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Quentin Tarantino • Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime Comedy
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David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
3
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
4
David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Crime Thriller • Crime • Police Detective Film
5
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
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Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Jeff Bridges
Buddy Film • Comedy • Crime Comedy
8
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
9
Harold Ramis • Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
10
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Frances Fisher
Outlaw • Prostitution Film • Revenge Film
11
Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
12
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Michael Mann • Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Action Thriller • Action • Caper
14
Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
15
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
16
James Foley • Starring: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Ensemble Film
17
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
Adventure • Animation • Anime
18
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Turturro, Michael Lerner, Tony Shalhoub
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel
20
Spike Jonze • Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, John Malkovich
21
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
22
Wes Anderson • Starring: Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Brian Cox
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
23
John Woo • Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo
Action Thriller • Action • Foreign Language Film
24
Richard Linklater • Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Ensemble Film
25
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko
Anthology Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
26
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Tom Cruise
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
27
Steve James • Starring: Spike Lee, Sheila Agee, Gene Pingatore
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
28
Mike Leigh • Starring: Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, David Thewlis
Black Comedy • Drama • Psychological Drama
29
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
30
Brad Bird • Starring: Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Harry Connick Jr.
Animation • Buddy Film • Comedy Drama
31
Robert Altman • Starring: Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher
Comedy • Ensemble Film • Satire
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Robert Altman • Starring: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Chris Penn
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Atom Egoyan • Starring: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, David Hemblen
Disaster Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Hossein Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Courtroom Drama • Crime • Docudrama
35
Jim Jarmusch • Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen
Hybrid Western • Road Movie • Western
36
Lars von Trier • Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean-Marc Barr
Drama • Erotic Drama • Magic Realism
37
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
38
David Lynch • Starring: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Television • Mystery
39
Michael Mann • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
Action • Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
40
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Patrick Swayze
Action Thriller • Action • Female-Directed Film
41
Woody Allen • Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Sydney Pollack
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Satire
42
Brian De Palma • Starring: Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
43
David O. Russell • Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Action • Adventure • Anti-War Film
44
David Lynch • Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, James Cada
Americana • Drama • Road Movie
45
David Cronenberg • Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm
Addiction Drama • Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Terry Zwigoff • Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
47
David Lynch • Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake
Mindbender • Mystery • Post-Noir
48
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
49
Whit Stillman • Starring: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Allison Rutledge-Parisi
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Coming-of-Age
50
Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Leslie Cheung, Chang Chen
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Iranian New Wave
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Béla Tarr • Starring: Janos Derzsi, Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
53
Gus Van Sant • Starring: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Chiara Caselli
Buddy Film • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
54
Terrence Malick • Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
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Todd Haynes • Starring: Peter Friedman, Xander R. Berkeley, Kate McGregor-Stewart
Drama • Medical Drama • Psychological Drama
56
Atom Egoyan • Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Damon D'Oliveira
Drama • Ensemble Film • Erotic Drama
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Clint Eastwood • Starring: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern
Americana • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
58
Edward Yang • Starring: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Guozhu Zhang
Based-on-a-True-Story • Coming-of-Age • Drama
59
Jennie Livingston • Starring: Pepper Labeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Brooke
Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Emir Kusturica • Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
Anti-War Film • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
61
Abel Ferrara • Starring: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon
Addiction Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Erotic Drama
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David Cronenberg • Starring: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Dystopian Film • Mindbender
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Joe Dante • Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
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Whit Stillman • Starring: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Starring: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoushi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
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David Cronenberg • Starring: James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne • Starring: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Jacques Rivette • Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Foreign Language Film
70
Roman Polanski • Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas
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Leos Carax • Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Daniel Buain
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
73
Terence Davies • Starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
74
Olivier Assayas • Starring: Nathalie Boutefeu, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Maggie Cheung
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Drama
75
Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hocine Rifahi
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Docudrama
76
Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
77
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell
Action • Adventure Drama • Drama
78
Claude Chabrol • Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Cassel
79
Mohsen Makhmalbaf • Starring: Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ali Bakhsi
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
80
Abel Ferrara • Starring: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Edie Falco
Drama • Horror • Monster Film
81
George Miller • Starring: James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Mickey Rooney
Adventure • Animal Picture • Family-Oriented Adventure
82
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy, Sabine Azéma
Documentary • Essay Film • Foreign Language Film
83
Jan Svankmajer • Starring: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová
Absurd Comedy • Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental
84
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan
Drama • Erotic Drama • Showbiz Drama
85
Ming-liang Tsai • Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
86
Jafar Panahi • Starring: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
87
Aki Kaurismäki • Starring: Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen, Elina Salo
88
Hsiao-hsien Hou • Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Shuan Fang, Michiko Hada
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Hsiao-hsien Hou • Starring: Chingju Huang, Fue Choung Cheng, Ming Hwa Bai
Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Aleksandr Sokurov • Starring: Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer
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Ming-liang Tsai • Starring: Tien Miao, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu
92
Atom Egoyan • Starring: Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamyan, Michelle Bellerose
Drama • Marriage Drama
93
Hsiao-hsien Hou • Starring: Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Alain Delon, Domiziana Giordano, Jacques Dacqmine
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
95
Chris Marker
Biography • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Chantal Akerman
Culture and Society • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Manoel de Oliveira • Starring: Leonor Silveira, Cecile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra
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Frederick Wiseman
Documentary
99
Ernie Gehr
Short Film
100
Aleksandr Sokurov
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Military and War
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