Directors
955 directors in our database
Masaki Kobayashi
★ 8.2
6 films
Masaki Kobayashi (February 14, 1916–October 4, 1996) was a Japanese director.
Among his films is Kwaidan (1965), a collection of four ghost stories d...
Sergio Leone
★ 8.1
6 films
Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" g...
Charlie Chaplin
★ 8.1
7 films
Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during t...
Tosca Musk
★ 7.9
6 films
Tosca Musk is a South African Canadian-American filmmaker. She is an executive producer and director of feature films, television programs, and web co...
Andrei Tarkovsky
★ 7.9
7 films
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 – December 29, 1986) was a Soviet filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director, widely...
Stanley Kubrick
★ 7.9
11 films
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of ...
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John Carney
★ 7.9
5 films
John Carney (born 1972) is an Irish film director, producer, screenwriter and lyricist specialising in musical drama films. He is best known as the sh...
Hayao Miyazaki
★ 7.9
13 films
Hayao Miyazaki (Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime featur...
Ingmar Bergman
★ 7.8
11 films
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of...
Dean DeBlois
★ 7.8
5 films
Dean Allan DeBlois (/dəˈblwɑː/ də-BLWAH; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and writer. He is best known for writing and directing the Oscar-n...
Vittorio De Sica
★ 7.8
5 films
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Four of the films h...
Alex Kendrick
★ 7.8
6 films
Alex Kendrick (born June 11, 1970) is an American filmmaker and actor. He is best known for directing films such as Facing the Giants (2006), Fireproo...
Christopher Nolan
★ 7.8
12 films
Christopher Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is a British-American filmmaker whose concept-driven epics have reshaped the modern studio blockbuster. Renowned...
Giuseppe Tornatore
★ 7.8
7 films
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in...
Susumu Mitsunaka
★ 7.7
6 films
Kazuya Tsurumaki
★ 7.7
9 films
Kazuya Tsurumaki is a Japanese anime director. He is the protégé of Hideaki Anno, and was a longtime animator at Gainax before leaving for Studio Khar...
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Billy Wilder
★ 7.7
13 films
Billy Wilder, born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906, was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most successfu...
Edward Yang
★ 7.7
7 films
Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsia...
Buster Keaton
★ 7.7
6 films
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for h...
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Pete Docter
★ 7.7
5 films
Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American filmmaker and animator who has served as Pixar's chief creative officer (CCO) since 2018. He ...