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Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Foreign Language Film
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Jack Clayton • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Ghost Film
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Tomas Alfredson • Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Michael Powell • Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Crime Thriller • Crime • Psychological Thriller
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dennis Weaver, Eddie Firestone, Gene Dynarski
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
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Jee-woon Kim • Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Gook-hwan Jeon
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
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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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Kaneto Shindô • Starring: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Costume Horror • Drama • Folk Horror
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George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
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Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Folk Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
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John Carpenter • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Apocalyptic Film • Horror • Religious Horror
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Eli Craig • Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden
Black Comedy • Canuxploitation • Comedy of Errors
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Fred Dekker • Starring: Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Alien Invasion Films • Body Horror • Comedy
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Peter Medak • Starring: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas
Canuxploitation • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
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Adrian Lyne • Starring: Tim Robbins, Ving Rhames, Elizabeth Peña
Drama • Horror • Mindbender
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
Horror • Monster Film • Supernatural Horror
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Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
Crime Thriller • Crime • New Hollywood
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Joe Cornish • Starring: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Horror
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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
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William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Drama • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
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Herk Harvey • Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Gothic Film • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Jack Arnold • Starring: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde • Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel
Black Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
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Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
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Gaspar Noé • Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
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John McNaughton • Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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Robert Fuest • Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North
Black Comedy • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
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Takashi Miike • Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Susumu Terajima
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Black Comedy
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Horror
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Jack Sholder • Starring: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Clu Gulager
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Chase Movie
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George A. Romero • Starring: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest
Crime • Drama • Horror
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Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
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Pascal Laugier • Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Foreign Language Film • Horror • New French Extremism
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Michael Dougherty • Starring: Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker, Leslie Bibb
Black Comedy • Ensemble Film • Horror Comedy
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Bill Paxton • Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Michele Soavi • Starring: Mickey Knox, Rupert Everett, Francois Hadji-Lazaro
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film
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Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Ghost Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June
Crime • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Antonia Bird • Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies
Black Comedy • Cannibal Film • Costume Horror
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Neil Marshall • Starring: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
Horror • Monster Film • Werewolf Film
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Gary Sherman • Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
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Vincenzo Natali • Starring: Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Nicole deBoer
Canuxploitation • Escape Film • Horror
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Ti West • Starring: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov
Haunted House Film • Horror • Religious Horror
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Tony Maylam • Starring: Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Jason Alexander
Horror • Slasher Film
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
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