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Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Jeffery Hunter, Vera Miles
Epic • Revisionist Western • Western
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Sergio Leone • Starring: Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Henry Fonda
Ensemble Film • Epic • Revenge Film
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
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William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
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Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson • Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Adventure • Epic • Western
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David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To • Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films
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Anthony Russo, Joe Russo • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo
Action • Adventure • Alien Invasion Films
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Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Edward Binns
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
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Zack Snyder • Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Action • Based-on-Comics • Epic
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James Cameron • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Adventure • Costume Romance • Disaster Film
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David Lean • Starring: Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Epic
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Luchino Visconti • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
Drama • Epic • Family Drama
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D.W. Griffith • Starring: Tully Marshall, Mary Alden, Frank Bennett
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Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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William Wyler • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
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Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
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Cy Endfield • Starring: Michael Caine, James Booth, Stanley Baker
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
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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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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki
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Yimou Zhang • Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Action • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
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Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen
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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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Warren Beatty • Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
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Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Roland Emmerich • Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Salvador Wood, Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Epic
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Ronald F. Maxwell • Starring: Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Andrew Prine
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Joe Wright • Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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Shekhar Kapur • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes
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Kaige Chen • Starring: Zhang Fengyi, Lu Qi, Ge You
Costume Romance • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Drama
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Tom Tykwer, The Wachowskis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature
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Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
Action • Drama • Epic
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Epic
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Frantisek Vlácil • Starring: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Czechoslovak New Wave
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Tom Hooper • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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John Woo • Starring: Wei Zhao, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Epic
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
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Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Bob Hoskins
Combat Films • Drama • Epic
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
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Robert Eggers • Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Michael Kitchen
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Costume Romance
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harcourt Williams, Renee Asherson
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall • Starring: Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Henry Fonda
Epic • Western
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Amvrosi Buchma, Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: James Mason, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Epic
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
Adventure • Epic • Fantasy Adventure
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Carlos Emilio Baez
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Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger
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Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses • Starring: Vic Morrow, Olivia Cole, Ben Vereen
Drama • Ensemble Film • Epic
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Costume Romance • Epic • Historical Epic
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Michael Cimino • Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Walken
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Epic
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
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Robert Wise • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen
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Fred Niblo • Starring: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
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Mick Garris • Starring: Gary Sinise, Jamey Sheridan, Molly Ringwald
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Disaster Film • Epic
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Lawrence Kasdan • Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman
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John Wayne • Starring: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier
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Guy Hamilton • Starring: Trevor Howard, Curd Jürgens, Harry Andrews
Epic • War Epic • War
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Tom Hooper • Starring: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, David Morse
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Olivier Assayas • Starring: Martha Higareda, Eriq Ebouaney, Edgar Ramirez
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Crime Drama
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Jack Conway • Starring: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allen, Blanche Yurka
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Robert Lieberman • Starring: Tim Curry, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Peter Gallagher
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Ridley Scott • Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons
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Jan Troell • Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Eddie Axberg
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Ron Howard • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Colm Meaney
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Epic
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Sofia Coppola • Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis
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Sergey Bondarchuk • Starring: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Combat Films • Drama
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Patrice Chéreau • Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov • Starring: Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Docudrama • Drama • Epic
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Anthony Mann • Starring: John Fraser, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone
Biopic • Drama • Epic
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Anthony Minghella • Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy
Combat Films • Epic • War Epic
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Jack Smight • Starring: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Henry Fonda
Action • Combat Films • Drama
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Gyurme Tethong, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang, Sonam Phunstok
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Joseph Vilsmaier • Starring: Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vávrová, Thomas Kretschmann
Anti-War Film • Drama • Epic
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Giovanni Pastrone • Starring: Carolina Catena, Lidia Quaranta, Gina Maragoni
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Costume Adventure
100
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