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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Karen Allen
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
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Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama
3
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Comics
4
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
5
Billy Wilder • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
6
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
7
Milos Forman • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
8
Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
9
F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
10
Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
11
Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
12
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
13
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
14
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
15
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
16
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
17
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
18
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
19
Roman Polanski • Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Mystery
20
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
21
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
22
Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
23
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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Christopher Nolan • Starring: Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Action • Action Thriller • Based-on-Comics
25
Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
26
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Melanie Laurent, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz
Adventure • Revenge Film • War Adventure
27
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
28
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Comedy Drama • Drama • Showbiz Drama
29
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
30
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
31
Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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Otto Preminger • Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Eve Arden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
33
Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
35
George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Strother Martin
Buddy Film • New Hollywood • Outlaw
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
37
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Frances Fisher
Outlaw • Prostitution Film • Revenge Film
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
39
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
40
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
41
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
Mindbender • Period Film • Psychological Thriller
42
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
43
George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Buddy Film • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
44
Mike Nichols • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
45
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund • Starring: Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama
46
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
47
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
Drama • Revenge Film • Revisionist Western
48
Robert Rossen • Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Addiction Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • Drama
49
Robert Mulligan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Courtroom Drama
50
Sam Mendes • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
51
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
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William Friedkin • Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
54
George Miller • Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Action Thriller • Action • Carsploitation
55
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
56
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
57
Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
58
Alfonso Cuarón • Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
60
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Thomas Mitchell
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William Wyler • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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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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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Americana • Buddy Film • Comedy
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Barry Levinson • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy, Russell Harvard
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
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William Friedkin • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Mercedes McCambridge
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
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Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
68
Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
69
Andrew Davis • Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Television
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Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
71
Arthur Penn • Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
72
Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
73
David Fincher • Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Milos Forman • Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
75
Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Starring: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Magic Realism
76
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
77
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
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Wes Anderson • Starring: Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Buddy Film
80
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
81
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann
Drama • Ensemble Film • Family Drama
82
Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
83
George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
84
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer
Animation • Comedy • Detective Film
85
Elia Kazan • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
86
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Romance
87
Billy Wilder • Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Addiction Drama • Drama • Film Noir
88
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
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Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt
Drama • Family Drama • Period Film
90
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Drama • Gothic Film • Horror
91
Bob Fosse • Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
Drama • Fantasy • Jukebox Musical
92
Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
93
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Edward Binns
94
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Raymond Smith, George "Slim" Summerville, Lew Ayres
Action • Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
95
John Huston • Starring: Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
96
Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde
Americana • Drama • Western
97
Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
98
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder
Dance Film • Drama • Mindbender
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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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