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Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama
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Stuart Rosenberg • Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
Drama • New Hollywood • Prison Film
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Otto Preminger
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
4
John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
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David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
6
Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
7
Frank Darabont • Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, James Cromwell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Fantasy
8
Robert Bresson • Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Docudrama • Drama • Escape Film
9
Jacques Becker • Starring: Michel Constantin, Philippe Leroy, Jean Keraudy
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
10
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, E.J. Andre
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Gareth Evans • Starring: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Arifin Putra
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Thriller
12
Jim Sheridan • Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
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Jacques Audiard • Starring: Niels Arestrup, Tahar Rahim, Adel Bencherif
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Don Siegel • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Action • Escape Film • Prison Film
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Michael Bay • Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Action Thriller • Action • Buddy Film
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Steven Soderbergh • Starring: George Clooney, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Comedy
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Alan Parker • Starring: John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Steve McQueen • Starring: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham
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John Woo • Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
Action Thriller • Action • Chase Movie
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John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Neville Brand
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Nicolas Winding Refn • Starring: Tom Hardy, Matt King, Kelly Adams
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Crime
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford
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Andrey Konchalovskiy • Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Burt Reynolds, Bernadette Peters, Eddie Albert
Comedy • New Hollywood • Prison Film
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Sidney Lumet • Starring: Harry Andrews, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis
Drama • Prison Film • War Drama
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Tim Robbins • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
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Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig
Caper • Comedy • Crime Comedy
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Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Foreign Language Film
30
Sidney Poitier • Starring: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Craig T. Nelson
Buddy Film • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
31
Ngai Choi Lam • Starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Comics
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Andrew Dominik • Starring: Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, David Field
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Black Comedy
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Oliver Hirschbiegel • Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Prison Film
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László Nemes • Starring: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
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Hector Babenco • Starring: William Hurt, Sonia Braga, Jose Lewgoy
Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film • Prison Film
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Rob Marshall • Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Musical Drama
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Norman Jewison • Starring: John Hannah, Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Biopic • Courtroom Drama • Drama
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S. Craig Zahler • Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Udo Kier
Crime Thriller • Crime • Exploitation Film
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Rick Rosenthal • Starring: Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Esai Morales
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Stuart Rosenberg • Starring: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander
Docudrama • Drama • New Hollywood
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Marc Rocco • Starring: Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz
Drama • Prison Film • Psychological Drama
42
Shunya Ito • Starring: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Fumio Watanabe
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Crime Thriller
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Taylor Hackford • Starring: Jesse Borrego, Carlos Carrasco, Raymond Cruz
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
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David Mackenzie • Starring: Jack O'Connell, Rupert Friend, Ben Mendelsohn
Drama • Prison Film
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Rod Lurie • Starring: Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo
Action • Action Thriller • Prison Film
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Richard Thorpe • Starring: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
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Robert Wise • Starring: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
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Peter Watkins • Starring: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano
Anti-War Film • Chase Movie • Docudrama
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Alan Clarke • Starring: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth
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Glenn Ficarra, John Requa • Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann
Based-on-a-True-Story • Black Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
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Martin Campbell • Starring: Ray Liotta, Stuart Wilson, Lance Henriksen
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John Flynn • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Sizemore, Donald Sutherland
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Edward James Olmos • Starring: Edward James Olmos, Pepe Serna, William Forsythe
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates
Black Comedy • Comedy Western • Crime
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Matthew Ryan Hoge • Starring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia • Starring: Ivan Massague, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor
Dystopian Film • Foreign Language Film • Horror
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Joseph Ruben • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vera Farmiga, Nick Sandow
Drama • Prison Film • Political Drama
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Stuart Gordon • Starring: Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, Kurtwood Smith
Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
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Kyle Patrick Alvarez • Starring: Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Period Film
60
John Cromwell • Starring: Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Film Noir • Prison Film
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Jonathan Kaplan • Starring: Claire Danes, Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim
Drama • Melodrama • Prison Film
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William Keighley • Starring: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
Crime • Prison Film • Thriller
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Don Siegel • Starring: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
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Peter Segal • Starring: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds
Comedy • Prison Film • Sports Comedy
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Ted Demme • Starring: Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Obba Babatundé
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Crime
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Shunya Ito • Starring: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kayoko Shiraishi
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Brian Yuzna • Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Simon Andreu, Santiago Segura
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Body Horror
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Daniel Monzón • Starring: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines
Crime • Crime Thriller • Foreign Language Film
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Paul W.S. Anderson • Starring: Jason Statham, Ian McShane, Joan Allen
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Jean Genet • Starring: Java, Coco le Martiniquais, Lucien Sénémaud
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Barry Skolnick • Starring: Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings
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Don Edmonds • Starring: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo
Exploitation Film • Horror • Period Film
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Martin Sheen • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham
Drama • Message Movie • Prison Film
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David Lowery • Starring: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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Adrian Grunberg • Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris
Action • Crime • Crime Drama
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Deran Sarafian • Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, George Dickerson, Patrick Kilpatrick
Action • Prison Film • Martial Arts
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Mikael Håfström • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Neill
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Jack Hill • Starring: Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Carol Speed
Action • Crime • Prison Film
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George W. Hill • Starring: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Drama • Prison Film • Thriller
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Paul Nicholas • Starring: Stella Stevens, John Vernon, Sybil Danning
Crime • Exploitation Film • Prison Film
81
Peter Yates • Starring: David Rasche, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham
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Howard Bretherton, William Keighley • Starring: Preston S. Foster, Dorothy Burgess, Robert McWade
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
83
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Barbara Steele, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins
Action • Crime • Drama
84
Brian Trenchard-Smith • Starring: Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig
Action Thriller • Action • Australian New Wave
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James Mather, Stephen St. Leger • Starring: Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare
Action • Action Thriller • Escape Film
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Jack Hill • Starring: Sid Haig, Pam Grier, Roberta Collins
Action • Crime • Exploitation Film
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Eddie Romero • Starring: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig
Action • Blaxploitation • Exploitation Film
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John Ford • Starring: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Disaster Film
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Archie Mayo • Starring: Frankie Darro, James Cagney, Madge Evans
Crime • Drama • Gangster Film
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
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Drew Pearce • Starring: Ben Kingsley, Scoot McNairy, Lester Speight
Based-on-Comics • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Steve Buscemi • Starring: Edward Furlong, Willem Dafoe, Danny Trejo
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Hiroyuki Imaishi • Starring: Kerry Anderson, keith Burgess, Chad Fifer
Action • Animation • Anime
94
John Ford • Starring: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
95
Walter Hill • Starring: Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk
Drama • Prison Film • Sports Drama
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Ric Roman Waugh • Starring: Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Marisol Nichols
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
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Alan Clarke • Starring: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Martin Phillips
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Paul Scheuring • Starring: Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet
Drama • Prison Film • Psychological Thriller
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Ric Roman Waugh • Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Bernthal, Lake Bell
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Yasuharu Hasebe • Starring: Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yumi Kanei
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