250 greatest movie directors

1. Luchino Visconti

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 ...

1. "Death in Venice" (1971) - 10,0 2. "Il gattopardo" (1963) - 10,0 3. "Ludwig" (1972) - 10,0 4. "L'innocente" (1976) - 10,0 5. "Gruppo de famiglia in un interno (1974) - 10,0 6. "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" (1960) - 10,0 7. "Le notti bianche" (1957) - 10,0 8. "Senso" (1954) - 10,0 9. "La terra trema: Episodio del mare" (1948) - 9,5 10. "Ossessione" (1943) - 9,5 11. "Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa..." (1965) - 9,0 12. "La caduta degli dei" (1969) - 8,5 13. "Bellissima" (1952) - 8,5 14. "Lo straniero" (1967) - 8,0 15. "Boccaccio '70" (1962) - segment "Il lavoro" - 8,0 16. "Le streghe" (1967) - segment "La Strega bruciata viva" - 8,0 17. "Siamo donne" (1953) - segment "Anna Magnani" - 7,5

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 ...

1. "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens" (1922) - 10,0 2. "Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage" (1926) - 10,0 3. "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" (1927) - 10,0 4. "Tabu: A Story of the South Seas" (1931) - 10,0 5. "Der letzte Mann" (1924) - 9,5 6. "City Girl" (1930) - 9,5 7. "Herr Tartüff" (1925) - 9,0 8. "Der Gang in die Nacht" (1921) - 7,5 9. "Die Finanzen des Großherzogs" (1924) - 7,0

3. 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 (...

1. "Det sjunde inseglet" ("The Seventh Seal") (1957) - 10,0 2. "Persona" ("Persona") (1966) - 10,0 3. "Smultronstället" ("Wild Strawberries") (1957) - 10,0 4. "Fanny och Alexander" ("Fanny & Alexander") (1982) - 10,0 5. "Sommaren med Monika" ("Summer with Monika") (1953) - 10,0 6. "Jungfrukällan" ("The Virgin Spring") (1960) - 10,0 7. "Tystnaden" ("The Silence") (1963) - 9,5 8. "Sommarnattens leende" ("Smiles of a Summer Night") (1955) - 9,5 9. "Sommarlek" ("Summer Interlude") (1951) - 9,0 10. "Viskningar och rop" ("Cries & Whispers") (1972) - 9,0 11. "Gycklarnas afton" ("Sawdust and Tinsel") (1953) - 9,0 12. "Såsom i en spegel" ("Through a Glass Darkly") (1961) - 9,0 13. "Nattvardsgästerna" ("Winter Light") (1963) - 9,0 14. "En passion" ("The Passion of Anna") (1969) - 9,0 15. "Vargtimmen" ("Hour of the Wolf") (1968) - 9,0 16. "Kvinnors väntan" ("Secrets of Women") (1952) - 8,5 17. "Ansiktet" ("The Magician") (1958) - 8,5 18. "En lektion i kärlek" ("A Lesson in Love") (1954) - 8,5 19. "Djävulens öga" ("The Devil's Eye") (1960) - 8,5 20. "Skammen" ("Shame") (1968) - 8,5 21. "Trollflöjten" ("The Magic Flute") (1975) - 8,5 22. "Saraband" ("Saraband") (2003) - 8,5 23. "Höstsonaten" ("Autumn Sonata") (1978) - 8,0 24. "Kvinnodröm" ("Dreams") (1955) - 8,0 25. "Nära livet" ("Brink of Life") (1958) - 7,5 26. "Musik i mörker" ("Music in Darkness") (1948) - 7,5 27. "Scener ur ett äktenskap" ("Scenes from a Marriage") (1973) - 7,5 28. "Ansikte mot ansikte" ("Face to Face") (1976) - 7,5 29. "Aus dem Leben der Marionetten" (1980) - 7,5 30. "Fängelse" ("Prison") (1949) - 7,5 31. "Efter repetitionen" ("After the Rehearsal") (TV) (1984) - 7,5 32. "Skepp till India land" ("A Ship Bound for India") (1947) - 7,5 33. "Törst" ("Thirst") (1949) - 7,0 34. "Kris" ("Crisis") (1946) - 7,0 35. "För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor" ("All These Women") (1964) - 7,0 36. "Riten" ("The Rite") (1969) - 7,0 37. "Det regnar på vår kärlek" ("It Rains on Our Love") (1946) - 6,5 38. "Till glädje" ("To Joy") (1950) - 6,5 39. "Hamnstad" ("Port of Call") (1948) - 6,0 40. "The Serpent's Egg" (1977) - 6,0

4. 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 ...

1. "Au hasard Balthazar" (1966) - 10,0 2. "Journal d'un curé de campagne" (1951) - 10,0 3. "Pickpocket" (1959) - 10,0 4. "L'argent" (1983) - 10,0 5. "Mouchette" (1967) - 10,0 6. "Lancelot du Lac" (1974) - 10,0 7. "Le diable probablement" (1977) - 9,5 8. "Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut" (1956) - 9,5 9. "Une femme douce" (1969) - 9,0 10. "Procès de Jeanne d'Arc" (1962) - 9,0 11. "Quatre nuits d'un rêveur" (1971) - 9,0 12. "Les dames du Bois de Boulogne" (1945) - 9,0 13. "Les anges du péché" (1943) - 8,5

5. 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 ...

1. "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) - 10,0 2. "Barry Lyndon" (1975) - 10,0 3. "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) - 10,0 4. "The Shining" (1980) - 10,0 5. "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) - 10,0 6. "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) - 9,5 7. "The Killing" (1956) - 9,0 8. "Paths of Glory" (1957) - 8,5 9. "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) - 7,5 10. "Lolita" (1962) - 7,5 11. "Killer's Kiss" (1955) - 7,5 12. "Spartacus" (1960) - 6,0 13. "Fear and Desire" (1953) - 4,5

6. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writer | Il Decameron

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...

1. "Il vangelo secondo Matteo" (1964) - 10,0 2. "Teorema" (1968) - 10,0 3. "Il fiore delle mille e una notte" (1974) - 10,0 4. "Medea" (1969) - 9,5 5. "Mamma Roma" (1962) - 9,5 6. "Edipo re" (1967) - 9,0 7. "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" (1975) - 9,0 8. "Il Decameron" (1971) - 9,0 9. "Accattone" (1961) - 8,5 10. "Uccellacci e uccellini" (1966) - 8,0 11. "Porcile" (1969) - 8,0 12. "I racconti di Canterbury" (1972) - 7,5 13. "Le streghe" (1967) - segment "La Terra vista dalla luna" - 7,0

7. 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 ...

1. "Psycho" (1960) - 10,0 2. "Vertigo" (1958) - 10,0 3. "Rear Window" (1954) - 10,0 4. "The Birds" (1963) - 10,0 5. "Dial M for Murder" (1955) - 10,0 6. "Notorious" (1946) - 9,5 7. "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) - 9,5 8. "North by Northwest" (1958) - 9,5 9. "Blackmail" (1929) - 9,0 10. "Rebecca" (1940) - 9,0 11. "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) - 9,0 12. "Rope" (1948) - 8,5 13. "Frenzy" (1972) - 8,5 14. "Marnie" (1964) - 8,0 15. "Strangers on a Train" (1951) - 8,0 16. "The 39 Steps" (1935) - 8,0 17. "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) - 8,0 18. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (1941) - 8,0 19. "Foreign Correspondent" (1940) - 8,0 20. "Spellbound" (1945) - 7,5 21. "Stage Fright" (1950) - 7,5 22. "The Wrong Man" (1956) - 7,5 23. "Lifeboat" (1944) - 7,5 24. "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934) - 7,5 25. "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" (1927) - 7,5 26. "The Paradine Case" (1947) - 7,5 27. "To Catch a Thief" (1955) - 7,0 28. "The Trouble with Harry" (1955) - 7,0 29. "Family Plot" (1976) - 7,0 30. "Suspicion" (1941) - 7,0 31. "The Skin Game" (1931) - 7,0 32. "Under Capricorn" (1949) - 7,0 33. "Young and Innocent" (1937) - 7,0 34. "Easy Virtue" (1928) - 7,0 35. "Saboteur" (1942) - 7,0 36. "Sabotage" (1936) - 6,5 37. "The Ring" (1927) - 6,5 38. "Downhill" (1927) - 6,5 39. "Murder!" (1930) - 6,5 40. "The Manxman" (1929) - 6,5 41. "Topaz" (1969) - 6,5 42. "I Confess" (1953) - 6,0 43. "Secret Agent" (1936) - 6,0 44. "Rich and Strange" (1931) - 6,0 45. "Champagne" (1928) - 6,0 46. "The Farmer's Wife" (1928) - 6,0 47. "Juno and the Paycock" (1929) - 6,0 48. "Torn Curtain" (1966) - 6,0 49. "The Pleasure Garden" (1925) - 5,5 50. "Waltzes from Vienna" (1934) - 5,5 51. "Number Seventeen" (1932) - 5,0 52. "Jamaica Inn" (1939) - 5,0

8. 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. ...

1. "Metropolis" (1927) - 10,0 2. "M" (1931)- 10,0 3. "Der müde Tod" (1921) - 10,0 4. "Die Nibelungen: Siegfried" (1924) - 10,0 5. "Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache" (1924) - 10,0 6. "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" (1933) - 10,0 7. "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit" (1922) - 10,0 8. "Fury" (1936) - 9,5 9. "Human Desire" (1954) - 9,0 10. "Spione" (1928) - 9,0 11. "Moonfleet" (1955) - 9,0 12. "Ministry of Fear" (1944) - 9,0 13. "Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse" (1960) - 9,0 14. "You Only Live Once" (1937) - 9,0 15. "The Woman in the Window" (1944) - 8,5 16. "Rancho Notorious" (1952) - 8,0 17. "Liliom" (1934) - 8,0 18. "The Big Heat" (1953) - 8,0 19. "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (1956) - 7,5 20. "Hangmen Also Die!" (1943) - 7,5 21. "Man Hunt" (1941) - 7,5 22. "Der Tiger von Eschnapur" (1959) - 7,5 23. "Das indische Grabmal" (1959) - 7,5 24. "The Blue Gardenia" (1953) - 7,5 25. "Western Union" (1941) - 7,5 26. "You and Me" (1938) - 7,5 27. "House by the River" (1950) - 7,5 28. "Scarlet Street" (1945) - 7,0 29. "While the City Sleeps" (1956) - 7,0 30. "Frau im Mond" (1929) - 7,0 31. "Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff" (1920) - 6,5 32. "Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See" (1919) - 6,5 33. "Cloak and Dagger" (1946) - 6,5 34. "Secret Beyond the Door..." (1947) - 6,5 35. "Clash by Night" (1952) - 6,0 36. "Harakiri" (1919) - 6,0 37. "American Guerrilla in the Philippines" (1950) - 6,0 38. "Vier um die Frau" (1921) - 6,0 39. "The Return of Frank James" (1940) - 6,0

9. 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 ...

1. "La dolce vita" (1960) - 10,0 2. "Amarcord" (1973) - 10,0 3. "8½" (1963) - 10,0 4. "E la nave va" (1983) - 10,0 5. "Fellini - Satyricon" (1969) - 9,5 6. "La strada" (1954) - 9,0 7. "Giulietta degli spiriti" (1965) - 9,0 8. "Le notti di Cabiria" (1957) - 9,0 9. "Roma" (1972) - 9,0 10. "I vitelloni" (1953) - 8,5 11. "Il bidone" (1955) - 8,5 12. "La città delle donne" (1980) - 8,5 13. "Il Casanova di Federico Fellini" (1976) - 8,5 14. "Prova d'orchestra" (1978) - 8,5 15. "Lo sceicco bianco" (1952) - 8,5 16. "Luci del varietà" (1950) - 8,0 17. "I clowns" (1970) (TV movie) - 8,0 18. "Ginger e Fred" (1986) - 8,0 19. "Boccaccio '70" (1962) - segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio" - 8,0 20. "Histoires extraordinaires" (1968) - segment "Toby Dammit" - 8,0 21. "La voce della luna" (1990) - 7,0

10. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer | Faustrecht der Freiheit

Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction. Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and...

1. "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (14 episodes, 1980) - 10,0 2. "Die Ehe der Maria Braun" (1979) - 10,0 3. "Faustrecht der Freiheit" (1975) - 10,0 4. "Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss" (1982) - 9,5 5. "Lili Marleen" (1981) - 9,5 6. "In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden" (1978) - 9,5 7. "Querelle" (1982) - 9,5 8. "Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant" (1972) - 9,5 9. "Lola" (1981) - 9,5 10 "Despair" (1978) - 9,0 11. "Angst essen Seele auf" (1974) - 9,0 12. "Bolwieser" (TV movie) (1977) - 8,5 13. "Martha" (TV movie) (1974/I) - 8,5 14. "Händler der vier Jahreszeiten" (1972) - 8,0 15. "Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel" (1975) - 8,0 16. "Chinesisches Roulette" (1976) - 7,5 17. "Die dritte Generation" (1979) - 7,5 18. "Katzelmacher" (1969) - 7,0 19. "Pioniere in Ingolstadt" (TV movie) (1971) - 7,0

11. D.W. Griffith

Director | The Birth of a Nation

David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...

1. "The Birth of a Nation" (1914) - 10,0 2. "Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl" (1919) - 10,0 3. "Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages" (1916) - 10,0 4. "Orphans of the Storm" (1921) - 10,0 5. "True Heart Susie" (1919) - 9,5 6. "Way Down East" (1920) - 9,0 7. "Corner in Wheat" (short) (1909) - 9,0 8. "The Musketeers of Pig Alley" (short) (1912) - 8,0

12. 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 ...

1. "Citizen Kane" (1941) - 10,0 2. "Touch of Evil" (1958) - 10,0 3. "Campanadas a medianoche" (1965) - 10,0 4. "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) - 10,0 5. "Le procès" (1962) - 9,5 6. "The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice" (1950) - 8,0 7. "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947) - 8,0 8. "Histoire immortelle" (1968) - 8,0 9. "Vérités et mensonges" (1973) - 8,0 10. "The Stranger" (1946) - 8,0 11. "Macbeth" (1948) - 7,5 12. "Mr. Arkadin" (1955) - 7,0

13. 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, ...

1. "My Darling Clementine" (1946) - 10,0 2. "Stagecoach" (1939) - 10,0 3. "The Searchers" (1956) - 10,0 4. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) - 10,0 5. "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) - 9,5 6. "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939) - 9,0 7. "The Informer" (1935) - 9,0 8. "The Quiet Man' (1952) - 9,0 9. "The Hurricane" (1937) - 9,0 10. "Judge Priest" (1934) - 9,0 11. "7 Women" (1966) - 9,0 12. "Two Rode Together" (1961) - 8,0 13. "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) - 8,0 14. "Fort Apache" (1948) - 8,0 15. "Wagon Master" (1950) - 8,0 16. "The Long Voyage Home" (1940) - 8,0 17. "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) - 8,0 18. "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953) - 7,5 19. "The Iron Horse" (1924) - 7,5 20. "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939) - 7,5 21. "The Lost Patrol" (1935) - 7,5 22. "The Prisoner of Shark Island" (1936) - 7,5 23. "Mister Roberts" (1955) - 7,5 24. "The Wings of Eagles" (1957) - 7,5 25. "They Were Expendable" (1945) - 7,5 26. "3 Bad Men" (1926) - 7,5 27. "Sergeant Rutledge" (1960) - 7,5 28. "Tobacco Road" (1941) - 7,5 29. "How the West Was Won" (1963) - segment "The Civil War" - 7,0 30. "Mogambo" (1953) - 7,0 31. "The Fugitive" (1947) - 7,0 32. "The Last Hurrah" (1958) - 7,0 33. "Four Sons" (1928) - 6,5 34. "Mary of Scotland" (1936) - 6,5 35. "Rio Grande" (1950) - 6,5 36. "The Battle of Midway" (1942) (documentary short) - 6,5

14. 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 ...

1. "Banshun" ("Late Spring") (1949) - 10,0 2. "Tôkyô monogatari" ("Tokyo Story") (1953) - 10,0 3. "Bakushû" ("Early Summer") (1951) - 10,0 4. "Sanma no aji" ("An Autumn Afternoon") (1962) - 9,5 5. "Ochazuke no aji" ("Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice") (1952) - 9,5 6. "Hitori musuko" ("The Only Son") (1936) - 9,5 7. "Higanbana" ("Equinox Flower") (1958) - 9,5 8. "Kohayagawa-ke no aki" ("The End of Summer") (1961) - 9,0 9. "Akibiyori" (Late Autumn") (1960) - 8,5 10. "Sôshun" ("Early Spring") (1956) - 8,5 11. "Ohayô" ("Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning") (1959) - 8,5 12. "Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo" ("I Was Born, But...") (1932) - 8,0 13. "Ukigusa" ("Floating Weeds") (1959) - 8,0 14. "Haha wo kowazuya" ("A Mother Should Be Loved") (1934) - 6,0

15. 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 ...

1. "Ordet" ("Ordet") (1955) - 10,0 2. "La passion de Jeanne d'Arc" (1928) - 10,0 3. "Vredens dag" ("Day of Wrath") (1943) - 10,0 4. "Gertrud" ("Gertrud") (1964) - 9,5 5. "Vampyr" (1932) - 9,5 6. "Michael" (1924) - 8,5 7. "Præsidenten" ("The President") (1919) - 8,5 8. "Prästänkan" ("The Parson's Widow") (1920) - 7,0

16. Sergei Eisenstein

Director | Ivan Groznyy

The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...

1. "Bronenosets Potyomkin" ("Battleship Potemkin") (1925) - 10,0 2. "Ivan Groznyy" ("Ivan the Terrible, Part I") (1944) - 10,0 3. "Stachka" ("Strike") (1925) - 10,0 4. "Ivan Groznyy: Skaz vtoroy - Boyarskiy zagovor" ("Ivan the Terrible, Part II") (1958) - 10,0 5. "Aleksandr Nevskiy" ("Aleksandr Nevskiy") (1938) - 8,5 6. "Oktyabr" ("October") (1928) - 8,0 7. "Que Viva Mexico" ("¡Que Viva Mexico! - Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!") (1932/1979) - 8,0 8. "Romance sentimentale" (short) (1930) - 7,5 9. "Bezhin lug" (short) (1935) - 7,0

17. Jean Vigo

Writer | Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège

Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people ...

1. "Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège" (1933) - 10,0 2. "L'Atalante" (1934) - 10,0 3. "À propos de Nice" (documentary short) (1930) - 7,0 4. "Taris, roi de l'eau" (documentary short) (1931) - 7,0

18. Jean-Luc Godard

Director | Bande à part

Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...

1. "À bout de souffle" (1960) - 10,0 2. "Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution" (1965) - 10,0 3. "Le mépris" (1963) - 10,0 4. "Week End" (1967) - 9,0 5. "Une femme est une femme" (1961) - 9,0 6. "Bande à part" (1964) - 9,0 7. "Pierrot le fou" (1965) - 8,5 8. "Masculin féminin" (1966) - 8,5 9. "Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux" (1962) - 8,5 10. "Histoire(s) du cinéma" (1988-1998) - 8,5 11. "Made in U.S.A" (1966) - 8,0 12. "Tout va bien" (1972) - 8,0 13. "2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle" (1967) - 8,0 14. "Notre musique" (2004) - 8,0 15. "Passion" (1982) - 7,5 16. "Sauve qui peut (la vie)" (1980) - 7,5 17. "Numéro deux" (1975) - 7,5 18. "Je vous salue, Sarajevo" (short) (1993) - 7,5 19. "Nouvelle vague" (1990) - 7,5 20. "Éloge de l'amour" (2001) - 7,5 21. "Le petit soldat" (1963) - 7,5 22. "Le livre d'image" (2018) - 7,5 23. "Les carabiniers" (1963) - 7,0 24. "La chinoise" (1967) - 7,0 25. "Film socialisme" (2010) - 6,5 26. "Une histoire d'eau" (short) (1961) - 6,5 27. "'Je vous salue, Marie'" (1985) - 6,0

19. 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...

1. "Andrey Rublyov" ("Andrei Rublev") (1966) - 10,0 2. "Solyaris" ("Solaris") (1972) - 10,0 3. "Offret" ("The Sacrifice") (1986) - 10,0 4. "Nostalghia" (1983) - 10,0 5. "Stalker" ("Stalker") (1979) - 9,0 6. "Zerkalo" ("The Mirror") (1975) - 8,0 7. "Ivanovo detstvo" ("Ivan's Childhood") (1962) - 8,0

20. 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 ...

1. "La règle du jeu" (1939) - 10,0 2. "La grande illusion" (1937) - 10,0 3. "La chienne" (1931) - 10,0 4. "La bête humaine" (1938) - 9,5 5. "Partie de campagne" (1936) - 9,5 6. "Boudu sauvé des eaux" (1932) - 9,0 7. "Le crime de Monsieur Lange" (1936) - 8,5 8. "Nana" (1926) - 8,0 9. "French Can Can" (1954) - 8,0 10. "La nuit du carrefour" (1932) - 8,0 11. "Le carrosse d'or" (1952) - 8,0 12. "Toni" (1935) - 8,0 13. "La fille de l'eau" (1925) - 8,0 14. "The River" (1951) - 7,0 15. "The Woman on the Beach" (1947) - 7,0 16. "La Marseillaise" (1938) - 7,0 17. "Madame Bovary" (1934) - 6,5

21. Howard Hawks

Director | Red River

What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...

1. "Scarface" (1932) - 10,0 2. "His Girl Friday" (1940) - 10,0 3. "Red River" (1948) - 9,9 4. "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939) - 9,5 5. "Rio Bravo" (1959) - 9,5 6. "Ball of Fire" (1941) - 9,0 7. "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953) - 9.0 8. "The Big Sleep" (1946) - 9,0 9. "Man's Favorite Sport?" (1964) - 9,0 10. "Hatari!" (1962) - 8,5 11. "Sergeant York" (1941) - 8,5 12. "Twentieth Century" (1934) - 8,0 13. "The Big Sky" (1952) - 8,0 14. "Bringing Up Baby" (1938) - 8,0 15. "El Dorado" (1966) - 8,0 16. "Rio Lobo" (1970) - 7,0 17. "To Have and Have Not" (1944) - 7,0 18. "Monkey Business" (1952) - 6,5

22. Ernst Lubitsch

Director | To Be or Not to Be

From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...

1. "To Be or Not to Be" (1942) - 10,0 2. "The Merry Widow" (1934) - 10,0 3. "Ninotchka" (1939) - 10,0 4. "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" (1927) - 10,0 5. "Angel" (1937) - 9,5 6. "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940) - 9,5 7. "Design for Living" (1933) - 9,5 8. "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) - 9,0 9. "Die Puppe" (1919) - 8,5 10. "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938) - 8,5 11. "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1925) - 8,5 12. "The Love Parade" (1929) - 8,0 13. "Madame DuBarry" (1919) - 8,0 14. "Cluny Brown" (1946) -, 8,0 15. "Monte Carlo" (1930) - 8,0 16. "Broken Lullaby" (1932) - 8,0 17. "The Smiling Lieutenant" (1931) - 7,5 18. "Heaven Can Wait" (1943) - 7,0

23. Luis Buñuel

Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...

1. "Un chien andalou" (short) (1929) - 10,0 2. "Viridiana" (1961) - 10,0 3. "El" (1953) - 10,0 4. "El ángel exterminador" (1962) - 10,0 5. "Belle de jour" (1967) - 10,0 6. "L'âge d'or" (1930) - 10,0 7. "Simón del desierto" (1965) - 9,5 8. "Las Hurdes" (documentary short) (1933) - 9,0 9. "Le fantôme de la liberté" (1974) - 9,0 10. "La voie lactée" (1969) - 9,0 11. "Los olvidados" (1950) - 8,5 12. "Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" (1972) - 8,5 13. "Nazarin" (1959) - 8,0 14. "The Young One" (1960) - 8,0 15. "Ensayo de un crimen" (1955) - 8,0 16. "Cet obscur objet du désir" (1977) - 7,5 17. "Le journal d'une femme de chambre" (1964) - 7,5 18. "Tristana" (1970) - 7,5

24. François Truffaut

Writer | La nuit américaine

French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector. Bazin helped the ...

1. "Les quatre cents coups" (1959) - 10,0 2. "Jules et Jim" (1962) - 10,0 3. "Baisers volés" (1968) - 10,0 4. "Fahrenheit 451" (1966) - 9,5 5. "Tirez sur le pianiste" (1960) - 8,5 6. "La peau douce" (1964) - 8,5 7. "L'histoire d'Adèle H." (1975) - 8,0 8. "La mariée était en noir" (1968) - 8,0 9. "L'amour en fuite" (1979) - 7,5 10. "La nuit américaine" (1973) - 7,5 11. "L'argent de poche" (1976) - 7,5 12. "L'homme qui aimait les femmes" (1977) - 7,5 13. "La femme d'à côté" (1981) - 7,0 14. "Le dernier métro" (1980) - 7,0 15. "Les deux Anglaises et le continent" (1971) - 7,0 16. "Antoine et Colette" (short) (1962) - 7,0 17. "L'enfant sauvage" (1970) - 7,0 18. "Domicile conjugal" (1970) - 6,5 19. "Les mistons" (short) (1957) - 6,5 20. "La sirène du Mississipi" (1969) - 6,5 21. "Une histoire d'eau" (short) (1961) - 6,5 22. "La chambre verte" (1978) - 6,0

25. Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer | Blow-Up

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

1. "Blowup" (1966) - 10,0 2. "L'eclisse" (1961) - 10,0 3. "L'avventura" (1960) - 10,0 4. "Il deserto rosso" (1964) - 9,5 5. "Professione: reporter" (1975) - 9,5 6. "Il grido" (1957) - 9,0 7. "La notte" (1961) - 9,0 8. "Zabriskie Point" (1970) - 9,0 9. "I vinti" (1953) - 7,0 10. "Eros" - segment "The Dangerous Thread of Things" (2004) - 7,0

26. 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...

1. "Rashômon" ("Rashomon") (1950) - 10,0 2. "Shichinin no samurai" ("Seven Samurai") (1954) - 10,0 3. "Yôjinbô" ("Yojimbo") (1961) - 9,5 4. "Kagemusha" ("Kagemusha") (1980) - 9,0 5. "Ikiru" ("Living") (1952) - 9,0 6. "Tsubaki Sanjûrô" ("Sanjuro") (1962) - 8,5 7. "Ran" ("Ran") (1985) - 8,5 8. "Akahige" ("Red Beard") (1965) - 8,0 9. "Kumonosu-jô" ("Throne of Blood") (1957) - 8,0 10. "Tengoku to jigoku" ("High and Low") (1963) - 8,0 11. "Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru" ("The Bad Sleep Well") (1960) - 7,5 12. "Hume" ("Dreams") (1990) - 7,5 13. "Nora inu" ("Stray Dog") (1949) - 7,5 14. "Yoidore tenshi" ("Drunken Angel") (1948) - 7,0 15. "Dersu Uzala" ("Dersu Uzala") (1975) - 7,0 16. "Kakushi-toride no san-akunin" ("The Hidden Fortress") (1958) - 6,5 17. "Dodesukaden" ("Dodes'ka-den") (1970) - 6,5 18. "Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku" ("Rhapsody in August") (1991) - 6,5 19. "Madadayo" ("Madadayo") (1993) - 6,0

27. Alain Resnais

Director | Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...

1. "Hiroshima mon amour" (1959) - 10,0 2. "L'année dernière à Marienbad" (1961) - 10,0 3. "Mon oncle d'Amérique" (1980) - 9,0 4. "Providence" (1977) - 9,0 5. "Les herbes folles" (2009) - 9,0 6. "Nuit et brouillard" (documentary short) (1955) - 9,0 7. "Smoking/No Smoking" (1993) - 8,0 8. "Toute la mémoire du monde" (short) (1956) - 8,0 9. "Les statues meurent aussi" (short) (1953) - 8,0 10. "Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour" (1963) - 7,5 11. "Coeurs" (2006) - 7,0

28. 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 ...

1. "Roma, città aperta" (1945) - 10,0 2. "Paisà" (1946) - 10,0 3. "Viaggio in Italia" (1954) - 9,0 4. "Germania anno zero" (1948) - 9,0 5. "Il messia" (1975) - 9,0 6. "Il generale della Rovere" (1959) - 9,0 7. "Stromboli" (1950) - 8,0 8. "Francesco, giullare di Dio" (1950) - 8,0 9. "Europa '51" (1952) - 8,0 10. "India: Matri Bhumi" (1959) - 8,0 11. "La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV" (1966) - 7,5 12. "Blaise Pascal" (1972) - 7,0 13. "Cartesius" (1974) - 7,0 14. "Socrate" (1971) - 7,0 15. "L'amore" (1948) - 7,0 16. "Siamo donne" - segment "Ingrid Bergman" (1953) - 7,0 17. "Agostino d'Ippona" (1972) - 6,5

29. George Cukor

Director | My Fair Lady

George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.

In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...

1. "A Star Is Born" (1954) - 10,0 2. "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger" (1935) - 10,0 3. "The Wizard of Oz" (uncredited) (1939) - 10,0 4. "Little Women" (1933) - 9,0 5. "Adam's Rib" (1949) - 9,0 6. "Dinner at Eight" (1933) - 8,5 7. "Holiday" (1938) - 8,5 8. "Camille" (1936) - 8,0 9. "My Fair Lady" (1964) - 8,0 10. "The Women" (1939) - 8,0 11. "Two-Faced Woman" (1941) - 7,5 12. "A Double Life" (1947) - 7,5 13. "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) - 7,0 14. "Les Girls" (1957) - 7,0 15. "Gaslight" (1944) - 7,0 16. "Pat and Mike" (1952) - 7,0 17. "Born Yesterday" (1950) - 6,0

30. Leni Riefenstahl

Producer | Das blaue Licht - Eine Berglegende aus den Dolomiten

Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With...

1. "Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker" (1938) - 10,0 2. "Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit" (1938) - 10,0 3. "Triumph des Willens" (1935) - 10,0 4. "Das blaue Licht" (1932) - 8,5

31. 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 ...

1. "Sherlock Jr." (1924) - 10,0 2. "The General" (1926) - 10,0 3. "Seven Chances" (1925) - 9,5 4. "Our Hospitality" (1923) - 9,0 5. "Battling Butler" (1926) - 9,0 6. "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (uncredited) (1928) - 9,0 7. "The Cameraman" (uncredited) (1928) - 8,5 8. "The Navigator" (1924) - 8,5 9. "College" (uncredited) (1927) - 8,5 10. "Go West" (1925) - 8,5 11. "The Scarecrow" (short) (1920) - 8,5 12. "Neighbors" (short) (1920) - 8,0 13. "Three Ages" (1923) - 8,0 14. "The Play House" (short) (1921) - 8,0 15. "The 'High Sign'" (short) (1921) - 8,0 16. "Hard Luck" (short) (1921) - 8,0 17. "My Wife's Relations" (short) (1922) - 8,0 18. "One Week" (short) (1920) - 7,5 19. "Cops" (short) (1922) - 7,5 20. "The Goat" (short) (1921) - 7,5 21. "Convict 13" (short) (1920) - 7,5 22. "The Paleface" (short) (1922) - 7,5 23. "Daydreams" (short) (1922) - 7,5 24. "The Electric House" (short) (1922) - 7,0 25. "The Love Nest" (short) (1923) - 7,0 26. "The Balloonatic" (short) (1923) - 7,0 27. "The Blacksmith" (short) (1922) - 7,0 28. "The Haunted House" (short) (1921) - 7,0 29. "The Frozen North" (short) (1922) - 7,0 30. "The Rough House" (short) (1917) - 5,5

32. 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 ...

1. "The Gold Rush" (1925) - 10,0 2. "Modern Times" (1936) - 10,0 3. "City Lights" (1931) - 10,0 4. "The Great Dictator" (1940) - 9,5 5. "The Kid" (1921) - 9,0 6. "The Circus" (1928) - 8,5 7. "A Dog's Life" (uncredited) (short) (1918) - 8,5 8. "Limelight" (1952) - 8,0 9. "A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate" (1923) - 8,0 10. "Pay Day" (short) (1922/I) - 8,0 11. "The Immigrant" (short) (1917) - 8,0 12. "The Pilgrim" (short) (1923) - 8,0 13. "Shoulder Arms" (short) (1918) - 8,0 14. "The Cure" (short) (1917) - 8,0 15. "The Idle Class" (short) (1921) - 8,0 16. "A Day's Pleasure" (short) (1919) - 8,0 17. "The Rink" (short) (1916) - 7,5 18. "Sunnyside" (short) (1919) - 7,5 19. "The Pawnshop" (short) (1916) - 7,0 20. "Behind the Screen" (short) (1916) - 7,0 21. "The Adventurer" (short) (1917) - 6,5 22. "The Tramp" (short) (1915) - 6,5 23. "One A.M." (short) (1916) - 6,5 24. "Easy Street" (short) (1917) - 6,0 25. "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947) - 6,0

33. 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 ...

1. "Umberto D." (1952) - 10,0 2. "'Sciuscià' (Ragazzi)" (1946) - 10,0 3. "Ladri di biciclette" (1948) - 10,0 4. "Ieri, oggi, domani" (1963) - 9,5 5. "Miracolo a Milano" (1951) - 9,0 6. "La ciociara" (1960) - 8,0 7. "Il giardino dei Finzi Contini" (1970) - 7,5 8. "L'oro di Napoli" (1954) - 7,5 9. "Matrimonio all'italiana" (1964) 10. "Boccaccio '70" (1962) - segment "La riffa" - 7,5 11. "Le streghe" (1967) - segment "Una Sera come le altre" - 7,5 12. "Il tetto" (1956) - 7,0

34. 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.

1. "Le million" (1931) - 10,0 2. "À nous la liberté" (1931) - 9,5 3. "Sous les toits de Paris" (1930) - 9,5 4. "Entr'acte" (short) (1924) - 9,5 5. "Un chapeau de paille d'Italie" (1928) - 9,0 6. "Paris qui dort" (short) (1924) - 9,0 7. "And Then There Were None" (1945) - 7,5

35. Éric Rohmer

Director | Ma nuit chez Maud

Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...

1. "Le genou de Claire" (1970) - 10,0 2. "Ma nuit chez Maud" (1969) - 10,0 3. "Perceval le Gallois" (1978) - 9,5 4. "Conte d'hiver" (1992) - 9,5 5. "La collectionneuse" (1967) - 9,5 6. "Die Marquise von O..." (1976) - 9,0 7. "Conte d'été" (1996) - 9,0 8. "Le rayon vert" (1986) - 8,0 9. "Pauline à la plage" (1983) - 8,0 10. "Les nuits de la pleine lune" (1984) - 8,0 11. "L'amour l'après-midi" (1972) - 8,0 12. "La carrière de Suzanne" (1963) - 8,0 13. "Le signe du lion" (1962) - 7,5 14. "Le beau mariage" (1982) - 7,5 15. "La boulangère de Monceau" (short) (1963) - 7,5 16. "Conte d'automne" (1998) - 7,0 17. "Conte de printemps" (1990) - 7,0 18. "La femme de l'aviateur" (1981) - 7,0 19. "L'ami de mon amie" (1987) - 7,0 20. "Nadja à Paris" (1964) - 7,0

36. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

and Emeric Pressburger

1. "The Red Shoes" (1948) - 10,0 2. "Black Narcissus" (1947) - 9,5 3. "Peeping Tom" (1960) - 9,5 (only Powell) 4. "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) - 9,5 5. "49th Parallel" (1941) - 9,5 6. "'I Know Where I'm Going!'" (1945)- 9,0 7. "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946) - 9,0 8. "The Small Back Room" (1949) - 8,5 9. "The Spy in Black" (1939) - 8,0 10. "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" (1942) - 7,5 11. "A Canterbury Tale" (1944) - 7,5 12. "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951) - 7,5 13. "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940) - 7,5 (only Powell) 14. "Contraband" (1940) - 7,5 15. "Oh... Rosalinda!!" (1955) - 7,0 16. "Ill Met by Moonlight" (1957) - 7,0 17. "Gone to Earth" (1950) - 6,5 18. "The Battle of the River Plate" (1956) - 6,5 19. "The Boy Who Turned Yellow" (1972) - 6,0

37. Kenji Mizoguchi

Director | Ugetsu monogatari

Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known ...

1. "Sanshô dayû" ("Sansho the Bailiff") (1954) - 10,0 2. "Chikamatsu monogatari" ("The Crucified Lovers") (1954) - 9,5 3. "Ugetsu monogatari" ("Ugetsu") (1953) - 9,5 4. "Saikaku ichidai onna" ("The Life of Oharu") (1952) - 9,0 5. "Genroku Chûshingura" ("The 47 Ronin") (1941) - 8,5 6. "Zangiku monogatari" ("The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums") (1939) - 8,0 7. "Shin Heike monogatari" ("Taira Clan Saga") (1955) - 8,0 8. "Akasen chitai" ("Street of Shame") (1956) - 8,0 9. "Utamaro o meguru gonin no onna" ("Utamaro and His Five Women") (1946) - 8,0 10. "Yôkihi" ("Princess Yang Kwei-fei") (1955) - 8,0

38. David Lean

Director | Lawrence of Arabia

An important British filmmaker, David Lean was born in Croydon on March 25, 1908 and brought up in a strict Quaker family (ironically, as a child he wasn't allowed to go to the movies). During the 1920s, he briefly considered the possibility of becoming an accountant like his father before finding ...

1. "Brief Encounter" (1945) - 10,0 2. "Great Expectations" (1946) - 10,0 3. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) - 9,5 4. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) - 8,5 5. "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) - 8,0 6. "Madeleine" (1950) - 8,0 7. "Ryan's Daughter" (1970) - 8,0 8. "The Passionate Friends" (1949) - 8,0 9. "Hobson's Choice" (1954) - 8,0 10. "This Happy Breed" (1944) - 8,0 11. "The Sound Barrier" (1952) - 8,0 12. "Oliver Twist" (1948) - 7,5 13. "A Passage to India" (1984) - 7,5 14. "Summertime" (1955) - 7,0 15. "In Which We Serve" (1942)- 7,0 16. "Blithe Spirit" (1945) - 6,0

39. Elia Kazan

Director | On the Waterfront

Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He ...

1. "On the Waterfront" (1954) - 10,0 2. "East of Eden" (1955) - 10,0 3. "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) - 9,5 4. "America, America" (1963) - 9,0 5. "Viva Zapata!" (1952) - 9,0 6. "Panic in the Streets" (1950) - 8,5 7. "Wild River" (1960) - 8,5 8. "Baby Doll" (1956) - 7,5 9. "The Last Tycoon" (1976) - 7,5 10. "Boomerang!" (1947) - 7,0 11. "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) - 7,0 12. "A Face in the Crowd" (1957) - 6,5 13. "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) - 6,0

40. 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 ...

1. "Mulholland Dr." (2001) - 10,0 2. "Blue Velvet" (1986) - 10,0 3. "Twin Peaks" (2017-) (TV Series) (18 episodes) - 10,0 4. "Twin Peaks" (1990-1991) (TV Series) (6 episodes) - 9,5 5. "Lost Highway" (1997) - 9,0 6. "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992) - 9,0 7. "Inland Empire" (2006) - 8,0 8. "The Elephant Man" (1980) - 7,5 9. "Wild at Heart" (1990) - 7,5 10. "Eraserhead" (1977) - 7,5 11. "The Straight Story" (1999) - 7,5 12. "Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces" (2014) - 7,0 13. "What Did Jack Do?" (2017) (short) - 6,5 14. "Dune" (1984) - 5,0

41. King Vidor

Director | War and Peace

King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...

1. "The Crowd" (1928) - 10,0 2. "The Wizard of Oz" (uncredited) (1939) - 10,0 3. "Stella Dallas" (1937) - 9,0 4. "The Big Parade" (1925) - 9,0 5. "Our Daily Bread" (1934) - 9,0 6. "Hallelujah" (1929) - 8,5 7. "Show People" (1928) - 8,5 8. "Man Without a Star" (1955) - 8,0 9. "Duel in the Sun" (1946) - 8,0 10. "The Fountainhead" (1949) - 7,5 11. "Beyond the Forest" (1949) - 7,5 12. "Lightning Strikes Twice" (1951) - 6,0

42. Max Ophüls

Director | La ronde

Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, ...

1. "Le plaisir" (1952) - 10,0 2. "Lola Montès" (1955) - 9,5 3. "Madame de..." (1953) - 9,5 4. "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948) - 9,5 5. "The Reckless Moment" (1949) - 9,0 6. "La Ronde" (1950) - 8,0 7. "De Mayerling à Sarajevo" (1940) - 8,0 8. "Liebelei" (1933) - 7,5 9. "Caught" (1949) - 7,5 10. "La signora di tutti" (1934) - 7,5

43. Erich von Stroheim

Actor | Sunset Blvd.

Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.

After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...

1. "Greed" (1924) - 10,0 2. "The Wedding March" (1928) - 9,5 3. "Foolish Wives" (1922) - 9,5 4. "Queen Kelly" (1929) - 9,0 5. "Blind Husbands" (1919) - 9,0

44. Jacques Rivette

Director | La Belle Noiseuse

Although François Truffaut has written that the New Wave began "thanks to Rivette," the films of this masterful French director are not well known. Rivette, like his "Cahiers du Cinéma" colleagues Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and Éric Rohmer, did graduate to filmmaking but, like Rohmer...

1. "La religieuse" (1966) - 10,0 2. "Céline et Julie vont en bateau - Phantom Ladies Over Paris" (1974) - 9,5 3. "Out 1, noli me tangere" (1971) - 9,5 4. "Out 1: Spectre" (1974) - 8,5 5. "La belle noiseuse" (1991) - 8,5 6. "L'amour fou" (1969) - 8,5 7. "Paris nous appartient" (1961) - 7,5

45. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

1. "The Little Foxes" (1941) - 10,0 2. "The Children's Hour" (1961) - 9,5 3. "The Heiress" (1949) - 9,0 4. "Detective Story" (1951) - 9,0 5. "The Collector" (1965) - 8,5 6. "Dodsworth" (1936) - 8,5 7. "Jezebel" (1938) - 8,5 8. "Ben-Hur" (1959) - 8,0 9. "The Westerner" (1940) - 8,0 10. "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) - 8,0 11. "Wuthering Heights" (1939) - 8,0 12. "Friendly Persuasion" (1956) - 7,5 13. "The Letter" (1940) - 7,5 14. "Funny Girl" (1968) - 7,5 15. "Dead End" (1937) - 7,0 16. "The Desperate Hours" (1955) - 7,0 17. "Roman Holiday" (1953) - 7,0 18. "The Big Country" (1958) - 7,0 19. "How to Steal a Million" (1966) - 7,0 20. "Mrs. Miniver" (1942) - 6,0

46. Victor Sjöström

Actor | Smultronstället

Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of ...

1. "Körkarlen" ("The Phantom Carriage") (1921) - 10,0 2. "He Who Gets Slapped" (1924) - 10,0 3. "The Wind" (1928) - 9,0 4. "Terje Vigen" ("A Man There Was") (1917) - 9,0 5. "Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru" ("The Outlaw and his Wife") (1918) - 7,0

47. Otto Preminger

Actor | Stalag 17

Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...

1. "Angel Face" (1952) - 9,5 2. "Laura" (1944) - 9,5 3. "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959) - 9,0 4. "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955) - 8,5 5. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (1950) - 8,0 6. "Carmen Jones" (1954) - 7,5 6. "Whirlpool" (1949) - 7,5 8. "Fallen Angel" (1945) - 7,5 9. "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965) - 7,0 10. "Bonjour tristesse" (1958) - 7,0 11. "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) - 7,0 12. "River of No Return" (1954) - 6,5

48. Raoul Walsh

Editor | The Birth of a Nation

Raoul Walsh's 52-year directorial career made him a Hollywood legend. Walsh was also an actor: He appeared in the first version of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" renamed Sadie Thompson (1928) opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. He would have played the Cisco Kid in his own film In Old Arizona ...

1. "White Heat" (1949) - 10,0 2. "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) - 9,5 3. "High Sierra" (1941) -9,5 4. "Regeneration" (1915) - 9,5 5. "The Enforcer" (uncredited) (1951) - 9,0 6. "The Roaring Twenties" (1939) - 8,5 7. "The Big Trail" (1930) - 8,5 8. "Colorado Territory" (1949) - 7,5 9. "The Man I Love" (1946) - 7,5 10. "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941) - 7,5 11. "Pursued" (1947) - 7,0 12. "They Drive by Night" (1940) - 7,0

49. 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 ...

1. "Sunset Blvd." (1950) - 10,0 2. "Double Indemnity" (1944) - 9,5 3. "Some Like It Hot" (1959) - 9,5 4. "The Apartment" (1960) - 9,0 5. "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957) - 8,0 6. "Ace in the Hole" (1951) - 7,5 7. "One, Two, Three" (1961) - 7,5 8. "Irma la Douce" (1963) - 7,5 9. "The Lost Weekend" (1945) - 7,5 10. "Avanti!" (1972) - 7,0 11. "Sabrina" (1954) - 7,0 12. "The Seven Year Itch" (1955) - 7,0 13. "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970) - 6,5 14. "Stalag 17" (1953) - 6,5

50. Robert J. Flaherty

Director | Louisiana Story

Robert J. Flaherty was born on February 16, 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Louisiana Story (1948), Man of Aran (1934) and Elephant Boy (1937). He was married to Frances H. Flaherty. He died on July 23, 1951 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.

1. "Nanook of the North" (1922) - 10,0 2. "Man of Aran" (1934) - 9,5 3. "Louisiana Story" (1948) - 8,5 4. "Moana" (1926) - 7,5

51. 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 ...

1. "Jalsaghar" ("The Music Room") (1958) - 10,0 2. "Pather Panchali" ("Song of the Little Road") (1955) - 10,0 3. "Charulata" ("Charulata: The Lonely Wife") (1964) - 9,5 4. "Aparajito" ("The Unvanquished") (1956) - 9,0 5. "Apur Sansar" ("The World of Apu") (1959) - 8,5 6. "Aranyer Din Ratri" ("Days and Nights in the Forest") (1968) - 8,0

52. Vincente Minnelli

Director | An American in Paris

Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. Wanting to pursue an artistic career, Minelli worked in the costume department of the Chicago Theater, then on Broadway during the depression as a set ...

1. "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) - 10,0 2. "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952) - 9,5 3. "The Band Wagon" (1953) - 8,0 4. "An American in Paris" (1951) - 8,0 5. "Madame Bovary" (1949) - 8,0 6. "Some Came Running" (1958) - 7,5 7. "Gigi" (1958) - 7,5 8. "Till the Clouds Roll By" (uncredited) (1946) - 7,0 9. "Undercurrent" (1946) - 6,5

53. Fred Zinnemann

Director | A Man for All Seasons

Initially grew up wanting to be a violinist, but while at the University of Vienna decided to study law. While doing so, he became increasingly interested in American film and decided that was what he wanted to do. He became involved in European filmaking for a short time before going to America to...

1. "High Noon" (1952) - 10,0 2. "From Here to Eternity" (1953) - 9,0 3. "A Man for All Seasons" (1966) - 9,0 4. "Menschen am Sonntag" (1930) - 9,0 5. "The Day of the Jackal" (1973) - 8,0 6. "The Nun's Story" (1959) - 7,5 7. "Oklahoma!" (1955) - 7,5 8. "Julia" (1977) - 7,5 9. "Act of Violence" (1949) - 7,5 10. "Eyes in the Night" (1942) - 7,5 11. "The Seventh Cross" (1944) - 6,5

54. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer | All About Eve

Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...

1. "All About Eve" (1950) - 10,0 2. "Guys and Dolls" (1955) - 9,5 3. "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) - 8,5 4. "Julius Caesar" (1953) - 8,0 5. "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954) - 8,0 6. "5 Fingers" (1952) - 8,0 7. "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959) - 8,0 8. "Sleuth" (1972) - 8,0 9. "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) - 8,0 10. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947) - 7,0 11. "No Way Out" (1950) - 7,0 12. "Dragonwyck" (1946) - 7,0 13. "House of Strangers" (1949) - 7,0 14. "Cleopatra" (1963) - 5,5

55. 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 ...

1. "C'era una volta il West" (1968) - 10,0 2. "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" (1966) - 10,0 3. "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984) - 10,0 4. "Per qualche dollaro in più" (1965) - 9,0 5. "Per un pugno di dollari" (1964) - 8,0 6. "Giù la testa" (1971) - 7,0

56. Josef von Sternberg

Director | The Devil Is a Woman

Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...

1. "Der blaue Engel" (1930) - 10,0 2. "The Docks of New York" (1928) - 9,5 3. "Shanghai Express" (1932) - 9,5 4. "Anatahan" (1953) - 9,5 5. "The Last Command" (1928) - 8,5 6. "Underworld" (1927) - 8,5 7. "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) - 8,0 8. "Morocco" (1930) - 7,5 9. "Blonde Venus" (1932) - 7,0 10. "The Devil is a Woman" (1935) - 7,0 11. "Macao" (1952) - 7,0 12. "The Shanghai Gesture" (1941) - 5,0

57. Abel Gance

Writer | La roue

Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...

1. Napoléon (1927) - 10,0 2. "La roue" (1923) - 9,0 3. "J'accuse!" (1919) - 8,5 4. "Un grand amour de Beethoven" (1936) - 7,0 5. "La folie du Docteur Tube" (short) (1915) - 6,5

58. John Huston

Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...

1. "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) - 10,0 2. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) - 10,0 3. "Freud" (1962) - 9,0 4. "The Dead" (1987) - 8,5 5. "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) - 8,0 6. "The Man Who Would Be King" (1975) - 8,0 7. "Fat City" (1972) - 7,5 8. "Key Largo" (1948) - 7,5 9. "The Misfits" (1961) - 7,5 10. "Beat the Devil" (1953) - 7,5 11. "Moulin Rouge" (1952) - 7,0 12. "San Pietro" (documentary short) (1945) - 7,0 13. "The African Queen" (1951) - 6,5 14. "The Bible: In the Beginning..." (1966) - 6,0

59. Marcel Carné

Director | Le quai des brumes

Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936). Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean ...

1. "Les enfants du paradis" (1945) - 10,0 2. "Le quai des brumes" (1938) - 9,0 3. "Le jour se lève" (1939) - 9,0 4. "Les visiteurs du soir" (1942) - 8,0

60. Jean-Pierre Melville

Writer | Le samouraï

The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...

1. "Le samouraï" (1967) - 10,0 2. "Bob le flambeur" (1956) - 9,0 3. "L'armée des ombres" (1969) - 8,5 4. "Le cercle rouge" (1970) - 8,5 5. "Le deuxième souffle" (1966) - 8,5 6. "Léon Morin, prêtre" (1961) - 8,0 7. "Le Doulos" (1962) - 7,5 8. "Les enfants terribles" (1950)- 7,5

61. 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 ...

1. "The Godfather" (1972) - 10,0 2. "Apocalypse Now" (1979) - 10,0 3. "The Conversation" (1974) - 9,5 4. "The Godfather: Part II" (1974) - 9,0 5. "The Godfather: Part III" (1990) - 7,0 6. "The Outsiders" (1983) - 7,0 7. "Tetro" (2009) - 6,0 8. "Dracula" (1992) - 2,0

62. George Stevens

Director | Giant

George Stevens, a filmmaker known as a meticulous craftsman with a brilliant eye for composition and a sensitive touch with actors, is one of the great American filmmakers, ranking with John Ford, William Wyler and Howard Hawks as a creator of classic Hollywood cinema, bringing to the screen ...

1. "Giant" (1956) - 10,0 2. "Shane" (1953) - 10,0 3. "Swing Time" (1936) - 10,0 4. "A Place in the Sun" (1951) - 9,0 5. "I Remember Mama" (1948) - 8,5 6. "Woman of the Year" (1942) - 7,5 7. "Gunga Din" (1939) - 7,5 8. "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) - 6,5

63. Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director | Admiral Nakhimov

Vsevolod Pudovkin was born on February 28, 1893 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Admiral Nakhimov (1947), Zhukovsky (1950) and Minin i Pozharskiy (1939). He was married to Anna Zemtsova. He died on June 30, 1953 in Jurmala, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia].

1. "Mat" ("Mother") (1926) - 10,0 2. "Potomok Chingis-Khana" ("Storm Over Asia") (1928) - 10,0 3. "Konets Sankt-Peterburga" ("The End of St. Petersburg") (1927) - 9,0 4. "Shakhmatnaya goryachka" ("Chess Fever") (short) (1925) - 8,0

64. Dziga Vertov

Director | Chelovek s kino-apparatom

Dziga Vertov was born on January 2, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Podlaskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934) and The Sixth Part of the World (1926). He was married to Elizaveta Svilova. He ...

1. "Chelovek s kino-apparatom" ("Man with a Movie Camera") (1929) - 10,0 2. "Kinoglaz" ("Kino Eye") (1924) - 8,0 3. "Entuziazm" ("Enthusiasm") (1930) - 8,0 4. "Shestaya chast mira" ("A Sixth Part of the World") (1926) - 7,0

65. Michael Curtiz

Director | Casablanca

Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...

1. "Casablanca" (1942) - 10,0 2. "Mildred Pierce" (1945) - 9,5 3. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) - 9,0 4. "Captain Blood" (1935) - 8,0 5. "The Breaking Point" (1950) - 8,0 6. "Mystery of the Wax Museum" (1933) - 8,0 7. "Marked Woman" (1937) - 7,5 8. "Kid Galahad" (1937) - 7,5 9. "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938) - 7,0 10. "The Unsuspected" (1947) - 7,0 11. "Flamingo Road" (1949) - 6,5 12. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942)- 6,0

66. 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 ...

1. "Raging Bull" (1980) - 10,0 2. "Taxi Driver" (1976) - 9,5 3. "Mean Streets" (1973) - 8,0 4. "Goodfellas" (1990) - 8,0 5. "After Hours" (1985) - 8,0 6. "The Age of Innocence" (1993) - 7,5 7. "Casino" (1995) - 7,5 8. "The Irishman" (2019) - 7,5 9. "Killers of the Flower Moon" (2023) - 7,5 10. "The King of Comedy" (1982) - 7,5 11. "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013) - 7,5 12. "Gangs of New York" (2002) - 7,0 13. "New York, New York" (1977) - 7,0 14. "The Departed" (2006) - 7,0 15. "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974) - 7,0 16. "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988) - 6,5 17. "Hugo" (2011) - 6,5 18. "Sutter Island" (2010) - 6,5 19. "Cape Fear" (1991) - 6,5 20. "Silence" (2016) - 6,5 21. "Kundun" (1997) - 6,5 22. "Bringing Out the Dead" (1999) - 6,0 23. "The Aviator" (2004) - 6,0

67. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Writer | Le salaire de la peur

Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...

1. "Le salaire de la peur" (1953) - 10,0 2. "Les diaboliques" (1955) - 10,0 3. "Le corbeau" (1943) - 9,0 4. "Quai des Orfèvres" (1947) - 8,0

68. Nicholas Ray

Director | Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the ...

1. "In a Lonely Place" (1950) - 9,5 2. "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) - 9,5 3. "Johnny Guitar" (1954) - 9,0 4. "They Live By Night" (1948) - 8,5 5. "King of Kings" (1961) - 8,0 6. "The Lusty Men" (1952) - 7,5 7. "Party Girl" (1958) - 7,5 8. "Bigger Than Life" (1956) - 7,5 9. "Knock on Any Door" (1949) - 7,0 10. "On Dangerous Ground" (1951) - 7,0 11. "Born to Be Bad" (1950) - 7,0 12. "A Woman's Secret" (1949) - 7,0 13. "Macao" (uncredited) (1952) - 7,0

69. Anthony Mann

Director | El Cid

Anthony Mann was born on June 30, 1906 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for El Cid (1961), Men in War (1957) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). He was married to Anna, Sara Montiel and Mildred Mann. He died on April 29, 1967 in London, England.

1. "Winchester '73" (1950) - 9,5 2. "Man of the West" (1958) - 8,5 3. "He Walked by Night" (1948) (uncredited) - 8,0 4. "The Far Country" (1954) - 8,0 5. "The Man from Laramie" (1955) - 8,0 6. "Devil's Doorway" (1950) - 8,0 7. "T-Men" (1947) - 8,0 8. "The Tin Star" (1957) - 8,0 9. "Border Incident" (1949) - 8,0 10. "Side Street" (1950) - 8,0 11. "Quo Vadis" (uncredited) (1951) - 8,0 12. "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964) - 7,5 13. "The Naked Spur" (1953) - 7,5 14. "The Furies" (1950) - 7,5 15. "The Tall Target" (1951) - 7,5 16. "Reign of Terror" (1949) - 7,5 17. "Desperate" (1947) - 7,5 18. "The Great Flamarion" (1945) - 7,5 19. "Railroaded!" (1947) - 7,0 20. "Strangers in the Night" (1944) - 7,0 21. "Raw Deal" (1948) - 6,5 22. "Bend of the River" (1952) - 6,5 23. "Strange Impersonation" (1946) - 6,5 24. "Two O'Clock Courage" (1945) - 6,5

70. Werner Herzog

Director | Fitzcarraldo

Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...

1. "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" (1972) - 10,0 2. "Fitzcarraldo" (1982) - 9,5 3. "Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit" (1971) - 9,0 4. "Stroszek" (1977) - 8,5 5. "Herz aus Glas" (1976) - 8,0 6. "Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht" (1979) - 8,0 7. "Cobra Verde" (1987) - 8,0 8. "Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" (1974) - 8,0 9. "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans" (2009) - 8,0 10. "Grizzly Man" (2005) - 7,5 11. "Lektionen in Finsternis" (1992) - 7,5 12. "Fata Morgana" (1971) - 7,0 13. "Rescue Dawn" (2006) - 7,0

71. 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...

1. "Orphée" (1950) - 10,0 2. "La belle et la bête" (1946) - 10,0 3. "Le sang d'un poète" (1932) - 10,0 4. "Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!" (1960) - 9,0

72. Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Director | Komödianten

Georg Wilhelm Pabst is considered by many to be the greatest director of German cinema, in his era. He was especially appreciated by actors and actresses for the humane way in which he treated them. This was in contrast to some of his contemporaries, such as Arnold Fanck, who have been ...

1. "Die Büchse der Pandora" (1929) - 10,0 2. "Die freudlose Gasse" (1925) - 9,5 3. "Tagebuch einer Verlorenen" (1929) - 9,0 4. "Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü" (1929) - 9,0 5. "Geheimnisse einer Seele" (1926) - 9,0 6. "Die 3 Groschen-Oper" (1931) - 8,0 7. "Kameradschaft" (1931) - 7,5 8. "Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie" (1930) - 7,5

73. Robert Altman

Director | Gosford Park

Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started...

1. "Nashville" (1975) - 9,0 2. "3 Women" (1977) - 9,0 3. "Gosford Park" (2001) - 9,0 4. "The Long Goodbye" (1973) - 8,5 5. "The Player" (1992) - 8,5 6. "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) - 8,0 7. "Short Cuts" (1993) - 7,5 8. "MASH" (1970) - 7,5 9. "A Prairie Home Companion" (2006) - 7,5

74. James Whale

Director | Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his four classic horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). He also directed films in other genres, including what is ...

1. "Frankenstein" (1931) - 10,0 2. "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) - 9,5 3. "The Invisible Man" (1933) - 8,5 4. "Show Boat" (1936) - 8,0 5. "The Old Dark House" (1932) - 6,5

75. Douglas Sirk

Director | Schlußakkord

Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, ...

1. "Written on the Wind" (1956) - 9,5 2. "All That Heaven Allows" (1955) - 9,5 3. "The Tarnished Angels" (1957) - 9,5 4. "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" (1958) - 8,5 5. "Interlude" (1957) - 8,5 6. "There's Always Tomorrow" (1956) - 8,0 7. "Imitation of Life" (1959) - 7,5 8. "Sleep, My Love" (1948) - 7,5 9. "Lured" (1947) - 7,5 10. "All I Desire" (1953) - 7,0 11. "Magnificent Obsession" (1954) - 6,5 12. "Shockproof" (1949) - 6,5 13. "Take Me to Town" (1953) - 6,0

76. Claude Chabrol

Director | Le beau Serge

Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.

1. "Les cousins" (1959) - 10,0 2. "La femme infidèle" (1969) - 9,0 3. "Le boucher" (1970) - 9,0 4. "Le beau Serge" (1958) - 7,5 5. "Les bonnes femmes" (1960) - 7,5 6. "La cérémonie" (1995) - 7,5 7. "Juste avant la nuit" (1971) - 7,5 8. "Les biches" (1968) - 7,5 9. "Une affaire de femmes" (1988) - 7,0 10. "L'ivresse du pouvoir" (2006) - 7,0 11. "La fille coupée en deux" (2007) - 6,5 12. "Madame Bovary" (1991) - 6,5 13. "Merci pour le chocolat" (2000) - 6,0

77. Preston Sturges

Writer | Sullivan's Travels

Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....

1. "The Lady Eve" (1941) - 9,5 2. "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) - 9,5 3. "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944) - 8,0 4. "The Palm Beach Story" (1942) - 8,0 5. "Unfaithfully Yours" (1948) - 8,0 6. "Christmas in July" (1940) - 7,5 7. "The Great Moment" (1944) - 7,0 8. "Hail the Conquering Hero" (1944) - 7,0

78. Cecil B. DeMille

Producer | The Ten Commandments

His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...

1. "The Ten Commandments" (1956) - 9,5 2. "Cleopatra" (1934) - 9,0 3. "Samson and Delilah" (1949) - 9,0 4. "The Cheat" (1915) - 8,5 5. "Union Pacific" (1939) - 7,5 6. "The Ten Commandments" (1923) - 7,0 7. "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952) - 7,0 8. "The King of Kings" (1927) - 6,5 9. "The Crusades" (1935) - 6,5

79. Busby Berkeley

Director | Gold Diggers of 1935

Busby Berkeley was one of the greatest choreographers of the US movie musical. He started his career in the US Army in 1918, as a lieutenant in the artillery conducting and directing parades. After the World War I cease-fire he was ordered to stage camp shows for the soldiers. Back in the US he ...

1. "42nd Street" (creator: dances and ensembles, stager: dances and ensembles) (1933) - 10,0 2. "Footlight Parade" (numbers created and directed by) (1933) - 9,0 3. "Gold Diggers of 1933" (numbers created and directed by) (1933) - 8,5 4. "Babes in Arms" (1939) - 7,0 5. "The Gang's All Here" (1943) - 6,5 6. "Gold Diggers in Paris" (dance numbers created and directed by) (1938) - 6,5

80. Jules Dassin

Director | Du rififi chez les hommes

Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).

He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...

1. "Du rififi chez les hommes' (1955) - 10,0 2. "Brute Force" (1947) - 9,0 3. "Pote tin Kyriaki" (1960) - 9,0 4. "Night and the City" (1950) - 8,5 5. "The Naked City" (1948) - 8,0 6. "Thieves' Highway" (1949) - 8,0

81. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

1. "Freaks" (1932) - 10,0 2. "The Unknown" (1927) - 10,0 3. "Dracula" (1931) - 9,5 4. "The Devil-Doll" (1936) - 8,5 5. "Mark of the Vampire" (1935) - 8,0

82. Derek Jarman

Director | Caravaggio

After school, Jarman studied history and art history at King's College. In 1963 he began studying art in Pop Art London. In the general mood of optimism from the mid-1960s onward, he began to openly confront his homosexuality. Jarman took over the set design for Ken Russell on the films "The Devils...

1. "Wittgenstein" (1993) - 9,0 2. "Edward II" (1991) - 8,5 3. "Blue" (1993) - 8,0 4. "Caravaggio" (1986) - 8,0

83. Roman Polanski

Director | Chinatown

Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.

His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...

1. "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) - 10,0 2. "Chinatown (1974) - 9,5 3. "Repulsion" (1965) - 9,5 4. "Le locataire" (1976) - 9,0 5. "Macbeth" (1971) - 8,0 6. "Tess" (1979) - 8,0 7. "Nóz w wodzie" ("Knife in the Water") (1962) - 8,0 8. "Dance of the Vampires" (1967) - 8,0 9. "The Pianist" (2002) - 7,5 10. "Oliver Twist" (2005) - 7,5 11. "Cul-de-sac" (1966) - 7,0 12. "Death and the Maiden" (1994) - 7,0 13. "Bitter Moon" (1992) - 7,0 14. "La Vénus à la fourrure" (2013) - 7,0 15. "J'accuse" (2019) - 6,0 16. "The Ghost Writer" (2010) - 6,0 17. "The Ninth Gate" (1999) - 6,0 18. "D'après une histoire vraie" (2017) - 6,0 19. "Carnage" (2011) - 5,5 20. "Pirates" (1986) - 5,0

84. Louis Malle

Director | Au revoir les enfants

Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...

1. "Le souffle au coeur" (1971) - 10,0 2. "Le feu follet" (1963) - 9,5 3. "Au revoir les enfants" (1987) - 9,0 4. "Vanya on 42nd Street" (1994) - 8,5 5. "Atlantic City" (1980) - 8,5 6. "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" (1958) - 8,0 7. "Lacombe Lucien" (1974) - 8,0 8. "Les amants" (1958) - 7,5 9. "My Dinner with Andre" (1981) - 7,0 10. "Zazie dans le métro" (1960) - 7,0 11. "Black Moon" (1975) - 6,5 12. "Histoires extraordinaires" (1968) - segment "William Wilson" - 6,5

85. Victor Fleming

Director | Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional race-car driver. He became interested in working on the other side of the camera, and eventually got a job as a cameraman on many of the ...

1. "Gone with the Wind" (1939) - 10,0 2. "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) - 10,0 3. "Captains Courageous" (1937) - 8,5 4. "Red Dust" (1932) - 7,5 5. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1941) - 7,5 6. "When the Clouds Roll by" (1919) - 7,0

86. Leo McCarey

Director | An Affair to Remember

Leo McCarey was born on October 3, 1896 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for An Affair to Remember (1957), Going My Way (1944) and Love Affair (1939). He was married to Virginia Stella Martin. He died on July 5, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

1. "Duck Soup" (1933) - 10,0 2. "Make Way for Tomorrow" (1937) - 9,0 3. "An Affair to Remember" (1957) - 8,5 4. "The Awful Truth" (1937) - 8,5 5. "Ruggles of Red Gap" (1935) - 7,5 6. "Liberty" (short) (1929) - 7,5 7. "Mighty Like a Moose" (short) (1926) - 7,5 8. "Going My Way" (1944) - 7,0 9. "Big Business" (short) (1929) - 6,5 10. "The Bells of St. Mary's" (1945) - 6,5

87. Jacques Becker

Writer | Le trou

His interest in films was stimulated by a meeting with King Vidor, who offered him employment in the US as actor and assistant director. However, he remained in France and became assistant to Jean Renoir, a friend of the family, during that director's peak period (1932-39). In 1934 he ventured ...

1. "Le trou" (1960) - 9,5 2. "Casque d'or" (1952) - 9,0 3. "Touchez pas au grisbi" (1954) - 9,0 4. "Les amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19)" (1958) - 8,0

88. Robert Aldrich

Director | Emperor of the North Pole

Robert Aldrich entered the film industry in 1941 when he got a job as a production clerk at RKO Radio Pictures. He soon worked his way up to script clerk, then became an assistant director, a production manager and an associate producer. He began writing and directing for TV series in the early ...

1. "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955) - 10,0 2. "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) - 9,5 3. "Ulzana's Raid" (1972) - 8,0 4. "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) - 7,5 5. "Vera Cruz" (1954) - 7,5 6. "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte" (1964) - 7,5 7. "World for Ransom" (1954) - 7,0 8. "The Big Knife" (1955) - 7,0 9. "Emperor of the North Pole" (1973) - 6,5 10. "Apache' (1954) - 6,0

89. 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 ...

1. "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) - 10,0 2. "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) - 9,0 3. "Lady for a Day" (1933) - 8,5 4. "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933) - 8,0 5. "It Happened One Night" (1934) - 8,0 6. "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944) - 7,0 7. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) - 6,5 8. "You Can't Take It with You" (1938) - 6,0

90. Wim Wenders

Director | Der Himmel über Berlin

Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...

1. "Der Himmel über Berlin" (1987) - 10,0 2. "Der Stand der Dinge" (1982) - 9,5 3. "Der amerikanische Freund" (1977) - 9,5 4. "Paris, Texas" (1984) - 8,0 5. "Buena Vista Social Club" (1999) - 7,5 6. "Im Lauf der Zeit" (1976) - 7,5 7. "Perfect Days" (2023) - 7,0 8. "Pina" (2011) - 6,5 9. "Alice in den Städten" (1974) - 6,5 10. "Don't Come Knocking" (2005) - 6,0

91. 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...

1- "Inglourious Basterds" (2009) - 9,5 2- "Pulp Fiction" (1994) - 9,5 3- "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) - 9,0 4- "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (2003) - 9,0 5- "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" (2004) - 8,5 6- "Sin City" (special guest director) (2005) - 8,0 7. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019) - 7,5 8. "The Hateful Eight" (2015) - 7,5 9- "Death Proof" (2007) - 7,0 10- "Jackie Brown" (1997) - 6,5 11- "Django Unchained" (2012) - 6,5 12- "Four Rooms" - segment "The Man from Hollywood" (1995) - 6,0

92. 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 ...

1. "Interiors" (1978) - 9,5 2. "Zelig" (1983) - 9,5 3. "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989) - 9,0 4. "Annie Hall (1977) - 9,0 5. "Love and Death" (1975) - 9,0 6. "Manhattan" (1979) - 8,5 7. "Bananas" (1971) - 8,0 8. "Match Point" (2005) - 8,0 9. "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) - 8,0 10. "Radio Days" (1987) - 8,0 11. "Sleeper" (1973) - 8,0 12. "Whatever Works" (2009) - 7,5 13. "Husbands and Wives" (1992) - 7,5 14. "Another Woman" (1988) - 7,5 15. "September" (1987) - 7,5 16. "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985) - 7,0 17. "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993) - 7,0 18. "Stardust Memories" (1980) - 7,0 19. "Deconstructing Harry" (1997) - 7,0 20. "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994) - 7,0 21. "Take the Money and Run" (1969) - 7,0 22. "Mighty Aphrodite" (1995) - 6,5 23. "Magic in the Moonlight" (2014) - 6,5 24. "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" (1972) - 6,5 25. "Broadway Danny Rose" (1984) - 6,5 26. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008) - 6,5 27. "Wonder Wheel" (2017) - 6,5 28. "Café Society" (2016) - 6,5 29. "Irrational Man" (2015) - 6,0 30. "Blue Jasmine" (2013) - 6,0 31. "Scoop" (2006) - 6,0 32. "Midnight in Paris" (2011) - 6,0 33. "Rifkin's Festival" (2020) - 6,0 34. "A Rainy Day in New York" (2019) - 6,0 35. "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" (2010) - 5,5 36. "To Rome with Love" (2012) - 5,5

93. Robert Siodmak

Director | Nachts wenn der Teufel kam

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born, American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s.

Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of ...

1- "The Killers" (1946) - 9,0 2- "Criss Cross" (1949) - 9,0 3- "Menschen am Sonntag" (1930) - 9,0 4- "The File on Thelma Jordon" (1950) - 8,0 5- "Cry of the City" (1948) - 8,0 6- "The Suspect" (1944) - 7,5 7- "The Spiral Staircase" (1946) - 7,5 8- "The Dark Mirror" (1946) - 7,5 9- "Phantom Lady" (1944) - 7,0 10- "The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry" (1945) - 7,0 11 - "Son of Dracula" (1943) - 6,5 12- "Christmas Holiday" (1944) - 6,5

94. 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 ...

1. "The Thing" (1982) - 9,5 2. "Halloween" (1978) - 9,0 3. "In the Mouth of Madness" (1994) - 9,0 4. "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) - 8,5 5. "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976) - 8,5 6. "Escape from New York" (1981) - 8,0 7. "They Live" (1988) - 7,5 8. "Christine" (1983) - 7,5 9. "The Fog" (1980) - 7,5 10. "Prince of Darkness" (1987) - 7,0 11. "Vampires" (1998) - 7,0 12. "Village of the Damned" (1995) - 5,5

95. Carlos Saura

Writer | Carmen

Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest in cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to ...

1. "Bodas de sangre" (1981) - 9,0 2. "Cría cuervos" (1976) - 8,5 3. "Iberia" (2005) - 8,5 4. "Fados" (2007) - 8,0 5. "Las paredes hablan" (2022) - 7,0

96. Terence Fisher

Director | Dracula

Terence Fisher was born in Maida Vale, England, in 1904. Raised by his grandmother in a strict Christian Scientist environment, Fisher left school while still in his teens to join the Merchant Marine. By his own account he soon discovered that a life at sea was not for him, so he left the service ...

1. "Dracula" (1958) - 10,0 2. "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) - 9,0 3. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) - 8,5 4. "The Mummy" (1959) - 7,5 5. "The Curse of the Werewolf" (1961) - 7,5 6. "The Brides of Dracula" (1960) - 7,0 7. "The Devil Rides Out" (1968) - 6,5 8. "Man Bait" (1952) - 6,5

97. 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 ...

1. "Dogville" (2003) - 10,0 2. "Dancer in the Dark" (2000) - 9,5 3. "Breaking the Waves" (1996) - 9,0 4. "Idioterne" ("The Idiots") (1998) - 8,0 5. "Manderlay" (2005) - 8,0 6. "Direktøren for det hele" ("The Boss of It All") (2006) - 7,5 7. "Melancholia" (2011) - 7,0 8. "The House That Jack Built" (2018) - 6,5 9. "Antichrist" (2009) - 6,5 10. "Nymphomaniac: Vol. I" (2013) - 5,0 11. "Nymphomaniac: Vol. II" (2013) - 5,0

98. Mervyn LeRoy

Director | Gypsy

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...

1. "The Wizard of Oz" (uncredited) (1939) - 10,0 2. "Little Caesar" (1931) - 10,0 3. "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932) - 9,5 4. "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933) - 8,5 5. "Quo Vadis" (1951) - 8,0 6. "Mister Roberts" (1955) - 7,5 7. "Johnny Eager" (1941) - 7,5 8. "The Bad Seed" (1956) - 6,5

99. Hsiao-Hsien Hou

Producer | Cike Nie Yin Niang

Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed ...

1. "The Puppetmaster" ("Xi meng ren sheng") (1993) - 9,5 2. "Dust in the Wind" ("Liàn liàn fengchén") (1986) - 9,0 3. "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" ("Tóngnián wangshì") (1985) - 8,5 4. "Flowers of Shanghai" ("Hai shang hua") (1998) - 8,0 5. "A City of Sadness" ("Beiqing chengshi") (1985) - 8,0 6. "Goodbye, South, Goodbye" ("Nan guo zai jian, nan guo") (1996) - 7,5 7. "Millennium Mambo" ("Qianxi mànbo") (2001) - 7,5 8. "Café Lumière" ("Kôhî jikô") (2003) - 7,5

100. 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, ...

1. "Jaws" (1975) - 9,5 2. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981) - 9,0 3. "Duel" (1971) - 9,0 4. "Jurassic Park" (1993) - 9,0 5. "Schindler's List" (1993) - 8,5 6. "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" (1989) - 8,0 7. "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984) - 8,0 8. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) - 8,0 9. "Minority Report" (2002) - 7,5 10. "The Sugarland Express" (1974) - 7,5 11. "War of the Worlds" (2005) - 7,5 12. "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) - 7,5 13. "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2001) - 7,0 14. "Bridge of Spies" (2015) - 7,0 15. "Munich" (2005) - 7,0 16. "The Adventures of Tintin" (2011) - 6,5 17. "Saving Private Ryan" (1998) - 6,5 18. "West Side Story" (2021) - 6,5 19. "The Fabelmans" (2022) - 6,5 20. "Lincoln" (2012) - 6,5 21. "The Post" (2017) - 6,5 22. "The Color Purple" (1985) - 6,5 23. "Empire of the Sun" (1987) - 6,0 24. "War Horse" (2011) - 6,0 25. "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) - 6,0 26. "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997) - 5,5 27. "The Terminal" (2004) - 4,5