1. Wolfgang Petersen (1941)

German Film Director

German film director of The Perfect Storm starring George Clooney.

2. Tom Tykwer (1965)

German Film Director

Director and screenwriter of visually striking films such as Run Lola Run, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, and Cloud Atlas.

3. Marcus Nispel (1963)

German Film Director

Director of the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and award-winning music videos by artists such as No Doubt and The Fugees.

4. Uli Edel (1947)

German Film Director

German director of films such as Rasputin, Body of Evidence, Tyson, and Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.

5. Roland Emmerich (1955)

German Film Director

Director of blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998), Independence Day (1996), and The Patriot (2000).

6. Helge Schneider (1955)

German Film Director

German musical comic known for his ability to blend slapstick comedy with genuinely superb musicianship. He has written nine books, including an autobiography entitled "My whole life's in this book,...

7. Christian Alvart (1974)

German Film Director

Christian Alvart is a German filmmaker and screenwriter. Prior to working in the film business Christian Alvart worked in various positions most recently as a senior editor at Filmmagzin X-TRO....

8. Benjamin Eicher (1974)

German Film Director

Benjamin Eicher is a film director famous for his cult film sequel Dei Mudder Sei Gesicht II and further feature-length gangster comedies. His company Los Banditos Films founded in 2000...

9. Rudolf Dworsky (1882)

German Film Director

Rudolf Dworsky was a German film producer and director of the Silent era. His production company was called Aafa-Film AG Berlin the co-owner was the producer Gabriel Levy.

10. Manfred Noa (1893)

German Film Director

Manfred Noa was a German film director. Noa was described by Vilma Bánky who he directed twice as her favourite director. Noa's 1924 film Helena has been called his masterpiece...

11. Paul Leni (1885)

German Film Director

Paul Leni born Paul Josef Levi was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionist filmmaking making Backstairs and Waxworks in Germany and The Cat and the Canary...

12. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935)

German Film Director

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is a German film director whose best known film is his lengthy feature Hitler: A Film from Germany.

13. Helke Sander (1937)

German Film Director

Helke Sander is a German feminist film director and writer. Sander attended a drama school in Hamburg. While married to Finnish writer Markku Lahtela with whom she had a son...

14. Heinrich Breloer (1942)

German Film Director

Heinrich Breloer is a Geman author and film director. He has mainly worked on docudramas related to modern German history and has received many awards.

15. Birgit Hein (1942)

German Film Director

Birgit Hein is a German film director producer and screenwriter who has made experimental films with her husband Wilhelm Hein since the 1960s.

16. Cordula Trantow (1942)

German Film Director

Cordula Trantow is a German actress and director. For her performance as Geli Raubal in the 1962 film Hitler she was nominated for a 1962 Golden Globe in the category:...

17. Robert van Ackeren (1946)

German Film Director

Robert van Ackeren is a German movie director actor producer writer and cinematographer born in 22 December 1946 West Berlin West Germany.

18. Vivian Naefe (1956)

German Film Director

Vivian Naefe is a German film director. Her films include the Die wilden Hühner series Wellen and two Tatort episodes. She worked at European Film Actor School.

19. Maren Ade (1976)

German Film Director

Maren Ade is a German film director screenwriter and producer. Ade studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. Her graduation film The Forest for the Trees premiered...

20. Bastian Clevé (Unknow)

German Film Director

Bastian Clevé born 1 January 1950 in Munich is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg...

21. Monika Treut (1954)

German Film Director

Monika Treut is a German filmmaker.

22. Lutz Hachmeister (1959)

German Film Director

Lutz Hachmeister is a German media historian award-winning filmmaker and journalist. He particularly gained international attention for directing the 2005 film The Goebbels Experiment co-produced by the BBC and the...

23. Oskar Roehler (1959)

German Film Director

Oskar Roehler is a German film director screen writer and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the...

24. Detlev Buck (1962)

German Film Director

Detlev Buck is a German film director actor producer and screenwriter.

25. Robert Sigl (1962)

German Film Director

Robert Sigl is a German film director and writer. He attended the Munich Film School from 1981 until 1986. His short film The Christmas Tree was shown at international festivals...

26. Jan Schmidt-Garre (1962)

German Film Director

Jan Schmidt-Garre German film director and producer.

27. Hilmar Hoffmann (1925)

German Film Director

Hilmar Hoffmann is a German cultural worker and cultural functionary.

28. Fred Kelemen (1964)

German Film Director

Efraim Kelemen is a European film and theater director cinematographer and writer. The late Susan Sontag helped to promote Kelemen's work in the mid-1990s comparing it to the likes of...

29. Caroline Link (1964)

German Film Director

Caroline Link is a German film director and screenwriter.

30. Björn Jensen (1965)

German Film Director

Björn Jensen is a German filmmaker consultant and producer.

31. Romuald Karmakar (1965)

German Film Director

Romuald Karmakar is a French film director screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden Germany as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to...

32. Christian Peschken (1955)

German Film Director

Christian Peschken was born June 9 1955 in Nuembrecht Germany grew up in Moers am Rhein. His parents are Cornelius-Johannes Peschken and Renate-Maria Peschken. Peschken is a cameraman producer director...

33. Jakob Schäuffelen (1967)

German Film Director

Jakob Schäuffelen is a German film director and screenwriter.

34. André Erkau (1968)

German Film Director

André Erkau is a German Film director and Screenplay writer.

35. Robert Schwentke (1968)

German Film Director

Robert Schwentke is a German film director best known for the films Tattoo and Flightplan. Robert Schwentke graduated from Los Angeles film school Columbia College Hollywood in 1992. He directed...

36. Marc Rothemund (1968)

German Film Director

Marc Rothemund is a German film director. He is the son of the film director Sigi Rothemund and the brother of the actress Nina Rothemund. He began his career as...

37. Jochen Hick (1960)

German Film Director

Jochen Hick is a German film director and producer of mainly independent feature and documentary films also specialising in LGBT subjects. In 1994 he founded the film and TV production...

38. Dennis Satin (1968)

German Film Director

Dennis Satin is a German film director and screenwriter. He became internationally well known for the movie Dangerous Dowry as director and screenwriter; starring: Katja Riemann and Hannes Jaennicke.

39. David Vostell (1960)

German Film Director

David Vostell is a German-Spanish composer and film director.

40. Niko von Glasow (1960)

German Film Director

Niko von Glasow is a German film director and producer. The founder and Artistic Director of Palladio Film von Glasow began his training with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and then worked...

41. Franziska Buch (1960)

German Film Director

ziska Buch is a German film director and screenwriter. In her work she concentrates on issues that deal with childhood and youth. The main topic in almost all of her...

42. Sebastian Bleisch (1957)

German Film Director

Sebastian Bleisch real name Norbert Bleisch is a German writer and film director of gay adult movie movies which feature in part underage actors.

43. Olaf Ittenbach (1969)

German Film Director

Olaf Ittenbach is a German horror movie director actor and special effects artist.

44. Burhan Qurbani (1980)

German Film Director

Burhan Qurbani in Erkelenz is a young Afghan-German film director writer and actor. His directing writing and acting work includes Shahada 20xBrandenburg Illusion.

45. Marco Kreuzpaintner (1977)

German Film Director

Marco Kreuzpaintner is a German film director and screenwriter.

46. Alexander Jovy (1971)

German Film Director

Alexander Jovy is a film director. He was born in Germany however his family soon went to live in Switzerland. Later he went to England to study Law in the...

47. Christian Baumeister (1971)

German Film Director

Christian Baumeister is a German cinematographer and director focusing on nature and wildlife productions in association with broadcasters such as ARD ZDF BBC ARTE ORF Discovery Channel and the National...

48. Thomas Brasch (1945)

German Film Director

Thomas Brasch was a German author poet and film director.

49. Marcus H. Rosenmüller (1973)

German Film Director

Marcus H. Rosenmüller is a German film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the films Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot Die Perlmutterfarbe and directed Sommer in Orange Schwere...

50. Florian Gallenberger (1972)

German Film Director

Gallenberger is a German film director. His film Quiero ser was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.