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1. Jeffrey Fine

Director | Cherry

Jeffrey Fine was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. He is known for Cherry (2010), No Easy Way (1996) and A Haunting (2005). He has been married to Diane Fine since 1992. They have one child.

2. Eckhart Schmidt

Director | E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Sandmann

Eckhart Schmidt born: October 31, 1938 in Sternberg, Moravia [now Czech Republic]. He is a director, writer, producer, photographer and journalist. Eckhart Schmidt was a film critic at Süddeutsche Zeitung and belonged to a group of young German filmmakers called Neue Münchener Gruppe (NMG). Unlike ...

3. Fouad Mikati

Producer | Capharnaüm

Lebanese director Fouad Mikati began his cinematographic activities through television commercials.

After moving to Paris, Mikati made his first film attempt with the short film Zead (2003), he did not use dialogue to tell the story.

In 2010, he debuted as a director in the feature film "Rogues ...

4. Alan Clarke

Director | Screen Two

Liverpool native Alan Clarke got his start in the film business in Canada, where he studied acting and directing. Upon returning to England he got a job at ITV, then moved over to the BBC in 1969. He worked mostly in television, but he made a couple of feature films that got attention for their ...

5. Andrzej Bartkowiak

Director | Romeo Must Die

Esteemed cinematographer known for his long, durable association with Sidney Lumet. Trained at the Polish Film School in his native Lódz. After he immigrated to the U.S.A. he began working in commercials filming hundreds of memorable spots for IBM, Xerox, American Express, Pepsi ,Coca Cola, ...

6. Costa-Gavras

Director | Z

Costa-Gavras was born on February 12, 1933 in Loutra-Iraias, Greece. He is a director and writer, known for Z (1969), Missing (1982) and Amen. (2002). He has been married to Michèle Ray-Gavras since 1968. They have two children.

7. Giuseppe Ferrara

Director | Il caso Moro

Giuseppe Ferrara was born on July 15, 1932 in Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il caso Moro (1986), Bambini nell'acquedotto (1960) and La città del malessere (1973). He died on June 25, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

8. Gillo Pontecorvo

Director | La battaglia di Algeri

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for his 1966 masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers, widely viewed as one of the finest films of its genre: realistic though fictionalized documentary. Its portrayal of the Algerian resistance during the Algerian War uses the neorealist style ...

9. Francesco Rosi

Writer | Cadaveri eccellenti

His father was a shipowner. After school, Rosi initially began studying law, which he soon dropped out to work as a broadcast journalist and book illustrator in Naples. From 1944 to 1945 he worked for "Radio Napoli". In the immediate post-war years, Rosi moved to Rome, where he came into contact ...

10. Roberto Rossellini

Writer | Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...

11. Elio Petri

Writer | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto

Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and His Days Are Numbered (1962). He was married to Paola Pegoraro. He died on November 10, 1982 in Rome, Lazio,...

12. Luigi Zampa

Writer | Processo alla città

Abandoning earlier studies in architecture and engineering, Luigi Zampa learned screenwriting and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, between 1932 and 1937. He went on to make military training films for the Italian army during World War II, as well as collaborating on ...

13. Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...

14. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

15. Giuseppe De Santis

Writer | Caccia tragica

Giuseppe De Santis was born on February 11, 1917 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tragic Hunt (1947), Giorni d'amore (1954) and Bitter Rice (1949). He was married to Gordana Miletic. He died on May 16, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

16. Pietro Germi

Writer | Il ferroviere

Pietro Germi was born on September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on December 5, 1974 in Rome, ...

17. Luchino Visconti

Writer | Il gattopardo

Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...

18. Francesco De Robertis

Writer | Alfa Tau!

Francesco De Robertis was born on October 16, 1902 in San Marco in Lamis, Puglia, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Alfa Tau! (1942), La donna che venne dal mare (1957) and The Woman Who Came from the Sea (1954). He died on February 3, 1959 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

19. Carlo Lizzani

Director | Banditi a Milano

Carlo Lizzani was born on April 3, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Violent Four (1968), Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) and Celluloide (1996). He was married to Edith Bieber. He died on October 5, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

20. Francesco Maselli

Director | Storia d'amore

Francesco Maselli was born on December 9, 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Storia d'amore (1986), Codice privato (1988) and Time of Indifference (1964). He was married to Stefania Brai and Goliarda Sapienza. He died on March 21, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

21. Vittorio Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Vittorio Taviani studied law at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Paolo, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever ...

22. Paolo Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work ...

23. Damiano Damiani

Writer | Il giorno della civetta

Damiano Damiani was born on July 23, 1922 in Pasiano di Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Mafia (1968), The Reunion (1963) and Confessions of a Police Captain (1971). He died on March 7, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

24. José Luis Madrid

Writer | Jack el destripador de Londres

José Luis Madrid is rather a man of cinema than a filmmaker, because apart from director, producer and screenwriter, he also was a member of the boards of producing American Films, SL, Andorra Films, SA, Cinefilms, SL, Theatrical Production Ufesa, SA, Servifilms, SL, Kfilms, SA, José Luis Madrid, ...

25. Chris Marker

Writer | Twelve Monkeys

Chris Marker was born on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). He died on July 29, 2012 in Paris, France.

26. Mario Puzo

Writer | The Godfather

Mario Puzo was born October 15, 1920, in "Hell's Kitchen" on Manhattan's (NY) West Side and, following military service in World War II, attended New York's New School for Social Research and Columbia University. His best-known novel, "The Godfather," was preceded by two critically acclaimed novels...

27. Lloyd Kaufman

Producer | The Toxic Avenger

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, he wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale he was introduced to "B" pictures and the works of Roger Corman. Lloyd later got the opportunity to executive-produce a short movie made by a fellow student. The film, called "...

28. Michael Herz

Producer | The Toxic Avenger

Michael Herz was born on May 9, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Toxic Avenger (1984), Troma's War (1988) and Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990). He is married to Maris Herz. They have one child.

29. Trey Parker

Music_department | South Park

Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...

30. José Luis Merino

Writer | Aquellos tiempos del cuplé

José Luis Merino was born on June 10, 1927 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Aquellos tiempos del cuplé (1958), Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North (1967) and USA, violación y venganza (1983). He died on July 2, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.

31. 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 ...

32. José Antonio Nieves Conde

Director | Todos somos necesarios

José Antonio Nieves Conde was born on December 22, 1915 in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Todos somos necesarios (1956), Surcos (1951) and El diablo también llora (1963). He was married to María Luisa Mascuñán. He died on September 14, 2006 in Madrid...

33. Rafael Gil

Director | Teatro Apolo

Rafael Gil was born on May 22, 1913 in Madrid, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Teatro Apolo (1950), La calle sin sol (1948) and I Was a Parish Priest (1953). He died on July 10, 1986 in Madrid, Spain.

34. Frank Capra

Director | It's a Wonderful Life

One of seven children, Frank Capra was born on May 18, 1897, in Bisacquino, Sicily. On May 10, 1903, his family left for America aboard the ship Germania, arriving in New York on May 23rd. "There's no ventilation, and it stinks like hell. They're all miserable. It's the most degrading place you ...

35. Marian Dora

Director | Melancholie der Engel

Marian Dora is known for Melancholie der Engel (2009), Blight of Humanity (2018) and Das Verlangen der Maria D. (2018).

36. Andrey Iskanov

Editor | Andrey Iskanov's Ingression

Andrey Iskanov (b. 1976 in city of Khabarovsk, Russia). Studied in medical institute, has taken a great interest in photographing images and has made this business by the trade. In 1997 has received the award for achievements in the field of an advertising photo. Repeatedly exposed the photo works ...

37. David Firth

Director | Salad Fingers

David Firth was born on January 23, 1983 in Doncaster, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Salad Fingers (2004), Burnt Face Man (2004) and Jerry Jackson (2005).

38. Olaf Ittenbach

Special_effects | Beyond the Limits

Olaf Ittenbach was born in 1969 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany. He is a director and actor, known for Beyond the Limits (2003), BloodRayne (2005) and 5 Seasons (2015). He has been married to Tanja Ittenbach since March 30, 2012. He was previously married to Martina Ittenbach.

39. Anouk Whissell

Director | Summer of 84

Anouk Whissell is known for Summer of 84 (2018), Turbo Kid (2015) and Wake Up (2023).

40. Christian Alvart

Writer | Pandorum

Christian Alvart was born in 1974 near Frankfurt, Germany. His strict Christian background frowned upon films and television and in his childhood he was rarely allowed to see a movie. He developed a fascination and love for the forbidden subject matter and quickly became an "expert" in his circle ...

41. Travis Milloy

Writer | Infinity Chamber

Travis Milloy was born on May 9, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Infinity Chamber (2016), Pandorum (2009) and Street Gun (1996).

42. Jim Sharman

Director | The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jim Sharman spent much of his young life at the circus, where his father and grandfather ran a travelling boxing sideshow. Taking an interest in theatre, he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1966. Sharman became interested in directing experimental theatre. ...

43. Roger Corman

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...

44. William Crain

Director | Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

William Crain was born on June 20, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), Blacula (1972) and The Dukes of Hazzard (1979).

45. William Girdler

Director | The Manitou

Born October 22, 1947 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, William Brent Girdler launched his filmmaking career with the 1972 release of Asylum of Satan. He made a total of nine films in six years and provided the music for the Pat Patterson quickie Dr. Gore. Girdler died in a helicopter accident in the ...

46. Jack Hill

Writer | Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told

Jack Hill, sometimes referred to as a legendary cult-film director, grew up around movies--his father was a set designer for Warner Brothers since 1925, and later for Walt Disney Studios, where he eventually designed the Disneyland Castle. Jack went to the University of California to study film, ...

47. D'Urville Martin

Actor | Rosemary's Baby

D'Urville Martin was a key important, prolific and hugely engaging supporting actor who appeared with pleasing regularity in a handful of delightfully down'n'dirty 70s blaxploitation features. Martin was born on February 11, 1939 in New York City. D'Urville first began acting in the 1960s including...

48. Gordon Parks

Director | The Learning Tree

The pre-eminent American photojournalist of sub-Saharan descent. An acclaimed photographer for Life magazine from the late 40s through late 60s, he turned to directing films, his second of which, the blaxploitation movie Shaft (1971), achieved success at the box office. In 1989 his first film ...

49. Gordon Parks Jr.

Director | Super Fly

Gordon Parks Jr. was born as Gordon Roger Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the son of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Alexander Parks and Sally Alvis. He is best remembered for the successful if controversial crime film "Super Fly" (1972). He worked as a musician and photographer, early on ...

50. Cliff Roquemore

Writer | Disco Godfather

Writer, director, and producer Cliff Roquemore was born on September 28, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. After studying theatre at Wayne State University, Roquemore began his career writing and directing stage plays at such Motown venues as Concept East, Detroit Repertory Theatre, and the Vest Pocket ...

51. Cirio H. Santiago

Director | Water Lily

Producer/director Cirio H. Santiago is the son of Dr. Ciriaco Santiago, who founded Premiere Productions in Manila in 1946. He has two siblings. After starting out as a producer he started directing English-language movies in the early 70s. Santiago became one of the pioneers of the "Blaxploitation...

52. Jack Starrett

Actor | First Blood

Jack Starrett was a superbly talented and versatile actor and director who specialized in making hugely enjoyable down-'n'-dirty low-budget drive-in exploitation pictures. Starrett was born on November 2, 1936, in Refugio, TX. He attended San Marcos Academy in the 1940s and the 1950s. He made his ...

53. Melvin Van Peebles

Actor | The Shining

Melvin Van Peebles was born on August 21, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Shining (1997), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and Don't Play Us Cheap (1972). He was married to Maria Marx. He died on September 21, 2021 in Manhattan, New York City, New ...

54. Sean Weathers

Producer | Vault of Terror II: The Undead

Sean Weathers was born on January 14, 1980 in Guyana. He is a producer and writer, known for Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015), The Fappening (2015) and Hookers in Revolt (2006).

55. Darren Lynn Bousman

Director | Repo! The Genetic Opera

Darren Lynn Bousman was born on January 11, 1979 in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), Saw II (2005) and Abattoir (2016). He has been married to Laura Bousman since January 2, 2010. They have two children.

56. Debbie Harry

Actress | Videodrome

Deborah Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In the 1960s, she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited ...

57. Demian Lichtenstein

Producer | 3000 Miles to Graceland

Demian has amassed a vast body of work in the music video industry since receiving his BFA from New York University in 1988, leading to his current status as a major up-and-comer in Feature Film Direction. Some past projects include directing Music Videos for Sting & Eric Clapton, Grandmaster Caz, ...

58. Timur Bekmambetov

Director | Nochnoy dozor

Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian film director known for vampire franchise Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006).

He was born Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov on June 25, 1961, in Guryev, Soviet Union (now Atyrau, Kazakhstan). His father, Nuruakhit Bekmambetov, is a manager at Guryev Energy ...

59. Kon Ichikawa

Director | Inugami-ke no ichizoku

Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of ...

60. Susumu Hirasawa

Composer | Paprika

Susumu Hirasawa was born on April 2, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a composer, known for Paprika (2006), Millennium Actress (2001) and Onsen shâku.

61. 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 (...

62. Ken Loach

Director | I, Daniel Blake

Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.

After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into ...

63. Frank Oz

Actor | The Muppet Show

Frank Richard Oznowicz was born in Hereford, England to puppeteers Frances and Isidore Oznowicz. His family moved to Montana in 1951, eventually settling in Oakland, California. As a teenager, he worked as an apprentice puppeteer at Children's Fairyland amusement park. He is one of the primary ...

64. Hae-sung Song

Director | Failan

Hae-sung Song was born on October 11, 1964 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a director and writer, known for Failan (2001), Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary (2004) and Boomerang Family (2013).

65. Hiroyuki Asada

Animation_department | Dororo

Hiroyuki Asada is known for Dororo (2019), Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (2009) and Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee Reverse (2010).

66. Paul Verhoeven

Director | RoboCop

Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...

67. Camila Beltrán

Director | Pedro malheur

Camila Beltrán is known for Pedro malheur (2014), Pacífico Oscuro (2020) and Mi bestia.

68. Richard Donner

Director | Superman

Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...

69. Sion Sono

Director | Ai no mukidashi

Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...

70. Ralph Bakshi

Director | Wizards

Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. ...

71. Michael Schaack

Producer | Felidae

Michael Schaack was born in 1957 in Hamburg, Germany. He is a producer and director, known for Felidae (1994), Werner - Das muss kesseln!!! (1996) and Pippi Longstocking (1997).

72. Jorge Sanjinés

Director | Yawar Mallku

Sanjines made his first feature film, Ukamau (1966), under the auspices of the Bolivian Film Institute, of which he was named director in 1965. A landmark in the history of Bolivian cinema, Ukamau is a sympathetic depiction of the social problems of the Andean peasantry shot exclusively in Aymara, ...

73. Antonio Eguino

Director | Amargo mar

Antonio Eguino is known for Amargo mar (1987), Chuquiago (1977) and The Andes Don't Believe in God (2007).

74. Paolo Agazzi

Director | El día que murió el silencio

Italian-Bolivian film director and producer, born in Cremona (Italy). He studies Cinema and Economy in Milan and at 26 he travels to Bolivia for vacations. He meets Antonio Eguino and Oscar Soria, Bolivian filmmakers and decides to stay and start his film career. His first feature film as a ...

75. Juan Carlos Valdivia

Director | American Visa

After completing the two films that earned him a place in Latin American cinema, Juan Carlos was in the predicament of what to do next. In winter of 2008, aboard a cargo ship crossing the north Atlantic, he decided it was time to follow his muse in his native Bolivia. Three very personal films came...

76. Marcos Loayza

Director | Cuestión de fe

Marcos Loayza born in 1959, in La Paz Bolivia. He studied architecture in La Paz and attended The International School of Cinema and Video of San Antonio de de los Baños, Cuba. He was a student of Alfredo Bryce Ecgenique, Jean Claude Carriere and José Sanchis Siniestra. He started his career with ...

77. Mario Bava

Cinematographer | Ecologia del delitto

Italian director Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in the coastal northern Italian town of Sanremo. His father, Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a cinematographer in the early days of the Italian film industry. Bava was trained as a painter, and when he eventually followed his father into film ...

78. Leticia Dolera

Actress | [Rec]³: Génesis

Leticia Dolera was born on October 23, 1981 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress and writer, known for [REC] 3: Genesis (2012), Vida perfecta (2019) and Requirements to Be a Normal Person (2015).

79. Montxo Armendáriz

Director | Silencio roto

Montxo Armendáriz was born on January 27, 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Broken Silence (2001), Secrets of the Heart (1997) and Stories from the Kronen (1995).

80. José Luis Fernández 'Pirri'

Actor | Policía

José Luis Fernández 'Pirri' was born in 1965 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Policía (1987), Maravillas (1981) and Navajeros (1980). He died on May 9, 1988 in Madrid, Spain.

81. Ángel Fernández Franco

Actor | Los últimos golpes de 'El Torete'

Ángel Fernández Franco was born on January 22, 1960 in Spain. He was an actor, known for Los últimos golpes de 'El Torete' (1980), Street Warriors (1977) and Yo, 'El Vaquilla' (1985). He died on February 26, 1991 in Monteagudo, Murcia, Spain.

82. José Luis Manzano

Actor | El pico

José Luis Manzano was born on December 30, 1963 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was an actor, known for El pico (1983), El pico 2 (1984) and Navajeros (1980). He died on February 20, 1992 in Madrid, Spain.

83. Jose Antonio Valdelomar González

Actor | Deprisa, deprisa

Jose Antonio Valdelomar González was an actor, known for Deprisa, Deprisa (1981). He died on November 11, 1992 in Madrid, Spain.

84. Sonia Martínez

Producer | La casa de papel

Sonia Martínez is known for Money Heist (2017), Las noches de Tefía (2023) and Pequeñas coincidencias (2018).

85. Sonia Martínez

Actress | Segunda enseñanza

Sonia Martínez was born on September 23, 1963 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Segunda enseñanza (1986), Dame fuego (1995) and Perras callejeras (1985). She died on September 4, 1994 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

86. Antonio Flores

Composer | El charro del misterio

Antonio Flores was born on November 14, 1961 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and composer, known for El charro del misterio (1980), Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001) and Pals (1982). He was married to Ana Villa. He died on May 30, 1995 in Madrid, Spain.

87. Errol Morris

Director | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

His documentaries helped spur a rebirth of non-fiction film in the 80s & garnered wide critical success. But until 2003's "The Fog of War," Morris was shunned by the Academy Awards.

Morris' first two films won much acclaim (Gates of Heaven (1978) and Vernon, Florida (1981)). In the second movie, ...

88. Béla Tarr

Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák

Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.

89. Jesús Franco

Writer | Der Teufel kam aus Akasava

He was only six years old when he started composing music under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (...

90. 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. ...

91. 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 Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered several awards in the international film festival...

92. Luis Estrada

Writer | El infierno

Luis Estrada was born on January 17, 1962 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for his films that openly criticize the Mexican political system and the controversial issues that revolve around it, like El Infierno (2010), La Ley de Herodes (1999) and La ...

93. Emilio Fernández

Writer | La perla

Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father ...

94. Bretislav Pojar

Director | To See or Not to See

Bretislav Pojar was a Czech film director and animator, specializing in puppet animation.

Pojar was born in Susice (former name "Schüttenhofen"), a small factory town in Czechoslovakia. Since the 19th century, the main employer in town was a match factory.

Pojar started work as an animator in the ...

95. 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 ...

96. Dusan Vukotic

Director | Gosti iz galaksije

Dusan Vukotic was born on February 7, 1927 in Bileca, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy (1981), Operation Stadium (1977) and Igra (1962). He died on July 8, 1998 in Krapinske Toplice, Croatia.

97. Zdenek Miler

Writer | Krtek

Zdenek Miler was born on February 21, 1921 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Krtek (1957), The cricket (1978) and Täältä tulee Myyrä (2011). He was married to Emílie Milerová. He died on November 30, 2011 in Nova Ves pod ...

98. Alex Gibney

Producer | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Alex Gibney was born on October 23, 1953 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) and Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015). He has been married to Anne Gibney since ...

99. Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Director | 2LDK

Born in 1955. Filmmaker, director, visual artist. Starting out in music video clips, has branched out to a wide range of fields including stage and music events (over 20), TV dramas (over 100 episodes), TV commercials (16), and films (9 to date). His film 'Keizoku/eiga (2000)' (Keizoku: Beautiful ...

100. Shôji Kawamori

Writer | Macross Zero

Shôji Kawamori was born on February 20, 1960 in Toyama, Japan. He is a writer, known for Macross Zero (2002), The Vision of Escaflowne (1996) and Ghost in the Shell (1995).