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1. Giuseppe De Santis

Giuseppe De Santis was born on February 11, 1917 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tragic Hunt (1947), Giorni d'amore (1954) and Bitter Rice (1949). He was married to Gordana Miletic. He died on May 16, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

2. Astrid Henning-Jensen

Director | Vinterbørn

Astrid Henning-Jensen was born on December 10, 1914 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was a director and writer, known for Winterborn (1978), Early Spring (1986) and Øjeblikket (1980). She was married to Bjarne Henning-Jensen. She died on January 5, 2002 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

3. Bernhard Wicki

Director | The Longest Day

Bernhard Wicki was born on October 28, 1919 in St. Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for The Longest Day (1962), The Bridge (1959) and The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961). He was married to Elisabeth Endriss and Agnes Fink. He died on January 5, 2000 in Munich, ...

4. Fons Rademakers

Director | Makkers, staakt uw wild geraas

Fons Rademakers was born on 5 September 1920 in Roosendaal, Netherlands. he began his career as an actor and theater director. His film directorial debut, Village by the River (1958), was also the first Dutch movie ever nominated for an Academy award (Oscar). In 1986 Rademakers won the Foreign ...

5. Roberto Gavaldón

Director | El niño y la niebla

Roberto Gavaldon was the most prominent director of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican CInema. One of the supreme artists of the melodrama, Gavaldon was a rival to Old Hollywood movies. Gavaldon's movies, like contemporary director Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez, were popular and populist. Because that ...

6. France Stiglic

Director | Povest o dobrih ljudeh

France Stiglic was born on November 12, 1919 in Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Povest o dobrih ljudeh (1975), The Ninth Circle (1960) and Valley of Peace (1956). He died on May 4, 1993 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

7. Ismael Rodríguez

Writer | Tizoc (Amor indio)

Ismael Rodríguez was born on October 19, 1917 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for Tizoc (1957), The Important Man (1961) and Los tres García (1947). He died on August 7, 2004 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

8. Bent Christensen

Director | Harry og kammertjeneren

Bent Christensen was born on May 28, 1929 in Gunderup, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for Harry and the Butler (1961), Naboerne (1966) and Attentat (1980). He died on January 6, 1992 in Keldernæs, Denmark.

9. Michael Cacoyannis

Director | Alexis Zorbas

Michael Cacoyannis was born on June 11, 1922 in Limassol, Cyprus. He was a director and writer, known for Zorba the Greek (1964), Electra (1962) and Eroika (1960). He died on July 25, 2011 in Athens, Greece.

10. Anselmo Duarte

Writer | O Pagador de Promessas

Duarte left his hometown, at 14, and moved to São Paulo where he started working as a typist in an accounting office. In the early 1940s, after graduating in Economics, he went to Rio de Janeiro, where he had a bit-part on It's All True (1943). He then made some appearances in radio soap operas and...

11. Luis Alcoriza

Writer | Presagio

Luis Alcoriza was born on September 5, 1918 in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Presagio (1974), Mecánica nacional (1971) and Tlayucan (1962). He was married to Janet Alcoriza. He died on December 3, 1992 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

12. Francisco Rovira Beleta

Director | Los Tarantos

Francisco Rovira Beleta was born on September 25, 1912 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Los Tarantos (1963), Los atracadores (1962) and Bewitched Love (1967). He died on June 23, 1999 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

13. Vasilis Georgiadis

Director | Koritsia ston ilio

Vassilis Georgiadis was a Greek director, film producer and actor. Two of Georgiadis's films, "The Red Lanterns" and "Blood on the Land", were nominated by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the final five for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Also in 1970 his film ...

14. Noboru Nakamura

Director | Koto

Noboru Nakamura was born on August 4, 1913 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963), Sekishun (1967) and Nami (1952). He died on May 20, 1981 in Japan.

15. Bo Widerberg

Director | Ådalen 31

Bo Widerberg was born on June 8, 1930 in Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for Adalen 31 (1969), All Things Fair (1995) and Joe Hill (1971). He was married to Vanja Nettelbladt and Ann-Mari Björklund. He died on May 1, 1997 in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden.

16. Ephraim Kishon

Writer | Ha-Shu'al B'Lool Hatarnagalot

His father was the director of a bank. After graduating from high school, Hoffmann began studying art history and sculpture in Budapest. During the Nazi occupation of Hungary he was deported to Poland. From there he managed to escape and return to his homeland in an adventurous way before the end ...

17. Lars-Magnus Lindgren

Director | Käre John

Lars-Magnus Lindgren was born on July 3, 1922 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for Dear John (1964), Träfracken (1966) and Love Mates (1961). He was married to Vibeke Lindgren, Gunilla Pontén and Kerstin Lindgren. He died on November 23, 2004 in Nacka,...

18. Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Director | Pociag

Jerzy Kawalerowicz was born on January 19, 1922 in Gwozdziec, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Hvizdets, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Night Train (1959), Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) and Death of a President (1977). He was married to Lucyna Winnicka, Maria Güntner and ...

19. Sergey Bondarchuk

Actor | Voyna i mir

Sergei Bondarchuk was one of the most important Russian filmmakers, best known for directing an Academy Award-winning film epic War and Peace (1965), based on the book by Lev Tolstoy, in which he also starred as Pierre Bezukhov.

He was born Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk on September, 25, 1920, in the ...

20. Zoltán Fábri

Director | Húsz óra

He was born in 1917 and between the two World War he finished his primary and secondary school. After them he graduated in the College of Fine Arts, which helped him later to be a production-designer. He liked to learn and joined the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. He bacame a director and actor....

21. Ivan Pyrev

Director | Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy

Ivan Pyrev was born on November 4, 1901 in Kamen, Tomsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kamen-na-Obi, Altayskiy kray, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Symphony of Life (1948), They Met in Moscow (1941) and Six P.M. (1944). He was married to Marina Ladynina and Lionella Pyryeva. He ...

22. Jacques Boigelot

Director | Paix sur les champs

Jacques Boigelot was born on August 23, 1929 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Peace Over the Fields (1970), La boîte à surprise (1951) and Un pays noir (1953). He died on March 4, 2023 in Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium.

23. Maximilian Schell

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi. Indeed, with the exception of Maurice Chevalier and ...

24. Igor Talankin

Writer | Seryozha

Igor Talankin was born on October 3, 1927 in Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Noginsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer and director, known for Serge (1960), Vstuplenie (1963) and Tchaikovsky (1970). He was married to Lilia Mikhailovna. He died on July 24, 2010 in ...

25. Moshé Mizrahi

Writer | La vie devant soi

Moshé Mizrahi was born on September 5, 1930 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a writer and director, known for Madame Rosa (1977), The Customer of the Off Season (1970) and I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980). He was married to Michal Bat-Adam and Rahel Fabian. He died on August 3, 2018 in Tel Aviv, ...

26. Jaime de Armiñán

Writer | Mi querida señorita

Jaime de Armiñán was born on March 9, 1927 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for My Dearest Senorita (1972), The Nest (1980) and El amor del capitán Brando (1974). He was married to Elena Santonja. He died on April 9, 2024 in Madrid, Spain.

27. Stanislav Rostotskiy

Director | Belyy Bim Chernoe ukho

Stanislav Rostotsky was a renown Russian film director whose two films, The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972) and White Bim Black Ear (1977) were nominated for Oscar and won other international awards.

He was born Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky on April 21, 1922, in Rybinsk, north of Moscow, Russia. His ...

28. Claude Goretta

Director | L'invitation

Claude Goretta was born on June 23, 1929 in Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for The Invitation (1973), The Lacemaker (1977) and La provinciale (1980). He died on February 20, 2019 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.

29. Károly Makk

Director | Egymásra nézve

Károly Makk was born on December 22, 1925 in Berettyóújfalu, Hungary. He was a director and writer, known for Another Way (1982), Love (1971) and The Gambler (1997). He was married to Andrea Zsiga Kiss, Marianne Krencsey, Virág Dõry and Hanna Dömötör. He died on August 30, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

30. Jerzy Hoffman

Director | Ogniem i mieczem

Jerzy Hoffman was born on March 15, 1932 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for With Fire and Sword (1999), The Deluge (1974) and Trzy kroki po ziemi (1965). He is married to Jagoda Pradzynska. He was previously married to Valentina Trakhtenberg and Marlena Nazarian.

31. Sergio Renán

Director | El sueño de los héroes

Sergio Renán was born on January 30, 1933 in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Heroes Dream (1996), La soledad era esto (2002) and Tres de corazones (2007). He died on June 13, 2015 in Buenos Aires City, Distrito Federal, Argentina.

32. Miguel Littin

Director | La Última Luna

Miguel Littin was born on August 9, 1942 in Palmilla, Colchagua, VI Region, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for La Última Luna (2005), Letters from Marusia (1975) and Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969). He has been married to Ely Menz since 1963. They have one child.

33. Kei Kumai

Writer | Umi to dokuyaku

Kei Kumai was born on June 1, 1929 in Nagano, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for The Sea and Poison (1986), The Long Darkness (1972) and Sandakan No. 8 (1974). He died on May 23, 2007 in Tokyo, Japan.

34. Jean-Charles Tacchella

Writer | Cousin cousine

Jean-Charles Tacchella was born on September 23, 1925 in Cherbourg, Manche, Haute-Normandie, France. He is a writer and director, known for Cousin, Cousine (1975), Silver Anniversary (1979) and Travelling avant (1987). He has been married to Ginette Tacchella since December 27, 1969.

35. Frank Beyer

Director | Spur der Steine

After school, Frank Beyer studied theater studies. He started his career with an internship at the theater and as a stage dramaturge. He later attended the Film School in Prague (FAMU). While still a student, he became Kurt Maetzig's assistant and accompanied films such as "Castles and Cats" (1957)...

36. Jerzy Antczak

Director | Noce i dnie

Jerzy Antczak was born on December 25, 1929 in Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Wolynskie, Poland [now Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Ukraine]. He is a director and writer, known for Nights and Days (1975), Chopin: Desire for Love (2002) and Noce i dnie (1978). He is married to Jadwiga Baranska. They have one child.

37. Lina Wertmüller

Writer | Pasqualino Settebellezze

During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...

38. Menahem Golan

Producer | The Apple

Menahem Golan was born Menahem Globus to parents of Polish decent in Tiberias, Israel, in May 1929. In his early years, he was a pilot for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, changing his surname to Golan for patriotic reasons in 1948. A few years later, he took the first step towards his future ...

39. Hans W. Geissendörfer

Writer | Lindenstraße

Director. Writer. Producer. Has studied germanistics, theatre, psychology and african languages between 1962 and 1967. Has travelled Africa and Asia. In 1971 co-founder of the german Filmverlag der Autoren. 1983 he founded his own production company. Geissendoerfer is producer and partly director ...

40. Franco Brusati

Writer | Pane e cioccolata

Franco Brusati was born on August 4, 1922 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Bread and Chocolate (1974), Romeo and Juliet (1968) and I tulipani di Haarlem (1970). He died on February 28, 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

41. Claude Sautet

Writer | Un coeur en hiver

Claude Sautet was born on February 23, 1924 in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a writer and director, known for A Heart in Winter (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995) and The Things of Life (1970). He was married to Graziella Sautet. He died on July 22, 2000 in Paris, ...

42. Vladimir Menshov

Actor | Nochnoy dozor

Vladimir Menshov was a Russian director and actor, noted for his depiction of the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Born on September, 17, 1937 in Baku (then USSR, now the territory of Azerbaijan), like many Russian directors and actors Menshov studied at the state film school ...

43. István Szabó

Director | Sunshine

István Szabó was the first director to bring home to Hungary the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie receiving the award was his 1981 film Mephisto. In January 2006, it became public that he had been an agent of the III/III department, a former communist agency of interior intelligence....

44. Markus Imhoof

Writer | Das Boot ist voll

Markus Imhoof was born on September 19, 1941 in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland. He is a writer and director, known for The Boat Is Full (1981), Eldorado (2018) and More Than Honey (2012).

45. Kôhei Oguri

Director | Doro no kawa

Kôhei Oguri was born on October 29, 1945 in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Muddy River (1981), The Sting of Death (1990) and Sleeping Man (1996).

46. José Luis Garci

Director | Canción de cuna

Born on January 20th of 1944 in Madrid, Spain, José Luis Garci is without a doubt one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film in Spain and perhaps the best known writer in the country. He has left a distinguished talent in his successful movies throughout the years: La ...

47. Bertrand Tavernier

Director | Un dimanche à la campagne

Bertrand Tavernier was the son of Geneviève (Dumond) and René Tavernier, who was a publicist, writer, and president of the French PEN club. He was a law student that preferred write film criticisms. He also wrote a few books about American movies. Then his first film won a few awards in France and ...

48. Yuli Raizman

Director | Poslednyaya noch

Yuli Raizman was born on December 15, 1903 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Last Night (1937), Dream of a Cossack (1951) and The Fall of Berlin (1945). He died on December 11, 1994 in Moscow, Russia.

49. Diane Kurys

Director | Pour une femme

Diane Kurys was born on December 3, 1948 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and director, known for For a Woman (2013), Entre Nous (1983) and Peppermint Soda (1977).

50. Imre Gyöngyössy

Director | Két elhatározás

Imre Gyöngyössy was born on February 25, 1930 in Pécs, Hungary. He was a director and writer, known for Két elhatározás (1978), Számüzöttek (1991) and Boat People (1987). He was married to Katalin Petényi. He died on May 1, 1994 in Budapest, Hungary.

51. Richard Dembo

Writer | La diagonale du fou

Richard Dembo was born on May 24, 1948 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Dangerous Moves (1984), Nina's House (2005) and L'instinct de l'ange (1993). He died on November 10, 2004 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

52. María Luisa Bemberg

Writer | De eso no se habla

María Luisa Bemberg was born on April 14, 1922 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer and director, known for I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993), I, the Worst of All (1990) and Miss Mary (1986). She was married to Carlos Maria Miguens y Zumarán. She died on May 7, 1995 in Buenos Aires, ...

53. Uri Barbash

Director | Me'Ahorei Hasoragim

Uri Barbash was born on December 24, 1946 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a director and writer, known for Beyond the Walls (1984), Nitza's Choice (2022) and Once We Were Dreamers (1987).

54. Pyotr Todorovskiy

Director | Ankor, eshchyo ankor!

Pyotr Todorovskiy was born on August 26, 1925 in Bobrynets, Zinovievsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Encore, Once More Encore! (1992), Wartime Romance (1983) and Vernost (1965). He was married to Mira Todorovskaya and Nadeshda ...

55. Luis Puenzo

Director | La historia oficial

Luis Puenzo was born on February 19, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and producer, known for The Official Story (1985), The Plague (1992) and Broken Silence (2002).

56. Coline Serreau

Writer | 3 hommes et un couffin

Coline Serreau was born on October 29, 1947 in Paris, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Three Men and a Cradle (1985), Why Not! (1977) and Chaos (2001). She was previously married to Benno Besson.

57. Wolfgang Glück

Actor | Funny Games

Wolfgang Glück was born on September 29, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He was a director and writer, known for Funny Games (1997), Der Graf von Luxemburg (1972) and Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond (1959). He was married to Claudia Sorbas and Christiane Hörbiger. He died on December 13, 2023 in Vienna, ...

58. Denys Arcand

Writer | Les invasions barbares

One of Québec's most politically aware filmmakers, Denys Arcand studied history at Université de Montréal, where he co-directed Seul ou avec d'autres (1962) with Denis Héroux and co-written with Stéphane Venne. He joined the National Film Board (NFB) in 1963, where his feature-length documentary on...

59. Gabriel Axel

Director | Babettes gæstebud

Gabriel Axel was born on April 18, 1918 in Århus, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for Babette's Feast (1987), The Red Mantle (1967) and Christian (1989). He was married to Lucie Axel Moerch. He died on February 9, 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

60. Nils Gaup

Director | Ofelas

Nils Gaup was born on April 12, 1955 in Kautokeino, Norway. He is a director and actor, known for Pathfinder (1987), Head Above Water (1993) and Pathfinder (2007).

61. Bille August

Director | The House of the Spirits

Bille August was born on November 9, 1948 in Brede, Denmark. He is a director and writer, known for The House of the Spirits (1993), Pelle the Conqueror (1987) and Les Misérables (1998). He is married to Sara-Marie Maltha. He was previously married to Pernilla August, Masja Dessau and Annie ...

62. Gérard Corbiau

Director | Farinelli

Gérard Corbiau was born on September 19, 1941 in Brussels, Belgium. He is a director and writer, known for Farinelli (1994), The Music Teacher (1988) and Le roi danse (2000).

63. Kaspar Rostrup

Director | Dansen med Regitze

Kaspar Rostrup was born on April 27, 1940 in Denmark. He is a director and writer, known for Memories of a Marriage (1989), Her i nærheden (2000) and Jeppe on the Hill (1981).

64. Bruno Nuytten

Cinematographer | Jean de Florette

Bruno Nuytten is one of the most successful French cinematographers notable for his many collaborations with outstanding filmmakers. He was twice awarded the César for Best Cinematography: Barocco (1976) and So Long, Stooge (1983). Later he started to direct and is best known for his masterpiece ...

65. Jacobo Morales

Actor | Bananas

Jacobo Morales burst onto the entertainment industry at the age of fourteen and soon after, developed his writing skills in television and with La criada malcriada (1965). The first film he directed, Dios los cría (1979), is recognized as the marking point where Puerto Rico's film industry ...

66. Xavier Koller

Director | Reise der Hoffnung

Born in Switzerland. After graduating from High School, Xavier Koller first went through a four-year apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker and then, after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in Zurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director.

The next several years he spent acting ...

67. Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Writer | Cyrano de Bergerac

Jean-Paul Rappeneau was born on April 8, 1932 in Auxerre, Yonne, France. He is a writer and director, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), A Matter of Resistance (1966) and Bon Voyage (2003).

68. Gabriele Salvatores

Director | Nirvana

Salvatores attended school in the Lombard metropolis. He started doing theater there. After graduating from high school, Salvatores enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Milan in 1968. He then studied at the Accademia d''arte drammatica, a drama school at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano....

69. Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

Producer | Djöflaeyjan

Fridrik Thor Fridriksson started his film making carrier with a series of experimental films and documentaries in the early 1980s. In 1987, he founded The Icelandic Film Corporation, which has become Iceland's most important production company, producing Fridrikssons films as well as working with ...

70. Jan Sverák

Director | Akumulátor 1

Jan Sverak spent his studies at FAMU Documentary Department and graduated in 1988. Sverak's talent first attracted attention through his short films Space Odyssey II. and Oil Gobblers above all - documentary fiction dealing with "newly discovered species" received the American Academy's Student ...

71. Régis Wargnier

Writer | Est - Ouest

Régis Wargnier was born on April 18, 1948 in Metz, Moselle, France. He is a writer and director, known for East/West (1999), Indochine (1992) and La femme de ma vie (1986).

72. Stijn Coninx

Director | Marina

Stijn Coninx was born on February 21, 1957 in Neerpelt, Belgium. He is a director and assistant director, known for Marina (2013), Daens (1992) and When the Light Comes (1998). He is married to An Evers. They have four children.

73. Adolfo Aristarain

Writer | Martín (Hache)

Adolfo Aristarain began working on a regular basis in the film industry in 1965, as second assistant director. Before shooting his first film in 1978, he worked as an assistant director in more than thirty feature films, in different parts of the world, such as Sergio Leone's _Erase un vez en el ...

74. Helmut Dietl

Writer | Schtonk

Helmut Dietl was born on June 22, 1944 in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for Schtonk (1992), Rossini (1997) and Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz (1983). He was married to Tamara Dietl, Barbara Valentin and Karin Dietl-Wichmann. He died on March 30, 2015 in Munich,...

75. Fernando Trueba

Writer | Belle Epoque

Trueba studied Imagen at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was Opera Prima (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had ...

76. Kaige Chen

Director | Ba wang bie ji

Kaige Chen was born on August 12, 1952 in Beijing, China. He is a producer and director, known for Farewell My Concubine (1993), The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021) and Yellow Earth (1984). He has been married to Hong Chen since 1996. They have two children.

77. Paul Turner

Director | Hedd Wyn

Paul Turner was born on December 30, 1945 in Cornwall, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Hedd Wyn (1992), Pork Pie (1998) and Wild Justice (1994). He was married to Sue Roderick and Sheila Ford. He died on November 1, 2019 in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

78. Milcho Manchevski

Director | Pred dozhdot

Milcho Manchevski's acclaimed Before the Rain is considered "one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema" (Annette Insdorf) and "one of the most important films of the decade" (Ann Kibbey). The New York Times included it on its list "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". It won the ...

79. Rachid Bouchareb

Director | Indigènes

Rachid Bouchareb was born on September 1, 1959 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Days of Glory (2006), Little Senegal (2000) and Cheb (1991).

80. Fábio Barreto

Director | Índia, a Filha do Sol

Fábio Barreto was the youngest son of a well-known family of producers in Brazil, including his grandmother Lucíola Villela, father Luiz Carlos Barreto and mother Lucy Barreto. He acted in his brother Bruno's first short when he was 9 years old, and since then became active in the Brazilian film ...

81. Berit Nesheim

Director | Søndagsengler

Berit Nesheim was born on January 28, 1945 in Trondheim, Norway. She is a director and writer, known for The Other Side of Sunday (1996), Frida: Straight from the Heart (1991) and Høyere enn himmelen (1993).

82. Nana Dzhordzhadze

Director | 27 Missing Kisses

Nana was born in Tblisi, Georgia, then part of the Soviet Union. She studied architecture in her home town and was an architect from 1968 to 1973. From 1974, she drew closer to the movie world and studied cinema at the Tbilisi film school. She did several jobs on the set (costumer, set designer, ...

83. Sergei Bodrov

Writer | Mongol

Sergei Bodrov was born on June 28, 1948 in Khabarovsk, Khabarovskiy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is a writer and director, known for Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (2007), Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) and The Amateurs (1985).

84. Patrice Leconte

Director | Ridicule

Patrice Leconte was born on November 12, 1947 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for Ridicule (1996), La fille sur le pont (1999) and Man on the Train (2002).

85. Mike van Diem

Writer | Karakter

Mike van Diem was born on January 12, 1959 in Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands. He is a writer and director, known for Character (1997), Tulipani: Liefde, eer en een fiets (2017) and Alaska (1989).

86. Caroline Link

Director | Nirgendwo in Afrika

Caroline Link was born on June 2, 1964 in Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany. She is a director and writer, known for Nowhere in Africa (2001), Beyond Silence (1996) and Annaluise & Anton (1999).

87. Pavel Chukhray

Director | Vor

Pavel Chukhray is a Russian screenwriter and film director. He graduated from VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography): in 1971 -- from the cameraman's department, in 1974 -- from the director's department. He began his film career as a cameraman assistant, a director of photography, and ...

88. Montxo Armendáriz

Director | Silencio roto

Montxo Armendáriz was born on January 27, 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Broken Silence (2001), Secrets of the Heart (1997) and Stories from the Kronen (1995).

89. 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.

90. Majid Majidi

Writer | Bacheha-Ye aseman

Majid Majidi was born on April 17, 1959 in Tehran, Iran to a middle class family. He started acting in amateur theater groups at the age of fourteen. After receiving his high school diploma, he started studying art at the Institute of Dramatic Art in Tehran. After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, ...

91. Eric Valli

Director | Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef

Eric Valli was born on December 21, 1952 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is a director and writer, known for Himalaya (1999), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Chasseur de miel (1989).

92. Paul Morrison

Director | Wondrous Oblivion

Paul Morrison has a distinguished track record as a drama and documentary film-maker. His first feature film, Solomon and Gaenor, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000 and won the Welsh BAFTA for Best Film in 2001. He is represented in America by Paradigm, Los Angeles.

93. Colin Nutley

Director | Änglagård

Colin Nutley was born on February 28, 1944 in Gosport, Hampshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for House of Angels (1992), Under the Sun (1998) and The Bomber (2001). He has been married to Helena Bergström since 1990. They have two children.

94. Dominique Deruddere

Director | Flying Home

One of the great names of Belgian cinema, Oscar nominated director Dominique Deruddere has been passionate about filmmaking since he was a child. Thanks to his older brother, who lent him his movie camera, young Dominique managed to make his own films, starting in super 8 at the age of fourteen ("...

95. Jan Hrebejk

Director | Musíme si pomáhat

Jan Hrebejk was born on June 27, 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is a director and writer, known for Divided We Fall (2000), Beauty in Trouble (2006) and Cosy Dens (1999).

96. Agnès Jaoui

Actress | Le goût des autres

Agnès Jaoui was born on October 19, 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and writer, known for The Taste of Others (2000), Look at Me (2004) and Family Resemblances (1996). She was previously married to Jean-Pierre Bacri.

97. Petter Næss

Director | Elling

Petter Næss was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1960. Originally he worked as a writer, director and actor for the theatre, staging close to 30 productions. In 1997 he was appointed director of Oslo Nye Teater (Oslo New Theatre) and he quickly made a mark for himself promoting contemporary Norwegian plays...

98. Juan José Campanella

Writer | El secreto de sus ojos

Juan José Campanella was born on July 19, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).

99. Ashutosh Gowariker

Writer | Swades: We, the People

His passion for cinema immediately draws your attention, making you realize that Ashutosh Gowariker would not have been anywhere except behind the camera, however tempting the choice. An actor who took to film direction after almost a decade in front of the camera, Ashutosh has acted in Hindi films...

100. Paula van der Oest

Director | Zus & zo

Paula van der Oest is an Academy Award nominated director and screenwriter. Her film ZUS & ZO (2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2015 her film ACCUSED (2014) made it to the Academy Award's shortlist and her latest film TONIO (2016) is again chosen as the ...