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Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
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Frank Capra • Starring: Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair
Based-on-Theatre • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
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George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
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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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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
Adventure • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
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Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Satire
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harcourt Williams, Renee Asherson
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
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Leo McCarey • Starring: Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical Drama
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Gunther von Fritsch • Starring: Simone Simon, Ann Carter, Eve March
Drama • Fantasy • Horror
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Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Fantasy • Horror • Monster Film
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Clarence Brown • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor
Animal Picture • Drama • Family Drama
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis
Film Noir • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
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Vincent Sherman • Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
Drama • Marriage Drama • Romance
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Norman Ferguson • Starring: Aurora Miranda, Clarence Nash, Fred Shields
Animated Musical • Animation • Fantasy
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Charles Vidor • Starring: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Phil Silvers
Comedy • Musical Romance • Musical
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
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John Brahm • Starring: Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Vittorio De Sica • Starring: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont
Film Noir • Police Detective Film • Psychological Thriller
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Edward Ludwig • Starring: John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
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Maya Deren • Starring: Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film • Short Film
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Jack Kinney
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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John Cromwell • Starring: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Drama • Family Drama • Romance
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Combat Films • Drama • War
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Roy William Neill • Starring: Miles Mander, Evelyn Ankers, Nigel Bruce
Crime • Crime Thriller • Detective Film
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John M. Stahl • Starring: Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Thomas Mitchell
Drama • Epic • Period Film
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Edwin L. Marin • Starring: John Wayne, Ella Raines, Ward Bond
Romance • Traditional Western • Western
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
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David Butler • Starring: Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
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Friz Freleng
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Stan Freberg
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Roy William Neill • Starring: Paul Cavanagh, Basil Rathbone, Arthur Hohl
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Alf Sjöberg • Starring: Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Jean Negulesco • Starring: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
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Roy William Neill • Starring: Vernon Downing, Dennis Hoey, Basil Rathbone
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Reginald Le Borg • Starring: John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames
Horror • Monster Film
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Robert Clampett
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Ford Beebe • Starring: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Jon Hall
Horror • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Horror
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Lew Landers • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch
Costume Horror • Drama • Horror
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David Lean • Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
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William Dieterle, George Cukor • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Melodrama
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Leslie Goodwins • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe, Virginia Christine
Horror • Monster Film • Thriller
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Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Animation • Cartoon • Short Film
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey
Biopic • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Elliott Nugent • Starring: Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews
Comedy • Military Comedy • Musical
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Helmut Weiss • Starring: Erich Ponto, Heinz Rühmann, Karin Himboldt
Comedy • Slapstick
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Frank Tashlin
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Jean Yarbrough, Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Thomas Gomez
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Slapstick
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René Clair • Starring: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Drama • Escape Film • War
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George Sidney • Starring: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
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Clifford Odets • Starring: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Jack King
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H. Bruce Humberstone • Starring: Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royal
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed
Combat Films • Drama • Romance
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Shamus Culhane • Starring: Mel Blanc, Ben Hardaway, Kent Rogers
Animation • Comedy • Short Film
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Emilio Fernández • Starring: Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendáriz
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Edward A. Blatt • Starring: John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Fantasy
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Robert Clampett • Starring: Mel Blanc
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William Castle • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger
Film Noir • Mystery • Police Detective Film
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, Joan Leslie
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
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Irving Rapper • Starring: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucille Watson
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
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Alexander Hall • Starring: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, James Craig
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Sam Wood • Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan
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Reginald Le Borg • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Mystery
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Elmer Clifton, John English • Starring: Dick Purcell, Lorna Gray, Lionel Atwill
Action • Based-on-Comics • Serial
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Arthur Lubin • Starring: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Kurt Katch
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Period Film
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Eugene Pallette, Mary Nash, Stanley Prager
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
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Phil Rosen • Starring: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn
Traditional Western • Western
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William Wyler • Starring: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis
Documentary • History • Military and War
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Alexander Hammid
Animal Picture • Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: John Blythe
Foreign Language Film • Short Film • War
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Charles Reisner • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Anne O'Neal, Virginia Grey, Edith Barrett
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Edward Steichen • Starring: Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer
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William Cameron Menzies • Starring: Paul Lukas, Carl Esmond, Peter Van Eyck
Drama • Political Drama
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Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng • Starring: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
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