Stills from Classic Films

selected by Piero Scaruffi
Contact | Cinema pages | Directory of filmmakers | Best films | Piero Scaruffi

Tengiz Abuladze
Maren Ade
  • Alice Diop
    Percy Adlon
    Chantal Akerman
    Fatih Akin
    Robert Aldrich
    Woody Allen
    Michael Almereyda
    Pedro Almodovar
    Lisandro Alonso
    Rick Alverson
    Ana Amirpour
    Robert Altman
    Anders Thomas Jensen
    Brad Anderson
    Paul Thomas Anderson
    Wes Anderson
    Roy Andersson
    Theodoros Angelopulos
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
    Dario Argento
    Aditya Assarat
    Olivier Assayas
    Ari Aster
    Jacques Audiard
    Lila Aviles
    Gela Babluani
    John Badham
    Yong-Kyun Bae
    Ramin Bahrani
    Sean Baker
    Kantemir Balagov
    Le Bao
    Rahi Barve
    Noah Baumbach
    Remy Belvaux
    Busby Berkeley
    Ingmar Bergman
    Bernardo Bertolucci
    Luc Besson
    Bi Gan
    Susanne Bier
    Shane Black
    Gabor Body
    Christoffer Boe
    Peter Bogdanovich
    Bertrand Bonello
    Joon-Ho Bong
    John Boorman
    Kenneth Branagh
    Janicza Bravo
    Robert Bresson
    Luis Bunuel
    Neil Burger
    Tim Burton
    Gonzalo Calzada
    James Cameron
    Jane Campion
    Leos Carax
    Marcel Carne'
    John Carpenter
    Shane Carruth
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
    Claude Chabrol
    Jeffrey Chandor
    Charlie Chaplin
    Damien Chazelle
    Benjamin Christensen
    Lee Isaac Chung
    Vera Chytilova
    Souleymane Cisse'
    Laura Citarella
    Rene' Clair
    Rene' Clement
    Henri Clouzot
    Jean Cocteau
    Joel Coen
    Jem Cohen
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Sofia Coppola
    Cord Jefferson
    Paola Cortellesi
    Pedro Costa
    Kevin Costner
    Michael Crichton
    David Cronenberg
    Alfonso Cuaron
    John Dahl
    Joe Dante
    Frank Darabont
    Dardenne brothers
    Julie Dash
    Jules Dassin
    Brian DePalma
    Vittorio DeSica
    Guillermo Del Toro
    Claire Denis
    Arnaud Desplechin
    Lav Diaz
    Alice Diop
    Mati Diop
    Aleksandr Dovzenko
    Carl Dreyer
    Julia Ducournau
    Germaine Dulac
    Quentin Dupieux
    Blake Edwards
    Robert Eggers
    Sergei Eisenstein
    Deniz Gamze Erguven
    Coralie Fargeat
    Ashgar Farhadi
    Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Federico Fellini
    Todd Field
    Mike Figgis
    Kleber Mendonca Filho
    David Fincher
    Ari Folman
    Andreas Fontana
    Milos Forman
    John Ford
    Tom Ford
    John Frankenheimer
    William Friedkin
    Antoine Fuqua
    Alex Garland
    Philippe Garrel
    Matteo Garrone
    Henrik Ruben Genz
    Greta Gerwig
    Terry Gilliam
    JeanLuc Godard
    Miguel Gomes
    James Gray
    Peter Greenaway
    Valeska Grisebach
    Luca Guadagnino
    Ciro Guerra
    Ryusuke Hamaguchi
    Michael Haneke
    Mia Hansen-Love
    Curtis Hanson
    Tsui Hark
    Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
    Yujiro Harumoto
    Henry Hathaway
    Howard Hawks
    Todd Haynes
    Werner Herzog
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Joanna Hogg
    Agnieszka Holland
    Sang-soo Hong
    Tobe Hooper
    Hsiao-hsien Hou
    Li-Pao Hsueh
    Bo Hu
    King Hu
    Tran Anh Hung
    John Huston
    Peter Hyams
    Kon Ichikawa
    Shohei Imamura
    Alejandro Inarritu
    Peter Jackson
    Benoit Jacquot
    Miklos Jancso
    Jim Jarmusch
    Barry Jenkins
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    Norman Jewison
    Zhangke Jia
    Wen Jiang
    Jaromil Jires
    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    Spike Jonze
    Radu Jude
    Miranda July

  • Chen Kaige
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    Charlie Kaufman
    Aki Kaurismaki
    Elia Kazan
    Buster Keaton
    Richard Kelly
    Ilya Khrzhanovsky
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Kiduk Kim
    Takeshi Kitano
    Elem Klimov
    Ilya Koberidze
    Satoshi Kon
    Andrej Konchalovskij
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
    Harmony Korine
    Stanley Kubrick
    Akira Kurosawa
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Emir Kusturica
    Marcel L'Herbier
    Nadine Labaki
    Fritz Lang
    Yorgos Lanthimos
    Nadav Lapid
    Patrice Leconte
    Chang-dong Lee
    Spike Lee
    Sergio Leone
    Mike Leigh
    Richard Lester
    Barry Levinson
    Jens Lien
    Doug Liman
    Richard Linklater
    Steven Lisberger
    Chia-Liang Liu
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth Lonergan
    Robert Longo
    Konstantin Lopushansky
    Joseph Losey
    David Lowery
    Sergei Loznitsa
    George Lucas
    Sydney Lumet
    David Lynch
    Adrian Lyne
    Majid Majidi
    Dusan Makavejev
    Terrence Malick
    Djibril Diop Mambety
    Joseph Mankiewicz
    Michael Mann
    John Maringouin
    Lucrecia Martel
    Gabriel Mascaro
    Adam McKay
    Fernando Meirelles
    Jean-Pierre Melville
    Jiri Menzel
    Takashi Miike
    Nikita Mikhalkov
    Kirill Mikhanovsky
    Lewis Milestone
    David Robert Mitchell
    Hayao Miyazaki
    Kenji Mizoguchi
    Kornel Mundruczo
    Cristian Mungiu
    Friedrich Murnau
    Shannon Murphy
    Hong-jin Na
    Ko Nakahira
    Hideo Nakata
    Gerardo Naranjo
    Laszlo Nemes
    Andrew Niccol
    Gaspar Noe
    Christopher Nolan
    Garin Nugroho
    Manoel de Oliveira
    Ermanno Olmi
    Max Ophuls
    Mamoru Oshii
    Nagisa Oshima
    Francois Ozon
    Yasujiro Ozu
    Ferzan Ozpetek
    Richard Quine
    Gyorgy Palfi
    Jafar Panahi
    Sergei Parajanov/Paradzanov
    Chan-wook Park
    Alan Parker
    PieroPaolo Pasolini
    Pawel Pawlikowski
    Alexander Payne
    Sam Peckinpah
    Jordan Peele
    Arthur Penn
    Alex Perry
    Christian Petzold
    Roman Polanski
    Sidney Pollack
    Aleksei Popogrebsky
    Cornelio Porumboiu
    Joel Potrykus
    Michael Powell
    Jakov Protazanov
    Cristi Puiu

    Harold Ramis
    Lynne Ramsay
    Kelly Reichardt
    Alain Resnais
    Carlos Reygadas
    Kevin Reynolds
    Arturo Ripstein
    Dino Risi
    Guy Ritchie
    Jacques Rivette
    Glauber Rocha
    Nicolas Roeg
    Eric Rohmer
    Alice Rohrwacher
    Stuart Rosenberg
    Tatia Rosenthal
    Roberto Rossellini
    Raoul Ruiz
    Alfonso Ruizpalacios
    David Russell
    Wisit Sasanatieng
    Sebastian Schipper
    John Schlesinger
    Julian Schnabel
    Celine Sciamma
    Martin Scorsese
    Ridley Scott
    Alan Shapiro
    Masahiro Shinoda
    Night Shyamalan
    Don Siegel
    John Singleton
    Robert Siodmak
    Victor Sjostrom
    Jerzy Skolimowski
    Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
    Kevin Smith
    Steven Soderbergh
    Aleksandr Sokurov
    Sion Sono
    Paolo Sorrentino
    Steven Spielberg
    Josef Sternberg
    Jan Svankmajer
    Goran Stolevski
    Oliver Stone
    Istvan Szabo
    Isao Takahata
    Andrej Tarkovsky
    Bela Tarr
    Jacques Tati
    Julien Temple
    Phil Tippett
    Johnnie To
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    Jacques Tourneur
    Joachim Trier
    Justine Triet
    Francois Truffaut
    Ming-Liang Tsai
    Gus VanSant
    Dziga Vertov
    King Vidor
    Nacho Vigalondo
    Lorenzo Vigas
    Jean Vigo
    Denis Villeneuve
    Thomas Vinterberg
    Luchino Visconti
    Frantisek Vlacil
    Erich von Stroheim
    Eskil Vogt
    Lars Von Trier
    Larry and Andy Wachowski
    Lulu Wang
    Patrick Wang
    Xiaoshuai Wang
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
    Paul Wegener
    Peter Weir
    Orson Welles
    Wim Wenders
    Bo Widerberg
    Billy Wilder
    Blake Williams
    Kar-Wai Wong
    John Woo
    Edgar Wright
    Edward Yang
    Sang-ho Yeon
    Adilkhan Yerzhanov
    Liang Ying
    Woo-ping Yuen
    Craig Zahler
    Karel Zeman
    Robert Zemeckis
    Yimou Zhang
    Chloe Zhao
    Ramon Zuercher
    Andrej Zvjagintsev
    Edward Zwick