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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Peter Jackson • Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
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Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
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Christopher Nolan • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
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George Roy Hill • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Strother Martin
Buddy Film • New Hollywood • Outlaw
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Robert Rossen • Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Addiction Drama • Con Artist / Hustler • Drama
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
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Mike Nichols • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Marriage Drama
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy, Russell Harvard
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
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Arthur Penn • Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
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Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Dystopian Film
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann
Drama • Ensemble Film • Family Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Romance
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Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde
Americana • Drama • Western
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Damien Chazelle • Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
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George Stevens • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
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Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan • Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Alejandro González Iñárritu • Starring: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
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Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
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Ang Lee • Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Cheng Pei-Pei, Chow Yun-Fat
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance
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Bob Fosse • Starring: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Drama
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George Cukor • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Gladys Cooper
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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George Stevens • Starring: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Western
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Alejandro González Iñárritu • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson
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James Cameron • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Adventure • Costume Romance • Disaster Film
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Denis Villeneuve • Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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James Cameron • Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
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David Lean • Starring: Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Epic
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon
Drama • Showbiz Drama
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