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• Gabriel Aghion
  Gabriel Aghion
  -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine * Bras de Fer * Rue du Bac * Pédale douce -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine (1983)* Bras de Fer (1985)* Rue du Bac (1990)* Pédale douce...
  
  
• Alexandre Aja
  Alexandre Aja
  Alexandre Aja is a French film director who rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension .-Personal life:...
  
  
• Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
  Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
  Jean-Gabriel Albicocco was a French film director.In 1960 he married French actress and singer Marie Laforêt...
  
  
• Marc Allégret
  Marc Allégret
  Marc Allégret was a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer. Allégret became André Gide's lover when he was fifteen and Gide was forty-seven...
  
  
• Yves Allégret
  Yves Allégret
  Yves Allégret was a French film director in the film noir genre.He is noted as having been the husband of actress Simone Signoret between the years 1944–1949.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Jean-Baptiste Andrea
  Jean-Baptiste Andrea
  Jean-Baptiste Andrea grew up in Cannes, France. He started making short films, and later moved to Paris. He graduated from college with a degree in economics and political science, but funded most of his projects by translating books. In Paris, he met Fabrice Canepa, and the two of them began...
  
  
• Jean-Jacques Annaud
  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, film producer and screenwriter.- Biography :Annaud was born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne...
  
  
• Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
  
  
• Alexandre Astruc
  Alexandre Astruc
  Alexandre Astruc is a French film critic and film director born 13 July 1923, in Paris .Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic...
  
  
• Jacques Audiard
  Jacques Audiard
  Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...
  
  
• Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry
  Jacqueline Audry was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France....
  
  
• Jean Aurel
  Jean Aurel
  Jean Aurel was a French film director and scriptwriter.-Selected filmography:* 14-18 * De l'amour * Lamiel * Manon 70 * Les femmes...
  
  
• Claude Autant-Lara
  Claude Autant-Lara
  Claude Autant-Lara , was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament .-Biography:...
  
  
• Serge Avedikian
  Serge Avedikian
  Serge Avedikian , sometimes credited as Serje Avetikian, is an Armenian-French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize.-Early life:...
  
  

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• Géla Babluani
  Géla Babluani
  Géla Babluani is a Georgian-French film director.Babluani was born in Tbilisi, son of prominent director Temur Babluani. At 17 years of age, he and his three siblings were sent to study in France. His first short film, A Fleur de Peau , received critical appraise...
  
  
• Charles le Bargy
  Charles le Bargy
  Charles Gustave Auguste le Bargy was a French actor and early film director.He was born at La Chapelle...
  
  
• Jacques de Baroncelli
  Jacques de Baroncelli
  Jacques de Baroncelli was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s....
  
  
• Jean-Marc Barr
  Jean-Marc Barr
  Jean-Marc Barr is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer...
  
  
• Jean-Louis Barrault
  Jean-Louis Barrault
  Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis .Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted...
  
  
• Jacques Becker
  Jacques Becker
  Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director.Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during his peak period, which produced such cinematic masterpieces as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game...
  
  
• Jean Becker (director, actor)
• Jean-Jacques Beineix
  Jean-Jacques Beineix
  -Biography:In 1964, Jean-Jacques Beineix started his career as Jean Becker's assistant director on the famous French TV series, Les saintes chéries until the end of 1967. Then, in 1970 he worked for Claude Berri and in 1971 for Claude Zidi. In 1977, he directed his first short movie Le Chien de M....
  
  
• Yamina Benguigui
  Yamina Benguigui
  Yamina Benguigui is a French-Algerian film director. She is known for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France.-Life:...
  
  
• Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard
  Raymond Bernard was a French filmmaker and related to French playwright father Tristan Bernard and brother to Jean-Jacques Bernard...
  
  
• Claude Berri
  Claude Berri
  Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...
  
  
• Luc Besson
  Luc Besson
  Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company. He has been involved with over 50 films, spanning 26 years, as writer, director, and/or producer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Enki Bilal
  Enki Bilal
  Enes Bilal is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.-Biography:Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Slovak mother and a Bosnian father who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor, he moved to Paris at the age of 9. At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied...
  
  
• Alice Guy-Blaché
  Alice Guy-Blaché
  Alice Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry and is considered to be one of the first directors of a fiction film.-Early years:...
  
  
• Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
  
  
• Bertrand Blier
  Bertrand Blier
  Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....
  
  
• Romane Bohringer
  Romane Bohringer
  Romane Bohringer is a French actress, film director, screenwriter and costume designer. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and sister of Lou Bohringer. Her parents named her after Roman Polanski....
  
  
• Michel Boisrond
  Michel Boisrond
  Michel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
  
  
• Bertrand Bonello
  Bertrand Bonello
  Bertrand Bonello is a French film director. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal.Le Pornographe won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Bernie Bonvoisin
• Rachid Bouchareb
  Rachid Bouchareb
  Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...
  
  
• Laurent Boutonnat
  Laurent Boutonnat
  Laurent Pierre Marie Boutonnat is a French composer and film and music video director, best known as the songwriting partner of Mylène Farmer and the director of moody, provocative and literature-inspired music videos.- Career :...
  
  
• Jean-Christophe Bouvet
  Jean-Christophe Bouvet
  Jean-Christophe Bouvet is a French actor, film director and writer.-Filmography as actor:*1977 : La Machine directed by Paul Vecchiali*1977 : Le théâtre des matières directed by Jean-Claude Biette...
  
  
• Sarah Bouyain
  Sarah Bouyain
  Sarah Bouyain is a French-Burkinabé writer and film director.-Biography:Bouyain's mother, who was French, and her father, who was half Burkinabé and half French, met in France while he was studying there....
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
  Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
  Jean-Pierre Bouyxou is a French film critic, author, filmmaker and actor.-Career:He started his career as a writer in 1964 when his article was published in fanzines...
  
  
• Gérard Brach
  Gérard Brach
  Gérard Brach was a French screenwriter best known for his collaborations with the film directors Roman Polanski and Jean-Jacques Annaud...
  
  
• Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat
  Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...
  
  
• Robert Bresson
  Robert Bresson
  -Life and career:Bresson was born at Bromont-Lamothe, Puy-de-Dôme, the son of Marie-Élisabeth and Léon Bresson. Little is known of his early life and the year of his birth, 1901 or 1907, varies depending on the source. He was educated at Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, close to Paris, and...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Brialy
  Jean-Claude Brialy
  Jean-Claude Brialy – died 30 May 2007, Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French actor, director, and socialite.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Burguet
  Charles Burguet
  Charles Burguet was a French silent film director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.He directed well over 30 films between 1912 and 1929.- External links :...
  
  
• José Bénazéraf
  José Bénazéraf
  José Bénazéraf is a French filmmaker and producer.After having finished his studies in political sciences, he started his career by producing Les lavandières du Portugal in 1958, a film of Pierre Gaspard-Huit...
  
  

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• Marcel Camus
• Guillaume Canet
  Guillaume Canet
  Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director.Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach...
  
  
• Laurent Cantet
  Laurent Cantet
  Laurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle . His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.- As director :...
  
  
• Leos Carax
  Leos Carax
  Leos Carax is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl , and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge and the controversial Pola X...
  
  
• Christian Carion
  Christian Carion
  Christian Carion is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter.-As director and writer:*2009 : L'affaire Farewell*2005 : Joyeux Noël, starring Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann and Guillaume Canet...
  
  
• Marcel Carné
  Marcel Carné
  -Biography:Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in...
  
  
• Emmanuel Carrère
  Emmanuel Carrère
  Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Édouard Carrère, often known as Louis Carrère d'Encausse after his wife's pen name, and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse....
  
  
• Yves Caumon
  Yves Caumon
  Yves Caumon is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac....
  
  
• André Cayatte
  André Cayatte
  André Cayatte was a French New Wave filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility, themes which Cayatte persisted in affirming regardless of changing contemporary attitudes.Some of Cayatte's earlier films that covered these...
  
  
• Claude Chabrol
  Claude Chabrol
  Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
  
  
• Charles Vanel
  Charles Vanel
  Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow...
  
  
• Jacques Charon
  Jacques Charon
  Jacques Charon was a French actor and film director.Born in Paris, Charon trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique and made his début at the Comédie-Française in 1941...
  
  
• Étienne Chatiliez
  Étienne Chatiliez
  Étienne Chatiliez is a French film director. He was born in Roubaix, France.After starting out directing many advertising clips, he is now a well-known director of feature-length films with some success.- Filmography :...
  
  
• Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...
  
  
• Segundo de Chomón
  Segundo de Chomón
  Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz was a pioneering Spanish film director. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé Frères and has been compared to Georges Méliès, due to his frequent camera tricks and optical illusions.-Selected filmography:*1902: Choque de trenes,...
  
  
• Élie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui
  Élie Chouraqui is a French film director and scriptwriter of Jewish origin.-Filmography:*1978: Mon premier amour*1980: Une page d'amour*1982: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?*1985: Paroles et musique...
  
  
• Christian-Jaque
  Christian-Jaque
  Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker. He was married to actress Martine Carol from 1954 to 1959.Christian-Jaque was born at Paris....
  
  
• Yves Ciampi
  Yves Ciampi
  Yves Ciampi was a French director, born 1921, died 1982. He was married to Japanese actress Kishi Keiko from 1957 to 1975.-Filmography:*1950 : Suzanne et les brigands*1950 : Un certain monsieur*1951 : Un grand patron...
  
  
• Jean-Paul Civeyrac
  Jean-Paul Civeyrac
  Jean-Paul Civeyrac is a French New Wave director whose films are usually characterized by close attention to music and actors' bodies. He has adapted a French novel by Anne Wiazemsky, Hymnes à l’amour, with the title All the fine promises . This movie was awarded by The Prix Jean Vigo 2003...
  
  
• René Clair
  René Clair
  René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...
  
  
• René Clément
• Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...
  
  
• Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
  
• Henri Colpi
  Henri Colpi
  Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director.Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, which was directed by Luis Buñuel...
  
  
• Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his...
  
  
• Edgardo Cozarinsky
  Edgardo Cozarinsky
  Edgardo Cozarinsky is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing Vudú urbano.- Life :His family name goes back to his great grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Kiev and Odessa at the end of the 19th century, his first name tells of his mother's infatuation with Edgar Allan Poe.After an...
  
  

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• Philippe de Broca
  Philippe de Broca
  Philippe de Broca was a French film director.Born Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of a photographer of noble origins. de Broca was a cinephile from an early age, and he studied at the l'École technique de photographie et de cinématographie...
  
  
• Guy Debord
  Guy Debord
  Guy Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International . He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.-Early Life:Guy Debord was born in Paris in 1931...
  
  
• Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...
  
  
• Benoît Delépine
  Benoît Delépine
  Benoît Delépine is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+....
  
  
• Louis Delluc
  Louis Delluc
  Louis Delluc was a French film director, screen writer and film critic, many of whose late 1910s film writings for French newspapers were collected in the volume Cinema et cie...
  
  
• Richard Dembo
  Richard Dembo
  Richard Dembo was a French director and screenwriter.Dembo achieved worldwide recoginition with his first film: La diagonale du fou. For the direction of this film Dembo received an Oscar in 1984 for best foreign film, as well as other numerous awards...
  
  
• Jacques Demy
  Jacques Demy
  Jacques Demy was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world closer to that of François...
  
  
• Claire Denis
  Claire Denis
  Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray
  Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:...
  
  
• Arnaud Desplechin
  Arnaud Desplechin
  Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...
  
  
• Henri Diamant-Berger
• William Kennedy Dickson
• Albert Dieudonné
  Albert Dieudonné
  Albert Dieudonné was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist.Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908 for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, with musical score by Camille Saint-Saëns. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine"...
  
  
• Arielle Dombasle
  Arielle Dombasle
  Arielle Dombasle is a French-American singer, actress, director and model. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach and Alain Robbe-Grillet's The Blue Villa...
  
  
• Germaine Dulac
  Germaine Dulac
  Germaine Dulac was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film...
  
  
• Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• François Dupeyron
  François Dupeyron
  François Dupeyron is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. His film La chambre des officiers was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Marguerite Duras
  Marguerite Duras
  Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras was a French writer and film director.-Background:...
  
  
• Julien Duvivier
  Julien Duvivier
  Julien Duvivier was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960...
  
  

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• Henri de la Falaise
  Henri de la Falaise
  Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise , was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometimes actor and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.His actual surname was Le...
  
  
• Ismaël Ferroukhi
  Ismaël Ferroukhi
  Ismaël Ferroukhi is a French-Moroccan film director.Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film L'Exposé, which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Louis Feuillade
  Louis Feuillade
  Louis Feuillade was a prolific and prominent French film director from the silent era. Between 1906 and 1924 he directed over 630 films...
  
  
• Jacques Feyder
  Jacques Feyder
  Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...
  
  
• Georges Franju
  Georges Franju
  -External links:* at Allmovie...
  
  
• Guy du Fresnay
  Guy du Fresnay
  Guy Du Fresnay was a French silent film director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.-Filmography:*Démon du foyer, Le *Jardin du pirate, Le *Cathédrale merveilleuse, La *De la coupe aux lèvres...
  
  

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• Abel Gance
  Abel Gance
  Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:...
  
  
• Christophe Gans
  Christophe Gans
  Christophe Gans is a French film director, writer, and producer who specializes in horror, fantasy movies and video game adaptations.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nicole Garcia
  Nicole Garcia
  Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and writer. Her film Selon Charlie was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Actress:*1968: Des garçons et des filles directed by Étienne Périer...
  
  
• Philippe Garrel
  Philippe Garrel
  Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...
  
  
• Louis J. Gasnier
  Louis J. Gasnier
  Louis J. Gasnier was a French film director.Born in Paris, Gasnier was working in theatre when Pathé hired him to direct films in the earliest days of cinema. He directed comedian Max Linder in many of his early short comedies...
  
  
• Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Costa Gavras
• Julie Gavras
  Julie Gavras
  Julie Gavras is a French film director and writer. She is the daughter of film director Costa Gavras. Her first feature-length fiction film Blame it on Fidel was released in France in November 2006....
  
  
• Daniel Gélin
  Daniel Gélin
  Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French actor, occasional director and screenwriter.-Early life:Gélin was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. When he was 10 his family moved to Saint-Malo where Daniel went to college until he was expelled for 'uncouthness'. His father then found him a job in a shop that...
  
  
• Francis Girod
  Francis Girod
  Francis Girod was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film L'enfance de l'art was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
  
• Michel Gondry
  Michel Gondry
  Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Gorin
  Jean-Pierre Gorin
  Jean-Pierre Gorin is a French filmmaker and professor, best known for his work with Nouvelle Vague luminary Jean-Luc Godard during what is often referred to as Godard's "radical" period....
  
  
• Jean-Paul Goude
  Jean-Paul Goude
  Jean-Paul Goude is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and advertising film director. He created several well-known campaigns for brands such as Perrier, Citroën and Chanel....
  
  
• Pierre Granier-Deferre
  Pierre Granier-Deferre
  Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  
• Gregory Monro
  Gregory Monro
  Gregory Monro , sometimes credited as Grégory Monro, is a French actor and director. He lives in Paris, and works for French, English and American production films companies. He recently purchased Calamity Jane's "Letters to my daughter" and is currently working on various projects regarding her...
  
  
• Jean Grémillon
  Jean Grémillon
  Jean Grémillon was a French film director. After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, he had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928...
  
  
• Paul Grimault
  Paul Grimault
  Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature....
  
  
• Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
  Stéphan Guérin-Tillié
  Stéphan Guérin-Tillié is a French actor, director, and screen writer. Guérin-Tillié has directed the films Edy , Requiem, and J'ai fait des sandwichs pour la route, and acted in a number of films and television roles.-Filmography:-Writing:-Directing:| 2001 || teto-External links:* * * at IMDb...
  
  
• Sacha Guitry
  Sacha Guitry
  Alexandre-Pierre Georges Guitry was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.- Biography :...
  
  

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• Lucile Hadžihalilović
  Lucile Hadžihalilović
  Lucile Hadžihalilović is a French filmmaker. She became the first woman to win the Stockholm International Film Festival annual Bronze Horse award for best film for her 2004 film Innocence....
  
  
• Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin
  Roger Hanin is a French actor , best known for playing the title role in the 1989-2006 TV crime series, Navarro.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Philippe Harel
  Philippe Harel
  Philippe Harel is a French film director, actor and screenwriter born in 1956.-Selected filmography:* La femme défendue * Extension du domaine de la lutte -External links:...
  
  
• Christophe Honoré
  Christophe Honoré
  Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in "Les Cahiers du Cinéma." He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie...
  
  
• Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
  
  
• André Hugon
  André Hugon
  André Hugon was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards particularly of the 1920s and into sound....
  
  
• André Hunebelle
  André Hunebelle
  André Hunebelle was a French director born September 1, 1896 in Meudon , died 27 November 1985 in Nice .Hunebelle was a former publisher of a French newspaper called La Fleché...
  
  

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• Luc Jacquet
  Luc Jacquet
  Luc Jacquet is a French film director from Paris. He wrote and directed the movie March of the Penguins, which won an Oscar for best documentary feature in 2005. His current film is called The Fox And the Child...
  
  
• Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• Just Jaeckin
  Just Jaeckin
  Just Jaeckin is a French film director.-Life:He was born in Vichy France during the Nazi Occupation, but left with his mother and father for England: after the war, he returned to France where he studied art and photography, much of it he did before and after serving with the French Army: while...
  
  
• Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
  
• Sébastien Japrisot
  Sébastien Japrisot
  Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name...
  
  
• Jean Boyer
  Jean Boyer
  Jean Boyer was a French film director and songwriter.- Songs :* 1930 : Un regardé, dans le film Flagrant délit...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Marois
  Jean-Pierre Marois
  Jean-Pierre Marois is a French film director and producer. He is most noted for directing the 2000 film American Virgin and as co-producer in the 2005 film Mary- Filmography :* Save the Rabbits...
  
  
• Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
  Jean-Christophe Jeauffre
  Jean-Christophe Jeauffre is an award-winning filmmaker, a screenwriter and a producer, environmentalist and creator of the born in France, April 26, 1966.-Education and early career:...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  -Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
  
  
• Roland Joffé
  Roland Joffé
  Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...
  
  

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• William Karel
  William Karel
  William Karel is a French film director and author. He is known for his historical and political documentaries.- Biography :After studying in Paris, Karel emigrated to Israel where he lived for about 10 years in a kibbutz...
  
  
• Mathieu Kassovitz
  Mathieu Kassovitz
  Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
  
  
• Peter Kassovitz
  Peter Kassovitz
  Peter Kassovitz is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of film director Mathieu Kassovitz....
  
  
• Othello Khanh
  Othello Khanh
  Othello Khanh is a French-Vietnamese film director, producer and screenwriter. Khanh began his career in France in the early 1980s, Khanh directing television programmes and advertisements....
  
  
• Cédric Klapisch
  Cédric Klapisch
  Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
  
  
• Gérard Krawczyk
  Gérard Krawczyk
  Gérard Krawczyk is a French film director. He is of Polish descent .-Filmography as director:* Homocide by Night * Je hais les acteurs Gérard Krawczyk (17 May 1953) is a French film director. He is of Polish descent (his grandparents were from Częstochowa).-Filmography as director:* Homocide by...
  
  
• Diane Kurys
  Diane Kurys
  Diane Kurys is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She gained film stardom, but didn't like the roles she was...
  
  
• Adonis Kyrou
  Adonis Kyrou
  Adonis Kyrou was a Greek filmmaker and writer.Residing in France, where he was a critic, filmmaker, and author of L'Âge d'or de la carte postale , Amour - érotisme & cinéma and Le surréalisme au cinéma , the last two published by Eric Losfeld's publishing house Le Terrain Vague.He was a...
  
  

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• Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
  
  
• Georges Lacombe (film director)
  Georges Lacombe (film director)
  -Filmography:* 1928 : La Zone * 1931 : Boule de gomme* 1932 : La Femme invisible* 1933 : Un jour d'été* 1933 : Ce cochon de Morin* 1934 : Jeunesse* 1935 : Épousez ma femme* 1935 : La Route heureuse...
  
  
• Jean-Daniel Lafond
  Jean-Daniel Lafond
  Jean-Daniel Lafond CC is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the husband to the former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada during her service.-Biography:...
  
  
• René Laloux
  René Laloux
  René Laloux was a French animator and film director.-Biography:He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns...
  
  
• Albert Lamorisse
  Albert Lamorisse
  Albert Lamorisse was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957...
  
  
• Rémi Lange
  Rémi Lange
  Rémi Lange is a French film director. Lange's films have mostly been released directly to video, except Omelette where he filmed his own coming out, and its sequel Les Yeux brouillés , which both had general cinematic release in France...
  
  
• Claude Lanzmann
  Claude Lanzmann
  Claude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne...
  
  
• Jacques Lanzmann
  Jacques Lanzmann
  Jacques Lanzmann was a French writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Denys de La Patellière
  Denys de La Patellière
  Denys de La Patellière is a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Nantes.-Filmography as director:* 1955 : Les Aristocrates with Pierre Fresnay...
  
  
• Georges Lautner
  Georges Lautner
  Georges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...
  
  
• Yves Lavandier
  Yves Lavandier
  -Biography:Yves Lavandier was born on April 2, 1959. After taking a degree in civil engineering, he studied film at Columbia University, New York, between 1983 and 1985. Miloš Forman, František Daniel, Stefan Sharf, Brad Dourif, Larry Engel, and Melina Jelinek were among his teachers. During these...
  
  
• Louis Le Prince
  Louis Le Prince
  Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who is considered by many film historians as the true father of motion pictures, who shot the first moving pictures on paper film using a single lens camera....
  
  
• Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
  
  
• Claude Lelouch
• Benjamin Lemaire
• René Leprince
  René Leprince
  René Leprince was an early French silent film director best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.In film, Leprince began as an actor in 1908 and dabbled with directing. In 1911 he moved into directing permanently and directed some 70 films between 1908 and 1929.- External links :...
  
  
• Louis Leterrier
  Louis Leterrier
  Louis Leterrier is a French film director whose notable films include the first two Transporter movies, Unleashed , The Incredible Hulk , and Clash of the Titans .-Life and career:...
  
  
• Sébastien Lifshitz
  Sébastien Lifshitz
  Sébastien Lifshitz is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of art.Lifshitz's work involves gay themes...
  
  
• Auguste and Louis Lumière
  Auguste and Louis Lumière
  The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean , were among the earliest filmmakers in history...
  
  

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• Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
  
  
• Marc Caro
  Marc Caro
  Marc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at a film festival in 1974, and directed three short and two feature length films together....
  
  
• Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
  
  
• Maurice Mariaud
  Maurice Mariaud
  Maurice Mariaud was a French silent film director, actor and screenwriter.He was best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his work overlapping with Portuguese film in the early 1920s notably the 1922 Portuguese film Os Faroleiros....
  
  
• Chris Marker
  Chris Marker
  Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La jetée , A Grin Without a Cat , Sans Soleil and AK , an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa...
  
  
• Christian Marquand
  Christian Marquand
  Christian Marquand was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. A native of Marseille, he was born to a Spanish father and an Arabic mother his sister was film director Nadine Trintignant, and he can be seen as a heartthrob in French movies of the 1950s.His first film...
  
  
• Tonie Marshall
• Léon Mathot
  Léon Mathot
  Léon Mathot was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918....
  
  
• Georges Méliès
  Georges Méliès
  Georges Méliès , full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest cinema. He was very innovative in the use of special effects...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Melville
• Michel Deville
  Michel Deville
  Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors...
  
  
• Michel Mitrani
  Michel Mitrani
  Michel Mitrani was a French film director and screenwriter. He was the founder of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels...
  
  
• Radu Mihăileanu
  Radu Mihaileanu
  Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...
  
  
• Claude Miller
  Claude Miller
  Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
  
  
• Alexandre Michon
  Alexandre Michon
  Alexandre Michon was a Russian photographer and cinematographer. Born to a French family in Kharkiv, he started his career as a photographer and owned a photo studio in his hometown. He later settled in Baku and lived there for 25 years. Here, in 1898, he shot his first films using a Lumiere...
  
  
• Noël Mitrani
  Noël Mitrani
  Noël Mitrani is a French and Canadian film director, a writer and also a film producer through his own production company, StanKaz Films.- Biography :...
  
  
• Serge Moati
  Serge Moati
  Serge Moati is a French artist, journalist, film director and writer. Serge Moati is the brother of Nine Moati, author of the novel Les Belles de Tunis...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Mocky
  Jean-Pierre Mocky
  Jean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
  
  
• Léonide Moguy
  Léonide Moguy
  Léonide Moguy was a Russian born French film director, screenwriter and film editor .He was active in film between 1936 and 1961.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Édouard Molinaro
  Édouard Molinaro
  Édouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French...
  
  
• Bruno Monsaingeon
  Bruno Monsaingeon
  Bruno Monsaingeon is a French filmmaker, writer, and violinist. He has made a number of documentary films about great twentieth-century musicians, including Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh, Piotr Anderszewski and Yehudi Menuhin. His interviews with Richter and with Nadia Boulanger...
  
  
• Gaël Morel
  Gaël Morel
  Gaël Morel is a French film director, screenwriter and actor.- Biography :Morel was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, France, a small town of 30,000 inhabitants outside Lyon...
  
  
• Luc Moullet
  Luc Moullet
  Luc Moullet is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by his love of American B-movies.Though such influential...
  
  
• Mr. Oizo
  Mr. Oizo
  Mr. Oizo is the stage name of French electronic musician and film director Quentin Dupieux. His pseudonym is a corruption of the French , meaning "bird". He is currently signed to French electro record label, Ed Banger Records.-Beginning:...
  
  
• Musidora
  Musidora
  Musidora was the stage name of Jeanne Roques, a popular French silent film actress. She became famous for her vamp roles in such film serials as Les Vampires and Judex, in which she developed a persona comparable to that of Theda Bara...
  
  

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• Raphael Nadjari
  Raphael Nadjari
  Raphaël Nadjari is a French born writer and director for film and television.In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director...
  
  
• Jules and Gedeon Naudet
• Nicolas Klotz
  Nicolas Klotz
  -Filmography:*Rendez-vous avec Marguerite 1983*The Bengali Night 1988 with Hugh Grant, Shabana Azmi and Soumitra Chatterjee*La Nuit sacrée 1993 with Goran Bregović*Chants of Sand and Stars 1996*Pariah 2000*The Wound 2004*Dans la peau de.....
  
  
• Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
  
  
• Diran Noubar
  Diran Noubar
  Diran Noubar is a French film director of Armenian and Italian descent.Born in Lyon, France, Noubar is the director ofArmenia, A Country under Blockade, a documentary film on the impact of Turkey's blockade of Armenia...
  
  
• Bruno Nuytten
  Bruno Nuytten
  Bruno Nuytten is a French cinematographer turned director.Camille Claudel which was Nuytten's first directorial and screenwriting effort, won the César Award for Best film in 1989. The film starred and was co-produced by Isabelle Adjani, with whom he had a son, Barnabé...
  
  

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• Marcel Pagnol
  Marcel Pagnol
  Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie Française.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jean Painlevé
  Jean Painlevé
  Jean Painlevé was a film director, actor, translator, animator, critic and theorist. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime-minister of France, Paul Painlevé.-Upbringing:...
  
  
• Euzhan Palcy
  Euzhan Palcy
  Euzhan Palcy is a film director writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. She is notable for being the first black female director produced by a major Hollywood studio , for A Dry White Season; as well as being the only female filmmaker who directed Marlon Brando .- Early life and...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Pallardy
  Jean-Marie Pallardy
  Jean-Marie Pallardy is a French movie director.He first worked as a male model in the 1960s, before opting for a career change and directing softcore erotic pictures. He also tried his hand at crime fiction and adventure films, with mixed results...
  
  
• Philippe Parreno
  Philippe Parreno
  Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist and filmmaker, born in Oran, and currently living in Paris, France. Parreno's work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.-Life and work:...
  
  
• Christine Pascal
  Christine Pascal
  Christine Pascal was a French actress, writer and director.-Biography:Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's Les Guichets du Louvre , and began an association with Bertrand Tavernier with her next film, L'Horloger de Saint-Paul...
  
  
• Alain Payet
  Alain Payet
  Alain Payet , also known under the pseudonyms John Love, John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, James Gartner, Alain Garnier was a film director of French porn movies and erotica.- Biography :He began his career in 70s and for a decade served as an assistant director on...
  
  
• Max Pécas
  Max Pécas
  Max Pécas was a French movie-maker, scenario writer and producer. He was born 25 April 1925 in Lyon and died 10 February 2003 in Paris.After making erotic movies and some thrillers, he shoots teenage comedies, including his classic "Saint-Tropez series". His filmography is considered as models of...
  
  
• Robert Péguy
  Robert Péguy
  Robert Péguy was a French film director best known for his films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 30 films between 1910 and 1946. His career peaked in the 1930s.- External links :...
  
  
• Vincent Pérez
  Vincent Pérez
  Vincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...
  
  
• Léonce Perret
  Léonce Perret
  Léonce Perret was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director...
  
  
• Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
  
  
• Claude Pinoteau
  Claude Pinoteau
  Claude Pinoteau is a French film director and scriptwriter. Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts de Seine, Île-de-France, France.- Filmography :* 1971 : It Only Happens to Others...
  
  
• Gérard Pirès
  Gérard Pirès
  -Filmography:* Guo bao zong dong yuan * Les Chevaliers du ciel * Double zéro * Steal * Taxi...
  
  
• Pitof
  Pitof
  Jean-Christophe "Pitof" Comar is a French visual effects supervisor and director notable for Vidocq and Catwoman.-Career:...
  
  
• Jean-Marie Poiré
  Jean-Marie Poiré
  Jean-Marie Poiré is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer Alain Poiré.-Filmography as director:* Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice Jean-Marie Poiré (born July 10, 1945) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is the son of the producer...
  
  
• Léon Poirier
  Léon Poirier
  Léon Poirier was a French film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for his silent films from 1913 onwards. He directed some 25 films between 1913 and 1949 .His most famous film today is his drama-documentary depicting the World War I Battle of Verdun...
  
  
• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
  
• Jean-Daniel Pollet
  Jean-Daniel Pollet
  Jean-Daniel Pollet is a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis...
  
  
• Henri Pouctal
  Henri Pouctal
  Henri Pouctal was an early French silent film director best known for his silent films of the 1910s and his directorship of the Count of Monte Cristo serials in 1918.In film, Pouctal directed about 100 films between 1908 and 1922....
  
  
• Eugene Py
  Eugène Py
  Eugène Py was a major early French cameraman, cinematographer and film director and is widely considered the founding pioneer of the Cinema of Argentina....
  
  

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• Philippe Ramos
  Philippe Ramos
  Philippe Ramos is a French film director. He was born in France in 1966. He directed a very unusual adaptation of Moby-Dick: Capitaine Achab with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart in 2004....
  
  
• Bernard Rapp
  Bernard Rapp
  Bernard Rapp was a French film director and television news presenter.Rapp was born in Paris. After graduating from university, he worked as a freelance journalist. In 1976, he joined Antenne 2 as their international correspondent, working later as their London correspondent from 1981 to 1983...
  
  
• Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director, screenwriter, and actor.He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le metro in 1960 and Vie privee in 1961...
  
  
• Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir
  Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...
  
  
• Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
  
• Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....
  
  
• Alain Robbe-Grillet
  Alain Robbe-Grillet
  Alain Robbe-Grillet , was a French writer and filmmaker. He was, along with Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of the figures most associated with the Nouveau Roman trend. Alain Robbe-Grillet was elected a member of the Académie française on March 25, 2004, succeeding Maurice...
  
  
• Yves Robert
  Yves Robert
  Yves Robert was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.Born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, in his teens Robert went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with unpaid parts on stage in the city's various theatre workshops. To support himself, he worked at a variety of jobs...
  
  
• Éric Rochant
  Éric Rochant
  Éric Rochant, born February 24, 1961, is a French film director and a screenwriter.- Filmography :* 1984 - Comme les doigts de la main* 1985 - French Lovers* 1987 - Présence féminine* 1989 - Un monde sans pitié...
  
  
• Charles de Rochefort
  Charles de Rochefort
  Charles de Rochefort also known as Charles d'Authier de Rochefort, son of Paul Charles Dominique d'Authier de Rochefort and Camille Caroline Rose Félicité Guelfucci, was a French film actor of the silent era...
  
  
• Éric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
  
  
• Jean Rollin
  Jean Rollin
  Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort .-Early life:Jean Rollin was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France to...
  
  
• Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif
  Frédéric Rossif was a French film and television director who specialized primarily on documentaries, frequently using archive footage. Rossif's common themes included wildlife, 20th century history and contemporary artists...
  
  
• François Rotger
  François Rotger
  François Rotger is a Canadian independent film director.Former photographer and music video director, his first feature film The Passenger debuted at the 2005 Locarno International Film Festival....
  
  
• Brigitte Roüan
  Brigitte Roüan
  Brigitte Roüan is a French film director and actress.-Early life and career:Rouan was born into a French naval family in Toulon in 1946. She was orphaned at age six and spent her childhood in Algeria and Senegal. At age 12, she left for convent school in Paris.Her acting career began at age 21, on...
  
  
• Gaston Roudès
  Gaston Roudès
  Gaston Roudès was a French actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1920s and early 1930s...
  
  
• Jacques Rouffio
  Jacques Rouffio
  Jacques Rouffio is a French film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography as director:...
  
  
• Henry Roussell
  Henry Roussell
  Henry Roussell was a French silent film actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.He starred in well over 40 films between 1912 and 1939.- External links :...
  
  
• Jacques Rozier
  Jacques Rozier
  Jacques Rozier is a French film director and screenwriter. He is one of the lesser known members of the French New Wave movement and has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard. Three of his films have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Alexandre Ryder
  Alexandre Ryder
  Alexandre Ryder was a Polish born French film director best known for his crime drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.He directed some 20 films between 1920 and 1950....
  
  

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• Jean-Paul Salomé
  Jean-Paul Salomé
  Jean-Paul Salomé is a French director.- Selected filmography :*1994 Les Braqueuses with Clémentine Célarié, Catherine Jacob and Annie Girardot...
  
  
• Lucia Sanchez
  Lucia Sanchez
  Lucia Sanchez is a French actress. She was born in Spain in 1969. She started her acting career in 1996 with Une robe d'été directed by François Ozon....
  
  
• Sarah Maldoror
  Sarah Maldoror
  Sarah Maldoror, born Sarah Ducados in Gers, France, is a French film director.Maldoror choose her artist's name in remembrance of The Songs of Maldoror by Lautréamont. She attended a drama school in Paris. Together with her companion Mário Pinto de Andrade she received a scholarship and studied...
  
  
• Claude Sautet
  Claude Sautet
  Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...
  
  
• Suzanne Schiffman
  Suzanne Schiffman
  Suzanne Schiffman was a screenwriter and director for numerous motion pictures. She often worked with François Truffaut. The 'script girl' Joelle, played by Nathalie Baye in Truffaut's Day for Night was based on Schiffman...
  
  
• Pierre Schoendoerffer
  Pierre Schoendoerffer
  Pierre Schoendoerffer is a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician and since 2001 the President of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.-Family:...
  
  
• Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder is a Franco-Swiss movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Partho Sen-Gupta
  Partho Sen-Gupta
  Partho Sen-Gupta is an independent film director and screenwriter of Indian origin.-Biography:Born in Mumbai , on 2 September 1965...
  
  
• Serge Ankri
  Serge Ankri
  Serge Ankri was born in 1949 in Tunis, lived and studied in France, starts and received Bachelor of Arts degree in Nice. He immigrated to Israel in 1973. He is graduate of the Film & Televsision Department, Tel Aviv University...
  
  
• Coline Serreau
  Coline Serreau
  Coline Serreau is a French actress, film director and writer.-Early life and education:She was born in Paris, France.In Paris, Serreau studied literature, music and theatre as well as the circus.-Career:...
  
  
• Delphine Seyrig
  Delphine Seyrig
  Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a stage and film actress and a film director.-Early life:...
  
  
• Florent Emilio Siri
  Florent Emilio Siri
  Florent Emilio Siri is a French film director born in Lorraine.He studied cinema at the Sorbonne University and ESRA in Paris....
  
  
• George Sluizer
  George Sluizer
  George Sluizer , is a Dutch filmmaker whose credits include features as well as documentary films....
  
  
• Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane
  Nicole Stéphane was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont,...
  
  
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• Charlotte Szlovak
  Charlotte Szlovak
  -Career:Szlovak began her film career as the cinematographer of Chantal Akerman's 1974 experimental film Je, tu, il, elle , but she is now best known as the writer and director of independent documentary films....
  
  
• Jeannot Szwarc
  Jeannot Szwarc
  Jeannot Szwarc is a French Film/TV Director.Szwarc was born in Paris. He began working as a director in American television during the 1960s, in particular on Ironside...
  
  

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• Jihan El-Tahri
  Jihan El-Tahri
  Jihan El-Tahri is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She is a French and Egyptian national.In 1984, she received her BA in Political Science, and in 1986 her MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo. She worked as a news correspondent with U.S...
  
  
• Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker, working as a comedic actor, writer and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time...
  
  
• Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
  
  
• André Téchiné
  André Téchiné
  André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
  
  
• Virginie Thévenet
  Virginie Thévenet
  -Films with Virginie Thévenet as actress:* 1970 : Les Stances de Sophie, by Moshé Mizrahi* 1972 : Faustine et le Bel Été* 1972 : Les Zozos, by Pascal Thomas, Martine* 1976 : Small Change, by François Truffaut...
  
  
• Danièle Thompson
  Danièle Thompson
  Danièle Thompson is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roma....
  
  
• Daniel Tinayre
  Daniel Tinayre
  Daniel Tinayre was a French born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer....
  
  
• Laurent Tirard
  Laurent Tirard
  Laurent Tirard is a French film director and screenwriter.-Background:Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. He studied film making at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros...
  
  
• Jacques Tourneur
  Jacques Tourneur
  Jacques Tourneur was a French-American film director.-Life:Born in Paris, France, he was the son of film director Maurice Tourneur. At age 10, Jacques moved to the United States with his father. He started a career in cinema while still attending high school as an extra and later as a script clerk...
  
  
• Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur
  Maurice Tourneur was an important international film director and screenwriter.-Life:Born Maurice Thomas in the Belleville district of Paris, France, his father was a jeweler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the...
  
  
• Tran Anh Hung
  Tran Anh Hung
  Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....
  
  
• Coralie Trinh Thi
  Coralie Trinh Thi
  Coralie Trinh Thi is a French author and former pornographic actress known for her acting, writing and for directing the film Baise-moi . She received a Hot d'Or Honorary Award in 2009....
  
  
• Nadine Trintignant
  Nadine Trintignant
  Nadine Trintignant is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Career:She was a film director, producer, and screenwriter with extensive film credits from the 1960s to the present...
  
  
• François Truffaut
  François Truffaut
  François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...
  
  

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• Roger Vadim
  Roger Vadim
  Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, director, and producer as well as a journalist, author and actor, who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film And God Created Woman.-Early life:...
  
  
• Eric Valli
  Eric Valli
  Éric Valli is a French photographer and film director.Valli spent most of his career as a geographical photographer working for the National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times capturing more inaccessible locations in the world on camera...
  
  
• Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
  
  
• Marcel Varnel
  Marcel Varnel
  Marcel Varnel was a film director. He was born Marcel Hyacinthe le Bozec in Paris, France.Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage but soon became a director of musical comedies. In 1925 he moved to New York working as director in several Broadway operettas, musicals and dramas for the...
  
  
• Anton Vassil
  Anton Vassil
  Anton Vassil is a screenwriter/film director who worked on various feature films, music videos, commercials and documentaries. With a Master's degree from Loyola Marymount University film school, Vassil directed his first feature Marching out of Time and went on to direct a series of films and...
  
  
• Francis Veber
  Francis Veber
  Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and theater playwright. Many of his French comedies feature recurring types of characters, named François Pignon and François Perrin...
  
  
• Paul Vecchiali
  Paul Vecchiali
  Paul Vecchiali is a French author and filmmaker.-Biography:He spent his childhood in Toulon. His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war....
  
  
• Henri Verneuil
  Henri Verneuil
  Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sandrine Veysset
  Sandrine Veysset
  -Background and early career:She was born in Avignon. Veysset studied French literature until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to Léos Carax and she was hired as his driver while he was shooting Les Amants du Pont-Neuf in 1989...
  
  
• Jean Vigo
  Jean Vigo
  Jean Vigo was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Biography:...
  
  
• René Viénet
  René Viénet
  René Viénet is a French sinologist who is famous as a situationist writer and filmmaker. Viénet used the situationist technique of détournement — the diversion of already existing cultural elements to new subversive purposes.- Career :...
  
  

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• Régis Wargnier
  Régis Wargnier
  Régis Wargnier is a French film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor and film score composer.-Director:*1986 : La Femme de ma vie starring Jane Birkin*1988 : Sueurs froides...
  
  
• Alexis Wajsbrot
  Alexis Wajsbrot
  Alexis Wajsbrot is the co-director of short film Red Balloon, a 13 minutes thriller shoot with Red Cam In 2010 he won the Directorial Discovery Award at the Rhode Island Film Festival and 25 selections in others .He also has a successful career in the film industry creating visual effects for a...
  
  
• André Weinfeld
  André Weinfeld
  An alumnus of prestigious Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, André Weinfeld is a French and American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, photographer and journalist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Sylvain White
  Sylvain White
  Sylvain White is a film director.Son of an American professional basketball player and a French flight attendant, Sylvain White was born in France and grew up mostly in Paris. After attending La Sorbonne University for law, he earned a scholarship to Pomona College in California, where he...
  
  
• Anne Wiazemsky
  Anne Wiazemsky
  Princess Anne Wiazemsky is a French actress and novelist, of the Russian Rurikid family of Princes Vyazemsky-Counts Levashov. Through her mother, she is the granddaughter of François Mauriac. She appeared in Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar and in Godard's films La Chinoise and Week End...
  
  

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