Xixax Film Forum

Sorted by the decade they made their first feature film for the sake of working backwards (or forwards) through film history (when there are enough within one country to warrant it). All links point to Wikipedia.

USA thread here (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=13843.msg350948#msg350948).



Celina Murga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Murga)
Gaspar Noé (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_No%C3%A9)



Andrew Dominik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Dominik)
Bruce Beresford (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Beresford)
Ray Lawrence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lawrence_(film_director))
George Miller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Miller_(director))
Peter Weir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir)



Michael Haneke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Haneke)
G.W. Pabst (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._W._Pabst)
Otto Preminger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger)
Ulrich Seidl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Seidl)
Gotz Spielmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6tz_Spielmann)
Josef von Sternberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_von_Sternberg)
Erich von Stroheim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_Stroheim)



Chantal Akerman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman)
The Dardenne Bros. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardenne_brothers)
Michael Roskam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C3%ABl_R._Roskam)
Agnes Varda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Varda)



Kleber Mendonça Filho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleber_Mendon%C3%A7a_Filho)



James Cameron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron)
David Cronenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg)
Edward Dmytryk  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Dmytryk)
Xavier Dolan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Dolan)
Atom Egoyan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Egoyan)
Guy Maddin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Maddin)
John Paizs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paizs)
Mark Robson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robson)
Denis Villeneuve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Villeneuve)



Alejandro Jodorowsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky)
Raoul Ruiz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Ruiz_(director))



Milos Forman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Forman)
Juraj Herz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj_Herz)
Karel Kachyna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Kachyňa)
Jiří Menzel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiř%C3%AD_Menzel)



Benjamin Christensen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Christensen)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Theodor_Dreyer)
Johan Jacobsen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Jacobsen)
Nils Malmros  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Malmros)
Nicolas Winding Refn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Winding_Refn)
Lars von Trier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier)
Thomas Vinterberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Vinterberg)



Aki Kaurismaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Kaurism%C3%A4ki)
Teuvo Tulio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Tulio)



France - 1890s

Georges Méliès (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s)


France - 1910s

Raymond Bernard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bernard)
Louis Feuillade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Feuillade)
Abel Glance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Gance)
Max Linder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Linder)
Maurice Tourneur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Tourneur)


France - 1920s

René Clair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Clair)
Julien Duvivier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Duvivier)
Jean Epstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Epstein)
Jacques Feyder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Feyder)
Jean Grémillon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Gr%C3%A9millon)
Jean Renoir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Renoir)


France - 1930s

Marcel Carné (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Carn%C3%A9)
René Clément (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cl%C3%A9ment)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Georges_Clouzot)
Jean Cocteau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau)
Sacha Guitry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Guitry)
Jean Vigo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Vigo)


France - 1940s

Jacques Becker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Becker)
Robert Bresson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bresson)
Jules Dassin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Dassin)
Georges Franju (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Franju)
Jean-Pierre Melville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Melville)
Jacques Tati (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Tati)


France - 1950s

Marcel Camus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Camus)
Claude Chabrol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Chabrol)
Louis Malle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Malle)
Chris Marker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Marker)
Alain Resnais (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Resnais)
Eric Rohmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer)
Claude Sautet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Sautet)
Francois Truffaut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut)


France - 1960s

Bertrand Blier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Blier)
Philippe de Broca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_de_Broca)
Jacques Demy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Demy)
Jacques Deray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Deray)
Costa-Gavras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa-Gavras)
Pierre Étaix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_%C3%89taix)
Jean-Luc Godard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard)
Alain Robbe-Grillet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Robbe-Grillet)
Claude Lelouch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lelouch)
Maurice Pialat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Pialat)
Jacques Rivette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Rivette)
Jean Rollin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rollin)
Bertrand Tavernier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier)
André Téchiné (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_T%C3%A9chin%C3%A9)


France - 1970s

Jean-Jacques Annaud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Annaud)
Catherine Breillat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Breillat)
Jacques Doillon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Doillon)
Jean Eustache (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eustache)
Benoît Jacquot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Jacquot)


France - 1980s

Olivier Assayas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Assayas)
Jean-Jacques Beineix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Beineix)
Luc Besson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Besson)
Leos Carax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leos_Carax)
Claire Denis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Denis)


France - 1990s

Jacques Audiard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Audiard)
Bertrand Bonello (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Bonello)
Bruno Dumont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Dumont)
Laurent Cantet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Cantet)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Jeunet)
Guillaume Nicloux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Nicloux)
Francois Ozon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Ozon)


France - 2000s

Michel Gondry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gondry)
Abdellatif Kechiche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdellatif_Kechiche)
Mia Hansen-Love (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Hansen-L%C3%B8ve)


France - 2010s

Katell Quillévéré (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katell_Quill%C3%A9v%C3%A9r%C3%A9)



Germany - 1910s

E. A. Dupont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Dupont)
Fritz Lang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang)
Ernst Lubitsch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch)
Robert Wiene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wiene)


Germany - 1920s

F.W. Murnau (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Murnau)
Lotte Reiniger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger)


Germany - 1930s

Max Ophuls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Oph%C3%BCls)
Leni Riefenstahl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl)
Douglas Sirk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Sirk)


Germany - 1940s

Robert Siodmak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siodmak)


Germany - 1960s

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder)
Werner Herzog (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog)
Alexander Kluge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kluge)
Edgar Reitz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Reitz)
Volker Shlöndorff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Schl%C3%B6ndorff)
Werner Schroeter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Schroeter)
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-J%C3%BCrgen_Syberberg)


Germany - 1970s

Uli Edel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uli_Edel)
Dominik Graf (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Graf)
Wolfgang Petersen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Petersen)
Margarethe von Trotta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarethe_von_Trotta)
Wim Wenders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders)


Germany - 1990s

Thomas Arslan (//http://)
Christian Petzold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Petzold_(director))
Tom Tykwer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tykwer)


Germany - 2000s

Maren Ade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maren_Ade)



Theodoros Angelopoulos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Angelopoulos)
Yorgos Lanthimos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorgos_Lanthimos)
Nikos Nikolaidis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Nikolaidis)



Raoul Peck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Peck)



Wong Kar-Wai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai)
John Woo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Woo)



Miklós Jancsó (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikl%C3%B3s_Jancs%C3%B3)
Béla Tarr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Tarr)



Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_%C3%9E%C3%B3r_Fri%C3%B0riksson)
Dagur Kári (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagur_K%C3%A1ri)
Baltasar Kormákur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Korm%C3%A1kur)



Satyajit Ray (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray)



Neil Jordan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Jordan)
Jim Sheridan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Sheridan)



Italy - 1930s

Raffaello Matarazzo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaello_Matarazzo)
Mario Monicelli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monicelli)
Roberto Rossellini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini)


Italy - 1940s

Luigi Comencini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Comencini)
Giuseppe De Santis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_De_Santis)
Vittorio De Sica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica)
Luchino Visconti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchino_Visconti)


Italy - 1950s

Michelangelo Antonioni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni)
Federico Fellini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini)
Marco Ferreri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Ferreri)
Dino Risi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Risi)
Francesco Rosi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Rosi)


Italy - 1960s

Marco Bellocchio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Bellocchio)
Bernardo Bertolucci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci)
Tinto Brass (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinto_Brass)
Liliana Cavani (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liliana_Cavani)
Sergio Leone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Leone)
Ermanno Olmi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermanno_Olmi)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini)
Elio Petri (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_Petri)
Ettore Scola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Scola)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_and_Vittorio_Taviani)
Lina Wertmuller (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Wertm%C3%BCller)


Italy - 1990s

Matteo Garrone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Garrone#Feature_films)


Italy - 2000s

Paolo Sorrentino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Sorrentino)


Italy - Giallo / Horror

Dario Argento (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Argento)
Lamberto Bava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamberto_Bava)
Mario Bava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bava)
Luigi Bazzoni (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Bazzoni)
Massimo Dallamano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Dallamano)
Luciano Ercoli (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Ercoli)
Lucio Fulci (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fulci)
Umberto Lenzi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Lenzi)
Sergio Martino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Martino)
Michele Soavi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Soavi)



Abbas Kiarostami (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Kiarostami)
Asghar Farhadi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar_Farhadi)



Kinji Fukasaku (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinji_Fukasaku)
Hideo Gosha (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Gosha)
Heinosuke Gosho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinosuke_Gosho)
Kon Ichikawa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon_Ichikawa)
Shôhei Imamura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohei_Imamura)
Keisuke Kinoshita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisuke_Kinoshita)
Takeshi Kitano (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kitano)
Masaki Kobayashi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaki_Kobayashi)
Hirokazu Kore-eda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirokazu_Kore-eda)
Koreyoshi Kurahara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreyoshi_Kurahara)
Akira Kurosawa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa)
Kiyoshi Kurasawa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kurosawa)
Yasuzô Masumura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuzo_Masumura)
Toshio Matsumoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Matsumoto)
Kenji Mizoguchi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Mizoguchi)
Mikio Naruse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikio_Naruse)
Nagisa Oshima (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagisa_Oshima)
Yasujiro Ozu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujirō_Ozu)
Seijun Sezuki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seijun_Suzuki)
Kaneto Shindo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaneto_Shindo)
Masahiro Shinoda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Shinoda)
Shuji Terayama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shūji_Terayama)
Hiroshi Teshigahara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Teshigahara)
Shinya Tsukamoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Tsukamoto)
Yoshishige Yoshida (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshishige_Yoshida)



Ki-Duk Kim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ki-duk)



Sharunas Bartas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0arūnas_Bartas)



Alfonso Cauron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n)
Michel Franco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Franco)
Carlos Reygadas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Reygadas)
Guillermo Del Toro (//http://)



Paul Verhoeven (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Verhoeven)



Jane Campion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Campion)
Peter Jackson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson)
Andrew Niccol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Niccol)



Edith Carlmar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Carlmar)
Joachim Trier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Trier)
Eskil Vogt (//http://)



Walerian Borowczyk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walerian_Borowczyk)
Wojciech Jerzy Has (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Jerzy_Has)
Krzysztof Kieslowski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kieślowski)
Roman Polanski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski)
Jerzy Skolimowski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Skolimowski)
Andrzej Wajda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda)
Krzysztof Zanussi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Zanussi)
Andrjez Zulawski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Żuławski)



Manoel de Oliveira (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoel_de_Oliveira)



Cristian Mungiu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristian_Mungiu)



Sergei Bondarchuk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Bondarchuk)
Sergei Eisenstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein)
Mikhail Kalatozov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalatozov)
Elem Klimov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elem_Klimov)
Sergei Parajanov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Parajanov)
Aleksandr Ptushko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ptushko)
Vsevolod Pudovkin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Pudovkin)
Larisa Shepitko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larisa_Shepitko)
Aleksandr Sokurov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Sokurov)
Andrei Tarkovsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky)
Dziga Vertov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga_Vertov)
Andrey Zvyagintsev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Zvyagintsev)



Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne)



Emir Kusturica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emir_Kusturica)
Dušan Makavejev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Makavejev)



Pedro Almodóvar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Almod%C3%B3var)
Alejandro Amenábar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Amen%C3%A1bar)
Luis García Berlanga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Garc%C3%ADa_Berlanga)
Luis Buñuel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel)
Víctor Erice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Erice)
Jesús Franco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs_Franco)
Álex de la Iglesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lex_de_la_Iglesia)
José Ramón Larraz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ram%C3%B3n_Larraz)
Bigas Luna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigas_Luna)
Julio Medem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Medem)
Carlos Saura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Saura)
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narciso_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez_Serrador)



Tomas Alfredson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomas_Alfredson)
Roy Andersson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Andersson)
Ingmar Bergman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman)
Lasse Hallström (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Hallstr%C3%B6m)
Stefan Jarl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Jarl)
Arne Mattsson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Mattsson)
Lukas Moodysson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Moodysson)
Ruben Östlund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_%C3%96stlund)
Alf Sjöberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Sj%C3%B6berg)
Victor Sjöström (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Sj%C3%B6str%C3%B6m)
Jan Troell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Troell)
Bo Widerberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Widerberg)
Mai Zetterling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Zetterling)



Alain Tanner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Tanner)



Hsiao-Hsien Hou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Hsiao-hsien)
Ang Lee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee)
Tsai Ming-liang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsai_Ming-liang)
Edward Yang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Yang)



Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen-Ek_Ratanaruang)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apichatpong_Weerasethakul)



Fatih Akin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatih_Akin)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuri_Bilge_Ceylan)



UK - 1920s

Anthony Asquith (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Asquith)
Charlie Chaplin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin)
Alfred Hitchcock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock)


UK - 1930s

Carol Reed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Reed)
Michael Powell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Powell)


UK - 1940s

Basil Dearden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Dearden)
Terence Fisher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Fisher)
David Lean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean)


UK - 1950s

Jack Clayton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Clayton)
Karel Reisz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Reisz)
Tony Richardson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Richardson)
Peter Watkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Watkins)


UK - 1960s

Lindsay Anderson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Anderson)
John Boorman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boorman)
Alan Clarke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clarke)
Bill Forsyth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Forsyth) (Scottish)
Ken Loach (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach)
Ken Russell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Russell)
John Schlesinger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schlesinger)
Pete Walker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Walker_(director))
Peter Yates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Yates)


UK - 1970s

Derek Jarman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jarman)
Mike Leigh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Leigh)
Nicolas Roeg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Roeg)
Ridley Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott)


UK - 1980s

Alex Cox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Cox)
Terence Davies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Davies)
Peter Greenaway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Greenaway)
Tony Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott)
Ian Sellar (//http://)


UK - 1990s

Danny Boyle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boyle)
Anthony Minghella (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Minghella)
Christopher Nolan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan)


UK - 2000s

Andrea Arnold (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Arnold)
Andrew Haigh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Haigh)
Steve McQueen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(director))
Lynne Ramsay (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Ramsay) (Scottish)

Korea - 1990s
Ki-Duk Kim

Thailand - 1990s
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Done and done!

Denmark

Benjamin Christensen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Christensen)

Iceland
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_%C3%9E%C3%B3r_Fri%C3%B0riksson)
Dagur Kári (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagur_K%C3%A1ri)
Baltasar Kormákur (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltasar_Korm%C3%A1kur)

Japan

Heinosuke Gosho (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinosuke_Gosho)
Keisuke Kinoshita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisuke_Kinoshita)