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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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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
3
Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
4
Ridley Scott • Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
5
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
6
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
7
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
8
Gillo Pontecorvo • Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
10
Ron Howard • Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
11
Steve McQueen • Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
12
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
13
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
14
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
15
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Dick York
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
16
Anthony Harvey • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kenneth Griffith, Peter O'Toole
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
17
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
18
Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
19
Ron Howard • Starring: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
20
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Costume Romance
21
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure • Epic
22
Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
23
Zack Snyder • Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West
Action • Based-on-Comics • Epic
24
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama • Drama
25
David Lean • Starring: Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Epic
26
Andrew Dominik • Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard
27
Luchino Visconti • Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon
Drama • Epic • Family Drama
28
Ken Russell • Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Historical Film
29
Spike Lee • Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Albert Hall
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
30
Benjamin Christensen • Starring: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
31
Tom Hooper • Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
32
D.W. Griffith • Starring: Tully Marshall, Mary Alden, Frank Bennett
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
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Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
35
Wilson Yip • Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
36
John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Ward Bond
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Frank Lloyd • Starring: Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story
38
Cy Endfield • Starring: Michael Caine, James Booth, Stanley Baker
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
39
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
40
Yorgos Lanthimos • Starring: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Black Comedy
41
Oliver Stone • Starring: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Biopic • Drama • Ensemble Film
42
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field
43
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
44
Edward Zwick • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki
45
Roy Ward Baker • Starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres
46
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Action • Epic • Foreign Language Film
47
Oliver Hirschbiegel • Starring: Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Matthes, Christian Berkel
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
48
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
49
Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Lone, Joan Chen
50
Peter Glenville • Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
51
Roland Joffé • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Drama • Historical Film • Jungle Film
52
Warren Beatty • Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
53
Mel Gibson • Starring: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer
Anti-War Film • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
54
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Hideaki Anno, Mirai Shida, Jun Kunimura
Animation • Anime • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson
56
Morten Tyldum • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
57
Ava DuVernay • Starring: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson
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Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
59
Arthur Penn • Starring: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson
60
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Biopic • Crime Drama
61
Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
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Ken Loach • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Drama • Historical Film • Period Film
63
Roland Emmerich • Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Salvador Wood, Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Epic
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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Christopher Cain • Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama
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Ronald F. Maxwell • Starring: Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Andrew Prine
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Shekhar Kapur • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes
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Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
Action • Drama • Epic
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Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe
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Frantisek Vlácil • Starring: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Czechoslovak New Wave
72
Christophe Gans • Starring: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne
Adventure • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
73
Damien Chazelle • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Jason Clarke, Claire Foy
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Richard Fleischer • Starring: Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten
Historical Film • War
75
Theodore Melfi • Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Comedy Drama
76
John Woo • Starring: Wei Zhao, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Epic
77
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
78
Johan Renck • Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Disaster Film • Docudrama
79
Roger Donaldson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox
80
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harcourt Williams, Renee Asherson
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
82
Thomas Kail • Starring: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr
Americana • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre
83
Robert Eggers • Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
84
Michael Caton-Jones • Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
85
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: James Mason, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Epic
86
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Amvrosi Buchma, Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman
87
Walter Hill • Starring: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Ensemble Film
88
Terrence Malick • Starring: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer
Costume Romance • Drama • Historical Film
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Carlos Emilio Baez
90
Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger
91
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama
92
Roger Donaldson • Starring: Kevin Costner, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker
Docudrama • Drama • Historical Film
93
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
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J.C. Chandor • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons
Historical Film • Paranoid Thriller • Thriller
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Aaron Sorkin • Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance
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Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses • Starring: Vic Morrow, Olivia Cole, Ben Vereen
Drama • Ensemble Film • Epic
97
Nicholas Hytner • Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Amanda Donohoe, Helen Mirren
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
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Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Costume Romance • Epic • Historical Epic
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Edward Berger • Starring: Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch, Felix Kammerer
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
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