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Frank Capra • Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Newspaper Film • Period Film
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
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David Lean • Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani , Lianella Carell , Enzo Staiola
Coming-of-Age • Crime Drama • Crime
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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Walter Lang • Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes
Americana • Comedy • Musical
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
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William Keighley • Starring: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Holiday Film
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Comedy • Farce • Satire
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Jean Cocteau • Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parely
Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Drama • Fantasy • Romance
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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René Clair • Starring: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Farce
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes
Message Movie • Western
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Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
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William Wyler • Starring: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Femme Fatale
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David Lean • Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Romance
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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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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Dance Film • Drama
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David Hand • Starring: Bobby Stewart, Hardie Albright, Perce Pearce
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Susumu Fujita, Eiko Miyoshi, Setsuko Hara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Robert Hamer • Starring: Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
Black Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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William Wyler • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Romance
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David Lean • Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly • Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Mitchell Leisen • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
Comedy • Drama • Holiday Film
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Marcel Carné • Starring: Pierre Renoir, Pierre Brasseur, Arletty
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick
Comedy • Road Movie • Romance
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Franchot Tone, Akim Tamiroff, Anne Baxter
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
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Don Hartman • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Holiday Film
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason
Drama • Romance • War
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John Huston • Starring: Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
Fantasy • Romance • Romantic Fantasy
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Carol Reed • Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
British Noir • Childhood Drama • Drama
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Costume Romance • Drama • Period Film
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
Horror • Monster Film • Supernatural Horror
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Gunther von Fritsch • Starring: Simone Simon, Ann Carter, Eve March
Drama • Fantasy • Horror
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William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama
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Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson • Starring: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru
Adventure • Epic • Western
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Reginald Owen
Musical Romance • Musical • Romance
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Robert Wise • Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Drama • Film Noir • Sports Drama
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Max Ophüls • Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Costume Romance • Drama • Melodrama
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H.C. Potter • Starring: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Romance
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway
Horror • Mystery • Romance
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Albert Lewin • Starring: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
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Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
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John Ford • Starring: Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
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David Butler • Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Buddy Film
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
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George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Medical Drama
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Robert Wise • Starring: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Reginald Gardiner
Anti-War Film • Comedy Drama • Comedy
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Boris Ingster • Starring: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
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Orson Welles • Starring: Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson, Philip Merivale
Detective Film • Drama • Film Noir
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt
Drama • Family Drama • Period Film
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John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Linda Darnell
Drama • Traditional Western • Western
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
Action • Adventure • Drama
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram
Musical • Fantasy • Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies
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Charles Vidor • Starring: Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Rita Hayworth
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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King Vidor • Starring: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Drama • Message Movie • Psychological Drama
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H.C. Potter • Starring: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Hugh Herbert
Absurd Comedy • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
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Robert Wise • Starring: Edgar Barrier, Russell Wade, Jason Robards, Sr.
Adventure • Action • Action Thriller
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Film Noir • Mystery • Romance
83
John M. Stahl • Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Philips, Cornel Wilde
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Reginald Le Borg • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
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John Farrow • Starring: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan
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Lance Comfort • Starring: Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, George Thorpe
Based-on-Theatre • British Noir • Crime Drama
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Irving Rapper • Starring: Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Bette Davis
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Film Noir • Mystery • Political Thriller
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Mark Robson • Starring: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Gothic Film • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Mark Sandrich • Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical Romance
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Holiday Film
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Margo, James Bell, Margaret Landry
Crime • Horror • Natural Horror
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Drama • Film Noir • Medical Drama
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Frank Tuttle • Starring: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
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Tay Garnett • Starring: Leon Ames, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
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John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
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Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy
Costume Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
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James Algar • Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Drama • Film Noir • Foreign Language Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker, Dan Duryea
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