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Roman Polanski • Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Mystery
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
3
Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
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W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
5
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
6
Robert Altman • Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer
Animation • Comedy • Detective Film
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Crime Comedy
10
Rian Johnson • Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey
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Shane Black • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
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Shane Black • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice
Action Comedy • Action • Black Comedy
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David Fincher • Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
15
Michael Mann • Starring: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell
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Orson Welles • Starring: Richard Long, Edward G. Robinson, Philip Merivale
Detective Film • Drama • Film Noir
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Ben Affleck • Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Dario Argento • Starring: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Detective Film • Foreign Language Film • Giallo
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Alan Parker • Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
21
Arthur Penn • Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
22
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Detective Film • Dystopian Film
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
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Guy Ritchie • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
28
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi
Detective Film • Mystery • New Hollywood
29
Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Detective Film • Drama • Gothic Film
30
Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Detective Film
31
Alan Parker • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Horror
32
Robert Moore • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Mystery • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
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Debra Granik • Starring: Kevin Breznahan, John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
Detective Film • Drama • Family Drama
34
Tom Shadyac • Starring: Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young
Comedy • Detective Film • Gross-Out Comedy
35
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Tae-woo Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Byung-hun Lee
Anti-War Film • Detective Film • Drama
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Niels Arden Oplev • Starring: Sven-Bertil Taube, Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
37
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
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Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton
39
Sidney Lanfield • Starring: Richard Greene, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill
40
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
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John Guillermin • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, David Niven
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Ensemble Film
42
Paul McGuigan • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Made-for-Television
43
Ron Clements • Starring: Alan Young, Susanne Pollatschek, Vincent Price
Animation • Family-Oriented Fantasy • Family
44
Barry Levinson • Starring: Nicolas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Detective Film
45
Harold Becker • Starring: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
Detective Film • Erotic Thriller • Mystery
46
Terence Fisher • Starring: David Oxley, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
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Steve Oedekerk • Starring: Jim Carrey, Simon Callow, Ian McNeice
Comedy • Detective Film • Farce
48
Gordon Parks • Starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
Action • Blaxploitation • Crime
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Stuart Heisler • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Alan Ladd, Richard Denning
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Ron Howard • Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro
Action • Action Thriller • Detective Film
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