Directors
Film is a director's medium.
In this area you can see the key films made by the key directors from cinema history. Most are considered auteurs, meaning that they have a visual style and themes that span across their body of work.
My selections of their key films are below each director's name - but this is a starting point, not an ending. Use imdb.com to look up the films made by each director and read the synopses to decide if it sounds interesting to you. Filter the User Ratings to see which films earn the highest ratings from film fans around the world.
Woody Allen (USA)
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Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
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Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)
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Wes Anderson (USA)
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Andrea Arnold (UK)
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Hal Ashby (USA)
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Ingmar Bergman (Sweden)
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Bong Joon-ho (S Korea)
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Tim Burton (USA)
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Jane Campion (New Zealand)
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Charles Chaplin (UK)
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Joel & Ethan Coen (USA)
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Francis Ford Coppola (USA)
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Sofia Coppola (USA)
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Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)
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Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
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Claire Denis (France)
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Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
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Federico Fellini (Italy)
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David Fincher (USA)
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John Ford (USA)
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Miloš Forman (Czech)
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Jean-Luc Godard (France)
Michael Haneke (Austria)
Werner Herzog (Germany)
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Alfred Hitchcock (UK)
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Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan)
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Jia Zhangke (China)
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Spike Jonze (USA)
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Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (Poland)
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Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)
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Stanley Kubrick (USA)
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Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
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David Lean (UK)
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Ang Lee (Taiwan)
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Spike Lee (USA)
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Mike Leigh (UK)
Sergio Leone (Italy)
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Richard Linklater (USA)
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Ken Loach (UK)
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David Lowery (USA)
Sidney Lumet (USA) |
David Lynch (USA)
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Terrence Malick (USA)
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Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
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Mira Nair (India)
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Michael Mann (USA)
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Jeff Nichols (USA)
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Christopher Nolan (UK)
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Park Chan-wook (S Korea)
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Lynne Ramsey (UK)
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Satyajit Ray (India)
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Walter Salles (Brazil)
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Céline Sciamma (France)
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Martin Scorsese (USA)
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Ridley Scott (UK)
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Steven Soderbergh (USA)
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Steven Spielberg (USA)
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Quentin Tarantino (USA)
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François Truffaut (France)
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Agnès Varda (France)
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Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
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Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
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Taika Waititi (New Zealand)
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Peter Weir (Australia)
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Orson Welles (USA)
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Billy Wilder (Hungary/USA)
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Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong)
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William Wyler (USA)
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Zhang Yimou (China)
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Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
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