Incompleted Filmographies

1. Ingmar Bergman

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 (...

Ranking

1 - Persona [*] 2 - The Passion of Anna 3 - Fanny & Alexander 4 - Cries and Whispers 5 - The Seventh Seal 6 - Wild Strawberries 7 - Summer with Monika 8 - The Virgin Spring 9 - Crisis 10 - Face to Face

2. 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...

Ranking

1 - Seven Samurai [*] 2 - High and Low [*] 3 - Rashomon [*] 4 - Yojimbo 5 - Throne of Blood 6 - One Wonderful Sunday 7 - I Live in Fear 8 - Scandal 9 - Stray Dog 10 - The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

3. Robert Zemeckis

Writer | Back to the Future

A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...

Ranking

1 - Contact 2 - Forrest Gump 3 - Back to the Future 4 - Cast Away 5 - Back to the Future Part II 6 - I Wanna Hold Your Hand

4. Júlio Bressane

Director | Educação Sentimental

Júlio Bressane was born on February 13, 1946 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and writer, known for Sentimental Education (2013), Tabu (1982) and A Love Movie (2003).

Ranking

1 - Dias de Nietzsche em Turim 2 - Tabu 3 - Sedução da Carne 4 - Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema 5 - Capitu e o Capítulo

6 - Beduíno 7 - Filme de Amor

8 - O Anjo Nasceu 9 - Cara a Cara 10 - Barão Olavo, o Horrível

5. Hong Sang-soo

Director | Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da

Hong Sang-soo was born on October 25, 1960 in Seoul, Korea. He is a director and writer, known for Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), Night and Day (2008) and The Woman Who Ran (2020).

Ranking

1 - Right Now, Wrong Then

2 - On the Beach at Night Alone 3 - Grass

4 - The Day After

5 - The Woman Who Ran

6 - Claire's Camera 7 - In Another Country

6. Hector Babenco

Director | Carandiru

Hector Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Carandiru (2003), Pixote (1980) and Foolish Heart (1998). He was married to Bárbara Paz, Xuxa Lopes and Raquel Arnaud. He died on July 13, 2016 in São Paulo, São Paulo, ...

Ranking

1 - O Beijo da Mulher-Aranha 2 - Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco 3 - Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia 4 - Carandiru 5 - Meu Amigo Hindu

7. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Street of Shame 2 - Ugetsu 3 - Women of the Night 4 - Sisters of the Gion 5 - Oyuki the Virgin 6 - Princess Yang Kwei Fei 7 - The Crucified Lovers 8 - Osaka Elegy

8. Agnès Varda

Director | Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda was born on May 30, 1928 in Ixelles, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985) and Faces Places (2017). She was married to Jacques Demy. She died on March 29, 2019 in Paris, France.

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Vagabond [*]

2 - La Pointe-Courte 3 - Cléo from 5 to 7

4 - Le Bonheur 5 - One Sings, the Other Doesn't 6 - Jacquot de Nantes

7 - Kung-Fu Master!

8 - Lions Love

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - The Gleaners & I 2 - Mur murs 3 - Faces Places 4 - Varda by Agnès

9. Clint Eastwood

Actor | Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...

Ranking

1 - Million Dollar Baby 2 - Unforgiven 3 - Gran Torino 4 - Mystic River 5 - Bird 6 - The Mule 7 - J. Edgar 8 - Sully 9 - American Sniper 10 - The 15:17 to Paris

10. Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Director | Memórias do Cárcere

Nelson Pereira dos Santos was born on October 22, 1928 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Memórias do Cárcere (1984), O Amuleto de Ogum (1974) and Tenda dos Milagres (1977). He was married to Ivelise Ferreira. He died on April 21, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Rio, 40 Graus 2 - Vidas Secas 3 - Rio, Zona Norte 4 - Memórias do Cárcere 5 - Boca de Ouro 6 - Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês 7 - Azyllo Muito Louco 8 - El Justicero 9 - O Amuleto de Ogum 10 - Fome de Amor 11 - Tenda dos Milagres 12 - Na Estrada da Vida 13 - Mandacaru Vermelho 14 - Jubiabá 15 - Quem é Beta? 16 - A Terceira Margem do Rio

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - A Música Segundo Tom Jobim 2 - A Luz do Tom

11. 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...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Even Dwarfs Started Small 2 - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 3 - Stroszek 4 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5 - My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done 6 - Fitzcarraldo 7 - Heart of Glass 8 - Nosferatu the Vampyre 9 - The Wild Blue Yonder 10 - Family Romance, LLC

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - Land of Silence and Darkness 2 - Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices 3 - Cave of Forgotten Dreams

12. Gus Van Sant

Director | Elephant

Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...

Ranking

1 - Elephant [*] 2 - Gerry 3 - My Own Private Idaho 4 - Last Days 5 - Mala Noche 6 - Drugstore Cowboy 7 - Good Will Hunting 8 - Paranoid Park 9 - Milk 10 - To Die For 11 - Finding Forrester 12 - Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot 13 - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues 14 - Psycho

13. 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 ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Paris, Texas [*] 2 - Wings of Desire [*]

3 - Alice in the Cities 4 - Kings of the Road

5 - Faraway, So Close! 6 - Wrong Move

7 - The American Friend 8 - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

9 - Palermo Shooting 10 - Every Thing Will Be Fine

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - Pina 2 - Notebook on Cities and Clothes 3 - Tokyo-Ga

4 - The Salt of the Earth

5 - Buena Vista Social Club

14. 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), ...

Ranking

1 - Still Walking 2 - Maborosi 3 - Shoplifters 4 - I Wish 5 - Nobody Knows 6 - The Third Murder

15. M. Night Shyamalan

Producer | Lady in the Water

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...

Ranking

1 - Glass 2 - Unbreakable

3 - Sixth Sense

? 4 - The Village ? 5 - Signs 6 - Old 7 - Split

8 - The Visit

16. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans [*] 2 - The Last Laugh [*] 3 - Nosferatu [*]

4 - Tabu 5 - Faust

6 - Tartuffe 7 - The Haunted Castle

17. 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. ...

Ranking

1 - Metropolis [*] 2 - M [*] 3 - Fury 4 - The Big Heat 5 - The Woman in the Window 6 - Scarlet Street 7 - House by the River 8 - Destiny 9 - While the City Sleeps 10 - Man Hunt 11 - Western Union 12 - Woman in the Moon

18. Michael Haneke

Writer | Caché

A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...

Ranking

1 - Funny Games (1997) 2 - Amour 3 - The White Ribbon 4 - The Seventh Continent 5 - Benny's Video 6 - The Piano Teacher 7 - Funny Games (2007) 8 - Happy End

19. George Miller

Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...

Ranking

1 - Mad Max: Fury Road 2 - Mad Max 2 3 - Mad Max 4 - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 5 - Babe: Pig in the City

20. David Cronenberg

Actor | The Fly

David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...

Ranking

1 - Videodrome

2 - Crash

3 - Eastern Promises 4 - Dead Ringers 5 - The Fly

6 - A History of Violence 7 - Cosmopolis 8 - Maps to the Stars 9 - The Brood

10 - Naked Lunch 11 - A Dangerous Method 12 - Spider

21. Denis Villeneuve

Director | Dune

Denis Villeneuve is a French Canadian film director and writer. He was born in 1967, in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. He started his career as a filmmaker at the National Film Board of Canada. He is best known for his feature films Arrival (2016), Sicario (2015), Prisoners (2013), Enemy (2013), ...

Ranking

1 - Enemy 2 - Blade Runner 2049 3 - Prisoners

4 - Arrival

5 - Sicario

6 - August 32nd on Earth 7 - Polytechnique

22. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day [*] 2 - Aliens 3 - Titanic 4 - Terminator 5 - True Lies 6 - Avatar

23. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Dogville 2 - Breaking the Waves 3 - Melancholia 4 - Antichrist 5 - Dancer in the Dark 6 - Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 7 - Nymphomaniac: Vol. 2 8 - Medea 9 - The Idiots 10 - The House That Jack Built

24. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Tristana 2 - The Milky Way 3 - The Phantom of Liberty 4 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 5 - The Exterminating Angel 6 - Viridiana 7 - Belle de Jour 8 - That Obscure Object of Desire 9 - L'Age d'Or

25. Eduardo Coutinho

Director | Edifício Master

Eduardo Coutinho was born on May 11, 1933 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Edifício Master (2002), Santo Forte (1999) and Babilônia 2000 (1999). He was married to Maria das Dores de Oliveira. He died on February 2, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ranking

1 - Jogo de Cena [*] 2 - Cabra Marcado para Morrer [*] 3 - Edifício Master 4 - Moscou 5 - Babilônia 2000 6 - O Fim e o Princípio 7 - O Fio da Memória 8 - Últimas Conversas

26. José Padilha

Producer | Tropa de Elite

He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer and director of the ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Tropa de Elite 2 - Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro 3 - RoboCop

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - Ônibus 174 2 - Garapa

27. Walter Salles

Director | Central do Brasil

Walter Salles was born on April 12, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a director and producer, known for Central Station (1998), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) and Terra Estrangeira (1995). He is married to Maria Klabin. They have one child.

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Central do Brasil 2 - Diários de Motocicleta 3 - Abril Despedaçado 4 - On the Road

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

Jia Zhangke, um Homem de Fenyang

28. Brian De Palma

Director | Body Double

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

Ranking

1 - Scarface 2 - Carrie 3 - The Untouchables 4 - Mission: Impossible 5 - The Black Dahlia

29. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - The Godfather Part II [*] 2 - The Godfather [*] 3 - Apocalypse Now [*]

4 - The Godfather Part III

5 - Tetro

6 - One from the Heart 7 - Rumble Fish

8 - Bram Stoker's Dracula

30. James Wan

Writer | Saw

James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...

Ranking

1 - The Conjuring 2 - The Conjuring 2 3 - Insidious 4 - Saw 5 - Furious 7 6 - Death Silence 7 - Dead Silence

31. 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.

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Down by Law 2 - Only Lovers Left Alive 3 - Paterson 4 - The Dead Don't Die

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - Gimme Danger 2 - The Year of the Horse

32. 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,...

Ranking

1 - The Treasure of Sierra Madre 2 - The Maltese Falcon 3 - Fat City 4 - The Dead 5 - Escape to Victory 6 - Beat the Devil

33. John Waters

Writer | Pecker

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

Ranking

1 - Pink Flamingos 2 - Female Trouble

3 - Cecil B. Demented 4 - Pecker 5 - Hairspray

6 - Mondo Trasho

7 - Serial Mom

34. Kathryn Bigelow

Director | Zero Dark Thirty

A very talented painter, Kathryn spent two years at the San Francisco Art Institute. At 20, she won a scholarship to the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. She was given a studio in a former Offtrack Betting building, literally in an old bank vault, where she made art and waited to be ...

Ranking

1 - Near Dark 2 - The Hurt Locker 3 - Point Break 4 - Detroit 5 - Zero Dark Thirty

35. Oliver Stone

Director | JFK

Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.

William Oliver Stone was ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Platoon 2 - Natural Born Killers 3 - The Doors 4 - Alexander

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

South of the Border

36. Sidney Lumet

Director | 12 Angry Men

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...

Ranking

1 - 12 Angry Men [*] 2 - Dog Day Afternoon [*]

3 - The Pawnbroker 4 - Equus

5 - Serpico

6 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

7 - The Fugitive Kind 8 - The Offence

37. 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, ...

Ranking

1 - Saving Private Ryan 2 - Jaws 3 - Duel 4 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind 5 - Lincoln 6 - Schindler's List 7 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 8 - Bridge of Spies 9 - Empire of the Sun 10 - The Post 11 - Catch Me If You Can 12 - A.I. Artificial Intelligence 13 - The Adventures of Tintin

38. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Batman Returns 2 - Edward Scissorhands 3 - Batman 4 - Sleepy Hollow 5 - Corpse Bride 6 - Planet of the Apes 7 - Big Eyes 8 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 9 - Alice in Wonderland

39. William Friedkin

Director | To Live and Die in L.A.

Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Sorcerer

2 - The Exorcist 3 - The French Connection

4 - To Live and Die in L.A. 5 - Cruising 6 - Killer Joe

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

The Devil and Father Amorth

40. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Annie Hall 2 - Hannah and Her Sisters 3 - Manhattan

4 - Deconstructing Harry 5 - Manhattan Murder Mystery 6 - Radio Days 7 - Blue Jasmine

8 - Midnight in Paris 9 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

10 - Café Society 11 - Take the Money and Run 12 - Sleeper 13 - What's Up, Tiger Lily?

14 - Irrational Man 15 - To Rome with Love

16 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona 17 - Magic in the Moonlight

41. Milos Forman

Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

Ranking

1 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 2 - Amadeus 3 - The Firemen's Ball 4 - Hair 5 - Black Peter 6 - Valmont 7 - Loves of a Blonde

42. Emir Kusturica

Director | Underground

A Serbian film director. Born in 1954 in Sarajevo. Graduated in film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in 1978. During his studies, he was awarded several times for his short movies including Guernica (1978), which took first prize at the Student's Film ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Time of the Gypsies 2 - Life Is a Miracle 3 - Promise Me This

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

Maradona by Kusturica

43. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Battleship Potemkin [*] 2 - Strike 3 - Alexander Nevsky 4 - The General Line 5 - Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 6 - Ivan the Terrible, Part 2: The Boyars' Plot

44. 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 ...

[A SKETCH - which I've decided to separate according to Godard's periods, following the Wikipedia division]

Ranking [French New Wave: 1959 - 1967]

1 - Pierrot le fou [*] 2 - Breathless [*] 3 - A Woman Is a Woman [*] 4 - Contempt 5 - My Life to Live 6 - 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her 7 - Week-end 8 - Alphaville 9 - La Chinoise 10 - Band of Outsiders 11 - Made in U.S.A. 12 - Masculin Féminin 13 - Le Petit soldat

Ranking [Dziga Vertov Group: 1968 - 1972]

1 - Wind from the East 2 - Sympathy for the Devil 3 - Vladimir and Rosa 4 - British Sounds 5 - A Film Like Any Other

Ranking [Transitional Period (SonImage): 1974 - 1978]

1 - Comment ça va? 2 - Number Two 3 - Here and Elsewhere

Ranking [Second Wave: 1979 - 1988]

1 - First Name: Carmen 2 - Passion 3 - Every Man for Himself 4 - Keep Your Right Up 5 - Détective

Ranking [1989 - present]

1 - The Image Book 1 - Oh Woe Is Me 3 - Goodbye to Language 4 - Film Socialisme 5 - For Ever Mozart

45. Spike Lee

Director | Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...

Ranking

1 - Do the Right Thing [*]

2 - Inside Man 3 - Malcolm X 4 - American Utopia

5 - Summer of Sam 6 - BlacKkKlansman

7 - Da 5 Bloods

46. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - The 400 Blows [*]

2 - The Soft Skin 3 - Jules and Jim 4 - Stolen Kisses

5 - Fahrenheit 451 6 - Shoot the Piano Player 7 - Mississippi Mermaid 8 - Confidentially Yours 9 - The Woman Next Door

10 - Love on the Run 11 - Bed and Board 12 - The Wild Child 13 - The Bride Wore Black 14 - Two English Girls 15 - The Last Metro

47. 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, ...

Ranking

1 - Last Year at Marienbad [*] 2 - Hiroshima, Mon Amour [*] 3 - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet 4 - Love Unto Death 5 - Private Fears in Public Places 6 - Stavisky...

48. Olivier Assayas

Writer | Personal Shopper

Olivier Assayas is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is best know for his films Demonlover (2002), Something in the Air (2012), Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Personal Shopper (2016).

Assayas is the son of French director/screenwriter Raymond Assayas, alias Jacques Rémy.

His ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Summer Hours

2 - Irma Vep 3 - Something in the Air 4 - Boarding Gate 5 - Carlos 6 - Clouds of Sils Maria

7 - Demonlover 8 - Late August, Early September 9 - Personal Shopper

10 - Noise

11 - Wasp Network

49. Jean-Marie Straub

Director | Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach

Jean-Marie Straub was born on January 8, 1933 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. He was a director and editor, known for The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968), Sicily! (1999) and Class Relations (1984). He was married to Danièle Huillet. He died on November 20, 2022 in Rolle, Switzerland.

Ranking [Fiction & Documentary Films]

1 - Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach [*]

2 - Moses and Aron

3 - Class Relations 4 - Othon 5 - Too Early/Too Late 6 - Sicily!

7 - From the Clouds to the Resistance 8 - Antigone

9 - History Lessons 10 - Communists 11 - The Death of Empedocles

12 - Fortini/Cani

50. Danièle Huillet

Director | Sicilia!

Danièle Huillet was born on May 1, 1936 in Paris, France. She was a director and editor, known for Sicily! (1999), Class Relations (1984) and The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968). She was married to Jean-Marie Straub. She died on October 9, 2006 in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France.

Ranking [Fiction & Documentary Films]

1 - Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach [*]

2 - Moses and Aron

3 - Class Relations 4 - Othon 5 - Too Early/Too Late 6 - Sicily!

7 - From the Clouds to the Resistance 8 - Antigone

9 - History Lessons 10 - Communists 11 - The Death of Empedocles

12 - Fortini/Cani

51. 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 ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Le salaire de la peur [*]

2 - La prisonnière 3 - Les Diaboliques

4 - The Mystery of Picasso 5 - Le corbeau

6 - Quai des Orfèvres

52. Wes Craven

Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street

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

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

Ranking

1 - Scream

2 - The Serpent and the Rainbow 3 - The Last House on the Left

4 - The Hills Have Eyes

5 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 - Wes Craven's New Nightmare

7 - Scream 2 8 - Scream 4

9 - Scream 3

53. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - The Rules of the Game [*]

2 - La Bête Humaine

3 - The Crime of Monsieur Lange 4 - French Cancan 5 - Elena and Her Men

6 - The Southerner

54. Karim Aïnouz

Director | A Vida Invisível

Karim Aïnouz is an award-winning film director and screenwriter. He was born to a Brazilian mother and an Algerian father.

Aïnouz debuted as feature director with "Madame Satã" (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2002). Other works include "Nardjes A."(Berlin Panorama 2020), "Central Airport THF" (Berlin ...

Ranking

1 - A Vida Invisível 2 - Praia do Futuro 3 - Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo 4 - O Céu de Suely 5 - Madame Satã 6 - O Abismo Prateado

55. Michael Mann

Producer | The Insider

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...

Ranking

1 - Heat [*]

2 - Thief

3 - Manhunter 4 - The Insider 5 - The Last of the Mohicans 6 - Miami Vice 7 - Public Enemies

56. Krzysztof Zanussi

Director | Struktura krysztalu

Born in 1939 in Warsaw, Poland. Documentary and feature film director. Studied physics at Warsaw University and philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Graduated from Lodz Film Academy in 1966. Amateur film maker. His school diploma film 'Death of a Provincial' (Smierc prowincjala (1968)) ...

Ranking

1 - Family Life

2 - Illumination 3 - Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

4 - The Constant Factor 5 - Camouflage 6 - The Structure of Crystals 7 - The Supplement 8 - Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe

9 - Ether

57. Nanni Moretti

Producer | La stanza del figlio

Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - The Son's Room 2 - Mia Madre 3 - We Have a Pope

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

Santiago, Italia

58. Joseph Losey

Director | The Servant

Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO. While he was filming ...

Ranking

1 - The Servant [*]

2 - Don Giovanni

3 - Mr. Klein

4 - Accident 5 - The Boy with Green Hair

6 - Eva

7 - The Trout

59. Roger Corman

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

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

Ranking

1 - A Bucket of Blood 2 - The Wasp Woman 3 - The Little Shop of Horrors 4 - The Haunted Palace

60. Martín Rejtman

Director | Silvia Prieto

Martín Rejtman was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Silvia Prieto (1999), Cropped Head (1992) and The Magic Gloves (2003).

Ranking

1 - The Magic Gloves 2 - Silvia Prieto 3 - Two Shots Fired

61. Terrence Malick

Writer | Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.

A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...

Ranking

1 - The Thin Red Line 2 - The Tree of Life 3 - Badlands 4 - The New World 5 - To the Wonder

62. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

Ranking

1 - Before Sunrise

2 - Before Midnight 3 - Before Sunset

4 - Waking Life 5 - School of Rock 6 - Boyhood

7 - Fast Food Nation

63. Christoph Schlingensief

Director | Menu total

Christoph Schlingensief was born on October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Menu total (1986), Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986) and 100 Jahre Adolf Hitler - Die letzte Stunde im Führerbunker (1989). He was married to Aino Laberenz. He died on August...

Ranking

1 - Egomania: Island Without Hope

2 - The 120 Days of Bottrop

3 - 100 Years of Adolf Hitler - The Last Hour in the Führerbunker 4 - Menu Total

5 - The German Chainsaw Massacre

6 - Terror 2000

64. Christian Petzold

Director | Barbara

Christian Petzold was born in Hilden in 1960. After studying German and Drama at the Freie Universität Berlin, he enrolled in Berlin's German Academy for Film and Television (DFFB). There he studied film direction while at same time working as an assistant director to Harun Farocki and Hartmut ...

Ranking

1 - Transit

2 - Jerichow 3 - The State I Am In 4 - Phoenix 5 - Undine

6 - Yella 7 - Barbara 8 - Ghosts

65. Nagisa Ôshima

Director | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. After an early involvement with the student protest movement in ...

Ranking

1 - Night and Fog in Japan 2 - Empire of Passion 3 - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 4 - In the Realm of the Senses

66. Ron Howard

Producer | Arrested Development

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.

Howard ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Cinderella Man 2 - A Beautiful Mind 3 - Rush 4 - In the Heart of the Sea 5 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas 6 - The Da Vinci Code

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

67. Larry Clark

Director | Bully

Was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1943). Son of Frances Clark (baby photographer) and Lewis Clark. Graduated from Central High school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Studied under Walter Sheffer and Gerard Bakker. Film debut was the movie Kids (1995). He was ...

Ranking

1 - Kids 2 - Ken Park 3 - Bully 4 - The Smell of Us

68. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Alien [*] 2 - Blade Runner 3 - American Gangster 4 - Thelma & Louise 5 - Gladiator 6 - Body of Lies 7 - Hannibal 8 - 1492: Conquest of Paradise 9 - Prometheus 10 - Alien: Covenant 11 - Robin Hood 12 - The Martian 13 - The Counselor 14 - Exodus: Gods and Kings

69. Claire Denis

Director | High Life

The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...

Ranking

1 - Beau Travail

2 - Chocolat

3 - High Life

4 - Let the Sunshine In

5 - No Fear, No Die

70. Noah Baumbach

Writer | The Squid and the Whale

Born in Brooklyn in 1969 Noah Baumbach is the son of two film critics, Georgia Brown and Jonathan Baumbach (also a writer). His studies at Vassar College were the subject of his first film (made as he was 26 years old), Kicking and Screaming (1995). His second major picture, made ten years later, ...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Frances Ha 2 - Marriage Story 3 - The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) 4 - Mistress America 5 - While We're Young

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

De Palma

71. André Téchiné

Writer | Les roseaux sauvages

André Téchiné was born on March 13, 1943 in Valence, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Wild Reeds (1994), Rendez-vous (1985) and Being 17 (2016).

Ranking

1 - Wild Reeds 2 - The Bronte Sisters 3 - Hotel America

72. Michael Bay

Producer | Armageddon

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...

Ranking

1 - 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2 - The Rock 3 - Bad Boys II 4 - Pearl Harbor 5 - 6 Underground

73. Johnnie To

Director | Hak se wooi

With over thirty directing and producing credits to his name, Johnnie To enjoyed international breakthroughs with Election (2005), Election 2 (2006) (aka "Triad Election") and Exiled (2006); those films enjoyed multiple international film festival appearances and were separately sold to more than ...

Ranking

1 - Drug War

2 - Three

3 - Blind Detective

4 - Chasing Dream 5 - Justice, My Foot! 6 - The Bare-Footed Kid

74. Dario Argento

Writer | Profondo rosso

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...

Ranking

1 - Deep Red 2 - Suspiria

3 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 4 - Four Flies on Grey Velvet

5 - The Cat o' Nine Tails

6 - Inferno

7 - Dark Glasses 8 - The Five Days

9 - The Mother of Tears

75. Luc Besson

Writer | Le Cinquième Élément

Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...

Ranking

1 - Léon: The Professional 2 - Subway 3 - The Last Battle 4 - Lucy 5 - The Fifth Element

76. Xavier Dolan

Actor | J'ai tué ma mère

Xavier Dolan was born on March 20, 1989 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for I Killed My Mother (2009), Tom at the Farm (2013) and Heartbeats (2010).

Ranking

1 - Mommy 2 - Laurence Anyways 3 - It's Only the End of the World 4 - Tom at the Farm

77. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Le Trou

2 - Antoine and Antoinette 3 - The Lovers of Montparnasse 2 - Touchez Pas au Grisbi 3 - Casque d'Or

78. Thomas Vinterberg

Director | Jagten

With Sidste omgang (1993) (Last Round), his graduation short from The National Film School of Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg got an early taste of critical success. He received the Jury's and Producers' Awards at the International Student Film Fest in Munich and won the 1st Prize at the Tel Aviv Film ...

Ranking

1 - The Celebration [*] 2 - The Hunt 3 - Dear Wendy 4 - The Commune 5 - Kursk

79. Frederick Wiseman

Director | National Gallery

Born in 1930, Wiseman is a Cambridge, Massachusetts resident and member of the Massachusetts Bar Association who turned to filmmaking in 1967, after years as an instructor and/or researcher at Boston University, Brandeis University, and Harvard. In 1970 he founded Zipporah Films, Inc., which ...

Ranking

1 - Titicut Follies [*] 2 - Primate 3 - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

80. Seijun Suzuki

Director | Tsigoineruwaizen

Seijun Suzuki was born in Nihonbashi, Tôkyô, on May 24, 1923. In 1943, he entered the army to fight at the front. In 1946, he enrolled in the film department of the Kamakura Academy and passed the assistant director's exam. For the next few years, he worked as an assistant director at several ...

Ranking

1 - Pistol Opera [*] 2 - Branded to Kill [*]

3 - Gate of Flesh 4 - Fighting Elegy 5 - The Madness of Youth 6 - Zigeunerweisen 7 - Inn of Floating Weeds 8 - Tokyo Drifter

9 - Yumeji 10 - Kagero-za 11 - Youth of the Beast

12 - Princess Raccoon 13 - Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! 14 - The Call of Blood 15 - Take Aim at the Police Van 16 - The Sleeping Beast Within 17 - Pure Emotions of the Sea

18 - Fighting Delinquents

19 - A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

81. Andrzej Wajda

Director | Katyn

Andrzej Wajda is an Academy Award-winning director. He is the most prominent filmmaker in Poland known for The Promised Land (1975), Man of Iron (1981), and Katyn (2007).

He was Born on March 6, 1926, in Suwalki, Poland. His mother, Aniela Wajda, was a teacher at a Ukrainian school. His father, ...

Ranking

1 - Afterimage 2 - Walesa: Man of Hope 3 - Sweet Rush

82. Jon Favreau

Producer | Chef

Initially an indie film favorite, actor Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a writer/producer/director.

The amiable, husky-framed actor with the ...

Ranking

1 - Elf 2 - Iron Man

3 - Chef 4 - Iron Man 2

83. 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/...

Ranking

1 - The City of Lost Children 2 - Amélie

3 - Alien Resurrection

84. 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...

Ranking

1 - The Long Goodbye 2 - The Player

3 - Short Cuts

85. David O. Russell

Director | American Hustle

David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. His films address such themes as mental illness as stigma or hope; invention of self and ...

Ranking

1 - The Fighter 2 - Silver Linings Playbook

3 - American Hustle

4 - Joy

86. Abel Ferrara

Director | Bad Lieutenant

Born in the Bronx, Ferrara started making amateur films on Super 8 in his teens before making his debut with violent exploitation films such as 'Driller Killer' and 'Ms.45'. Good reviews for the latter helped create his cult reputation, leading to larger budgets, studio funding and 'name' actors (...

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Siberia

2 - Pasolini

3 - Tommaso 4 - Welcome to New York

5 - 4:44 Last Day on Earth

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

1 - Piazza Vittorio 2 - The Projectionist

3 - Sportin' Life

87. 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...

Ranking

1 - The Nun

2 - Celine and Julie Go Boating

3 - Paris Belongs to Us

88. Lucio Fulci

Writer | Lo squartatore di New York

Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but respect was long in coming.

Abandoning ...

Ranking

1 - A Woman in a Lizard's Skin 2 - The New York Ripper 3 - Don't Torture a Duckling 4 - The Beyond

5 - Murder-Rock: Dancing Death 6 - One on Top of the Other

7 - The Psychic

89. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Director | Memoria

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the ...

Ranking

1 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [*]

2 - Syndromes and a Century

3 - Cemetery of Splendour

90. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Pather Panchali 2 - Aparajito 3 - The World of Apu

4 - The Coward 5 - Charulata

6 - The Stranger 7 - The Home and the World

91. José Mojica Marins

Actor | Encarnação do Demônio

José Mojica Marins was born on March 13, 1936 in San Paulo, Brazil, to a family of simple means. José's love of movies began at an early age. He spent a great deal of his time with his family at the local movie house, which his father helped manage. By the time he was eighteen, he had completed ...

Ranking

1 - This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

2 - The Strange World of Coffin Joe 3 - Awakening of the Beast 4 - At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

5 - Embodiment of Evil

92. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Parasite 2 - Snowpiercer 3 - Memories of Murder

4 - The Host 5 - Barking Dogs Never Bite

6 - Okja

93. Mike Nichols

Director | The Graduate

He, along with the other members of the "Compass Players" including Elaine May, Paul Sills, Byrne Piven, Joyce Hiller Piven and Edward Asner helped start the famed "Second City Improv" company. They used the games taught to them by fellow cast mate, Paul Sills 's mother, Viola Spolin. He later ...

Ranking

1 - The Graduate 2 - Closer 3 - Carnal Knowledge

4 - Wolf

94. Yûzô Kawashima

Director | Gan no tera

Yûzô Kawashima was born on February 4, 1918 in Tanabu, Aomori, Japan [now Mutsu, Aomori, Japan]. He was a director and writer, known for The Temple of Wild Geese (1962), Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) and The Balloon (1956). He died on June 11, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan.

Ranking

1 - Suzaki Paradise: Red Light 2 - Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate 3 - Burden of Love

4 - Hungry Soul, Part II 5 - The Balloon 6 - Tales of Ginza 7 - Our Town

8 - Hungry Soul 9 - Till We Meet Again

95. Chantal Akerman

Director | Les rendez-vous d'Anna

Chantal Akerman was born on June 6, 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), I, You, He, She (1974) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was married to Sonia Wieder-Atherton. She died on October 5, 2015 in Paris, France.

Ranking [Fiction Films]

1 - Jean Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles [*]

2 - Letters Home

3 - Almayer's Folly

4 - A Couch in New York

*****

Ranking [Documentaries]

No Home Movie

96. Guto Parente

Editor | Estranho Caminho

Guto Parente (Fortaleza, Brazil, 1983) has written and directed 17 movies - 7 shorts and 10 feature films. He's one of the most prolific Brazilian filmmakers of his generation and his films have been exhibited at important international film festivals such as Tribeca, San Sebastián, Rotterdam, ...

Ranking

1 - The Cannibal Club

2 - My Own Private Hell 3 - Sweet Amianto

97. John Schlesinger

Director | Midnight Cowboy

Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who was born in London, on February 16, 1926, was the eldest child in a solidly middle-class Jewish family. Berbard Schlesinger, his father, was a pediatrician, and his mother, Winifred, was a musician. He served in the Army in the Far East during World War ...

Ranking

1 - Midnight Cowboy

2 - Billy Liar

3 - Darling

4 - A Kind of Loving

98. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - The Fire Within 2 - Zazie dans le Métro

3 - Au Revoir les Enfants

4 - Murmur of the Heart 5 - Elevator to the Gallows 6 - My Dinner with Andre 7 - God's Country 8 - Lacombe Lucien

9 - Pretty Baby

10 - Black Moon 11 - Calcutta 12 - A Human Condition

13 - May Fools 14 - Viva Maria!

99. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Diary of a Country Priest 2 - Mouchette

3 - Au Hasard Balthazar 4 - Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

100. 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 ...

Ranking

1 - Sunset Blvd. [*]

2 - Some Like It Hot 3 - Double Indemnity

4 - The Apartment

5 - Fedora