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Directors A-L
  
Robert AldrichLuis BunuelFrank CapraCarl DreyerClint EastwoodSam FullerJean-Luc GodardJohn Huston
 
On this page you'll find an index of filmmakers (listed alphabetically from A to L) whose work we are most familiar with. Therefore, these are the directors we have - so far - established pages for (just click on the director's name to view). Alongside each name is a carefully constructed director-rating. This rating takes into account quantity of work as well as quality, and is based primarily on films we've seen. For a full explanation of our ratings system, please go here. PLEASE NOTE: Full (or at the very least, extensive) filmographies for each director can be viewed by clicking either the IMDB, TCMDB or All-Movie Guide links found on each director's page. At the bottom of this page is a further list of filmmakers (with external links) that we haven't yet created pages for.   Rating Guide: 10 = Masterful; 9 = Outstanding; 8 = Excellent; 7 = Above Average; 6 = Good; 5 = Average; 4 = Very Average; 3 = Poor. The '+' symbol indicates that this director is at the top-end of his/her rating (in other words, close to the rating above). Conversely, the '-' symbol indicates that this director is at the bottom-end of his/her rating. For a full explanation of our ratings system, please go here.
 
°  We are currently in the process of updating all the director pages listed below. You'll notice, at the moment, that the quantity of information on each director page varies from one to the other. Ultimately, they will all look pretty much like this.
 
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-A- -D- -H-
Abrahams/Zucker/Zucker 5 Dahl, John 6 Hackford, Taylor 5
Akerman, Chantal 7 Daneliya, Georgi 6+ Haines, Randa 6-
Aldrich, Robert 8+ Dante, Joe 7- Hallström, Lasse 6
Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez 7- Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc  7 Hamer, Robert 6
Allégret, Marc 6+ Dash, Julie 6 Hamilton, Guy 6
Allen, Lewis 6 Dassin, Jules 7+ Haneke, Michael 7-
Allen, Woody 8+ Daves, Delmer 7 Hanson, Curtis 6+
Almereyda, Michael 5+ Davies, Terence 8- Harlin, Renny 5-
Almodóvar, Pedro 7+ Davis, Andrew 6- Harrington, Curtis 5-
Altman, Robert 8 Davis, Tamra 5- Harris, James B. 5+
Álvarez, Santiago 6- Day, Robert 5 Harron, Mary 6+
Amelio, Gianni 6 de Antonio, Emile 6 Hartley, Hal 7
Amenábar, Alejandro 7 de Heer, Rolf 6 Harvey, Anthony 5+
Amiel, Jon 5+ de Oliveira, Manoel 6+ Haskin, Byron 7
Anders, Allison 5+ De Palma, Brian 7+ Hathaway, Henry 8
Anderson, Lindsay 6+ De Sica, Vittorio 7 Hawks, Howard 9
Anderson, Michael 5 De Toth, André 7 Haynes, Todd 7
Anderson, Paul Thomas 8 Dearden, Basil 7- Heckerling, Amy 4+
Anderson, Wes 8- Del Ruth, Roy 6+ Heisler, Stuart 6+
Andersson, Roy 6 del Toro, Guillermo 6 Hellman, Monte 6
Angelopoulos, Theo 7 DeMille, Cecil B. 7+ Herek, Stephen 5
Anger, Kenneth 7- Demme, Jonathan 7+ Herrington, Rowdy 5-
Annakin, Ken 5 Demme, Ted 5 Herzog, Werner 8
Annaud, Jean-Jacques 4 Demy, Jacques 7+ Hicks, Scott 5-
Antonioni, Michelangelo 8- Denis, Claire 7- Hill, George Roy 6
Apted, Michael 7- Deray, Jacques 6- Hill, Walter 6+
Araki, Gregg 4 Deren, Maya 7- Hiller, Arthur 6
Arcand, Denys 6 Desplechin, Arnaud 6 Hitchcock, Alfred 10
Ardolino, Emile 4 Deville, Michel 6 Hoblit, Gregory 6
Argento, Dario 6+ DeVito, Danny 6 Hodges, Mike 6
Armstrong, Gillian 6 Dickinson, Thorold 6+ Hoffman, Michael 5
Arnold, Jack 6+ Diegues, Carlos 6 Holland, Agnieszka 7-
Aronofsky, Darren 6 Dieterle, William 8 Holofcener, Nicole 6+
Arzner, Dorothy 6 Dmytryk, Edward 8- Holt, Seth 6
Ashby, Hal 6 Doillon, Jacques 6 Hong Sang-soo 6
Asquith, Anthony 6 Donaldson, Roger 6 Hooper, Tobe 6
Assayas, Olivier 6 Donen, Stanley 7 Hopkins, Stephen 5
Attenborough, Richard 6+ Donen, Stanley & Gene Kelly 8 Hopper, Dennis 6
Audiard, Jacques 6- Donner, Clive 4 Hou Hsiao-Hsien 8-
Autant-Lara, Claude 6 Donner, Richard 7- Howard, William K. 5+
Avery, Tex 7+ Donskoi, Mark 6+ Howard, Ron 6+
Avildsen, John G. 6 dos Santos, Nelson Pereira 7- Hu, King   6+
-B- Douglas, Bill 6 Hughes, John 5+
Babenco, Hector 7- Douglas, Gordon 7- Hui, Ann   6+
Bacon, Lloyd 7 Dovzhenko, Alexander 6 Humberstone, H. Bruce 5
Badham, John 5+ Dragoti, Stan 4- Huston, John 8+
Baker, Roy Ward 6 Dreyer, Carl 8- Hutton, Brian G.  6-
Bakshi, Ralph 5 Duigan, John  6+ Hyams, Peter 5-
Ballard, Carroll 6 Dumont, Bruno 5+ Hytner, Nicholas 6-
Barnet, Boris 7 Dupont, E.A. 7- -I-
Bartel, Paul 5 Duvivier, Julien 7 Ichikawa, Kon 7
Bauer, Yevgeni 6 Dwan, Allan 7 Imamura, Shohei 7
Baumbach, Noah 7 -E- Im Kwon-taek 6
Bava, Mario 6+ Eastwood, Clint 8+ Iosseliani, Otar 6+
Beatty, Warren 6- Edel, Uli 3+ Irvin, John 5
Becker, Harold 6 Edwards, Blake 7 Ivens, Joris 6
Becker, Jacques 8 Egoyan, Atom 7+ Ivory, James 6
Beineix, Jean-Jacques 6 Eisenstein, Sergei 7 -J-
Bellocchio, Marco 6 Elvey, Maurice 6- Jackson, Mick 5
Belvaux, Lucas 5+ Emmerich, Roland   5+ Jackson, Peter 6
Benjamin, Richard 5+ Endfield, Cy 7 Jacobs, Ken 6-
Bennett, Bill 3 Enright, Ray 6 Jancsó, Miklós 7-
Benning, James 6 Ephron, Nora 6 Jarman, Derek 7-
Benning, Sadie 5+ Epstein, Jean 7 Jarmusch, Jim 8-
Benton, Robert 7- Erice, Victor 7+ Jennings, Humphrey 7-
Beresford, Bruce 6 -F- Jeunet, Jean-Pierre 6
Bergman, Andrew 6+ Farrelly, Bobby & Peter 6 Jewison, Norman 7
Bergman, Ingmar 9- Farrow, John 7 Jia Zhangke 7-
Berkeley, Busby 6+ Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 9 Jodorowsky, Alejandro 6-
Berlanga, Luis García 7 Feist, Felix E. 6+ Joffé, Roland  6-
Bernhardt, Curtis 7 Fellini, Federico 8- Johnston, Joe 6-
Berri, Claude 7 Fernán Gómez, Fernando 6 Jones, Chuck 7
Berry, John  6 Fernández, Emilio 7- Jones, Terry   6
Bertolucci, Bernardo 7+ Ferrara, Abel 7- Jordan, Neil 6
Besson, Luc 6+ Ferreri, Marco 6 Jost, Jon 6+
Bigelow, Kathryn 6- Ferroni, Giorgio 5 Judge, Mike 5
Bird, Antonia 5 Feuillade, Louis 7 -K-
Bird, Brad 6+ Feyder, Jacques 6 Kalatozishvili, Mikheil   7
Blasetti, Alessandro 6 Figgis, Mike 6 Kanin, Garson 6
Blier, Bertrand 6 Fincher, David 7- Kaplan, Jonathan 5
Bluth, Don 6- Fischinger, Oskar 6 Karlson, Phil 7
Boetticher, Budd 8 Fisher, Terence 7- Kasdan, Lawrence 6+
Bogdanovich, Peter 7- Flaherty, Robert 7 Kaufman, Philip 6+
Bolognini, Mauro 6 Fleder, Gary 6- Kaurismäki, Aki 7+
Boorman, John 7- Fleischer, Dave 6 Käutner, Helmut 6+
Borowczyk, Walerian 6- Fleischer, Richard 8- Kawalerowicz, Jerzy 7-
Borzage, Frank 8+ Fleming, Victor 7+ Kazan, Elia 8+
Boulting, John 6+ Florey, Robert 6+ Keaton, Buster 8+
Boyle, Danny 6 Flynn, John 6+ Keighley, William 6
Brahm, John 6+ Foley, James 5 Kennedy, Burt 6-
Brakhage, Stan 8 Forbes, Bryan 6 Kenton, Erle C. 5+
Branagh, Kenneth 5+ Ford, John  9- Kershner, Irvin 5
Breer, Robert 6+ Forman, Milos 8- Kiarostami, Abbas  8-
Breillat, Catherine 6 Forst, Willi 7- Kieslowski, Krzysztof 8
Bresson, Robert 9- Forster, Marc 6 Kim Ki-Duk 6
Brest, Martin 5+ Forsyth, Bill 6+ Kimmins, Anthony 6-
Bridges, James 5 Fosse, Bob 6 King, Henry 7+
Brocka, Lino   6+ Foster, Lewis R. 5 Kinoshita, Keisuke 6
Brook, Peter 6- Foster, Norman 6 Kitano, Takeshi 7
Brooks, Albert 7- Frampton, Hollis 6+ Kleiser, Randal  4
Brooks, James L. 6+ Francis, Freddie 6- Kluge, Alexander 6+
Brooks, Mel 6- Franju, Georges 8- Kobayashi, Masaki 7
Brooks, Richard 7 Frankenheimer, John 7 Koepp, David 5+
Brown, Clarence 7 Franklin, Carl 6+ Konchalovsky, Andrei 6
Browning, Tod 7 Franklin, Richard 5 Kopple, Barbara   6+
Buńuel, Luis  10 Franklin, Sidney 6- Korda, Alexander 6
Burnett, Charles 7 Frears, Stephen 7+ Korda, Zoltan 6+
Burns, Edward 6- Friedkin, William 6 Koreeda, Hirokazu 6+
Burton, Tim 7+ Fukasaku, Kinji 6 Koster, Henry 6-
Butler, David 5+ Fulci, Lucio 6- Kotcheff, Ted 5+
Buzzell, Edward   6- Fuller, Samuel 9- Kramer, Stanley 6
-C- Fuqua, Antoine 5- Kren, Kurt 5+
Cain, Christopher 5+ Furie, Sidney J. 4+ Kubelka, Peter 7-
Cameron, James 7- -G- Kubrick, Stanley 9-
Campbell, Martin 5+ Gance, Abel 7- Kurosawa, Akira 9-
Campion, Jane 7 Garci, José Luis 6 Kurosawa, Kiyoshi 6-
Capra, Frank  8 Garnett, Tay 6 Kusturica, Emir 7-
Carax, Lčos 7- Garrel, Philippe 7- Kwan, Stanley 6
Cardiff, Jack 5- Gehr, Ernie 6 -L-
Carné, Marcel 8- Gerima, Haile 6 LaBute, Neil 7-
Carpenter, John 7- Germi, Pietro 6+ La Cava, Gregory 6+
Cassavetes, John 8- Geronimi/Luske/Jackson   6 Laloux, René 6
Castellari, Enzo G. 5 Ghatak, Ritwik 7 Lamont, Charles 5-
Castle, Nick 4+ Gibson, Mel 6- Lamorisse, Albert 6+
Castle, William 6 Gilbert, Lewis 6- Landis, John 6-
Caton-Jones, Michael 6 Gilliam, Terry 6- Lanfield, Sidney 6-
Cavalcanti, Alberto 7 Gilliat, Sidney 6 Lang, Fritz  10
Cavani, Liliana 6- Glen, John 5+ Lang, Walter 6+
Ceylan, Nuri Bilge 7 Godard, Jean-Luc 8+ Lanzmann, Claude 6+
Chabrol, Claude 9- Godfrey, Peter 6 Lasseter, John 7
Chahine, Youssef 6 Gondry, Michel 5 Lattuada, Alberto 6-
Chaplin, Charles 8+ Gordon, Keith 6 Lau, Andrew & Alan Mak 6+
Charles, Larry 6 Gordon, Michael 6 Laughton, Charles 7+
Chatiliez, Étienne 6- Gordon, Stuart 5+ Launder, Frank 6
Cheh Chang 6 Goulding, Edmund 7- Lawrence, Ray 5
Chelsom, Peter 5+ Graf, Dominik 6 Lean, David  8
Chen Kaige 6 Gray, F. Gary   6- Leconte, Patrice 7
Chéreau, Patrice 6   Gray, James   7-   Leduc, Paul 6
Chor Yuen   6-   Green, Alfred E. 5   Lee, Ang 7+
Cimino, Michael 6+   Green, David Gordon 7-   Lee, Rowland V. 6
Clair, René 8   Green, Guy 4   Lee, Spike 7+
Clampett, Robert 6+   Greene, David 5   Lee Chang-dong 6
Clark, Bob 5+   Greenaway, Peter 6+   Lehmann, Michael 5
Clarke, Alan 6   Greengrass, Paul 6   Leigh, Mike 7+
Clayton, Jack 7+   Greenwald, Robert 4+   Leisen, Mitchell 8-
Clément, René 7   Grémillon, Jean 6   Lelouch, Claude 6+
Cline, Eddie   6+   Greyson, John 6-   Leonard, Robert Z. 7-
Clouzot, Henri-Georges 7+   Griffi, Giuseppe Patroni 5+   Leone, Sergio 8
Cocteau, Jean 7   Griffith, D.W. 8   LeRoy, Mervyn 8
Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen  9-   Grosbard, Ulu 6   Lester, Mark L. 4
Cohen, Larry 6+   Guerra, Ruy 6   Lester, Richard 7
Colizzi, Giuseppe 5   Guest, Christopher 6   Levin, Henry 5
Columbus, Chris 5   Guest, Val 6-   Levinson, Barry 6+
Comencini, Luigi 7-   Guillermin, John 4   Lewin, Albert 7
Conner, Bruce 7-   Guitry, Sacha 7   Lewis, Jerry 6-
Conway, Jack 6+   Guzmán, Patricio 7-   Lewis, Joseph H. 8
Coolidge, Martha 5   Gyllenhaal, Stephen 5+   L'Herbier, Marcel 7-
Cooper & Schoedsack 6+         Li Han Hsiang 6-
Coppola, Francis Ford 8-         Liman, Doug 6+
Coppola, Sofia 7+         Linklater, Richard 7
Corbucci, Sergio 6         Litvak, Anatole 7
Corman, Roger  8-         Liu Chia-Liang 6+
Cornell, Joseph 6+         Lizzani, Carlo 6-
Cosmatos, George P. 4+         Lloyd, Frank 6+
Costa-Gavras, Constantin 7         Loach, Ken 8-
Cottafavi, Vittorio 5-         Logan, Joshua 5+
Cox, Alex 6+         Losey, Joseph 8
Cox, Paul 6+         Lubin, Arthur 6-
Craven, Wes 6+         Lubitsch, Ernst 9-
Crichton, Charles 7-         Lucas, George 7-
Cromwell, John 7         Luhrmann, Baz 3+
Cronenberg, David 7+         Lumet, Sidney 8
Crowe, Cameron 6         Lupino, Ida 7
Cuarón, Alfonso 6         Lye, Len 7-
Cummings, Irving 5-         Lynch, David 7
Cukor, George  9-         Lyne, Adrian 6-
Curtiz, Michael  8            
               
 
 
Not to be Forgotten...
Here is a further listing of filmmakers (of wildly varying degrees of quality, reputation and style) that we haven't - as yet - established pages for.
 
 A  Hany Abu-Assad (90s-00s), Carine Adler (90s), Percy Adlon (80s-90s), Peggy Ahwesh (80s-00s), Alexandre Aja (90s-00s), Moustapha Akkad (70s-80s), Fatih Akin (90s-00s), John Akomfrah (80s-90s), Irwin Allen (50s-70s), Merzak Allouache (70s-00s), Timothy Asch (70s-80s), Karimuddin Asif (40s-70s), Alexandre Astruc (40s-60s), Bille August (80s-90s), Gabriel Axel (50s-00s)  Bruce Baillie (60s-90s), Aleksei Balabanov (90s-00s), Craig Baldwin (70s-90s), Juan Antonio Bardem (50s-90s), Harry Beaumont (20s-40s), María Luisa Bemberg (80s-90s), Laslo Benedek (40s-70s), Shyam Benegal (60s-00s), Roberto Benigni (80s-00s), Tony Bill (80s-90s), Fernando Birri (50s-00s), August Blom (10s-20s), Yves Boisset (70s-80s), Richard Boleslawski (30s), Lizzie Borden (70s-90s), Joâo Botelho (80s-90s), Roy Boulting (40s-70s), Júlio Bressane (60s-00s), Jean-Claude Brisseau (80s-00s), Nick Broomfield (70s-00s), Tim Burstall (70s-80s)  Michael Cacoyannis (50s-90s), Mario Camerini (20s-70s), Donald Cammell (70s-80s), Marcel Camus (50s-70s), Steve Carver (70s-80s), Renato Castellani (40s-60s), André Cayatte (40s-70s), Don Chaffey (50s-70s), Jack Chambers (60s-70s), Ching Siu-Tung (80s-90s), Yash Chopra (50s-00s), Benjamin Christensen (10s-40s), Christian-Jacque (30s-70s), Vera Chytilová (60s-90s), Souleymane Cissé (70s-80s), Shirley Clarke (50s-80s), George Clooney (00s), Robert Clouse (70s-80s), Norman Cohen (60s-70s), Rob Cohen (80s-00s), Peter Collinson (60s-70s), Lance Comfort (40s-60s), Kevin Connor (70s), Alain Corneau (70s-00s), Henry Cornelius (40s-50s), Hubert Cornfield (50s-70s), Michael Crichton (70s-80s), James Cruze (10s-30s),  D  Harry D'Arrast (20s-30s), Guy Debord (50s-70s), Philippe de Broca (60s-90s), Fernando de Fuentes (30s-50s), Jean Delannoy (40s-80s), Gerardo de Leon (30s-70s), André Delvaux (60s-80s), Raymond Depardon (80s-00s), Giuseppe de Santis (40s-90s), Walt Disney (20s-40s), Robert Dornhelm (70s-90s), Dorris Dörrie (70s-00s), Peter Duffell (70s-80s), Germaine Dulac (10s-30s), Philip Dunne (50s-60s), Marguerite Duras (60s-80s), Stephen Dwoskin (70s-80s)  Christine Edzard (70s-00s), Ray Enright (30s-40s), Jean Eustache (60s-80s)  Zoltán Fábri (50s-80s), Safi Faye (70s-90s), Paul Fejos (30s), Leslie Fenton (30s-50s), Todd Field (90s-00s), Colin Finbow (70s-80s), George Fitzmaurice (20s-40s), Max Fleischer (10s-40s), Walter Forde (30s), Melvin Frank (50s-80s), Riccardo Freda (40s-80s), Harold French (40s-50s), Charles Frend (40s-50s), Martin Frič (20s-60s), Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (80s-00s), Su Friedrich (70s-00s)  G  István Gaál (50s-90s), Jack Garfein (50s-60s), Tony Gatlif (80s-00s), Augusto Genina (10s-50s), Sergei Gerasimov (30s-80s), Marion Gering (30s), Octavio Getino (60s-70s), Subhash Ghai (70s-00s), John Gilling (50s-60s), Amos Gitai (80s-00s), Menahem Golan (70s-80s), Jack Gold (60s-80s), Sara Gómez (60s-70s), Bert I. Gordon (50s-70s), Claude Goretta (50s-80s), Jean-Pierre Gorin (60s-90s), Marleen Gorris (80s-00s), John Grierson (20s), Tom Gries (60s-70s), Edward H. Griffith (30s-40s), Yoram Gross (60s-90s), Yilmaz Güney (70s-80s), Alice Guy (1890s-1920s)  Bert Haanstra (40s-80s), Alexander Hall (30s-50s), Peter Hall (60s-90s), Susumu Hani (50s-80s), William Hanna/Joseph Barbera (40s-90s), Wojciech Has (40s-80s), Sidney Hayers (60s-80s), Richard T. Heffron (70s-80s), Astrid & Bjarne Henning-Jensen (40s-90s), Cecil Hepworth (1890s-1920s), Jessie Hibbs (50s), George Hickenlooper (90s-00s), Jack Hill (60s-80s), Holger-Madsen (10s-30s), John Hough (60s-90s), Huang Jianxin (80s-90s), Hugh Hudson (80s-90s), Ken Hughes (50s-70s), Peter Hunt (60s-80s)  Tadashi Imai (30s-90s), Hiroshi Inagaki (20s-70s), Rex Ingram (10s-30s), Alejandro González Ińárritu (90s-00s), Thomas H. Ince (10s), Sogo Ishii (80s-00s), Juzo Itami (80s-90s)  J  Henry Jaglom (70s-90s), Albolfazl Jalili (90s-00s), Jang Sun-Woo (80s-00s), Andrew Jarecki (00s), Charles Jarrott (60s-80s), Jaromil Jireš (50s-90s), Lamont Johnson (70s-80s), Spike Jonze (90s-00s), Nathan Juran (50s-60s)  Jean-Marie Gaston Kaboré (80s-90s), Karel Kachyna (60s-90s), Ján Kadár (40s-70s), Jeremy Paul Kagan (70s-90s), Nelly Kaplan (50s-90s), Raj Kapoor (40s-80s), Tai Kato (60s), Mehboob Khan (30s-60s), Iosif Kheifits (20s-80s), Kim Ki-young (50s-90s), Teinosuke Kinugasa (20s-60s), Cédric Klapisch (90s-00s), Elem Klimov (70s-80s), Louise Kolm-Fleck (10s-40s), Harmony Korine (90s), Grigori Kozintsev (20s-70s), Lev Kuleshov (10s-40s), Harry Kümel (60s-90s), Tatsumi Kumashiro (60s-90s), Diane Kurys (70s-90s)  Harry Lachman (30s-40s), Arnold Laven (50s-60s), Clara Law (80s-00s), Philip Leacock (50s-70s), Richard Leacock (60s-00s), Jean-Pierre Lefebvre (60s-00s), Paul Leni (10s-20s), Robert Lepage (90s-00s), Brian Levant (90s-00s), Michael Lindsay-Hogg (70s-00s), Arthur Lipsett (60s-70s), Miguel Littin (60s-00s), Dwight H. Little (80s-90s), Richard Loncraine (70s-90s), Kenneth Lonergan (00s), Kim Longinotto (70s-00s), Pare Lorentz (30s-40s), Richard Lowenstein (70s-00s), Auguste Lumičre/Louis Lumičre (1890s), Jonathan Lynn (80s-00s). More listed on the Directors M-Z page.
 
 
 

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