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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Amvrosi Buchma, Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman
3
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
4
Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Giulietta Masina
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
5
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
6
Federico Fellini • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
7
F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
8
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
9
Orson Welles • Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
10
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyborg / Android / Robot
11
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Action • Drama • Ensemble Film
12
Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
13
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino
Black Comedy • Comedy • Urban Comedy
14
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
15
Michel Hazanavicius • Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
16
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
17
William Wyler • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
18
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Tom Helmore
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Femme Fatale • Mindbender
19
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Comedy • Farce • Satire
20
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
Drama • Epic • Family Drama
21
Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
22
Víctor Erice • Starring: Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera
Childhood Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
23
Jacques Tati • Starring: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Satire
24
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
25
Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Ralph Bellamy
Comedy • Screwball Comedy
26
Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
27
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
28
Don Siegel • Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
Alien Invasion Films • Apocalyptic Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
29
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
30
Raoul Walsh • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy Adventure
31
Adrian Malone • Starring: Carl Sagan
Documentary • Made-for-Television • Mini-Series
32
Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani , Lianella Carell , Enzo Staiola
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
33
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu
34
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Susumu Fujita, Eiko Miyoshi, Setsuko Hara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Foreign Language Film
35
Fritz Lang • Starring: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
36
Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
37
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
38
Marcel Carné • Starring: Pierre Renoir, Pierre Brasseur, Arletty
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
39
Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
40
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
41
Maren Ade • Starring: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Ingrid Bisu
Berlin School • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
42
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
43
Robert Redford • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Drama • Family Drama • New Hollywood
44
Erich von Stroheim • Starring: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy
Black Comedy • Drama • Romantic Drama
45
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Dean Martin, Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
46
Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
47
Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
48
Alain Resnais • Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
49
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones • Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Absurd Comedy • Adventure Comedy • Adventure
50
Max Ophüls • Starring: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
51
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Anna Karina, Guylaine Schlumberger, Eric Schlumberger
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
52
Ridley Scott • Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm
Body Horror • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Horror
53
Jacques Tati • Starring: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Foreign Language Film
54
Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
55
David Lean • Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
56
Jean Renoir • Starring: Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parely
57
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Femme Fatale
58
Howard Hawks • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles
59
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
Fantasy • Romance • Romantic Fantasy
60
Merian C. Cooper • Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
61
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
62
Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
63
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film
64
Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
65
Federico Fellini • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée
66
Boris Barnet • Starring: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Sergei Komarov, Yelena Kuzmina
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
67
Humphrey Jennings
Culture and Society • Documentary • Short Film
68
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Costume Romance • Drama • Period Film
69
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Drama
70
Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
71
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Richard Daniels, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy • Silent Film
72
Roman Polanski • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
73
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
74
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Silvia Pinal, Fransisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
75
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Jörgen Lindström, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Drama • Erotic Drama • Family Drama
76
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
77
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
78
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
79
Sergio Leone • Starring: Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Henry Fonda
Ensemble Film • Epic • Revenge Film
80
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror
81
Tim Burton • Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
82
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Hagerty, Mark Linn-Baker
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Farce
83
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo
84
Satyajit Ray • Starring: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
85
Frank Borzage • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Melodrama
86
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
87
Elaine May • Starring: Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Female-Directed Film
88
Robert Altman • Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • New Hollywood
89
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margareta Krook
90
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovsky
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
91
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime Comedy
92
Max Ophüls • Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Costume Romance • Drama • Melodrama
93
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Jeffery Hunter, Vera Miles
Epic • Revisionist Western • Western
94
Isao Takahata • Starring: Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii
Animation • Anime • Coming-of-Age
95
Claude Berri • Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu
96
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
97
Bryan Singer • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen
Action • Based-on-Comics • Fantasy
98
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Hitman / Assassin Film • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
99
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
100
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kôkichi Takada, Gonjurô Kawarazaki
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