Directors from All Over
by nujeym | created - 25 Feb 2018 | updated - 11 months ago | Public
1. Yasujirô Ozu
Writer | Tôkyô monogatari
Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first ...
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ياسجورو أوزو، أحد السهول الممتنعة العظيمة. لغة سينمائية بسيطة في مقابل كثافة موضوعية، درامية صورية مرعبة. يأتي بحكاية يومية يكتبها كتابة عادية ويقدمها بطريقة المحقق الذي يطلب إعادة تمثيل الحدث أمامه. وجوه تعرفها، مواقف تمر عليها، حياة تبدأ، وحياة تذهب، أوزو يسعى لمعالجة الحياة من منظورها.
Movies: 20 Favorites: 13
Days of Youth (1929) 6/10
I Flunked, But... (1930) 5/10
That Night's Wife (1930) 6/10
Tokyo Chorus (1931) 7/10
The Lady and the Beard (1931) 6/10
I Was Born, But... (1932) 9/10
Passing Fancy (1933) 7/10
Woman of Tokyo (1933) 8/10
The Only Son (1936) 7/10
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) 8/10
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) 9/10
Late Spring (1949) 8/10
Early Summer (1951) 9/10
Tokyo Story (1953) 8/10
Tokyo Twilight (1957) 9/10
Equinox Flower (1958) 9/10
Good Morning (1959) 9/10
Floating Weeds (1959) 9/10
Late Autumn (1960) 8/10
The End of Summer (1961) 8/10
An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 10/10
2. 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...
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أندريه تاركوفسكي شاعر السينما المتفلسفة القلقة. أحد من أسسوا لصورة الشعرية بجانب الأرميني العظيم سيرجي باراجانوف تنويعة من الأفلام اختلاف تأملاته فيها. أسئلة بدأت في الإنسان عن طفولته عن شبابه عن صناعته واخختمت بتحفته نوستالجيا فالتضحية. تاركوفسكي رمز شعري يحمل ألف معنى.
Movies: 10 Favorites: 9
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) 8/10
Ivan's Childhood (1962) 8/10
Andrei Rublev (1966) 9/10
Ivanovo detstvo (1962) 8/10
Solaris (1972) 9/10
The Mirror (1975) 8/10
Stalker (1979) 10/10
Nostalgia (1983) 8/10
Sacrifice (1986) 9/10
Voyage in Time (1983 TV Movie) 7/10
3. 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...
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Movies: 22 Favorites: 17
Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 7/10
Drunken Angel (1948 8/10
Stray Dog (1949) 7/10
Scandal (1950) 7/10
Rashomon (1950) 10/10
The Idiot (1951) 8/10
Ikiru (1952) 10/10
Seven Samurai (1954) 10/10
Throne of Blood (1957) 8/10
The Hidden Fortress (1958) 8/10
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 8/10
Yojimbo (1961) 9/10
Sanjuro (1962) 9/10
High and Low (1963) 8/10
Red Beard (1965) 8/10
Dodesukaden (1970) 9/10
Dersu Uzala (1975) 8/10
Kagemusha (1980) 8/10
Ran (1985) 8/10
Dreams (1990) 9/10
Rhapsody in August (1991) 7/10
Maadadayo (1993) 8/10
4. 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 (...
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Movies: 19 Favorites: 15
To Joy (1950) 8/10
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) 8/10 8/10
Summer with Monika (1953) 7/10
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) 8/10
The Seventh Seal (1957) 8/10
Wild Strawberries (1957) 9/10
The Magician (1958) 8/10
Brink of Life (1958) 8/10
The Virgin Spring (1960) 8/10
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) 8/10
The Silence (1963) 8/10
Winter Light (1963) 8/10
Persona (1966) 10/10
Shame (1968) 7/10
Hour of the Wolf (1968) 7/10
The Passion of Anna (1969) 8/10
Cries and Whispers (1972) 10/10
Höstsonaten (1978) 10/10
Saraband (2003 TV Movie) 7/10
5. Abbas Kiarostami
Writer | Copie conforme
Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career ...
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Movies: 11 Favorites: 10
The Experience (1973) 7/10
Where is the Friend's Home ? (1987) 10/10
Close-Up (1990) 9/10
Life, and Nothing More... (1992) 8/10
Through the Olive Trees (1994) 8/10
Taste of Cherry (1997) 8/10
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) 8/10
Ten (2002) 8/10
Shirin (2008) 8/10
Certified Copy (2010) 8/10
Like Someone in Love (2012) 8/10
6. 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 ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 8
The Lights of Variety (1951) 7/10
I vitelloni (1953) 9/10
La Strada (1954) 8/10
The Nights of Cabiria (1957) 8/10
La Dolce Vita (1960) 10/10
8½ (1963) 10/10
Juliet of the Spirits (1965) 8/10
Roma (1972) 8/10
Amarcord (1973) 8/10
7. 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 ...
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Movies: 22 Favorites: 9
Making a Living (1914 Short) 5/10 1st as an Actor, Directed by Henry Lehrman
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914 Short) 7/10 2st as an Actor, Directed by Henry Lehrman
Making a Living (1914 Short) 5/10 1st as an Director
Laughing Gas (1914 Short) 5/10
Caught in the Rain (1914 Short) 5/10
Twenty Minutes of Love (1914 Short) 6/10
The Champion (1915 Short) 6/10
The Adventurer (1917 Short) 7/10
A Dog's Life (1918 Short) 6/10
Shoulder Arms (1918 Short) 7/10
Sunnyside (1919 Short) 5/10
A Day's Pleasure (1919 Short) 7/10
The Kid (1921) 9/10
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923) 7/10
The Gold Rush (1925) 9/10
The Circus (1928) 9/10
City Lights (1931) 9/10
Modern Times (1936) 9/10
The Great Dictator (1940) 10/10
Limelight (1952) 10/10
A King in New York (1957) 7/10
The Chaplin Revue (1959) 8/10
A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) 6/10
8. 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 ...
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Movies: 10 Favorites: 7
The Haunted House (1921 Short) 7/10 With Edward F. Cline
Cops (1922 Short) 7/10 With Edward F. Cline
The Goat (1921 Short) 7/10 With Malcolm St. Clair
Our Hospitality (1923) 8/10 With John G. Blystone
Three Ages (1923) 8/10 With Edward F. Cline
The Navigator (1924) 8/10 With Donald Crisp
Sherlock Jr. (1924) 8/10
The General (1926) 8/10 With Clyde Bruckman
The Cameraman (1928) 8/10 With Edward Sedgwick
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 8/10 With Charles Reisner
9. 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 ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 4
Pather Panchali (1955) 8/10
The Unvanquished (1956) 7/10
The Music Room (1958 9/10
The World of Apur (1959) 8/10
The Big City (1963) 8/10
10. Robert Bresson
Writer | Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 6
Ladies of the Park (1945) 7/10
Diary of a Country Priest (1951) 8/10
A Man Escaped (1956) 9/10
Pickpocket (1959) 8/10
The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) 8/10
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) 8/10
Mouchette (1967) 8/10
Lancelot of the Lake (1974) 7/10
11. Sergei Parajanov
Director | Tini zabutykh predkiv
One of the 20th century's greatest masters of cinema Sergei Parajanov was born in Georgia to Armenian parents and it was always unlikely that his work would conform to the strict socialist realism that Soviet authorities preferred. After studying film and music, Parajanov became an assistant ...
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Movies: 3 Favorites: 3
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) 8/10
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 9/10
The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985) 8/10
12. 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 ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 3
Holiday (1949) 7/10
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) 8/10
My Uncle (1958) 9/10
Playtime (1967) 9/10
Traffic (1971) 7/10
13. 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 ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 3
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 8/10
Vampyr (1932) 6/10
Day of Wrath (1943) 7/10
The Word (1954) 8/10
Gertrud (1964) 8/10
14. 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 ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 4
Nosferatu (1922) 8/10
The Last Laugh (1924) 8/10
Faust (1926) 7/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 8/10
City Girl (1930) 8/10
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) 7/10
15. 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 ...
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Movies: 13 Favorites: 10
Flying Padre (1951 Short) 5/10
Killer's Kiss (1955) 5/10
The Killing (1956) 8/10
Paths of Glory (1957) 9/10
Spartacus (1960) 7/10
Lolita (1962) 8/10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8/10
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 10/10
A Clockwork Orange (1971) 9/10
Barry Lyndon (1975) 9/10
The Shining (1980) 9/10
Full Metal Jacket (1987) 8/10
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) 8/10
16. 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. ...
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Movies: 17 Favorites: 4
Destiny (1921) 7/10
The Nibelungs: Siegfried (1924) 8/10
Metropolis (1927) 9/10
M (1931) 10/10
Fury (1936) 7/10
You Only Live Once (1937) 7/10
Man Hunt (1941) 6/10
Western Union (1941) 6/10
Ministry of Fear (1944) 6/10
Scarlet Street (1945) 8/10
Cloak and Dagger (1946) 6/10
Secret Beyond the Door... (1947) 7/10
The Big Heat (1953) 7/10
The Blue Gardenia (1953) 6/10
Human Desire (1954) 7/10
While the City Sleeps (1956) 7/10
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 7/10
17. 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.
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Movies: 10 Favorites: 8
Stranger Than Paradise (1984) 8/10
Down by Law (1986) 8/10
Mystery Train (1989) 8/10
Night on Earth (1991) 8/10
Dead Man (1995) 8/10
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) 7/10
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) 8/10
Broken Flowers (2005) 8/10
The Limits of Control (2009) 8/10
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) 7/10
18. 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 ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 5
Eraserhead (1977) 7/10
The Elephant Man (1980) 7/10
Dune (1984) 7/10
Blue Velvet (1986) 8/10
Wild at Heart (1990) 7/10
Lost Highway (1997) 8/10
The Straight Story (1999) 8/10
Mulholland Dr. (2001) 9/10
Inland Empire (2006) 9/10
19. 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 ...
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Movies: 12 Favorites: 11
Future Boy Conan (1978 TV Series) 8/10
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) 9/10
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) 8/10
Castle in the Sky (1986) 8/10
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 8/10
Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 7/10
Porco Rosso (1992) 8/10
Princess Mononoke (1997) 10/10
Spirited Away (2001) 10/10
Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 9/10
Ponyo (2008) 8/10
The Wind Rises (2013) 9/10
20. Isao Takahata
Director | Hotaru no haka
Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 7
Jarinko Chie (1981) 7/10
Gauche the Cellist (1982) 8/10
The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987) 8/10
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) 10/10
Only Yesterday (1991) 8/10
Pom Poko (1994) 8/10
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) 8/10
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) 8/10
21. 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 ...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 4
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) 7/10
Fistful of Dollars (1964) 7/10
For a Few Dollars More (1965) 8/10
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 10/10
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) 9/10
Once Upon a Time... the Revolution (1971) 7/10
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 10/10
22. 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, ...
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Movies: 16 Favorites: 4
Stagecoach (1939) 8/10
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) 5/10
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 9/10
Tobacco Road (1941) 7/10
My Darling Clementine (1946) 8/10
3 Godfathers (1948) 6/10
Fort Apache (1948) 6/10
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 6/10
Rio Grande (1950) 5/10
Wagon Master (1950) 6/10
The Quiet Man (1952) 7/10
The Searchers (1956) 8/10
The Horse Soldiers (1959) 6/10
Two Rode Together (1961) 6/10
How the West Was Won (1962) 7/10
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 7/10
23. 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 ...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 5
Life Is Sweet (1990) 7/10
Naked (1993) 9/10
Secrets & Lies (1996) 9/10
Vera Drake (2004) 8/10
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) 8/10
Another Year (2010) 8/10
Mr. Turner (2014) 7/10
24. Yôji Yamada
Writer | Tasogare Seibei
Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series. "The Twilight Samurai" (The Twilight Samurai (2002)) marks his 77th film as well as his 41th year as ...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 5
A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) 8/10
The Twilight Samurai (2002) 8/10
The Hidden Blade (2004) 8/10
Love and Honor (2006) 8/10
Kabei: Our Mother (2008) 9/10
About Her Brother (2010) 7/10
The Little House (2014) 7/10
25. 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 (...
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 7
Camera Buff (1979) 8/10
Talking Heads (1980 Short) 8/10
A Short Film About Love (1988) 9/10
A Short Film About Killing(1988) 8/10
The Double Life of Veronique (1991) 8/10
Three Colours: Blue (1993) 8/10
Three Colours: Red (1994) 9/10
Three Colours: White (1994) 7/10
26. 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 ...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 5
The White Balloon (1995) 8/10
The Mirror (1997) 8/10
The Circle (2000) 8/10
Crimson Gold (2003) 8/10
Offside (2006) 7/10
This Is Not a Film (2011) 8/10
Taxi (2015) 7/10
27. Roy Andersson
Director | En kärlekshistoria
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his distinctive style of absurdist humor and melancholic depictions of human life. His personal style is characterized by long takes, and stiff caricaturing of Swedish culture and grotesque. Over his career Andersson earned ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 4
A Swedish Love Story (1970) 7/10
World of Glory (1992 Short) 8/10
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) 8/10
You, the Living (2007) 9/10
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) 9/10
28. Zhangke Jia
Producer | Jiang hu er nü
Zhangke Jia was born on May 24, 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi, China. He is a producer and director, known for Jiang hu er nü (2018), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Mountains May Depart (2015). He has been married to Tao Zhao since January 7, 2012.
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 4
Pickpocket (1997) 7/10
Platform (2000) 8/10
The World (2004) 8/10
Still Life (2006) 8/10
A Touch of Sin (2013) 9/10
29. Godfrey Reggio
Director | Koyaanisqatsi
Godfrey Reggio is a pioneer of a film style that creates poetic images of extraordinary emotional impact for audiences worldwide. Reggio is prominent in the film world for his QATSI trilogy, essays of visual images and sound that chronicle the destructive impact of the modern world on the ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 3
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) 8/10
Powaqqatsi (1988) 8/10
Anima Mundi (1992 Short) 7/10
Evidence (1995 Short) 7/10
Naqoyqatsi (2002) 5/10
Visitors (2013) 8/10
30. Giuseppe Tornatore
Director | La migliore offerta
Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 6
Cinema Paradiso (1988) 9/10
Everybody's Fine (1990) 8/10
A Pure Formality (1994) 8/10
The Star Maker (1995) 7/10
The Legend of 1900 (1998) 8/10
Malèna (2000) 8/10
The Unknown Woman (2006) 8/10
Baarìa (2009) 7/10
The Best Offer (2013) 7/10
31. Ron Fricke
Cinematographer | Samsara
Ron Fricke is known for Samsara (2011), Baraka (1992) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).
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Movies: 3 Favorites: 3
Chronos (1985) 8/10
Baraka (1992) 9/10
Samsara (2011) 9/10
32. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Director | Manbiki kazoku
Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at T.V. Man Union. Snuck off set to film Mou hitotsu no kyouiku - Ina shogakkou haru gumi no kiroku (1991). His first feature, Maborosi (1995), ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 5
Maborosi (1995) 8/10
After Life (1998) 8/10
Still Walking (2008) 8/10
I Wish (2011) 8/10
Like Father, Like Son (2013) 9/10
33. Kar-Wai Wong
Director | 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 ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 4
Days of Being Wild (1990) 8/10
Chungking Express (1994) 8/10
Ashes of Time (1994) 7/10
Fallen Angels (1995) 8/10
In the Mood for Love (2000) 8/10
2046 (2004) 7/10
My Blueberry Nights (2007) 7/10
There's Only One Sun (2007 Short) 7/10
The Grandmaster (2013) 7/10
34. 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 ...
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Movies: 20 Favorites: 10
The Major and the Minor (1942) 5/10
Double Indemnity (1944) 9/10
The Lost Weekend (1945) 8/10
Sunset Blvd. (1950) 10/10
Ace in the Hole (1951) 8/10
Stalag 17 (1953) 8/10
Sabrina (1954) 7/10
The Seven Year Itch (1955) 7/10
Love in the Afternoon (1957) 7/10
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) 6/10
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 9/10
Some Like It Hot (1959) 8/10
The Apartment (1960) 9/10
One, Two, Three (1961) 8/10
Irma la Douce (1963) 7/10
The Fortune Cookie (1966) 7/10
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) 7/10
Avanti! (1972) 8/10
The Front Page (1974) 7/10
Buddy Buddy (1981) 3/10
35. 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 ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 5
Violent Cop (1989) 7/10
A Scene at the Sea (1991) 7/10
Sonatine (1993) 8/10
Kids Return (1996) 8/10
Fireworks (1997) 8/10
Kikujiro (1999) 8/10
Brother (2000) 7/10
Dolls (2002) 7/10
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003) 8/10
36. René Clair
Writer | Le silence est d'or
René Clair was born on November 11, 1898 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Man About Town (1947), Beauties of the Night (1952) and The Grand Maneuver (1955). He was married to Bronia Clair. He died on March 15, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
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Movies: 3 Favorites: 1
Le million (1931) 8/10
Liberty for Us (1931) 7/10
And Then There Were None (1945) 7/10
37. Aki Kaurismäki
Producer | Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 4
Shadows in Paradise (1986) 7/10
Ariel (1988) 7/10
The Match Factory Girl (1990) 8/10
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) 8/10
The Man Without a Past (2002) 8/10
Lights in the Dusk (2006) 6/10
Le Havre (2011) 8/10
38. 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...
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Movies: 10 Favorites: 8
Reservoir Dogs (1992) 8/10
Pulp Fiction (1994) 9/10
Jackie Brown (1997) 7/10
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) 8/10
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) 7/10
Death Proof (2007) 8/10
Inglourious Basterds (2009) 8/10
Django Unchained (2012) 8/10
The Hateful Eight (2015) 8/10
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) 8/10
39. 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 ...
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 6
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) 8/10
Life of Brian (1979) 8/10
The Meaning of Life (1983) 8/10
Time Bandits (1981) 6/10
Brazil (1985) 8/10
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) 5/10
The Fisher King (1991) 8/10
Twelve Monkeys (1995) 8/10
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 8/10
40. 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 ...
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Movies: 11 Favorites: 4
Bottle Rocket (1996) 6/10
Rushmore (1998) 8/10
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 8/10
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) 7/10
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) 7/10
Hotel Chevalier (2007 Short) 7/10
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) 7/10
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) 8/10
Castello Cavalcanti (2013 Short) 7/10
Prada: Candy (2013 Short) 5/10
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 8/10
Isle of Dogs (2018) 7/10
41. Bong Joon Ho
Writer | Snowpiercer
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his filmography is characterized by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black humor, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 2
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) 5/10
Memories of Murder (2003) 8/10
The Host (2006) 5/10
Mother (2009) 7/10
Snowpiercer (2013) 8/10
Okja (2017) 7/10
Parasite (2019) 9/10
42. 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 ...
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Movies: 11 Favorites: 6
Braindead (1992) 8/10
Heavenly Creatures (1994) 8/10
The Frighteners (1996) 6/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 7/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8/10
King Kong (2005) 5/10
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) 7/10
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) 8/10
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) 7/10
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) 8/10
43. 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 ...
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Movies: 16 Favorites: 4
Vincent (1982 Short) 6/10
Beetlejuice (1988) 8/10
Batman (1989) 7/10
Edward Scissorhands (1990) 7/10
Batman Returns (1992) 7/10
Ed Wood (1994) 8/10
Mars Attacks! (1996) 7/10
Sleepy Hollow (1999) 7/10
Planet of the Apes (2001) 3/10
Big Fish (2003) 8/10
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 3/10
Corpse Bride (2005) 7/10
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) 8/10
Alice in Wonderland (2010) 7/10
Dark Shadows (2012) 7/10
Frankenweenie (2012) 7/10
44. George Lucas
Writer | Star Wars
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 1
THX 1138 (1971) 6/10
American Graffiti (1973) 8/10
Star Wars (1977) 7/10
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) 4/10
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) 5/10
45. 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 ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 1
The Terminator (1984) 7/10
Aliens (1986) 7/10
The Abyss (1989) 6/10
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 7/10
True Lies (1994) 7/10
Titanic (1997) 6/10
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) 6/10
Aliens of the Deep (2005) 4/10
Avatar (2009) 8/10
46. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director | Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director who was very quickly interested by cinema, with a predilection for a fantastic cinema where form is as important as the subject. Thus he started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984). At the same time he met designer/...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 3
Delicatessen (1991) 8/10
The City of Lost Children (1995) 7/10
Alien: Resurrection (1997) 6/10
Amélie (2001) 8/10
A Very Long Engagement (2004) 8/10
Micmacs (2009) 7/10
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) 6/10
47. Makoto Shinkai
Writer | Suzume no Tojimari
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 4
She and Her Cat (1999 Short) 7/10
Voices of a Distant Star (2003 Short) 7/10
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004) 7/10
5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) 8/10
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011) 8/10
Someone's Gaze (2013 Short) 7/10
The Garden of Words (2013) 8/10
Your Name. (2016) 8/10
Weathering with You (2019) 7/10
48. 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....
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Movies: 3 Favorites: 1
Peppermint Candy (1999) 7/10
Oasis (2002) 8/10
Poetry (2010) 7/10
49. Mamoru Hosoda
Director | Samâ uôzu
Mamoru Hosoda is a Japanese film director and animator. Formerly employed at Toei Animation, he went to work at Madhouse from 2005 to 2011. Hosoda left Madhouse in 2011 to establish his own animation studio, Studio Chizu. He first came to public attention in the early 2000s with the first two films...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 4
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005) 5/10
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) 8/10
Summer Wars (2009) 8/10
Wolf Children (2012) 8/10
The Boy and the Beast (2015) 8/10
50. Gore Verbinski
Director | Rango
Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...
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Movies: 9 Favorites: 3
Mousehunt (1997) 2/10
The Mexican (2001) 6/10
The Ring (2002) 7/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 7/10
The Weather Man (2005) 8/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) 7/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) 8/10
Rango (2011) 8/10
The Lone Ranger (2013) 6/10
51. Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer | Akira
Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.
In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball. ...
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Movies: 3 Favorites: 2
Akira (1988) 8/10
Steamboy (2004) 7/10
Short Peace (2013) 8/10
52. Frank Darabont
Writer | The Shawshank Redemption
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...
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Movies: 4 Favorites: 2
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 8/10
The Green Mile (1999) 8/10
The Majestic (2001) 7/10
The Mist (2007) 7/10
53. 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 ...
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Movies: 10 Favorites: 4
Following (1998) 7/10
Memento (2000) 8/10
Insomnia (2002) 6/10
Batman Begins (2005) 7/10
The Prestige (2006) 8/10
The Dark Knight (2008) 8/10
Inception (2010) 8/10
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) 6/10
Interstellar (2014) 7/10
Tenet (2020) 6/10
54. 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 ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 1
It Happened One Night (1934) 7/10
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) 7/10
You Can't Take It with You (1938) 7/10
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 6/10
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 7/10
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 9/10
55. John Sturges
Director | The Great Escape
John Sturges was an American film director, mostly remembered for his outstanding Western films. In 1992, Sturges was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his lifelong contribution to the Western genre.
Sturges was born in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. By 1930, ...
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 1
Mystery Street (1950) 6/10
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 7/10
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) 6/10
The Old Man and the Sea (1958) 7/10
The Magnificent Seven (1960) 7/10
The Great Escape (1963) 8/10
Ice Station Zebra (1968) 5/10
Joe Kidd (1972) 6/10
56. 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, ...
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Movies: 13 Favorites: 1
Jaws (1975) 6/10
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 8/10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 4/10
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 6/10
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 4/10
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 6/10
Jurassic Park (1993) 7/10
Schindler's List (1993) 5/10
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 7/10
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 5/10
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 5/10
The Adventures of Tintin (2011) 7/10
War Horse (2011) 6/10
The BFG (2016) 6/10
57. Rob Reiner
Actor | All in the Family
Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.
As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...
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Movies: 4 Favorites: 1
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 7/10
Stand by Me (1986) 8/10
The Princess Bride (1987) 4/10
Misery (1990) 7/10
The Bucket List (2007) 5/10
58. 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 ...
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Bound (1996) 7/10
The Matrix (1999) 8/10
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 7/10
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 7/10
Speed Racer (2008) 1/10
Cloud Atlas (2012) 7/10 With Tom Tykwer
59. Stanley Donen
Director | Charade
Inspired by Fred Astaire's dancing in Flying Down to Rio (1933), Stanley Donen (pronounced 'Dawn-en') attended dance classes from the age of ten. He later recalled that the only thing he wanted to be was a tap dancer.
He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Helen Pauline (Cohen) and Mordecai ...
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Movies: 8 Favorites: 1
On the Town (1949) 6/10 With Gene Kelly
Singin' in the Rain (1952) 8/10 With Gene Kelly
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 4/10
Funny Face (1957) 7/10
The Pajama Game (1957) 4/10 With George Abbott
Charade (1963) 7/10
Arabesque (1966) 7/10
Two for the Road (1967) 7/10
60. 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 ...
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Movies: 4 Favorites: 0
The Producers (1967) 6/10
Blazing Saddles (1974) 6/10
Young Frankenstein (1974) 7/10
High Anxiety (1977) 4/10
Spaceballs (1987) 6/10
61. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 2
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) 8/10
Snatch (2000) 8/10
Revolver (2005) 6/10
Sherlock Holmes (2009) 4/10
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) 5/10
The Gentlemen (2019) 7/10
Wrath of Man (2021) 7/10
62. Stephen Daldry
Director | The Reader
In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the ...
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Movies: 4 Favorites: 1
Billy Elliot (2000) 7/10
The Hours (2002) 8/10
The Reader (2008) 7/10
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 7/10
63. Zack Snyder
Director | 300
Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 1
Dawn of the Dead (2004) 7/10
300 (2006) 7/10
Watchmen (2009) 8/10
Legend of the Guardians (2010) 6/10
Sucker Punch (2011) 6/10
Man of Steel (2013) 4/10
64. Gorô Miyazaki
Director | Kokuriko-zaka kara
Graduated from Shinshu University, Faculty of Agriculture, Goro Miyazaki started his career as a construction consultant, and he designed parks and public institutions. To avoid to be compared to his father, the world-famous filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, he initially didn't want to work on anything ...
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Movies: 2 Favorites: 1
Tales from Earthsea (2006) 8/10
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) 7/10
65. Stephen Chow
Actor | Kung fu
Stephen Chow was the only boy of his family, and has grown up as a Bruce Lee fan and a martial arts addict. His career started on TV, where he presented a children show ( "430 Space Shuttle" (1983)) and started becoming popular. He got some supporting roles, after that, and won the Taiwanese Golden...
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Movies: 7 Favorites: 0
The God of Cookery (1996) 5/10
King of Comedy (1999) 6/10
Shaolin Soccer (2001) 7/10
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) 7/10
CJ7 (2008) 5/10
Journey to the West (2013) 5/10
The Mermaid (2016) 5/10
66. Robert Rodriguez
Producer | El mariachi
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...
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Movies: 5 Favorites: 0
El mariachi (1992) 7/10
Desperado (1995) 7/10
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 7/10
Sin City (2005) 6/10
Planet Terror (2007) 6/10
67. 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...
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Movies: 6 Favorites: 0
Spaced TV Series (1999–2001) 7/10
Shaun of the Dead (2004) 7/10
Hot Fuzz (2007) 6/10
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) 5/10
The World's End (2013) 7/10
Baby Driver (2017) 7/10
68. 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 ...
Rope (1948) 9/10
Strangers on a Train (1951) 6/10
Dial M for Murder (1954) 8/10
Rear Window (1954) 8/10
Vertigo (1958) 8/10
North by Northwest (1959) 8/10
Psycho (1960) 9/10
69. 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 ...
70. 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 ...
71. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer | Gabbeh
Mohsen Makhmalbaf is known as one of the most influential filmmakers and founders of the new wave of Iranian cinema in the world today.
Many of his films like Salam Cinema, A Moment Of Innocence, Gabbeh, Kandahar and The President have been widely well received across the globe and have brought him ...
Salaam Cinema (1995) 8/10 Gabbeh (1996) 8/10 A Moment of Innocence (1996) 9/10
72. Oliver Hardy
Actor | Saps at Sea
Although his parents were never in show business, as a young boy Oliver Hardy was a gifted singer and, by age eight, was performing with minstrel shows. In 1910 he ran a movie theatre, which he preferred to studying law. In 1913 he became a comedy actor with the Lubin Company in Florida and began ...
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Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) 7/10 Directed by Lewis R. Foster
County Hospital (1932) 6/10 Directed by James Parrott
The Music Box (1932) 6/10 Directed by James Parrott
Busy Bodies (1933) 6/10 Directed by Lloyd French
Way Out West (1937) 5/10 Directed by James W. Horne
73. Jean Cocteau
Writer | La Belle et la Bête
Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...
The Blood of a Poet (1932) 7/10 Beauty and the Beast (1946) 5/10 Orpheus (1950) 8/10
74. Ang Lee
Director | Wo hu cang long
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) 8/10 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 5/10 Hulk (2003) 5/10 Brokeback Mountain (2005) 7/10 Life of Pi (2012) 7/10
75. 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 ...
Taxi Driver (1976) 10/10 Raging Bull (1980) 8/10 Goodfellas (1990) 6/10 Hugo (2011) 7/10 The Irishman (2019) 8/10
76. John Woo
Director | Ying hung boon sik
Born in southern China, John Woo grew up in Hong Kong, where he began his film career as an assistant director in 1969, working for Shaw Brothers Studios. He directed his first feature in 1973 and has been a prolific director ever since, working in a wide variety of genres before A Better Tomorrow ...
A Better Tomorrow (1986) 6/10 The Killer (1989) 6/10 Hard Boiled (1992) 6/10 Hard Target (1993) 3/10 Mission: Impossible II (2000) 4/10 Red Cliff (2008) 7/10 Red Cliff II (2009) 6/10
77. King Hu
Director | Xia nü
He was educated in art school in Beijing, left China for Hong Kong in 1949 and entered the film industry in 1951 in the art department. In the 1950s he began acting and in 1958 joined Shaw Brothers as an actor and writer, and later a director. In 1967 he left to start his own studio in Taiwan, ...
Come Drink with Me (1966) 6/10 Dragon Inn (1967) 5/10 A Touch of Zen (1971) 5/10
78. 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 ...
Alien (1979) 8/10 Blade Runner (1982) 7/10 Thelma and Louise (1991) 7/10 Gladiator (2000) 5/10 American Gangster (2007) 8/10 Prometheus (2012) 6/10 The Martian (2015) 6/10 The Last Duel (2021) 8/10
79. Han-min Kim
Director | Hansan: Yongui chulhyeon
Han-min Kim is known for Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022), The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014) and War of the Arrows (2011).
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