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Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)
Gérard Depardieu
French actor (born 1948)
François Truffaut
French film director (1932–1984)
Luis Buñuel
Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)
Michel Houellebecq
French writer
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
Auguste and Louis Lumière
French filmmakers
Jeanne Moreau
French actress, singer, screenwriter and director (1928-2017)
Sophie Marceau
French actress
Sacha Guitry
French playwright and filmmaker (1885-1957)
Serge Gainsbourg
French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director (1928–1991)
Marcel Pagnol
novelist, playwright and filmmaker from France (1895-1974)
Alain Resnais
French film director (1922-2014)
Julie Delpy
French and American actress, director, screenwriter and singer
René Goscinny
French comic book artist and author (1926-1977)
Jean-Jacques Annaud
French film director (born 1943)
Michel Hazanavicius
French film director, producer and screenwriter
Robert Bresson
French film director (1901–1999)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
French actor (1930–2022)
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean-French filmmaker and comics writer
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
French film director (born 1953)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French film director and philosopher
Jacques Tati
French filmmaker (1907-1982)
Mélanie Laurent
French actress, model, director and writer
Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author and film director (1922–2008)
Michel Piccoli
French actor (1925–2020)
Guy Debord
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker (1931–1994)
Fernand Léger
French painter (1881–1955)
Louis Malle
French film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995)
Éric Rohmer
French film director (1920-2010)
Anna Karina
Danish-French actress (1940–2019)
Costa-Gavras
Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.
Fanny Ardant
French actress (born 1949)
René Clair
French filmmaker and writer (1898–1981)
Mathieu Kassovitz
French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter (born 1967)
Jacques Audiard
French film director and screenwriter (born 1952)
Bertrand Tavernier
French film director (1941–2021)
Jacques Rivette
French film director, screenwriter and film critic (1928–2016)
Sandrine Bonnaire
French actress, film director and screenwriter
Abel Gance
French film director and producer, writer and actor (1889-1981)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
French film director, screenwriter and producer (1907–1977)
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Italian and French actress, director, screenwriter
René Clément
French film director and screenwriter (1913–1996)
Christian Clavier
French actor and screenwriter
Patrice Chéreau
French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer (1944-2013)
Virginie Despentes
French writer and film director
Abdellatif Kechiche
Tunisian-French film director
Jean-Louis Barrault
French actor and theatre director (1910–1994)
Louis Garrel
French actor and director
Dany Boon
French actor, screenwriter and film director
Jamel Debbouze
Moroccan Amazigh -French comedian and actor
Guillaume Canet
French actor, film director, and screenwriter (born 1973)
Claude Sautet
French film director (1924–2000)
Michel Gondry
French film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1963)
Tony Gatlif
French film director, actor and screenwriter
Robert Hossein
French film actor, director, and writer of Azerbaijani origin (1927-2020)
Bertrand Blier
French film director (1939–2025)
Max Ophüls
German film director (1902-1957)
Jean Epstein
French film director, essayist and novelist (1897–1953)
Claude Lanzmann
French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)