List of Brazilian film directors explained

This is a list of notable Brazilian film directors born in Brazil or who have established Brazilian citizenship or residency.

Pioneers

• Lima Barreto
• Humberto Mauro
• Mário Peixoto

Cinema Novo

• Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
• Cacá Diegues
• Ruy Guerra
• Leon Hirszman
• Arnaldo Jabor
• Glauber Rocha
• Roberto Santos
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• Paulo César Saraceni

Cinema marginal

• Júlio Bressane
• José Mojica Marins
• Rogério Sganzerla
• João Silvério Trevisan

Others in the 1960s/1970s/1980s

• Hector Babenco
• Ana Carolina
• Eduardo Coutinho
• Anselmo Duarte
• Roberto Farias
• Walter Hugo Khouri
• Walter Lima, Jr.
• Luis Sérgio Person

Retoma and Post Retomada

• Alê Abreu
• Aluizio Abranches
• Gilda de Abreu
• Carine Adler
• Karim Aïnouz
• Renalto Alves
• Tata Amaral
• Fernando Grostein Andrade
• João Batista de Andrade
• Joel Zito Araújo
• Cláudio Assis
• Bruno Barreto
• Fábio Barreto
• Luiz de Barros
• Laís Bodanzky
• Beto Brant
• João Callegaro
• Carla Camurati
• Maurice Capovila
• Arturo Carrari
• Luiz Fernando Carvalho
• Alberto Cavalcanti
• César Charlone
• Carlos Coimbra
• Heitor Dhalia
• Miguel Faria, Jr.
• Daniel Filho
• Jorge Furtado
• Cao Hamburger
• Carlos Imperial
• Tatiana Issa
• Natalia Leite
• Kátia Lund
• Sérgio Machado
• Carolina Markowicz
• Amácio Mazzaropi
• Fernando Meirelles
• Selton Mello
• Flávio Migliaccio
• Jayme Monjardim
• David Neves
• Carlos Augusto de Oliveira
• José Padilha
• Tom Payne
• Paulo Porto
• Afonso Poyart
• Guilherme de Almeida Prado
• Helvécio Ratton
• Sérgio Rezende
• Daniel Ribeiro
• Sérgio Ricardo
• Juliana Rojas
• João Moreira Salles
• Walter Salles
• Roberto Santucci
• David Schurmann
• Silvio Tendler
• Paulo Thiago
• Daniela Thomas
• Sérgio Toledo
• Pedro Vasconcellos
• Andrucha Waddington
• Tizuka Yamasaki