Europe has produced some of the most successful and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Since the late 1920s, they have significantly inspired Hollywood through innovative storytelling and unique cinematic techniques.
Evolving through art movements such as the French New Wave and New German Cinema, these defining qualities have been reinterpreted by today's continental movie directors to further surprise and delight audiences and critics alike with outstanding bodies of work that uphold the highly stylistic and often nonconformist tradition of European moviemaking.
So, who are the pioneers of classic and contemporary European cinema? Click on and discover Europe's most original and visionary film directors.