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1
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Romance
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2
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
3
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
Combat Films • Drama • Ensemble Film
4
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Anti-War Film
5
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
6
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
7
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
8
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film
9
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
10
Elem Klimov • Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
11
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Melanie Laurent, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz
Adventure • Revenge Film • War Adventure
12
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey
Fantasy • Romance • Romantic Fantasy
13
Billy Wilder • Starring: Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Otto Preminger
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
14
David Lean • Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
15
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
16
John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
17
Gillo Pontecorvo • Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Docudrama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
18
Mel Gibson • Starring: Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan, Angus MacFadyen
19
David Lean • Starring: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ensemble Film
20
Isao Takahata • Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Animation • Anime • Drama
21
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
22
Michael Cimino • Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
Anti-War Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
23
Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
24
Robert Bresson • Starring: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
Docudrama • Drama • Escape Film
25
Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
26
David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To • Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films
27
John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
28
Howard Hawks • Starring: Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
29
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes
Adventure • Ensemble Film • New Hollywood
30
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Edward Binns
31
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Raymond Smith, George "Slim" Summerville, Lew Ayres
Action • Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
32
Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
33
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
Drama • Ensemble Film • Romance
34
Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
35
Louis Malle • Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
36
Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Childhood Drama • Drama
37
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Drama • Ensemble Film
38
Sam Mendes • Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Mark Strong
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
39
Victor Fleming • Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard
Epic • Historical Epic • Historical Film
40
Roberto Benigni • Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
41
Robert Altman • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
Anti-War Film • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
42
Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
43
Roman Polanski • Starring: Maureen Lipman, Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
44
Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Aleksey Batalov, Aleksandr Shvorin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
45
Taika Waititi • Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
46
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Mark Rylance
Action Thriller • Action • Combat Films
47
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
48
J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Adventure • War • War Adventure
49
Brian G. Hutton • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles
Adventure • Anti-War Film • Caper
50
Ridley Scott • Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana
Action • Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story
51
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Joe Pantoliano
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Childhood Drama
52
Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
53
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson
Adventure • Courtroom Drama • Drama
54
Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
55
Cy Endfield • Starring: Michael Caine, James Booth, Stanley Baker
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
56
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
57
Joe Johnston • Starring: Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell, Stanley Tucci
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
58
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima .
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
59
Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
60
René Clément • Starring: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
Childhood Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
61
Brian G. Hutton • Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark
Action • Adventure • War Adventure
62
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Combat Films • Epic • War
63
David O. Russell • Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Action • Adventure • Anti-War Film
64
William Wyler • Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
65
Peter Weir • Starring: Mel Gibson, Ronny Graham, Stan Green
Anti-War Film • Australian New Wave • War
66
Edward Zwick • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki
67
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
68
John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
69
Edward Zwick • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Michael Sheen
70
William A. Wellman • Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
71
Barry Levinson • Starring: Robin Williams, Tung Thanh Tran, Bruno Kirby
Comedy Drama • Drama • Military Comedy
72
Oliver Hirschbiegel • Starring: Juliane Köhler, Ulrich Matthes, Christian Berkel
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
73
Patty Jenkins • Starring: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics
74
Howard Hawks • Starring: Joan Leslie, Walter Brennan, Gary Cooper
75
King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
76
Andrzej Wajda • Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Hitman / Assassin Film
77
Ridley Scott • Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
78
Mel Gibson • Starring: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer
Anti-War Film • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
79
Ari Folman • Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Animation • Anti-War Film • Avant-garde / Experimental
80
Morten Tyldum • Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode
81
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Anti-War Film • Combat Films • Drama
82
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine
Action • Combat Films • Drama
83
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura
84
Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Starring: Audrey Tautou, Marion Cotillard, Jodie Foster
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
85
Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Klaus Löwitsch, Hanna Schygulla, Ivan Desny
86
Mike Nichols • Starring: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Comedy
87
Preston Sturges • Starring: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
88
John Milius • Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
89
David Ayer • Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman
90
Terrence Malick • Starring: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel
91
Ken Loach • Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Drama • Historical Film • Period Film
92
Roland Emmerich • Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs
93
Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel
Combat Films • Drama • Foreign Language Film
94
Larisa Shepitko • Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev
Anti-War Film • Drama • Female-Directed Film
95
Oliver Stone • Starring: James Woods, Jim Belushi, Michael Murphy
96
Jirí Menzel • Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsky
Comedy Drama • Czechoslovak New Wave • Drama
97
George Stevens • Starring: Cary Grant, Sam Jaffe, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
98
Peter Weir • Starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt
Australian New Wave • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
99
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
100
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Tae-woo Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Byung-hun Lee
Anti-War Film • Detective Film • Drama
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