Registi internazionali preferiti

1. Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, ...

Generi: Commedia, fantasy, avventura, fantascienza

Miglior film: "Viaggio nella Luna"

2. 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 ...

Generi: Espressionismo tedesco, vampiri, sentimentale, horror gotico, melodramma, fantasy

Migliori film: "Nosferatu", "Aurora"

3. 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. ...

Generi: Noir, Espressionismo Tedesco, crime, distopico, thriller, fantascienza

Miglior film: "Metropolis"

4. 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 ...

Generi: Mistero, thriller, crime, thriller psicologico, crime

Migliori film: "Psycho", "La Finestra sul Cortile","La Donna che visse Due Volte", "Nodo alla gola", "Gli Uccelli"

5. 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 ...

Generi: Mistero, dramma, noir, thriller

Miglior film: "Quarto Potere"

6. 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 (...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, sentimentale, fantasy, dramma familiare

Migliori film: "Il Settimo Sigillo", "Il Posto delle Fragole", "L'ora del lupo", "Luci di inverno", "Persona"

7. Mel Brooks

Actor | Spaceballs

Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...

Generi: Comico, parodia, commedia, fantascienza, satira, commedia nera

Migliori film: "Frankenstein Junior"

8. 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 ...

Generi: Satira, fantascienza, guerra, distopico, dramma, horror psicologico

Migliori film: "2001: Odissea nello Spazio", "Shining", "Arancia Meccanica", "Full Metal Jacket"

9. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...

Generi: dramma, biografico, Nuova Hollywood, commedia, musical

Migliori film: "Qualcuno volò nel nido del cuculo", "Man on the Moon"

10. Jan Svankmajer

Director | Otesánek

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...

Generi: Surreale, grottesco, animazione stop-motion, commedia nera, claymotion, satira, dramma psicologico

Migliori film: "Qualcosa di Alice", "Surviving Life"

11. 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 ...

Generi: Commedia, sentimentale, comico, Nuova Hollywood, satira, fantasy

Migliori film: "Io e Annie", "Manhattan", "Zelig", "Crimini e Misfatti"

12. Ridley Scott

Producer | The Martian

Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...

Generi: Fantascienza, noir, cyberpunk, distopico, dramma, dramma psicologico

Migliori film: "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Thelma e Louise"

13. 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. ...

Generi: Animazione 2D, satira, commedia nera, sword and sorcery, fantasy, sex comedy

Miglior film: "American Pop"

14. 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 ...

Generi: Dramma, gangster, Nuova Holywood, guerra, mistero, horror gotico

Migliori film: "Il Padrino", "Il Padrino II", "Apocalypse Now"

15. Wes Craven

Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.

Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...

Generi: Slasher, horror sovrannaturale, satira, horror, thriller, commedia nera

Migliori film: "Le colline hanno gli occhi", "Nightmare - Dal profondo della notte", "Scream"

16. 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 ...

Generi: Grottesco, commedia nera, satira, avventura, distopico, fantascienza

Migliori film: "Brazil", "Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas", "L'uomo che uccise Don Chisciotte"

17. Brian De Palma

Director | Body Double

Brian De Palma is one of the well-known directors who spear-headed the new movement in Hollywood during the 1970s. He is known for his many films that go from violent pictures, to Hitchcock-like thrillers. Born on September 11, 1940, De Palma was born in Newark, New Jersey in an Italian-American ...

Generi: Dramma, gangster, Nuova Hollywood, thriller, dramma psicologico, thriller, crime

Migliori film: "Il Fantasma del Palcoscenico", "Carrie - Lo Sguardo di Satana", "Scarface"

18. Hayao Miyazaki

Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.

Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...

Generi: Animazione 2D, avventura, fantasy, racconto di formazione, famiglia

Migliori film: "Porco Rosso", "Principessa Mononoke", "La città incantata", "Si alza il vento"

19. 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 ...

Generi: Dramma, biografico, commedia nera, gangster, Nuova Hollywood, crime

Migliori film: "Taxi Driver", "New York New York", "Toro Scatenato", "Re per una notte", "Fuori Orario", "L'ultima Tentazione di Cristo", "Quei Bravi Ragazzi", "The Wolf Of Wall Street"

20. 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...

Generi: Fantascienza, body horror, dramma psicologico, thriller, dramma, thriller psicologico

Migliori film: "Videodrome", "La Zona Morta", "La Mosca", "Crimes of the Future"

21. John Waters

Writer | Pecker

Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore ...

Generi: Commedia nera, satira, exploitation, crime, documentario

Migliori film: "Pink Flamingos", "Female Trouble", "Polyester"

22. 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 ...

Generi: Slasher, azione, fantascienza, halloween, distopico, horror psicologico

Migliori film: "Halloween - La notte delle streghe", "La cosa", "Essi Vivono", "Villaggio dei dannati"

23. John Landis

Director | The Blues Brothers

John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...

Generi: Commedia nera, buddy, azione, horror, supereroi, spaghetti western

Migliori film: "The Blues Brothers", "Un lupo mannaro americano a Londra"

24. 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.

Generi: Dramma, commedia, road movie, No Wave Cinema, film a episodi

Migliori film: "Stranger than paradise", "Daunbailò", "Dead Man", "Paterson"

25. James Cameron

Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water

James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...

Generi: Azione, fantascienza, thriller, avventura, viaggio nel tempo, cyberpunk

Migliori film: "The Terminator", "Terminator 2 - Il Giorno del Giudizio", "Avatar 2: La Via dell'Acqua"

26. Lars von Trier

Writer | Dancer in the Dark

Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, crime, horror psicologico, musical, melodramma, dogma 95

Migliori film: "Idioti", "Dancer in the Dark", "Dogville", "Antichrist", "Melancholia", "La casa di Jack"

27. 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 ...

Generi: Fantasy, avventura, horror, commedia, musical, supereroi, horror gotico,

Migliori film: "Beetlejuice - Spiritello Porcello", "Edward Mani di Forbice", "Batman Returns", "Ed Wood", "Il Mistero di Sleepy Hollow", "Big Fish - La Storia di una Vita Incredibile", "La Sposa Cadavere", "Sweeney Todd : Il Diabolico Barbiere di Fleet Street"

28. 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 ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, surrealismo, sentimentale, commedia nera, fantasy

Migliori film: "Anomalisa", "Sto pensando di finirla qui"

29. Sam Raimi

Director | Spider-Man

Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...

Generi: Commedia, azione, commedia nera, splatter, supereroi

Migliori film: "La Casa", "La Casa 2", "L'armata delle tenebre", "Spiderman 2", "Drag Me To Hell"

30. Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Actor | Tetsuo

Shin'ya Tsukamoto was born on January 1, 1960 in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Vital (2004) and Tokyo Fist (1995).

Generi: Body horror, cyberpunk, surrealismo, sperimentale, commedia nera, splatter

Migliori film: "Tetsuo: The Iron Man", "A Snake of June"

31. Peter Jackson

Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...

Generi: Avventura, azione, high fantasy, commedia nera, splatter, science fiction, horror

Migliori film: "Bad Taste - Fuori di testa", "Splatters - Gli Schizzacervelli", "Il Signore degli Anelli [trilogia]"

32. 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...

Generi: Commedia nera, azione, crime, western, thriller, arti marziali

Migliori film: "Le Iene", "Pulp Fiction", "Jackie Brown", "Kill Bill: Vol.1", "Bastardi senza gloria", "Django Unchained", "The Hateful Eight"

33. Michel Gondry

Director | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, sentimentale, commedia, surreale, azione, buddy

Migliori film: "The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind"

34. Park Chan-wook

Director | Oldeuboi

Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.

Generi: Dramma, mistero, thriller, post-apocalittico, crime, distopico

Migliori film: "Oldboy", "Thirst", "Decision to Leave"

35. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

Generi: Anime, thriller psicologico, mistero, fantascienza, dramma psicologico

Migliori film: "Perfect Blue", "Millennium Actress", "Paprika - Sognando un sogno"

36. Guillermo del Toro

Writer | El laberinto del fauno

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...

Generi: Azione, avventura, dramma, favola, fantasy, supereroi, animazione

Migliori film: "Il labirinto del fauno", "Hellboy II: The Golden Army", "La forma dell'acqua", "La fiera delle illusioni - Nightmare Alley", "Pinocchio"

37. Darren Aronofsky

Writer | 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 ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, thriller psicologico, fantasy, surreale

Migliori film: "Requiem for a dream", "Il cigno nero"

38. 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 ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, distopico, zombie, fantascienza, horror psicologico, thriller psicologico

Miglior film: "Men"

39. 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...

Generi: Dramma, commedia nera, dramma psicologico, sentimentale, crime, thriller

Migliori film: "Magnolia", "Ubriaco d'amore", "The Master", "Il Filo Nascosto", "Licorice Pizza"

40. Yorgos Lanthimos

Director | The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta,...

Generi: Horror psicologico, Greek Weird Wave, satira, thriller psicologico, commedia nera, dramma psicologico, dramma familiare

Migliori film: "Dogtooth", "Il sacrificio del cervo sacro", "La favorida"

41. Edgar Wright

Director | Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...

Generi: Commedia nera, azione, zombie, fantascienza, parodia

Migliori film: "L'alba dei morti dementi", "Hot Fuzz", "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World"

42. Jordan Peele

Writer | Nope

Jordan Peele is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. Peele's first feature film, "Get Out," was a critically acclaimed blockbuster, recognized with four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The film would earn Peele the ...

Generi: Horror psicologico, thriller psicologico, satira, commedia nera, fantascienza

Miglior film: "Nope"

43. Robert Eggers

Director | The Lighthouse

Robert Houston Eggers is an American filmmaker and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film The Northman (2022). His films are noted ...

Generi: Folk horror, horror psicologico, dramma psicologico, horror cosmico, sword and sorcery

Migliori film: "The Witch", "The Lighthouse"

44. Ari Aster

Director | Hereditary

Ari Aster is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the A24 horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a ...

Generi: Dramma psicologico, surreale, horror psicologico, folk horror, grottesco

Migliori film: "Midsommar", "Beau ha paura"