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1. Marcel Carné

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 ...

# Cais das Sombras (1938)

2. Marc Forster

Producer | World War Z

Marc Forster is a German-born filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films Monster's Ball (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), Stay (2005), Stranger than Fiction (2006), The Kite Runner (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), and World War Z (2013).

His breakthrough film was Monster's...

Guerra Mundial Z (2013)

3. Marco Bellocchio

Writer | Il traditore

Marco Bellocchio is one of the most consistent and most adventurous of today's Italian directors-an achievement all the more remarkable given that he made his feature debut almost fifty years ago. Over those years, he has amassed a body of films that encompasses a large number of original ...

[# A Bela que Dorme (2012)

4. Mario Monicelli

Writer | I compagni

Mario Monicelli was born on May 16, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Chiara Rapaccini and Antonella Salerni. He died on November 29, 2010 in Rome, Lazio,...

# Parente é Serpente (1992)

# Quinteto Irreverente (1982)

# Um Burguês Muito Pequeno (1977)

# Meus Caros Amigos (1975)

# O Incrível Exército de Brancaleone (1966)

# Os Companheiros (1963)

# Boccaccio 70 (1962)

# A Grande Guerra (1959)

# Os Eternos Desconhecidos (1958)

# O Médico e o Charlatão (1957)

5. Masahiro Kobayashi

Writer | Haru tono tabi

Masahiro Kobayashi was born on January 6, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Haru tono tabi (2010), Japan's Tragedy (2012) and Bashing (2005). He was married to Naoko Kobayashi. He died on August 20, 2022 in Tokyo.

# O Renascimento (2007)

6. Manoel de Oliveira

Director | Os Canibais

Manoel de Oliveira was born on December 11, 1908 in Oporto, Portugal. He was a director and writer, known for The Cannibals (1988), I'm Going Home (2001) and Christopher Columbus, the Enigma (2007). He was married to Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de Almeida Carvalhais. He died on April 2, 2015 in...

# Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura (2009)

7. Michael Mann

Producer | The Insider

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...

# Profissão: Ladrão (1981)

8. 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...

# Aos Nossos Amores (1983)

# Infância Nua (1968)

9. Mervyn LeRoy

Director | Gypsy

The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...

# A Hora do Diabo (1961)

# A Ponte de Waterloo (1940)

# Alma no Lodo (1931)

# O Fugitivo (1932)

# Alma no Lodo (1931)

10. Michael Bay

Producer | Armageddon

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...

# Sem Dor, Sem Ganho (2013)

# A Ilha (2005)

11. Michael Winner

Director | Death Wish

Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold ...

# Desejo de Matar III (1985)

#Desejo de Matar II (1982)

# Desejo de Matar (1974)

# Renegado Vingador (1972)

# Os Que Chegam com a Noite (1971)

12. Michael Cimino

Director | The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...

purple]# Horas de Desespero (1990)

# O Ano do Dragão (1985)

# O Portal do Paraíso (1980)

# O Franco Atirador (1978)

13. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

# Harakiri (1962)

14. Michael Curtiz

Director | Casablanca

Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...

# Os Comancheros (1961)

15. Michael Haneke

Writer | Caché

A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...

# Amor (2012)

# A Fita Branca (2009)

# Violência Gratuita (2007)

# A Professora de Piano (2001)

# O Castelo (1997)

# Violência Gratuita (1997)

16. Michael Winterbottom

Director | A Mighty Heart

Michael took an English degree at Oxford then trained in film at Bristol and London breaking into television via the cutting room at Thames Television. He made his directorial debut with two documentaries on Ingmar Bergman His production of Love Lies Bleeding won the Silver Award at the 1993 New ...

# Todos os Dias (2012)

# O Assassino em Mim (2010)

# O Preço da Coragem

# 9 Canções (2004)

# Código 46 (2003)

# A Festa Nunca Termina (2002)

# Riqueza Perdida (2000)

# Encontros e Desencontros

17. Mikael Håfström

Writer | Ondskan

Mikael Håfström was born on July 1, 1960 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. He is a writer and director, known for Evil (2003), 1408 (2007) and The Rite (2011).

# O Ritual (2011)

# 1408 (2007)

# Evil - Raízes do Mal (2003)

18. Mike Figgis

Director | Leaving Las Vegas

When young he lived with his four brothers and sisters in a council house in Newcastle Upon Tyne then when 14 the family moved to Thornyburn near Bellingham where he made his first film, 'Redheugh'. He qualified in Newcastle as a music teacher and played in a band, 'The Gasboard' with Brian Ferry ...

# Por uma Noite Apenas (1997)

# Despedida em Las Vegas (1995)

19. 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 ...

# Vícios Privados - Virtudes Públicas (1976)

# O Salmo Vermelho (1972)

# Vermelhos e Brancos (1967)

20. Mike Leigh

Director | Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...

# Mais Um Ano (2010)

# Nu (1993)

21. Miguel Gomes

Director | Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto

Miguel Gomes was born in 1972 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is a director and writer, known for Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One (2015) and Tabu (2012).

# Tabu (2012)

22. Mike Newell

Director | Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mike Newell was born on March 28, 1942 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Donnie Brasco (1997). He is married to Bernice Stegers. They have three children.

# O Amor nos Tempos do Cólera (2007)

# Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo (2005)

# O Sorriso de Mona Lisa (2003)

# Alto Controle (1999)

# Donnie Brasco (1997)

# Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral (1994)

23. 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 ...

# E um de Nossos Aviões não Regreessou (1942)

24. M. Night Shyamalan

Producer | Lady in the Water

Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.

He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...

# Depois da Terra (2013)

# O Último Mestre do Ar (2010)

# Fim dos Tempos (2008)

# A Dama na Água (2006)

# A Vila (2004)

# Sinais (2002)

# Corpo Fechado (2000)

# O Sexto Sentido (1999)

25. 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.

# Duplo Suicídio em Amijima (1969)

26. Mauro Bolognini

Director | Madamigella di Maupin

Mauro Bolognini was born on February 28, 1922 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Madamigella di Maupin (1966), Mosca addio (1987) and Careless (1962). He died on May 14, 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

# A Longa Noite de Loucuras (1959)

27. Martin Ritt

Director | Hud

Martin Ritt, one of the best and most sensitive American filmmakers of all time, was a director, actor and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City. His films reflect, like almost none other, a profound and intimate humane vision of his characters.

He originally ...

# Norma Rae (1979)

# Testa-de-ferro Por Acaso (1976)

# Hombre (1967)

# Cinco Mulheres Marcadas (1960)

# O Mercador de Almas (1958)

# A Orquídea Negra (1958)

# A Mulher do Próximo (1957)

28. Michael Anderson

Director | Logan's Run

London-born Michael Anderson began his career in films as an office boy at Elstree studios. By 1938, he had progressed up the ladder to become assistant director for distinguished film makers Noël Coward, David Lean and Anthony Asquith. Shortly after, during wartime with the Royal Signals Corps (...

# Orca, A Baleia Assassina (1977)

# Fuga no Século XXIII (1976)

# Sandálias do Pescador (1968)

# Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias, A (1956)

# 1984 (1956)

29. Mark Robson

Director | Peyton Place

Mark Robson studied political science and economics at the University of California. He then took a law course at Pacific Coast University, and, at one time, also attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Ultimately, his interests led him elsewhere, since he ended up in the movie business as a ...

# A Caldeira do Diabo (1957)

30. Max Ophüls

Director | La ronde

Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, ...

# O Prazer (1952)

# Conflitos de Amor (1950)

# Na Teia do Destino (1949)

# Carta de uma Desconhecida (1948)

31. Marc Fitoussi

Director | La vie d'artiste

Marc Fitoussi is known for La vie d'artiste (2007), Paris Follies (2014) and L'éducation anglaise (2006).

# Copacabana (2010)

32. Mikio Naruse

Director | Ukigumo

Considered a major figure of Japan's 'golden age of cinema', Mikio Naruse was a filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed 89 films in the period 1930 to 1967. Although Naruse's work is lesser known in the twenty-first century than those of his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi...

# O Som da Montanha (1954)

33. 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 ...

# O Irlandes (2019)

34. Mikhaël Hers

Writer | Amanda

Mikhaël Hers was born on February 6, 1975 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Amanda (2018), The Passengers of the Night (2022) and Primrose Hill (2007).

# Amanda (2018)

35. Marcus Nispel

Director | Friday the 13th

Marcus Nispel was born on May 26, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. He is a director and producer, known for Friday the 13th (2009), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Pathfinder (2007).

36. Marc Lawrence

Writer | Miss Congeniality

Marc Lawrence was born on October 22, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Miss Congeniality (2000), Two Weeks Notice (2002) and Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009).

37. Miller Drake

Visual_effects | The Abyss

Miller Drake is known for The Abyss (1989), The 6th Day (2000) and Virus (1999).

38. Mike Hodges

Director | Flash Gordon

Mike Hodges was born on July 29, 1932 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Get Carter (1971) and Black Rainbow (1989). He was married to Carol Laws and Jean Alexandrov. He died on December 17, 2022 in Dorset, England, UK.

39. Michael Chaves

Director | The Curse of La Llorona

Michael Chaves is known for The Curse of La Llorona (2019), The Nun II (2023) and The Maiden (2016).

40. Mark Tonderai

Director | Spell

Mark Tonderai is known for Spell (2020), Locke & Key (2020) and The Five (2016).

41. Matt Sadowski

Director | Pretend We're Kissing

Matt Sadowski was born on April 20, 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Pretend We're Kissing (2014), Cherries and Dawn of the Dead (2004). He has been married to Debra Goldblatt since February 22, 2006. They have one child.

42. Mathieu Kassovitz

Actor | Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

Mathieu Kassovitz was born on August 3, 1967 in Paris, France. He is an actor and director, known for Amélie (2001), La haine (1995) and The Fifth Element (1997).

43. Michael Wadleigh

Director | Wolfen

Michael Wadleigh was born on September 24, 1939 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Wolfen (1981), Woodstock (1970) and No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (1968).