Notable Film Directors
- Woody Allen
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Robert Altman
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lindsay Anderson
- Wes Anderson
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Judd Apatow
- Dario Argento
- Darren Aronofsky
- Dorothy Arzner
- Richard Attenborough
- Mario Bava
- Michael Bay
- Ingmar Bergman
- Bharathan
- Kathryn Bigelow
- John Boorman
- Danny Boyle
- Robert Bresson
- Tod Browning
- Luis Buñuel
- Tim Burton
- James Cameron
- Jane Campion
- Frank Capra
- John Carpenter
- John Cassavetes
- Liliana Cavani
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Gurinder Chadha
- Charlie Chaplin
- Yash Chopra
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Coen brothers
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Sophia Coppola
- Roger Corman
- Wes Craven
- David Cronenberg
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Stephen Daldry
- Frank Darabont
- Julie Dash
- Guillermo del Toro
- Brian De Palma
- Vittorio De Sica
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Guru Dutt
- Clint Eastwood
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Roland Emmerich
- Víctor Erice
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Federico Fellini
- Todd Field
- David Fincher
- Miloš Forman
- John Ford
- John Frankenheimer
- William Friedkin
- Lucio Fulci
- Samuel Fuller
- Ritwik Ghatak
- Terry Gilliam
- Jean-Luc Godard
- D. W. Griffith
- Michael Haneke
- Howard Hawks
- Amy Heckerling
- Werner Herzog
- Alfred Hitchcock
- John Huston
- Kon Ichikawa
- Peter Jackson
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Chuck Jones
- Elia Kazan
- Buster Keaton
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Masaki Kobayashi
- Stanley Kramer
- Stanley Kubrick
- Akira Kurosawa
- Emir Kusturica
- Fritz Lang
- David Lean
- Ang Lee
- Spike Lee
- Sergio Leone
- Ken Loach
- Joseph Losey
- George Lucas
- Sidney Lumet
- Ernst Lubitsch
- David Lynch
- Samira Makhmalbaf
- Terrence Malick
- Maria Maggenti
- Louis Malle
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Michael Mann
- Steve McQueen
- Márta Mészáros
- Deepa Mehta
- Georges Méliès
- Anthony Minghella
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Hayao Miyazaki
- F. W. Murnau
- Mira Nair
- Christopher Nolan
- Frank Oz
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Park Chan-Wook
- Sergei Parajanov
- Sam Peckinpah
- Arthur Penn
- Dadasaheb Phalke
- Roman Polanski
- Sally Potter
- Powell and Pressburger
- Mani Ratnam
- Nicholas Ray
- Satyajit Ray
- Rob Reiner
- Jean Renoir
- Alain Resnais
- Leni Riefenstahl
- Éric Rohmer
- George A. Romero
- Roberto Rossellini
- Eli Roth
- Bimal Roy
- John Sayles
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- Martin Scorsese
- Ridley Scott
- Tony Scott
- V. Shantaram
- Don Siegel
- Robert Siodmak
- Kevin Smith
- Steven Soderbergh
- Padmarajan
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Steven Spielberg
- George Stevens
- Oliver Stone
- Quentin Tarantino
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Bela Tarr
- Jiří Trnka
- Jacques Tourneur
- François Truffaut
- Agnès Varda
- Paul Verhoeven
- King Vidor
- Luchino Visconti
- Lars von Trier
- The Wachowskis
- James Wan
- Peter Weir
- Orson Welles
- Wim Wenders
- Billy Wilder
- Ranjith
- Robert Wise
- Ed Wood
- Edgar Wright
- William Wyler
- Karel Zeman
- Robert Zemeckis
- Mai Zetterling
- Fred Zinnemann
- Shankar
- Kailasam Balachander
- Bharathiraja
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