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1
W.S. Van Dyke • Starring: William Powell, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
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2
Billy Wilder • Starring: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama
3
Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Crime Comedy
4
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine
Based-on-Theatre • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
5
Jonathan Lynn • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn
Comedy Thriller • Comedy • Mystery
6
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
7
Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Detective Film • Drama • Gothic Film
8
René Clair • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Ensemble Film • Mystery • Whodunit
9
Robert Moore • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Mystery • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
10
Rian Johnson • Starring: Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton
11
John Guillermin • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, David Niven
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Ensemble Film
12
Alfred L. Werker • Starring: Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Basil Rathbone
Crime • Mystery • Thriller
13
Herbert Ross • Starring: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn
Mystery • Whodunit
14
Robert Altman • Starring: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Ensemble Film
15
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth
Based-on-Theatre • Black Comedy • Comedy
16
Sidney Gilliat • Starring: Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim, Megs Jenkins
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
17
Dario Argento • Starring: Pier Paolo Capponi, James Franciscus, Karl Malden
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
18
Fred Walton • Starring: Amy Steel, Deborah Foreman, Deborah Goodrich
Horror • Mystery • Slasher Film
19
Guy Hamilton • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin
20
Thom Eberhardt • Starring: Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Crime
21
Dario Argento • Starring: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Giallo
22
James Mangold • Starring: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Alfred Molina
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
23
Sam Raimi • Starring: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves
Crime • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
24
Michael Ritchie • Starring: Patricia Kalember, George Wyner, Geoffrey Lewis
Comedy • Mystery • Action
25
George Pollock • Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Thorley Walters
Detective Film • Mystery • Whodunit
26
Bob Clark • Starring: Christopher Plummer, Geneviève Bujold, James Mason
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
27
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Crime
28
Tom Gries • Starring: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Jill Ireland
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Hybrid Western
29
George Pollock • Starring: Stringer Davis, Flora Robson, Robert Morley
Comedy • Crime • Detective Film
30
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe
31
Michael Curtiz • Starring: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
Crime • Detective Film • Mystery
32
George Pollock • Starring: Stringer Davis, Ron Moody, Margaret Rutherford
33
Charles David • Starring: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce
Comedy Drama • Crime Comedy • Crime
34
George Pollock • Starring: Shirley Eaton, Hugh O'Brian, Stanley Holloway
Crime • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
35
Roy William Neill • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Renee Godfrey, Mary Forbes
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Crime
36
Giuliano Carnimeo • Starring: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Annabella Incontrera
37
William A. Wellman • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, J. Edward Bromberg, Stephanie Bachelor
Comedy • Mystery • Showbiz Comedy
38
Dwight H. Little • Starring: Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali
Political Thriller • Thriller • Whodunit
39
Roy William Neill • Starring: Miles Mander, Evelyn Ankers, Nigel Bruce
Crime • Crime Thriller • Detective Film
40
Don Siegel • Starring: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
41
Renny Harlin • Starring: LL Cool J, Jonny Lee Miller, Kathryn Morris
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
42
Bruce Robinson • Starring: Andy Garcia, Lance Henriksen, Uma Thurman
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Serial Killer Film
43
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles
Comedy • Farce • Slapstick
44
Aldo Lado • Starring: George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi
45
Anatole Litvak • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif
Drama • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
46
Roy William Neill • Starring: Aubrey Mather, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
47
Mel Smith • Starring: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty
48
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Jude Law, Michael Caine, Harold Pinter
49
Guy Hamilton • Starring: Angela Lansbury, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor
Detective Film • Ensemble Film • Mystery
50
George Pollock • Starring: Lionel Jeffries, Stringer Davis, William Mervyn
51
Roger Vadim • Starring: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Thriller
52
Roy William Neill • Starring: Henry Daniell, Nigel Bruce, Basil Rathbone
53
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Yeoh
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
54
Eugene Forde • Starring: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland
55
William Friedkin • Starring: David Caruso, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Biehn
Mystery • Thriller • Erotic Thriller
56
Mario Bava • Starring: William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Maurice Poli
57
John Llewellyn Moxey • Starring: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Klaus Kinski
Crime • Detective Film • Horror
58
Ken Hughes • Starring: Leonard Mann, Drew Snyder, Joseph R. Sicari
Horror • Slasher Film • Whodunit
59
Dario Argento • Starring: Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli
Crime • Crime Thriller • Police Detective Film
60
Albert Parker • Starring: John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster
Detective Film • Drama • Mystery
61
Blake Edwards • Starring: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell
Comedy • Comedy Western • Mystery
62
Greg Mottola • Starring: Jon Hamm, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Crime Comedy
63
Tom George • Starring: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Detective Film
64
Frank Perry • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Judith Ivey
Comedy • Mystery • Comedy Thriller
65
Peter Collinson • Starring: Oliver Reed, Herbert Lom, Adolfo Celi
Crime • Drama • Mystery
66
Nick Gomez • Starring: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck
Comedy • Crime • Police Detective Film
67
Paul Leni • Starring: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy
Crime Thriller • Crime • Horror
68
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer
69
Roy Ward Baker • Starring: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
70
William K. Howard • Starring: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille
Comedy • Mystery • Romance
71
Matti Kassila • Starring: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela
72
Silvio Amadio • Starring: Farley Granger, Barbara Bouchet, Rosalba Neri
73
Jim Cummings • Starring: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster
Black Comedy • Crime Thriller • Crime
74
Harry Lachman • Starring: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Arleen Whelan
75
Ted Kotcheff • Starring: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley
Black Comedy • Comedy • Mystery
76
Hugh Ford • Starring: George M. Cohan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper
Based-on-Theatre • Mystery • Silent Film
77
Ford Beebe • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson
Gothic Film • Horror • Mystery
78
George Marshall • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main
79
Edwin L. Marin • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Reginald Owen
Comedy • Detective Film • Mystery
80
Roy William Neill • Starring: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright
Mystery • Thriller • Whodunit
81
Antonio Margheriti • Starring: Mark Damon, Eleonora Brown, Michael Rennie
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Mystery
82
Busby Berkeley • Starring: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey
Comedy • Mystery • Whodunit
83
Michael Winner • Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Mystery
84
David Ayer • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams
85
Roland Joffé • Starring: Patricia Arquette, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen DeGeneres
Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Mystery
86
Peter Godfrey • Starring: Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth
Comedy • Mystery • Screwball Comedy
87
Eugene Levy • Starring: John Candy, Cybill Shepherd, Giancarlo Giannini
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Whodunit
88
Albert Ray • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, J. Farrell MacDonald
89
Edwin L. Marin • Starring: Reginald Owen, Warburton Gamble, Alan Mowbray
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime • Crime Drama
90
Harry Lachman • Starring: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery
91
Ross Devenish • Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson
92
Joseph Cates • Starring: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray
93
Thomas Bentley • Starring: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding
Adventure • Crime • Detective Film
94
Edwin L. Marin • Starring: David Manners, Adrienne Ames, Bela Lugosi
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
95
George Archainbaud • Starring: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
96
Alfred Vohrer • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Joachim Fuchsberger, Eddi Arent
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
97
Tonino Valerii • Starring: George Hilton, Salvo Randone, William Berger
98
Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall, Dean Stockwell
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy
99
Harald Reinl • Starring: Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, Karin Dor
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Horror
100
Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Pascale Audret, Marianne Koch
Black Comedy • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
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