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70 Greatest Movie Directors of All Time

These are the greatest movie directors of all time in my opinion.
From silent movies till today.
How many do you know?
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
1
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
2
Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk
3
David Lynch
David Lynch
4
Dario Argento
Dario Argento
5
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
6
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
7
John Huston
John Huston
8
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
9
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch
10
Luis Bunuel
Luis Bunuel
11
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
12
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
13
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
14
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
15
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl
16
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
17
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
18
Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini
19
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
20
Francois Truffaut
Francois Truffaut
21
George Lucas
George Lucas
22
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
23
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
24
Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch
25
John Carpenter
John Carpenter
26
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
27
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
28
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
29
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
30
Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini
31
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
32
William Wyler
William Wyler
33
Aki Kaurismäki
Aki Kaurismäki
34
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
35
David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg
36
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
37
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
38
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway
39
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni
40
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