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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
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, Robert Manuel
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Romance
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Cay Kristiansen
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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John Sturges • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Mystery • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Delbert Mann • Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Satyajit Ray • Starring: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Family Drama
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey
Americana • Drama • Family Drama
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Ensemble Film
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Douglas Sirk • Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Melvin Frank, Norman Panama • Starring: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: William Powell, Jack Lemmon, James Cagney
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Ensemble Film
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Domestic Comedy
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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
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Frank Sinatra
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Crime
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Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Mystery • Western
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Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee
Animated Musical • Animation • Family
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Darren McGavin, John Conte, Doro Merande
Addiction Drama • Drama • Melodrama
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William Wyler • Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Fredric March
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Bill Roberts, Henry Juddy
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
Based-on-Theatre • Buddy Film • Comedy
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Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Frank Silvera, Phil Stevenson, David Vaughan
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Richard Brooks • Starring: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Richard Kiley
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Juvenile Delinquency Film
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mystery
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Max Ophüls • Starring: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Musical
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David Lean • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Gaitano Audiero
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Joshua Logan • Starring: William Holden, Kim Novak, Betty Field
Americana • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada
Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story • Costume Adventure
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Michael Anderson • Starring: Michael Redgrave, Charles Carson, Colin Tapley
Action • Adventure • Docudrama
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Jack Arnold • Starring: John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday
Horror • Monster Film • Sci-Fi Horror
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Mikio Naruse • Starring: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Samuel Fuller • Starring: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
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Erich Kobler • Starring: Elke Arendt, Addi Adametz, Niels Clausnitzer
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Fairy Tales and Legends • Family-Oriented Fantasy
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Val Guest • Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean
Based-on-Television • Horror • Sci-Fi Horror
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Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly • Starring: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical Comedy
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Charles Lamont • Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
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Juan Antonio Bardem • Starring: Lucia Bosé, Alberto Closas, Bruna Corra
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Comedy Drama • Crime • Crime Drama
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Joseph M. Newman • Starring: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Science Fiction
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Frank Tashlin • Starring: Dean Martin, Dorothy Malone, Shirley MacLaine
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey
Drama • Film Noir • Marriage Drama
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Norman Foster • Starring: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
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