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Roman Polanski • Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Mystery
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
4
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
5
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
6
Robert Altman • Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
7
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer
Animation • Comedy • Detective Film
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Crime Comedy
10
Rian Johnson • Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
11
Robert Siodmak • Starring: Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey
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Shane Black • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
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Shane Black • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice
Action Comedy • Action • Black Comedy
14
David Fincher • Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
15
Michael Mann • Starring: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell
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Orson Welles • Starring: Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson, Philip Merivale
Detective Film • Drama • Film Noir
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Ben Affleck • Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Dario Argento • Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Detective Film • Foreign Language Film • Giallo
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Alan Parker • Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
21
Arthur Penn • Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
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W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Detective Film • Dystopian Film
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
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Guy Ritchie • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
28
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi
Detective Film • Mystery • New Hollywood
29
Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Detective Film • Drama • Gothic Film
30
Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Detective Film
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Alan Parker • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Horror
32
Robert Moore • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Mystery • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
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Debra Granik • Starring: Kevin Breznahan, John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
Detective Film • Drama • Family Drama
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Tom Shadyac • Starring: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young
Comedy • Detective Film • Gross-Out Comedy
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Chan-wook Park • Starring: Tae-woo Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Byung-hun Lee
Anti-War Film • Detective Film • Drama
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Niels Arden Oplev • Starring: Sven-Bertil Taube, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
38
Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton
39
Sidney Lanfield • Starring: Richard Greene, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill
40
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
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John Guillermin • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, David Niven
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Ensemble Film
42
Paul McGuigan • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Made-for-Television
43
Ron Clements • Starring: Alan Young, Susanne Pollatschek, Vincent Price
Animation • Family-Oriented Fantasy • Family
44
Barry Levinson • Starring: Nicolas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Detective Film
45
Harold Becker • Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
Detective Film • Erotic Thriller • Mystery
46
Terence Fisher • Starring: David Oxley, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
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Steve Oedekerk • Starring: Jim Carrey, Simon Callow, Ian McNeice
Comedy • Detective Film • Farce
48
Gordon Parks • Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Action • Blaxploitation • Crime
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Stuart Heisler • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, Richard Denning
50
Ron Howard • Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro
Action • Action Thriller • Detective Film
51
Carl Franklin • Starring: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
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Blake Edwards • Starring: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell
53
John Llewellyn Moxey • Starring: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Lynley
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Guy Ritchie • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
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Gregory Hoblit • Starring: Denzel Washington, Embeth Davidtz, Donald Sutherland
Detective Film • Mystery • Supernatural Thriller
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Jack Smight • Starring: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
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Francis Lawrence • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf
Action • Based-on-Comics • Detective Film
58
Toby Haynes • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves
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Andrey Konchalovskiy • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher
Action • Action Comedy • Buddy Film
60
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Cathleen Nesbitt
Comedy Thriller • Detective Film • Mystery
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Detective Film • Made-for-Television • Mystery
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Richard Thorpe • Starring: William Powell, Gloria de Haven, Harry Davenport
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Christopher McQuarrie • Starring: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature
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Guy Hamilton • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
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Thom Eberhardt • Starring: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Tamara Toumanova
Detective Film • Mystery • Period Film
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Daniel Alfredson • Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Georgi Staykov
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Rob Bowman • Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-Television
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Euros Lyn • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
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Dick Richards • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
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W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Crime
73
Edward Zwick • Starring: Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Michael Moriarty
Detective Film • Drama • Mystery
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David Robert Mitchell • Starring: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Detective Film
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John Badham • Starring: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Annabella Sciorra
Action Comedy • Action • Buddy Film
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Larry Cohen • Starring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine
Detective Film • Horror • Monster Film
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Massimo Dallamano • Starring: Karin Baal, Joachim Fuchsberger, Fabio Testi
78
Robert Montgomery • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
79
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Made-for-Television
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Roman Polanski • Starring: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin
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Rob Thomas • Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Krysten Ritter
Based-on-Television • Detective Film • Drama
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Dan Eckman • Starring: Aubrey Plaza, Donald Glover, D.C. Pierson
Comedy • Detective Film • Mystery
83
Nick Hurran • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
84
Michael Apted • Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
85
Charles Lamont • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild
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Bill Condon • Starring: Ian McKellen, Milo Parker, Laura Linney
Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
87
Michael Apted • Starring: Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, John Trudell
Mystery • Detective Film • Psychological Drama
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Colm McCarthy • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs
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George Pollock • Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Thorley Walters
Detective Film • Mystery • Whodunit
90
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Crime
91
Herbert Ross • Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall
Addiction Drama • Adventure • Adventure Drama
92
Robert Benton • Starring: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
Comedy Drama • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford
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Bob Clark • Starring: Christopher Plummer, Geneviève Bujold, James Mason
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Julian Jarrold • Starring: Rebecca Hall, Warren Clarke, Andrew Garfield
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Charles Barton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Detective Film
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Stephen Hopkins • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis
Action Thriller • Action • Chase Movie
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Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
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Allen Coulter • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Adrien Brody, Robin Tunney
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