Directors
by tma-89834 | created - 26 Nov 2019 | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. 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. Reservoir Dogs 8/10
2. Pulp Fiction 9/10
3. Four Rooms 8/10
4. Jackie Brown 7/10
5. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 10/10
6. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 10/10
7. Grindhouse 9/10
8. Inglourious Basterds 9/10
9. Django Unchained 10/10
10. The Hateful Eight 10/10
11. Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood 9/10
11 of 11 = 100 %
2. Martin McDonagh
Writer | In Bruges
Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
1. In Bruges 10/10
2. Seven Psychopaths 10/10
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 10/10
4. The Banshees of Inisherin 9/10
4 of 4 = 100 %
3. 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
1.Blood Simple 8/10
2.Raising Arizona 6/10
3.Miller's Crossing 8/10
4.Barton Fink 8/10
5. The Hudsucker Proxy 8/10
6. Fargo 10/10
7. The Big Lebowski 10/10
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 7/10
9. The Man Who Wasn't There 8/10
10. Intolerable Cruelty 6/10
11. The Ladykillers 6/10
12. No Country for Old Men 9/10
13. Burn After Reading 9/10
14. A Serious Man 9/10
15. True Grit 9/10
16. Inside Llewyn Davis 7/10
17. Hail, Caesar! 6/10
18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 9/10
19. The Tragedy of Macbeth 7/10
19 of 19 = 100 %
4. 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. The Element of Crime 8/10
2. Epidemic 6/10
3. Europa 8/10
4. Breaking the Waves 8/10
5. The Idiots 8/10
6. Dancer in the Dark 10/10
7. Dogville 10/10
8. Manderlay 7/10
9. The Boss of It All 9/10
10. Antichrist 7/10
11. Melancholia 7/10
12. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 8/10
13. Nymphomaniac: Vol. 2 8/10
14. The House That Jack Built 10/10
14 of 14 = 100 %
5. 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. I Call First
2. Boxcar Bertha
3. Mean Streets 8/10
4. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
5. Taxi Driver 8/10
6. New York, New York
7. Raging Bull 8/10
8. The King of Comedy 8/10
9. After Hours
10. The Color of Money
11. The Last Temptation of Christ
12. Goodfellas 9/10
13. Cape Fear 8/10
14. The Age of Innocence
15. Casino 8/10
16. Kundun 7/10
17. Bringing Out the Dead 9/10
18. Gangs of New York 8/10
19. The Aviator 7/10
20. The Departed 8/10
21. Shutter Island 10/10
22. Hugo 8/10
23. The Wolf of Wall Street 7/10
24. Silence 8/10
25. The Irishman 9/10
26. Killers of the Flower Moon 9/10
18 of 26 = 69 %
6. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
1. The Castle of Cagliostro 8/10
2. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 7/10
3. Castle in the Sky 8/10
4. My Neighbor Totoro 8/10
5. Kiki's Delivery Service 8/10
6. Porco Rosso 9/10
7. Princess Mononoke 10/10
8. Spirited Away 10/10
9. Howl's Moving Castle 9/10
10. Ponyo 7/10
11. The Wind Rises 7/10
12. The Boy and the Heron
11 of 12 = 92 %
7. 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...
1. Hard Eight 7/10
2. Boogie Nights 9/10
3. Magnolia 10/10
4. Punch-Drunk Love 7/10
5. There Will Be Blood 8/10
6. The Master 7/10
7. Inherent Vice 8/10
8. Phantom Thread 8/10
9. Licorice Pizza 8/10
9 of 9 = 100 %
8. Yorgos Lanthimos
Director | The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens, Greece. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. He has directed a number of dance videos in collaboration with Greek choreographers, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films and theater plays. Kinetta,...
1. My Best Friend
2. Kinetta
3. Dogtooth 8/10
4. Alps 8/10
5. The Lobster 9/10
6. The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8/10
7. The Favourite 8/10
8. Poor Things 10/10
6 of 8 = 75 %
9. 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. The Colossus of Rhodes
2. A Fistful of Dollars 8/10
3. For a Few Dollars More 9/10
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 10/10
5. Once Upon a Time in the West 9/10
6. A Fistful of Dynamite 8/10
7. Once Upon a Time in America 9/10
6 of 7 = 85 %
10. Gaspar Noé
Director | Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload ...
1. I Stand Alone 8/10
2. Irréversible 8/10
3. Enter the Void 10/10
4. Love
5. Climax 9/10
6. Lux 7/10
7. Vortex
5 of 7 = 71 %
11. Robert Rodriguez
Producer | El mariachi
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...
1. El Mariachi 8/10
2. Roadracers 7/10
3. Desperado 8/10
4. Four Rooms 8/10
5. From Dusk Till Dawn 8/10
6. The Faculty 7/10
7. Spy Kids 7/10
8. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams 7/10
9. Spy Kids 3: Game Over 5/10
10. Once Upon a Time in Mexico 8/10
11. Sin City 9/10
12. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
13. Grindhouse 9/10
14. Shorts
15. Machete 9/10
16. Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World 3/10
17. Machete Kills 8/10
18. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 7/10
19. Alita: Battle Angel 7/10
20. Red 11 6/10
21. We Can Be Heroes
22. Hypnotic
23. Spy Kids: Armageddon
18 of 23 = 78 %
12. David Fincher
Director | Se7en
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver, Colorado, and was raised in Marin County, California. When he was 18 years old he went to work for John Korty at Korty Films in Mill Valley. He subsequently worked at ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) from 1981-1983. Fincher left ILM to direct TV commercials...
1. Alien 3 7/10
2. Seven 8/10
3. The Game 10/10
4. Fight Club 10/10
5. Panic Room 7/10
6. Zodiac 7/10
7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8/10
8. The Social Network 8/10
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8/10
10. Gone Girl 8/10
11. Mank
12. The Killer 6/10
11 of 12 = 92 %
13. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
1. Following 8/10
2. Memento 9/10
3. Insomnia 7/10
4. Batman Begins 8/10
5. The Prestige 8/10
6. The Dark Knight 9/10
7. Inception 9/10
8. The Dark Knight Rises 9/10
9. Interstellar 9/10
10. Dunkirk 7/10
11. Tenet 7/10
12. Oppenheimer 8/10
12 of 12 = 100 %
14. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 10/10
2. Snatch 10/10
3. Swept Away 4/10
4. Revolver 8/10
5. RocknRolla 8/10
6. Sherlock Holmes 8/10
7. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 8/10
8. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 7/10
9. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 7/10
10. Aladdin 6/10
11. The Gentlemen 10/10
12. Wrath of Man 7/10
13. Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre 7/10
14. The Covenant
13 of 14 = 93 %
15. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
1. Bottle Rocket 6/10
2. Rushmore
3. The Royal Tenenbaums 8/10
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. The Darjeeling Limited 7/10
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox 8/10
7. Moonrise Kingdom 9/10
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel 8/10
9. Isle of Dogs 9/10
10. The French Dispatch 8/10
11. Asteroid City 7/10
9 of 12 = 75 %
16. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
1. Amores perros 9/10
2. 21 Grams 8/10
3. Babel 7/10
4. Biutiful 7/10
5. Birdman 9/10
6. The Revenant 9/10
7. Bardo
6 of 7 = 85 %
17. Taika Waititi
Producer | What We Do in the Shadows
Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...
1. Eagle vs Shark 8/10
2. Boy 7/10
3. What We Do in the Shadows 8/10
4. Hunt for the Wilderpeople 10/10
5. Thor: Ragnarok 5/10
6. Jojo Rabbit 10/10
7. Thor: Love and Thunder 5/10
8. Next Goal Wins 8/10
8 of 8 = 100 %
18. 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 ...
1. The Biggest Heroes
2. The Celebration 8/10
3. It's All About Love 6/10
4. Dear Wendy 8/10
5. A Man Comes Home
6. Submarino 8/10
7. The Hunt 10/10
8. Far from the Madding Crowd
9. The Commune 7/10
10. Kursk
11. Druk 9/10
7 of 11 = 64 %
19. Tomm Moore
Producer | WolfWalkers
Tomm Moore was born on January 7, 1977 in Newry, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Wolfwalkers (2020), Song of the Sea (2014) and The Secret of Kells (2009). He is married to Liselott Olofsson. They have one child.
1. The Secret of Kells 9/10
2. Song of the Sea 10/10
3. WolfWalkers 9/10
3 of 3 = 100 %
20. 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.
1. Permanent Vacation
2. Stranger Than Paradise
3. Down by Law
4. Mystery Train
5. Night on Earth 8/10
6. Dead Man 8/10
7. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 8/10
8. Coffee and Cigarettes 8/10
9. Broken Flowers 8/10
10. The Limits of Control
11. Only Lovers Left Alive 7/10
12. Paterson 8/10
13. The Dead Don't Die 7/10
8 of 13 = 61 %
21. 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. Dark Star
2. Assault on Precinct 13
3. Halloween 7/10
4. The Fog
5. Escape from New York 7/10
6. The Thing 8/10
7. Christine 7/10
8. Starman
9. Big Trouble in Little China 7/10
10. Prince of Darkness 7/10
11. They Live 8/10
12. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
13. In the Mouth of Madness 8/10
14. Village of the Damned 5/10
15. Escape from L.A 8/10
16. Vampires 8/10
17. Ghosts of Mars 7/10
18. The Ward
12 of 18 = 66 %
22. 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. Fear and Desire
2. Killer's Kiss
3. The Killing
4. Paths of Glory 8/10
5. Spartacus
6. Lolita
7. Dr. Strangelove 8/10
8. 2001: A Space Odyssey 9/10
9. A Clockwork Orange 8/10
10. Barry Lyndon
11. The Shining 8/10
12. Full Metal Jacket 8/10
13. Eyes Wide Shut 8/10
7 of 13 = 54 %
23. Park Chan-wook
Director | Oldeuboi
Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.
1. The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream
2. Trio
3. Joint Security Area
4. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 8/10
5. Oldboy 9/10
6. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 8/10
7. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK 6/10
8. Thirst 8/10
9. Stoker 7/10
10. The Handmaiden 9/10
11. Decision to Leave
7 of 11 = 64 %
24. 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 ...
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 8/10
2. Jabberwocky 7/10
3. Time Bandits 7/10
4. Brazil 9/10
5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 7/10
6. The Fisher King 8/10
7. 12 Monkeys 9/10
8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 8/10
9. The Brothers Grimm 6/10
10. Tideland 7/10
11. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus 8/10
12. The Zero Theorem 6/10
13. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 7/10
13 of 13 = 100 %
25. Pete Docter
Writer | Up
Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.
Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...
1. Monsters, Inc. 8/10
2. Up 10/10
3. Inside Out 9/10
4. Soul 9/10
4 of 4 = 100 %
26. Oriol Paulo
Writer | El cuerpo
Oriol Paulo studied audiovisual communication at Pompeu Fabra University and film at the Los Angeles Film School.
As a scriptwriter, he wrote screenplays for small screen films such as Ecos (2006) and Codi 60 (2011), but is best known for his work in series such as Absolute majority (2004) and The ...
1. The Body 10/10
2. The Invisible Guest 9/10
3. Mirage 8/10
4. God's Crooked Lines
3 of 4 = 75 %
27. 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 ...
1. Barking Dogs Never Bite
2. Memories of Murder 9/10
3. The Host 7/10
4. Mother 8/10
5. Snowpiercer 7/10
6. Okja 5/10
7. Parasite 10/10
6 of 7 = 85 %
28. 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), ...
1. August 32nd on Earth
2. Maelstrom
3. Polytechnique
4. Incendies 9/10
5. Prisoners 9/10
6. Enemy 6/10
7. Sicario 7/10
8. Arrival 7/10
9. Blade Runner 2049 8/10
10. Dune 9/10
11. Dune: Part Two 9/10
8 of 11 = 73 %
29. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
1. Pi
2. Requiem for a Dream 8/10
3. The Fountain 7/10
4. The Wrestler 9/10
5. Black Swan 8/10
6. Noah
7. Mother! 9/10
8. The Whale
5 of 8 = 63 %
30. 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 ...
1. Clerks 8/10
2. Mallrats 8/10
3. Chasing Amy 6/10
4. Dogma 8/10
5. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 8/10
6. Jersey Girl 5/10
7. Clerks II 8/10
8. Zack and Miri Make a Porno 5/10
9. Cop Out 6/10
10. Red State 8/10
11. Tusk 6/10
12. Yoga Hosers 7/10
13. Holidays 7/10
14. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 7/10
15. KillRoy Was Here
16. Clerks III
14 of 16 = 87 %
31. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
1. Bad Taste
2. Meet the Feebles
3. Braindead 7/10
4. Heavenly Creatures
5. The Frighteners 7/10
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 10/10
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 10/10
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 10/10
9. King Kong 7/10
10. The Lovely Bones 8/10
11. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 9/10
12. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 9/10
13. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 8/10
10 of 13 = 77 %
32. 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. Sanshiro Sugata
2. The Most Beautiful
3. Sanshiro Sugata Part II
4. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
5. No Regrets for Our Youth
6. One Wonderful Sunday
7. Drunken Angel
8. The Quiet Duel
9. Stray Dog
10. Scandal
11. Rashomon 9/10
12. The Idiot
13. Ikiru 9/10
14. Seven Samurai 8/10
15. I Live in Fear
16. Throne of Blood
17. The Lower Depths
18. The Hidden Fortress
19. The Bad Sleep Well
20. Yojimbo 8/10
21. Sanjuro
22. High and Low 8/10
23. Red Beard
24. Dodes'ka-den
25. Dersu Uzala
26. Kagemusha
27. Ran 9/10
28. Dreams
29. Rhapsody in August
30. Madadayo
6 of 30 = 20 %
33. 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. The Pleasure Garden
2. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
3. The Mountain Eagle
4. The Ring
5. Downhill
6. The Farmer's Wife
7. Easy Virtue
8. Champagne
9. The Manxman
10. Blackmail
11. Elstree Calling
12. Juno and the Paycock
13. Murder!
14. The Skin Game
15. Rich and Strange
16. Number Seventeen
17. Waltzes from Vienna
18. The Man Who Knew Too Much
19. The 39 Steps 7/10
20. Secret Agent
21. Sabotage
22. Young and Innocent
23. The Lady Vanishes
24. Jamaica Inn
25. Rebecca 7/10
26. Foreign Correspondent
27. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
28. Suspicion
29. Saboteur 7/10
30. Shadow of a Doubt
31. Lifeboat
32. Spellbound
33. Notorious
34. The Paradine Case
35. Rope 7/10
36. Under Capricorn
37. Stage Fright
38. Strangers on a Train 8/10
39. I Confess
40. Dial M for Murder 9/10
41. Rear Window 8/10
42. To Catch a Thief
43. The Trouble with Harry
44. The Wrong Man
45. Vertigo 8/10
46. North by Northwest 8/10
47. Psycho 9/10
48. The Birds
49. Marnie
50. Torn Curtain
51. Topaz
52. Frenzy
53. Family Plot
10 of 53 = 19 %
34. 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 ...
1. Play Misty for Me
2. High Plains Drifter 8/10
3. Breezy
4. The Eiger Sanction
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
6. The Gauntlet
7. Bronco Billy
8. Firefox
9. Honkytonk Man
10. Sudden Impact
11. Pale Rider
12. Heartbreak Ridge
13. Bird
14. White Hunter Black Heart
15. The Rookie
16. Unforgiven 8/10
17. A Perfect World 7/10
18.The Bridges of Madison County
19. Absolute Power
20. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
21. True Crime
22. Space Cowboys
23. Blood Work
24. Mystic River 7/10
25. Million Dollar Baby 8/10
26. Flags of Our Fathers
27. Letters from Iwo Jima
28. Changeling 7/10
29. Gran Torino 9/10
30. Invictus
31. Hereafter
32. J. Edgar
33. Jersey Boys
34. American Sniper 9/10
35. Sully 7/10
36. The 15:17 to Paris
37. The Mule 7/10
38. Richard Jewell 7/10
39. Cry Macho
11 of 39 = 28 %
35. Pedro Almodóvar
Writer | Hable con ella
The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha. He arrived in Madrid in 1968, and survived by selling used items in the flea-market called El Rastro. Almodóvar couldn't study ...
1. Pepi, Luci, Bom
2. Labyrinth of Passion
3. Dark Habits
4. What Have I Done to Deserve This?
5. Matador
6. Law of Desire
7. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
8. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
9. High Heels
10. Kika
11. The Flower of My Secret
12. Live Flesh
13. All About My Mother 9/10
14. Talk to Her 9/10
15. Bad Education
16. Volver 8/10
17. Broken Embraces
18. The Skin I Live In 9/10
19. I'm So Excited!
20. Julieta 6/10
21. Pain and Glory 8/10
22. Parallel Mothers
6 of 22 = 27 %
36. 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. Mauvaise graine
2. The Major and the Minor
3. Five Graves to Cairo
4. Double Indemnity 8/10
5. The Lost Weekend
6. The Emperor Waltz
7. A Foreign Affair
8. Sunset Blvd. 8/10
9. Ace in the Hole
10. Stalag 17
11. Sabrina
12. The Seven Year Itch
13. The Spirit of St. Louis
14. Love in the Afternoon
15. Witness for the Prosecution 9/10
16. Some Like It Hot 8/10
17. The Apartment 9/10
18. One, Two, Three
19. Irma la Douce
20. Kiss Me, Stupid
21. The Fortune Cookie
22. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
23. Avanti!
24. The Front Page
25. Fedora
26. Buddy Buddy
5 of 26 = 19 %
37. 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 ...
1. The Duellists
2. Alien 8/10
3. Blade Runner 8/10
4. Legend
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Black Rain
7. Thelma & Louise 8/10
8. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
9. White Squall
10. G.I. Jane
11. Gladiator 9/10
12. Hannibal 7/10
13. Black Hawk Down
14. Matchstick Men
15. Kingdom of Heaven 7/10
16. A Good Year 6/10
17. American Gangster
18. Body of Lies
19. Robin Hood 6/10
20. Prometheus 7/10
21. The Counselor
22. Exodus: Gods and Kings
23. The Martian 8/10
24. Alien: Covenant 7/10
25. All the Money in the World
26. The Last Duel 8/10
27. House of Gucci
28. Napoleon
12 of 28 = 43 %
38. 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 ...
1. Meshes of the Afternoon 9/10
2. The Witch's Cradle 6/10
3. At Land 8/10
4. A Study in Choreography for Camera 7/10
5. The Private Life of a Cat 8/10
6. Ritual in Transfigured Time 8/10
7. Meditation on Violence 7/10
8. Ensemble for Somnambulists 8/10
9. The Very Eye of Night 7/10
10. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 7/10
10 of 10 = 100 %
39. 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 ...
1. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
2. Beetlejuice
3. Batman
4. Edward Scissorhands 9/10
5. Batman Returns
6. Ed Wood 8/10
7. Mars Attacks! 7/10
8. Sleepy Hollow 6/10
9. Planet of the Apes 6/10
10. Big Fish 8/10
11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 6/10
12. Corpse Bride 8/10
13. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7/10
14. Alice in Wonderland 8/10
15. Dark Shadows 6/10
16. Frankenweenie 8/10
17. Big Eyes 6/10
18. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 7/10
19. Dumbo 6/10
15 of 19 = 79 %
40. 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. Firelight
2. The Sugarland Express
3. Jaws 6/10
4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
5. 1941
6. Raiders of the Lost Ark 8/10
7. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 7/10
9. The Color Purple
10.Empire of the Sun
11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 7/10
12. Always
13. Hook
14. Jurassic Park 7/10
15. Schindler's List 9/10
16. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
17. Amistad 8/10
18. Saving Private Ryan 9/10
19. Artificial Intelligence: AI 7/10
20. Minority Report 8/10
21. Catch Me If You Can 8/10
22. The Terminal 8/10
23. War of the Worlds
24. Мюнхен 7/10
25. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 6/10
26. The Adventures of Tintin 6/10
27. War Horse
28. Lincoln
29. Bridge of Spies
30. The BFG 5/10
31. The Post 7/10
32. Ready Player One 9/10
33. West Side Story
34. The Fabelmans
18 of 34 = 53 %
41. Isao Takahata
Director | Hotaru no haka
Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
1. The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun
2. Jarinko Chie
3. Gauche the Cellist
4. Grave of the Fireflies 9/10
5. Only Yesterday 7/10
6. Pom Poko 9/10
7. My Neighbors the Yamadas 7/10
8. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 9/10
5 of 8 = 62.5 %
42. Matthew Vaughn
Producer | Kick-Ass
Matthew Vaughn is an English film producer and director. He is known for producing such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000) and for directing the crime thriller, Layer Cake (2004), the fantasy epic, Stardust (2007), the superhero comedy, Kick-Ass (2010), and the ...
1. Layer Cake 7/10
2. Stardust 9/10
3. Kick-Ass 9/10
4. X: First Class 8/10
5. Kingsman: The Secret Service 8/10
6. Kingsman: The Golden Circle 8/10
7. The King's Man 7/10
8. Argylle 7/10
8 of 8 = 100 %
43. Giuseppe Tornatore
Director | La migliore offerta
Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.
1. Il camorrista
2. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 9/10
3. Everybody's Fine
4. A Pure Formality
5. The Star Maker
6. The Legend of 1900 8/10
7. Malena 9/10
8. The Unknown Woman 8/10
9. Baarìa 7/10
10. The Best Offer 7/10
11. The Correspondence
6 of 11 = 55 %
44. 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. Dementia 13
2. You're a Big Boy Now
3. Finian's Rainbow
4. The Rain People
5. The Godfather 8/10
6. The Conversation 9/10
7. The Godfather Part II 8/10
8. Apocalypse Now 10/10
9. One from the Heart
10. The Outsiders
11. Rumble Fish 8/10
12. The Cotton Club
13. Peggy Sue Got Married
14. Gardens of Stone
15. Tucker: The Man and His Dream
16. The Godfather Part III 7/10
17. Bram Stoker's Dracula
18. Jack
19. The Rainmaker
20. Youth Without Youth
21. Tetro
22. Twixt
6 of 22 = 27 %
45. 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. Knife in the Water
2. Repulsion
3. Cul-de-sac
4. The Fearless Vampire Killers
5. Rosemary's Baby 9/10
6. Macbeth
7. What?
8. Chinatown 8/10
9. The Tenant
10. Tess
11. Pirates
12. Frantic
13. Bitter Moon
14. Death and the Maiden
15. The Ninth Gate 7/10
16. The Pianist 9/10
17. Oliver Twist
18. The Ghost Writer 7/10
19. Carnage 8/10
20. Venus in Fur
21. Based on a True Story
22. An Officer and a Spy 8/10
23. The Palace
7 of 23 = 30 %
46. 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. Eraserhead
2. The Elephant Man 8/10
3. Dune
4. Blue Velvet 8/10
5. Wild at Heart 8/10
6. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
7. Lost Highway
8. The Straight Story
9. Mulholland Drive 8/10
10. Inland Empire
4 of 10 = 40 %
47. Edgar Wright
Director | Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...
1. A Fistful of Fingers
2. Shaun of the Dead 8/10
3. Hot Fuzz 8/10
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 9/10
5. The World's End 7/10
6. Baby Driver 7/10
7. Last Night in Soho 7/10
6 of 7 = 85 %
48. 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 ...
1. Black Peter
2. Loves of a Blonde
3. The Firemen's Ball
4. Taking Off
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 10/10
6. Hair
7. Ragtime
8. Amadeus 8/10
9. Valmont
10. The People vs. Larry Flynt 8/10
11. Man on the Moon 8/10
12. Goya's Ghosts
4 of 12 = 33 %
49. 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 ...
1. Piranha Part Two: The Spawning
2. The Terminator 8/10
3. Aliens 9/10
4. The Abyss
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day 9/10
6. True Lies
7. Titanic 8/10
8. Avatar 7/10
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
5 of 9 = 55 %
50. 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 ...
1. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
2. Used Cars
3. Romancing the Stone
4. Back to the Future 8/10
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 8/10
6. Back to the Future Part II 7/10
7. Back to the Future Part III 7/10
8. Death Becomes Her
9. Forrest Gump 9/10
10. Contact
11. What Lies Beneath
12. Cast Away 8/10
13. The Polar Express 7/10
14. Beowulf 5/10
15. A Christmas Carol 7/10
16. Flight
17. The Walk 7/10
18. Allied
19. Welcome to Marwen
20. The Witches
21. Pinocchio
10 of 21 = 48 %
51. Danny Boyle
Director | 127 Hours
Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...
1. Shallow Grave
2. Trainspotting 9/10
3. A Life Less Ordinary
4. The Beach 7/10
5. 28 Days Later... 8/10
6. Millions
7. Sunshine
8. Slumdog Millionaire 8/10
9. 127 Hours 8/10
10. Trance 5/10
11. Steve Jobs
12. T2 Trainspotting 7/10
13. Yesterday 6/10
8 of 13 = 61 %
52. Yimou Zhang
Director | Ying xiong
Yimou Zhang was born on November 14, 1951 in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. He is a director and writer, known for Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). He has been married to Ting Chen since December 2011. They have three children. He was previously married to ...
1. Red Sorghum
2. Codename Cougar
3. Ju Dou
4. Raise the Red Lantern
5. The Story of Qiu Ju
6. To Live
7. Shanghai Triad
8. Keep Cool
9. Not One Less
10. The Road Home
11. Happy Times
12. Hero 9/10
13. House of Flying Daggers 9/10
14. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
15. Curse of the Golden Flower 8/10
16. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
17. Under the Hawthorn Tree
18. The Flowers of War
19. Coming Home
20. The Great Wall 6/10
21. Shadow 8/10
22. One Second
23. Cliff Walkers
24. Sniper
25. Full River Red
5 of 25 = 20 %
53. 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 ...
1. Being John Malkovich 8/10
2. Adaptation 8/10
3. Where the Wild Things Are 7/10
4. Her 8/10
4 of 4 = 100 %
54. Robert Eggers
Director | The Lighthouse
Robert Houston Eggers is an American filmmaker and production designer. He is best known for writing and directing the historical horror films The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), as well as directing and co-writing the historical fiction epic film The Northman (2022). His films are noted ...
1. The Witch 8/10
2. The Lighthouse 8/10
3. The Northman 8/10
3 of 3 = 100 %
55. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
1. The Man Without a Face
2. Braveheart 10/10
3. The Passion of the Christ 6/10
4. Apocalypto 8/10
5. Hacksaw Ridge 8/10
4 of 5 = 80 %
56. Stephen Daldry
Director | The Reader
In 1989, Stephen Daldry worked as a freelance reader of unsolicited manuscripts for Literary Manager Nicholas Wright in the Scripts Department at the Royal National Theatre. In July of that year, he directed a Dadaist/expressionist production of "Judgement Day," a play by Odon von Horvath, at the ...
1. Billy Elliot 8/10
2. The Hours 9/10
3. The Reader 8/10
4. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 7/10
5. Trash 8/10
6. Together
5 of 6 = 83 %
57. Lynne Ramsay
Director | You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay was born on December 5, 1969 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She is a director and writer, known for You Were Never Really Here (2017), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) and Ratcatcher (1999). She was previously married to Rory Stewart Kinnear.
1. Ratcatcher
2. Morvern Callar 8/10
3. We Need to Talk About Kevin 8/10
4. You Were Never Really Here 8/10
3 of 4 = 75 %
58. 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 Kid 7/10
2. A Woman of Paris
3. The Gold Rush 8/10
4. The Circus
5. City Lights 8/10
6. Modern Times 8/10
7. The Great Dictator 8/10
8. Monsieur Verdoux
9. Limelight
10. A King in New York
11. A Countess from Hong Kong
5 of 11 = 45 %
59. 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, ...
1. Mala Noche
2. Drugstore Cowboy
3. My Own Private Idaho
4. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
5. To Die For
6. Good Will Hunting 8/10
7. Psycho
8. Finding Forrester 8/10
9. Gerry
10. Elephant 6/10
11. Last Days
12. Paranoid Park
13. Milk 8/10
14. Restless
15. Promised Land
16. The Sea of Trees
17. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot 8/10
5 of 17 = 29 %
60. Bryan Singer
Director | X-Men
Bryan Singer is an American film director and producer who got his start writing and co-directing the short film Lions Den with his classmates while he attended USC. He was hired by 20th Century Fox to direct X-Men, which helped kick-start the superhero renaissance. He later directed three sequels....
1. Public Access
2. The Usual Suspects 9/10
3. Apt Pupil 7/10
4. X-Men 8/10
5. X2 8/10
6. Superman Returns
7. Valkyrie
8. Jack the Giant Slayer
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past 8/10
10. X-Men: Apocalypse 7/10
11. Bohemian Rhapsody 8/10
7 of 11 = 64 %
61. Alejandro Amenábar
Writer | The Others
Is the son of a Spanish mother and a Chilean father. His family moved back to Spain when he was 1 year old, and he grew up and studied in Madrid. He wrote, produced and directed his first short film La cabeza at the age of 19, and he was 23 when he directed his feature debut Thesis (1996). His film ...
1. Thesis
2. Open Your Eyes 8/10
3. The Others 10/10
4. The Sea Inside 8/10
5. Agora 6/10
6. Regression
7. While at War
4 of 7 = 57 %
62. Sam Mendes
Producer | 1917
Samuel Alexander Mendes was born on August 1, 1965 in Reading, England, UK to parents James Peter Mendes, a retired university lecturer, and Valerie Helene Mendes, an author who writes children's books. Their marriage didn't last long, James divorced Sam's mother in 1970 when Sam was just 5-...
1. American Beauty 9/10
2. Road to Perdition 8/10
3. Jarhead
4. Revolutionary Road 7/10
5. Away We Go
6. Skyfall
7. Spectre
8. 1917 8/10
9. Empire of Light
4 of 9 = 44 %
63. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
1. Only with your partner
2. A Little Princess
3. Great Expectations
4. And Your Mother Too
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 8/10
6. Children of Men 9/10
7. Gravity 7/10
8. Roma 8/10
4 of 8 = 50 %
64. Ang Lee
Director | Wo hu cang long
Born in 1954 in Pingtung, Taiwan, Ang Lee has become one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. Degree in Theatre/Theater Direction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ...
1. Pushing Hands
2. The Wedding Banquet
3. Eat Drink Man Woman
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. The Ice Storm
6. Ride with the Devil
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 9/10
8. Hulk
9. Brokeback Mountain 8/10
10. Lust, Caution
11. Taking Woodstock
12. Life of Pi 8/10
13. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
14. Gemini Man 6/10
4 of 14 = 28 %
65. Lana Wachowski
Writer | The Matrix
Lana Wachowski and her sister Lilly Wachowski, also known as the Wachowskis, are the duo behind such ground-breaking movies as The Matrix (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2012). Born to mother Lynne, a nurse, and father Ron, a businessman of Polish descent, Wachowski grew up in Chicago and formed a tight ...
With Lilly Wachowski
1. Bound 8/10
2. The Matrix 9/10
3. The Matrix Reloaded 8/10
4. The Matrix Revolutions 8/10
5. Speed Racer
6. Cloud Atlas 8/10
7. Jupiter Ascending 5/10
8. The Matrix Resurrections 6/10
7 of 8 = 88 %
66. 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 ...
1. Le dernier combat
2. Subway
3. Le grand bleu
4. Nikita 8/10
5. Léon 9/10
6. The Fifth Element 9/10
7. Joan of Arc 7/10
8. Angel-A 8/10
9. Arthur et les Minimoys 5/10
10. Arthur et la vengeance de Maltazard
11. Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec 6/10
12. Arthur 3: la guerre des deux mondes
13. The Lady
14. The Family 6/10
15. Lucy 6/10
16. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 6/10
17. Anna
18. Dogman
10 of 18 = 55 %
67. 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. ...
1. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books
2. Slacker
3. Dazed and Confused 8/10
4. Before Sunrise 7/10
5. SubUrbia
6. The Newton Boys
7. Waking Life
8. Tape
9. School of Rock
10. Before Sunset 7/10
11. Bad News Bears
12. Fast Food Nation
13. A Scanner Darkly 9/10
14. Me and Orson Welles
15. Bernie
16. Before Midnight 7/10
17. Boyhood
18. Everybody Wants Some!
19. Last Flag Flying
20. Where'd You Go, Bernadette 5/10
21. Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood
22. Hit Man
6 of 22 = 27 %
68. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
1. Night of the Living Dead 8/10
2. There's Always Vanilla
3. Hungry Wives
4. The Crazies
5. Martin
6. Dawn of the Dead 8/10
7. Knightriders
8. Creepshow
9. Day of the Dead 7/10
10. Monkey Shines
11. Due occhi diabolici
12. The Dark Half
13. Bruiser
14. Land of the Dead 7/10
15. Diary of the Dead 7/10
16. Survival of the Dead 4/10
6 of 16 = 37 %
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