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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
3
John Cassavetes • Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper
Drama • Marriage Drama • New Hollywood
4
Elia Kazan • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
5
Asghar Farhadi • Starring: Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
Drama • Ensemble Film • Foreign Language Film
6
Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romance
7
Richard Brooks • Starring: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
8
Anthony Harvey • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Griffith, Peter O'Toole
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
9
Andrzej Zulawski • Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Horror
10
Jean Vigo • Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté
Adventure Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
11
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Made-for-Television
12
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Gong Li, Ding Weimin, Chu Xiao
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Feminist Film
13
Ron Howard • Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
14
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
15
Leo McCarey • Starring: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter
Drama • Marriage Drama
16
Robert Benton • Starring: Howard Duff, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Family Drama
17
Noah Baumbach • Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Alan Alda, Adam Driver
Comedy Drama • Drama • Marriage Drama
18
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
19
David Cronenberg • Starring: Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Based-on-Comics • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
20
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
21
Derek Cianfrance • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel
22
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
23
Erich von Stroheim • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
24
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
25
Roman Polanski • Starring: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
26
George Cukor • Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Musical Drama
27
Barry Levinson • Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
28
Alexander Payne • Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
29
Todd Field • Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Wilson, Noah Emmerich
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Marriage Drama
30
Ang Lee • Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
31
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery
32
Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini • Starring: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Comics • Biopic
33
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: James Spader, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo
Drama • Erotic Drama • Marriage Drama
34
John Cassavetes • Starring: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin
35
Gaspar Noé • Starring: Monica Bellucci, Albert Dupontel, Vincent Cassel
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
36
William Wyler • Starring: Mary Astor, Walter Huston, Maria Ouspenskaya
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
37
Todd Haynes • Starring: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Patricia Clarkson
38
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Erotic Drama
39
Stanley Donen • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron
40
Lee Tamahori • Starring: Rena Owen, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Temuera Morrison
Drama • Family Drama • Marriage Drama
41
James Ivory • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
Drama • Marriage Drama • Period Film
42
Federico Fellini • Starring: Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu
Comedy Drama • Drama • Fantasy
43
Sam Wood • Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Lyn Harding
Costume Romance • Drama • Marriage Drama
44
Blake Edwards • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Addiction Drama • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
45
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
46
Ruben Östlund • Starring: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Kristofer Hivju
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
47
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
48
Agnès Varda • Starring: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Foreign Language Film
49
Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
50
Sam Mendes • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Marriage Drama
51
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton
52
William A. Wellman • Starring: Fredric March, Andy Devine, May Robson
53
Sarah Polley • Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Olympia Dukakis, Stacey Laberge
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Marriage Drama
54
John Cameron Mitchell • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest
55
Eric Rohmer • Starring: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley
56
Charlie McDowell • Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, Ted Danson
Comedy Drama • Drama • Magic Realism
57
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Costume Romance
58
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode
59
Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Bernard Blier, Simone Renant, Suzy Delair
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
60
Woody Allen • Starring: Gena Rowlands, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Drama • Marriage Drama • Psychological Drama
61
Andrew Haigh • Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Dolly Wells
62
King Vidor • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, John Boles
63
Satyajit Ray • Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee
64
John Curran • Starring: Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Edward Norton
65
Robert Altman • Starring: Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi
Drama • Feminist Film • Horror
66
James Bridges • Starring: Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Brooke Alderson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romantic Drama
67
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
68
Ed Harris • Starring: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower
69
Ray Lawrence • Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey, Kerry Armstrong
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
70
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Chikage Awashima, Ryô Ikebe, Keiko Kishi
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
71
Roman Polanski • Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas
72
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies
73
Sarah Polley • Starring: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman
Comedy Drama • Marriage Drama • Psychological Drama
74
Alexander Korda • Starring: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
75
François Truffaut • Starring: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti
76
Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang • Starring: Li Gong, Zhijun Cong, Ma Chong
Costume Romance • Drama • Erotic Drama
77
Brian Gibson • Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney
78
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
79
Charles Jarrott • Starring: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
80
George Seaton • Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
81
Louis Malle • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Marc Bory, Judith Magre
82
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Bruce Myers
83
Vincent Sherman • Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
84
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten
85
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Bernard Noël, Macha Meril, Philippe Leroy
86
Max Ophüls • Starring: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Drama • Film Noir • Marriage Drama
87
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Miki Sanjo
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Foreign Language Film
88
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure, Chishu Ryu
89
Richard Eyre • Starring: Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Aubrey
90
Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana
91
Teinosuke Kinugasa • Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Isao Yamagata
92
George Stevens • Starring: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
93
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
94
Tod Williams • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster
95
Oliver Stone • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Hiep Thi Le
Docudrama • Drama • Marriage Drama
96
John Hughes • Starring: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
97
John Huston • Starring: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dara Clarke
98
Gary Oldman • Starring: Chrissie Cotterill, Jamie Foreman, Terry Rowley
99
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey
100
Daniel Mann • Starring: Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, Terry Moore
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