I've tried to make this list both comprehensive — in terms of including many of the most prominent international directors from all eras of cinema history — as well as idiosyncratic, with some personal choices and lesser-known names.
A
Akerman, Chantal
Almodóvar, Pedro
Álvarez, Santiago
Angelopoulos, Theo
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Arcand, Denys
Armstrong, Gillian
Assayas, Olivier
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M
Makavejev, Dusan
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Makk, Károly
Malle, Louis
Mambéty, Djibril Diop
Marker, Chris
Masumura, Yasuzo
Mehrjui, Dariush
Méličs, Georges
Melville, Jean-Pierre
Menzel, Jirí
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Mizoguchi, Kenji
Murnau, F.W.
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B
Barreto, Bruno
Becker, Jacques
Bellocchio, Marco
Bergman, Ingmar
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Borowczyk, Walerian
Bresson, Robert
Buńuel, Luis
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N-O
Nęmec, Jan
Olmi, Ermanno
Ophüls, Marcel
Ophüls, Max
Oshima, Nagisa
Ozu, Yasujiro
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C
Cacoyannis, Michael
Carax, Léos
Carné, Marcel
Chabrol, Claude
Chahine, Youssef
Chen Kaige
Chytilová, Vera
Cissé, Souleymane
Clair, René
Clarke, Alan
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Cocteau, Jean
Costa-Gavras, Constantin
Cox, Paul
Cronenberg, David
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P
Pabst, G.W.
Paradzhanov, Sergei
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Pereira dos Santos, Nelson
Pialat, Maurice
Polanski, Roman
Powell, Michael
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
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D
De Sica, Vittorio
Delvaux, André
Demy, Jacques
Denis, Claire
Depardon, Raymond
Diegues, Carlos
Donner, Jörn
Dovzhenko, Alexander
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Dulac, Germaine
Duras, Marguerite
Duvivier, Julien
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R
Ray, Satyajit
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rivette, Jacques
Rocha, Glauber
Rohmer, Eric
Rosi, Francesco
Rossellini, Roberto
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E-F
Egoyan, Atom
Eisenstein, Sergei
Epstein, Jean
Erice, Víctor
Fábri, Zoltán
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Fellini, Federico
Ferreri, Marco
Feuillade, Louis
Forman, Milos
Franju, Georges
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S
Saura, Carlos
Sautet, Claude
Schlöndorff, Volker
Scola, Ettore
Sembčne, Ousmane
Shepitko, Larisa
Shub, Esther
Sjöberg, Alf
Sjöström, Victor
Skolimowski, Jerzy
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Straub, Jean-Marie
Suzuki, Seijun
Svankmajer, Jan
Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen
Szabó, István
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G
Gance, Abel
Garrel, Philippe
Godard, Jean-Luc
Grémillon, Jean
Guerra, Ruy
Guitry, Sacha
Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás
Guy-Blaché, Alice
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T
Tanner, Alain
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Tarr, Béla
Tati, Jacques
Tavernier, Bertrand
Taviani, Paolo and Vittorio
Teshigahara, Hiroshi
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Troell, Jan
von Trotta, Margarethe
Truffaut, François
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H
Haneke, Michael
Hani, Susumu
Herzog, Werner
Holland, Agnieszka
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Huillet, Daničle
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V
Varda, Agnčs
Vertov, Dziga
Vigo, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
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I-J
Ichikawa, Kon
Imamura, Shohei
Itami, Juzo
Jancsó, Miklós
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W
Wajda, Andrzej
Wenders, Wim
Wertmüller, Lina
Widerberg, Bo
Wong Kar-Wai
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K
Kadár, Ján
Kaurismäki, Aki
Kiarostami, Abbas
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Kluge, Alexander
Kobayashi, Masaki
Kozintsev, Grigori
Kuleshov, Lev
Kurosawa, Akira
Kusturica, Emir
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Y-Z
Yang, Edward
Zanussi, Krzysztof
Zetterling, Mai
Zhang Yimou
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L
Lang, Fritz
Leigh, Mike
Lepage, Robert
L'Herbier, Marcel
Linder, Max
Loach, Ken
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lumičre, Louis and Auguste
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