| Director (Country of Origin) | Film | Year of Release |
| Akira Kurosawa (Japan) | |
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet (France) | |
| Sergei Eisenstein (Russia) | |
| Vittorio Da Sica (Italy) | |
| Guillermo Del Toro (Spain) | |
| Gillo Pontecorvo (France) | |
| Fernando Melrelles, Katia Lund (Brazil) | |
| Ingmar Bergman (Sweden) | |
| Henri-Georges Clouzot (France) | |
| Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) | |
| Federico Fellini (Italy) | |
| Fritz Lang (Germany) | |
| Jean Renoir (France) | |
| Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) | |
| Tomas Alfredson (Sweden) | |
| Yasujiro Ozu (Japan) | |
| Satyajit Ray (India) | |
| Park Chan-wook (South Korea) | |
| Werner Herzog (Germany) | |
| Alfonso Cuaron (Mexico) | |
| F.W. Murnau (Germany) | |
| Akira Kurosawa (Japan) | |
| Victor Erice (Spain) | |
| Elem Kilmov (Russia) | |
| Wolfgang Petersen (Germany) | |
| Jean Cocteau (France) | |
| Giuseppe Tomatore (Italy) | |
| Zhang Yimou (China) | |
| Francois Trauffaut (France) | |
| Alan Mak, Lau Wai-keung (Hong Kong) | |
| Ishiro Honda (Japan) | |
| Mathieu Kassovitz (France) | |
| Fritz Lang (Germany) | |
| Ari Folman (Israel) | |
| | Director (Country of Origin) | Film | Year of Release |
| Jean Renoir (Frane) | |
| Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland) | |
| Roberto Rossellini (Italy) | |
| Andrzej Wajda (Poland) | |
| Jean-Pierre Melville (France) | |
| Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy) | |
| Hayao Miyazaki (Japan) | |
| Wong Kar-wai (Hong Kong) | |
| Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France) | |
| Akira Kurosawa (Japan) | |
| Dario Argetno (Italy) | |
| Francois Truffaut (France) | |
| Abbas Klarostami (Iran) | |
| Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany) | |
| Jacques Tati (France) | |
| Jiri Menzel (Czechoslovkia) | |
| Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan) | |
| Djibril Diop Mambéty (Mali) | |
| Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) | |
| Thomas Vinterburg (Denmark) | |
| Ashutosh Gowariker (India) | |
| Luis Buñuel (France) | |
| Walter Salles (Brazil) | |
| Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi (Iran) | |
| Edgar Reitz (Germany) | |
| Claude Berri (France) | |
| Roman Polanski (Poland) | |
| Federico Fellini (Italy) | |
| Jacques Audiard (France) | |
| Wim Wenders (Germany) | |
| Luis Buñuel (Spain) | |
| Ang Lee (China) | |
| George Sluizer (Netherlands) | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia) | |
| | Director (Country of Origin) | Film | Year of Release |
| Hideo Nakata (Japan) | |
| John Woo (Hong Kong) | |
| Ingmar Bergman (Sweden) | |
| Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr (Australia) | |
| Michael Haneke (Austria) | |
| Sanjay Leela Bhansali (India) | |
| Jean-Luc Godard (France) | |
| Lars von Trier (Denmark) | |
| Zhang Yimou (China) | |
| Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) | |
| Jena-Luc Godard (France) | |
| Mehboob Khan (India) | |
| Bong -Joo Ho (South Korea) | |
| Kinji Fukasaku (Japan) | |
| Ousmane Sembene (Senegal) | |
| Jean Cocteau (France) | |
| Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) | |
| Tom Tykwer (Germany) | |
| Andrei Tarkovsky (Russia) | |
| Aki Kaurismäki (Finland) | |
| Milos Forman (Czechosovakia) | |
| Jules Dassin (France) | |
| Wolfgang Becker (Germany) | |
| Mamoru Oshii (Japan) | |
| Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands) | |
| Souleymane Cisse (Mali) | |
| Bruce Lee (Hong Kong) | |
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro (France) | |
| Chen Kalge (China) | |
| Akira Kurosawa (Japan) | |
| Yuen Woo-ping (Hong Kong) | |
| Timur Bekmambetov (Russia) | |
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