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Quentin Tarantino • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime Comedy
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Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani , Lianella Carell , Enzo Staiola
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
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Frank Capra • Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Comedy • Newspaper Film • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Drama • New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
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George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Buddy Film • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
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Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden
Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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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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George Miller • Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Action Thriller • Action • Carsploitation
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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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Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Robert Altman • Starring: Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine
Americana • Drama • Ensemble Film
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David Fincher • Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Spike Jonze • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Message Movie • Western
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Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Edward Binns
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George Stevens • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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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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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Susannah York, Jane Fonda, Red Buttons
Drama • Melodrama • New Hollywood
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Frank Capra • Starring: George Bancroft, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Americana • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
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Bob Fosse • Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Drama
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Joseph Kosinski • Starring: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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Kenneth Lonergan • Starring: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, C.J. Wilson
Drama • Family Drama • Slice of Life
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Robert Redford • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Drama • Family Drama • New Hollywood
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Childhood Drama
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Jason Reitman • Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Marjorie Bennett, Isobel Elsom
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Con Artist / Hustler
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Clint Eastwood • Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Mystery
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Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Jessica Chastain, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci
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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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Alan Parker • Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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James L. Brooks • Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Peter Glenville • Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
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