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1
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
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2
Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
3
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
4
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
5
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
6
Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Comedy • Farce • Satire
7
Mike Nichols • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
8
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
9
Brian De Palma • Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
10
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
11
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Americana • Buddy Film • Comedy
12
Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
13
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: François Perier, Gian Maria Volontè, Alain Delon
14
Rob Reiner • Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Comedy • Mockumentary • Musical
15
Edgar Wright • Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
16
Sam Raimi • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Kassie Wesley, Lou Hancock
Black Comedy • Haunted House Film • Horror Comedy
17
Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
18
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Crime Thriller • Crime • Post-Noir
19
Robert Hamer • Starring: Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
Black Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
20
Costa-Gavras • Starring: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
21
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy
22
Alain Resnais • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
23
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
24
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Addiction Drama • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
25
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
26
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake
Drama • Period Film
27
Nicolas Roeg • Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mindbender
28
Sydney Pollack • Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
29
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Action Thriller • Action • Dystopian Film
30
Robin Hardy • Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Folk Horror • Horror
31
Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Gothic Film
32
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
33
Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
34
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Political Thriller • Spy Film • Thriller
35
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
Chase Movie • Female-Directed Film • Horror
36
Roman Polanski • Starring: Maureen Lipman, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
37
Richard Donner • Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics
38
Spike Jonze • Starring: Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Nicolas Cage
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
39
Kenneth Lonergan • Starring: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, C.J. Wilson
Drama • Family Drama • Slice of Life
40
David Lynch • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
41
Orson Welles • Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
42
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mark Rylance
Action Thriller • Action • Combat Films
43
David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
44
David O. Russell • Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
45
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina
Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Mindbender
46
Paul King • Starring: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Brendan Gleeson
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Animal Picture
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed
Black Comedy • Period Film
48
Stephen Herek • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Terry Camilleri
Buddy Film • Comedy • Sci-Fi Comedy
49
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Gerard Buhr, Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
50
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
51
Charles Crichton • Starring: Alec Guinness, Alfie Bass, Stanley Holloway
Caper • Comedy • Crime
52
Michael Haneke • Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Mystery
53
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lucia Rijker, Jay Baruchel
Drama • Melodrama • Sports Drama
54
John Carpenter • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Apocalyptic Film • Horror • Religious Horror
55
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren
56
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
57
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Detective Film • Dystopian Film
58
Adrian Lyne • Starring: Tim Robbins, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Peña
Drama • Horror • Mindbender
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Richard Lester • Starring: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty
Action • Adventure • Alien Invasion Films
60
David Lynch • Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, James Cada
Americana • Drama • Road Movie
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness
Black Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
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Richard Curtis • Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Holiday Film
63
René Clair • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Ensemble Film • Mystery • Whodunit
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams
Biography • Documentary • Sports and Recreation
65
Joe Cornish • Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Horror
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Derek Cianfrance • Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes
67
Jonathan Glazer • Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
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Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer • Starring: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Anthology Film • British Noir • Film Noir
70
Ron Howard • Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
71
John Carpenter • Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Adrienne Barbeau
Ghost Film • Horror • Mystery
72
Alan Parker • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Horror
73
Ron Howard • Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Docudrama
74
David Ayer • Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick
Action • Action Thriller • Buddy Film
75
Todd Haynes • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
76
John McNaughton • Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
77
Clive Barker • Starring: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
78
Morten Tyldum • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
79
Gaspar Noé • Starring: Monica Bellucci, Albert Dupontel, Vincent Cassel
80
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Drama • Foreign Language Film
81
David Lynch • Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux
Avant-garde / Experimental • Ensemble Film • Mindbender
82
Joe Dante • Starring: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan
Horror • Monster Film • Mystery
83
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Farce
84
Roland Emmerich • Starring: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Alexis Cruz
Adventure • Science Fiction • Space Adventure
85
Marcel Carné • Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan
86
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
87
Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Comedy • Satire • Sci-Fi Comedy
88
Tomas Alfredson • Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Spy Film • Thriller
89
Mike Figgis • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
Addiction Drama • Drama • Prostitution Film
90
Joe Wright • Starring: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
91
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Ghost Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
92
Paul King • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Whishaw, Peter Capaldi
Animal Picture • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
93
Tonino Valerii • Starring: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Comedy Western • Foreign Language Film • Outlaw
94
Mike Hodges • Starring: Melody Anderson, Topol, Max von Sydow
Action • Adventure • Adventure Comedy
95
Chris Weitz • Starring: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
96
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux
97
Hideo Nakata • Starring: Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film
98
Christophe Gans • Starring: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne
Adventure • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
99
Joe Wright • Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Donald Sutherland
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
100
John Guillermin • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, David Niven
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Ensemble Film
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