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Buster Keaton
★ 7.6
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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Destin Daniel Cretton
★ 7.6
5 films
Destin Yori Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker best known for directing the drama films Short Term 12 (2013), The Glass Castle (2017), and Just M...
Lee Chang-dong
★ 7.6
7 films
Lee Chang-dong (born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won the 2008 Special Director's Prize at the Asian F...
Akira Kurosawa
★ 7.6
26 films
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as ...
Nobuhiro Doi
★ 7.6
6 films
Nobuhiro Doi (土井裕泰, Doi Nobuhiro) is a Japanese television and film director. Doi graduated from Waseda University School of Economics and Politics
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Toshiya Shinohara
★ 7.6
5 films
Denis Villeneuve
★ 7.6
9 films
Denis Villeneuve OC CQ RCA OAL (French: [dənivilnœv]; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He has received seven Canadian Screen Awards as w...
Takeshi Koike
★ 7.6
6 films
Takeshi Koike (小池健 Koike Takeshi, born January 26, 1968) is a Japanese animator, illustrator and film director.
Something of a protégée of Yoshiaki K...
Kazuya Tsurumaki
★ 7.6
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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Yasujirō Ozu
★ 7.6
14 films
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comed...
Chris Sanders
★ 7.6
5 films
Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and it...
Kenji Mizoguchi
★ 7.6
8 films
Kenji Mizoguchi (May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu (1953) won the Silver Lion at the Veni...
Ernst Lubitsch
★ 7.6
5 films
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him...
Béla Tarr
★ 7.6
5 films
Béla Tarr (born July 21, 1955) is an acclaimed Hungarian film director. Much of his work is marked by philosophical elements and a pessimistic view of...
Quentin Tarantino
★ 7.6
13 films
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he ...
William Wyler
★ 7.6
7 films
William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a German-born film director, producer, and screenwriter. Notable works include Ben-Hur (1959), The B...
Federico Fellini
★ 7.6
7 films
Federico Fellini, Knight Grand Cross (January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993), was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Known for a distinct style ...
Naoko Yamada
★ 7.6
5 films
Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子) is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working at Kyoto Animation, she directed the K-On! and Tamako Market anime ...
F. W. Murnau
★ 7.5
5 films
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a p...
Jean-Pierre Melville
★ 7.5
6 films
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Consi...