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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Psychological 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
Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
6
Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
7
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
8
Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Thriller
9
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
10
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Tom Helmore
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Femme Fatale • Mindbender
11
Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
12
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mindbender
13
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Drama • New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller
15
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama
17
Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Foreign Language Film
18
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
19
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
20
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
Mindbender • Period Film • Psychological Thriller
21
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
23
M. Night Shyamalan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Childhood Drama • Drama • Ghost Film
24
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Dal-su Oh, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Drama
25
Roman Polanski • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
26
Brian De Palma • Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
27
Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
28
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Hitman / Assassin Film • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
29
George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
30
Jordan Peele • Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener
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Terence Young • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
32
Alex Garland • Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander
Cyborg / Android / Robot • Psychological Sci-Fi • Psychological Thriller
33
Louis Malle • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Crime • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
34
John Sturges • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Drama • Gothic Film • Horror
36
David Cronenberg • Starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry
Body Horror • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Horror
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Satoshi Kon • Starring: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji
Animation • Anime • Crime Thriller
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Tod Browning • Starring: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
Drama • Horror • Melodrama
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Dario Argento • Starring: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
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Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder
Dance Film • Drama • Mindbender
41
Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan
Drama • Home Invasion Film • New Hollywood
42
Dan Gilroy • Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo
Crime Thriller • Crime • Media Satire
43
Nicolas Roeg • Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mindbender
44
John Schlesinger • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
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David Fincher • Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Mystery
46
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles
Political Thriller • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
47
J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Drama
48
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Drama • Film Noir • Medical Drama
49
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Mystery
50
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Rock Hudson, John Randolph, Will Geer
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Mindbender
51
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Based-on-Theatre • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
52
Jee-woon Kim • Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Gook-hwan Jeon
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Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Mindbender • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
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M. Night Shyamalan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Robin Wright, Charlayne Woodard
Psychological Thriller • Superhero Film • Thriller
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Mindbender • Mystery
56
George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
57
Rob Reiner • Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Michael Mann • Starring: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox
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David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
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David Fincher • Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger
Mindbender • Mystery • Paranoid Thriller
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Dario Argento • Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo
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David Mamet • Starring: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Orson Welles • Starring: Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson, Philip Merivale
Detective Film • Drama • Film Noir
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David Cronenberg • Starring: Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Based-on-Comics • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Dario Argento • Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Detective Film • Foreign Language Film • Giallo
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Michael Haneke • Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Mystery
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Brian De Palma • Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen
Erotic Thriller • Horror • Mystery
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Clint Eastwood • Starring: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins
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David Lynch • Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
70
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels
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Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
Australian New Wave • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Exploitation Film
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David Lynch • Starring: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Television • Mystery
73
Robert Eggers • Starring: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Horror
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Pedro Almodóvar • Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Drama
75
John Badham • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood
Drama • Paranoid Thriller • Psychological Thriller
76
Brian De Palma • Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
77
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Tim Robbins, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Peña
Drama • Horror • Mindbender
78
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey
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David Cronenberg • Starring: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
Body Horror • Canuxploitation • Horror
80
Joel Schumacher • Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Raymond J. Barry
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Drama
82
Michael Haneke • Starring: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch
83
William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Drama • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
84
David Lynch • Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake
Mindbender • Mystery • Post-Noir
85
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre
Psychological Thriller • Thriller
86
Dan Trachtenberg • Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr.
Disaster Film • Horror • Monster Film
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Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer • Starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Anthology Film • British Noir • Film Noir
88
Lynne Ramsay • Starring: John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Female-Directed Film
89
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange
90
Fritz Lang • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
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Sean Durkin • Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes
Drama • Psychological Drama • Psychological Thriller
92
Mario Bava • Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
93
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
94
Alex Garland • Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez
Adventure • Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature
95
Brian De Palma • Starring: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry
Erotic Thriller • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Jordan Peele • Starring: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
Horror • Mindbender • Mystery
97
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Melodrama • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
98
Gregory Hoblit • Starring: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
99
Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
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Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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