- Almodóvar, Peter
- Altman, Robert
- Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Asquith, Anthony + Howard, Leslie
- Bak, Chanuk
- Bergman, Ingmar
- Breillat, Catherine
- Bresson, Robert
- Buñuel, Luis
- Chaplin, Charles
- Chen, Kaige
- Coppola, Francis Ford
- Demy, Jacques
- Donen, Stanley
- Deren, Maya
- Deren, Maya + Hammid, Alexander
- Dreyer, Carl Theodor
- Eisenstein, Sergei
- Fellini, Federico
- Ford, John
- Forman, Milos
- Godard, Jean-Luc
- Greenaway, Peter
- Griffith, D.W.
- Hawks, Howard
- Herzog, Werner
- 1970 - Even Dwarfs Started Small
- 1970 - The Flying Doctors of East Africa
- 1971 - Fata Morgana
- 1971 - Land of Silence and Darkness
- 1972 - Aguiree, the Wrath of God
- 1974 - The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
- 1974 - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
- 1976 - Heart of Glass
- 1977 - Stroszek
- 1977 - La Soufrière
- 1979 - Nosferatu the Vampyre
- 1982 - Fitzcarraldo
- 1987 - Cobra Verde
- 1989 - Herdsmen of the Sun
- 1992 - Lessons of Darkness
- 2004 - The White Diamond
- 2005 - Grizzly Man
- 2005 - The Wild Blue Yonder
- Hitchcock, Alfred
- Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
- Itami, Juzo
- Kazan, Elia
- Keaton, Buster
- Kiarostami, Abbas
- Kubrick, Stanley
- Kurosawa, Akira
- Lang, Fritz
- Leone, Sergio
- Lynch, David
- Marker, Chris
- Malle, Louis
- Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Murnau, F.W.
- Oppenheimer, Joshua
- Oppenheimer, Joshua + Anonymous + Cynn, Christine
- Ozu, Yasujiro
- Pakula, Alan J.
- Polanski, Roman
- Pollack, Sydney
- Powell, Michael
- Reed, Carol
- Renoir, Jean
- Resnais, Alain
- Rohmer, Eric
- Rossellini, Roberto
- Schlöndorff, Volker
- Schlöndorff, Volker + von Trotta, Margarethe
- Scorsese, Martin
- Sirk, Douglas
- Sokurov, Aleksandr
- Suzuki, Seijun
- Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Tarr, Béla
- Tarr, Béla + Hranitzky, Ágnes
- Tian, Zhuangzhuang
- Teshigahara, Hiroshi
- Tian, Zhuangzhuang + Pan, Peicheng
- Truffaut, François
- Tsai, Ming-liang
- Tsui, Hark
- Varda, Agnès
- Welles, Orson
- Zhang, Yimou
- Wiene, Robert
- Wilder, Billy
- Yang, Edward
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