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Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Comedy • Farce • Satire
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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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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Brian De Palma • Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Americana • Buddy Film • Comedy
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Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: François Perier, Gian Maria Volontè, Alain Delon
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Rob Reiner • Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Comedy • Mockumentary • Musical
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Edgar Wright • Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
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Sam Raimi • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Kassie Wesley, Lou Hancock
Black Comedy • Haunted House Film • Horror Comedy
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Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Crime Thriller • Crime • Post-Noir
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Robert Hamer • Starring: Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
Black Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
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Costa-Gavras • Starring: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy
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Alain Resnais • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
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Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly
Addiction Drama • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake
Drama • Period Film
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Nicolas Roeg • Starring: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mindbender
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
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John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Action Thriller • Action • Dystopian Film
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Robin Hardy • Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Folk Horror • Horror
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Gothic Film
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
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Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Political Thriller • Spy Film • Thriller
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Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
Chase Movie • Female-Directed Film • Horror
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Roman Polanski • Starring: Maureen Lipman, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Richard Donner • Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics
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Spike Jonze • Starring: Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Nicolas Cage
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Kenneth Lonergan • Starring: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, C.J. Wilson
Drama • Family Drama • Slice of Life
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David Lynch • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Orson Welles • Starring: Romy Schneider, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
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Christopher Nolan • Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mark Rylance
Action Thriller • Action • Combat Films
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David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
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David O. Russell • Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina
Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Mindbender
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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
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Stephen Herek • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Terry Camilleri
Buddy Film • Comedy • Sci-Fi Comedy
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Gerard Buhr, Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
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Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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