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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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Robert Altman • Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
3
Joseph Sargent • Starring: Walter Matthau, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Thriller
4
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
5
William A. Wellman • Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Message Movie • Western
6
Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
7
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Dick York
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
8
David Lynch • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Crime Thriller
9
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
10
Richard Brooks • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Religious Drama
11
Mario Bava • Starring: Boris Karloff, Michèle Mercier, Mark Damon
Anthology Film • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
12
Michael Cimino • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Clint Eastwood, Geoffrey Lewis
Buddy Film • Caper • Comedy Drama
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Andrey Konchalovskiy • Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
14
Tim Hunter • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Daniel Roebuck, Dennis Hopper
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
15
Hal Ashby • Starring: Bruce Dern, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight
Anti-War Film • Drama • New Hollywood
16
William Wyler • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Veronica Cartwright
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
17
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Donna Anderson
Anti-War Film • Disaster Film • Dystopian Film
18
Blake Edwards • Starring: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Gavin MacLeod
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Farce
19
Ralph Nelson • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Isa Crino
Drama • Religious Drama
20
John Huston • Starring: Gregory Peck, Leo Genn, Richard Basehart
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
21
Burt Kennedy • Starring: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan
Comedy Western • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
22
Steve De Jarnatt • Starring: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar
Action Thriller • Action • Apocalyptic Film
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Robert Wise • Starring: Don Rickles, Jack Warden, Burt Lancaster
Action • Combat Films • Drama
24
Michael Crichton • Starring: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
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Nicolas Gessner • Starring: Martin Sheen, Scott Jacoby, Mort Shuman
Psychological Thriller • Thriller
26
Anthony Mann • Starring: Gary Cooper, Julie London, Lee J. Cobb
Western
27
John Llewellyn Moxey • Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Horror
28
Barry Shear • Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa
Blaxploitation • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
29
Michael Ritchie • Starring: Sissy Spacek, Gordon Signer, Lee Marvin
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
30
Norman Jewison • Starring: Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel, Paul Ford
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Political Satire
31
John Schlesinger • Starring: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Pat Hingle
Docudrama • Drama • Spy Film
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Keenen Ivory Wayans • Starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas
Action Comedy • Action • Blaxploitation
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Robert Mandel • Starring: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora
Action Thriller • Action • Chase Movie
34
Peter Hyams • Starring: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Jimmy Smits
Action • Buddy Film • Police Detective Film
35
Richard Lester • Starring: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical
36
Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Tamara Toumanova
Detective Film • Mystery • Period Film
37
Dan Curtis • Starring: Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
38
Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Debra Paget
Anthology Film • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy
39
Robert Altman • Starring: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Tom Skerritt
Americana • Crime Drama • Crime
40
Guy Hamilton • Starring: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Glamorized Spy Film
41
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
42
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Charles Bronson
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
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Burt Kennedy • Starring: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam
Comedy Western • Comedy • Western
44
Michael Ritchie • Starring: Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, Bruce Dern
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Comedy
45
Jonathan Kaplan • Starring: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Dick Miller
Action Thriller • Action • Blaxploitation
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Jonathan Demme • Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dean Stockwell, Alec Baldwin
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
47
Fraser C. Heston • Starring: Ed Harris, J.T. Walsh, Bonnie Bedelia
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Supernatural Horror
48
John Badham • Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra
Action Comedy • Action • Buddy Film
49
Arthur Penn • Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton
New Hollywood • Revisionist Western • Western
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Robert Altman • Starring: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Allan Nicholls
Comedy • Comedy Western • New Hollywood
51
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
52
John Woo • Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler
53
Robert Wise • Starring: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
54
Jules Dassin • Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
Adventure • Caper • Crime Thriller
55
Harold Becker • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin, Bill Pullman
Femme Fatale • Post-Noir • Psychological Thriller
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Michael Apted • Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
57
Eric Rohmer • Starring: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Based-on-Shakespeare • Crime • Outlaw
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Roger Corman • Starring: Ray Milland, Diana Van Der Vlis, Don Rickles
Horror • Sci-Fi Horror • Science Fiction
60
Harold Becker • Starring: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
61
Dan Curtis • Starring: Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen
Anthology Film • Horror • Made-for-Television
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George P. Cosmatos • Starring: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays
Action Thriller • Action • Body Horror
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Lili Fini Zanuck • Starring: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott
Addiction Drama • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
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André De Toth • Starring: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Venetia Stevenson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Period Film • Revisionist Western
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Stephen Hopkins • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis
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John Huston • Starring: Charles Bickford, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
Drama • Revisionist Western • Western
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Paul Maslansky • Starring: Marki Bey, Don Pedro Colley, Richard Lawson
Action • Blaxploitation • Exploitation Film
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Boris Sagal, Barry Shear, Steven Spielberg • Starring: Rod Serling, Joan Crawford, Ossie Davis
Anthology Film • Fantasy • Horror
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Delbert Mann • Starring: David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster
Drama • Ensemble Film • Psychological Drama
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Dan Curtis • Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Richard Anderson
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Susan Seidelman • Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Comedy Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Tom Gries • Starring: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Hybrid Western
74
Richard Lester • Starring: Rita Tushingham, Donal Donnelly, John Bluthal
Absurd Comedy • British New Wave • Comedy
75
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers
Comedy of Errors • Comedy Western • Comedy
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William Friedkin • Starring: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
77
Jim Clark • Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry
Crime • Horror • Mystery
78
Don Taylor • Starring: Michael York, Nick Cravat, The Great John "L"
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
79
Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine
Carsploitation • Drama • New Hollywood
80
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy of Manners • Comedy
81
Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Theodore Bikel
82
Richard Lester • Starring: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings
Action • Action Thriller • Disaster Film
83
Antonio Margheriti • Starring: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Cannibal Film • Exploitation Film • Foreign Language Film
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Marshall Brickman • Starring: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry
Action Thriller • Action • Comedy
85
Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby • Starring: Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Canuxploitation
86
Lee Tamahori • Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Chris Penn, Nick Nolte
Mystery • Period Film • Police Detective Film
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Victor Nunez • Starring: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford
Drama • Family Drama
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Sidney Hayers • Starring: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
89
Stuart Orme • Starring: Eric Thal, Keith David, Donald Sutherland
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
90
Ronald Neame • Starring: Martin Landau, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden
Action • Apocalyptic Film • Disaster Film
91
Sidney Salkow • Starring: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, Abraham Sofaer
Anthology Film • Horror • Supernatural Horror
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Joseph Zito • Starring: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, James Hong
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John Frankenheimer • Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Trebor, Vanity
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Roger Corman • Starring: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
95
Clive Donner, Richard Talmadge • Starring: Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider
Comedy • Sex Comedy
96
Ossie Davis • Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx
Action • Action Comedy • Blaxploitation
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Sergio Corbucci • Starring: Burt Reynolds, Aldo Sambrell, Nicoletta Machiavelli
Action • Foreign Language Film • Revenge Film
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Phil Karlson • Starring: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Faylen
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Tom Mankiewicz • Starring: John Candy, Raymond Burr, Dylan Baker
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
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Gerd Oswald • Starring: Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward, Virginia Leith
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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