1. Alain Resnais (1922)

French Film Director

Director with over six decades of experience in the film industry. He was known for influential films like 1955's Night and Fog.

2. Claude Sautet (1924)

French Film Director

French film director and author who first gained fame for the film Les Choses de la Vie.

3. Agnès Varda (1928)

French Film Director

Director whose work dealt with issues of feminism, such as 1962's Cleo from 5 to 7.

4. Claude Chabrol (1930)

French Film Director

French New Wave director who directed the 1958 film Les Cousins and the 1975 film Les Innocents Aux Mains Sales. Prior to directing films, he worked as a critic for...

5. Philippe Garrel (1948)

French Film Director

French director whose 2005 film Les Amants Réguliers won him the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.

6. Pierre Coffin (1967)

French Film Director

French animator who is best known for his work on the Despicable Me films. He voices the minions characters in the films and also served as co-director and as an...

7. Claire Devers (1955)

French Film Director

French director and writer who was known for the 1986 foreign film Noir et Blanc (Black and White) and 2003's Les marins perdus.

8. Mabrouk El Mechri (1976)

French Film Director

French director, screenwriter and actor who directed and wrote the 2005 feature Virgil.

9. François Ozon (1967)

French Film Director

Important director in the French New Wave movement whose work included the films 8 Femmes and Swimming Pool.

10. Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953)

French Film Director

French director of the films Amelie and A Very Long Engagement, both starring Audrey Tautou, as well as The City of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection and Micmacs.

11. Gilles Paquet-Brenner (1974)

French Film Director

Gilles Paquet-Brenner is a French director and screenwriter. Paquet-Brenner's first feature film in 2001 Les Jolies Choses won an award at the Deauville Film Festival. In 2009 Paquet-Brenner directed low-budget...

12. Mikael Colombu (1975)

French Film Director

Mikael Colombu is a French music video and film director. He created the animation style Jankyvision.

13. Jean-Marie Pallardy (1940)

French Film Director

Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director. He first worked as a male model in the 1960s before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also...

14. Jacques Rozier (1926)

French Film Director

Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three...

15. Jean Painlevé (1902)

French Film Director

Jean Painlevé was a film director and biologist specialized in the underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime-minister of France Paul Painlevé.

16. Luc Moullet (1937)

French Film Director

Luc Moullet is a French film critic and filmmaker and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave.

17. Gérard Pirès (1942)

French Film Director

Gérard Pirès is a French film director and writer.

18. Alain Bergala (1943)

French Film Director

Alain Bergala born 8 August 1943 in Brignoles is a French film critic essayist screenwriter and director.

19. Gérard Krawczyk (1953)

French Film Director

Gérard Krawczyk is a French film director. He is of Polish descent.

20. Robert Guédiguian (1953)

French Film Director

Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director actor screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Guédiguian is the son of a German mother...

21. Rachid Bouchareb (1953)

French Film Director

Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent. From 1977 to 1983 he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company Société française de...

22. Régis Wargnier (1948)

French Film Director

Régis Wargnier is a French film director film producer screenwriter and film score composer. His 1995 A French Woman was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival where he...

23. Marc Fitoussi (1974)

French Film Director

Marc Fitoussi is a French film director and screenwriter.

24. Christopher Frank (1942)

French Film Director

Christopher Frank was a French screenwriter.

25. Philippe Grandrieux (Unknow)

French Film Director

Philippe Grandrieux is a French film director.

26. Yves Lavandier (1959)

French Film Director

Yves Lavandier is a French filmmaker.

27. Anne Fontaine (Unknow)

French Film Director

Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker screenwriter and former actress. She lives and works in France.

28. Tran Anh Hung (1962)

French Film Director

Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.

29. Sophie Fillières (1964)

French Film Director

Sophie Fillières is a French film director and screenwriter who has written for more than fifteen film and television productions since 1991.

30. Jean-Paul Civeyrac (1964)

French Film Director

Jean-Paul Civeyrac is a French director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky Hymnes à...

31. Yves Caumon (1964)

French Film Director

Yves Caumon is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France.

32. Pierre Morel (1964)

French Film Director

Pierre Morel is a French cinematographer and film director best known for directing District 13 From Paris with Love and Taken

33. Philippe Vartan Khazarian (1965)

French Film Director

Philippe Vartan Khazarian is a French film director screenwriter and producer. He is known for directing I Love the Sound of the Kalachnikov It Reminds Me of Tchaikovsky and Picnic...

34. Olivier Megaton (1965)

French Film Director

Olivier Megaton is a French film director writer and editor best known for directing The Red Siren Transporter 3 Colombiana and Taken 2.

35. Sébastien Lifshitz (1968)

French Film Director

Sébastien Lifshitz is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du...

36. Chris Nahon (1968)

French Film Director

Chris Nahon is a French film director best known for directing the films Kiss of the Dragon Empire of the Wolves and Blood: The Last Vampire.

37. Éric Guirado (1968)

French Film Director

Éric Guirado is a French film director and writer born in Lyon Rhône.

38. Bertrand Bonello (1968)

French Film Director

Bertrand Bonello is a French film director. His background is in classical music and he lives between Paris and Montreal. The Adult Movieographer won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001...

39. Erick Zonca (1956)

French Film Director

Érick Zonca or is a French film director best known for his critically acclaimed award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award...

40. Christophe Gans (1960)

French Film Director

Christophe Gans is a French film director writer and producer who specializes in horror fantasy movies and video game adaptations.

41. Safy Nebbou (1968)

French Film Director

Safy Nebbou is a French film director and actor.

42. Franck Khalfoun (1968)

French Film Director

Ange Khalfoun is a film director known for directing P2 Wrong Turn at Tahoe and the remake of Maniac.

43. Jimmy Philémond-Montout (1986)

French Film Director

Jimmy Philémond-Montout is a Canadian-Martiniquais film producer film director and screenwriter.

44. Éric Rochant (1961)

French Film Director

Éric Rochant is a French film director and a screenwriter. He is a former student of the IDHEC from the generation of Arnaud Desplechin and Noémie Lvovsky.

45. Pitof (1957)

French Film Director

Jean-Christophe Pitof Comar is a French visual effects supervisor and director notable for Vidocq and Catwoman.

46. Laurent Chalet (1969)

French Film Director

Laurent Chalet is a French Director of Photography who has made his career in both the fiction and documentary realms. Chalet filmed the 2006 Academy Award winning documentary March of...

47. Olivier Peyon (1969)

French Film Director

Olivier Peyon is a French screenwriter and film director born in L'Haÿ-les-Roses France on January 23 1969. Olivier Peyon grew up in the suburbs of Paris. He went to college...

48. Virginie Despentes (1969)

French Film Director

Virginie Despentes is a French writer novelist and filmmaker.

49. Philippe Lefebvre (film director) (1941)

French Film Director

Philippe Lefebvre is a French filmmaker. Best known as a director and writer Lefebvre received a nomination for Best Picture at the 1984 Mystfest for his crime-drama film The Judge...

50. Jean-Christophe Jeauffre (1966)

French Film Director

Jean-Christophe Jeauffre is an award-winning filmmaker a screenwriter and a producer environmentalist and creator of the Jules Verne International Film Festival born in France April 26 1966.