European Directors in the US

By: BaalMan

Who are in the List:
Directors who had a relevant career in Europe before moving to the US

Who are NOT in the List:
Directors who immigrated to the US when were very young or started their careers in the USA (Laslo Benedek, Frank Capra, Charles Chaplin, Maya Deren, Henry Koster, Rouben Mamoulian, Lewis Milestone, Jean Negulesco, Mike Nichols, Christopher Nolan, Vadim Perelman, Otto Preminger, Josef von Sternberg, Robert Stevenson, Erich von Stroheim, Jacques Tourneur, Edgar G. Ulmer, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann)

British and Irish directors will be added soon

Up to 4 films per director

Other directors (in progress):
Andrei Konchalovsky
Agnieska Holland
Wolfgang Petersen
Franco Zeffirelli
Susanne Bier
Volker Schlöndorff
Marcel Ophüls

• 01
  Bagdad Café
  Percy Adlon
• 02
  Rosalie Goes Shopping
  Percy Adlon
• 03
  Zabriskie Point
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 04
  The Serpent's Egg
  Ingmar Bergman
• 05
  Missing
  Costa-Gavras
• 06
  The Adventures of Robin Hood
  Michael Curtiz
• 07
  Angels with Dirty Faces
  Michael Curtiz
• 08
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 09
  The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  William Dieterle
• 10
  Tales of Manhattan
  Julien Duvivier
• 11
  Taking Off
  Miloš Forman
• 12
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  Miloš Forman
• 13
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 14
  The People vs. Larry Flynt
  Miloš Forman
• 15
  King Lear
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 16
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 17
  What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  Lasse Hallström
• 18
  The Cider House Rules
  Lasse Hallström
• 19
  Funny Games U.S.
  Michael Haneke
• 20
  Grizzly Man
  Werner Herzog
• 21
  Rescue Dawn
  Werner Herzog
• 22
  Babylon A.D.
  Mathieu Kassovitz
• 23
  Arizona Dream
  Emir Kusturica
• 24
  Fury
  Fritz Lang
• 25
  You Only Live Once
  Fritz Lang
• 26
  The Big Heat
  Fritz Lang
• 27
  Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  Fritz Lang
• 28
  All This, and Heaven Too
  Anatole Litvak
• 29
  The Snake Pit
  Anatole Litvak
• 30
  Ninotchka
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 31
  The Shop Around the Corner
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 32
  To Be or Not to Be
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 33
  Pretty Baby
  Louis Malle
• 34
  The Pursuit of Happyness
  Gabriele Muccino
• 35
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 36
  Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  F.W. Murnau
• 37
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 38
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 39
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 40
  The Diary of a Chambermaid
  Jean Renoir
• 41
  The Woman on the Beach
  Jean Renoir
• 42
  The Killers
  Robert Siodmak
• 43
  Imitation of Life
  Douglas Sirk
• 44
  Written on the Wind
  Douglas Sirk
• 45
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 46
  The Wind
  Victor Sjöström
• 47
  RoboCop
  Paul Verhoeven
• 48
  Total Recall
  Paul Verhoeven
• 49
  The Million Dollar Hotel
  Wim Wenders
• 50
  The End of Violence
  Wim Wenders
• 51
  Don't Come Knocking
  Wim Wenders
• 52
  Land of Plenty
  Wim Wenders
• 53
  Morituri
  Bernhard Wicki
• 54
  The Life of Emile Zola
  William Dieterle
• 55
  The Devil and Daniel Webster
  William Dieterle
• 56
  Elegy
  Isabel Coixet
• 57
  Anastasia
  Anatole Litvak
• 58
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 59
  My Dinner with André
  Louis Malle
• 60
  God's Country
  Louis Malle
• 61
  The Reckless Moment
  Max Ophüls
• 62
  This Land Is Mine
  Jean Renoir
• 63
  The Spiral Staircase
  Robert Siodmak