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1. Yasuzô Masumura

Born in Yamanashi, Japan, Yasuzô Masumura would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He earned a law degree towards the end of World War II from Tokyo University, yet joined ...

Tsuma wa kokuhaku suru

2. Miklós Jancsó

Director | Csillagosok, katonák

Miklos Jancsó was born in 1921 in Vac, Hungary. His mother Angela Poparada was Romanian and his father Sandor Jancsó Hungarian. Jancsó received a degree in Law from the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1944. After fighting in WWII and a brief period as a POW, he chose to join the Film and Theater ...

Még kér a nép

3. Samuel Fuller

Writer | Shock Corridor

At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also ...

The Naked Kiss

4. Helmut Käutner

Director | Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

Helmut Käutner was born on March 25, 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Captain from Köpenick (1956), The Last Bridge (1954) and The Rest Is Silence (1959). He was married to Erica Balqué. He died on April 20, 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy.

Unter den Brücken

5. 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 ...

Matka Joanna od aniolów

6. Boris Barnet

Director | Miss Mend

Boris Barnet was born on June 18, 1902 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for The Adventures of the Three Reporters (1926), Secret Agent (1947) and Okraina (1933). He was married to Yelena Kuzmina, Natalia Glan, Alla Kazanskaya and Valentina Barnet. He died ...

Polustanok

7. Joris Ivens

Director | La Seine a rencontré Paris

Joris Ivens was born on November 18, 1898 in Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for La Seine a rencontré Paris (1957), The Mistral (1966) and A Tale of the Wind (1988). He was married to Marceline Loridan Ivens, Helen van Dongen and Germaine Krull. He died...

Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes

8. Tadashi Imai

Director | Kome

Known for his social realist films, the Japanese director Tadashi Imai was mostly interested in depicting the tragedies of human life. Often described as 'nakanai realism', or 'a realism without tears', Imai's films show the hard struggles of the poor. Among his most appreciated films are Nigorie (...

Himeyuri no Tô

9. Yûzô Kawashima

Director | Gan no tera

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

Shitoyakana kedamono

10. Georgiy Daneliya

Director | Kin-dza-dza!

Georgi Daneliya was born on August 25, 1930 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 1939 the family lived in Moscow, where Danelia's father was the chief engineer for the Moscow Underground Metro System. Daneliya's father became a decorated WWII General, specializing in construction of underground bunkers for ...

Afonya

11. 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 ...

La otra

12. Lev Kuleshov

Director | Po zakonu

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian director who used the editing technique known as the "Kuleshov effect." Although some of the editing innovations, such as crosscutting were used by other directors before him, Kuleshov was the first to use it in the Soviet Russia. he was driving a Ford sports car amidst ...

По закону

13. Krzysztof Zanussi

Director | Struktura krysztalu

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

Barwy ochronne

14. Frantisek Vlácil

Director | Marketa Lazarová

Frantisek Vlácil was born on February 19, 1924 in Cesky Tesin, Moravian-Silesian, Czech Republic. He was a director and writer, known for Marketa Lazarová (1967), The Valley of the Bees (1968) and Adelheid (1969). He died on January 28, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dáblova past

15. Paul Cox

Director | Innocence

Paul Cox was born on April 16, 1940 in Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for Innocence (2000), My First Wife (1984) and Man of Flowers (1983). He was married to Juliet Bacskai. He died on June 18, 2016 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Man of Flowers

16. 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 ...

Kubanskie kazaki

17. 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....

Az ötödik pecsét

18. Yuri Norstein

Animation_department | Skazka skazok

Born to Jewish parents and raised in a Moscow suburb, Yuri Norstein painted as a hobby and trained as a carpenter before studying animation. He directed his first film in 1968 and made a series of short films notable for their attention to atmosphere and fine detail, using a multiplane camera to ...

Ёжик в тума́не

19. Chris Marker

Writer | 12 Monkeys

Chris Marker was born on July 29, 1921 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a writer and director, known for 12 Monkeys (1995), Sans Soleil (1983) and Third Side of the Coin (1960). He died on July 29, 2012 in Paris, France.

Lettre de Sibérie

20. Hideo Gosha

Director | Goyôkin

Hideo Gosha was born on February 26, 1929 in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan (undisclosed). He was a director and writer, known for The Steel Edge of Revenge (1969), Yôkirô (1983) and Onimasa (1982). He died on August 30, 1992.

Hitokiri

21. Salah Abouseif

Director | El Fetewa

Salah Abouseif was born on May 10, 1915 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for El Fetewa (1957), The Monster (1954) and Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948). He died on June 23, 1996 in Cairo, Egypt.

La anam

22. Metodi Andonov

Director | Koziyat rog

Specializing in intense psychological dramas, Bulgarian filmmaker Metodi Andonov is best remembered for making one of his country's most popular films, The Goat Horn (1972). He also directed a pair of high-grossing detective dramas based on the novels and screenplays of Bogomil Rainov, There's ...

Kozijat Rog

23. Ann Turner

Writer | Celia

Ann Turner was born in 1960 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She is a writer and producer, known for Celia (1989), Irresistible (2006) and Dallas Doll (1994).

Dallas Doll

24. Jirí Weiss

Director | Vlcí jáma

Jirí Weiss was born on March 29, 1913 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Vlcí jáma (1958), 90 Degrees in the Shade (1965) and Martha et moi (1990). He was married to Katerina Weiss. He died on April 9, 2004 in Santa Monica...

Zlaté kapradí

25. Emir Kusturica

Director | Underground

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

Time Of The Gypsies

26. Vasiliy Shukshin

Writer | Kalina krasnaya

Vasili Shukshin, one of Russian cinema's notable figures, was born Vasili Makarovich Shukshin into a peasant family on July 25, 1929, in the village of Srostki, Altai province, Siberian Russia. His father, named Makar Leontievich Shukshin, was a landlord who refused to join a collective farm and ...

Pechki-lavochki

27. Jan S. Kolár

Actor | Otrávené svetlo

Jan S. Kolár was born on May 11, 1896 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Otrávené svetlo (1921), Mrtví zijí (1922) and The Arrival from the Darkness (1921). He was married to Mása Kolárová. He died on October ...

Príchozí z temnot (1921)

28. Yoshitarô Nomura

Director | Suna no utsuwa

Yoshitarô Nomura was born on April 23, 1919 in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for The Castle of Sand (1974), Suspicion (1982) and The Incident (1978). He died on April 8, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.

Goben no tsubaki

29. Peter Solan

Director | Boxer a smrt

Peter Solan was born on April 25, 1929 in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia. He was a director and writer, known for The Boxer and Death (1963), Kým sa skoncí táto noc (1966) and Dialogue 20-40-60 (1968). He died on September 21, 2013 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Kým sa skoncí táto noc

30. Leopold Lahola

Writer | Sladky cas Kalimagdory

Leopold Lahola was born on January 30, 1918 in Presov, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Sladky cas Kalimagdory (1968), Until Hell Is Frozen (1961) and Duel at Sundown (1965). He died on June 12, 1968 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Sladky cas Kalimagdory

31. Ping Wang

Director | Yong bu xiao shi de dian bo

Ping Wang was born on September 2, 1916 in Nanjing, China. She is a director and actress, known for The Eternal Wave (1958), The East is Red (1965) and The Area of Menglongsha (1960).

The East is Red

32. Kihachi Okamoto

Director | Nikudan

Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone ...

Nikudan

33. Fridrikh Ermler

Director | Velikaya sila

Fridrikh Ermler was born on May 13, 1898 in Rechitsa, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rezekne, Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Great Force (1951), Great Citizen (1938) and The Turning Point (1945). He died on July 12, 1967 in Leningrad, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia...

Neokonchennaya povest

34. 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 ...

Modern Times

35. Béla Tarr

Producer | Werckmeister harmóniák

Béla Tarr was born on July 21, 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He is a producer and director, known for Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), The Turin Horse (2011) and Satantango (1994). He is married to Ágnes Hranitzky.

A torinói ló

36. Eldar Ryazanov

Director | Sluzhebnyy roman

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born on November 18, 1927 in Samara, Russia. He graduated with honors from the Soviet State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1950, as a film director. He was making documentaries for five years. In 1955 Ryazanov came to work at the Mosfilm Studios under the ...

Karnavalnaya noch

37. Frédéric Back

Art_department | L'homme qui plantait des arbres

Frédéric Back was born on April 8, 1924 in Saarbrücken, Germany. He was a director, known for The Man Who Planted Trees (1987), Crac (1980) and The Mighty River (1993). He was married to Ghylaine Paquin. He died on December 24, 2013 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Crac

38. Emilio Fernández

Writer | La perla

Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father ...

Víctimas del pecado

39. Henry Barakat

Director | El bab el maftuh

Henry Barakat was born on June 11, 1914 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for El bab el maftuh (1963), Hasan wa Naimah (1959) and Leilet al quabd al Fatma (1984). He died on May 27, 1997 in Cairo, Egypt.

Doa al karawan

40. Leonid Gaidai

Director | Operatsiya 'Y' i drugie priklyucheniya Shurika

Leonid Iovich Gaidai was born on January 30, 1923, in the town of Svobodny, Amur region of Siberia, USSR. He was the third child in the family of a railroad worker. His father, named Iov Isidorovich Gaidai, was exiled to Siberia from Poltava, Ukraine. His mother, named Maria Ivanovna Lubimova, came...

Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu

41. Takashi Miike

Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...

Chûgoku no chôjin

42. Tengiz Abuladze

Director | Monanieba

'Tengiz Abuladze' studied theatrical direction af the Chota Rustaveli Theatre Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, and film- making at the VGIK Cinematography Institute, graduating in 1953, when he joined Georgia Film Studios as a director. He made documentaries before making his feature debut in 1958. ...

Samkauli satrposatvis

43. Satsuo Yamamoto

Director | Shiroi Kyotô

Satsuo Yamamoto was born on July 15, 1910 in Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan. Satsuo was a director and writer, known for Shiroi Kyotô (1966), The Battle of Manchuria (1970) and Fumô chitai (1976). Satsuo died on August 11, 1983 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tengo To

44. Juraj Jakubisko

Director | Bathory

Juraj Jakubisko was born on April 30, 1938 in Kojsov, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a director and writer, known for Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008), Kristove roky (1967) and Perinbaba (1985). He was married to Deana Horváthová. He died on February 24, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Sedím na konári a je mi dobre

45. Jorge Sanjinés

Director | Yawar Mallku

Sanjines made his first feature film, Ukamau (1966), under the auspices of the Bolivian Film Institute, of which he was named director in 1965. A landmark in the history of Bolivian cinema, Ukamau is a sympathetic depiction of the social problems of the Andean peasantry shot exclusively in Aymara, ...

Yawar Mallku

46. Héctor Olivera

Director | No habrá más penas ni olvido

Héctor Olivera was born on April 5, 1931 in Olivos, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a producer and director, known for Funny Dirty Little War (1983), Rebellion in Patagonia (1974) and Ay Juancito (2004).

La Patagonia rebelde

47. Mikhail Romm

Director | Russkiy vopros

Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central ...

9 dney odnogo goda

48. Václav Vorlícek

Director | Kdo chce zabít Jessii?

Václav Vorlícek, director and scenarist, was born in Prague on June 3, 1930. He studied directing at the Prague Film Schol in 1951-56. His dissertation was the short film "Directive". He took a post at the Barrandov Film Studios, where he worked as assistant director with several directors. He ...

Tri orísky pro Popelku

49. Akio Jissôji

Director | Shirubâ Kamen

Akio Jissôji was born on March 29, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Silver Mask (2006), This Transient Life (1970) and Shirubâ kamen (1971). He was married to Chisako Hara. He died on November 29, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.

Asaki yumemishi

50. Kaneto Shindô

Writer | Ichimai no hagaki

Kaneto Shindô was born on April 22, 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Naked Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on May 29, 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.

Onibaba

51. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

I Know Where I'm Going

52. 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 ...

Journal d'un curé de campagne

53. 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.

Kaguyahime no monogatari

54. Tomu Uchida

Director | Tsuchi

Tomu Uchida was born on April 26, 1898 in Okayama, Okayama, Japan. He was a director and actor, known for Earth (1939), A Fugitive from the Past (1965) and Miyamoto Musashi VI (1971). He died on August 7, 1970 in Japan.

Naniwa no koi no monogatari

55. Mitchell Leisen

Director | Death Takes a Holiday

Mitchell Leisen was born on October 6, 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was a director and art director, known for Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Mating Season (1951) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941). He was married to Stella Yeager. He died on October 28, 1972 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...

Hands Across the Table

56. Agnès Varda

Director | Cléo de 5 à 7

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

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

57. Leonid Lukov

Director | Bolshaya zhizn

Leonid Lukov was born on May 2, 1909 in Mariupol, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Bolshaya zhizn (1939), Miners of the Don (1951) and Uz jauno krastu (1955). He died on April 24, 1963 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St...

Разные судьбы

58. Miyoji Ieki

Director | Ibo kyoudai

Miyoji Ieki is known for Ibo kyoudai (1957), Hadaka no taiyô (1958) and Roadside Stone (1964).

Robô no ishi

59. Tatyana Lioznova

Director | Tri topolya na Plyushchikhe

Tatyana Lioznova was born on July 20, 1924 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She was a director and assistant director, known for Three Poplars on Plyuschikha Street (1968), Karnaval (1982) and Konets sveta s posleduyushchim simpoziumom (1987). She died on September 29, 2011 in Moscow, Russia.

Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny

60. Nikita Mikhalkov

Actor | 12

Nikita Mikhalkov is the son of the famous communist poet Sergey Mikhalkov, who wrote the lyrics of the Soviet national anthem and had strong connections to the Communist Party. Nikita Mikhalkov's mother, Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya, was also a poet and daughter of famous painter Pyotr Petrovich...

Oci ciornie

61. Sergiu Nicolaescu

Director | Duelul

Sergiu Nicolaescu was born on the 13th of April 1930, in Târgu Jiu, Gorj County, Romania. Nicolaescu, aka 'Steven Spielberg of the Romanian cinema', was a brilliant, self-taught technician and a master of popular entertainment who approached during his long career various genres with great success....

Osânda

62. 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.

Nihon rettô

63. Glauber Rocha

Director | Terra em Transe

He studied Law. He also directed theatre pieces, wrote movie criticisms and took part in the creation and development of the 'cinema novo' movement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, becoming its theoretical leader and first embassador in Europe. After "Barravento (1962)", a trilogy of films and "Antonio ...

O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro

64. 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 ...

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta

65. Sergei Eisenstein

Director | Ivan Groznyy

The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...

Aleksandr Nevskiy

66. Kôichi Saitô

Director | Tsugaru jongarabushi

Kôichi Saitô was born on February 3, 1929 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Tsugaru jongarabushi (1973), Yakusoku (1972) and Tabi no omosa (1972). He died on November 28, 2009 in Hino, Tokyo, Japan.

Yakusoku

67. Giorgos Tzavellas

Writer | Antigoni

Giorgos Tzavellaswas a Greek film director, screenwriter, and playwright. His filmmaking was particularly influential, with critic Georges Sadoul considering him "one of the three major postwar Greek directors" (along with Michael Cacoyannis and Nikos Koundouros). Tzavellas wrote at least 26 plays,...

I Agni tou limaniou

68. Anthony Mann

Director | El Cid

Anthony Mann was born on June 30, 1906 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for El Cid (1961), Men in War (1957) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). He was married to Anna, Sara Montiel and Mildred Mann. He died on April 29, 1967 in London, England.

God's Little Acre

69. Oldrich Lipský

Writer | Tajemství hradu v Karpatech

Oldrich Lipský was born on July 4, 1924 in Pelhrimov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981), Lemonade Joe (1964) and I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970). He died on October 19, 1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now...

Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera

70. Maurice Pialat

Director | À nos amours

Maurice Pialat was a French film director. Film critics have noted the naturalist style of his films, and their autobiographical elements.

Pialat obtained his first camera when only 16-years-old, but his early career involved creating documentary short films. His ambition was to become a painter and...

À nos amours

71. Tai Katô

Assistant_director | Rashômon

Tai Katô was born on August 24, 1916 in Kobe, Japan. Tai was a director and writer, known for Rashomon (1950), Nihon kyôka den (1973) and Jinsei gekijô (1972). Tai died on June 17, 1985.

Kaze to onna to tabigarasu

72. Masahiro Shinoda

Director | Shinjû: Ten no Amijima

Masahiro Shinoda was born on March 9, 1931 in Gifu, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Double Suicide (1969), Chinmoku (1971) and Ballad of Orin (1977). He has been married to Shima Iwashita since 1967. They have one child.

Sakura no mori no mankai no shita

73. 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.

Tistega Lepega Dne

74. Henry Barakat

Director | El bab el maftuh

Henry Barakat was born on June 11, 1914 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for El bab el maftuh (1963), Hasan wa Naimah (1959) and Leilet al quabd al Fatma (1984). He died on May 27, 1997 in Cairo, Egypt.

Doa al karawan

75. Umetsugu Inoue

Director | Ashita wa ashita no kaze ga fuku

Umetsugu Inoue was a director of over a hundred films in a wide variety of genres; working with all six major Japanese film production companies over his 35 year career. He was first noticed early on at Nikkatsu Studios for establishing a new genre of high action musical films, charged with the ...

Daisan no kagemusha (1963)

76. Lucian Pintilie

Director | Terminus paradis

Lucian Pintilie was born on November 9, 1933 in Tarutino, Bessarabia, Romania [now Tarutyne, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Next Stop Paradise (1998), Sunday at Six (1966) and The Oak (1992). He was married to Clody Bertola. He died on May 16, 2018 in Bucharest, ...

Duminica la ora 6

77. Edgar G. Ulmer

Director | The Naked Dawn

Edgar G. Ulmer was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Naked Dawn (1955), The Black Cat (1934) and Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943). He was married to Shirley Ulmer and Joan Warner. He died on ...

Carnegie Hall

78. Éric Rohmer

Director | Ma nuit chez Maud

Admirers have always had difficulty explaining Éric Rohmer's "Je ne sais quoi." Part of the challenge stems from the fact that, despite his place in French Nouvelle Vague (i.e., New Wave), his work is unlike that of his colleagues. While this may be due to the auteur's unwillingness to conform, ...

Six Moral Tales

79. Larisa Shepitko

Director | Voskhozhdenie

Larisa Shepitko was born on January 6, 1938 in Bakhmut, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a director and writer, known for The Ascent (1977), Heat (1963) and You and Me (1971). She was married to Elem Klimov. She died on July 2, 1979 in near Redkino, Kalinin Oblast...

The Ascent

80. Aleksandar Petrovic

Director | Skupljaci perja

One of the most acclaimed and successful Yugoslav directors, born in 1929. in Paris. Studied film directing at the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague (1947/48). His studies remained unfinished due to the political aggravation between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia at the time ...

Skupljaci perja

81. 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 ...

The 39 Steps

82. Kôsaku Yamashita

Director | Yogisha

Kôsaku Yamashita was born on December 10, 1930 in Akune, Kagoshima, Japan. He was a director and actor, known for Night Train (1987), Kuroi tsume (1964) and The Valiant Red Pony (1968). He was married to Tomoko Yamashita. He died on December 6, 1998 in Kyoto, Japan.

Bakuchi-uchi: socho tobaku

83. Vulo Radev

Director | Chernite angeli

Vulo Radev (1 January 1923 - 28 March 2001) was a Bulgarian film director, writer and cinematographer. Radev was born in a village Lesidren. In 1953, Radev graduated from the filming faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. His first film, a documentary, appeared in ...

Kradetzat na praskovi

84. Ante Babaja

Director | Breza

Ante Babaja was born on October 6, 1927 in Imotski, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Breza (1967), Dobro jutro (2007) and Kamenita vrata (1992). He died on January 14, 2010 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Breza

85. Alain Robbe-Grillet

Writer | Un bruit qui rend fou

Born in Brest, France, in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945 and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France. Then at age 30 he ...

Trans-Europ-Express

86. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

The Unknown

87. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

Dodsworth

88. Jirí Menzel

Director | Ostrzhe sledované vlaky

Jirí Menzel was born on February 23, 1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Closely Watched Trains (1966), I Served the King of England (2006) and Larks on a String (1969). He was married to Olga Menzelová-Kelymanová. He died on September 5, ...

Rozmarné léto

89. 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 Colours

90. 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....

Colonel Redl

91. Gleb Panfilov

Director | Tema

Gleb Panfilov was born on May 21, 1934 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Theme (1979), Vassa (1983) and Mat (1990). He was married to Inna Churikova. He died on August 26, 2023 in Russia.

Proshu slova

92. Teruo Ishii

Director | Gensen-Kan Shujin

Teruo Ishii was born on January 1, 1924 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Gensen-Kan Inn (1993), Female Yakuza Tale (1973) and The Great Villain's Strategy (1966). He died on August 12, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan.

Nyotai sanbashi

93. Douglas Sirk

Director | Schlußakkord

Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, ...

Written On The Wind

94. Howard Hawks

Director | Red River

What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...

A Girl In Every Port

95. Joseph Losey

Director | The Servant

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

Accident

96. Budd Boetticher

Director | Bullfighter and the Lady

Brilliant, distinguished American director, particularly of Westerns, whose simple, bleak style disguises a complex artistic temperament. The adopted son of a wealthy hardware retailer, Boetticher attended Culver Military Academy and Ohio State University, where he excelled in football and boxing.

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Bullfighter And The Lady

97. Ernst Lubitsch

Director | To Be or Not to Be

From Ernst Lubitsch's experiences in Sophien Gymnasium (high school) theater, he decided to leave school at the age of 16 and pursue a career on the stage. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ...

Trouble In Paradise

98. John Duigan

Writer | The Year My Voice Broke

Duigan emigrated to Australia in 1961, having been born to an Australian father. He is related to many Australian performers, being the husband of Nammi Le, brother of novelist Virginia Duigan (wife of director Bruce Beresford) and uncle of Trilby Beresford.

Duigan studied at Melbourne University, ...

Sirens

99. Péter Bacsó

Writer | Forró vizet a kopaszra!

Péter Bacsó was born on January 6, 1928 in Kosice, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. He was a writer and director, known for Forró vizet a kopaszra! (1972), Nyár a hegyen (1967) and Jelenidö (1972). He died on March 11, 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.

A tanú

100. Marcel Carné

Director | Le quai des brumes

Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936). Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean ...

Les enfants du paradis