1. Michelangelo Antonioni (1912)

Italian Film Director

Italian director whose 1966 film Blowup won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He also directed the critically acclaimed films L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L'Eclisse (1962)....

2. Umberto Lenzi (1931)

Italian Film Director

Director known for his work in various Italian subgenres, including spaghetti westerns, Macarnoi Combat movies, and giallo murder mysteries.

3. Tinto Brass (1933)

Italian Film Director

Italian filmmaker known for his erotic films, including Caligula, Così fan tutte, Paprika, Monella, and Trasgredire. Many of his works are either set during World War II or are literary...

4. Ruggero Deodato (1939)

Italian Film Director

Director of the controversial 1980 Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust.

5. Lamberto Bava (1944)

Italian Film Director

Son of master cinematographer Mario Bava and director of horror and fantasy films.

6. Gabriele Salvatores (1950)

Italian Film Director

Academy Award-winning director of the Italian film Mediterraneo about a group of Italian soldiers stranded on an island in Greece.

7. Gabriele Muccino (1967)

Italian Film Director

Director of the romantic comedy Playing for Keeps starring Gerald Butler and The Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith.

8. Ferzan Özpetek (1959)

Italian Film Director

Director and screenwriter well known for his award-winning films Facing Windows and The Ignorant Fairies, and his debut film Hamam. In 2008, he received a retrospective from the Museum of...

9. Gustav Hofer (1976)

Italian Film Director

Gustav Hofer is an Italian film director screenwriter journalist and TV host.

10. Christian Filippella (1975)

Italian Film Director

Christian Filippella is an award winning filmmaker living and working in Los Angeles California Rome Italy and Belfast Northern Ireland. Filippella began working as an independent filmmaker in Spain and...

11. Alessandro Avellis (1975)

Italian Film Director

Alessandro Avellis is an Italian film director. Alessandro Avellis studied film direction in Rome. Since 2000 he lives in Paris. He directed some short films selected and awarded in several...

12. Saverio Costanzo (1975)

Italian Film Director

Saverio Costanzo is an Italian film director. He was born in Rome the son of journalist and TV presenter Maurizio Costanzo. His debut was Private in 2004. In 2007 his...

13. Berardo Carboni (1975)

Italian Film Director

Graduate in jurisprudence Berardo Carboni born in 1975 is PhD in “civil probles of the human being”. A scriptwriter and director has made shorts and documentaries including Roma in Quel...

14. Alice Rohrwacher (1981)

Italian Film Director

Alice Rohrwacher is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

15. Emilio Miraglia (Unknow)

Italian Film Director

Emilio Paolo Miraglia is an Italian film director. He began working in film as a director's assistant and technician and worked on many B movies where he developed his technique.

16. Silvio Soldini (Unknow)

Italian Film Director

Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director. Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of June 2007 and 14 nominations. His 2007 film Days and Clouds was entered...

17. Enrico Guazzoni (1876)

Italian Film Director

Enrico Guazzoni was an Italian screenwriter and film director.

18. Ermanno Olmi (1931)

Italian Film Director

Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.

19. Luciano Tovoli (Unknow)

Italian Film Director

Luciano Tovoli in Massa Marittima Italy is an Italian cinematographer film director and screenwriter. While the majority of the titles in his filmography are Italian he has worked as cinematographer...

20. Enzo G. Castellari (1938)

Italian Film Director

Enzo G. Castellari is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back One Dollar...

21. Riccardo Schicchi (1953)

Italian Film Director

Riccardo Schicchi was an Italian adult aovieographer. Graduated from art school with a specialization in photography Schicchi began by being a photographer for Epoca travelling around in several places of...

22. Fulvio Wetzl (1953)

Italian Film Director

ulvio Wetzl is an Italian filmmaker.

23. Vincenzo Cosentino (1982)

Italian Film Director

Vincenzo Antonio Cosentino – is an awarded filmmaker.

24. Dario Baldi (1976)

Italian Film Director

25. Felice Farina (1954)

Italian Film Director

s an Italian director. Felice Farina is a Rome based artist. He grew through the ferment of Roman avant-garde theatre both as an actor and backstage developing - at the...

26. Massimo Mazzucco (1954)

Italian Film Director

Massimo Mazzucco is an Italian filmmaker who is known for producing documentary films such as The New American Century and Cancer -The Forbidden Cures. Mazzucco is also the editor of...

27. Marco Tullio Giordana (1950)

Italian Film Director

Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

28. Carlo Verdone (1950)

Italian Film Director

Carlo Verdone is an Italian actor screenwriter and film director.

29. Raffaele Mertes (Unknow)

Italian Film Director

Raffaele Mertes is an Italian film director. He began as a cinematographer with his first work being on the 1982 film Un gusto molto particolare. His first film as director...

30. Carlo Vanzina (1951)

Italian Film Director

Carlo Vanzina is an Italian film director producer and screenwriter. He was born March 13 1951. In 2001 he directed the romantic comedy film South Kensington starring Rupert Everett and...

31. Antonio Maria Magro (1959)

Italian Film Director

Antonio Maria Magro is an Italian film director actor and screenwriter.

32. Giovanni Veronesi (1962)

Italian Film Director

Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter actor and director.

33. Franco Dragone (Unknow)

Italian Film Director

Dragone is an Italian-Belgian theatre director. He is known for his work with Cirque du Soleil and Celine Dion.

34. Antonello Padovano (1955)

Italian Film Director

Antonello Padovano is an Italian film director and producer.

35. Gianni Zanasi (1965)

Italian Film Director

Gianni Zanasi is an Italian film director. He has been a writer and has been an actor also in a few films.

36. Carlo Mazzacurati (1956)

Italian Film Director

Carlo Mazzacurati was an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980. His better known films include Il Toro and La lingua del...

37. Pasquale Scimeca (1956)

Italian Film Director

Pasquale Scimeca is an Italian film director and producer.

38. Marco Turco (1960)

Italian Film Director

Marco Turco is an Italian director and screenwriter.

39. Salvo Cuccia (1960)

Italian Film Director

Salvo Cuccia is an Italian cinema director and screenwriter.

40. Raffaele Festa Campanile (1961)

Italian Film Director

Raffaele Festa Campanile is an Italian television author screenwriter film director music producer. Son of the Italian film director Pasquale Festa Campanile

41. Leonardo Ferrari Carissimi (1983)

Italian Film Director

Leonardo Ferrari Carissimi is an Italian movie and stage director.

42. Gianfrancesco Lazotti (1957)

Italian Film Director

Gianfrancesco Lazotti is an Italian film screenwriter and director. Born in Rome Lazotti studied at DAMS in Bologna and apprenticed as assistant director to many well-known Italian directors including Ettore...

43. Daniele Gangemi (1980)

Italian Film Director

Daniele Gangemi is an Italian film director screenwriter and cinematographer.

44. Giacomo Cimini (1977)

Italian Film Director

Giacomo Cimini is a London-based Italian film director screenwriter and producer.

45. Massimilian Breeder (1978)

Italian Film Director

Massimilian Breeder is an Italian artist who works in film drawings sound and installation. He spent his childhood with his grandparents between Genova Italy and Polperro England. In 1992 he...

46. Maria Sole Tognazzi (1971)

Italian Film Director

Maria Sole Tognazzi is an Italian film director.

47. Nelo Risi (1920)

Italian Film Director

Nelo Risi is an Italian poet film director translator and screenwriter brother of cinematographer Fernando Risi and director Dino Risi. Born in Milan he graduated in medicine as his brother...

48. David Bellini (1972)

Italian Film Director

David Bellini is an Italian screenwriter television writer story editor and docu-director. Screenwriter of the famous TV series Un medico in famiglia head writer of the Italian programs: Tetris and...

49. Giovanni Maderna (1973)

Italian Film Director

Giovanni Davide Maderna is an Italian film director. In 1995 Maderna directed his first short film La Place in Lyon France equal winner at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival. After a...

50. Ginevra Elkann (1979)

Italian Film Director

Ginevra Elkann is an Italian apprentice film director and as granddaughter of Gianni Agnelli is among the heirs to the largest fortune in modern Italian history. She married Giovanni Gaetani...