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George Lucas • Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Action • Adventure • Cyborg / Android / Robot
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
3
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Karen Allen
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
4
Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama
5
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime Comedy
6
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
7
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
8
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
9
Billy Wilder • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
10
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
11
Milos Forman • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
12
Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
13
F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
14
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers
Anti-War Film • Apocalyptic Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
15
Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
16
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
17
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
18
Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis
19
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
20
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Klugman
Based-on-Television • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
21
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
22
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
23
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Dance Film • Drama
24
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
25
Roman Polanski • Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Mystery
26
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror
27
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, Patrick Magee
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Dystopian Film • Juvenile Delinquency Film
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
30
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
31
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
32
Frank Capra • Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Comedy • Newspaper Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
33
Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
34
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
35
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film
36
Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
37
John G. Avildsen • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Drama • New Hollywood • Sports Drama
38
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Melanie Laurent, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz
Adventure • Revenge Film • War Adventure
39
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
40
George Cukor • Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
41
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Drama • New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller
42
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Comedy Drama • Drama • Showbiz Drama
43
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
44
Gus Van Sant • Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Psychological Drama
45
Damien Chazelle • Starring: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser
Drama • Psychological Drama
46
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
47
Bong Joon Ho • Starring: Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comedy Thriller
48
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
49
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner
Anti-War Film • Comedy Drama • Comedy
50
Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
51
Otto Preminger • Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Eve Arden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
52
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
53
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
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George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Strother Martin
Buddy Film • New Hollywood • Outlaw
55
Victor Fleming • Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
56
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Frances Fisher
Outlaw • Prostitution Film • Revenge Film
57
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
58
Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • New Hollywood
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Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
60
William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
61
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
62
George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Buddy Film • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
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Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden
Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning
Based-on-a-True-Story • Caper • Crime Drama
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
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Mike Nichols • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
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Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
Drama • Revenge Film • Revisionist Western
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Robert Rossen • Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Addiction Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • Drama
70
Robert Mulligan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Courtroom Drama
71
Sam Mendes • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
72
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
73
William Friedkin • Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
74
David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
75
George Miller • Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Action Thriller • Action • Carsploitation
76
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Western
77
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
78
M. Night Shyamalan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Childhood Drama • Drama • Ghost Film
79
Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
80
Frank Darabont • Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, James Cromwell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Fantasy
81
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell
82
William Wyler • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
83
Barry Levinson • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
84
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy, Russell Harvard
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
85
William Friedkin • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Mercedes McCambridge
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
86
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
87
Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
88
Andrew Davis • Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Television
89
Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
90
Arthur Penn • Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
91
Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
92
Robert Altman • Starring: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine
Americana • Drama • Ensemble Film
93
David Fincher • Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
94
Milos Forman • Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
95
Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
96
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
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Michael Curtiz, William Keighley • Starring: Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Olivia de Havilland
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fairy Tales and Legends
98
Wes Anderson • Starring: Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Buddy Film
99
Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Stanley Kramer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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