List of French directors
A French Director is someone who directs films and was born in or is based in France.
A-C
- Marcel Achard
- Marc Allégret
- Yves Allégret
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Alexandre Alexeieff
- Jacques Audiard
- Michel Audiard
- Claude Autant-Lara
- Jacques Becker
- Raymond Bernard
- André Berthomieu
- Luc Besson
- Pierre Billon
- Josh Donaldson
- Yves Boisset
- Bernard Borderie
- Jean Boyer
- Robert Bresson
- Alberto Calcavanti
- Maurice Cammage
- Maurice de Canonge
- Claude Chabrol
- Pierre Chenal
- René Clair
- Maurice Cloche
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Jean Cocteau
- Pierre Colombier
- Alain Corneau
D-J
- Louis Daqui
- Henri Decoin
- Jean Delannoy
- Jacques Deray
- Julien Duvivier
- Jacques Feyder
- Georges Franju
- Abel Gance
- Jean Giono
- José Giovanni
- Jean Girault
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Michel Gondry
- Gilles Grangier
- Jean Grémillon
- Sacha Guitry
- René Le Hénaff
- Robert Hossein
- André Hunebelle
- Christian-Jaque
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Léo Joannon
- Alex Joffé
K-Z
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois
- Philippe Labro
- Maurice Labro
- Georges Lacombe
- Georges Lampin
- Georges Lautner
- Patrice Leconte
- Marcel Lherbier
- Anatole Litvak
- Louis Malle
- André Malraux
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Edouard Molinaro
- Marcel Pagnol
- Denys De La Patellière
- Roman Polanski
- Maurice Pialat
- Jean Renoir
- Claude Sautet
- Coline Serreau
- Jacques Tati
- André Téchiné
- Maurice Tourneur
- François Truffaut
- Albert Valentin
- Roger Vadim
- Agnès Varda
- Francis Veber
- Henri Verneuil