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Cinema's Best and Most Influential Directors

Since the origins of motion picture, here's a list of cinema's best directors, from all over the globe. Click if you've seen at least three of their films.
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Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick
1
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
2
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
3
Georges Melies
Georges Melies
4
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
5
Luis Bunuel
Luis Bunuel
6
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
7
Andreï Tarkovski
Andreï Tarkovski
8
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
9
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
10
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
11
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
12
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
13
Joel & Ethan Coen
Joel & Ethan Coen
14
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
15
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
16
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot
17
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
18
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman
19
Spike Lee
Spike Lee
20
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
21
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow
22
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
23
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin
24
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
25
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
26
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
27
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
28
David Lynch
David Lynch
29
Ken Loach
Ken Loach
30
Sergio Leone
Sergio Leone
31
John Ford
John Ford
32
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
33
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu
34
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan
35
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
36
Josef Von Sternberg
Josef Von Sternberg
37
Frank Capra
Frank Capra
38
John Huston
John Huston
39
F. W. Murnau
F. W. Murnau
40
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