List of French film directors

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This is a list of French film directors.

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## A-B

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* Mona Achache
* Gabriel Aghion
* Alexandre Aja
* Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
* Marc Allégret
* Yves Allégret
* Jean-Baptiste Andrea
* Jean-Jacques Annaud
* Olivier Assayas
* Alexandre Astruc
* Jacques Audiard
* Jacqueline Audry
* Jean Aurel
* Claude Autant-Lara
* Serge Avedikian
* Gaël Aymon
* Géla Babluani
* Charles le Bargy
* Jacques de Baroncelli
* Jean-Marc Barr
* Jean-Louis Barrault
* Jacques Becker
* Jean Becker
* Jean-Jacques Beineix
* Yannick Bellon
* Yamina Benguigui
* Raymond Bernard
* Claude Berri
* Luc Besson
* Bruno Bianchi
* Enki Bilal
* Alice Guy-Blaché
* Michel Blanc
* Bertrand Blier
* Romane Bohringer
* Michel Boisrond
* Patrick Bokanowski
* Bertrand Bonello
* Bernie Bonvoisin
* Rachid Bouchareb
* Martin Bourboulon
* Laurent Boutonnat
* Jean-Christophe Bouvet
* Sarah Bouyain
* Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
* Jean Boyer
* Gérard Brach
* Catherine Breillat
* Robert Bresson
* Jean-Claude Brialy
* Philippe de Broca
* Charles Burguet
* Alexandre Bustillo
* José Bénazéraf

## C-E

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* Marcel Camus
* Guillaume Canet
* Laurent Cantet
* Leos Carax
* Christian Carion
* Marcel Carné
* Marc Caro
* Emmanuel Carrère
* Yves Caumon
* André Cayatte
* Claude Chabrol
* Jacques Charon
* Étienne Chatiliez
* Patrice Chéreau
* Antoine Chevrollier
* Segundo de Chomón
* Élie Chouraqui
* Christian-Jaque
* Yves Ciampi
* Jean-Paul Civeyrac
* René Clair
* René Clément
* Henri-Georges Clouzot
* Jean Cocteau
* Clément Cogitore
* Romain Cogitore
* Henri Colpi
* Alain Corneau
* Catherine Corsini
* Edgardo Cozarinsky
* Guy Debord
* Camille Delamarre
* Jean Delannoy
* Benoît Delépine
* Denis Delestrac
* Louis Delluc
* Richard Dembo
* Jacques Demy
* Claire Denis
* Jacques Deray
* Arnaud Desplechin
* Michel Deville
* Henri Diamant-Berger
* William Kennedy Dickson
* Albert Dieudonné
* Vincent Dieutre
* Arielle Dombasle
* Germaine Dulac
* Bruno Dumont
* François Dupeyron
* Marguerite Duras
* Julien Duvivier
* Christine Edzard
* Robert Enrico
* Jean Epstein
* Jean Eustache

## F-J

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* Henri de la Falaise
* Ismaël Ferroukhi
* Louis Feuillade
* Jacques Feyder
* Vanessa Filho
* Georges Franju
* Guy du Fresnay
* Abel Gance
* Christophe Gans
* Nicole Garcia
* Philippe Garrel
* Louis J. Gasnier
* Tony Gatlif
* Costa Gavras
* Julie Gavras
* Daniel Gélin
* Xavier Gens
* Bernard Giraudeau
* Francis Girod
* Jean-Luc Godard
* Michel Gondry
* Yann Gonzalez
* Jean-Pierre Gorin
* Jean-Paul Goude
* Pierre Granier-Deferre
* Jean Grémillon
* Paul Grimault
* Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
* Sacha Guitry
* Paul Gury
* Alice Guy-Blaché
* Lucile Hadžihalilović
* Roger Hanin
* Mia Hansen-Løve
* Philippe Harel
* Christophe Honoré
* Robert Hossein
* André Hugon
* André Hunebelle
* Marcel Ichac
* Jean Image
* Otar Iosseliani
* Aline Issermann
* Luc Jacquet
* Benoît Jacquot
* Just Jaeckin
* Agnès Jaoui
* Sébastien Japrisot
* Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
* Jean-Pierre Jeunet
* Roland Joffé

## K-M

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* William Karel
* Mathieu Kassovitz
* Peter Kassovitz
* Cédric Klapisch
* Nicolas Klotz
* Gérard Krawczyk
* Diane Kurys
* Adonis Kyrou
* Marcel L'Herbier
* Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
* George Lacombe
* Jean-Daniel Lafond
* René Laloux
* Albert Lamorisse
* Hélène Lam Trong
* Rémi Lange
* Alexis Langlois
* Claude Lanzmann
* Jacques Lanzmann
* Denys de La Patellière
* Pascal Laugier
* Georges Lautner
* Yves Lavandier
* Louis Le Prince
* Patrice Leconte
* Claude Lelouch
* René Leprince
* Louis Leterrier
* Sébastien Lifshitz
* Auguste and Louis Lumière
* Teddy Lussi-Modeste
* Sarah Maldoror
* Louis Malle
* Sophie Marceau
* Ali Marhyar
* Maurice Mariaud
* Chris Marker
* Sébastien Marnier
* Jean-Pierre Marois
* Christian Marquand
* Tonie Marshall
* Léon Mathot
* Julien Maury
* Nicolas Maury
* Georges Méliès
* Jean-Pierre Melville
* Michel Mitrani
* Radu Mihăileanu
* Soraya Milla
* Claude Miller
* Alexandre Michon
* Noël Mitrani
* Serge Moati
* Jean-Pierre Mocky
* Léonide Moguy
* Édouard Molinaro
* Gregory Monro
* Bruno Monsaingeon
* Gaël Morel
* Luc Moullet
* Mr. Oizo
* Musidora

## N-R

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* Raphael Nadjari
* Jules and Gedeon Naudet
* Gaspar Noé
* Bruno Nuytten
* Marcel Ophüls
* Gérard Oury
* François Ozon
* Marcel Pagnol
* Jean Painlevé
* Euzhan Palcy
* Jean-Marie Pallardy
* Philippe Parreno
* Christine Pascal
* Alain Payet
* Max Pécas
* Robert Péguy
* Vincent Pérez
* Léonce Perret
* Jacques Perrin
* Maurice Pialat
* Claude Pinoteau
* Gérard Pirès
* Pitof
* Caroline Poggi
* Jean-Marie Poiré
* Léon Poirier
* Roman Polanski
* Jean-Daniel Pollet
* Henri Pouctal
* Eugene Py
* Philippe Ramos
* Alex Ranarivelo
* Bernard Rapp
* Jean-Paul Rappeneau
* Jean Renoir
* Alain Resnais
* Jacques Rivette
* Alain Robbe-Grillet
* Yves Robert
* Éric Rochant
* Charles de Rochefort
* Éric Rohmer
* Jean Rollin
* Frédéric Rossif
* François Rotger
* Brigitte Roüan
* Gaston Roudès
* Jacques Rouffio
* Henry Roussell
* Jacques Rozier
* Alexandre Ryder

## S-Z

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* Jean-Paul Salomé
* Lucia Sanchez
* Claude Sautet
* Suzanne Schiffman
* Pierre Schoendoerffer
* Barbet Schroeder
* Céline Sciamma
* Partho Sen-Gupta
* Serge Ankri
* Coline Serreau
* Marius Sestier
* Delphine Seyrig
* Florent Emilio Siri
* Ramzi Ben Sliman
* George Sluizer
* Nicole Stéphane
* Straub-Huillet
* Ramata-Toulaye Sy
* Charlotte Szlovak
* Jeannot Szwarc
* Jihan El-Tahri
* Jacques Tati
* Bertrand Tavernier
* André Téchiné
* Virginie Thévenet
* Danièle Thompson
* Daniel Tinayre
* Laurent Tirard
* Jacques Tourneur
* Maurice Tourneur
* Tran Anh Hung
* Coralie Trinh Thi
* Nadine Trintignant
* François Truffaut
* Roger Vadim
* Eric Valli
* Charles Vanel
* Agnès Varda
* Marcel Varnel
* Flore Vasseur
* Anton Vassil
* Francis Veber
* Paul Vecchiali
* Henri Verneuil
* Sandrine Veysset
* Jean Vigo
* René Viénet
* Jonathan Vinel
* Régis Wargnier
* Alexis Wajsbrot
* André Weinfeld
* Sylvain White
* Anne Wiazemsky
* Ferdinand Zecca
* Ariel Zeitoun
* Claude Zidi
* Rebecca Zlotowski
* Erick Zonca

## See also

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* Biography portal
* Film portal
* France portal
* Lists portal

* Cinema of France
* List of French people

## External links

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* Some notes on each director

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Production companies
and studios|

* Action Synthese
* Ariane Films
* Billancourt Studios
* Celluloid Dreams
* Ciby 2000
* Def2shoot
* EuropaCorp
* Les Films du Losange
* Folimage
* Francoeur Studios
* Francinex
* Gaumont
* Honkytonk Films
* Les Films du Poisson
* Joinville Studios
* Pan-Européenne
* Pathé
* PMMP
* Réalisation d'art cinématographique
* Sciapode
* Sofracima
* Star Film Company
* StudioCanal
* Victorine Studios
* Wild Bunch

Awards|

* César Awards
* Lumière Awards
* Globe de Cristal Awards
* French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards
* Louis Delluc Prize
* Prix Romy Schneider
* Prix Patrick Dewaere (formerly Prix Jean Gabin)
* Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario
* Prix Jean Vigo
* Prix Suzanne Bianchetti
* René Clair Award

Personnel|

* Actors
* Animators
* Directors
* Cinematographers
* Critics
* Editors
* Production designers
* Screenwriters
* Producers
* Score composers

Movement|

* Cinéma du look
* Cinéma pur
* French impressionist cinema
* French New Wave
* New French Extremity
* Poetic realism
* Surrealist cinema

Other|

* Most expensive films
* Box office
* Film festivals
* Cinema chains
* Unifrance

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Lists of European film directors

Sovereign states|

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* Austria
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Republic of Ireland
* Italy
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Netherlands
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden

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* Albania
* Andorra
* Armenia
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* Belarus
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Georgia
* Iceland
* Kazakhstan
* Liechtenstein
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Russia
* San Marino
* Serbia
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom

States with limited
recognition

* Abkhazia
* Kosovo
* Northern Cyprus
* South Ossetia
* Transnistria

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