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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
5
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
6
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
7
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
10
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Strother Martin
Buddy Film • New Hollywood • Outlaw
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
15
Robert Rossen • Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Addiction Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • Drama
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
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Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy, Russell Harvard
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
25
Arthur Penn • Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
26
Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Dystopian Film
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
28
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann
Drama • Ensemble Film • Family Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Romance
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Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde
Americana • Drama • Western
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Damien Chazelle • Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
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George Stevens • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
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Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan • Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Alejandro González Iñárritu • Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
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Ang Lee • Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Cheng Pei-Pei, Chow Yun-Fat
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance
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Bob Fosse • Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Drama
42
George Cukor • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Gladys Cooper
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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James Cameron • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Adventure • Costume Romance • Disaster Film
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George Stevens • Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Western
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Alejandro González Iñárritu • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson
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Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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James Cameron • Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
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David Lean • Starring: Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Epic
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
Drama • Showbiz Drama
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Jukebox Musical • Musical Romance • Musical
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Alfonso Cuarón • Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
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William Wyler • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
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Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
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Roland Joffé • Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Newspaper Film
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Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise • Starring: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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John M. Stahl • Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Cornel Wilde
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law
Based-on-Comics • Crime Drama • Crime
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Kevin Costner • Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Stanley Kramer • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Drama
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Oliver Stone • Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Biopic • Drama • Ensemble Film
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David Lean • Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Alan Parker • Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
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John Ford • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru
Action • Western
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
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Ang Lee • Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature
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Alfonso Cuarón • Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Biopic • Drama • Family Drama
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen
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Roland Joffé • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Drama • Historical Film • Jungle Film
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Warren Beatty • Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
75
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield
Adventure • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Family-Oriented Adventure
77
William Wyler • Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
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Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan • Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy
79
Peter Weir • Starring: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
81
Robert Redford • Starring: Tom Skerritt, Emily Lloyd, Craig Sheffer
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
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Albert Lewin • Starring: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
83
John Guillermin • Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden
Action • Action Thriller • Disaster Film
84
Edward Zwick • Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
85
Sydney Pollack • Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Kitchen
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Costume Romance
86
William A. Wellman • Starring: Fredric March, Andy Devine, May Robson
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Docudrama
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Roman Polanski • Starring: John Collin, David Markham, Carolyn Pickles
89
Hal Ashby • Starring: Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, Randy Quaid
Americana • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
90
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Costume Romance • Epic • Historical Epic
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Edward Berger • Starring: Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Felix Kammerer
92
Robert Wise • Starring: Paul Newman, Sal Mineo, Everett Sloane
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
93
George Stevens • Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Franco Zeffirelli • Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea
95
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
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Frank Borzage • Starring: Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
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Anthony Minghella • Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy
Combat Films • Epic • War Epic
99
Michael Anderson • Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Arthur Lubin • Starring: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
Costume Horror • Drama • Gothic Film
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