Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, Billy Wilder, Carl Th. Dreyer, Chantal Akerman, David Lynch, Elem Klimov, Frantisek Vlacil, F. W. Murnau, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, John Cassavetes, Kenji Mizoguchi, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Larisa Shepitko, Luis Bunuel, Manoel de Oliveira, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Haneke, Paulo Rocha, Pedro Costa, Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Bresson, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Parajanov, Sergio Leone, Stanley Kubrick, Yasujiro Ozu,