Perfect Match (Mel Damski, ) television; script

This is a list of notable directors and their first commercial cinematic films, listed chronologically by release date. Many of the listed filmmakers, including Orson Welles, directed earlier works that were not commercially released, such as film-school projects, movies that failed to find distribution, or others that were never intended for release. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, some directo