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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
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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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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
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Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
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Elem Klimov • Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
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Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film
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Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Melanie Laurent, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz
Adventure • Revenge Film • War Adventure
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
Fantasy • Romance • Romantic Fantasy
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
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David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Otto Preminger
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
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John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Gillo Pontecorvo • Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Isao Takahata • Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Animation • Anime • Drama
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Robert Bresson • Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Docudrama • Drama • Escape Film
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Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
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David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To • Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes
Adventure • Ensemble Film • New Hollywood
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Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Edward Binns
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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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Christopher Nolan • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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Louis Malle • Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
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Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Drama
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
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Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
Adventure • Animation • Anime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Roberto Benigni • Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
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Roman Polanski • Starring: Maureen Lipman, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Robert Altman • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Anti-War Film • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Taika Waititi • Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Action Thriller • Action • Combat Films
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Christopher Nolan • Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mark Rylance
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J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Adventure • War • War Adventure
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