CINEMAI v2
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CINEMAI

A canon you can scroll through.

A living catalog of films, TV shows, and the people who make them. Ranked, scrollable, and powered by CINEMAI — an AI film agent.

CINEMAI is a Top-100 list of film and TV directors. Each entry is a short bio seeded from Wikipedia, then trimmed for the kind of reader who'd rather know the work than the trivia. The 100 names span silent cinema through modern auteurs and the latest TV showrunners.

The site is built two ways at once: a director-by-director archive for desktop reading, and a vertical scroller for the phone, where each director is one swipe. AI prompts and YouTube tie-ins sit on the side for when you want to go deeper.

Eras represented
SilentGolden AgeNew HollywoodAuteurModernTV
Cinema movements timelineSilent Era1910s–1920sGolden Age1930s–1940sItalian Neo-realism1945–1955French New Wave1958–1968New Hollywood1967–1980Hong Kong Cinema1980s–1997Iranian Cinema1979–2000sKorean New Wave1990s–2010sDigital / Indie2000s–2010sStreaming Era2015–present
Best Director — last 15 years
Oscar Best Director winners 2010–20242010Kathryn BigelowThe Hurt Lockerfirst woman to win2011Tom HooperThe King's Speech2012Michel HazanaviciusThe Artist2013Ang LeeLife of Pi2014Alfonso CuarónGravity2015Alejandro G. IñárrituBirdmanback-to-back wins2016Alejandro G. IñárrituThe Revenant2017Damien ChazelleLa La Land2018Guillermo del ToroThe Shape of Water2019Alfonso CuarónRoma2020Bong Joon-hoParasitefirst Korean winner2021Chloé ZhaoNomadlandfirst WoC winner2022Jane CampionThe Power of the Dog2023Daniel Kwan & Daniel ScheinertEverything Everywhere All at Once2024Christopher NolanOppenheimer
Eras × top directors
Cinema eras × top directors matrixEra#1#2#3#4Silent Era1920sMurnauatmosphereLangexpressionEisensteinmontageChaplinpathosGolden Age1940sWellesscopeHitchcocksuspenseFordfrontierWilderwitNew Wave1960sGodardcoolTruffautyouthBergmansoulAntonionialienationNew Hollywood1970sScorsesestreetCoppolamythSpielbergwonderKubrickcontrolModern2010s–VilleneuvescaleBongsatireAndersongeometryGlazerdread
The surfaces

Directors

100 directors across cinema eras, Wikipedia bios.

Scroller

Cinema-first vertical feed for mobile.

Videos

Curated YouTube from @mat-siems-production.

Prompts

Top 100 cinema-related AI prompts.

Apps

The wider CINEMAI apps catalogue.

GitHub

Starred repos from @flexappdev.

CINEMAI

Stop scrolling. Start asking.

Describe the mood, the runtime, the night you're trying to make happen. CINEMAI reads our entire catalog and answers in films.

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