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Name↕ | Films↕ | Avg Rating↕ | Genres↕ | Known Films↕ | Language↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jorge Sanjinés | 6 | 7.48 | Crime, Drama, History | Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande, Insurgents, The Secret Nation, Blood of the Condor, The Courage of the People | AY, Spanish |
Asghar Farhadi | 9 | 7.32 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | A Hero, Everybody Knows, The Salesman, The Past, A Separation | French, Persian, Spanish |
Jamie Roberts | 5 | 7.28 | Crime, Documentary, War | Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods, Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris, Four Hours at the Capitol, Escape from Kabul, The Jihadis Next Door | English, French |
Amy J. Berg | 7 | 7.17 | Crime, Documentary, Music, Mystery | It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, Janis: Little Girl Blue, Prophet's Prey, Every Secret Thing, An Open Secret | English |
Frank Darabont | 6 | 7.15 | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | The Mist, The Majestic, The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption, Buried Alive | English |
Ryan White | 8 | 7.12 | Crime, Documentary, History, Music | Come See Me in the Good Light, Pamela, A Love Story, Good Night Oppy, State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith, Assassins | English |
Jim Sheridan | 9 | 7.1 | Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery | The Secret Scripture, Dream House, Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin', In America | English |
Ayuko Tsukahara | 5 | 7.08 | Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 1st Kiss, Last Mile, Grande Maison Paris, My Happy Marriage, Cafe Funiculi Funicula | Japanese |
Izuru Narushima | 6 | 7.07 | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 52-Hertz Whales, To Each His Own, Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion, Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment, Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet | Japanese |
Mohammad Rasoulof | 7 | 7.04 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | The Seed of the Sacred Fig, There Is No Evil, A Man of Integrity, Manuscripts Don't Burn, Goodbye | French, Persian |
Peter Kosminsky | 5 | 7.04 | Crime, Drama, Romance, TV Movie | Britz, White Oleander, Warriors, No Child of Mine, Wuthering Heights | English |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 10 | 7.03 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | About Dry Grasses, The Wild Pear Tree, Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Three Monkeys | Turkish |
Anton Corbijn | 7 | 7.03 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, Music | Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), Spirits in the Forest, Life, A Most Wanted Man, The American | English |
Hiroshi Teshigahara | 11 | 7.02 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy | Basara: The Princess Goh, Rikyu, Antonio Gaudí, The Man Without a Map, Woman in the Dunes | Japanese |
Fernando Meirelles | 5 | 7.02 | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery | The Two Popes, 360, Blindness, The Constant Gardener, City of God | English, Portuguese |
Elia Kazan | 19 | 7 | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery | The Last Tycoon, The Arrangement, The Visitors, Splendor in the Grass, Wild River | English |
Béla Tarr | 10 | 7 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, Mystery | The Turin Horse, The Man from London, Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango, Damnation | Hungarian |
Laura Poitras | 7 | 7 | Crime, Documentary | Cover-Up, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Risk, Project X, Citizenfour | English |
Jung Ji-woo | 5 | 7 | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Tune in for Love, Heart Blackened, Fourth Place, Eungyo, Happy End | Korean |
Andrew Dominik | 8 | 6.94 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, Music | Bono: Stories of Surrender, Blonde, This Much I Know to Be True, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling, BAD | English |
Michael Haneke | 13 | 6.92 | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery | Happy End, Amour, The White Ribbon, Funny Games, Caché | English, French, German |
Errol Morris | 16 | 6.88 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, History | Chaos: The Manson Murders, The Pigeon Tunnel, American Dharma, Wormwood, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography | English |
Steve McQueen | 6 | 6.88 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, History | Blitz, Occupied City, Widows, 12 Years a Slave, Shame | English |
Simone Stock | 5 | 6.88 | Crime, Drama, TV Movie, Thriller | The Girl Who Wasn't Dead, The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story, Would You Kill for Me? The Mary Bailey Story, The Plot to Kill My Mother, Stolen by Their Father | English |
John Dower | 5 | 6.88 | Crime, Documentary, History, Music | The Mystery of D.B. Cooper, My Scientology Movie, Slaying the Badger, Thrilla in Manila, Live Forever | English |
Giuseppe Ferrara | 5 | 6.88 | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair, Giovanni Falcone, Narcos, The Moro Affair, One Hundred Days in Palermo | Italian |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 7 | 6.87 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Young Ahmed, The Unknown Girl, Two Days, One Night, Lorna's Silence, The Son | French |
Rodrigo Sorogoyen | 6 | 6.85 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance | The Beasts, Mother, The Realm, Mother, May God Save Us | French, Spanish |
Kenji Mizoguchi | 25 | 6.84 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, Fantasy | Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, The Life of Oharu, Chikamatsu Monogatari, Street of Shame | Japanese |
Christian I. Nyby II | 5 | 6.82 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie | Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host, Perry Mason: The Case of the Wicked Wives, Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception, Perry Mason: The Case of the Musical Murder, Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace | English |
Kirby Dick | 8 | 6.81 | Crime, Documentary, War | On the Record, The Bleeding Edge, The Hunting Ground, The Invisible War, Outrage | English |
Andrey Zvyagintsev | 7 | 6.8 | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Loveless, Leviathan, Elena, Mystery, Apocrypha | English, Russian |
Eva Orner | 5 | 6.78 | Crime, Documentary | Surviving Ohio State, Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion, Burning, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, Chasing Asylum | English |
Jamal Hill | 5 | 6.78 | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Secret Society 2: Never Enough, Secret Society, True to the Game 2, Deuces, Brotherly Love | English |
Miwa Nishikawa | 5 | 6.78 | Crime, Drama | Under the Open Sky, The Long Excuse, Dreams for Sale, Dear Doctor, Sway | Japanese |
Liz Garbus | 11 | 6.76 | Crime, Documentary, Drama, History | Becoming Cousteau, Lost Girls, All In: The Fight for Democracy, A Dangerous Son, Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper | English |
Daihachi Yoshida | 7 | 6.76 | Crime, Drama, Science Fiction | Teki Cometh, Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, The Scythian Lamb, A Beautiful Star, Pale Moon | Japanese |
Karim Aïnouz | 8 | 6.75 | Crime, Drama, History, Romance | Firebrand, Motel Destino, Invisible Life, Futuro Beach, The Silver Cliff | English, Portuguese |
Yılmaz Güney | 6 | 6.73 | Crime, Drama, Romance, Western | The Road, The Wall, Hope, Friend, Bride of the Earth | Turkish |
Stephanie Soechtig | 6 | 6.72 | Crime, Documentary | Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, Get Smart With Money, The Devil We Know, Under the Gun, Fed Up | English |
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