My Top 1,000 Directors
by the_guttersnipe | created - 15 Aug 2012 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicEach page represents an alphabetised qualitative tier; three work minimum per director.
1. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
FEATURES
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Annie Hall
Zelig
Stardust Memories
Sleeper
Manhattan
Broadway Danny Rose
Midnight in Paris
Love and Death
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Husbands and Wives
Blue Jasmine
Bullets Over Broadway
Interiors
Hannah and Her Sisters
Melinda and Melinda
Another Woman
Mighty Aphrodite
Bananas
New York Stories*
Wonder Wheel
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Take the Money and Run
Radio Days
A Rainy Day in New York
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Sweet and Lowdown
Irrational Man
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Magic in the Moonlight
To Rome with Love
Small Time Crooks
Café Society
Match Point
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Hollywood Ending
Scoop
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Whatever Works
Everyone Says I Love You
Shadows and Fog
Don't Drink the Water
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
September
Cassandra's Dream
Anything Else
Celebrity
Alice
Deconstructing Harry
SHORTS
Sounds from a Town I Love
TELEVISION
Crisis in Six Scenes (six episodes)
* segment "Oedipus Wrecks"
2. Pedro Almodóvar
Writer | Hable con ella
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...
FEATURES Talk to Her Live Flesh The Skin I Live In All About My Mother Julieta The Flower of My Secret Volver Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Pain and Glory Matador Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Bad Education Parallel Mothers What Have I Done to Deserve This? I'm So Excited! Kika Law of Desire Labyrinth of Passion Broken Embraces Dark Habits High Heels Pepi, Luci, Bom SHORTS The Human Voice The Cannibalistic Councillor Strange Way of Life
3. Robert Altman
Director | Gosford Park
Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...
FEATURES
The Player
3 Women
Short Cuts
Nashville
Secret Honor
Streamers
MASH
Images
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Quintet
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
Gosford Park
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
A Prairie Home Companion
Aria*
The Long Goodbye
Dr. T & the Women
Brewster McCloud
Killer App
The Gingerbread Man
Prêt-à-Porter
Popeye
O.C. and Stiggs
DOCUMENTARIES
The James Dean Story
TELEVISION
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (one episode)
Gun (one episode)
* segment "Les Boréades"
4. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
FEATURES Magnolia There Will Be Blood The Master Boogie Nights Punch-Drunk Love Phantom Thread Licorice Pizza Inherent Vice Hard Eight SHORTS Blossoms & Blood Anima Mattress Man Commercial MUSIC VIDEOS Hot Knife Across the Universe Paper Bag Save Me Daydreaming Limp Try Fast As You Can Here We Go
5. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
SHORTS
Scorpio Rising
Kustom Kar Kommandos
Lucifer Rising
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Invocation of My Demon Brother
Fireworks
42 One Dream Rush*
Puce Moment
Missoni
Rabbit's Moon
Eaux d'Artifice
The Man We Want to Hang
DOCUMENTARIES
My Surfing Lucifer
* segment "Death"
6. Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer | Blow-Up
Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...
FEATURES
L'Eclisse
The Red Desert
L'Avventura
Blow-Up
La Notte
The Passenger
Zabriskie Point
Identification of a Woman
La Signora Senza Camelie
Eros*
Il Grido
Story of a Love Affair
DOCUMENTARIES
Chung Kuo - Cina
People of the Po Valley
12 Registi per 12 Città**
* segment "The Dangerous Thread of Things"
** segment "Roma"
7. Ingmar Bergman
Writer | Smultronstället
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, 1918, the son of a priest. The film and T.V. series, The Best Intentions (1992) is biographical and shows the early marriage of his parents. The film Sunday's Children (1992) depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions (...
FEATURES Persona Scenes from a Marriage The Virgin Spring The Seventh Seal The Magician Winter Light Smiles of a Summer Night Summer with Monika Fanny and Alexander The Passion of Anna Hour of the Wolf Shame Saraband Wild Strawberries Through a Glass Darkly The Silence Cries and Whispers Summer Interlude Autumn Sonata Three Strange Loves The Rite Waiting Women After the Rehearsal From the Life of the Marionettes Port of Call A Lesson in Love The Devil's Eye To Joy Sawdust and Tinsel Crisis All These Women SHORTS The Damned Women's Dance COMMERCIALS The Rebus Three-Dimensional Operation Tennis Girl The Inventor The Magic Show Gustavian The Princess and the Swineherd Bris Soap
8. Luis Buñuel
Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...
FEATURES The Exterminating Angel The Phantom of Liberty Viridiana The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz Belle de Jour That Obscure Object of Desire L'Âge d'Or El Bruto The Milky Way El The Diary of a Chambermaid Nazarín A Woman Without Love Los Olvidados The River and Death Susana Wuthering Heights The Young One Death in the Garden That is the Dawn Daughter of Deceit Illusion Travels by Streetcar The Great Madcap Ascent to Heaven Tristana Gran Casino Guard! Alert! Robinson Crusoe SHORTS Un Chien Andalou Simon of the Desert DOCUMENTARIES Land Without Bread
9. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
FEATURES Ed Wood Edward Scissorhands Big Fish Batman Returns Beetlejuice Corpse Bride Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Big Eyes Frankenweenie Sleepy Hollow Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Dark Shadows Batman Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dumbo Alice in Wonderland Pee-wee's Big Adventure Mars Attacks! Planet of the Apes SHORTS Vincent Frankenweenie MUSIC VIDEOS Bones COMMERCIALS Garden Gnome TELEVISION Wednesday (four episodes)
10. Laurent Cantet
Director | Entre les murs
Laurent Cantet was born on April 11, 1961 in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France. He is a director and writer, known for The Class (2008), Human Resources (1999) and Time Out (2001).
FEATURES
Time Out
Foxfire
The Class
Human Resources
The Workshop
Heading South
Return to Ithaca
Les Sanguinaires
7 Days in Havana*
* segment "La Fuente"
11. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul on January 26th, 1959. In 1976, he began studying chemical engineering at Istanbul Technical University, in a context of strong student unrest, boycotts and political polarization. In 1978, he switched courses to Electrical Engineering at Bogazici University. ...
FEATURES Kasaba Uzak Winter Sleep The Wild Pear Tree Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Climates Three Monkeys Clouds of May
12. Claude Chabrol
Director | Le beau Serge
Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.
FEATURES
La Femme Infidèle
A Girl Cut in Two
This Man Must Die
La Cérémonie
Le Boucher
Les Biches
Le Beau Serge
Merci pour le Chocolat
Une Affaire de Femmes
Pleasure Party
The Flower of Evil
Madame Bovary
Masques
Paris vu par...*
The Seven Deadly Sins**
The Beautiful Swindlers***
Blood Relatives
SHORTS
M. le Maudit
COMMERCIALS
La Renault 5
* segment "La Muette"
** segment "L'Avarice"
** segment "L'Homme qui Vendit la Tour Eiffel"
13. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
FEATURES The Great Dictator City Lights Monsieur Verdoux Modern Times The Kid Limelight The Circus The Gold Rush The Chaplin Revue A Woman of Paris A King in New York A Countess from Hong Kong SHORTS Shoulder Arms A Day's Pleasure A Dog's Life Sunnyside The Idle Class Pay Day The Pilgrim The Immigrant How to Make Movies The Bond
14. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writer | Le salaire de la peur
Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...
FEATURES The Wages of Fear Les Diaboliques La Prisonnière Le Corbeau L'Assassin Habite au 21 Quai des Orfèvres La Vérité Les Espions DOCUMENTARIES The Mystery of Picasso
15. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
(with Ethan Coen)
FEATURES
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
A Serious Man
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Miller's Crossing
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Man Who Wasn't There
True Grit
Blood Simple.
Raising Arizona
Burn After Reading
Paris, je t'aime*
To Each His Own Cinema**
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Inside Llewyn Davis
Intolerable Cruelty
Hail, Caesar!
The Ladykillers
COMMERCIALS
Desk
Office
Parisienne People
Clean Coal
Family Negotiations
Two White Shirts
* segment "Tuileries"
** segment "World Cinema"
16. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
FEATURES
The Godfather: Part II
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
The Godfather
One from the Heart
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Tetro
The Rain People
New York Stories*
The Rainmaker
Rumble Fish
You're a Big Boy Now
The Outsiders
The Cotton Club
Youth Without Youth
Dementia 13
Dracula
Twixt
The Godfather: Part III
Gardens of Stone
Finian's Rainbow
Battle Beyond the Sun
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Terror
Supernova
Jack
SHORTS
Captain EO
* segment "Life Without Zoë"
17. Alex Cox
Director | Repo Man
Throughout his years in the industry, Alex Cox, an English writer-director, has not only proven his loyalty and integrity to cult cinema, but also his love for it. This all began in 1977, when Cox dropped out of Oxford University to study Radio, Film & TV at Bristol until graduating in 1977. Seeing...
FEATURES Highway Patrolman Searchers 2.0 Death and the Compass Walker Revengers Tragedy Sid and Nancy Three Businessmen Repo Man Repo Chick
18. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
FEATURES
Dead Ringers
Crash
Cosmopolis
Videodrome
Scanners
A History of Violence
The Fly
The Dead Zone
Shivers
Naked Lunch
Crimes of the Future (2022)
eXistenZ
Spider
To Each His Own Cinema*
Eastern Promises
The Brood
Maps to the Stars
A Dangerous Method
Stereo
M. Butterfly
Crimes of the Future (1970)
Rabid
Fast Company
COMMERCIALS
180
SHORTS
Camera
The Death of David Cronenberg
* segment "At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World"
19. Jules Dassin
Director | Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).
He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...
FEATURES Night and the City Rififi Brute Force Thieves' Highway The Naked City Never on Sunday Uptight The Canterville Ghost Topkapi Obsession SHORTS The Tell-Tale Heart
20. Terence Davies
Writer | Distant Voices, Still Lives
Terence Davies was born on November 10, 1945 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The House of Mirth (2000) and Benediction (2021). He died on October 7, 2023 in Mistley, Essex, England, UK.
FEATURES The Long Day Closes The Terence Davies Trilogy A Quiet Passion The House of Mirth Distant Voices, Still Lives Benediction The Deep Blue Sea Sunset Song The Neon Bible SHORTS But Why? DOCUMENTARIES Of Time and the City
21. Maya Deren
Director | Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren came to the USA in 1922 as Eleanora Derenkowsky. Together with her father Solomon Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist, and her mother Maria Fidler, an artist, she fled the pogroms organized by the Bolsheviks against the Jews. She studied journalism and political science at the Syracuse ...
SHORTS Meshes of the Afternoon Witch's Cradle Ritual in Transfigured Time At Land A Study in Choreography for Camera Meditation on Violence The Very Eye of Night Ensemble for Somnambulists DOCUMENTARIES The Private Life of a Cat Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
22. Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer | Gertrud
The illegitimate son of a Danish farmer and his Swedish housekeeper, Carl Theodor Dreyer was born in Copenhagen on the 3th of February, 1889. He spent his early years in various foster homes before being adopted by the Dreyers at the age of two. Contrary to popular belief (perhaps nourished by the ...
FEATURES Day of Wrath Ordet The Passion of Joan of Arc Gertrud Vampyr The Parson's Widow Leaves from Satan's Book Master of the House Michael Love One Another Once Upon a Time The Bride of Glomdal The President Two People SHORTS They Caught the Ferry DOCUMENTARIES The Castle Within the Castle The Storstrom Bridge Thorvaldsen Good Mothers The Danish Village Church The Struggle Against Cancer
23. Sergei Eisenstein
Director | Ivan Groznyy
The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...
FEATURES October Strike Battleship Potemkin Ivan the Terrible, Part Two Alexander Nevsky Ivan the Terrible, Part One DOCUMENTARIES ¡Que viva México!
24. Abel Ferrara
Director | Bad Lieutenant
Born in the Bronx, Ferrara started making amateur films on Super 8 in his teens before making his debut with violent exploitation films such as 'Driller Killer' and 'Ms.45'. Good reviews for the latter helped create his cult reputation, leading to larger budgets, studio funding and 'name' actors (...
FEATURES
The Addiction
Ms .45
King of New York
The Blackout
Bad Lieutenant
Go Go Tales
Welcome to New York
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Body Snatchers
New Rose Hotel
The Funeral
Tommaso
Dangerous Game
Zeros and Ones
Siberia
China Girl
The Driller Killer
Pasolini
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
'R Xmas
Mary
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground*
The Gladiator
Fear City
Cat Chaser
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
SHORTS
42 One Dream Rush**
The Hold Up
Could This Be Love
Nicky's Film
Hans
MUSIC VIDEOS
California
You Don't Look So Good
Don't Change Your Plans
Iowa
Rain
Move with Me
DOCUMENTARIES
Chelsea on the Rocks
Mulberry St.
Talking with the Vampires
TELEVISION
Crime Story (one episode)
Miami Vice (two episodes)
* segment "Love on the A Train"
** segment "Dream Piece"
25. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
FEATURES Fight Club Se7en Zodiac The Social Network The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Gone Girl The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Panic Room Mank The Killer The Game Alien³ MUSIC VIDEOS Vogue Oh Father Bad Girl Freedom '90 Who Is It Only Immigrant Song Real Love Celebrate Youth Shock Express Yourself Cold Hearted Most of All Home Say You Will Can I Hold You Dance the World Away No Surrender Shattered Dreams Straight Up Janie's Got a Gun Suit & Tie Judith Johnny B L.A. Woman She's a Mystery to Me Love is Strong Roll with It Forever Your Girl Downtown Train Englishman in New York Cradle of Love Bop 'Til You Drop (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me (1989) Heart of Gold All the Love in the World (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me (1988) Holding On One Simple Thing Heart Bamboléo (1989) Get Rhythm Notorious Tell It to the Moon Love Will Rise Again Don't Tell Me the Time We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off I Don't Mind At All She Comes On Storybook Love 6th Avenue Heartbreak Should She Cry Bamboléo (1987) Everytime You Cry Shame COMMERCIALS Fate Blade Roller Smoking Fetus The Chase Pebl Mechanical Legs Downtown Beer Run Speed Chain Beauty for Sale Stand Up to Cancer Hallway Break In SoftBank The Arquettes Barkley of Seville TELEVISION Mindhunter (seven episodes) House of Cards (two episodes) Love, Death & Robots (one episode)
26. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
FEATURES
The Grapes of Wrath
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
The Iron Horse
The Searchers
Fort Apache
Young Mr. Lincoln
Two Rode Together
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Last Hurrah
Drums Along the Mohawk
They Were Expendable
Tobacco Road
The Horse Soldiers
7 Women
The Informer
Donovan's Reef
The Lost Patrol
The Plough and the Stars
Rio Grande
Gideon of Scotland Yard
3 Godfathers
The Fugitive
Cheyenne Autumn
The Wings of Eagles
The Sun Shines Bright
Just Pals
The Prisoner of Shark Island
The Hurricane
How the West Was Won*
The Quiet Man
Mogambo
Wagon Master
What Price Glory
How Green Was My Valley
Mary of Scotland
Mister Roberts
The Long Gray Line
Born Reckless
Judge Priest
Cameo Kirby
* segment "The Civil War"
27. Georges Franju
Director | Les yeux sans visage
Georges Franju is a figure of immense importance in the history of French cinema, not primarily for his films (exceptional though many of these are) but for being the co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the Cinematheque Française in 1937--France's most famous and important film archive.
He worked ...
FEATURES Eyes Without a Face Nuits Rouges Judex Head Against the Wall DOCUMENTARIES Blood of the Beasts
28. Samuel Fuller
Writer | Shock Corridor
At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also ...
FEATURES The Naked Kiss White Dog Shock Corridor Underworld U.S.A. Forty Guns Pickup on South Street Verboten! Run of the Arrow I Shot Jesse James The Big Red One Fixed Bayonets! Park Row China Gate Merrill's Marauders The Baron of Arizona The Steel Helmet Shark! The Crimson Kimono House of Bamboo Hell and High Water TELEVISION Chillers (one episode)
29. Abel Gance
Writer | La roue
Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...
FEATURES Napoleon La Roue The Tenth Symphony SHORTS Au Secours! La Folie du Docteur Tube
30. Bahman Ghobadi
Director | Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand
Bahman Ghobadi was born in 1969 in Baneh, in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, near the Iran-Iraq border. Shortly after graduating from the National Audiovisual School, he made his first short, immediately acclaimed by the local critics. One of these short films, "Life in Fog" (1999) is even ...
FEATURES Turtles Can Fly Half Moon Rhino Season A Time for Drunken Horses No One Knows About Persian Cats Marooned in Iraq
31. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
FEATURES
Brazil
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Tideland
The Fisher King
Twelve Monkeys
Time Bandits
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Meaning of Life*
The Zero Theorem
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Jabberwocky
The Brothers Grimm
SHORTS
Miracle of Flight
COMMERCIALS
The Secret Tournament
The Rematch
* segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance"
32. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
FEATURES
Week End
Vivre sa Vie
Pierrot le Fou
Alphaville
Prénom Carmen
Passion
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
La Chinoise
Bande à Part
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Tout va Bien
Made in U.S.A.
Le Livre d'Image
Film Socialisme
Masculin Féminin
Le Mépris
À Bout de Souffle
King Lear
Le Petit Soldat
Ro.Go.Pa.G.*
Nouvelle Vague
Une Femme Mariée
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello**
Hélas pour Moi
Numéro Deux
Aria***
Paris vu par...****
Éloge de l'Amour
Le Gai Savoir
Lotte in Italia
Une Femme est une Femme
Détective
Adieu au Langage
Notre Musique
Slow Motion
SHORTS
Je vous Salue, Sarajevo
Liberté et Patrie
Une Histoire d'Eau
Une Catastrophe
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les Garçons s'Appellent Patrick
DOCUMENTARIES
Histoire(s) du Cinéma
Sympathy for the Devil
Meetin' WA
Loin du Vietnam*****
L'Origine du XXIème Siècle
Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
JLG/JLG - Autoportrait de Décembre
* segment "Il Nuovo Mondo"
** segment "Dans le Noir du Temps"
*** segment "Armide"
**** segment "Montparnasse-Levallois"
***** segment "Camera-Eye"
33. Peter Greenaway
Director | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Peter Greenaway trained as a painter and began working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information in 1965. Shortly afterwards he started to make his own films. He has produced a wealth of short and feature-length films, but also paintings, novels and other books. He has held several ...
FEATURES
The Falls
Prospero's Books
Vertical Features Remake
The Baby of Mâcon
Drowning by Numbers
The Draughtsman's Contract
A Zed & Two Noughts
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Nightwatching
The Belly of Architect
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Goltzius and the Pelican Company
The Pillow Book
8½ Women
SHORTS
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist
Dear Phone
Water Wrackets
H is for House
Writing on Water
Windows
Intervals
Revolution
DOCUMENTARIES
Rembrandt's J'Accuse
Lumière et Compagnie*
* segment "Peter Greenaway/Munich"
34. D.W. Griffith
Director | The Birth of a Nation
David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...
FEATURES Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages The Birth of a Nation Orphans of the Storm True Heart Susie Broken Blossoms The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' Way Down East SHORTS Those Awful Hats The Adventures of Dollie
35. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
FEATURES
The Seventh Continent
Caché
Funny Games (1997)
The Piano Teacher
Benny's Video
Amour
The White Ribbon
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
Code Unknown
The Castle
Funny Games (2007)
Happy End
The Time of the Wolf
DOCUMENTARIES
Lumière et Compagnie*
* segment "Michael Haneke/Vienne"
36. Hal Hartley
Director | Trust
Hal Hartley is an American filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and composer who has made twelve feature films since 1988. Popularly associated with the American independent filmmaking scene of the early nineties, he went on to write and direct such films as No Such Thing (2001) for United ...
FEATURES Amateur Trust Henry Fool The Unbelievable Truth Ned Rifle Surviving Desire Simple Men Flirt Meanwhile Fay Grim The Book of Life The Girl from Monday No Such Thing SHORTS Ambition Kimono Opera No. 1 The Other Also Theory of Achievement NYC 3/94 Accomplice The New Math(s) The Sisters of Mercy MUSIC VIDEOS Walking Wounded The Only Living Boy in New York
37. Howard Hawks
Director | Rio Bravo
What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...
FEATURES
Red River
Sergeant York
His Girl Friday
The Big Sleep
Ball of Fire
Monkey Business
El Dorado
To Have and Have Not
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Only Angels Have Wings
Rio Bravo
Bringing Up Baby
Rio Lobo
The Big Sky
Tiger Shark
Scarface
The Outlaw
Hatari!
O. Henry's Full House*
I Was a Male War Bride
The Thing from Another World
Red Line 7000
The Crowd Roars
The Prizefighter and the Lady
A Song is Born
* segment "The Ransom of Red Chief"
38. Todd Haynes
Director | Far from Heaven
Todd Haynes was always interested in art, and made amateur movies and painted while he was still a child. He attended Brown university and majored in art and semiotics. After he graduated he moved to New York City and made the controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987). ...
FEATURES Poison [SAFE] I'm Not There. Carol Wonderstruck Far from Heaven Dark Waters Velvet Goldmine SHORTS Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story Dottie Gets Spanked MUSIC VIDEOS Disappearer TELEVISION Mildred Pierce (five episodes)
39. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
FEATURES
Stroszek
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Fitzcarraldo
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Woyzeck
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Heart of Glass
Fata Morgana
Rescue Dawn
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet*
Signs of Life
The Wild Blue Yonder
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Cobra Verde
Family Romance, LLC
Scream of Stone
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
Where the Green Ants Dream
Queen of the Desert
Invincible
Giovanna d'Arco
DOCUMENTARIES
Lessons of Darkness
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Land of Silence and Darkness
My Best Fiend
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Into the Inferno
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Into the Abyss
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Encounters at the End of the World
Death Row
Wheel of Time
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
* segment "Ten Thousand Years Older"
40. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
FEATURES
Rear Window
Vertigo
Strangers on a Train
Psycho
North by Northwest
Rope
The Lady Vanishes
Rebecca
The Wrong Man
Shadow of a Doubt
The 39 Steps
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Frenzy
The Birds
Spellbound
Sabotage
Dial M for Murder
Suspicion
Lifeboat
Foreign Correspondent
The Lodger
Notorious
The Ring
Blackmail
Saboteur
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Family Plot
Downhill
The Manxman
Young and Innocent
The Pleasure Garden
Jamaica Inn
Champagne
To Catch a Thief
Stage Fright
I Confess
Secret Agent
Murder!
Marnie
The Trouble with Harry
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Farmer's Wife
Waltzes from Vienna
Easy Virtue
Torn Curtain
The Paradine Case
Mary
Number Seventeen
Rich and Strange
Topaz
Under Capricorn
The Skin Game
Elstree Calling*
Juno and the Paycock
DOCUMENTARIES
Sound Test for Blackmail
Madagascar Landing
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Bon Voyage
TELEVISION
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (ten episodes)
* some sketches
41. Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Producer | Cike Nie Yin Niang
Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...
FEATURES
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
Dust in the Wind
The Assassin
Three Times
A City of Sadness
Millennium Mambo
The Flight of the Red Balloon
Good Men, Good Women
Daughter of the Nile
Flowers of Shanghai
Goodbye South, Goodbye
To Each His Own Cinema*
The Puppetmaster
Café Lumière
Cute Girl
* segment "The Electric Princess House"
42. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
FEATURES
The Misfits
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Unforgiven
The Maltese Falcon
The Night of the Iguana
Fat City
The Dead
Moulin Rouge
Wise Blood
Key Largo
The Asphalt Jungle
The Last Run
Freud
The Man Who Would Be King
Moby Dick
A Walk with Love and Death
The List of Adrian Messenger
The Red Badge of Courage
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Under the Volcano
Prizzi's Honor
The African Queen
Phobia
Beat the Devil
Across the Pacific
Sinful Davey
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Kremlin Letter
Escape to Victory
Casino Royale*
Annie
DOCUMENTARIES
San Pietro
* scenes at Sir James Bond's house and castle in Scotland scenes
43. Derek Jarman
Director | Caravaggio
After school, Jarman studied history and art history at King's College. In 1963 he began studying art in Pop Art London. In the general mood of optimism from the mid-1960s onward, he began to openly confront his homosexuality. Jarman took over the set design for Ken Russell on the films "The Devils...
FEATURES
War Requiem
Blue
Wittgenstein
The Tempest
The Garden
The Angelic Conversation
The Last of England
Edward II
Jubilee
Glitterbug
Sebastiane
Caravaggio
Aria*
In the Shadow of the Sun
SHORTS
A Journey to Avebury
MUSIC VIDEOS
The Queen is Dead
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
It's a Sin
Panic
Ask
Panic (Live)
* segment "Depuis le Jour"
44. Jim Jarmusch
Director | Paterson
Moved to New York City at the age of seventeen from Akron, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English, class of '75. Without any prior film experience, he was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts, New York.
FEATURES
Dead Man
Down by Law
Broken Flowers
Mystery Train
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Only Lovers Left Alive
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet*
Night on Earth
Stranger Than Paradise
Coffee and Cigarettes
The Dead Don't Die
Paterson
The Limits of Control
Permanent Vacation
MUSIC VIDEOS
Sightsee M.C!
It's All Right with Me
I Don't Wanna Grow Up
Dead Man
Big Time
The Lady Don't Mind
Steady, As She Goes
DOCUMENTARIES
Gimme Danger
* segment "Int. Trailer Night"
45. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer | El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...
FEATURES The Holy Mountain Santa Sangre The Dance of Reality Endless Poetry El Topo Fando and Lis The Rainbow Thief Tusk SHORTS The Severed Heads
46. Mikhail Kalatozov
Director | Letyat zhuravli
Mikhail Kalatozov was born on December 28, 1903 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Cranes Are Flying (1957), True Friends (1954) and Zagovor obrechyonnykh (1950). He died on March 27, 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now ...
FEATURES I Am Cuba The Cranes are Flying Nail in the Boot
47. Buster Keaton
Actor | The General
Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...
FEATURES Sherlock Jr. The General The Navigator Seven Chances Our Hospitality Steamboat Bill, Jr. Spite Marriage Three Ages The Cameraman College Battling Butler Go West SHORTS The Balloonatic One Week Hard Luck Convict 13 Cops The Haunted House The Frozen North The Electric House The Rough House The Love Nest
48. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
FEATURES Three Colours: Red A Short Film About Love The Double Life of Véronique A Short Film About Killing No End Three Colours: Blue Blind Chance Three Colours: White Camera Buff Short Working Day The Calm The Scar Personnel First Love SHORTS Pedestrian Subway The Office Concert of Requests DOCUMENTARIES Talking Heads TELEVISION Dekalog (ten episodes)
49. Takeshi Kitano
Actor | Zatôichi
Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior. He learned comedy, singing and dancing from famed comedian Senzaburô Fukami. Working as a lift boy on a nightclub with such features as comic sketches and striptease dancing, Kitano saw ...
FEATURES
Hana-bi
Kikujiro
Sonatine
Brother
A Scene at the Sea
Dolls
Kids Return
Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen
Violent Cop
Zatôichi
Boiling Point
To Each His Own Cinema*
Outrage
Takeshis'
Getting Any?
* segment "One Fine Day"
50. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
FEATURES Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Paths of Glory The Shining The Killing Full Metal Jacket Eyes Wide Shut Spartacus Lolita Barry Lyndon Killer's Kiss Fear and Desire DOCUMENTARIES Day of the Fight Flying Padre The Seafarers
51. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
FEATURES High and Low Throne of Blood Seven Samurai The Bad Sleep Well Ran Rashômon Sanjuro I Live in Fear Ikiru Drunken Angel Scandal Yojimbo The Lower Depths Dodes'ka-den Dersu Uzala Madadayo No Regrets for Our Youth Dreams Stray Dog Red Beard Kagemusha The Most Beautiful The Hidden Fortress Judo Saga The Silent Duel The Idiot Rhapsody in August One Wonderful Sunday The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Judo Saga II
52. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
FEATURES Destiny Scarlet Street Metropolis Die Nibelungen: Siegfried M The Woman in the Window Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge The Big Heat The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Spione Woman in the Moon You Only Live Once Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler Hangmen Also Die! Fury Ministry of Fear Rancho Notorious Man Hunt Human Desire Western Union The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse The Blue Gardenia Clash by Night While the City Sleeps The Indian Tomb Secret Beyond the Door... The Tiger of Eschnapur The Moving Image Harakiri Cloak and Dagger Beyond a Reasonable Doubt The Return of Frank James Moonfleet American Guerrilla in the Philippines
53. Lee Chang-dong
Writer | Beoning
Lee Chang-Dong was born in 1954 in Daegu, which some consider the most right-wing city in South Korea. Lee is a former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist. He turned to cinema when he was over 40 years old. His debut film "Green Fish" (1997) brought immediate success and critical acclaim....
FEATURES Peppermint Candy Poetry Burning Green Fish Oasis Secret Sunshine
54. Mike Leigh
Director | Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...
FEATURES Naked Life Is Sweet Secrets & Lies Mr. Turner Another Year Happy-Go-Lucky Meantime Vera Drake High Hopes Peterloo Career Girls All or Nothing Topsy-Turvy Four Days in July Bleak Moments SHORTS The Short & Curlies A Running Jump A Sense of History TELEVISION Play for Today (six episodes) The Five Minute Films (five episodes) BBC2 Playhouse (one episode) Second City Firsts (one episode)
55. Sergio Leone
Writer | Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...
FEATURES The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Once Upon a Time in the West Once Upon a Time in America For a Few Dollars More A Fistful of Dollars A Fistful of Dynamite COMMERCIALS Renault 18
56. Ernst Lubitsch
Director | To Be or Not to Be
From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...
FEATURES
To Be or Not to Be
The Shop Around the Corner
Trouble in Paradise
The Doll
The Oyster Princess
Design for Living
Angel
Heaven Can Wait
Ninotchka
Broken Lullaby
Rosita
That Uncertain Feeling
Cluny Brown
The Smiling Lieutenant
So This is Paris
If I Had a Million*
Paramount on Parade**
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Royal Scandal
* segment "The Clerk"
** segment "Ernst Lubitsch"
57. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
FEATURES
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Lost Highway
Inland Empire
The Straight Story
The Elephant Man
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted
To Each His Own Cinema*
More Things That Happened
Wild at Heart
Dune
SHORTS
The Grandmother
The Alphabet
42 One Dream Rush**
Six Figures Getting Sick
What Did Jack Do?
Lady Blue Shanghai
The Amputee
Industrial Soundscape
Darkened Room
The 3 Rs
Bug Crawls
Out Yonder - Neighbor Boy
Boat
MUSIC VIDEOS
Shot in the Back of the Head
Rammstein
COMMERCIALS
Parisienne People
Who is Giò?
We Care About New York
Fitzgerald/Kissed
Hemingway/Awake
Lawrence/Dangerous
The Third Place
Cherry Pie
A Mystery of "G"
The Rescue
Lost
Opium
Nissan Micra
The Wall
Sun Moon Stars
Barilla
Easy One Minute
DOCUMENTARIES
Lumière et Compagnie***
Lamp
TELEVISION
Twin Peaks (twenty-four episodes)
Rabbits (nine episodes)
On the Air (one episode)
DumbLand (eight episodes)
Les Français vus par (one episode)
* segment "Absurda"
** segment "Dream #7"
*** segment "Premonition Following an Evil Deed"
58. Alexander Mackendrick
Writer | The Man in the White Suit
One of the most distinguished (if frequently overlooked) directors ever to emerge from the British film industry, Alexander Mackendrick, was in fact born in the US (to Scottish parents), but grew up in his native Scotland, where he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. He started out as a ...
FEATURES Sweet Smell of Success Whisky Galore! The Ladykillers Sammy Going South Mandy The Man in the White Suit The Maggie Don't Make Waves A High Wind in Jamaica
59. Guy Maddin
Director | The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic...
FEATURES The Saddest Music in the World Brand Upon the Brain! Careful The Forbidden Room Tales from the Gimli Hospital Keyhole Cowards Bend the Knee Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary Archangel Twilight of the Ice Nymphs SHORTS Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity The Heart of the World Sissy Boy Slap Party Sombra Dolorosa A Trip to the Orphanage Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair My Dad is 100 Years Old Glorious DOCUMENTARIES My Winnipeg
60. Terrence Malick
Writer | Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.
A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...
FEATURES Badlands The Thin Red Line The Tree of Life A Hidden Life The New World To the Wonder Knight of Cups Days of Heaven Song to Song SHORTS Filmed on Pixel 3 COMMERCIALS Notes of a Woman DOCUMENTARIES Voyage of Time: Life's Journey Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
61. Louis Malle
Director | Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...
FEATURES
Le Feu Follet
Atlantic City
Murmur of the Heart
Zazie dans le Métro
Elevator to the Gallows
Au Revoir, les Enfants
My Dinner with Andre
Vanya on 42nd Street
Lacombe Lucien
Les Amants
Milou en Mai
Viva Maria!
Alamo Bay
Spirits of the Dead*
Pretty Baby
The Thief of Paris
Damage
Black Moon
Crackers
A Very Private Affair
SHORTS
Crazeologie
* segment "William Wilson"
62. Michael Mann
Producer | The Insider
As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...
FEATURES Heat Thief Manhunter The Insider Collateral The Jericho Mile Public Enemies The Last of the Mohicans Ali The Keep L.A. Takedown Blackhat Miami Vice COMMERCIALS Leave Nothing Lucky Star Ferrari California AT&T TELEVISION Tokyo Vice (one episode) Policewoman (one episode)
63. Yasuzô Masumura
Director | Daichi no komoriuta
Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined ...
FEATURES Irezumi Blind Beast Red Angel Kisses Manji Love for an Idiot Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
64. Shane Meadows
Director | This Is England
Shane Meadows was born on December 26, 1972 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for This Is England (2006), Dead Man's Shoes (2004) and TwentyFourSeven (1997).
FEATURES This is England Dead Man's Shoes A Room for Romeo Brass Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee Somers Town TwentyFourSeven Small Time Once Upon a Time in the Midlands SHORTS Northern Soul The Stairwell Where's the Money, Ronnie? MUSIC VIDEOS Slumville Sunrise Come Back to Me CONCERT FILMS The Stone Roses: Made of Stone TELEVISION The Virtues (four episodes) The Gallows Pole (three episodes) This is England '88 (three episodes) This is England '90 (four episodes) This is England '86 (two episodes) Shane's World (five episodes)
65. Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer | Le Samouraï
The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...
FEATURES Army of Shadows Léon Morin, Prêtre Le Samouraï The Red Circle Second Breath Bob le Flambeur Le Doulos Le Silence de la Mer Les Enfants Terribles Un Flic SHORTS A Day in the Life of a Clown
66. Lukas Moodysson
Director | Fucking Åmål
Lukas Moodysson was born on January 17, 1969 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He is a director and writer, known for Show Me Love (1998), Lilya 4-Ever (2002) and Together (2000). He has been married to Coco Moodysson since 1994. They have three children.
FEATURES Lilya 4-Ever Together Show Me Love We Are the Best! Container A Hole in My Heart Mammoth SHORTS Talk DOCUMENTARIES Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
67. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
FEATURES Sunrise The Last Laugh Faust Nosferatu City Girl Tartuffe Tabu The Finances of the Grand Duke Journey Into the Night Phantom The Haunted Castle
68. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
FEATURES The Dark Knight Batman Begins Memento The Prestige Dunkirk Oppenheimer Inception The Dark Knight Rises Following Interstellar Tenet Insomnia SHORTS Doodlebug Tarantella DOCUMENTARIES Quay
69. Mamoru Oshii
Director | Kôkaku kidôtai
Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director and screenwriter. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura (1981-1984), Angel's Egg (1985), Patlabor: The Movie (1989), Ghost in the Shell (1995), and Ghost in ...
FEATURES Patlabor 2 Ghost in the Shell Angel's Egg Patlabor Avalon Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence The Red Spectacles The Sky Crawlers Ghost in the Shell 2.0 Assault Girls TELEVISION Ani*Kuri15 (one episode)
70. Nagisa Ôshima
Director | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. After an early involvement with the student protest movement in ...
FEATURES The Man Who Left His Will on Film Death by Hanging Empire of Passion Violence at Noon A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs Gohatto A Street of Love and Hope Pleasures of the Flesh The Ceremony Boy Diary of a Shinjuku Thief Band of Ninja Three Resurrected Drunkards Cruel Story of Youth The Sun's Burial Night and Fog in Japan Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Japanese Summer: Double Suicide In the Realm of the Senses The Catch The Rebel Max mon Amour Dear Summer Sister SHORTS Tomorrow's Sun DOCUMENTARIES Kyoto, My Mother's Place 100 Years of Japanese Cinema Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
71. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
FEATURES
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Oedipus Rex
Salò
Il Decameron
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Arabian Nights
Accattone
Mamma Roma
Theorem
Ro.Go.Pa.G.*
Pigsty
Medea
The Canterbury Tales
DOCUMENTARIES
Love Meetings
The Walls of Sana'a
* segment "La Ricotta"
72. Sam Peckinpah
Writer | The Wild Bunch
"If they move", commands stern-eyed William Holden, "kill 'em". So begins The Wild Bunch (1969), Sam Peckinpah's bloody, high-body-count eulogy to the mythologized Old West. "Pouring new wine into the bottle of the Western, Peckinpah explodes the bottle", observed critic Pauline Kael. That ...
FEATURES Straw Dogs The Wild Bunch The Getaway Ride the High Country Cross of Iron The Killer Elite The Ballad of Cable Hogue Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia The Osterman Weekend Convoy Junior Bonner Major Dundee The Deadly Companions The Glory Guys
73. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
FEATURES
Rosemary's Baby
Knife in the Water
Chinatown
Repulsion
The Tenant
The Pianist
The Ninth Gate
Macbeth
The Ghost
Cul-de-sac
Venus in Fur
Carnage
Death and the Maiden
To Each His Own Cinema*
Oliver Twist
Tess
Frantic
The Beautiful Swindlers**
Bitter Moon
What?
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Pirates
SHORTS
Teethful Smile
Murder
The Lamp
Two Men and a Wardrobe
Let's Break the Ball
Greed, a New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli
A Therapy
The Fat Man and the Thin Man
When the Angels Fall
The Mammals
DOCUMENTARIES
Weekend of a Champion
* segment "Cinéma Erotique"
** segment "La Rivière de Diamants"
74. Michael Powell
Director | Peeping Tom
The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...
FEATURES The Red Shoes The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Peeping Tom Black Narcissus The Small Back Room A Matter of Life and Death The Tales of Hoffman The Thief of Bagdad The Edge of the World Age of Consent Oh... Rosalinda!! A Canterbury Tale 49th Parallel The Wild Heart Ill Met by Moonlight The Boy Who Turned Yellow 'I Know Where I'm Going!' One of Our Aircraft is Missing The Spy in Black The Phantom Light The Battle of the River Plate Contraband Lazybones They're a Weird Mob The Elusive Pimpernel
75. Otto Preminger
Actor | Stalag 17
Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...
FEATURES Anatomy of a Murder Laura Carmen Jones Where the Sidewalk Ends Angel Face Advise & Consent Porgy and Bess The Man with the Golden Arm Fallen Angel Daisy Kenyon The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Margin for Error River of No Return Whirlpool Bonjour Tristesse Hurry Sundown Exodus Bunny Lake is Missing Danger: Love at Work Saint Joan The Moon is Blue In Harm's Way The Fan The Human Factor A Royal Scandal
76. Nicholas Ray
Director | Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the ...
FEATURES In a Lonely Place Johnny Guitar They Live by Night On Dangerous Ground We Can't Go Home Again The Lusty Men The Savage Innocents Rebel Without a Cause Bigger Than Life Bitter Victory The Racket Party Girl Born to be Bad Run for Cover Macao Knock On Any Door 55 Days at Peking The True Story of Jesse James King of Kings Flying Leathernecks Androcles and the Lion DOCUMENTARIES Lightning Over Water TELEVISION General Electric Theater (one episode)
77. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
FEATURES The Adversary Devi Nayak Charulata Aparajito Pather Panchali Days and Nights in the Forest Two Daughters The Home and the World Mahanagar The World of Apu The Coward The Stranger The Holy Man An Enemy of the People The Music Room The Chess Players
78. Jean Renoir
Writer | La règle du jeu
Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...
FEATURES Boudu Saved from Drowning La Grand Illusion Toni La Règle du Jeu La Bête Humaine This Land is Mine The Southerner Le Crime de Monsieur Lange La Chienne The Woman on the Beach The Golden Coach French Cancan The River The Diary of a Chambermaid Elena et les Hommes La Nuit du Carrefour SHORTS Partie de Campagne The Little Match Girl Charleston Parade
79. Alain Resnais
Director | Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...
FEATURES
Last Year at Marienbad
Je t'aime, je t'aime
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Mon Oncle d'Amérique
Providence
Muriel
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Wild Grass
L'Amour à Mort
Mélo
Stavisky...
Life is a Bed of Roses
Life of Riley
On Connaît la Chanson
Private Fears in Public Places
Not on the Lips
I Want to Go Home
DOCUMENTARIES
Night and Fog
Toute la Mémoire du Monde
Loin du Vietnam*
Statues Also Die
* segment "Claude Ridder"
80. Leni Riefenstahl
Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten
Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...
FEATURES The Blue Light Tiefland DOCUMENTARIES Triumph of the Will Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty Day of Freedom: Our Armed Forces Impressions of the Deep Victory of the Faith
81. Jacques Rivette
Director | La Belle Noiseuse
Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer...
FEATURES
Out 1: Noli me Tangere
La Belle Noiseuse
Va Savoir
Out 1: Spectre
Celine and Julie Go Boating
The Story of Marie and Julien
Gang of Four
Secret Défense
Don't Touch the Axe
Le Pont du Nord
Love on the Ground
Noroît
The Nun
Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les Prisons
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
Hurlevent
Paris Nous Appartient
Up, Down, Fragile
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les Batailles
Merry-Go-Round
L'Amour Fou
SHORTS
Paris s'en va
DOCUMENTARIES
Lumière et Compagnie*
* segment "Jacques Rivette/Paris"
82. John Sayles
Writer | Lone Star
A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him ...
FEATURES Lone Star City of Hope Matewan Limbo Passion Fish Sunshine State Return of the Secaucus Seven Honeydripper Baby It's You Men with Guns Lianna The Brother from Another Planet Eight Men Out Silver City Casa de Los Babys The Secret of Roan Inish MUSIC VIDEOS I'm on Fire Born in the U.S.A. Glory Days
83. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
FEATURES
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
The Last Temptation of Christ
Mean Streets
The King of Comedy
Silence
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Departed
Hugo
The Irishman
Shutter Island
Casino
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
After Hours
New York Stories*
The Aviator
Cape Fear
Who's That Knocking at My Door
The Age of Innocence
Gangs of New York
The Wolf of Wall Street
Kundun
Bringing Out the Dead
New York, New York
The Color of Money
Boxcar Bertha
SHORTS
The Big Shave
The Audition
MUSIC VIDEOS
Bad
COMMERCIALS
Street of Dreams
Bleu de Chanel
DOCUMENTARIES
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
No Direction Home
Italianamerican
Pretend It's a City
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
A Letter to Elia
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
CONCERT FILMS
Shine a Light
The Last Waltz
TELEVISION
Boardwalk Empire (one episode)
Amazing Stories (one episode)
Vinyl (one episode)
* segment "Life Lessons"
84. Victor Sjöström
Actor | Smultronstället
Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of ...
FEATURES The Wind He Who Gets Slapped The Phantom Carriage The Monastery of Sendomir SHORTS The Gardener
85. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
FEATURES
Schindler's List
Minority Report
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Artificial Intelligence: AI
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jurassic Park
The Fabelmans
Saving Private Ryan
Catch Me If You Can
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Duel
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Munich
The Adventures of Tintin
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Jaws
Lincoln
Empire of the Sun
West Side Story
War of the Worlds
The Post
Amistad
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Sugarland Express
Ready Player One
Always
War Horse
Twilight Zone: The Movie*
The BFG
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Color Purple
The Terminal
Hook
1941
COMMERCIALS
BP
TELEVISION
Amazing Stories (two episodes)
Columbo (one episode)
* segment "Kick the Can"
86. Josef von Sternberg
Director | The Devil Is a Woman
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...
FEATURES The Blue Angel The Scarlet Empress Duel in the Sun The Shanghai Gesture The Last Command The Docks of New York Blonde Venus The Devil is a Woman It Underworld Crime and Punishment Dishonored Anatahan Shanghai Express Macao Morocco Jet Pilot DOCUMENTARIES The Town The Fashion Side of Hollywood
87. Preston Sturges
Writer | Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....
FEATURES
The Palm Beach Story
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Sullivan's Travels
Hail the Conquering Hero
Unfaithfully Yours
The Lady Eve
Christmas in July
The Great Moment
The Great McGinty
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
The Diary of Major Thompson
DOCUMENTARIES
Safeguarding Military Information
88. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
FEATURES
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Inglourious Basterds
Kill Bill vol. 1
Grindhouse*
Jackie Brown
Death Proof
The Hateful Eight
Sin City**
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
Django Unchained
Kill Bill vol. 2
Four Rooms***
SHORTS
Reservoir Dogs
My Best Friend's Birthday
TELEVISION
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (two episodes)
ER (one episode)
* segment "Death Proof"
** one scene
*** segment "The Man from Hollywood"
89. Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer | Offret
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the...
FEATURES Stalker Nostalghia Mirror The Sacrifice Solaris Andrei Rublev The Steamroller and the Violin Ivan's Childhood SHORTS The Killers
90. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Director | Suna no onna
Hiroshi Teshigahara was born the son of Sofu Teshigahara who was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (flower arrangement). In 1950, he graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in oil painting. In 1958, he became the director of Sogetsu Art Centre and took a ...
FEATURES Woman of the Dunes Pitfall The Face of Another DOCUMENTARIES Tokyo 1958 Ikebana
91. Dziga Vertov
Director | Chelovek s kino-apparatom
Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He ...
SHORTS Our Response to the Gloatings of the Capitalist World DOCUMENTARIES Man with a Movie Camera Kino-Eye Three Songs About Lenin Soviet Toys
92. Jean Vigo
Writer | Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people ...
FEATURES L'Atalante SHORTS Zéro de Conduite DOCUMENTARIES À Propos de Nice Taris, Roi de l'Eau
93. Raoul Walsh
Editor | The Birth of a Nation
Raoul Walsh's 52-year directorial career made him a Hollywood legend. Walsh was also an actor: He appeared in the first version of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" renamed Sadie Thompson (1928) opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. He would have played the Cisco Kid in his own film In Old Arizona ...
FEATURES White Heat High Sierra The Roaring Twenties The Thief of Bagdad Pursued They Died with Their Boots On Dark Command Me and My Gal The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw The Tall Men Sadie Thompson Distant Drums The Enforcer Blackbeard the Pirate Action in the North Atlantic Rosita The Lawless Breed Klondike Annie Sea Devils Gun Fury Battle Cry The Big Trail They Drive by Night A Lion is in the Streets
94. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
FEATURES Citizen Kane The Trial Chimes at Midnight Touch of Evil The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice Macbeth The Immortal Story The Other Side of the Wind The Magnificent Ambersons The Lady from Shanghai The Stranger Journey Into Fear Black Magic Mr. Arkadin Too Much Johnson Don Quixote SHORTS The Fountain of Youth The Hearts of Age TRAILERS For for Fake Citizen Kane DOCUMENTARIES F for Fake Around the World with Orson Welles
95. Wim Wenders
Director | Der Himmel über Berlin
Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...
FEATURES
Wings of Desire
Paris, Texas
The American Friend
Alice in the Cities
Kings of the Road
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet*
To Each His Own Cinema**
SHORTS
The Other Side of the Road
MUSIC VIDEOS
Souljacker Part I
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Night and Day
DOCUMENTARIES
Pina
Tokyo-Ga
Lightning Over Water
Lumière et Compagnie***
Buena Vista Social Club
Chambre 666
Cathedrals of Culture****
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
* segment "Twelve Miles to Trona"
** segment "War in Peace"
*** segment "Wim Wenders/Berlin"
**** segment "The Berlin Philharmonic"
96. James Whale
Director | Bride of Frankenstein
James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his four classic horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He also directed films in other genres, including what is ...
FEATURES Bride of Frankenstein The Invisible Man Frankenstein The Old Dark House Show Boat Hell's Angels SHORTS Hello Out There
97. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
FEATURES The Apartment Ace in the Hole Sunset Boulevard Double Indemnity Some Like It Hot Witness for the Prosecution One, Two, Three The Fortune Cookie Love in the Afternoon Stalag 17 The Lost Weekend Sabrina The Spirit of St. Louis Irma la Douce The Major and the Minor The Front Page Fedora Avanti! Kiss Me, Stupid The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The Seven Year Itch Five Graves to Cairo Mauvaise Graine Buddy Buddy A Foreign Affair The Emperor Waltz DOCUMENTARIES Death Mills
98. Robert Wise
Director | West Side Story
Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...
FEATURES
Odds Against Tomorrow
I Want to Live!
Somebody Up There Likes Me
The Set-Up
The Sound of Music
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Haunting
The Magnificent Ambersons*
The Curse of the Cat People
Blood on the Moon
The Body Snatcher
The Sand Pebbles
Destination Gobi
The Andromeda Strain
Born to Kill
West Side Story
Run Silent Run Deep
Audrey Rose
The House on Telegraph Hill
Two Flags West
The Captive City
The Desert Rats
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
This Could Be the Night
The Hindenburg
Rooftops
* additional sequences
99. William Wyler
Director | The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...
FEATURES Roman Holiday Jezebel Ben-Hur The Collector The Desperate Hours The Best Years of Our Lives Funny Girl The Heiress How to Steal a Million Carrie The Westerner Detective Story Wuthering Heights The Cowboy and the Lady Dead End The Letter Mrs. Miniver The Children's Hour Dodsworth The Little Foxes Raffles The Big Country DOCUMENTARIES Thunderbolt
100. Yimou Zhang
Director | Ying xiong
Yimou Zhang was born on November 14, 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a director and writer, known for Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). He has been married to Ting Chen since December 2011. They have three children. He was previously married to ...
FEATURES
To Live
Ju Dou
Raise the Red Lantern
Hero
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
House of Flying Daggers
Not One Less
Shadow
One Second
The Flowers of War
Happy Times
Curse of the Golden Flower
Red Sorghum
To Each His Own Cinema*
The Story of Qiu Ju
The Road Home
The Great Wall
Blood Simple
Lady of the Dynasty
COMMERCIALS
Chinese Railways
DOCUMENTARIES
Lumière et Compagnie**
TELEVISION
Beijing 2008: Games of the XXIX Olympiad***
* segment "En Regardant le Film"
** segment "Zhang Yimou/Chine"
*** segment "Opening Ceremony"
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