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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Femme Fatale
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
3
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller • Crime
4
Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
5
John Huston • Starring: Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
6
Terence Young • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
7
George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
8
Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
9
John Sturges • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
10
Richard Brooks • Starring: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
11
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Mystery
12
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, E.J. Andre
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
13
Bob Fosse • Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Drama
14
Christopher Guest • Starring: Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey
Comedy • Mockumentary • Showbiz Comedy
15
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
16
Mike Hodges • Starring: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
17
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman
Comedy • Period Film • Screwball Comedy
18
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
Drama • Showbiz Drama
19
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Josh Albee
New Hollywood • Revisionist Western • Survival Film
21
Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
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Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
Crime Thriller • Crime • Femme Fatale
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Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm • Starring: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill
Action Thriller • Action • Animation
24
Delmer Daves • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
Film Noir • Mystery • Romance
25
Sam Wood • Starring: Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Slapstick
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
27
Sam Wood • Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth
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Arthur Penn • Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
29
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
30
John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru
Action • Western
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishu Ryu
Adventure • Anthology Film • Drama
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Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
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Christian Nyby • Starring: Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror
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Nicholas Meyer • Starring: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
Adventure • Chase Movie • Fantasy Adventure
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John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Drama • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
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Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
Adventure • Drama • Revisionist Western
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Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper
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King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
42
Jack Conway • Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Comedy • Screwball Comedy
43
Herbert Ross • Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • New Hollywood
44
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Frank Sinatra
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Crime
45
André De Toth • Starring: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Crime
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Gregory La Cava • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Archie Mayo • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
48
William Wyler • Starring: Mary Astor, Walter Huston, Maria Ouspenskaya
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
49
George Roy Hill • Starring: Mary Beth Hurt, John Lithgow, Swoosie Kurtz
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
50
Jack Sholder • Starring: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Clu Gulager
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Chase Movie
51
Henry Koster • Starring: Cary Grant, James Gleason, Loretta Young
Comedy • Fantasy • Heavenly Comedy
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
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William Wyler • Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
55
Wolf Rilla • Starring: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
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Christopher Guest • Starring: Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Christopher Guest
Comedy • Mockumentary • Musical Comedy
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Richard Benjamin • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
Comedy • Odd Couple Film • Showbiz Comedy
58
Jerry Schatzberg • Starring: Ann Wedgeworth, Eileen Brennan, Rutanya Alda
Buddy Film • Drama • New Hollywood
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Sam Wood • Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Lyn Harding
Costume Romance • Drama • Marriage Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Harry Andrews, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis
Drama • Prison Film • War Drama
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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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Gordon Douglas • Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Horror • Monster Film • Natural Horror
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Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner
Comedy Western • Comedy • New Hollywood
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Alfred E. Green • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook
Drama • Melodrama • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Richard Donner • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Costume Romance
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Peter Weir • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Deirdre O'Connell, Rosie Perez
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Disaster Film • Drama
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Alan Hale, Brenda Marshall, Flora Robson
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
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Albert Lewin • Starring: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
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Stanley Donen • Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
Americana • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Barbet Schroeder • Starring: Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Docudrama
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Garson Kanin • Starring: Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Irene Dunne
Comedy • Farce • Romance
74
Clive Barker • Starring: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Monster Film
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Herbert Ross • Starring: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn
Mystery • Whodunit
76
Ulu Grosbard • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime
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Tony Scott • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Drama • Erotic Drama • Gothic Film
78
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
Film Noir • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
79
Jake Kasdan • Starring: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Mystery
80
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth
Based-on-Theatre • Black Comedy • Comedy
81
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
82
Savage Steve Holland • Starring: Demi Moore, Curtis Armstrong, Tom Villard
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
83
Michael Caton-Jones • Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Guy Kibbee, James Cagney, Joan Blondell
85
Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg • Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Avant-garde / Experimental • Crime Drama • Crime
86
Blake Edwards • Starring: Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
87
George Cukor • Starring: Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
90
Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Sophisticated Comedy
91
John Ford • Starring: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed
Combat Films • Drama • War Drama
92
Harmony Korine • Starring: Jacob Reynolds, Jacob Sewell, Nick Sutton
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
93
William Wyler • Starring: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
94
Morton DaCosta • Starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
Comedy • Sophisticated Comedy
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver, Gary Cooper
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David Cronenberg • Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
97
Nicholas Ray • Starring: Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Ward Bond
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Clint Eastwood • Starring: William Prince, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke
Action Thriller • Action • Chase Movie
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Robert Young, Robert Ryan
Crime • Drama • Film Noir
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Taylor Hackford • Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Psychological Drama
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