Film and TV

The best film directors

Here is the list with the best film directors of all time and their best films. Not only are there famous Hollywood directors, but there are directors of other filmographies. Of all these, what are your favorite directors?

TOP 80: Luchino Visconti

The catfish Rocco and his brothers


TOP 79: Majid majidi

Baran (rain) Children of Heaven

TOP 78: Spike lee

The last night Clockers (Camels) Malcolm X Do what you should


TOP 77: Roberto Rossellini

Germany, year zero Rome, open city


TOP 76: Satyajit Ray

The world of Apu Aparajito (The invincible) Pather Panchali (The road song)

TOP 75: Oliver Stone

JFK: open case (JFK: open case) The Doors Born on July 4 Platoon Wall Street


TOP 74: Masaki Kobayashi

Samurai Rebellion Beyond Harakiri (Seppuku) The human condition I: There is no greater love The human condition II: The road to eternity The human condition III: The soldier's prayer


TOP 73: Jean Vigo

L'Atalante Zero in conduct

TOP 72: Ettore Scola

A particular day One woman and three men (We had loved each other so much)


TOP 71: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Three colors: red Three colors: white Three colors: blue Veronica's double life You will not kill You will not love


TOP 70: Pedro Almodovar

Back Talk to her All about my mother

TOP 69: Emir Kusturica

Life is a miracle Black cat, white cat Underground The time of the gypsies


TOP 68: Bernardo Bertolucci

Dreamers The Last Emperor 1900 (Novecento)


TOP 67: Sica Vittorio

Umberto D. Milagro in Milan Bicycle thief The shoe shine


TOP 66: Robert Bresson

Pickpocket A death row inmate has escaped

TOP 65: Zhang Yimou

The house of flying daggers Hero The road home Not one less Live! The red lantern Ju Dou, chrysanthemum seed


TOP 64: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Gertrud Ordet (The word) Dies irae The passion of Joan of Arc


TOP 63: Kenji Mizoguchi

The intendant Sansho Tales of the pale moon of August


TOP 62: Jean Renoir

The river This land is mine The game rule The great illusion


TOP 61: George Roy Hill

The coup Two men and one destiny

TOP 60: FW Murnau

Fausto Dawn The Last Nosferatu


TOP 59: Francois Truffaut

The American night The four hundred strokes (The 400 strokes)


TOP 58: DW Griffith

Intolerance The birth of a nation


TOP 57: Sergei M. Eisenstein

Ivan the terrible part I Ivan the terrible part II (The conspiracy of the boyars) Alexander Nevsky October (October) The battleship Potemkin The strike


TOP 56: Fred Zinnemann

Jackal A man for eternity From here to eternity Only in the face of danger

TOP 55: Werner Herzog


TOP 54: Giuseppe Tornatore

The legend of the pianist in the ocean Cinema Paradiso


TOP 53: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Long Sunday of courtship Amélie (Amelie) Delicatessen


TOP 52: Andrei Tarkovsky

Stalker The mirror Solaris Andrei Rublev


TOP 51: Elia Kazan

The law of silence Long live Zapata! A Streetcar Named Desire

TOP 50: Ingmar Bergman

Fanny and Alexander Secrets of a marriage Screams and whispers Person The maiden's spring Wild strawberries The seventh seal


TOP 49: Federico Fellini

Amarcord (My Memories) Fellini, eight thirty (8½) La dolce vita La Strada The useless


TOP 48: Alan Parker

Mississippi Burns The Wall (The Pink Floyd Wall) The Midnight Express


TOP 47: Milos Forman

Amadeus Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest


TOP 46: Guy ritchie

RocknRolla Snatch. Pigs and diamonds Lock & Stock

TOP 45: Frank Capra

How beautiful it is to live Arsenic out of compassion Juan Nobody Knight without a sword Live as you wish Lost horizons The secret of living It happened one night


TOP 44: David Lean

The daughter of Ryan Doctor Zhivago Lawrence of Arabia The bridge over the river Kwai Oliver Twist


TOP 43: Victor Fleming

What the wind took The wizard of Oz Bold captains Treasure Island


TOP 42: Frank Darabont

The green mile (The Green Mile) Life imprisonment


TOP 41: Juan José Campanella

The secret of his eyes Luna de Avellaneda The son of the bride

TOP 40: David Lynch

The Straight Story Mulholland Drive The Elephant Man


TOP 39: Akira Kurosawa

Ran Kagemusha: the shadow of the warrior Dersu Uzala (The hunter) Barbarossa The hell of hate Sanjuro Yojimbo (The mercenary) Throne of blood The seven samurai Live (Ikiru) Rashomon


TOP 38: Coen brothers

It is not a country for old men The man who was never there The great Lebowski Fargo Death among flowers Easy blood


TOP 37: Sergio Leone

Once upon a time in America Until it was time The good, the ugly and the bad Death had a price For a handful of dollars


TOP 36: Darren Aronofsky

Black Swan The Wrestler Requiem for a Dream

TOP 35: Luis Buñuel

The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie The exterminating angel Viridiana The forgotten An Andalusian dog


TOP 34: Brian De Palma

Impossible mission Caught by his past The untouchables of Eliot Ness The price of power


TOP 33: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Babel 21 grams (21 Grams) Loves dogs


TOP 32: Roman Polanski

The pianist Death and the maiden The chimeric tenant Chinatown The seed of the devil Repulsion


TOP 31: George Lucas

Star Wars. Episode IV: A New Hope

TOP 30: Ernst Lubitsch

To be or not to be The bazaar of surprises Ninotchka Angel


TOP 29: George Cukor

Adam's rib Philadelphia Stories Living to enjoy


TOP 28: Luis Garcia Berlanga

The Executioner Placid Welcome, Mr. Marshall!


TOP 27: Buster Keaton

The general's machinist Seven occasions The navigator The modern Sherlock Holmes


TOP 26: Michael Curtiz

Casablanca Robin of the Woods

TOP 25: Raoul Walsh

The world at your fingertips The gentleman of the seas Red hot The last refuge The violent twenties The thief of Baghdad


TOP 24: David Fincher

The social network The curious case of Benjamin Button The fight club The Game Seven (Se7en)


TOP 23: Woody Allen

Match Point Dismantling Harry Bullets on Broadway Mysterious murder in Manhattan Crimes and offenses Hannah and her sisters The purple rose of Cairo Zelig Manhattan Annie Hall The last night of Boris Grushenko


TOP 22: William Wyler

Slander Ben-Hur Horizons of greatness Holidays in Rome The heiress The best years of our life The wolf The letter Wuthering Heights Jezebel


TOP 21: Ridley Scott

American Gangster Gladiator (The Gladiator) Blade Runner Alien, the eighth passenger The Duelists

TOP 20: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The footprint The day of the cheats Cleopatra Julio César Eva naked


TOP 19: Sam Peckinpah

The iron cross I want the head of Alfredo García Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid The escape Straw dogs Wild group


TOP 18: Fritz Lang

The bribed Perversity The woman in the picture Fury The will of dr. Mabuse M, the vampire of Düsseldorf Metropolis Dr. Mabuse (Dr. Mabuse, the player)


TOP 17: Peter Jackson

The Lord of the rings: the return of the king The Lord of the rings: The two towers The Lord of the rings: the community of the ring


TOP 16: Howard Hawks

Rio Lobo El Dorado Rio Bravo Red River The eternal dream Having and not having a Fireball New moon Only the angels have wings The beast of my girl Scarface, the terror of the underworld

TOP 15: Charles Chaplin

Candilejas Monsieur Verdoux The great dictator Modern times City lights The circus The gold chimera The boy Dog life


TOP 14: John huston

The man who was able to reign Moby Dick The queen of Africa The asphalt jungle Cayo Largo The treasure of Sierra Madre The Maltese falcon


TOP 13: John ford

The Irish Tavern The man who killed Liberty Valance Two ride together The black sergeant Centaurs of the Mogambo desert The quiet man Fort Apache How green was my valley Grapes of anger Diligence The informer


TOP 12: Billy Wilder

Front page The private life of Sherlock Holmes In a silver tray Irma the sweet One, two, three The apartment With skirts already crazy Crazy witness Sabrina The great carnival The twilight of the gods Days without trace


TOP 11: Orson Welles

Midnight Chimes (Falstaff) Thirst for evil Add to lists The Lady of Shanghai The Stranger (The Foreigner) Citizen Kane

TOP 10: Tim Burton

Big Fish Ed Wood Eduardo Scissorhands


TOP 9: Christopher Nolan

Origin (Inception) The Dark Knight Batman Begins Memento


TOP 8: James Cameron

Avatar Titanic Terminator Terminator 2: the final judgment


TOP 7: Quentin Tarantino

Cursed Bastards Sin City (Sin City) Kill Bill: Volume 1 Kill Bill: Volume 2 Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs


TOP 6: Alfred Hitchcock

Frenzy Birds Psychosis With death on the heels Vertigo (From the dead) Perfect crime The indiscreet window Strangers on a train The rope Chained Remember Shipwrecked Suspect Rebeca

TOP 5: Clint eastwood

Million Dollar Baby Letters from Iwo Jima Mystic River Madison's Bridges A Perfect World Without Forgiveness Bird Iron Sgt The Outlaw


TOP 4: Steven Spielberg

Munich Catch me if you can Save Private Ryan The Lost World: Jurassic Park Schindler's List Jurassic Park The Empire of the Sun Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade The purple color ET, the alien In search of the lost ark


TOP 3: Martin Scorsese

Shutter Island Infiltrates The Aviator Gangs of New York Kundun Casino One of ours Wild Bull Taxi driver Bad streets


TOP 2: Francis Ford Coppola

Dracula by Bram Stoker The Godfather The Godfather II The Godfather III Apocalypse Now The conversation The law of the street


TOP 1: Stanley Kubrick

The metal jacket The glow Barry Lyndon The mechanical orange 2001: A space odyssey Red phone? We fly to Moscow Lolita Spartacus Glory trails Perfect robbery

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