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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Jonathan Demme • Starring: Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cannibal Film • Crime Thriller
3
David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Crime Thriller • Crime • Police Detective Film
4
Fritz Lang • Starring: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
5
Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
6
Bong Joon Ho • Starring: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
7
William Friedkin • Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
8
Brian De Palma • Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Crime Thriller • Crime • Gangster Film
9
Michael Mann • Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
10
Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
11
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: François Perier, Gian Maria Volontè, Alain Delon
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
12
Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
13
Joseph Sargent • Starring: Walter Matthau, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Thriller
14
Fritz Lang • Starring: Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
15
Don Siegel • Starring: Reni Santoni, Clint Eastwood, John Vernon
Action Thriller • Action • Crime
16
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Drama • Film Noir • Foreign Language Film
17
Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
18
John Woo • Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo
Action Thriller • Action • Foreign Language Film
19
Richard Donner • Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Action Thriller • Action • Buddy Film
20
Peter Yates • Starring: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
Action Thriller • Chase Movie • Crime Thriller
21
Robin Hardy • Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Folk Horror • Horror
22
Matt Reeves • Starring: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoe Kravitz
Action • Based-on-Comics • Crime
23
David Fincher • Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
24
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Horror
25
William Friedkin • Starring: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
26
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Mystery
27
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: George Clooney, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Comedy
28
Jackie Chan • Starring: Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung
Action Comedy • Action Thriller • Action
29
Ted Post • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan
30
Walter Hill • Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole
Action • Action Comedy • Comedy Drama
31
Jules Dassin • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
32
Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Police Detective Film
33
Richard Donner • Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci
34
Jack Sholder • Starring: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Clu Gulager
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Chase Movie
35
James Fargo • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradford Dillman, DeVeren Bookwalter
Action Thriller • Action • Police Detective Film
36
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Film Noir • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
37
Otto Preminger • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Martita Hunt
Mystery • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
38
Sidney Gilliat • Starring: Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim, Megs Jenkins
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
39
William Peter Blatty • Starring: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
40
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle
41
Carl Franklin • Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
42
Joe Carnahan • Starring: Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Busta Rhymes
Crime • Crime Thriller • Police Detective Film
43
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank
44
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
45
Jackie Chan • Starring: Bill Tung, Benny Lai, Jackie Chan
46
Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
47
Stanley Tong • Starring: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung
Action • Action Comedy • Comedy
48
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoushi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
49
Nicholas Ray • Starring: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
50
Clint Eastwood • Starring: William Prince, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
Action Thriller • Action • Chase Movie
51
F. Gary Gray • Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Drama
52
William Friedkin • Starring: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen
53
Barry Shear • Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa
Blaxploitation • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
54
Buddy Van Horn • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Kim
Action • Action Thriller • Police Detective Film
55
Jim McBride • Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mystery
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Peter Hyams • Starring: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Jimmy Smits
Action • Buddy Film • Police Detective Film
58
Graham Baker • Starring: Terence Stamp, Leslie Bevis, Kevyn Major Howard
59
George Armitage • Starring: Alec Baldwin, Charles Napier, Fred Ward
60
Lucio Fulci • Starring: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel
61
Brett Ratner • Starring: Chris Tucker, John Lone, Ziyi Zhang
Action Comedy • Action • Buddy Film
62
Blake Edwards • Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
63
Blake Edwards • Starring: Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Burt Kwouk
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
64
Sean Penn • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Mirren, Aaron Eckhart
Drama • Mystery • Police Detective Film
65
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Crime Thriller • Crime • Erotic Thriller
66
William Lustig • Starring: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon
67
John Herzfeld • Starring: Danny Aiello, Jeff Daniels, James Spader
68
Ray Lawrence • Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey, Kerry Armstrong
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
69
Chris Gerolmo • Starring: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime • Crime Drama
70
Michael Wadleigh • Starring: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Monster Film
71
Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery • Starring: Ben McKenzie, Bryan Cranston, Eliza Dushku
Action • Animation • Based-on-Comics
72
George P. Cosmatos • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Reni Santoni, Art La Fleur
Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie
73
Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes • Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Comics • Costume Horror
74
Jon Amiel • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Harry Connick Jr., Holly Hunter
75
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
Caper • Crime • Crime Thriller
76
Richard Tuggle • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya
Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
77
Philip D'Antoni • Starring: Roy Scheider, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon
Action • Crime • Mystery
78
Action • Action Comedy • Action Thriller
79
Paul Haggis • Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric
Drama • Police Detective Film • War
80
Erik Skjoldbjærg • Starring: Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal
Crime • Drama • Foreign Language Film
81
John Badham • Starring: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark
82
Gary Fleder • Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
83
Michael Apted • Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
84
S. Craig Zahler • Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
85
Walter Hill • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ed O'Ross, Peter Boyle
Action Thriller • Action • Comedy Thriller
86
Don Siegel • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
87
Michael Cimino • Starring: Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Eddie Jones
88
Stephen Hopkins • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis
89
Bruce A. Evans • Starring: Kevin Costner, Dane Cook, William Hurt
90
Richard Rush • Starring: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
91
Phillip Noyce • Starring: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah
92
Carl Franklin • Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan
93
Andrew Davis • Starring: Steven Seagal, Daniel Faraldo, Sharon Stone
94
Gary Sherman • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
Cannibal Film • Horror • Mystery
95
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Raul Julia, Pepe Serna, Marco Rodriguez
Crime • Action • Police Detective Film
96
Peter Hyams • Starring: Meg Ryan, Pete Antico, Don Calfa
Mystery • Drama • Police Detective Film
97
Craig Monahan • Starring: Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery
Crime • Drama • Mystery
98
Bruce Malmuth • Starring: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, William Sadler
Action Thriller • Action • Martial Arts
99
Lee Tamahori • Starring: Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Kimberly Hawthorne
Thriller • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
100
John Flynn • Starring: Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Gina Gershon
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