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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Scarlet Diva
Jamie Babbitt - Makes Comedies and Dramas with lesbian characters. Directs lots of television.
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
The Quiet
But I'm a Cheerleader
Susanne Bier - Danish director
Things We Lost in the Fire
After the Wedding
Brothers
A Corazon Abierto (Open Hearts)
Once in a Lifetime
The One and Only
Credo
Like It Never Was Before
Taxi to Portugal
Letter to Jonas
Freud's Leaving Home
Katheryn Bigelow - Big budget Action & Suspense Movie Director.
The Hurt Locker
Mission Zero
K-19: The Widowmaker
The Weight of Water
Strange Days
Point Break
Blue Steel
Near Dark
The Loveless
Catherine Breillat - French Director of stark and dark sexy dramas. My new personal hero.
La barbe bleue (Bluebeard)
Une vieille maîtresse (The Last Mistress)
Anatomie de l'enfer (Anatomy of Hell)
Sex Is Comedy
Brève traversée (Brief Crossing)
À ma soeur! (Fat Girl)
Romance
Parfait amour! (Perfect Love)
Sale comme un ange (Dirty Like an Angel)
36 fillette (Junior Size 36)
Tapage nocturne (Nocturnal Uproar)
Une vraie jeune fille (A Real Young Girl)
Colette Burson -
Little Black Boot
Coming Soon
Jane Campion - Australian Director nominated for Oscar for directing The Piano. She was also the first woman to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Bright Star
The Portrait of a Lady
Holy Smoke
The Piano
An Angel at My Table
Sweetie
Peel
Zoe Cassavetes -
Broken English
Men Make Women Crazy Theory
Gurinder Chadha - Officer of the British Empire, directs teen comedies.
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Paris, je t'aime
Bride & Prejudice
Bend It Like Beckham
What's Cooking?
A Nice Arrangement
What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny
Bhaji on the Beach
Acting Our Age
Sylvia Chang - Multi-genre director and actor from Taiwan
Yat kor ho ba ba (Run Papa Run)
20 30 40 (2004)
Seung fei (Princess D)
Sam dung (Tempting Heart)
Jin tian bu hui jia (Tonight Nobody Goes Home)
Shao nu xiao yu
San tung gui see doi (Conjugal Affair)
Meng xing shi fan (Mary from Beijing)
Sha Sha Jia Jia zhan qi lai (Sisters of the World Unite)
Huang se gu shi (The Game they Called Sex)
Zui ai (Passion)
Jiu meng bu xu ji (Once Upon a Time )
Joan Chen - Chinese-born actress and director
Autumn in New York
Tian yu (Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl)
Christine Choy - Directed a few documentaries about asian wrongful deaths
In the Name of the Emperor
The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Martha Coolidge - An experienced filmmaker with many comedies to her name. Had early success with Valley Girl and Real Genius. Like John Hughes, the genre may have evolved away from her.
Material Girls
The Prince & Me
Out to Sea
Three Wishes
Angie
Lost in Yonkers
Rambling Rose
Plain Clothes
Real Genius
Joy of Sex
City Girl
Valley Girl
Not a Pretty Picture
Sofia Coppella - the first American woman ever nominated for best director Oscar. Divorced Spike Jonze
Somewhere
Marie Antoinette
Lost in Translation
The Virgin Suicides
Lick the Star
Bed, Bath and Beyond
Claire Denis - Prolific French Director of dramas. Rooted in Africa
White Material
35 Shots of Rum
Vers Mathilde
The Intruder
Friday Night
Trouble Every Day
Beau travail
Nénette et Boni
J'ai pas sommei
Boom-Boom
Keep It for Yourself
No Fear, No Die
Man No Run
Chocolat
Nora Ephron - The daughter of a pair of screen-writers. She specializes in comedies.
Julie & Julia
Bewitched
Lucky Numbers
You've Got Mail
Michael
Mixed Nuts
Sleepless in Seattle
This Is My Life
Valerie Feris - Very successful and famous music video and commercial director heading feature films after the success of Little Miss Sunshine. Won Grammys.
Used Guys
The Abstinence Teacher
Little Miss Sunshine
The Check Up
Jody Foster
Little Man Tate
Home for the Holidays
Marleen Gorris- the first woman to direct a movie that won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film
Heaven and Earth (Barry)
Within the Whirlwind
Carolina
The Luzhin Defence
Mrs Dalloway
Antonia
The Last Island
Gebroken spiegels (Broken Mirrors)
De stilte rond Christine M. (A Question of Silence)
Lucile Hadzihalilovic - French director has been nominated for 11 film awards and won all 11.
Innocence
Good Boys Use Condoms
Parental Guidance
Catherine Hardwicke - Also a prodution designer. Her Twilight grossed $200 million.
Twilight
The Nativity Story
Lords of Dogtown
Thirteen
Mary Harron - English Director who got her start writing about punk rock in England
The Notorious Bettie Page
American Psycho
I Shot Andy Warhol
Amy Heckerling - Specializing in Mainstream Comedies, not particularly romantic ones.
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Loser
A Night at the Roxbury
Clueless
Look Who's Talking Too
Look Who's Talking
European Vacation
Johnny Dangerously
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Getting It Over with
Jody Hill -
Observe and Report
The Foot Fist Way
Nicole Holofcener - Casts romantic comedies, often casts Catherine Keener. Influenced by Woody Allen.
Please Give
Friends with Money
Lovely & Amazing
Walking and Talking
Agnes Jaoui - French Director of dramas and comedies
Parlez-moi de la pluie (Let It Rain)
Comme une image (Look at Me)
Le goût des autres (The Taste of Others)
Miranda July - Vermont native seems to have a long and fruitful career ahead of her.
Satisfaction
Me and You and Everyone We Know
Nest of Tens
Sarah Kernochan - Won Oscar for Best Documentary in 1973 and 2002. Wrote 9 1/2 weeks.
Thoth
All I Wanna Do
Marjoe
Mary Lambert -
Also Directed top Madonna videos.
High Midnight
The Attic
14 Women
Clubland
Pet Semetary 2
Grand Isle
Pet Semetary
Siesta
Mimi Leder - Director of Drama and Action Movies and television
Mandrake the Magician
Pay It Forward
Sentimental Journey
Deep Impact
The Peacemaker
Kasi Lemmons - Seemingly the only African American director, specializes in drama
Black Nativity
Talk to Me
The Caveman's Valentin
Dr. Hugo
Eve's Bayou
Caroline Link - German Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Directs dramas and comedies
Im Winter ein Jahr (A Year Ago in Winter)
Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa)
Pünktchen und Anton (Annaluise & Anton)
Jenseits der Stille (Beyond Silence)
Sommertage
Glück zum Anfassen
Bunte Blumen
Jennifer Chambers Lynch - Survived Critical reviews of Boxing Helena and now makes horror movies.
Hisss
Survellance
Boxing Helena
Maria Maggenti -
Puccini for Beginners
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
Penny Marshall - Known best as Laverne DeFazio on Laverne and Shirley, she is also a star Producer and Director. She was the first female director to direct a film which made more than $100 million (Big). She repeated that success with "A League of their Own".
Riding in Cars with Boys
The Preacher's Wife
Renaissance Man
A League of Their Own
Awakenings
Big
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Lucrecia Martel - Argentinian director makes films described as "artistic" and "puzzling".
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman)
La niña santa (The Holy Girl)
La ciénaga (The Swamp)
Besos rojos (1991)
Piso 24 (1989)
El 56 (1988)
Darnell Martin - American director of ghetto-centric dramas and musicals.
Cadillac Records
Prison Song
I Like It Like That
Alison McClean - Canadian director of suspense, drama and documentaries
The Choices We Make
Persons of Interest
Jesus' Son
Crush
Kitchen Sink
Deepa Mehta - Toronto-based Indian director of dramas and romances. Her Water was nominated for best foreign language Oscar.
Heaven on Earth
Water
The Republic of Love
Bollywood/Hollywood
Earth
Fire
Camilla
Sam & Me
Martha, Ruth & Edie
Nancy Meyers - Super successful and sought after director of top-flight romantic comedies. Leads Penny Marshall as the female director with greatest cumulative film proceeds.
F*** Force Five
The Holiday
Something's Gotta Give
What Women Want
The Parent Trap
Rebecca Miller - Makes highly-rated interpersonal dramas. Influenced by Henry Miller.
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Personal Velocity
Angela
Mira Nair - Award winning Indian Director of romance, drama and documentaries
Amelia
New York, I love you
Migration
The Namesake
Vanity Fair
Hysterical Blindness
Monsoon Wedding
The Laughing Club of India
My Own Country
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
The Perez Family
Mississippi Masala
Salaam Bombay!
So Far From India
India Cabaret
Barbara Peters - low budget drive-in exploitation fare in the 70s and early 80s
Humanoids from the Deep
Starhops
Summer School Teachers
Bury Me an Angel
The Dark Side of Tomorrow
Kimberly Pierce -
Stop-Loss
Boys Don't Cry
Sally Potter - British director
Rage
Yes
The Man Who Cried
The Tango Lesson
Orlando
I Am an Ox, I Am a Horse, I Am a Man, I Am a Woman
The Gold Diggers
London Story
Thriller
Lynn Ramsey - Scottish Director
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Morvern Callar
Ratcatcher
Gasman
Small Deaths
Kill the Day
Kelly Reichardt - Directs very popular, very highly reviewed Independent films
Wendy and Lucy
Old Joy
River of Grass
Penelope Spheeris - Directs Documentaries and Mainstream Comedies
The Kid & I
Senseless
The Decline of Western Civilization III
Black Sheep
The Little Rascals
The Beverly Hillbillies
Wayne's World
The Decline of Western Civilization II
Dudes
The Boys Next Door
The Decline of Western Civilization
Suburbia
Barbra Streisand - The singer
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Prince of Tides
Yentl
Julie Taymor - Tony award-winning director of historical dramas and musical dramas. Designs costumes and puppets.
The Tempest
Across the Universe
Frida
Titus
Betty Thomas - Started at Second City comedy troupe, got one of her Emmys as an actress on Hill Street Blues. Experienced Director and producer of very light comedies.
Dallas
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
John Tucker Must Die
I Spy
28 Days
Doctor Dolittle
Private Parts
The Brady Bunch Movie
Only You
Margarethe von Trotta - German based in Paris, her movies often feature a strong female protagonist with a political motive or background.
Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (Vision)
Ich bin die Andere (I Am the Other Woman)
Rosenstrasse
Das Versprechen (The Promise)
Il lungo silenzio (The Long Silence)
L'africana (The African Woman)
Paura e amore (Three Sisters)
Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg
Heller Wahn (Friends and Husbands)
Die bleierne Zeit (The German Sisters)
Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks (Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness)
Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages (The Second Awakening of Christa Klages)
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)