The silent cinema and its heritage : Lumière, Méliès, Linder, Feuillade, Gance, Feyder, Clair
From avant-garde to occupation : Cocteau, Renoir, Vigo, Guitry, Pagnol, Ophuls, Duvivier, Carné, Grémillon
The post-war era : Autant-Lara, Clouzot, Becker, Tati, Bresson, Clément, Rouquier, Franju, Rouch, Melville
New cinema 1959 : Astruc, Vadim, Malle, Varda, Chabrol, Truffaut, Resnais, Marker
Godard and the sixties : Godard, Rivette, Demy, Robbe-Grillet, Etaix, Lelouch.