kim Jee-woon

(1964-)

Great Director

Kechiche, Abdellatif

(1960-)

Great Director

Kurosawa, Kiyoshi

(1955-)

Cure (1997)
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
To the Ends of the Earth (2019)
Wife of a Spy (2020)

Great Director

Kwan, Stanley

(1957-)

Love Unto Waste (1986)
Rouge (1987)
Center Stage (1991)
Lan Yu (2001)

Director-to-Follow

Kapadia, Asif

(1972-)

Senna (2010)
Amy (2015)
Diego Maradona (2019)

Director-to-Follow

Kurzel, Justin

(1974-)

Macbeth (2015)
Nitram (2021)

Director-to-Follow

Khoo, Eric

(1965-)

Mee Pok Man (1995)
12 Storeys (1997)
Be With Me (2005)
My Magic (2008)
Tatsumi (2011)
7 Letters – Cinema (2015)
In the Room (2015)
Ramen Teh (2018)

Director-to-Follow

Kuosmanen, Juho

(1979-)

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (2016)
Compartment No. 6 (2021)

L

Legend

Lean, David

(1908-1991)

Master

Loach, Ken

(1936-)

Poor Cow (1967)
Kes (1970)
Land and Freedom (1995)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Sorry We Missed You (2019)
The Old Oak (2023)

Master

Lumet, Sidney

(1924-2011)

12 Angry Men (1957)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Equus (1977)

Master

Lynch, David

(1946-)

Eraserhead (1977)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Lost Highway (1997)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Inland Empire (2006)

Master

Lubitsch, Ernst

(1892-1947)

The Marriage Circle (1924)
Ninotchka (1939)

Great Director

Li, Han-Hsiang

(1926-1996)

Great Director

Lou, Ye

(1965-)

Suzhou River (2000)
Summer Palace (2006)
Spring Fever (2009)
Blind Massage (2014)
Saturday Fiction (2019)

Great Director

Law, Clara

(1957-)

Autumn Moon (1992)
Floating Life (1996)

Great Director

Lanthimos, Yorgos

(1973-)

Dogtooth (2009)
Alps (2011)
The Lobster (2015)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
The Favourite (2018)
Poor Things (2023)

Great Director

Larrain, Pablo

(1976-)

Tony Manero (2008)
Post Mortem (2010)
No (2012)
Neruda (2016)
Jackie (2016)
Ema (2019)
Spencer (2021)
El Conde (2023)

Great Director

Losey, Joseph

(1909-1984)

The Servant (1963)
Mr. Klein (1976)

Great Director

Lee, Spike

(1957-)

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Oldboy (2013)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
BlackKklansman (2018)
Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Great Director

Loznitsa, Sergei

(1964-)

Blockade (2006)
The Event (2015)
Donbass (2018)
The Trial (2018)
State Funeral (2019)

Great Director

Linklater, Richard

(1960-)

Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Bernie (2011)
Before Midnight (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

Great Director

Lau, Kar-Leung

(1934-2013)

Director-to-Follow

Li, Ruijun

(1983-)

Walking Past the Future (2017)
Return to Dust (2022)

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