Top 200 Female Directors

200 items • Updated 3/15/2026

[D] The most important women directors from USA (62), Greece (29), France (19), United Kingdom (14), Germany (9), Italy (5), Australia (4), Canada (3), Denmark (3), Hungary (3), India (3), Russia (3), Sweden (3), Austria (2), Belgium (2), Brazil (2), Bulgaria (2), China/Hong Kong (2), Colombia (2), Georgia (2), Israel (2), Lebanon (2), Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Norway (2), Portugal (2), Spain (2), Bosnia, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and Vietnam.

1		Lois Weber Director
2		Dorothy Arzner Director
3	👤	Frances H. Flaherty Writer
4		Leontine Sagan Director
5		Leni Riefenstahl Producer
6		Maya Deren Director
7		Ida Lupino Actress
8		Kinuyo Tanaka Actress
9	👤	Lila Kourkoulakou Director
10		Yuliya Solntseva Director
11		Maria Plyta Director
12		Lana Gogoberidze Director
13		Vera Chytilová Director
14		Mai Zetterling Actress
15		Shirley Clarke Director
16		Binka Zhelyazkova Director
17	👤	Charlotte Zwerin Director
18	👤	Suzanne Schiffman Writer
19	👤	Sarah Maldoror Director
20	👤	Tonia Marketaki Director
21		Oja Kodar Actress
22		Liliana Cavani Director
23		Lina Wertmüller Writer
24		Chantal Akerman Director
25		Margarethe von Trotta Actress
26		Marguerite Duras Writer
27		Márta Mészáros Director
28	👤	Margarida Cordeiro Editor
29	👤	Anne-Marie Miéville Director
30		Larisa Shepitko Director
31	👤	Laura Mulvey Director
32	👤	Doris Wishman Director
33	👤	Babette Mangolte Cinematographer
34	👤	Helke Sander Director
35		Gillian Armstrong Director
36		Helma Sanders-Brahms Writer
37	👤	Yvonne Rainer Director
38	👤	Marie-Claude Treilhou Director
39	👤	Frieda Liappa Writer
40		Danièle Huillet Director
41		Aparna Sen Actress
42		Patricia Birch Additional Crew
43		Trinh T. Minh-ha Director
44	👤	Marta Rodríguez Director
45	👤	Kathleen Collins Writer
46	👤	Anne Charlotte Robertson Director
47		Lynne Littman Director
48		Amy Holden Jones Writer
49	👤	Lizzie Borden Director
50	👤	Bette Gordon Director

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