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V
Legend
Varda, Agnes
(1928-2019)
- The Creatures (1966)
- One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
- Faces Places (2017)
- Varda by Agnes (2019)
Master
von Trier, Lars
(1956-)
- 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)
- Ludwig (1973)
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)
Director-to-Follow
Vinterberg, Thomas
(1969-)
- The Hunt (2012)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
- Another Round (2020)
Director-to-Follow
Verhoeven, Paul
(1938-)
- RoboCop (1987)
- Black Book (2006)
- Elle (2016)
- Benedetta (2021)
W
Legend
Welles, Orson
(1915-1985)
- Othello (1952)
- Chimes at Midnight (1966)
- The Immortal Story (1968)
- F for Fake (1973)
- The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Legend
Wilder, Billy
(1906-2002)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Fedora (1978)
Master
Wong, Kar Wai
(1958-)
- 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)
Great Director
Weerasethakul, Apichatpong
(1970-)
- Tropical Malady (2004)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
- 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)
Director-to-Follow
Wright, Edgar
(1974-)
- The World’s End (2013)
- Baby Driver (2017)
- Last Night in Soho (2021)
X
Y
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)
Great Director
Zulawski, Andrzej
(1940-2016)
- That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
- On the Silver Globe (1988)
Director-to-Follow
Zhao, Chloe
(1982-)
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
- Nomadland (2020)
- Eternals (2021)
Director-to-Follow
Z, Midi
(1982-)
- Return to Burma (2011)
- The Road to Mandalay (2016)
- Nina Wu (2019)
Eternality Tan 