Visual art consisting of moving images
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to film:
Film refers to motion pictures as individual projects and to the field in general. The name came from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock ) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures.
What type of thing is film?[ edit ]
Film can be described as all of the following:
Art – aesthetic expression for presentation or performance, and the work produced from this activity.
One of the arts – as an art form, film is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Film is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
One of the visual arts – visual arts is a class of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature.
One of the performing arts – art forms in which artists use their body, voice, or objects to convey artistic expression. Performing arts include a variety of disciplines but all take the form of a performance in front of an audience.
Fine art – in Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. The word "fine" here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.
Show business – a means of providing employment for actors , screenwriters , artisans and technicians , regardless of whether the finished film was produced as a for-profit enterprise or as a not-for-profit public service.
Other names for film [ edit ]
Movie
Motion picture
Talking picture
Picture
Celluloid
Flick (or flicker)
Photoplay
Picture show
The cinema
The silver screen (talkie era); the silver sheet (silent era)
Videos
Filmmaking – process of making a film. Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages including an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and exhibition. Filmmaking is both an art and an industry. That is why they call it "show business". It's a show and a business. Films were originally recorded onto nitrate film stock which was highly flammable.[ 1] After the late 1950s, polyester film was used which was shown through a movie projector onto a large screen (in other words, an analog recording process). The adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the entire process of production, distribution, and exhibition from start to finish.
Film genre
Action - generally involves a moral interplay between "good" and "bad" played out through violence or physical force
Adventure - involving danger, risk, and/or chance, often with a high degree of fantasy
Comedy - intended to provoke laughter
Drama - mainly focuses on character development
Erotic - sexuality or eroticism and sex acts, including love scenes
Horror - intended to provoke fear in audience
Mystery - the progression from the unknown to the known by discovering and solving a series of clues
Romance - dwelling on the elements of romantic love
Thrillers - intended to provoke excitement and/or nervous tension into audience
Biographical - a biopic is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person, with varying degrees of basis in fact
Documentary - a factual following of an event or person to gain an understanding of a particular point or issue
Experimental (avant-garde ) - created to test audience reaction or to expand the boundaries of film production/story exposition then generally at play
Musical - a film interspersed with singing by all or some of the characters
Silent - a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue
Live action - film using actors
Animation - illusion of motion by consecutive display of static images which have been created by hand or on a computer
Television - a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network
Short - may strive to contain many of the elements of a "full-length" feature, in a shorter time-frame
Serial - similar to shorts, but forms a constant story arc
Feature film - film that is "full-length"
Children's film - films for young children; as opposed to a family film , no special effort is made to make the film attractive for other audiences
Family - intended to be attractive for people of all ages and suitable for viewing by a young audience; examples of these are Disney films
Teen film - intended for and aimed towards teens although some teen films, such as the High School Musical series; may also be a family film; not all of these films are suitable for all teens, as some are rated R
Adult film - intended to be viewed only by an adult audience, content may include violence, disturbing themes, obscene language, or explicit sexual behaviour. This includes various forms of exploitation films . Adult film may also be used as a synonym for pornographic film .
By audience reception [ edit ]
Action comedy – Film and TV genre
Action film – Film genre
Actuality film – Film genre using footage of real events
Adventure film – Film genre
Amateur film – Genre of low-budget film by non-professionals
American eccentric cinema – Mode of American filmmaking
Animated documentary – Genre of film that combines animation and documentary
Anthology film – Feature film consisting of several different short films
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction – Genre of fiction
Art film – Film genre
Art horror – Film genre
Arthouse animation – Combination of art film and animated film
Arthouse science fiction film – Genre of film
Australian Western – Sub-genrePages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
B movie – Low-budget commercial film genre
Backstage musical – Genre of musical theatre
Badaga cinema – Badaga-language film industry
Beach party film – Film genre
Behind-the-scenes – Documentary film that features the production of a film or television program
Bildungsroman – Coming of age literary genre
Biographical film – Film genre
Black comedy – Comedic work based on taboo subject matter
Black film – Film largely featuring or representing black people
Blaxploitation – Film genre
Body horror – Subgenre of horror fiction
Bomba (genre) – 1960s Filipino film genre
Bourekas film – Genre of Israeli comic melodrama
Bromantic comedy – Comedy film genre
Buddy cop – Film and television genre
Buddy film – Film genre in which two people of the same sex are non-romantically paired
Cannibal film – Film genre
Cartoon – Type of two-dimensional visual art
Cartoon pornography – Cartoon characters in sexual situations
Chicano cinema – movies made by or about Mexican AmericansPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
List of Chicano films
Chick flick – Slang term for romantic film genre catering to young women
Children's film – Film genre
Chopsocky – Colloquial term
Christian film industry – Aspect of Christian media
Christmas horror – Genre of fiction and film
Cinema da Boca do Lixo – Film Genre
Cinéma vérité – Style of documentary filmmaking
Cinepoetry
Colonial cinema – Cinema produced by the colonizing nation in and about their colonies
Comédia à portuguesa
Comedy drama – Genre of theatre, film, and television
Comedy film – Genre of film that emphasizes humour
Comedy horror – Genre that combines elements of horror and comedy
Comedy of remarriage – Film genre
Comedy thriller – Film genre
Science fiction comedy – Comedic subgenre of science fiction
List of coming-of-age stories
Coming-of-age story – Genre of stories of growing into adulthood
Commedia sexy all'italiana – Italian film genre
Compilation film – Film edited from previously released footage
Composite film – Film whose screenplay is composed of two or more distinct stories
Concert film – Audiovisual recording of a concert performance
Conspiracy fiction – Subgenre of thriller fiction
Crime film – Film genre
Cult film – Films with a devoted fanbase
Dance film – film in which dance is a central element in the narrativePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Detective fiction – Subgenre of crime and mystery fiction
Direct cinema – Style of documentary filmmaking
Disaster film – Film genre
Docudrama – Documentary genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual events
Docufiction – Film genre
Documentary film – Nonfictional motion picture
Drama (film and television) – Film and television genre
Economics film – Film genre covering economics as a theme
Educational film – Film genre
Epic film – Style of filmmaking with large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle
Erotic thriller – Film and literary sub-genre
Erra cinema – Collection of political films in Telugu
Ethnofiction – Subfield of ethnography
Ethnographic film – Non-fiction film genre
Euro War – Subgenre of war films
European art cinema – Film genre in Europe
Eurospy film – Genre of spy films
Experimental film – Cinematic works that are experimental form or content
Exploitation film – Informal film genre
Fantasy comedy – Comedic subgenre of fantasy
Fantasy film – Film genre
Female buddy film – Film genre
Film à clef – Cinematographic genre
Film d'art – French movement of early narrative films
Film gris – Film genre
Film noir – Cinematic term used to describe stylized feature film crime dramas
Filmfarsi – film genre used in pre-revolutionary Iranian cinemaPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Florida Western
Folk horror – Subgenre of horror film
Gangster film – Film genre
Gendai-geki – Japanese film, television, and theater genre
Gentleman thief – Stock character; a sophisticated and well-mannered thief
German underground horror – Film genre
Giallo – Film genre
Girls with guns – Sub-genre of action films and animation
Gods and demons fiction – Subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction
Gokudō – Cheaply produced (often direct to video) Yakuza movies, with themes of sex and violence.
Gong'an fiction – Chinese crime fiction subgenre
Goona-goona epic – Exploitation film genre
Gothic film – Film genre
Gothic romance film – Film genre
Grindhouse – Low-budget movie theater that shows mainly exploitation films
Gross out – Shock effect technique in media and art
Guerrilla filmmaking – Micro-budget film genre
Gun fu – Style of fictional fighting found in film, television, and videogames
Hanukkah film – Film genre whose main subject matter is the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah
Heimatfilm – Film genre
Heist film – Subgenre of crime films
Heritage film – Period films with high-quality visual production values
Highlight film
Historical drama – Film subgenre
Historical fiction – Fiction that is set in the past
Home movie – Amateur film or video typically made just to preserve a visual record of family activities
Hood film – Film genre originating in the United States
Horror film – Film genre
Horror noir – film genrePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Hybrid genre – Genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres
Hyperlink cinema – Multilinear filmmaking style
Independent film – Film done outside of the major film studio system
Industrial video – film created for an industrial companyPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Interstitial art – Art of basic nature
Jiangshi fiction – Literary and cinematic genre of horror
Jidaigeki – Japanese film, TV, games, and theatre genre
Jukebox musical – Musical compiled from existing songs
Kaiju – Japanese media genre
Khasi cinema – Khasi-language film industry
Korean melodrama
Kung fu film – Film genre
Legal drama – Subgenre of dramatic fiction
Legal thriller – Fiction genre
List of Western subgenres
Live-action animated film – Film combining live-action and animated elementsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Luchador films – Lucha Libre based films
Mafia comedy film – Film genre
Mafia film – Version of gangster film
Magic realism – Style of literary fiction and artPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Malayalam softcore pornography – Genre of softcore pornographic films produced in Kerala, India
Martial arts film – Film genre
Masala film – Film genre
Maximalist film – Genre of cinema
Medical drama – Television program or film presented around medical environments
Melodrama – Dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters to appeal to the emotions
Message picture – Film intended to communicate sociopolitical ideas as well as entertain
Metacinema – Self-reflexive mode of filmmaking
Mexploitation – Film genre
Micro movie – Type of short film
Midnight movie – Genre of late-night low-budget films
Minimalist film – Cinema related to the philosophy of minimalism
Mo lei tau – Type of slapstick humour associated with Hong Kong popular culture
Mockbuster – Film made to exploit another's publicity
Mockumentary – Film genre
Modernist film – Film genre
Mondo film – Film genre
Monster movie – Film genre
Mountain film – Film genre focusing on mountaineering
Mumblecore – Film subgenre
Musical film – Film genre
Musical short – Short films, often before the main feature
Musicarello – Italian film sub genre; musical comedy typically featuring a young singing star
Muslim social – Film genre in Bollywood
Mystery film – Genre of film
Mythopoeia – Narrative genre in modern literature and film
Narco pelicula – Mexican action film sub-genre
Narrative film – Tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative
Nazi exploitation – Subgenre of film
Neo-noir – Film genre; modern form of film noir
New queer cinema – Movement in queer-themed independent filmmaking
No-budget film – Film made with very little or no money
Non-narrative film – Aesthetic of cinematic film
Northern (genre) – Multimedia genre set primarily in Northern Canada and Alaska
Opera film – Recording of an opera on film
Operetta film – Film genre
Ostern – Western-inspired film genre
Outlaw biker film – Film genre
Ozploitation – Genre of film produced in Australia
Paracinema – Academic term for a variety of film genres out of the mainstream
Parallel cinema – 1950s movement in Indian cinema
Parody film – Film genre
Pastoral science fiction – Science fiction subgenre
Pink film – Japanese erotic cinema
Poetry film – film genrePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Political thriller – Genre of fiction
Poliziotteschi – Genre of Italian crime films
Pornochanchada – Genre of sex comedy films produced in Brazil
Pornographic film – Films that present sexually explicit subject matter in order to arouse and satisfy the viewer
Postmodern horror – subgenre of filmPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Postmodernist film – Film genre
The Prague film school – Eastern European film school, late 20th century
Prison film – Film genre focused on prisons
Propaganda film – Movie genre
Prussian film – Film genre
Pseudo-documentary – Documentary genre that features fictional events
Psychedelic film – Film genre
Psychological drama – Narrative subgenre of drama with psychological fiction
Psychological horror – Narrative subgenre
Psychological thriller – Genre combining thriller and psychological fiction
Pulp noir – Fiction subgenre
Quinqui (film genre) – Spanish film genre
Race film – Film genre
Rape and revenge – Film subgenre
Real time (media) – Theatrical genre
Reality film – Genre of documentary film
Religious horror – GenrePages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
Remodernist film – Film genre
Retrospective – Look back at events that took place before
Road movie – Film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip
Romance film – Film genre
Romantic comedy – Film genre
Romantic fantasy – Fantasy subgenre
Romantic thriller – Genre that involves romance and thriller
Rumberas film – Film genre
Samurai cinema – Film genre
Satanic film – Subgenre of horror film which depicts the Devil and associated wicked themes
Satire – Literary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody
Sceneggiata – Form of musical drama typical of Naples
Science fiction film – Film genre
Screenlife – Film subgenre where the action takes place entirely on a screen of a computer or a smartphone
Screwball comedy – Genre of comedy film
Semidocumentary – Form of storytelling
Sex report film – Film genre
Sexploitation film – Genre of independently produced, low-budget feature films
Sharksploitation – Subgenre of exploitation film
Shinpa – Japanese form of theater
Shoshimin-eiga – Japanese film genre
Silent film – Motion pictures without synchronized recorded sound
Skate video – Film genre
Slapstick – Style of comedy
Slapstick film – Film genre
Slasher film – Film subgenre that involves a killer murdering people using blades
Slow cinema – Genre of art cinema
Snuff film – Film showing real murders
Social film
Social guidance film – Educational film genre
Social problem film – Narrative movie about a social issue
Social thriller – Genre combining thriller fiction with social commentary
South Seas genre – Literary and film genre
Soviet parallel cinema – Underground film movement in the Soviet Union
Space Western – SubgenrePages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
Spaghetti Western – Italian film genre
Splatter film – Horror genre
Sponsored film – Film genre
Sports film – Film genre
Spy film – Film genre
Stag film – Silent pornographic film genre
Stoner film – Subgenre of comedy films
Submarine films – Subgenre of war film
Superhero film – Film genre
Supernatural film – Film genre
Surf film – Film genre
Surrealist cinema – Film genre
Survival film – Film genre
Swashbuckler film – Subgenre of the adventure film genre
Sword-and-sandal – Genre of largely Italian-made historical or biblical epics
Tech noir – Hybrid genre of fiction, combining film noir and science fiction
Teen film – Film genre
Telefoni Bianchi – Italian film genre
Tendency film – Socially conscious and left-leaning Japanese film genre
Three girls movie – Film genre typically about the romantic and other activities of three urban girls
Thriller film – Film genre evoking excitement and suspense
Training film
Transgressive art – Art that intends to outrage or violate basic morals and sensibilities
Travel documentary – Documentary film, television program or online series that describes travel
Trial film – GenrePages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
Trick film – Short silent films designed to feature innovative special effects
Trümmerfilm – Film genre
Ukrainian poetic cinema – Genre of Ukrainian cinema
Underground film – Genre of film outside the mainstream
Utopian and dystopian fiction – Genres of literature that explore social and political structures
Vampire film – Film genre
Vansploitation – Term and film genre used to describe American independent films from the 1970s
Vigilante film – Film genre
Visual album – Type of concept album
Vomit gore – Surreal horror film series by Lucifer ValentinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
War film – Film genre depicting wars
Werewolf fiction – Fantasy genre
Western (genre) – Multimedia genre
Western film – Film genre
Wiener Film – Austrian film genre
Wire fu – Mix of Chinese martial arts and cinematic visual effects
Woman's film – Film genre
Women in prison film – Film genre
Wuxia – Genre of Chinese fiction
Yakuza film – Film genre
Z movie – Badly-made low budget movie
Zombie comedy – Film and television genre
Zombie film – Subgenre of horror film featuring zombies
Zombie pornography – Pornography involving zombies
Sovereign states States with limited recognition
Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states Dependencies and other territories
Sovereign states States with limited recognition Dependencies and other entities
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand Dependencies and other territories
History of film
General film concepts [ edit ]
Film theory
List of films by title: # , A , B , C , D , E , F , G , H , I , J-K , L , M , N-O , P , Q-R , S , T , U-V-W , & X-Y-Z
List of years in film
Films by setting location [ edit ]
Major film studios
Awards and festivals [ edit ]
Above the line – Term in filmmaking
Actor – Person who portrays a character in a production
Voice actor – Performing voice-overs to represent a character or provide information
Leading actor – Type of role of an actor
Supporting actor – Actor who performs a less-important role than that of the leading actor
Ensemble cast – Cast with many actors given similar standing
Character actor – Actor who predominantly plays distinctive or eccentric characters
Bit actor – Acting role in which there is direct interaction with the main actors but little dialogue
Cameo actor – Brief appearance in performing art
Film director – Person who controls the artistic and dramatic aspects of a film production
Screenwriter – Person who writes for films, TV shows, comics, and games
Film producer – Person supervising the making of a film
Below the line – Section of film budget
Pre-production – Phase of producing a film or television show
Unit production manager – Responsible for the administration of a feature film or television production
Production coordinator – coordinates the various groups and personnel in a filmmaking or video productionPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Production accountant – Opaque or creative accounting methodsPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Assistant director – Film management and logistics role
Script supervisor – Oversees the continuity of scenes during filmmaking
Script coordinator – role in film and television productionPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Casting director – Pre-production process for selecting actors, dancers, singers, or extras for roles or parts
Production assistant – Person responsible for various aspects of a film or TV production
Location manager – person responsible for locations where a movie is shotPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Location scout – Filmmaking and commercial photography production process
Storyboard artist – Person who creates storyboards for advertising agencies and film productions
Principal photography – Phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place
Sound design – Sound track creation
Special effect – Illusions or tricks to change appearances
Special effects supervisor – individual who works on a commercial, theater, television or film set creating special effectsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Visual effects supervisor – responsible for achieving the creative aims of the director and/or producers through the use of visual effectsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Animation – A team within a film studio that works on various aspects of Animation
Acting coach – Teacher who trains performers
Body double – Person who substitutes for another actor in a film scene such that their face is not shownPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Dialect coach – person who trains actors to speak with authentic accentsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Movement director – Film crew member
Choreographer – Art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies
Extra – Nonspeaking or nonsinging acting role
Talent agent – Person who represents the interests of entertainment, broadcast, and sports professionals
Stand-in – Substitute for an actor for production purposes
Acting instructor – person who teaches actingPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Intimacy coordinator – Entertainment industry position
Stage combat – Technique used in theatre to create the illusion of physical combat
Stunt double – Person who substitutes for another actor in a film scene such that their face is not shownPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Stunt performer – Person who performs stunts
Under-five – TV or film actor whose character has fewer than five lines of dialogue
Post-production – Step in film, video, audio or photography process
Film editor – Creative and technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking
Sound editor – Creative professional that selects and assembles sound recordings before final audio mixing
Colorist – Enhancing the color of an image or video
Animator – Person who makes animation sequences out of still images
Technical director – OccupationPages displaying short descriptions with no spaces
VFX creative director – Visual effects person
Visual effects editor – Various processes by which imagery is created
Compositor – Combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images
Swing gang – People who make last-minute changes on a film set
Unit still photographer – person who takes photographs to document activity on a film setPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
Notable people from the film industry [ edit ]
Film theorists and critics [ edit ]
Famous film producers [ edit ]
Notable film producers
Chantal Akerman – Belgian film director (1950–2015)
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Theo Angelopoulos – Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer
Michelangelo Antonioni – Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
Richard Attenborough – British actor and director (1923–2014)
Ingmar Bergman – Swedish filmmaker (1918–2007)
Bernardo Bertolucci – Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)
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Clarence Brown – American film director (1890–1987)
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Frank Capra – Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)
Marcel Carné – French film director (1906–1996)
John Carpenter – American filmmaker (born 1948)
John Cassavetes – Greek-American filmmaker and actor (1929–1989)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Turkish film director, screenwriter, film producer and photographer (born 1959)
Claude Chabrol – French film director (1930–2010)
Youssef Chahine – Egyptian film director (1926–2008)
Park Chan-wook – South Korean filmmaker (born 1963)
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Chen Kaige – Chinese filmmaker
Yash Chopra – Indian film director and film producer (1932–2012)
René Clair – French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981)
Henri-Georges Clouzot – French film director, screenwriter and producer
Jean Cocteau – French writer and film director (1889–1963)
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Pedro Costa – Portuguese film director
Alfonso Cuarón – Mexican filmmaker
George Cukor – American film director and producer
Michael Curtiz – Hungarian-American director (1886–1962)
Cecil B. DeMille – American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)
Vittorio De Sica – Italian film director and actor (1901–1974)
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Federico Fellini – Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)
Robert J. Flaherty – American documentary filmmaker
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Victor Fleming – American film director, cinematographer, and producer
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Jean-Luc Godard – French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
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Alfred Hitchcock – English film director (1899–1980)
John Huston – American filmmaker (1906–1987)
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Stanley Kubrick – American filmmaker (1928–1999)
Akira Kurosawa – Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
Fritz Lang – Austrian filmmaker (1890–1976)
Ang Lee – Taiwanese filmmaker (born 1954)
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Spike Lee – American filmmaker (born 1957)
Sergio Leone – Italian filmmaker (1929–1989)
Ken Loach – British filmmaker (born 1936)
Ernst Lubitsch – German-American film director (1892–1947)
Sidney Lumet – American filmmaker (1924–2011)
David Lynch – American filmmaker (born 1946)
Louis Malle – French film director, screenwriter, and producer
Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz – American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909–1993)
Leo McCarey – American film director (1898–1969)
Deepa Mehta – Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter (born 1950)
Jean-Pierre Melville – French filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)
Brillante Mendoza – Filipino independent filmmaker
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Japanese filmmaker (1898–1956)
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Mike Nichols – American film and theatre director (1931–2014)
Christopher Nolan – British and American filmmaker (born 1970)
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Alan Parker – British filmmaker (1944–2020)
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Roman Polanski – French and Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger – English film director
Otto Preminger – Austrian-American director, producer, and actor (1905–1986)
Vsevolod Pudovkin – Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor
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Satyajit Ray – Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Jean Renoir – French film director and screenwriter (1894–1979)
Alain Resnais – French film director
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