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1
Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Foreign Language Film
3
Jack Clayton • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Ghost Film
4
Tomas Alfredson • Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age
5
Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
6
Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
7
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
8
Jee-woon Kim • Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Gook-hwan Jeon
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
9
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
10
Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Gothic Film
11
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
12
George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
13
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
14
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
15
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Folk Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
16
John Carpenter • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Apocalyptic Film • Horror • Religious Horror
17
Eli Craig • Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden
Black Comedy • Canuxploitation • Comedy of Errors
18
Fred Dekker • Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Alien Invasion Films • Body Horror • Comedy
19
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Tim Robbins, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Peña
Drama • Horror • Mindbender
20
Peter Medak • Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Canuxploitation • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
21
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
Horror • Monster Film • Supernatural Horror
22
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
23
Joe Cornish • Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Horror
24
William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Drama • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
25
Herk Harvey • Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Gothic Film • Horror • Psychological Horror
26
Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde • Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel
Black Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
27
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer • Starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Anthology Film • British Noir • Film Noir
28
Jack Arnold • Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
29
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
30
Gaspar Noé • Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
31
John McNaughton • Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
32
Robert Fuest • Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North
Black Comedy • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
33
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
34
Jack Sholder • Starring: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Clu Gulager
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Chase Movie
35
Takashi Miike • Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Susumu Terajima
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Black Comedy
36
George A. Romero • Starring: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest
Crime • Drama • Horror
37
Pascal Laugier • Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Foreign Language Film • Horror • New French Extremism
38
Michael Dougherty • Starring: Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker, Leslie Bibb
Black Comedy • Ensemble Film • Horror Comedy
39
Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
40
Bill Paxton • Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
41
Michele Soavi • Starring: Mickey Knox, Rupert Everett, Francois Hadji-Lazaro
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film
42
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June
Crime • Horror • Psychological Horror
43
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Ghost Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
44
Antonia Bird • Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies
Black Comedy • Cannibal Film • Costume Horror
45
Gary Sherman • Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
46
Neil Marshall • Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
Horror • Monster Film • Werewolf Film
47
Robert Siodmak • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
48
Tony Maylam • Starring: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Jason Alexander
Horror • Slasher Film
49
Vincenzo Natali • Starring: Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Nicole deBoer
Canuxploitation • Escape Film • Horror
50
Ti West • Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
Haunted House Film • Horror • Religious Horror
51
André Øvredal • Starring: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Tomas Alf Larsen
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
52
James Gunn • Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker
Body Horror • Horror Comedy • Horror
53
John Fawcett • Starring: Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche
Canuxploitation • Coming-of-Age • Feminist Film
54
Scott Glosserman • Starring: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein
Black Comedy • Horror Comedy • Horror
55
Lamberto Bava • Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny
Horror • Monster Film • Splatter Film
56
Jack Hill • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Black Comedy • Gothic Film • Horror Comedy
57
Tobe Hooper • Starring: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Horror
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Chuck Russell • Starring: Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch
Alien Invasion Films • Body Horror • Horror
59
Mario Bava • Starring: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
60
Ngai Choi Lam • Starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Comics
61
Lucky McKee • Starring: Jeremy Sisto, Nichole M. Hiltz, Angela Bettis
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
62
William Peter Blatty • Starring: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
63
Brad Anderson • Starring: David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
64
Michael Reeves • Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Robert Russell
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Gothic Film
65
Pier Paolo Pasolini • Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Based-on-18th-Century-Literature • Drama • Exploitation Film
66
Paul W.S. Anderson • Starring: Richard T. Jones, Joely Richardson, Laurence Fishburne
Horror • Sci-Fi Horror • Science Fiction
67
David Fincher • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Action • Body Horror • Horror
68
Jack Clayton • Starring: Jason Robards, Diane Ladd, Shawn Carson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Horror
69
Jorge Grau • Starring: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
70
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoushi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
71
Tom Tykwer • Starring: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood
Period Film • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
72
Don Coscarelli • Starring: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm
Horror • Road Movie • Supernatural Horror
73
Richard Franklin • Starring: Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith, Stacy Keach
Australian New Wave • Carsploitation • Exploitation Film
74
Lewis Teague • Starring: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo
Horror • Monster Film • Natural Horror
75
Ben Wheatley • Starring: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael Smiley
Folk Horror • Hitman / Assassin Film • Horror
76
Sidney J. Furie • Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa
77
Paul Schrader • Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Drama • Family Drama • Fantasy
78
Siu-Tung Ching • Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Ma Wu
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
79
John D. Hancock • Starring: Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor
80
Michele Soavi • Starring: David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti, Domenico Fiore
81
Eugenio Martín • Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza
Costume Horror • Horror • Monster Film
82
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koyuki, Haruhiko Katô, Kumikô Aso
Foreign Language Film • Horror • J-Horror
83
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador • Starring: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo
84
Seth Holt • Starring: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd
Crime • Horror • Mystery
85
Richard Franklin • Starring: Hugh Gillin, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia
86
Victor Halperin • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn
Horror • Monster Film • Romance
87
Gerald Kargl • Starring: Erwin Leder, Silvia Rabenreither, Edith Rosset
88
Ken Russell • Starring: Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi, Amanda Donohoe
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Folk Horror
89
Kevin Smith • Starring: Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo
Drama • Horror • Religious Drama
90
Sean Byrne • Starring: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton
Horror • Ozploitation • Sadistic Horror
91
Terence Fisher • Starring: Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans, Yvonne Romain
Costume Horror • Drama • Gothic Film
92
Richard Stanley • Starring: Stacey Travis, Dylan McDermott, Carl McCoy
Action • Based-on-Comics • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
93
Robert Lieberman • Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Docudrama • Drama
94
Sion Sono • Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato
Foreign Language Film • Horror • Mystery
95
Tommy Lee Wallace • Starring: Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy
Cyborg / Android / Robot • Horror • Mystery
96
Michael Winner • Starring: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam
97
Tommy Wirkola • Starring: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Horror Comedy
98
Géla Babluani • Starring: George Babluani, Aurélien Recoing, Pascal Bongard
Foreign Language Film • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
99
Barbara Peeters • Starring: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow
Exploitation Film • Female-Directed Film • Horror
100
Jack Starrett • Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit
Action Thriller • Action • Carsploitation
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