List of Brazilian film directors

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