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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Dance Film • Drama
4
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Gus Van Sant • Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Psychological Drama
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Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
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Terrence Malick • Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
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Michel Gondry • Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Comedy Drama • Drama • Mindbender
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David Lean • Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
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Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Faye Wong
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Costume Romance • Drama • Period Film
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Marcel Carné • Starring: Pierre Renoir, Pierre Brasseur, Arletty
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Tomas Alfredson • Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age
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Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Al Silvani
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
Comedy Drama • Drama • Fantasy
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Spike Jonze • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Wes Anderson • Starring: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray
Childhood Drama • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
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François Truffaut • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre
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Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur
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Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romance
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Damien Chazelle • Starring: Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
Drama • Musical Romance • Musical
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George Stevens • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Alain Resnais • Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska
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Jean Vigo • Starring: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté
Adventure Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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John Carney • Starring: Markéta Irglová, Glen Hansard, Hugh Walsh
Drama • Musical • Musical Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
Drama • Film Noir • Medical Drama
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George Stevens • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Americana • Drama • Romance
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
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Richard Linklater • Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
Comedy Drama • Drama • Reunion Films
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
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Douglas Sirk • Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Max Ophüls • Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
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Tony Scott • Starring: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis
Action • Buddy Film • Drama
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James Cameron • Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Alien Invasion Films
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Neil Jordan • Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Costume Romance
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David O. Russell • Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps
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William Wyler • Starring: Montgomery Clift, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Richardson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Céline Sciamma • Starring: Noémie Merlant, Adele Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
Costume Romance • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Rob Reiner • Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
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Lars von Trier • Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Jean-Marc Barr
Drama • Erotic Drama • Magic Realism
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Greta Gerwig • Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Costume Romance
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Max Ophüls • Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Costume Romance • Drama • Melodrama
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Richard Curtis • Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy
Comedy Drama • Drama • Fantasy Comedy
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John Sayles • Starring: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Clifton James
Drama • Mystery • Romance
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Irving Rapper • Starring: Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Bette Davis
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Peter Weir • Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Alexander Godunov
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
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Luca Guadagnino • Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Esther Garrel
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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James Mangold • Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Michel Hazanavicius • Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
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Derek Cianfrance • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson
Drama • Feminist Film • New Hollywood
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Eric Rohmer • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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Cameron Crowe • Starring: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins
Drama • Fantasy • Magic Realism
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Kevin Costner • Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
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David Lean • Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Karen Mok, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leon Lai
Crime • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
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Michael Showalter • Starring: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter
Comedy Drama • Drama • Medical Drama
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George Cukor • Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Musical Drama
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Pedro Almodóvar • Starring: Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Medical Drama
75
Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Drama
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Michael Haneke • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
77
James Ivory • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Period Film
78
Jeff Nichols • Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Sam Shepard
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
79
Kevin Smith • Starring: Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith
Comedy Drama • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
80
James L. Brooks • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear
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Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Charles Watts
Comedy Drama • Drama • Melodrama
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James L. Brooks • Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
83
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Meryl Streep, Peter MacNicol, Kevin Kline
Drama • Period Film • Psychological Drama
84
John Huston • Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift
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Tod Browning • Starring: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry
Drama • Horror • Romance
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
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John Crowley • Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen
Drama • Period Film • Romance
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Abdellatif Kechiche • Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte
Based-on-Comics • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Edmund Goulding • Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
Den svenska synden • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Ang Lee • Starring: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Harriet Walter
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners
93
Oliver Stone • Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
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Jaco van Dormael • Starring: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Fantasy
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Mark Romanek • Starring: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
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Mike Mills • Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
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Jim Jarmusch • Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska
Drama • Horror • Monster Film
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Todd Haynes • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Stephen Frears • Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Uma Thurman
Based-on-18th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Costume Romance
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