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 Juliana Sakae João Moreira Salles Walter Salles Roberto Santucci David Schurmann Silvio Tendler Paulo Thiago Daniela Thomas Sérgio Toledo Pedro Vasconcellos Andrucha Waddington Tizuka Yamasaki