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Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise • Starring: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Mike Nichols • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyborg / Android / Robot
4
Sergio Leone • Starring: Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Henry Fonda
Ensemble Film • Epic • Revenge Film
5
Robert Wise • Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Peggy Wood
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
6
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
7
Federico Fellini • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
8
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
9
Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
10
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
11
Jacques Demy • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Marc Michel, Anne Vernon
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
12
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
13
Roman Polanski • Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • New Hollywood
14
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
15
Federico Fellini • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée
16
Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Salvador Wood, Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Epic
17
Jacques Demy • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, George Chakiris
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
18
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
19
Marcel Ophüls • Starring: Pierre Mendes-France, Christian de la Maziere, Anthony Eden
Documentary • History • Made-for-Television
20
Billy Wilder • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
21
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Silvia Pinal, Fransisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
22
Agnès Varda • Starring: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Olivier Drouot
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Foreign Language Film
23
Morton DaCosta • Starring: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
24
Roman Polanski • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
25
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
26
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers
Anti-War Film • Apocalyptic Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
27
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Hitman / Assassin Film • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
28
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
29
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Adventure Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
30
Stuart Rosenberg • Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
Drama • New Hollywood • Prison Film
31
George Cukor • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Gladys Cooper
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical Comedy
32
Dennis Hopper • Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Americana
33
Satyajit Ray • Starring: Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
34
Iosif Kheifits • Starring: Iya Savvina, Aleksey Batalov, Nina Alisova
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
35
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
36
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
37
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
38
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles
Drama • Outlaw • Revisionist Western
39
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall
40
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
41
Eric Rohmer • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
42
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor
Horror • Natural Horror
43
Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
44
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Drama • Gothic Film • Horror
45
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
46
King Hu • Starring: Pei-pei Cheng, Hua Yueh, Hung Lieh Chen
Action • Adventure • Fantasy Adventure
47
Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
48
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
49
Jack Hill • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Black Comedy • Gothic Film • Horror Comedy
50
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Alain Delon, François Perier, Nathalie Delon
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
51
John Huston • Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
52
Ronald Neame • Starring: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
53
Robert Wise • Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film • Ghost Film
54
J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Folk Horror • Gothic Film
55
Wolf Rilla • Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
56
Hubert Cornfield • Starring: Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
57
Roman Polanski • Starring: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
58
Robert Mulligan • Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Courtroom Drama
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Dino Risi • Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Comedy Drama • Commedia all’italiana • Drama
60
Agnès Varda • Starring: Dominique Davray, Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller
Comedy • Drama • Female-Directed Film
61
William Wyler • Starring: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
63
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Keiko Kishi
Anthology Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror
64
Seijun Suzuki • Starring: Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Anne Mari
Action • Crime Thriller • Crime
65
Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
66
Arthur Penn • Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
67
Mihalis Kakogiannis • Starring: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates, Irene Papas
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
68
Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Koshiro Matsumoto, Makoto Satô
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama
69
Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, Lonny Chapman, James Anderson
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Crime Comedy
70
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
71
Freddie Francis • Starring: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson
Costume Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
72
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
73
Jacques Becker • Starring: Michel Constantin, Philippe Leroy, Jean Keraudy
74
Mario Bava • Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
75
Ishirô Honda • Starring: Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Foreign Language Film
76
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker
Culture and Society • Documentary
77
Richard Lester • Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Absurd Comedy • British New Wave • Comedy
78
François Truffaut • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
79
John Sturges • Starring: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz
Buddy Film • Ensemble Film • Western
80
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô
81
Otto Preminger • Starring: Paul Newman, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint
Docudrama • Drama • Historical Film
82
Vilgot Sjöman • Starring: Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt
Coming-of-Age • Den svenska synden • Drama
83
Dusan Makavejev • Starring: Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Drama
84
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Mindbender • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
85
Terence Young • Starring: Sean Connery, Pedro Armendáriz, Lotte Lenya
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
86
Marlon Brando • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Ben Johnson
Revenge Film • Revisionist Western • Western
87
Peter Brook • Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre
88
Pier Paolo Pasolini • Starring: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Religious Drama
89
Richard Brooks • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Lee Marvin, Woody Strode
90
Robert Hossein • Starring: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Guido Lollobrigida
Foreign Language Film • Spaghetti Western • Western
91
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime • Crime Drama
92
Sergio Corbucci • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
93
Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde
Americana • Drama • Western
94
Frank Perry • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Richard McMurray, House Jameson
Drama • New Hollywood • Psychological Drama
95
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
96
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
97
Wolfgang Reitherman • Starring: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Animation
98
Gene Saks • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler
Based-on-Theatre • Buddy Film • Comedy of Errors
99
Blake Edwards • Starring: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
100
J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Drama
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