Roland Joffé - Director
Nationality: English. Born: London, 17 November 1945.
Neil Jordan - Director
Nationality: Irish. Born: Sligo County, Ireland, 25 February 1950.
Jean-Marie Gaston Kaboré - Director
Nationality: Burkinabe. Born: Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, 23 April 1951.
Karel Kachyňa - Director
Nationality: Czech. Born: Vyskov, Czechoslovakia, 1 May 1924.
Ján Kadár - Director
Nationality: Czechoslovak. Born: Budapest, 1 April 1918.
Nelly Kaplan - Director
Nationality: Argentinian. Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11 April 1936 (some sources say 1931 or 1934).
Raj Kapoor - Director
Nationality: Indian. Born: Ranbirraj Kapoor in Peshwar (now in Pakistan), 14 December 1942.
Lawrence Kasdan - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Miami Beach, Florida, 14 January 1949.
Philip Kaufman - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Chicago, Illinois, 1936.
Aki Kaurismaki - Director
Nationality: Finnish. Born: Orimattila, Finland, 4 April 1957.
Helmut Käutner - Director
Nationality: German. Born: Düsseldorf, 1908.
Jerzy Kawalerowicz - Director
Nationality: Polish. Born: Gwózda (Gwozdziec), now part of Soviet Ukraine, 19 January 1922.
Elia Kazan - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Elia Kazanjoglou in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey, 7 September 1909; moved with family to New York, 1913.
Buster Keaton - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Joseph Francis Keaton in Piqua, Kansas, 4 October 1895.
Abbas Kiarostami - Director
Nationality: Iranian. Born: Teheran, Iran, June 22, 1940.
Krzysztof Kieślowski - Director
Nationality: Polish. Born: Warsaw, 27 June 1941.
King Hu - Director
Nationality: Chinese. Born: Hu Chin-Ch'üan (as actor known as Chin Ch'üan; name in pinyin: Hun Jinquan) in Peking, 29 April 1931.
Keisuke Kinoshita - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, 5 December 1912.
Teinosuke Kinugasa - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Teinosuke Kogame in Mie Prefecture, 1 January 1896.
Alexander Kluge - Director
Nationality: German. Born: Halberstadt, 14 February 1932.
Masaki Kobayashi - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Hokkaido, 4 February 1916.
Barbara Kopple - Director
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 30 July 1946.
Alexander Korda - Director
Nationality: Hungarian/British. Born: Sándor László Kellner in Puszta Turpósztó, Hungary, 16 September 1893; adopted surname Korda, from journalistic pseudonym "Sursum Corda" (meaning "lift up your hearts"), 1910.
Zoltan Korda - Director
Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Zoltan Kellner, Turkeve, 3 June 1895; brother of directors Alexander and Vincent Korda; adopted the surname Korda after his older brother Alexander had done so.
Grigori Kozintsev - Director
Nationality: Russian. Born: Kiev, 22 March 1905.
Stanley Kramer - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Stanley Earl Kramer in New York, 29 September 1913.
Stanley Kubrick - Director
Nationality: American. Born: New York, 26 July 1928.
Lev Kuleshov - Director
Nationality: Soviet. Born: Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov in Tambov, Russia, 14 January 1899.
Akira Kurosawa - Director
Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 23 March 1910.
Diane Kurys - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Lyon, 3 December 1948, to Russian-Jewish immigrants.