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Khwaja Abbas
Abbott and Costello
Vadim Abdrashitov
John Abraham
Jim Abrahams
Tenghiz Abuladze
Maren Ade
Alice Diop
Percy Adlon
Lutfi Akad
Jonas Akerlund
Chantal Akerman
Farhan Akhtar
Zoya Akhtar
Fatih Akin
Robert Aldrich
Grigory Alexandrov
Yves Allegret
Woody Allen
Michael Almereyda
Pedro Almodovar
Lisandro Alonso
Emin Alper
Robert Altman
Rick Alverson
Gianni Amelio
Ana Amirpour
Kamal Amrohi
Chetan Anand
Dev Anand
Brad Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Michael Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Roy Andersson
Theodoros Angelopulos
Kenneth Anger
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Karl Anton
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michael Apted
Govindan Aravindan
Emile Ardolino
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
Dario Argento
Jack Arnold
Darren Aronofsky
Dinara Asanova
Hal Ashby
Karim Asif
Anthony Asquith
Aditya Assarat
Olivier Assayas
Ari Aster
Richard Attenborough
Jacques Audiard
Jacqueline Audry
Claude Autant-Lara
John Avildsen
Lila Aviles
Hector Babenco
Gela Babluani
Amitabh Bachchan
Lloyd Bacon
Peter Bacso
John Badham
Yong-Kyun Bae
Ramin Bahrani
Sean Baker
Ralph Bakshi
Aleksei Balabanov
Kantemir Balagov
Le Bao
Juan Bardem
Clive Barker
Boris Barnet
Sarunas Bartas
Jahnu Barua
Pramathesh Barua
Rahi Barve
Ritesh Batra
Yevgeny Bauer
Noah Baumbach
Mario Bava
Harold Becker
Jacques Becker
Wolfgang Becker
Fatma Begum
Marco Bellocchio
Remy Belvaux
Laszlo Benedek
Shyam Benegal
Roberto Benigni
Robert Benton
Bruce Beresford
Busby Berkeley
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Berlanga
Bernardo Bertolucci
Luc Besson
Bahram Beyzaie
Sanjay Bhansali
Bharathan
Vijay Bhatt
Basu Bhattacharya
Bi Gan
Susanne Bier
Kathryn Bigelow
Shane Black
Alessandro Blasetti
Bernard Blier
Neill Blomkamp
Sergei Bodrov
Gabor Body
Christoffer Boe
Budd Boetticher
Peter Bogdanovich
Sergei Bondarchuk
Bertrand Bonello
Joon-Ho Bong
John Boorman
Walerian Borowczyk
Frank Borzage
Debaki Bose
Danny Boyle
Kenneth Branagh
Tinto Brass
Janicza Bravo
Robert Bresson
Martin Brest
Mel Brooks
Richard Brooks
Tod Browning
Franco Brusati
Zbynek Brynych
Veliko Bulajic
Luis Bunuel
Neil Burger
Tim Burton
Rolan Bykov
Michael Cacoyannis
Gonzalo Calzada
Mario Camerini
James Cameron
Donald Cammell
Juan Jose' Campanella
Jane Campion
Frank Capra
Nae Caranfil
Leos Carax
Marcel Carne`
John Carney
Niki Caro
John Carpenter
Fabio Carpi
Emmanuele Carrere
Shane Carruth
John Cassavetes
Renato Castellani
Liliana Cavani
Bato Cengic
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Claude Chabrol
Gurinder Chadha
Benny Chan
Jeffrey Chandor
TV Chandran
Cheh Chang
Charlie Chaplin
Basu Chatterjee
Paddy Chayefsky
Damien Chazelle
Peter Chelsom
Kaige Chen
Lisa Cholodenko
Sylvain Chomet
Baldev Raj Chopra
Yash Chopra
Benjamin Christensen
Jon Chu
Lee Isaac Chung
Vera Chytilova
Michael Cimino
Souleymane Cisse'
Laura Citarella
Rene` Clair
Larry Clark
Jack Clayton
Rene' Clement
Henri Clouzot
Jean Cocteau
Joel Coen
Jem Cohen
Emile Cohl
Chris Columbus
Luigi Comencini
Kerry Conran
Ryan Coogler
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Roger Corman
Paola Cortellesi
Pedro Costa
Costi Costa-Gravas
Kevin Costner
Alex Cox
Wes Craven
Michael Crichton
Charles Crichton
David Cronenberg
John Crowley
James Cruze
Alfonso Cuaron
George Cukor
Michael Curtiz
R.J. Cutler
John Dahl
Georgiy Daneliya
Daniels
Joe Dante
Frank Darabont
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Nandita Das
Buddhadep Dasgupta
Julie Dash
Jules Dassin
Delmer Daves
Terence Davies
Basil Dearden
Jan DeBont
Alex de la Iglesia
Jean Delannoy
Guillermo DelToro
Cecil DeMille
Zeki Demirkubuz
Jonathan Demme
Ted Demme
Jacques Demy
Claire Denis
Manuel DeOliveira
Brian Depalma
Jacques Deray
Manmohan Desai
Giuseppe DeSantis
Vittorio Desica
Arnaud Desplechin
Lav Diaz
Carlos Diegues
William Dieterle
Alice Diop
Mati Diop
Alice Diop
Walt Disney
Edward Dmytryk
Xavier Dolan
Stanley Donen
Richard Donner
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Mark Donskoy
Gordon Douglas
Aleksandr Dovzenko
Srdjan Dragojevic
Carl Dreyer
Julia Ducournau
Slatan Dudow
Germaine Dulac
Bruno Dumont
Quentin Dupieux
Guru Dutt
Sunil Dutt
Julien Duvivier
Allan Dwan
Clint Eastwood
Blake Edwards
Robert Eggers
Ertem Egilmez
Atom Egoyan
Sergej Eisenstein
Nikolai Ekk
Judit Elek
Roland Emmerich
Jean Epstein
Reha Erdem
Metin Erksan
Fridrikh Ermler
Deniz Gamze Erguven
Victor Erice
Jean Eustache
Zoltan Fabri
Coralie Fargeat
Asghar Farhadi
Peter & Bobby Farrelly
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Pal Fejos
Federico Fellini
Abel Ferrara
Marco Ferreri
Jacques Feyder
Louis Feuillade
Todd Field
Mike Figgis
Kleber Mendonca Filho
David Fincher
Terence Fisher
Robert Flaherty
Gary Fleder
Victor Fleming
Per Fly
James Foley
Ari Folman
Richard Fleischer
Peter Fleischmann
Andreas Fontana
Alexander Ford
John Ford
Tom Ford
Milos Forman
Bob Fosse
George Franju
Carl Franklin
John Frankenheimer
Stephen Frears
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Karl Freund
Martin Fric
William Friedkin
Robert Fuest
Chris Fuller
Samuel Fuller
Antoine Fuqua
Sidney Furie
Istvan Gaal
Leonid Gaidai
Abel Gance
Rodrigo Garcia
Alex Garland
Philippe Garrel
Henrik Ruben Genz
Sergey Gerasimov
Aleksei German
Pietro Germi
Matteo Garrone
Greta Gerwig
Ritwik Ghatak
Rituparno Ghosh
Terry Gilliam
Tony Gilroy
Marco-Tullio Giordana
Paul Michael Glaser
Jonathan Glazer
Jean-Luc Godard
Karpo Godina
Srdan Golubovic
Miguel Gomes
Michel Gondry
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Heinosuke Gosho
Peter Gothar
Ashutosh Gowariker
James Gray
William Greaves
Peter Greenaway
Jean Gremillon
John Grierson
Tom Gries
David Griffith
Valeska Grisebach
Rajko Grlic
Karl Grune
Luca Guadagnino
Ciro Guerra
Ruy Guerra
Val Guest
Yilmaz Guney
Xiaolu Guo
Frant Gwo
Imre Gyongyossi

Taylor Hackford
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Grimur Hakonarson
Victor Halperin
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Robert Hamer
Michael Haneke
Mia Hansen-Love
Curtis Hanson
Tsui Hark
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Curtis Harrington
Mary Harron
Hal Hartley
Yujiro Harumoto
Wojciech Has
Henry Hathaway
Reinhard Hauff
Howard Hawks
Todd Haynes
Amy Heckerling
Monte Hellman
Juraj Herz
Werner Herzog
George Roy Hill
Walter Hill
Rajkumar Hirani
Alfred Hitchcock
David Hogan
Paul John Hogan
Matthew Ryan Hoge
Joanna Hogg
Agnieszka Holland
Tom Holland
Ishiro Honda
Sang-soo Hong
Tobe Hooper
Dennis Hopper
Mamoru Hosoda
Ron Howard
Jan Hrebejk
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Li-Pao Hsueh
Bo Hu
King Hu
Tatiana Huezo
Howard Hughes
John Hughes
Ann Hui
Tran Anh Hung
Nasir Hussain
John Huston
Zoltan Huszarik
Peter Hyams
Kon Ichikawa
Yuri Ilyenko
Shohei Imamura
Alejandro Inarritu
Thomas Ince
Svatopluk Innemann
Otar Iosseliani
Ardeshir Irani
Juzo Itami
Joris Ivens
James Ivory
Peter Jackson
Benoit Jacquot
Jaddanbai
Juraj Jakubisko
Miklos Jancso
Jim Jarmusch
Andras Jeles
Barry Jenkins
Humphrey Jennings
Anders Thomas Jensen
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Norman Jewison
Prakash Jha
Zhangke Jia
Wen Jiang
Jaromil Jires
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Duncan Jones
Spike Jonze
Neil Jordan
Jeethu Joseph
Radu Jude
Miranda July
Karel Kachyna
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sekhar Kammula
Rajat Kapoor
Raj Kapoor
Shekhar Kapur
Ajoy Kar
Srdan Karanovic
Abdur Kardar
Phil Karlson
Shaji Karun
Girish Kasaravalli
Lawrence Kasdan
Anurag Kashyap
Mathieu Kassovitz
Leonard Kastle
Charlie Kaufman
Mani Kaul
Aki Kaurismaki
Omer Kavur
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Tony Kaye
Elia Kazan
Buster Keaton
Abdellatif Kechiche
Richard Kelly
Ali Khamraev/ Hamroyev
Mehboob Khan
Rajesh Khanna
Iosif Kheifits
Ilya Khrzhanovsky
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov
Marlen Khutsiev
Abbas Kiarostami
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Ki-Duk Kim
Henry King
Keisuke Kinoshita
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Takeshi Kitano
Elem Klimov
Steve Kloves
Alexander Kluge
Masaki Kobayashi
Ilya Koberidze
Ana Kokkinos
Andras Kovacs
Andrej Konchalovsky
Satoshi Kon
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Harmony Korine
Grigorij Kozincev
Stanley Kramer
Jiri Krejcik
Zacharias Kunuk
Stanley Kubrick
Lev Kulesov
Dilip Kumar
Akira Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Emir Kusturica
Kazimiers Kutz
Marcel L'Herbier
Nadine Labaki
Neil Labute
Rene Laloux
Ringo Lam
Karel Lamac
Mary Lambert
John Landis
Fritz Lang
Harry Langdon
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nadav Lapid
Pablo Larrain
Alberto Lattuada
Charles Laughton
Stan Laurel
Jean-Claude Lauzon
Caroline Leaf
David Lean
Patrice Leconte
Ang Lee
Chang-dong Lee
Spike Lee
Michael Lehmann
Jozef Lejtes
Sebastian Lelio
Sergio Leone
Mike Leigh
Claude Lelouch
Paul Leni
Mervyn Leroy
Richard Lester
Barry Levinson
Jerry Lewis
Val Lewton
Jens Lien
Doug Liman
Max Linder
Richard Linklater
Steven Lisberger
Chia-Liang Liu
Anatole Litvak
Harold Lloyd
Ken Loach
Kenneth Lonergan
Robert Longo
Konstantin Lopushansky
Joseph Losey
David Lowery
Sergei Loznitsa
Ernst Lubitsch
George Lucas
Baz Luhrmann
Sidney Lumet
Pavel Lungin
Rod Lurie
Patrick Lussier
Len Lye
David Lynch
Adrian Lyne
Jonathan Lynn
Gustav Machaty
Alexander Mackendrick
Guy Maddin
Sharon Maguire
Lech Majewski
Majid Majidi
Tarum Majumdar
Dusan Makavejev
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Karoli Makk
Terrence Malick
Louis Malle
Djibril Diop Mambety
David Mamet
Rouben Mamoulian
James Mangold
Joseph Mankiewicz
Anthony Mann
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
Felix Mariassy
John Maringouin
Chris Marker,
Gregory Markopoulos
Goran Markovic
Richard Marquand
Garry Marshall
George Marshall
Lucrecia Martel
Marx Brothers
Gabriel Mascaro
Rudolph Mate
Carl Mayer
Paul Mazursky
Leo McCarey
Adam McKay
Winsor McKay
Norman McLaren
Christopher McQuarrie
Steve McQueen
James McTeigue
John McTiernan
Deepa Mehta
Fernando Meirelles
AV Meiyappan
Georges Melies
Jean-Pierre Melville
Sam Mendes
Jiri Menzel
Vladimir Menshov
Marta Meszaros
Russ Meyer
Takashi Miike
Kirill Mikhanovsky
John Milius
Nikita Mikhalkov
Lewis Milestone
George Miller
Anthony Minghella
Vincent Minnelli
David Mirkin
Saeed Mirza
David Robert Mitchell
Hayao Miyazaki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sohrab Modi
Gustaf Molander
Mario Monicelli
Joao Cesar Monteiro
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Vikramaditya Motwane
Gyan Mukherjee
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Subodh Mukherjee
Robert Mulligan
Kornel Mundruczo
Cristian Mungiu
Andrzej Munk
Radu Muntean
Lucia Murat
Minoru Murata
Kira Muratova
Friedrich Murnau
Shannon Murphy
Daniel Myrick
Lee Myung-Se
Hong-jin Na
Sundarrao Nadkarni
Mira Nair
Ko Nakahira
Hideo Nakata
Gerardo Naranjo
Mikio Naruse
Ronald Neame
Jean Negulesco
Tim Blake Nelson
Jan Nemec
Laszlo Nemes
Mike Newell
Mike Nichols
Andrew Niccol
Govind Nihalani
Nikos Nikolaidis
Gaspar Noe
Christopher Nolan
Yuri Norstein
Philip Noyce
Garin Nugroho
Ermanno Olmi
Max Ophuls
Mamoru Oshii
Nagisa Oshima
Franz Osten
Francois Ozon
Ferzan Ozpetek
Frank Oz
Yasujiro Ozu

Georg Pabst
P Padmarajan
Alan Pakula
Gyorgy Palfi
Jafar Panahi
Gleb Panfilov
Sergej Parajanov/ Paradzanov
Chan-wook Park
Alan Parker
Goran Paskaljevic
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ivan Passer
Giovanni Pastrone
Jabbar Patel
Zika Pavlovic
Pawel Pawlikowski
Alexander Payne
Jordan Peele
Kimberly Peirce
Sam Peckinpah
Ratanaruang Pen-ek
Arthur Penn
Alex Perry
Frank Perry
Wolfgang Petersen
Elio Petri
Daniel Petrie
Donald Petrie
Aleksandar Petrovic
Christian Petzold
Dadasaheb Phalke
Maurice Pialat
Matias Pineiro
Lucian Pintilie
Sidney Poitier
Bretislav Pojar
Roman Polanski
Sidney Pollack
Abraham Polonsky
Aleksei Popogrebsky
Edwin Porter
Cornelio Porumboiu
Ted Post
Joel Potrykus
Henry Potter
Michael Powell
LV Prasad
Otto Preminger
Jakov Protazanov
Alex Proyas
Aleksandr Ptushko
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cristi Puiu
C Pullayya
Richard Quine
Bob Rafelson
Yuli Raizman
Sam Raimi
TP Rajalakshmi
Srisaila Rajamouli
Harold Ramis
Lynne Ramsay
Mohammad Rasoulof
Kanjibhai Rathod
Mani Ratnam
Brett Ratner
Nicholas Ray
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Kelly Reichardt
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Karel Reisz
Ivan Reitman
Jean Renoir
John Requa and Glenn Ficarra
Alain Resnais
Carlos Reygadas
Kevin Reynolds
Scott Reynolds
Tony Richardson
Wolf Rilla
Arturo Ripstein
Dino Risi
Guy Ritchie
Martin Ritt
Jacques Rivette
Jay Roach
Arthur Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson
Mark Robson
Glauber Rocha
Nicholas Roeg
Eric Rohmer
Alice Rohrwacher
George Romero
Mikhail Romm
Abram Room
Stuart Rosenberg
Tatia Rosenthal
Francesco Rosi
Gary Ross
Roberto Rossellini
Robert Rossen
Bimal Roy
Janos Rozsa
Joseph Ruben
Alan Rudolph
Raoul Ruiz
Alonso Ruizpalacios
Josef Rusnak
David Russell
Ken Russell
Eldar Ryazanov
Ira Sachs
Benny & Josh Safdie
Kishore Sahu
Ramesh Saigal
Gene Saks
Walter Salles
Ake Sandgren
Raja Sandow
Rajkumar Santoshi
Sandor Sara
Joseph Sargent
Wisit Sasanatieng
Carlos Saura
Claude Sautet
John Sayles
Franklin Schaffner
Ulrich Schamoni
Jerry Schatzberg
Fred Schepisi
Sebastian Schipper
John Schlesinger
Volker Schloendorff
Julian Schnabel
Ernst Schoedsack
Evald Schorm
Joel Schumaker
Celine Sciamma
Ettore Scola
Martin Scorsese
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Paul Schrader
Barbet Schroeder
Werner Schroeter
Susan Seidelman
Ulrich Seidl
Aparna Sen
Mrinal Sen
Kirill Serebrennikov
Kumar Shahani
Karen Shakhnazarov
V Shantaram
Alan Shapiro
Aribam Syam Sharma
Jim Sharman
Giorgi Shengelaia
Larisa Shepitko
Yasujiro Shimazu
Hiroshi Shimizu
Kanetu Shindo
Masahiro Shinoda
Mykola Shpykovskyi
Vasily Shukshin
Night Shyamalan
George Sidney
Don Siegel
Slobodan Sijan
Elliot Silverstein
Bryan Singer
John Singleton
Tapan Sinha
Robert Siodmak
Ramesh Sippy
Shoojit Sircar
Douglas Sirk
Abderrahmane Sissako
Santosh Siva
Aif Sjoberg
Vilgot Sjoman
Victor Sjostrom
Erik Skjoldbjaerg
Jerzy Skolimowski
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Kevin Smith
Steven Soderbergh
Aleksandr Sokurov
Barry Sonnenfeld
Sion Sono
Alberto Sordi
Paolo Sorrentino
Penelope Spheeris
Steven Spielberg
Roger Spottiswoode
John Stahl
Andrew Stanton
Vladislav Starevich
Josef von Sternberg
George Stevens
Scott Stewart
Ben Stiller
Mauritz Stiller
Goran Stolevski
Oliver Stone
Paul Strand
Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
Eric von Stroheim
John Sturges
Preston Sturges
Eliseo Subiela
Vasilis Suksin
TR Sundaram
Jan Svankmajer
Jan Sverak
Hans Jurgen Syderberg
Istvan Szabo
Gyorgy Szomjas
Istvan Szots
Malgorzata Szumowska
Isao Takahata
Lee Tamahori
Quentin Tarantino
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bela Tarr
Frank Tashlin
Jacques Tati
Bertrand Tavernier
Paolo e Vittorio Taviani
Lewis Teague
Andre Techine
Julien Temple
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Osamu Tezuka
Irving Thalberg
Stefan Themerson
Jack Lee Thompson
Phil Tippett
Nitesh Tiwari
Pyotr Todorovsky
Giuseppe Tornatore
Toto`
Jacques Tourneur
Johnnie To
Pablo Trapero
Joachim Trier
Justine Triet
Jan Troell
Fernando Trueba
Francois Truffaut
Douglas Trumbull
Ming-Liang Tsai
Derek Tsang
Jiri Trnka
Yavuz Turgul
Viktor Turin
Jon Turteltaub
David Twoshy
Tom Tykwer
Hermina Tyrlova
Aleksey Uchitel
Edgar Ulmer
Roger Vadim
Rudolph Valentino
Krishna Vamsi
Gus VanSant
Agnes Varda
Ram Varma
SS Vasan
Otakar Vavra
Paul Vecchiali
Gore Verbinski
Paul Verhoeven
Dziga Vertov
King Vidor
Nacho Vigalondo
Lorenzo Vigas
Jean Vigo
Paolo Villaggio
Denis Villeneuve
Master Vinayak
Thomas Vinterberg
Luchino Visconti
Kasinadhuni Viswanath
Frantisek Vlacil
Eskil Vogt
Lars Von Trier
Rangel Vulchanov
Wachowski Brothers
Andrzej Wajda
Raoul Walsh
Charles Walters
Lulu Wang
Patrick Wang
Wayne Wang
Xiaoshuai Wang
Andy Warhol
John Waters
Peter Watkins
Marc Webb
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Paul Wegener
John Grant Weil
Peter Weir
Jiri Weiss
Orson Welles
William Wellman
Charlotte Wells
Wim Wenders
Lina Wertmuller
James Whale
Robert Wiene
Olivia Wilde
Billy Wilder
Tod Williams
Blake Williams
Michael Winner
Michael Winterbottom
Robert Wise
Kar-Wai Wong
John Woo
Edgar Wright
William Wyler
Sadao Yamanaka
Edward Yang
Peter Yates
Sang-ho Yeon
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Atif Yilmaz
Liang Ying
Terence Young
Woo-ping Yuen
Sergei Yutkevich
Lordan Zafranovic
Craig Zahler
Luigi Zampa
Krzysztos Zanussi
Cesare Zavattini
Aleksandr Zeldovich
Karel Zeman
Robert Zemeckis
Yimou Zhang
Chloe Zhao
Fred Zinnemann
Jerry Zucker
Ramon Zuercher
Andrzej Zulawski
Andrej Zvjagintsev
Edward Zwick
Terry Zwigoff


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