Best Films by Countries

TOP 150 DIRECTORS OF THE CINEMA

1. Ingmar Bergman SWE 22 films included in Istanbulfilms lists

2. Alfred Hitchcock UK 17

3. Luis Buñuel SPA 15

4. Steven Spielberg USA 13

5. John Ford USA 12

6. Akira Kurosawa JAP 12

7. Federico Fellini ITA 11

8. Fritz Lang AUS 11

9. Jean-Luc Godard FRA 11

10. Martin Scorsese USA 11

11. Stanley Kubrick USA 11

12. Pedro Almodóvar SPA 11

10 Films 

13. Yasujiro Ozu JAP 10

14. George Cukor USA 10

15. Howard Hawks USA 10

16. Billy Wilder USA 10

17. Charlie Chaplin UK 10

18. Woody Allen USA 10

19. Jean Renoir FRA 10

9 Films 

20. Luchino Visconti ITA 9

21. Hsiao-Hsien Hou TAI 9

22. Krzysztof Kieślowski POL 9

8 Films 

23. William Wyler USA 8

24. Coen Brothers USA 8

25. Clint Eastwood USA 8

26. Roman Polanski POL 8

27. Yimou Zhang CHN 8

28. Orson Welles USA 8

29. Michael Haneke AUS 8

30. Tim Burton USA 8

7 Films 

31. Werner Herzog GER 7

32. Kenji Mizoguchi JAP 7

33. Ertem Egilmez TUR 7

34. Kar Wai Wong CHN 7

35. Aki Kaurismäki FIN 7

36. Abbas Kiarostami IRA 7

37. Satyajit Ray IND 7

38. Theodoros Angelopoulos GRE 7

39. Robert Bresson FRA 7

40. Peter Jackson NZE 7

41. Michelangelo Antonioni ITA 7

42. Chuck Jones USA 7

43. D. W. Griffith USA 7

44. Andrei Tarkovsky RUS 7

45. David Lean UK 7

46. John Huston USA 7

47. Ridley Scott UK 7

48. Peter Weir AUL 7 

6 Films 

49. Ki-duk Kim KOR 6

50. Wim Wenders BEL 6

51. Rainer Werner Fassbinder GER 6

52. Max Ophüls GER 6

53. Ousmane Sembene SEN 6

54. Ang Lee TAI 6

55. Francisco J. Lombardi PER 6

56. Andrzej Wajda POL 6

57. François Truffaut FRA 6

58. Lars von Trier DEN 6

59. Carl Theodor Dreyer DEN 6

60. Buster Keaton USA 6

61. Hayao Miyazaki JAP 6

62. Michael Curtiz USA 6

63. Manoel de Oliveira POR 6

64. David Lynch USA 6

65. Emir Kusturica SER 6

66. Chan-Wook Park KOR 6

67. Sergio Leone ITA 6

5 Films 

68. Louis Malle FRA 5

69. Robert Altman USA 5

70. Frank Capra USA 5

71. Michael Powell UK 5

72. Bernardo Bertolucci ITA 5

73. Paul Verhoeven NET 5

74. Jean-Pierre Melville FRA 5

75. Alejandro Amenábar SPA 5

76. Alain Resnais FRA 5

77. Christopher Nolan UK 5

78. Roberto Rossellini ITA 5

79. F.W. Murnau GER 5

80. Vincente Minnelli USA 5

81. Dardenne Brothers BEL 5

82. István Szabó HUN 5

83. Ivo Caprino NOR 5

84. Tsai Ming-liang TAI 5

85. Edward F. Cline USA 5

86. Ernst Lubitsch GER 5

87. George Stevens USA 5

4 Films 

88. Youssef Chahine EGY 4

89. Tomas Gutierrez Alea CUB 4

90. Elia Kazan GRE 4

91. Milos Forman CZR 4

92. Paul Greengrass UK 4

93. Edward Yang TAI 4

94. P. Ramlee MLY 4

95. Adolfo Aristarain ARG 4

96. David Fincher USA 4

97. Richard Curtis UK 4

98. Masaki Kobayashi JAP 4

99. Marcel Carné FRA 4
100. Sergei Parajanov ARM 

101. Kim Ji-woon KOR 4

102. Tengiz Abuladze GEO 4

103. Stanley Donen USA 4

104. David Cronenberg CAN 4

105. Darren Aronofsky USA 4

106. Brian De Palma USA 4

107. Michael Cacoyannis CYP 4

108. Majid Majidi IRA 4

109. Michael Mann USA 4

110. Leo McCarey USA 4

111. Fred Zinnemann AUS 4

112. Mohsen Makhmalbaf IRA 4

113. Jafar Panahi IRA 4

114. Jan Troell SWE 4

115. Cecil B. DeMille USA 4

116. James Cameron CAN 4

117. Preston Sturges USA 4

118. Quentin Tarantino USA 4

119. Jean-Jacques Annaud FRA 4

120. Haile Gerima ETH 4

121. Jacques Tati FRA 4

122. Henri-Georges Clouzot FRA 4

123. Jiří Menzel CZR 4

124. René Clair FRA 4

125. Carol Reed UK 4

126. Walter Salles BRA 4

127. Josef von Sternberg AUS 4

128. Vittorio De Sica ITA 4

129. Rob Reiner USA 4

130. Sidney Lumet USA 4

131. Jim Jarmusch USA 44

132. Sam Peckinpah USA 4

133. Robert Zemeckis USA 4
134. Francis Ford Coppola ITA 4
135. Emeric Pressburger HUN 4
136. Rouben Mamoulian ARM 4
137. Arthur Penn USA 4
138. Henry Barakat EGY 4
139. Nae Caranfil ROM 4

3 Films

140. Sergei M. Eisenstein RUS 3
141. King Vidor USA 3
142. Stanley Kramer USA 3

143. Robert Wise USA 3
144. Victor Fleming USA 3
145. Joseph L. Mankiewicz USA 3
146. Mike Leigh UK 3 
147. William A. Wellman USA 3
148. Nicholas Ray USA 3
149. Raoul Walsh USA 3
150. Mike Nichols USA 3