The Directory
The filmmakers behind world cinema.
Every director in the Atlas, the auteurs whose influence runs through world cinema. Search by name or country, or browse by region.
Western Europe
630 directors · 17 countries
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Luis Buñuel
Spain
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Alfred Hitchcock
United Kingdom
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Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
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Jean Renoir
France
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Charlie Chaplin
United Kingdom
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Jean-Luc Godard
France
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François Truffaut
France
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Federico Fellini
Italy
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Fritz Lang
Germany
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy
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Roberto Rossellini
Italy
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Luchino Visconti
Italy
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Germany
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Michael Haneke
Austria
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Michael Powell
United Kingdom
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Carl Theodor Dreyer
Denmark
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Chantal Akerman
Belgium
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Lars von Trier
Denmark
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Roman Polanski
France
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David Lean
United Kingdom
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Werner Herzog
Germany
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F. W. Murnau
Germany
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy
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Wim Wenders
Germany