20th-century screenwriters

Colombian writer and Nobel laureate (1927–2014)

Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)

Bosnian film director

Soviet and Georgian singer, actor, screenwriter, producer, and composer (1938–2023)

Ukrainian writer, playwright, artist, political activist, revolutionary, politician, and statesman (1880–1951)

Soviet film director (1924-1994)

Macedonian-American film director

Croatian writer (1936–2017)

Soviet and Ukrainian film director, screenwriter (1940-2001)

Austrian journalist, actor and writer (1914–1998)

Malaysian film director (1958–2009)

Slovenian film director

Macedonian writer

Portuguese actor, screenwriter and translator (1948–2022)

Aromanian writer, politician (1874–1952)

Latvian film director (born 1962)

Ivorian film director and producer

Tunisian screenwriter and actress (1906-1998)

Uruguayan film director (1974-2006)

Ghanaian film maker

Croatian film director (1921-2002)

Croatian film director (1922–1996)

Senegalese film director (1935-2009)

actor, Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer (1891-1956)

Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and actor (1946-1992)

Soviet and Georgian actor, screenwriter and film director (1940-2020)

Tunisian film director and screenwriter

Belgian writer, playwright, director and screenwriter

theorist, critic, journalist and art historian (1943-2009)

Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter (1901-1994)

Film director, screenwriter and actor

South African film director (1926–1986)

South Korean film director (1931–1975)

Croatian film director (1941–2007)

Estonian animator, film director (1920-2007)

Malaysian film director (1963–2021)

Film director, Screenwriter (1934-2007)

Film director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer (1926-1998)

Slovak novelist and screenwriter (1921–1981)

Azerbaijani and Soviet actor, film director

Estonian actress and filmmaker (1905-2005)

Portuguese actor

Croatian film director and screenwriter (1928–2009)

Slovenian poet (1929–2004)

American film director

Azerbaijani film director and screenwriter (1908-1994)

Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and film producer

Portuguese actor and director (1895–1982)

Hungarian-Mexican painter, designer and director and screenwriter for film and theatre (1915-2000)

Chilean cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and filmmaker (1895-1980)

Iraqi-born Israeli and Iranian screenwriter and film director

Slovenian film director (1953-2007)

Serbian poet, novelist and film director (1922-1995)

Portuguese journalist

Chinese and Hong Kong actress, film director and writer (1932–2000)

Moldovan writer (1935–1983)

film director (1925–1987)

abkhazia writer and journalist (1953–2001)

writer Funky Friday (1926–2001)

British producer and writer (1925–1999)