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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
3
Tony Kaye • Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
4
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
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Robert Mulligan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Courtroom Drama
7
Spike Lee • Starring: Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
8
Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
9
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
10
Mathieu Kassovitz • Starring: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Saïd Taghmaoui
11
William A. Wellman • Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Message Movie • Western
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Lewis Milestone • Starring: Raymond Smith, George "Slim" Summerville, Lew Ayres
Action • Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Stanley Kramer • Starring: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Dick York
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
14
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
15
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Michael Sheen
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
18
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
19
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Boaz Yakin • Starring: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris
Americana • Drama • Message Movie
21
Paul Schrader • Starring: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
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Douglas Trumbull • Starring: Bruce Dern, Mark Persons, Cliff Potts
Cyborg / Android / Robot • Drama • Dystopian Film
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Paul Haggis • Starring: Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle
24
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Donna Anderson
Anti-War Film • Disaster Film • Dystopian Film
25
Oliver Stone • Starring: Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry
Anti-War Film • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
26
Martin Ritt • Starring: Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Andrea Marcovicci
Comedy Drama • Drama • Message Movie
27
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield
Drama • Message Movie
29
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
30
Joel Schumacher • Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
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Bruce Beresford • Starring: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Esther Rolle
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Brian Desmond Hurst • Starring: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama
33
Yôjirô Takita • Starring: Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiro Motoki
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Message Movie
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Jonathan Kaplan • Starring: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson
Courtroom Drama • Crime • Crime Drama
35
Rod Lurie • Starring: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges
Drama • Message Movie • Political Drama
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Kristy McNichol, Jameson Parker, Paul Winfield
Animal Picture • Drama • Message Movie
38
Dalton Trumbo • Starring: Donald Berry, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards
Anti-War Film • Drama • Message Movie
39
Sydney Pollack • Starring: Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Paul Newman
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Message Movie
40
Norman Jewison • Starring: John Hannah, Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Biopic • Courtroom Drama • Drama
41
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan
Crime • Drama • Film Noir
42
Ramón Menéndez • Starring: Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna de Soto, Andy Garcia
Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Docudrama
43
Robert Mandel • Starring: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Message Movie
44
Mick Jackson • Starring: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly
Anti-War Film • Disaster Film • Drama
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Norman Jewison • Starring: Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Norman Taurog • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
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Yoshimitsu Banno • Starring: Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase
Action • Foreign Language Film • Horror
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William Wyler • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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