Completed Filmographies
by massiasmatheus-520-835298 | created - 28 Jun 2017 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicFilmographies, mostly feature films (considering those longer than sixty minutes, almost according to the CNC in France), that I have watched so far. Ranked. Films followed by an asterisk [*] are the ones I regard as masterpieces.
1. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Producer | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
Ranking
1 - Birdman
2 - The Revenant
3 - Amores perros
4 - Biutiful
5 - Babel
6 - 21 Grams
2. Charlie Kaufman
Writer | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avid reader Charlie Kaufman wrote plays and made short films as a young student. He moved from Massapequa, New York to West Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 where he attended high school. As a comedic actor, he performed in school plays and, after graduation, he enrolled at Boston University but soon ...
Ranking
1 - Synecdoque, New York
2 - Anomalisa
3 - I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Inception
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970, in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made.
...
Ranking
1 - The Dark Knight
2 - Batman Begins
3 - Memento
4 - The Prestige
5 - Insomnia
6 - Dunkirk
7 - Following
8 - The Dark Knight Rises
9 - Interstellar
10 - Inception
4. Cláudio Assis
Director | Baixio das Bestas
Cláudio Assis was born on December 19, 1959 in Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a director and actor, known for Bog of Beasts (2006), Rat Fever (2011) and Mango Yellow (2002).
Ranking
1 - Amerelo Manga
2 - Febre do Rato
3 - Baixio das Bestas
4 - Big Jato
5 - Piedade
5. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Coen was born on November 29, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Joel Daniel Coen. He is a producer and writer, known for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Fargo (1996) and Blood Simple (1984). He has been married to Frances McDormand since April 1, 1984. They have one child.
Ranking
1 - No Country for Old Men [*]
2 - The Big Lebowski [*]
3 - Fargo
4 - Barton Fink
5 - Blood Simple
6 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7 - Inside Llewyn Davis
8 - Hail, Caesar!
9 - Miller's Crossing
10 - A Serious Man
11 - True Grit
12 - Raising Arizona
13 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
14 - The Man Who Wasn't There
15 - Burn After Reading
16 - The Hudsucker Proxy
17 - The Ladykillers
18 - Intolerable Cruelty
6. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Ethan Coen was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Ethan Jesse Coen. He is a producer and writer, known for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and A Serious Man (2009). He has been married to Tricia Cooke since October 2, 1990. They have two ...
Ranking
1 - No Country for Old Men [*]
2 - The Big Lebowski [*]
3 - Fargo
4 - Barton Fink
5 - Blood Simple
6 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
7 - Inside Llewyn Davis
8 - Hail, Caesar!
9 - Miller's Crossing
10 - A Serious Man
11 - True Grit
12 - Raising Arizona
13 - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
14 - The Man Who Wasn't There
15 - Burn After Reading
16 - The Hudsucker Proxy
17 - The Ladykillers
18 - Intolerable Cruelty
7. Darren Aronofsky
Director | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
Ranking
1 - Black Swan
2 - Requiem for a Dream
3 - Pi
4 - The Wrestler
5 - mother!
6 - The Fountain
7 - Noah
8. 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...
Ranking
1 - Zoadiac
2 - Fight Club
3 - The Social Network
4 - Seven
5 - The Game
6 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8 - Gone Girl
9 - Alien 3
10 - Panic Room
9. 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 ...
Ranking
1 - Eraserhead [*]
2 - Inland Empire
3 - Blue Velvet
4 - Mulholland Drive
5 - The Straight Story
6 - Lost Highway
7 - The Elephant Man
8 - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
9 - Wild at Heart
10 - Dune
10. Glauber Rocha
Director | Terra em Transe
He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie criticisms and took part in the creation and development of the 'cinema novo' movement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, becoming its theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After "Barravento (1962)", a trilogy of films and "Antonio ...
Ranking
1 - Terra em Transe [*]
2 - O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro
3 - Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol
4 - Barravento
5 - A Idade da Terra
6 - O Leão de Sete Cabeças
7 - Cabeças Cortadas
8 - Câncer
9 - Claro
11. Gaspar Noé
Director | Climax
Gaspar Noé was born on December 27, 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and producer, known for Climax (2018), Irreversible (2002) and Enter the Void (2009).
Ranking
1 - Irréversible
2 - Enter the Void
3 - Love
4 - I Stand Alone
5 - Climax
12. Harmony Korine
Director | Gummo
Harmony Korine was born in 1973 in Bolinas, California. His family moved to the east coast of the United States when he was five, and he spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York. At the age of nineteen, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids (1995) for director Larry ...
Ranking
1 - Gummo [*]
2 - Mister Lonely
3 - Spring Breakers
4 - The Beach Bum
5 - Trash Humpers
6 - Julien Donkey-Boy
13. James Gray
Director | Ad Astra
Writer/director James Gray made his first film Little Odessa (1994) at the age of twenty-five. The film, which starred Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, received critical acclaim and was the winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Silver Lion Award in 1994.
...
Ranking
1 - Little Odessa [*]
2 - Two Lovers
3 - We Own the Night
4 - The Yards
5 - The Immigrant
6 - Ad Astra
7 - The Lost City of Z
14. Jean-Pierre Melville
Actor | À bout de souffle
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 ...
Ranking
1 - Le Cercle rouge [*]
2 - Le Samouraï
3 - L'Armée des ombres
4 - Bob le flambeur
5 - Le Doulos
6 - Le Silence de la mer
7 - Le Deuxième Souffle
8 - Léon Morin, prêtre
9 - L'Aîné des Ferchaux
10 - Les Enfants terribles
11 - Un flic
12 - Quand tu liras cette lettre
13 - Deux hommes dans Manhattan
15. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
Ranking
1 - The Thing [*]
2 - Halloween [*]
3 - Assault on Precinct 13
4 - Someone's Watching Me!
5 - Escape from New York
6 - They Live
7 - Christine
8 - Starman
9 - Dark Star
10 - In the Mouth of Madness
11 - The Fog
12 - Elvis
13 - Vampires
14 - The Ward
15 - Prince of Darkness
16 - Memoirs of an Invisible Man
17 - Big Trouble in Little China
18 - Village of the Damned
19 - Ghosts of Mars
20 - Escape from L.A.
16. Joshua Oppenheimer
Director | The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer was born on September 23, 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Act of Killing (2012), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998) and The Look of Silence (2014).
Ranking
1 - The Act of Killing
2 - The Look of Silence
17. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Director | Bacurau
Kleber Mendonça Filho was born in 1968 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for Bacurau (2019), Aquarius (2016) and Neighboring Sounds (2012). He is married to Emilie Lesclaux. They have two children.
Ranking
1 - O Som ao Redor [*]
2 - Bacurau
3 - Aquarius
4 - Crítico
18. Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Writer | Évolution
Lucile Emina Hadzihalilovic was born on May 7, 1961 in Lyon, Rhône, France, to Bosnian parents and grew up in Morocco. She studied Art History and Film Directing at the IDHEC. She has been working in film industry since 1980's, as director, editor, writer and actress in both short and feature films...
Ranking
1 - Innocence
2 - Évolution
19. Martin Scorsese
Director | Taxi Driver
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 ...
Ranking [Fiction Films]
1 - Raging Bull [*]
2 - Goodfellas
3 - Taxi Driver
4 - Mean Streets
5 - The Irishman
6 - The King of Comedy
7 - The Wolf of Wall Street
8 - The Age of Innocence
9 - Cape Fear
10 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
11 - The Departed
12 - Gangs of New York
13 - The Aviator
14 - Casino
15 - The Color of Money
16 - Silence
17 - Who's That Knocking at My Door
18 - Hugo
19 - Shutter Island
20 - New York, New York
21 - After Hours
22 - The Last Temptation of Christ
23 - Kundun
24 - Bringing Out the Dead
25 - Boxcar Bertha
Ranking [Documentaries]
1 - A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
2 - My Voyage to Italy
3 - No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
4 - George Harrison: Living in the Material World
5 - American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
6 - Italianamerican
7 - The Last Waltz
8 - Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
9 - A Letter to Elia
10 - Public Speaking
11 - Shine a Light
12 - The 50 Year Argument
Unseen: New York City... Melting Pot; Street Scenes; Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block; Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty
20. Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer | The Neon Demon
Writer, director, and producer Nicolas Winding Refn was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1970, to Anders Refn, a film director and editor, and Vibeke Winding (née Tuxen), a cinematographer. Just before he turned 11, in 1981, he moved to New York with his parents, where he lived out his teen years. ...
Ranking
1 - Only God Forgives
2 - Drive
3 - Bronson
4 - Pusher
5 - The Neon Demon
6 - Valhalla Rising
7 - Bleeder
8 - Pusher II
9 - Pusher 3
10 - Fear X
21. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father was a well-to-do inventor, his mother a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died (he was six) he traveled the world with his father. He was orphaned at 15 after his father's death and became the ward of Dr. ...
Ranking
1 - Citizen Kane [*]
2 - The Trial [*]
3 - Touch of Evil
4 - Othello
5 - The Other Side of the Wind
6 - Macbeth
7 - F for Fake
8 - Mr. Arkadin
9 - The Lady from Shanghai
10 - The Magnificent Ambersons
11 - Chimes at Midnight
12 - The Stranger
13 - The Immortal Story
22. 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...
Ranking
1 - There Will Be Blood [*]
2 - The Master [*]
3 - Phantom Thread
4 - Magnolia
5 - Boogie Nights
6 - Inherent Vice
7 - Punch-Drunk Love
8 - Hard Eight
* Junun
23. 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...
Ranking
1 - Pulp Fiction [*]
2 - Death Proof
3 - Jackie Brown
4 - Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
5 - Kill Bill: Volume 1
6 - Kill Bill: Volume 2
7 - Inglorious Basterds
8 - Reservoir Dogs
9 - The Hateful Eight
10 - Django Unchained
24. Ryan Coogler
Director | Black Panther
Ryan Coogler was born on May 23, 1986 in Oakland, California, USA as Ryan Kyle Coogler. He has been married to Zinzi Coogler since 2016.
Ranking
1 - Creed
2 - Fruitvale Station
3 - Black Panther
25. Shane Carruth
Composer | Upstream Color
Writer-director Shane Carruth, a former software engineer, burst onto the independent movie scene with his extremely low-budget science-fiction film Primer (2004) in 2004. Carruth also played one of the two leads in the film and composed its music. "Primer" won the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P...
Ranking
1 - Upstream Color
2 - Primer
26. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
Ranking
1 - Being John Malkovich
2 - Her
3 - Adaptation
4 - Where the Wild Things Are
27. 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 ...
Ranking
1 - A Clockwork Orange [*]
2 - 2001: A Space Odyssey [*]
3 - The Shining [*]
4 - Eyes Wide Shut [*]
5 - Barry Lyndon [*]
6 - Full Metal Jacket
7 - Paths of Glory
8 - Dr. Strangelove
9 - The Killing
10 - Killer's Kiss
11 - Lolita
12 - Spartacus
13 - Fear and Desire
28. Steve McQueen
Director | 12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England as Steve Rodney McQueen. He is a director and writer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.
Ranking
1 - Shame
2 - Hunger
3 - 12 Years a Slave
4 - Widows
29. Lana Wachowski
Writer | The Matrix
Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowskis, are the duo behind such ground-breaking movies as The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012). Born to mother Lynne, a nurse, and father Ron, a businessman of Polish descent, Wachowski grew up in Chicago and formed a tight ...
Ranking
1 - The Matrix [*]
2 - The Matrix Reloaded
3 - Bound
4 - The Matrix Revolutions
5 - Speed Racer
6 - Cloud Atlas
7 - Jupiter Ascending
30. Lilly Wachowski
Writer | The Matrix
Director, writer, and producer Lilly Wachowski was born in 1967 in Chicago as Andrew Wachowski, the son of Lynne, a nurse and painter, and Ron, a businessman. Lilly was educated at Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago, before moving on to Whitney M. Young High School. After graduating from high ...
Ranking
1 - The Matrix [*]
2 - The Matrix Reloaded
3 - Bound
4 - The Matrix Revolutions
5 - Speed Racer
6 - Cloud Atlas
7 - Jupiter Ascending
31. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
Ranking
1 - Moonrise Kingdom
2 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
3 - The Royal Tenenbaums
4 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
5 - Rushmore
6 - The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou
7 - Isle of Dogs
8 - Bottle Rocket
9 - The Darjeeling Limited
32. Ana Lily Amirpour
Director | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Ana Lily Amirpour was born on July 25, 1976 in Margate, Kent, England. She is a director and writer, known for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), The Bad Batch (2016) and A Little Suicide (2012).
Ranking
1 - A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2 - The Bad Batch
33. Fellipe Barbosa
Writer | Gabriel e a Montanha
Fellipe Barbosa was born in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa. He is an editor and writer, known for Gabriel and the Mountain (2017), Casa Grande (2014) and Domingo (2018).
Ranking
1 - Gabriel e a Montanha
2 - Casa Grande
* Laura
34. S. Craig Zahler
Writer | Bone Tomahawk
S. Craig Zahler was born on January 23, 1973 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bone Tomahawk (2015), Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017).
Ranking
1 - Brawl in Cell Block 99
2 - Dragged Across Concrete
3 - Bone Tomahawk
35. Jonathan Glazer
Director | Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer was born on March 26, 1965 in London, England. He is a director and writer, known for Under the Skin (2013), Birth (2004) and Sexy Beast (2000).
Ranking
1 - Sexy Beast
2 - Under the Skin
3 - Birth
36. Julian Radlmaier
Writer | Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
Julian Radlmaier is a writer and editor, known for Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017), A Proletarian Winter's Tale (2014) and A Spectre Is Haunting Europe (2013).
Ranking
1 - Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
2 - Ein proletarisches Wintermärchen
3 - Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa
37. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Director | Macunaíma
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was born on May 25, 1932 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Macunaima (1969), Conjugal Warfare (1974) and The Brazilwood Man (1982). He was married to Ana Maria Galano, Cristina Aché and Sarah de Castro Barbosa. He died on September 10, 1988 ...
Ranking
1 - Macunaíma
2 - Os Inconfidentes
3 - O Padre e a Moça
4 - O Homem do Pau Brasil
5 - Contos Eróticos
6 - Guerra Conjugal
* Garrincha, Alegria do Povo
38. Lucrecia Martel
Director | La mujer sin cabeza
Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which Dead King (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival circuit. From 1995 to...
Ranking
1 - La Ciénaga
2 - La niña santa
3 - La mujer sin cabeza
4 - Zama
39. Alex Garland
Writer | Ex Machina
Alex Garland is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for the films Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).
Garland's others works as a writer includes The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2011) and Dredd (2012).
He is ...
Ranking
1 - Ex Machina
2 - Annihilation
40. Rogério Sganzerla
Director | O Bandido da Luz Vermelha
Rogério Sganzerla was born on May 4, 1946 in Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for O Bandido da Luz Vermelha (1968), O Signo do Caos (2005) and The Woman of Everyone (1969). He was married to Helena Ignez. He died on January 9, 2004 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Ranking
1 - O Bandido da Luz Vermelha [*]
2 - Nem Tudo é Verdade [*]
3 - Sem Essa, Aranha
4 - A Mulher de Todos
5 - Copacabana Mon Amour
6 - O Signo do Caos
7 - O Abismo
Documentaries
1 - Isto é Noel Rosa
2 - Tudo é Brasil
* According to Sganzerla's ex-wife, Helena Ignez, in the documentary Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz, the original negative of Carnaval na Lama (1970) deteriorated and the only existing copy was given to an exhibition in France and was never returned. The film is still missing. Furthermore, Fora do Baralho (1971) is an unfinished documentary shot in Africa.
41. Affonso Uchoa
Director | Arábia
Affonso Uchoa is a director and writer, known for Araby (2017), Seven Years in May (2019) and The Hidden Tiger (2016).
Ranking
1 - Arábia [co-directed by João Dumans]
2 - A Vizinhança do Tigre
42. Marco Dutra
Writer | Todos os Mortos
Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, filmmaker and composer Marco Dutra grew up obsessed with the horror and fantasy genres, and this influence is evident in his films, which bring shadows and ghosts (both real and imagined) into the domestic spaces of middle-class life. In 2017 his genre bending ...
Ranking
1 - Trabalhar Cansa [co-directed by Juliana Rojas]
2 - Quando Eu Era Vivo
3 - As Boas Maneiras [co-directed by Juliana Rojas]
4 - O Silêncio do Céu
43. Juliana Rojas
Writer | As Boas Maneiras
Juliana Rojas is a writer and director, known for Good Manners (2017), Hard Labor (2011) and Necropolis Symphony (2014).
Ranking
1 - Trabalhar Cansa [co-directed by Marco Dutra]
2 - As Boas Maneiras [co-directed by Marco Dutra]
3 - Sinfonia da Necrópole
44. Jafar Panahi
Director | Taxi
Jafar Panahi (Born 11 July 1960) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film editor, commonly identified with the Iranian New Wave film movement. After several years of making short films and working as an assistant director for fellow Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami, Panahi achieved ...
Ranking
1 - The Mirror
2 - Closed Curtain
3 - The Circle
4 - This Is Not a Film
5 - Offside
6 - The White Balloon
7 - 3 Faces
8 - Taxi
9 - Crimson Gold
45. Richard Ayoade
Writer | Submarine
Richard Ellef Ayoade was born in Hammersmith, and grew up in Suffolk, in England, the son of a Norwegian mother, Dagny Amalie (Baassuik), and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. He studied Law at Cambridge university, and followed in the footsteps of British Comedy legends like Monty ...
Ranking
1 - The Double
2 - Submarine
* Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo
46. 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 ...
Ranking
1 - Meshes of the Afternoon [*]
2 - At Land
3 - Ritual in Transfigured Time
4 - Meditation on Violence
5 - The Very Eye of Night
6 - A Study in Choreography for Camera
7 - Ensemble for Somnambulists
8 - The Private Life of a Cat
9 - Witch's Cradle
47. Gustavo Pizzi
Writer | Riscado
Gustavo Pizzi was born on March 12, 1977, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He's a director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for the fictional feature films Craft (2010) and Loveling (2018), selected to several international film festivals. He also directed and produced a few TV shows and in ...
Ranking
1 - Riscado
2 - Benzinho
* Pretérito Perfeito
48. Panos Cosmatos
Writer | Mandy
Panos Cosmatos is a writer and director, known for Mandy (2018), Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Tombstone (1993).
Ranking
1 - Mandy
2 - Beyond the Black Rainbow
49. Ary Rosa
Director | Até o Fim
Ary Rosa is a director and writer, known for Até o Fim (2020), Island (2018) and Café com Canela (2017).
Ranking
1 - Café com Canela
2 - Ilha
50. Glenda Nicácio
Director | Até o Fim
Glenda Nicácio is a director and producer, known for Até o Fim (2020), Café com Canela (2017) and Island (2018).
Ranking
1 - Café com Canela
2 - Ilha
51. F.J. Ossang
Director | 9 doigts
F.J. Ossang was born on August 7, 1956 as Jacques Plougeaut. He is a director and actor, known for 9 Fingers (2017), Silence (2007) and Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov) (2010).
Ranking
1 - Dharma Guns (La succession Starkov)
2 - Le trésor des îles chiennes
3 - 9 doigts
4 - Docteur Chance
5 - L'affaire des divisions Morituri
52. Pablo Giorgelli
Director | Las acacias
Pablo Giorgelli was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Las Acacias (2011), Invisible (2017) and Moebius (1996).
Ranking
1 - Las acacias
2 - Invisible
53. Jacques Tati
Writer | Playtime
The comic genius Jacques Tati was born Taticheff, descended from a noble Russian family. His grandfather, Count Dimitri, had been a general in the Imperial Army and had served as military attaché to the Russian Embassy in Paris. His father, Emmanuel Taticheff, was a well-to-do picture framer who ...
Ranking
1 - Playtime [*]
2 - Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
3 - Jour de fête
4 - Mon oncle
5 - Trafic
6 - Parade
54. Kar-Wai Wong
Writer | Yi dai zong shi
Wong Kar-wai (born 17 July 1956) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Ah fei zing zyun (1990), Dung che sai duk (1994), Chung Hing sam lam (1994), Do lok tin si (1995), Chun gwong ...
Ranking
1 - In the Mood for Love [*]
2 - Happy Together [*]
3 - Days of Being Wild
4 - As Tears Go By
5 - 2046
6 - Fallen Angels
7 - The Grandmaster
8 - Ashes of Time
9 - My Blueberry Nights
10 - Chungking Express
55. Miguel Gomes
Director | Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto
Miguel Gomes was born in 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (2015) and Arabian Nights: Volume 3 - The Enchanted One (2015).
Ranking
1 - Tabu [*]
2 - As Mil e Uma Noites
3 - Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto
4 - A Cara Que Mereces
56. Ruth Beckermann
Director | Die Geträumten
Ruth Beckermann was born in 1952 in Vienna, Austria. She is a director and writer, known for The Dreamed Ones (2016), Those Who Go Those Who Stay (2013) and East of War (1996).
Ranking
1 - Ein flüchtiger Zug nach dem Orient
2 - Return to Vienna
3 - Jenseits des Krieges
4 - Nach Jerusalem
5 - American Passages
6 - Waldheims Walzer
7 - Die Geträumten
8 - The Paper Bridge
9 - Homemad(e)
10 - Zorros Bar Mizwa
11 - Arena besetzt
12 - Those Who Go Those Who Stay
57. Leos Carax
Director | Holy Motors
Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph. It paved the way for Carax's second feature Bad Blood (1986) (Bad Blood...
Ranking
1 - Holy Motors [*]
2 - Mauvais Sang
3 - Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
4 - Boy Meets Girl
5 - Pola X
58. Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Director | Le cercle des noyés
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd is a director and writer, known for Le cercle des noyés (2007), Lost Land (2011) and Sida d'ici et de là-bas (1998).
Ranking
1 - Les tourmentes
2 - Territoire perdu
3 - The Eternals
4 - Racines lointaines
5 - Le cercle des noyés
59. Marcelo Gomes
Writer | Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
Marcelo Gomes was born on October 28, 1963 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005), I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009) and Waiting for the Carnival (2019).
Ranking
1 - Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo [co-directed by Karim Ainouz]
2 - Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
3 - O Homem das Multidões [co-directed by Cao Guimarães]
4 - Joaquim
5 - Era Uma Vez Eu, Verônica
* Estou Me Guardando para Quando o Carnaval Chegar
60. Paulo Sacramento
Editor | Riocorrente
Paulo Sacramento is an editor and producer, known for Riocorrente (2013), Prisoner of the Iron Bars (2003) and Mango Yellow (2002).
Ranking
1 - O Prisioneiro da Grade de Ferro
2 - Riocorrente
3 - O Olho e a Faca
61. Petra Costa
Director | The Edge of Democracy
Petra Costa was born on July 8, 1983 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She is a director and producer, known for The Edge of Democracy (2019), Olmo & the Seagull (2015) and Undertow Eyes (2009).
Ranking
1 - Elena
2 - Olmo e a Gaivota
3 - Democracia em Vertigem
62. Gabriel Mascaro
Writer | Boi Neon
Gabriel Mascaro (1983) is a filmmaker and visual artist from Recife, Brazil. His documentary Housemaids (Doméstica) premiered in competition at IDFA 2012 (Amsterdam). His first feature film, Ventos de agosto (August Winds), premiered in competition at Locarno in 2014 and was awarded with a special ...
Ranking [Fiction Films]
1 - Boi Neon
2 - Ventos de Agosto
3 - Divino Amor
63. António Reis
Writer | Trás-os-Montes
António Reis was born on August 27, 1927 in Valadares, Portugal as António Ferreira Gonçalves dos Reis. He was a writer and director, known for Trás-os-Montes (1976), Ana (1982) and Rosa de Areia (1989). He was married to Margarida Cordeiro. He died on September 10, 1991 in Valadares.
Ranking
1 - Ana (1982)
2 - Trás-os-Montes (1976)
3 - Rosa de Areia (1989)
64. Margarida Cordeiro
Editor | Trás-os-Montes
Margarida Cordeiro was born in 1939 in Mogadouro, Portugal as Margarida Martins Cordeiro. She is an editor and director, known for Trás-os-Montes (1976), Ana (1982) and Rosa de Areia (1989).
Ranking
1 - Ana (1982)
2 - Trás-os-Montes (1976)
3 - Rosa de Areia (1989)
65. 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 ...
Ranking
1 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [*]
2 - Once Upon a Time in the West [*]
3 - Once Upon a Time in America
4 - For a Few Dollars More
5 - Duck, You Sucker!
6 - A Fistful of Dollars
7 - The Colossus of Rhodes
66. Richard Kelly
Writer | Donnie Darko
James Richard Kelly better known as Richard Kelly, is an American film director and writer, known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001. Kelly was born James Richard Kelly in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where...
Ranking
1 - Donnie Darko
2 - The Box
3 - Southland Tales
67. Miranda July
Writer | Me and You and Everyone We Know
Filmmaker Magazine rated her #1 in their "25 New Faces of Indie Film" in 2004!
She is a performance artist and published short story writer. Since becoming a filmmaker, her debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) has won several film awards.
Daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard ...
Ranking
1 - Kajillionaire
2 - Me and You and Everyone We Know
3 - The Future
68. Jean Garret
Director | Tchau Amor
Jean Garret was born on April 16, 1946 in Açores, Portugal as José Antônio Nunes Gomes e Silva. He was a director and writer, known for Tchau Amor (1982), O Fotógrafo (1980) and Excitação (1976). He died on April 22, 1996 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Ranking
1 - A Força dos Sentidos
2 - Mulher, Mulher
3 - A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor
4 - Excitação
5 - Possuídas pelo Pecado
6 - Amadas e Violentadas
7 - O Fotógrafo
8 - Karina, Objeto do Prazer
9 - Gozo Alucinante
10 - Fuk Fuk à Brasileira
11 - Tchau, Amor
12 - Estranho Desejo
13 - O Beijo da Mulher Piranha
14 - Noite em Chamas
15 - Entra e Sai
16 - Meu Homem, Meu Amante
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