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1
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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2
Fritz Lang • Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
3
Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
4
F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
5
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
6
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
7
Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
8
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
9
Billy Wilder • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
10
Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Action Comedy • Comedy • Crime Comedy
11
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
12
Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Otto Preminger
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
13
Billy Wilder • Starring: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
14
Fritz Lang • Starring: Alfred Abel, Heinrich George, Fritz Alberti
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Dystopian Film
15
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka
Costume Romance • Drama • Fantasy
16
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell
Western
17
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, John Hillerman, Randy Quaid
Comedy Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • New Hollywood
18
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
19
Robert Altman • Starring: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine
Americana • Drama • Ensemble Film
20
Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson • Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Adventure • Epic • Western
21
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
22
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
23
Robert Wiene • Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Costume Horror • German Expressionist Film • Gothic Film
24
Billy Wilder • Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Addiction Drama • Drama • Film Noir
25
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
26
Dziga Vertov • Starring: Mikhail Kaufman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Culture and Society
27
Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Con Artist / Hustler
28
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Crime Drama
29
Charles Reisner • Starring: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence
Action Comedy • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
30
Sydney Pollack • Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
31
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Anthology Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror
32
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
33
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Drama • Ensemble Film
34
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
35
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Will Geer
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Mindbender
36
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Thelma Ritter, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
Femme Fatale • Film Noir • Political Thriller
37
Leo McCarey • Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Drama • Marriage Drama
38
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
39
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
40
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
41
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
42
George Stevens • Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
43
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
44
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Horror
45
Peter Yates • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
46
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond
Biography • Concert Film • Documentary
47
Sergio Leone • Starring: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
Adventure • Foreign Language Film • Spaghetti Western
48
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
49
Ken Loach • Starring: Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Coming-of-Age
50
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao
51
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
52
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
53
Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
Australian New Wave • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Exploitation Film
54
Claude Lanzmann • Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
55
Alex Cox • Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Black Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
56
Woo-ping Yuen • Starring: Dean Shek, Yuen Shun-Yi, Jackie Chan
57
James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Gothic Film
58
William A. Wellman • Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
59
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Police Detective Film
60
Lindsay Anderson • Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Christine Noonan, David Wood
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Romance
61
René Laloux • Starring: Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Valmont, Jennifer Drake
Animation • Dystopian Film • Foreign Language Film
62
Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer • Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
63
Fritz Lang • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
64
Pier Paolo Pasolini • Starring: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Religious Drama
65
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Neville Brand
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
66
Billy Wilder • Starring: Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, James Cagney
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Farce
67
Fritz Lang • Starring: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
68
Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Mystery • Western
69
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Katina Paxinou, Renato Salvatori, Alain Delon
Crime • Drama • Family Drama
70
Stanley Donen • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
Comedy Drama • Drama • Marriage Drama
71
King Hu • Starring: Ying Bai, Billy Chan, Ping-Yu Chang
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
72
Oliver Stone • Starring: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy
73
Hal Ashby • Starring: Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
Anti-War Film • Drama • New Hollywood
74
Douglas Trumbull • Starring: Bruce Dern, Mark Persons, Cliff Potts
Cyborg / Android / Robot • Drama • Dystopian Film
75
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Horror • Mystery
76
Kon Ichikawa • Starring: Jun Hamamura, Rentaro Mikuni, Shôji Yasui
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
77
Monte Hellman • Starring: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird
Carsploitation • Drama • New Hollywood
78
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Kichiemon Nakamura, Kiwako Taichi, Kei Sato
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Foreign Language Film
79
Elaine May • Starring: Walter Matthau, George Rose, James Coco
80
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Drama
81
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
82
Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijiro Hira, Kyoko Kishida
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Japanese New Wave
83
Robert Aldrich • Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Action • Addiction Drama • Adventure
84
Fritz Lang • Starring: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke
Fantasy • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
85
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin
Drama • Melodrama • Period Film
86
William Dieterle • Starring: Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
87
Al Reinert • Starring: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan
Documentary • History
88
Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Foreign Language Film
89
Billy Wilder • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lou Jacobi, Herschel Bernardi
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
90
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Docudrama
91
Carl Boese, Paul Wegener • Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova
92
Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Andre Roanne, Josef Rovensky
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
93
Walter Hill • Starring: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland
Action • Drama • New Hollywood
94
Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
95
Fritz Lang • Starring: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Foreign Language Film • Silent Film • Spy Film
96
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Kristy McNichol, Jameson Parker, Paul Winfield
Animal Picture • Drama • Message Movie
97
Elia Kazan • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
98
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoushi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
99
Anthony Mann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
100
Fritz Lang • Starring: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
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