Andrei Tarkovsky

• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Mirror (1975)
• Stalker (1979)
• Nostalghia (1983)

Wim Wenders

• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Until the End of the World (1991)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• Chinese Roulette (1976)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Ingmar Bergman

• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Autumn Sonata (1978)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Bernardo Bertolucci

• The Conformist (1970)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• Besieged (1998)

Michelangelo Antonioni

• The Night (1961)
• The Eclipse (1962)
• Red Desert (1964)

Makoto Shinkai

• 5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)

Sunao Katabuchi

• In This Corner of the World (2016)

Alejandro González Ińárritu

• Amores Perros (2000)

Alfonso Cuarón

• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

Guillermo del Toro

• Pan's Labyrinth (USA title); El Laberinto del Fauno (original title) (2006)

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

• The Lives of Others (2006)

Ildikó Enyedi

• On Body and Soul (2017)

The Coen Brothers: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Barton Fink (1991)

Paul Thomas Anderson

• There Will Be Blood (2007)

Wes Anderson

• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Robert Zemeckis

• Forrest Gump (1994)

Clint Eastwood

• Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Ridley Scott

• Blade Runner (1982)

Spike Jonze

• Her (2013)

Stanley Kubrick

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Giuseppe Tornatore

• Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Ettore Scola

• We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
• Le Bal (1983)

Luchino Visconti

• Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Luis Buńuel

• Belle de Jour (1967)
• The Milky Way (1969)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Francis Ford Coppola

• The Godfather (1972)
• The Godfather, Part II (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)

Milos Forman

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Amadeus (1984)

Bob Fosse

• Cabaret (1972)

Martin Scorsese

• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Denys Arcand

• Jesus of Montreal (1989)

Terrence Malick

• Days of Heaven (1978)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)

George Roy Hill

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Steven Spielberg

• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Barry Levinson

• Rain Man (1988)

Jane Campion

• The Piano (1993)

Steven Soderbergh

• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• Out of Sight (1998)

Frank Darabont

• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Bryan Singer

• The Usual Suspects (1995)

Anthony Minghella

• The English Patient (1996)

Curtis Hanson

• L.A. Confidential (1997)

Sam Mendes

• American Beauty (1999)

David Lynch

• The Straight Story (1999)

Darren Aronofsky

• Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Ron Howard

• A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Terry Zwigoff

• Ghost World (2001)

Vadim Perelman

• House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Sofia Coppola

• Lost in Translation (2003)

Michel Gondry

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Fernando Meirelles

• The Constant Gardener (2005)

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Kathryn Bigelow

• The Hurt Locker (2008)

Stephen Daldry

• The Reader (2008)

David Fincher

• The Social Network (2010)

Morten Tyldum

• The Imitation Game (2014)

Alan Parker

• Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
• Birdy (1984)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)

Richard Attenborough

• Gandhi (1982)

Oliver Stone

• Salvador (1986)
• Platoon (1986)

Peter Greenaway

• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Akira Kurosawa

• Rashomon (1950)
• The Idiot (1951)
• Seven Samurai (1954)

Shôhei Imamura

• The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Kaige Chen

• Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Yimou Zhang

• To Live (1994)

Ang Lee

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

István Szabó

• Mephisto (1981)

Marlen Khutsiyev & Feliks Mironer

• Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956)

Grigori Chukhrai

• The Forty-first (1956)
• Ballad of a Soldier (1959)

Grigori Kozintsev

• Hamlet (1964)

Eldar Ryazanov

• Watch Out for the Automobile (1966)
• The Garage (1979)

Vasili Shukshin

• Zhivet takoy paren (1966)

Vladimir Motyl

• The White Sun of the Desert (1970)

Andrei Konchalovsky

• Siberiade (1979)
• Runaway Train (1985)
• Shy People (1987)

Nikita Mikhalkov

• At Home Among Stangers, A Stranger Among His Own (1974)
• Five Evenings (1979)
• Oblomov (1980)
• Urga (Close to Eden: USA title) (1991)

Alexandr Alov & Vladimir Naumov

• Beg (1972)
• Teheran 43 (USA title: Assassination Attempt) (1981)

Elem Klimov

• Agony (USA title: Rasplutin) (1981)

Mark Zakharov

• That Munchhausen (1979)
• The House that Swift Built (1983)