Directors: U-Z

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U

V

Legend

Varda, Agnes

(1928-2019)

Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Le bonheur (1965)
The Creatures (1966)
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
Vagabond (1985)
Faces Places (2017)
Varda by Agnes (2019)

Master

von Trier, Lars

(1956-)

Europa (1991)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Dogville (2003)
Antichrist (2009)
Melancholia (2011)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
The House That Jack Built (2018)

Master

Visconti, Luchino

(1906-1976)

Bellissima (1951)
Senso (1954)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
The Leopard (1963)
Death in Venice (1971)
Ludwig (1973)

Great Director

Van Sant, Gus

(1952-)

Mala Noche (1986)*
Paranoid Park (2007)
Milk (2008)

Great Director

Villeneuve, Denis

(1967-)

August 32nd on Earth (1998)
Maelstrom (2000)
Incendies (2010)
Prisoners (2013)
Enemy (2013)
Sicario (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Dune (2021)
Dune: Part Two (2024)

Great Director

Verhoeven, Paul

(1938-)

RoboCop (1987)
Starship Troopers (1997)
Black Book (2006)
Elle (2016)
Benedetta (2021)

Director-to-Follow

Vinterberg, Thomas

(1969-)

W

Legend

Welles, Orson

(1915-1985)

Legend

Wilder, Billy

(1906-2002)

Double Indemnity (1944)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Fedora (1978)

Master

Wong, Kar Wai

(1958-)

As Tears Go By (1988)
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Chungking Express (1994)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Happy Together (1997)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2046 (2004)
The Hand (2004)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
The Grandmaster (2013)

Master

Wenders, Wim

(1945-)

Alice in the Cities (1974)
Kings of the Road (1976)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Perfect Days (2023)

Master

Wajda, Andrzej

(1926-2016)

A Generation (1955)
Katyn (2007)
Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)

Master

Wang, Bing

(1967-)

The Ditch (2010)
Three Sisters (2012)
‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Youth (Spring) (2023)

Master

Weerasethakul, Apichatpong

(1970-)

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Mekong River (2012)
Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
Memoria (2021)

Great Director

Woo, John

(1946-)

A Better Tomorrow (1986)
A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
The Killer (1989)
Bullet in the Head (1990)
Once a Thief (1991)
Hard Boiled (1992)
Hard Target (1993)
Red Cliff (2008)
Red Cliff II (2009)

Great Director

Wang, Xiaoshuai

(1966-)

Red Amnesia (2014)
So Long, My Son (2019)
Above the Dust (2024)

Great Director

Weir, Peter

(1944-)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Dead Poets Society (1989)*
The Truman Show (1998)*
The Way Back (2010)

Director-to-Follow

Wright, Edgar

(1974-)

Hot Fuzz (2007)
The World’s End (2013)
Baby Driver (2017)
Last Night in Soho (2021)

X

Y

Master

Yang, Edward

(1947-2007)

That Day, on the Beach (1983)
Taipei Story (1985)
The Terrorizers (1986)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Mahjong (1996)
Yi Yi (2000)

Director-to-Follow

Yerzhanov, Adilkhan

(1982-)

A Dark, Dark Man (2019)
Yellow Cat (2020)

Z

Master

Zhang, Yimou

(1951-)

Ju Dou (1990)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
To Live (1994)
Hero (2002)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
The Flowers of War (2011)
Coming Home (2014)
The Great Wall (2016)
Shadow (2018)
One Second (2020)
Cliff Walkers (2021)
Full River Red (2023)

Master

Zulawski, Andrzej

(1940-2016)

That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Possession (1981)
On the Silver Globe (1988)

Master

Zanussi, Krzysztof

(1939-)

Great Director

Zeman, Karel

(1910-1989)

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Invention for Destruction (1958)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
The Stolen Airship (1967)

Director-to-Follow

Zhao, Chloe

(1982-)

Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Nomadland (2020)
Eternals (2021)

Director-to-Follow

Z, Midi

(1982-)

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