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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu
Drama • Family 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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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Drama • Film Noir • Foreign Language Film
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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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George Cukor • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru
Action • Western
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Robert Wise • Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Drama • Film Noir • Sports 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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Robert Rossen • Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru
Drama • Political Satire • Satire
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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Henry King • Starring: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill
Combat Films • Drama • War Drama
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Allan Dwan • Starring: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz
Action • Combat Films • Drama
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Jack Kinney, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore
Animation • Anthology Film • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy
Combat Films • Epic • War Epic
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Bill Neff, Marion Marshall, Ann Sheridan
Comedy • Farce • Military Comedy
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Basil Radford, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Crime
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Jacques Tati • Starring: Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Jacques Tati
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
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Ernest B. Schoedsack • Starring: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Animal Picture
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney • Starring: Bing Crosby, Pinto Colvig, The Rhythmaires
Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Family
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Byron Haskin • Starring: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Henry Cornelius • Starring: Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Murray
Comedy • Political Satire • Satire
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Don Hartman • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Holiday Film
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Max Ophüls • Starring: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
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Charles Barton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Detective Film
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King Vidor • Starring: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey
Drama • Message Movie • Psychological Drama
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Max Ophüls • Starring: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Drama • Film Noir • Marriage Drama
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Sam Wood • Starring: Agnes Moorehead, Bill Williams, June Allyson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins
British Noir • Drama • Film Noir
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Busby Berkeley • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Miki Sanjo
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Ted Tetzlaff • Starring: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
Film Noir • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Georges Patrix, Ami Aaröe, Howard Vernon
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Robert Z. Leonard • Starring: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall
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Henry Koster • Starring: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
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Mark Robson • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy
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Charles Walters • Starring: Fred Astaire, Billie Burke, Ginger Rogers
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc, Nicolai Shutorov
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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Fred M. Wilcox • Starring: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family
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Don Siegel • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
Adventure • Chase Movie • Crime
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Giuseppe De Santis • Starring: Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone, Silvana Mangano
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc
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Dallas Bower • Starring: Carol Marsh, Stephen Murray, Pamela Brown
Animated Musical • Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Parker
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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Friz Freleng
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Tay Garnett • Starring: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure
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Chuck Jones
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte
Drama • Family Drama • Film Noir
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Robert McKimson
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John Berry • Starring: William Conrad, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: John Ireland, Reed Hadley, Preston Foster
Outlaw • Western
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David Lean • Starring: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romance
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva
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Georges Franju • Starring: Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Drama • Epic • Religious Drama
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, José Ferrer, Richard Conte
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George Waggner • Starring: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn
Adventure • Traditional Western • Western
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Tex Avery • Starring: Daws Butler, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Costume Adventure
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, Dorothy Malone
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George Marshall • Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Arthur Davis
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David Miller • Starring: Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Crime
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
Drama • Melodrama • Political Drama
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James Algar, Jack Kinney • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, J. Pat O'Malley
Animal Picture • Animation • Family
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Tex Avery • Starring: Tex Avery
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters
Drama • Message Movie
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Evelyn Lambert, Norman McLaren
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film
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Arthur Lubin • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Van Heflin
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Charles Lamont • Starring: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long
Comedy • Domestic Comedy
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Elliott Nugent • Starring: Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Tom Drake
Comedy
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Spencer Gordon Bennet • Starring: Robert Lowery, John Duncan, Jane Adams
Based-on-Comics • Superhero Film • Crime
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Jack Kinney
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas
Comedy • Sci-Fi Comedy • Science Fiction
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Charles Barton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
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Stuart Heisler • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Alexander Knox, Florence Marly
Action • Crime • Crime Drama
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Clarence Brown • Starring: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Message Movie
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Joseph Barbera, William Hanna • Starring: Billy Bletcher
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Tex Avery
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