An internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Kiarostami has been making movies since the 1970s. He's known for blurring the lines between fiction and non-fiction, and for his lyrical storytelling, often focusing on life and death. He won the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or for 1997's A Taste of Cherry

Czech director Milos Forman lost his Jewish father and Protestant mother to Hitler's concentration camps. He studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Prague, serving his professional apprenticeship as a writer of the pioneering Laterna Magika mixed-media presentations of the 1950s. Already an award-winning filmmaker thanks to a brace of short subjects, Forman directed his first feature, Black Peter, in 1963. (All Movie Guide)

Samuel Fuller has 91 credits at Criticker, including: Pierrot le fou, The American Friend, Shock Corridor and Pickup on South Street

John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama...(wikipedia)

Víctor Erice Aras (born 30 June 1940) is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983).

Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki. Both are prolific film-makers, and together have been responsible for one-fifth of the total output of the Finnish film industry since the early 80s. His films are very short, eccentric parodies of various genres and populated by lugubrious hard-drinking Finns and set to eclectic soundtracks.

Bob Rafelson has 20 credits at Criticker, including: Five Easy Pieces, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Head

Roy Ward Baker has 43 credits at Criticker, including: A Night to Remember, Quatermass and the Pit, Asylum, Don't Bother to Knock and The Vampire Lovers

Sergio Sollima has 21 credits at Criticker, including: The Big Gundown, Face to Face and Violent City

Robert Parrish has 24 credits at Criticker, including: Casino Royale, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Cry Danger, The Mob and The Wonderful Country

Peter von Bagh has 22 credits at Criticker, including: I Hired a Contract Killer, Helsinki, Forever, A Time of Roses and Sodankylä Ikuisesti

Francis Coppola has just 1 credit at Criticker: Sodankylä Ikuisesti