Favourite Directors with Films Rated©
by alix_no | created - 13 Nov 2012 | updated - 10 Mar 2018 | PublicMy Favorite Directors in somewhat of an order based how much I like their films, with all movies I've seen by them rated. Feel free to comment on what directors you think are missing.
1. 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 ...
2001: A Space Odyssey - 10
Barry Lyndon - 10
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - 10
Paths of Glory - 10
Eyes Wide Shut - 9.5
A Clockwork Orange - 9.5
Full Metal Jacket - 9
The Shining (US cut) - 8.5
Lolita - 8.5
The Killing - 8
Spartacus - 7.5
Killer's Kiss - 6.5
Fear and Desire - 5
Short Films:
Day of the Fight - 6
Flying Padre - 5
2. John Cassavetes
Actor | Rosemary's Baby
John Cassavetes was a Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film, as he often financed his own films.
Cassavetes was born in New York City in 1929 to Nicholas John Cassavetes (1893-1979) and his wife, Katherine Demetre (1906-1983). ...
A Woman Under the Influence - 10 Faces - 9.5 Shadows - 9 Husbands - 9 Minnie and Moskowitz - 8.5 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (135 min version) - 8.5 Opening Night - 8.5 Gloria - 8
3. 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 ...
Blue Velvet - 10
Eraserhead - 9.5
The Elephant Man - 9
Twin Peaks - 8.5
Wild at Heart - 8.5
Lost Highway - 8.5
Mulholland Drive - 8.5
Twin Peaks: The Return - 8
Twin Peaks: Fire walk with me - 8
Inland Empire - 8
DumbLand (Mini-Series) - 7
Eraserhead Stories - 6
Short Films:
Rabbits - 9.5
The Alphabet - 8.5
Absurda - 8.5
The Grandmother - 8.5
Premonition Following An Evil Deed - 7.5
Lady Blue Shanghai - 7.5
The Three R's - 7
Darkened Room - 7
Boat - 7.5
Crazy Clown Time - 7
Idem Paris - 7
The Cowboy and the Frenchman - 7
Dream #7 - 7
Blue Green - 6
The Lester Guy Show - 6
Six Figures Getting Sick - 6
Ariana Delawari: Lion of Panjshir - 5
The Amputee - 5
The Amputee, Version 2 - 5
I Touch a Red Button - 5
Absurd Encounter with Fear - 5
Working with Marilyn Manson - 4
4. 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...
Stalker - 10 The Mirror - 10 Ivan's Childhood - 8 The Steamroller and the Violin - 7 Andrei Rublev - 6.5 Solaris - 6
5. 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...
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - 10 Fear of Fear - 9 Fox and His Friends - 9 In a Year With 13 Moons - 8.5 The Merchant of Four Seasons - 8.5 World on a Wire - 8.5 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant - 8 Martha - 8 Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven - 8 Lili Marleen - 6.5 Querelle - 4.5
6. Peter Watkins
Director | The War Game
Peter Watkins began his career in advertising as an assistant producer and turned to amateur filmmaking in the late 1950s. In the mid-'60s he was commissioned by BBC-TV to make two feature-length docudramas incorporating a quasi-newsreel style and nonprofessional actors. The second of these, The ...
Edvard Munch (TV Version) - 10
The War Game - 9.5
Punishment Park - 9
Privilege - 8
Culloden - 8
Gladiatorerna - 6.5
Short Films:
The Diary of the Unknown Soldier - 8.5
The Forgotten Faces - 7
7. 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 ...
A Man Escaped - 10 Au Hasard Balthazar - 10 Lancelot du Lac - 9.5 Pickpocket - 9 A Gentle Woman - 8 Mouchette - 8 L'Argent - 7.5 The Trial of Joan of Arc - 6.5
8. 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 (...
Fanny and Alexander (TV Version) - 10
Persona - 10
Wild Strawberries - 10
Scenes From a Marriage (Theatrical Version) - 9.5
The Seventh Seal - 9.5
The Silence - 9
Shame - 7.5
Dreams - 7.5
Hour of the Wolf - 7
Fårö-dokument 1979 (TV Movie Documentary) - 7
The Virgin Spring - 6
shorts:
De fördömda kvinnornas dans - 4
9. Stan Brakhage
Director | The Loom
Stan Brakhage was born on January 14, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for The Loom (1986), The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000) and Visions in Meditation (1990). He was married to Marilyn Jull and Jane Wodening. He died on March 9, 2003 in ...
Window Water Baby Moving - 10
The Dante Quartet - 10
Untitled (For Marilyn) - 9.5
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes - 9
Eye Myth - 9
Dog Star Man - 9
Commingled Containers -8.5
The Wonder Ring - 8.5
Mothlight - 8.5
Night Music - 8
I... Dreaming - 8
Black Ice - 8
The Machine of Eden - 7.5
Cat's Cradle - 7.5
Desistfilm - 7.5
Kinderling - 7.5
Wedlock House: An Intercourse - 7.5
The Garden of Earthly Delights - 7.5
Glaze of cathexis - 7.5
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse - 7
Lovesong - 7
Stellar - 7
The Wold-Shadow - 7
Water for Maya - 7
The Dark Tower - 7
Rage Net - 6.5
Blue Moses - 6
Crack Glass Eulogy - 5
A Study in Colour and Black and White - 5
The Way to Shadow Garden - 5
Interim - 4
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection - 4
The Extraordinary Child - 2
10. 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 ...
L'atalante - 10
Short Films:
A Propos de Nice - 9.5
Zero de Conduite - 8.5
Taris - 7
11. 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 ...
The Exterminating Angel - 10
Los Olvidados - 9
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - 8.5
Viridiana - 8.5
Belle de jour - 8.5
The Phantom of Liberty - 7.5
That Obscure Object of Desire - 7.5
The Milky Way - 7.5
Simon of the Desert - 7
L'Age d'Or - 7
The Young One - 6.5
Short Films:
Un Chien Andalou - 9
Las Hurdes - 5
12. 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...
Rashomon - 10 Ran - 9.5 Seven Samurai - 9 High and Low - 9 Dersu Uzala - 8 Throne of Blood - 8 Red Beard - 7 Sanjuro - 7 Yojimbo - 7 Sanshiro Sugata - 5
13. 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 ...
Breaking the Waves - 10 Dogville - 9 Dancer in the Dark - 8.5 Melancholia - 8 Antichrist - 8 Nymph()maniac - 7 Europa - 6
14. 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, ...
Elephant - 10
Mala Noche - 8.5
My Own Private Idaho - 8.5
To Die For - 8.5
Gerry - 8.5
Paranoid Park - 8.5
Good Will Hunting - 8
Drugstore Cowboy - 7
Milk - 7
Promised Land - 6.5
Short Films
Le Marais - 7
First Kiss - 6.5
15. 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 ...
Sunset Blvd. - 9 The Apartment - 8.5 Ace in the Hole - 8 Double Indemnity - 8 Witness for the Prosecution - 8 The Lost Weekend - 8 Some like it Hot - 8 Stalag 17 - 7.5 Five Graves to Cairo - 5.5
16. 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...
Aguirre: The Wrath of God - 9
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser - 9
Grizzly Man - 9
Fitzcarraldo - 8.5
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans - 8.5
Fata Morgana - 8.5
Stroszek - 8
Heart of Glass - 8
Into the Abyss - 8
Encounters At The End of The World - 7.5
Cave of Forgotten Dreams - 7
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - 7
Nosferatu the Vampyre - 7
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - 7*
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - 7
* co-directed with Dmitry Vasyukov
17. 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 ...
The Navigator - 9
The Cameraman - 8.5
Seven Chances - 8.5
Sherlock Jr. - 8
The General - 7.5
Steamboat Bill, Jr. - 7.5
Battling Butler - 7
Our Hospitality - 6
Short Films
The "High Sign" - 8.5
Neighbours - 8
The Scarecrow - 7.5
The Haunted House - 7.5
The Play House - 7
*Most of the films Keaton co-directed with others, i can't be bothered crediting them...
18. Jan Svankmajer
Director | Otesánek
After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after ...
Alice - 8.5
Otesánek - 7
Short Films:
Dimensions of dialogue - 9
Poslední trik pana Schwarcewalldea a pana Edgara - 9
Tma/Svetlo/Tma - 9
Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameného Huberta - 8.5
Jídlo - 8.5
The Male Game - 8
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia - 8
Rakvickarna - 7.5
Meat Love - 7
Byt - 7
Et Cetera - 7
Hra s kameny - 7
Zánik domu Usheru - 6
Another Kind of Love - 6
Flora - 6
19. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
Brazil - 10
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 9*
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 8.5
12 Monkeys - 8
Zero Theorem - 7
Time Bandits - 6.5
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - 6
Jabberwocky - 6
The Brothers Grimm - 5
Short Films:
Storytime - 9
Miracle of Flight - 8
The Legend of Hallowdega - 6
The Wholly Family - 5
*co-directed with Terry Jones
20. 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 ...
The Tree of Life - 10 Badlands - 9 Days of Heaven - 8 To the Wonder - 7 Thin Red Line - 7 (Need to Re-watch) Knight of Cups - 4.5
21. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
The Master - 9
Punch-Drunk Love - 8.5
Inherent Vice - 8
Magnolia - 8
Boogie Nights - 6.5
Sydney/Hard Eight - 6
There Will Be Blood - 5.5
Short Films:
Back Beyond - 8
Fiona Apple: Hot Knife - 7.5
Mattress Man Commercial - 6.5
Joanna Newsom: Sapokanikan - 6.5
Blossoms and Blood - 6.5
Fiona Apple: Paper Bag - 6
Joanna Newsom: Divers - 5
FANatic - 5
Couch - 4.5
22. Harmony Korine
Director | Gummo
Harmony Korine was born in 1973 in Bolinas, California. His family moved to the east coast of the United States when he was five, and he spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York. At the age of nineteen, he wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay Kids (1995) for director Larry ...
Julien Donkey-Boy - 9.5
Spring Breakers - 9
Trash Humpers - 7.5
Gummo - 6
Mister Lonely - 5
Short Films:
Umshini Wam - 8.5
Lotus Community Workshop - 8.5
Crutchnap - 8.5
Sonic Youth: Sunday - 7
Dior Addict Fragrance (Directors Cut) - 7
Dior Addict Fragrance - 7
The Black Keys: Gold on the Ceiling - 7
The Legend of Cambo - 6.5
Act da Fool - 6.5
Needed Me - 6
Curb Dance - 6
Rihanna: Needed Me - 5.5
Blood of Havana - 5.5
Snowballs - 4
23. 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 ...
Amarcord - 10
La Dolce Vita - 8
8 1/2 - 8
I Vitelloni - 8
Juliet of the Spirits - 8
The White Sheik - 7
Variety Lights - 6.5*
*co-directed with Alberto Lattuada
24. 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. ...
Slacker - 8.5
Before Sunrise - 8.5
Before Sunset - 8.5
Before Midnight - 8
The School of Rock - 7.5
A Scanner Darkly - 7.5
Dazed and Confused - 7
Boyhood - 7
Bernie - 7
Waking Life - 7
Me and Orson Welles - 6
Everybody Wants Some!! - 3
Short Films
Woodshock - 7
25. 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 ...
Raging Bull - 10
Goodfellas - 9
Taxi Driver - 9
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies - 8
The Wolf of Wall Street - 7.5
Bringing Out the Dead - 7
Cape Fear - 7.5
Shutter Island - 7
The King of Comedy - 7
Hugo - 6
Gangs of New York - 6
The Departed - 2
Short Films:
Michael Jackson: Bad - 7
The Big Shave - 7
26. 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 ...
Au Revoir les Enfants - 9 The Fire Within - 9 My Dinner with Andre - 8.5 Elevator to the Gallows - 8.5 Zazie dans le métro - 8 God's Country (TV Movie documentary) - 7 Atlantic City - 7 And the Pursuit of Happiness (TV Movie documentary) - 7
27. 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 ...
Apocalypse Now Redux - 10 The Godfather - 9.5 The Godfather: Part 2 - 9 The Conversation - 8.5 Dracula - 7.5 Youth Without Youth - 7.5 One From the Heart - 5 The Outsiders - 5
28. 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 ...
Pierrot le Fou - 9
Adieu au Langage 3d - 9
Masculin Féminin - 8.5
Week End - 8.5
Keep Your Right Up - 8
Bande à part - 8
Prénom Carmen - 7.5
Notre Musique - 7.5
Breathless - 7
Une femme est une femme - 7
Alphaville - 6.5
Vivre Sa Vie - 6
Joy of Learning - 6
Contempt - 6
Tout va bien - 6*
Short Films:
Je vous salue, Sarajevo - 9.5
Dans le noir du temps - 8.5
All the Boys Are Called Patrick - 7
Khan Khanne - 6.5
Charlotte et son Jules - 6.5
*co-directed with Jean-Pierre Gorin
29. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
Three Colors: Blue - 9
Three Colors: Red - 8.5
Dekalog - 8.5
Double Life of Veronique - 8
Amator - 8
Three Colors: White - 7
A Short Film About Love - 7
Short Films:
Talking Heads - 8
Siedem kobiet w róznym wieku - 7
Tramwaj - 5.5
30. 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 ...
Rear Window - 9 Rope - 9 Vertigo - 8.5 The Birds - 8.5 Shadow of a Doubt - 8.5 The Lady Vanishes - 8 Strangers on a train - 8 Dial M for Murder - 8 Psycho - 7 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - 7 North by Northwest - 7 Saboteur - 6
31. 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 ...
suspiria - 9
the stendhal syndrome - 8.5
tenebrae - 8.5
phenomena - 8
deep red - 7.5
the bird with the crystal plumage - 7.5
four flies on grey velvet - 6.5
inferno - 5
opera - 5
The phantom of the opera - 4
short films:
fiat commercial - 6.5
32. 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 ...
Annie Hall - 9 The Purple Rose of Cairo - 8.5 Manhattan - 8.5 Crimes and Misdemeanors - 8 Hannah and Her Sisters - 8 Broadway Danny Rose - 7.5 Zelig - 7.5 Sleeper - 7.5 Bananas - 7.5 Midnight in Paris - 7.5 Vicky Christina Barcelona - 7 Take the Money and Run - 7 Bullets Over Broadway - 7 Manhattan Murder Mystery - 7 Magic in the Moonlight - 6 Blue Jasmine - 6 Mighty Aphrodite - 5 Everyone Says I love You - 5
33. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
Her - 9
Adaptation - 8
Being John Malkovich - 8
Where the Wild Things are - 7
Short Films:
Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice - 8
I'm Here - 8
Beastie Boys: Sabotage - 8
Fatlip: What's Up Fatlip - 8
Kanye: Only One - 7.5
Fatboy Slim: Praise You - 7.5
Bjork: It's Oh So Quiet - 7.5
Weezer: Island in the Sun - 7.5
Bjork: Triumph of a Heart - 7
The Breeders: Cannonball - 6.5 (with Kim Gordon)
The Breeders: Divine Hammer - 6.5
Bjork: It's in our Hands - 6.5
Sonic Youth: Diamond Sea - 6.5
Beastie Boys: Time for Livin - 6
34. 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...
Orpheus - 9.5
Beauty and the Beast - 8.5
blood of the poet - 8
testament of orpheus - 6.5
Short Films:
La villa Santo Sospir - 6
35. Maya Deren
Director | Meshes of the Afternoon
Maya Deren came to the USA in 1922 as Eleanora Derenkowsky. Together with her father Solomon Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist, and her mother Maria Fidler, an artist, she fled the pogroms organized by the Bolsheviks against the Jews. She studied journalism and political science at the Syracuse ...
Short Films:
Meshes of the Afternoon - 9
Ritual in Transfigured Time - 8
Meditation on Violence - 8
The Very Eye of Night - 7.5
At Land - 7.5*
Ensemble for Somnambulists - 7
A Study in Choreography for Camera - 7
Witch's Cradle - 6
*co-directed with Alexander Hammid
36. 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.
Down by Law - 9
Dead Man - 8.5
Only Lovers Left Alive - 8.5
Stranger Than Paradise - 8.5
Mystery Train - 8.5
The Limits of Control - 8
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - 7.5
Coffee and Cigarettes - 7
Short Films
Coffee and Cigarettes III - 7
Coffee and Cigarettes II - 7
Coffee and Cigarettes - 7
37. 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...
Dead Ringers - 9
Videodrome - 8.5
Maps to the Stars - 8
The Fly - 8
Cosmopolis - 8
Crash - 7.5
The Dead Zone - 7.5
eXistenZ - 7.5
A Dangerous Method - 7
Eastern Promises - 7
Scanners - 4
Short Films:
At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World - 7.5
Camera - 7
38. 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 ...
Macbeth - 9
Rosemary's Baby - 8.5
Chinatown - 8.5
The Pianist - 8
Knife in The Water - 7
Tess - 7
Short Films:
Two Men and a Wardrobe - 8
The Fat and the Lean - 7.5
When Angels Fall - 7
Breaking up the Dance - 6.5
The Lantern - 6
The Teeth Smile - 5.5
Murder - 5
Mammals - 5
39. 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 ...
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - 9.5 Once upon a Time in America - 9 Once upon a Time in the West - 8.5 For a Few dollars more - 8 A Fistful of dollars - 7
40. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
with ethan coen
The Big Lebowski - 9
No Country for Old Men - 8.5
Fargo - 8
True Grit - 7
Inside Llewyn Davis - 7
Burn After reading - 7
O Brother, Where art Thou? - 6
The Ladykillers - 5
Short Films:
Tuileries - 7
World Cinema - 7
41. Kevin Smith
Producer | Clerks
Kevin Patrick Smith was born in Red Bank but grew up in Highlands, New Jersey, the son of Grace (Schultz) and Donald E. Smith, a postal worker. He is very proud of his native state; this fact can be seen in all of his movies. Kevin is of mostly German, with some Irish and English, ancestry.
His ...
Clerks. - 8.5 Chasing Amy - 8 Clerks II - 8 Tusk - 8 Red State - 7 Dogma - 7 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - 7 Mallrats - 7 Yoga Hosers - 6.5 Zack and Miri Make a Porno - 5 Jersey Girl - 4
42. 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...
Pulp Fiction - 9.5 Ingourious Basterds - 8.5 The Hateful Eight - 8 Reservoir Dogs - 7 Kill Bill Vol. 1 - 7 Kill Bill Vol 2. - 7 Django Unchained - 6
43. Takashi Itô
Director | Zone
Takashi Itô was born in February 1956 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Zone (1995), The Moon (1994) and Toward Zero (2021).
Ghost - 8.5 Grim - 8 Zone - 8 Spacey - 7.5 Thunder - 7.5 Wall - 7.5 Box - 7 The Moon - 7 Drill - 7 Photodiary - 7 Venus - 5.5 The Mummy's Return - 5.5 Devil's Circuit - 5 Screw - 5
44. Peter Tscherkassky
Director | Outer Space
Born in 1958 in Vienna. 1979 - 84 stay in Berlin. Filmmaker since 1979. Studied philosophy. Doctoral thesis: ^ÓFilm as Art. Towards a critical aesthetics of cinematography^Ô (1985/86). 1989 National Art Award for Film. Teaches filmmaking at the Academy of Art, Linz. Founding member of Sixpack Film....
Outer Space - 10 Dreamwork - 8.5 Get Ready - 8 L'arrivée - 7.5 Happy-End - 7.5 Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine - 7 Manufraktur - 7 Coming Attractions - 6
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