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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Chase Movie • Mystery • Romance
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François Truffaut • Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
3
Otto Preminger • Starring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Eve Arden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
4
Howard Hawks • Starring: John Wayne, Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin
Buddy Film • Traditional Western • Western
5
Billy Wilder • Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
6
Alain Resnais • Starring: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
7
Robert Bresson • Starring: Martin Lasalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri
Crime • Crime Drama • Drama
8
William Wyler • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Drama • Epic
9
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima .
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
11
Satyajit Ray • Starring: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Alok Chakravarty
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
12
William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long
Drama • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
13
Douglas Sirk • Starring: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Juanita Moore
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
14
Marcel Camus • Starring: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Marcel Camus
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
15
Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Kuniko Miyak, Eiko Miyoshi, Chishu Ryu
Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama
16
Masaki Kobayashi • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Keiji Sada
Anti-War Film • Combat Films • Drama
17
Clyde Geronimi • Starring: Taylor Holmes, Marvin Miller, Verna Felton
Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends • Family
18
Stanley Kramer • Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Donna Anderson
Anti-War Film • Disaster Film • Dystopian Film
19
Michael Gordon • Starring: Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Doris Day
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
20
John Cassavetes • Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd
Drama • Ensemble Film • Psychological Drama
21
Grigoriy Chukhray • Starring: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Romance
22
Terence Fisher • Starring: David Oxley, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
23
Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Drama • Medical Drama • Melodrama
24
Henry Levin • Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Adventure
25
Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux
Costume Horror • Horror • Monster Film
26
George Stevens • Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
27
Blake Edwards • Starring: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien
Comedy • Military Comedy • Romance
28
Kon Ichikawa • Starring: Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers
Adventure • War • Western
30
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell
Courtroom Drama • Crime • Crime Drama
31
William Castle • Starring: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman
Horror • Monster Film • Thriller
32
Jack Clayton • Starring: Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Houston
British New Wave • Drama • Melodrama
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Roger Corman • Starring: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Bert Convy
Horror Comedy • Horror • Satire
34
Budd Boetticher • Starring: Randolph Scott, Karen Steele, Pernell Roberts
Traditional Western • Western
35
Robert Wise • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
36
Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Tatyana Samojlova, Yevgeni Urbansky, Innokenti Smoktunovsky
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
37
Jack Arnold • Starring: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
Comedy • Satire
38
Robert Stevenson • Starring: Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea
Adventure • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
39
Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans
Drama • Religious Drama
40
Bernhard Wicki • Starring: Folker Bohnet, Fritz Wepper, Michael Hinz
41
André De Toth • Starring: Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Venetia Stevenson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Period Film • Revisionist Western
42
Edward D. Wood Jr. • Starring: Mona McKinnon, Criswell, Bela Lugosi
Action Thriller • Action • Alien Invasion Films
43
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Dorothy Malone, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn
Drama • Revisionist Western • Romance
44
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Drama
45
Ralph Thomas • Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Chase Movie • Drama
46
Samuel Fuller • Starring: James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett, Victoria Shaw
Drama • Film Noir • Melodrama
47
Charles Barton • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Slapstick
48
Delmer Daves • Starring: Gary Cooper, Maria Schell, Karl Malden
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
49
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Rip Torn
Action • Combat Films • War
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Tony Richardson • Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
British New Wave • Drama • Marriage Drama
51
Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
52
Crane Wilbur • Starring: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
Based-on-Theatre • Crime • Crime Thriller
53
John Sturges • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones
Adventure • Thriller
54
John Boulting • Starring: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers
Comedy • Satire • Workplace Comedy
55
Frank Capra • Starring: Carolyn Jones, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Romance
56
Les Clark, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Wolfgang Reitherman • Starring: Paul Frees, Clarence Nash
Animation • Family • Family-Oriented Fantasy
57
Claude Chabrol • Starring: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
58
Edward Bernds • Starring: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton
Body Horror • Horror • Monster Film
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Paul Wendkos • Starring: Sandra Dee, Cliff Robertson, James Darren
Beach Party Film • Comedy
60
Ranald MacDougall • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Disaster Film • Post-Apocalyptic Film • Romance
61
Mario Monicelli • Starring: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano
Comedy • Commedia all’italiana • Foreign Language Film
62
Otto Preminger • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.
Drama • Musical • Musical Romance
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
Crime • Crime Thriller • Drama
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
65
Stan Brakhage • Starring: Jane Brakhage, Myrrenna Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary • Short Film
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John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Peter Lawford
Action • Drama • Romance
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Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli
Drama • Foreign Language Film • War
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
69
J. Lee Thompson • Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
70
Vincent Sherman • Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Vaughn, Adam West
Drama • Melodrama
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Ib Melchior • Starring: Gerald Mohr, Naura Hayden, Les Tremayne
Action • Adventure • Monster Film
72
Jack Arnold • Starring: Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, R.G. Armstrong
Western
73
Melville Shavelson • Starring: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong
74
Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
Comedy • Comedy Western • Western
75
Fernando Méndez • Starring: Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortes, Gaston Santos
Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film • Horror
76
Friz Freleng
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Nobuo Nakagawa • Starring: Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Katsuko Wakasugi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Horror
78
Basil Dearden • Starring: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mystery
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Starring: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Polish Film School
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George Marshall • Starring: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
Based-on-Theatre • Black Comedy • Comedy
82
Gordon Douglas • Starring: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Alan Hale Jr.
Action • Combat Films • Drama
83
Robert McKimson
84
Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava • Starring: John Merivale, Didi Perego, Gerard Herter
Adventure • Foreign Language Film • Horror
85
Gerald Thomas • Starring: Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams
Comedy • Farce • Parody/Spoof
86
Gerald Thomas • Starring: Ted Ray, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams
87
Arthur Crabtree • Starring: Michael Gough, June Cunningham, Graham Curnow
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
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Michael Anderson • Starring: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter
Drama • Political Drama
90
Guy Hamilton • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Political Satire
91
Michael Anderson • Starring: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave
92
Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr.
93
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
94
Spencer Gordon Bennet • Starring: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey
Adventure • Alien Invasion Films • Science Fiction
95
William J. Hole Jr. • Starring: Jody Fair, Russ Bender, Henry McCann
Beach Party Film • Carsploitation • Comedy
96
Roger Corman • Starring: Frank Gerstle, Anthony Eisley, Roy Gordon
Horror • Monster Film
97
Roger Vadim • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Philipe, Annette Vadim
Based-on-18th-Century-Literature • Drama • Erotic Drama
98
Val Guest • Starring: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
99
Ishirô Honda • Starring: Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Koreya Senda
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Science Fiction
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King Vidor • Starring: Yul Brynner, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan
Drama • Epic • Historical Film
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