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Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Henri-Georges Clouzot • Starring: Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Foreign Language Film
3
Jules Dassin • Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
4
Nicholas Ray • Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
5
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Romance
6
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Cay Kristiansen
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Foreign Language Film
7
John Sturges • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
8
Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
9
Satyajit Ray • Starring: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
10
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
11
Elia Kazan • Starring: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
12
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Ensemble Film
13
Douglas Sirk • Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
14
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama • Starring: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
15
John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: William Powell, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Ensemble Film
16
Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Domestic Comedy
17
Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness
Black Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Mildred Natwick, Shirley MacLaine, Jerry Mathers
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Ensemble Film
19
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Frank Sinatra
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Crime
20
Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Mystery • Western
21
Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
22
Otto Preminger • Starring: Darren McGavin, John Conte, Doro Merande
Addiction Drama • Drama • Melodrama
23
William Wyler • Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Fredric March
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller
24
Chuck Jones • Starring: Bill Roberts, Henry Juddy
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
25
Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
26
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-Theatre • Buddy Film • Comedy
27
Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mystery
28
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Frank Silvera, Phil Stevenson, David Vaughan
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
29
Richard Brooks • Starring: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Richard Kiley
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Juvenile Delinquency Film
30
Laurence Olivier • Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
31
Max Ophüls • Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
32
David Lean • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Gaitano Audiero
33
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Musical
34
Joshua Logan • Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
35
Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada
Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story • Costume Adventure
36
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
37
Michael Anderson • Starring: Michael Redgrave, Charles Carson, Colin Tapley
Action • Adventure • Docudrama
38
Jack Arnold • Starring: John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
39
Mikio Naruse • Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
40
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
41
Val Guest • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean
Based-on-Television • Horror • Sci-Fi Horror
42
Erich Kobler • Starring: Elke Arendt, Addi Adametz, Niels Clausnitzer
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Fairy Tales and Legends • Family-Oriented Fantasy
43
Charles Lamont • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
44
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly • Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical Comedy
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Comedy Drama • Crime • Crime Drama
46
Juan Antonio Bardem • Starring: Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corra
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
47
Joseph M. Newman • Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Science Fiction
48
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Dean Martin, Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
49
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey
Drama • Film Noir • Marriage Drama
50
Norman Foster • Starring: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
51
Andrzej Wajda • Starring: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Polish Film School
52
Robert Gordon • Starring: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis
Fantasy • Horror • Monster Film
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan
Traditional Western • Western
54
Jean Negulesco • Starring: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore
Musical • Musical Romance • Romance
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Jesse Hibbs • Starring: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Charles Drake
56
Jack Arnold • Starring: John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield
57
Agnès Varda • Starring: Silvia Monfort, Philippe Noiret
Comedy Drama • Drama • Female-Directed Film
58
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Miroslava, Ernesto Alonso, Rita Macedo
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Crime Comedy
59
John Parker • Starring: Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota, Ben Roseman
Horror • Mystery • Psychological Horror
60
Phil Karlson • Starring: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
61
Rudolph Maté • Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
62
Daniel Mann • Starring: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama • Drama
63
Charles Vidor • Starring: Doris Day, Tom Tully, Richard Gaines
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Motoyoshi Oda • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Koizumi
Action • Drama • Foreign Language Film
65
Charles Walters • Starring: Frank Sinatra, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Friz Freleng
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Eva Dahlberg, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
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Edvin Laine • Starring: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films • Drama
70
Chuck Jones • Starring: Paul Julian
71
John Farrow • Starring: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar
Adventure • Chase Movie • Sea Adventure
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Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Fabrizi
Drama • Ensemble Film • Foreign Language Film
74
Anthony Mann • Starring: Barry Sullivan, James Stewart, June Allyson
Drama • War • War Drama
75
Chuck Jones
76
Melville Shavelson • Starring: George Tobias, Lee Erickson, Paul de Rolf
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Comedy
77
King Vidor • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor
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John Ford • Starring: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Robert Francis
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Karel Zeman, Fred Ladd • Starring: Vladimir Bejval, Petr Herrman, Zdenek Hustak
Adventure • Animation • Family-Oriented Adventure
82
William A. Wellman • Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure
83
Howard Hawks • Starring: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
84
Ernst Marischka • Starring: Romy Schneider, Karheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
85
Richard Quine • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical Romance
86
Animation • Cartoon • Short Film
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Robert McKimson
89
Alex Segal • Starring: Andy Griffith, Harry Clark, Eddie LeRoy
Comedy • Made-for-Television • Military Comedy
90
Friz Freleng • Starring: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Animation • Cartoon • Fairy Tales and Legends
91
Henry Koster • Starring: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Historical Film
92
Henry King • Starring: William Holden, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom
93
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Montgomery
94
Lewis Gilbert • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
Based-on-Theatre • British Noir • Film Noir
95
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, So Yamamura
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Arthur Lubin • Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
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Robert Stevenson • Starring: MacDonald Carey, Teresa Wright, Thomas Mitchell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Family-Oriented Fantasy • Family
99
Fritz Lang • Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Costume Adventure
100
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