Legend

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

(1922-1975)

• Accattone (1961)
• Love Meetings (1964)
• The Gospel According to Matthew (1964)
• Hawks and Sparrows (1966)
• Oedipus Rex (1967)
• Pigsty (1969)
• The Decameron (1971)
• The Canterbury Tales (1972)
• Arabian Nights (1974)
• Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Master

Parajanov, Sergei

(1924-1990)

• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
• The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
• The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
• Ashik Kerib (1988)

Master

Powell, Michael & Pressburger, Emeric

(1905-1990; 1902-1988)

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
• Peeping Tom (1960)*

_{*Directed by Michael Powell only}

Master

Polanski, Roman

(1933-)

• Repulsion (1965)
• Cul-de-sac (1966)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Tess (1979)
• The Pianist (2002)
• The Ghost Writer (2010)
• Venus in Fur (2013)
• An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Master

Panahi, Jafar

(1960-)

• The Circle (2000)
• Crimson Gold (2003)
• This Is Not a Film (2011)
• Taxi Tehran (2015)
• 3 Faces (2018)
• No Bears (2022)

Master

Park, Chan-wook

(1963-)

• Joint Security Area (2000)
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Lady Vengeance (2005)
• I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Okay (2006)*
• Thirst (2009)
• Stoker (2013)
• The Handmaiden (2016)
• Decision to Leave (2022)
• No Other Choice (2025)

Great Director

Puiu, Cristi

(1967-)

• Sieranevada (2016)
• Malmkrog (2020)

Great Director

Petzold, Christian

(1960-)

• The State I Am In (2000)
• Yella (2007)
• Jerichow (2008)
• Barbara (2012)
• Phoenix (2014)
• Transit (2018)
• Undine (2020)
• Afire (2023)

Great Director

Payne, Alexander

(1961-)

• Sideways (2004)*
• The Descendants (2011)
• Nebraska (2013)
• The Holdovers (2023)

Great Director

Pawlikowski, Pawel

(1957-)

• Ida (2013)
• Cold War (2018)

Director-to-Follow

Peele, Jordan

(1979-)

• Get Out (2017)
• Us (2019)
• Nope (2022)

Director-to-Follow

Porumboiu, Corneliu

(1975-)

• The Second Game (2014)
• The Treasure (2015)
• The Whistlers (2019)

Legend

Ray, Satyajit

(1921-1992)

• Pather Panchali (1955)
• Aparajito (1956)
• The Music Room (1958)
• Charulata (1964)
• The Holy Man (1965)
• The Hero (1966)
• The Golden Fortress (1974)
• The Chess Players (1977)
• The Home and the World (1984)
• An Enemy of the People (1989)

Legend

Rossellini, Roberto

(1906-1977)

• Rome Open City (1945)
• Paisan (1946)
• Germany Year Zero (1948)
• The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

Master

Resnais, Alain

(1922-2014)

• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
• Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963)
• My American Uncle (1980)
• Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
• Melo (1986)
• I Want to Go Home (1989)

Master

Renoir, Jean

(1894-1979)

• Grand Illusion (1937)
• La bête humaine (1938)
• The River (1951)
• French Cancan (1955)

Master

Rohmer, Eric

(1920-2010)

• The Sign of Leo (1962)
• La collectionneuse (1967)
• My Night at Maud’s (1969)
• Claire’s Knee (1970)
• The Marquise of O (1976)
• Perceval (1978)
• The Aviator’s Wife (1981)
• A Good Marriage (1982)
• Pauline at the Beach (1983)
• Full Moon in Paris (1984)
• The Green Ray (1986)
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
• A Tale of Springtime (1990)
• A Tale of Winter (1992)
• The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
• Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
• A Summer’s Tale (1996)
• An Autumn Tale (1998)

Master

Ray, Nicholas

(1911-1979)

• They Live by Night (1948)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• Bigger Than Life (1956)

Master

Rivette, Jacques

(1928-2016)

• The Nun (1966)
• Duelle (1976)
• Noroit (1976)
• Merry-Go-Round (1980)
• Le Pont du Nord (1981)

Master

Rocha, Glauber

(1939-1981)

• Black God, White Devil (1964)
• Entranced Earth (1967)
• The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970)

Master

Russell, Ken

(1927-2011)

• French Dressing (1964)
• Women in Love (1969)

Great Director

Reichardt, Kelly

(1964-)

• Old Joy (2006)
• Wendy and Lucy (2008)
• Night Moves (2013)
• Certain Women (2016)
• First Cow (2019)
• Showing Up (2022)

Great Director

Ripstein, Arturo

(1943-)

• The Castle of Purity (1972)
• The Black Widow (1977)
• The Place Without Limits (1978)
• Life Sentence (1979)
• The Realm of Fortune (1986)

Great Director

Rosi, Gianfranco

(1964-)

• Boatman (1993)
• Below Sea Level (2008)
• El Sicario: Room 164 (2010)
• Sacro GRA (2013)
• Fire at Sea (2016)
• Notturno (2020)

Great Director

Ratnam, Mani

(1956-)

• Bombay (1995)
• Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)

Great Director

Rasoulof, Mohammad

(1973-)

• A Man of Integrity (2017)
• There Is No Evil (2020)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)

Director-to-Follow

Ruizpalacios, Alonso

(1978-)

• Gueros (2014)
• Museo (2018)
• La cocina (2024)

Director-to-Follow

Rohrwacher, Alice

(1981-)

• Corpo Celeste (2011)
• The Wonders (2014)
• Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
• La chimera (2023)