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Ridley Scott • Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
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John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott
Black Comedy • New Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Foreign Language Film
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Nicholas Meyer • Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
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Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
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Tobe Hooper • Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
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Amy Heckerling • Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold
Comedy Drama • Comedy • Coming-of-Age
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Godfrey Reggio
Avant-garde / Experimental • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Dario Argento • Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D'Angelo
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
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George A. Romero • Starring: Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, Carrie Nye
Anthology Film • Black Comedy • Body Horror
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Barry Levinson • Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
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Walter Hill • Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole
Action • Action Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Errors • Comedy
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Jim Henson • Starring: Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Brian Muehl
Adventure • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
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Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline
Drama • Period Film • Psychological Drama
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Alan Parker • Starring: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Eleanor David
Drama • Mindbender • Musical
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John Milius • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mako, Sandahl Bergman
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Les Blank • Starring: Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Claudia Cardinale, Carmen Correa
Biography • Documentary • Media Documentary
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George Roy Hill • Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow, Swoosie Kurtz
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Steven Lisberger • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner
Action • Adventure • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
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Don Bluth • Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Arthur Malet
Adventure • Animation • Family-Oriented Adventure
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Sylvester Stallone • Starring: Burgess Meredith, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire
Drama • Melodrama • Sports Drama
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Richard Benjamin • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
Comedy • Odd Couple Film • Showbiz Comedy
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Blake Edwards • Starring: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Peter Weir • Starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Australian New Wave • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Costa-Gavras • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron
Docudrama • Drama • Political Drama
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Taylor Hackford • Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett Jr.
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Tim Burton • Starring: Vincent Price
Animation • Fantasy • Short Film
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Carl Reiner • Starring: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
Comedy • Mystery • Parody/Spoof
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Terry Hughes • Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Based-on-Television • Comedy • Satire
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth
Based-on-Theatre • Black Comedy • Comedy
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Jules Bass • Starring: Alan Arkin, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes
Adventure • Animated Musical • Animation
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Ron Howard • Starring: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long
Comedy • Prostitution Film • Sex Comedy
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Kristy McNichol, Jameson Parker, Paul Winfield
Animal Picture • Drama • Message Movie
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Frank Henenlotter • Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner
Black Comedy • Body Horror • Horror Comedy
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Annemarie Düringer, Cornelia Froboess, Peter Luehr
Drama • Foreign Language Film • New German Cinema
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Lucio Fulci • Starring: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross
Exploitation Film • Foreign Language Film • Giallo
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Juan Piquer Simón • Starring: Christopher George, Frank Brana, Lynda Day George
Exploitation Film • Horror • Mystery
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Guy Hamilton • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Ensemble Film
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Sidney J. Furie • Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa
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Paul Schrader • Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard
Drama • Family Drama • Fantasy
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Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, José Ferrer, Tony Roberts
Comedy • Ensemble Film • New Hollywood
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Amy Holden Jones • Starring: Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella
Female-Directed Film • Horror Comedy • Horror
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Martin Rosen • Starring: John Hurt, Geoffrey Mathews, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Adventure • Animal Picture • Animation
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Peter Greenaway • Starring: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
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