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Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)
Jean-Luc Godard
French and Swiss film director (1930–2022)
Luis Buñuel
Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
Marcel Duchamp
French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)
Alain Resnais
French film director (1922-2014)
René Clair
French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981)
Jacques Rivette
French film director, screenwriter and film critic (1928–2016)
Abel Gance
French film director and producer, writer and actor (1889-1981)
Jean Epstein
French film director, essayist and novelist (1897–1953)
Leos Carax
French director and writer (born 1960)
Chris Marker
French filmmaker (1921–2012)
William Klein
American photographer-filmmaker (1926–2022)
Isidore Isou
Romanian-born French poet, experimental filmmaker, critic & visual artist (1925–2007)
Straub-Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub (; 8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (; 1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works.
Marie Epstein
filmmaker (1899–1995)
Philippe Grandrieux
French film director
Dimitri Kirsanoff
French film director (1899-1957)
Jean-Pierre Gorin
French filmmaker (born 1943)
Patrick Bokanowski
French filmmaker
Marc'O
thumb|250px Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin (10 April 1927 – 11 June 2025), known as '''Marc'O (original spelling Marc, O''' ), was a French writer, researcher, director, playwright and filmmaker known for being part of the Lettrist movement.