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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
3
Milos Forman • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
4
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
5
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margareta Krook
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
6
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
9
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
10
Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
11
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Drama • New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller
12
Jean Renoir • Starring: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parely
13
Gus Van Sant • Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Psychological Drama
14
Damien Chazelle • Starring: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser
Drama • Psychological Drama
15
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama
16
Michel Gondry • Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Comedy Drama • Drama • Mindbender
17
William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
18
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
19
Robert Rossen • Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Addiction Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • Drama
20
Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
21
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
22
M. Night Shyamalan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Childhood Drama • Drama • Ghost Film
23
Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
24
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Dal-su Oh, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Drama
25
Peter Weir • Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich
Comedy Drama • Drama • Media Satire
26
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy, Russell Harvard
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
27
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis , Jüri Järvet
28
David Fincher • Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
29
Woody Allen • Starring: Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
33
Richard Kelly • Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
34
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovsky
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
35
James Foley • Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
36
John Cassavetes • Starring: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper
Drama • Marriage Drama • New Hollywood
37
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders
Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental • Media Satire
38
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel
39
Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
40
Elia Kazan • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
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William Friedkin • Starring: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
42
Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Political Drama
43
Alain Resnais • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
44
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Drama • Erotic Drama • Foreign Language Film
45
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Addiction Drama • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
46
Agnès Varda • Starring: Dominique Davray, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
Comedy • Drama • Female-Directed Film
47
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Adventure Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
48
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Anna Karina, Guylaine Schlumberger, Eric Schlumberger
49
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Mark Margolis, Todd Barry, Mickey Rourke
Drama • Psychological Drama • Slice of Life
50
Thomas Vinterberg • Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp
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Bob Rafelson • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush
Drama • Family Drama • New Hollywood
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Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder
Dance Film • Drama • Mindbender
53
Alain Resnais • Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
54
George Stevens • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
56
Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
Drama • Home Invasion Film • New Hollywood
57
Richard Brooks • Starring: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives
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Sofia Coppola • Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
60
Peter Weir • Starring: Jenny Lovell, Peter Collingwood, Margaret Nelson
Australian New Wave • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
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Andrzej Zulawski • Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Horror
62
Robert Altman • Starring: Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule
Drama • Feminist Film • New Hollywood
63
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko
Anthology Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Made-for-Television
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
67
Barry Jenkins • Starring: Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, Janelle Monáe
Based-on-Theatre • Coming-of-Age • Drama
68
Ron Howard • Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
69
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
70
Lenny Abrahamson • Starring: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen
Childhood Drama • Drama • Escape Film
71
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Susannah York, Jane Fonda, Red Buttons
Drama • Melodrama • New Hollywood
73
Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
74
Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
75
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Drama • Period Film • Psychological Drama
76
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
77
Mike Leigh • Starring: Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, David Thewlis
Black Comedy • Drama • Psychological Drama
78
Robert Bresson • Starring: Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
79
Charlie Kaufman • Starring: Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Drama • Mindbender • Psychological Drama
80
Víctor Erice • Starring: Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera
Childhood Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
81
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Ahney Her, Brian Haley
Drama • Psychological Drama • Urban Drama
82
Spike Jonze • Starring: Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Nicolas Cage
83
Orson Welles • Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
84
Jeff Nichols • Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon
Drama • Family Drama • Psychological Drama
85
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
Drama • Epic • Family Drama
86
Robert Redford • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
87
David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
88
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Foreign Language Film
89
Atom Egoyan • Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, David Hemblen
Disaster Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
90
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
91
Ari Aster • Starring: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff
Drama • Horror • Psychological Drama
92
Lars von Trier • Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean-Marc Barr
Drama • Erotic Drama • Magic Realism
93
Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki • Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
Action • Animation • Anime
94
Peter Jackson • Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama
95
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist
96
Jason Reitman • Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
97
King Vidor • Starring: James Murray, Bert Roach, Daniel G. Tomlinson
98
Todd Phillips • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
Based-on-Comics • Crime Drama • Crime
99
Tom McCarthy • Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Williams
Comedy Drama • Drama • Psychological Drama
100
David Cronenberg • Starring: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Medical Drama
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