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1
Irvin Kershner • Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Action • Adventure • Cyborg / Android / Robot
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2
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman, Karen Allen
Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure
3
Richard Marquand • Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
4
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Americana
5
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ghost Film • Haunted House Film
6
John McTiernan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
7
Ivan Reitman • Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
8
Rob Reiner • Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
9
Ridley Scott • Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
10
James Cameron • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Action • Body Horror • Cyborg / Android / Robot
11
John Hughes • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Teen Movie
12
Elem Klimov • Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
13
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
14
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
15
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
16
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror
17
Rob Reiner • Starring: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Richard Dreyfuss
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Buddy Film
18
John Hughes • Starring: Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
19
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
20
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
21
Wim Wenders • Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski
Drama • New German Cinema • Road Movie
22
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott
Black Comedy • New Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
23
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
24
Brian De Palma • Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
25
Isao Takahata • Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Animation • Anime • Drama
26
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker • Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Ensemble Film
27
Brian De Palma • Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Crime Thriller • Crime • Gangster Film
28
Barry Levinson • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
29
Tim Burton • Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Action • Based-on-Comics • Crime Thriller
30
Wim Wenders • Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Fantasy • Foreign Language Film • Magic Realism
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Terry Gilliam • Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Black Comedy • Dystopian Film • Mindbender
32
Spike Lee • Starring: Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
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Rob Reiner • Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Comedy • Mockumentary • Musical
34
Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
35
Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Foreign Language Film
36
Milos Forman • Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
37
Woody Allen • Starring: Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
38
Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
39
John Landis • Starring: Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Griffin Dunne
Black Comedy • Body Horror • Horror Comedy
40
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer
Animation • Comedy • Detective Film
41
David Lynch • Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
Americana • Crime Thriller • Crime
42
Katsuhiro Ôtomo • Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tesshô Genda
Action • Animation • Anime
43
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
44
David Cronenberg • Starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry
Body Horror • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Horror
45
Giuseppe Tornatore • Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Foreign Language Film
46
Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
47
Penny Marshall • Starring: Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Jared Rushton
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Fantasy Comedy
48
Sam Raimi • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker
Haunted House Film • Horror • Monster Film
49
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
50
Sergio Leone • Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
51
Louis Malle • Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
52
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko
Anthology Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
53
John Woo • Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh
Action Thriller • Action • Buddy Film
54
Bob Clark • Starring: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley
Americana • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy
55
Jim Jarmusch • Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
Buddy Film • Comedy • Road Movie
56
David Cronenberg • Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
57
Errol Morris • Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Dale Holt
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
58
Bruce Robinson • Starring: Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown
Black Comedy • Buddy Film • Comedy
59
James L. Brooks • Starring: William Hurt, Joan Cusack, Albert Brooks
Comedy Drama • Media Satire • Romance
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Tobe Hooper • Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
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Barry Levinson • Starring: Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
62
George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Foreign Language Film • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
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Wolfgang Petersen • Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
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David Lynch • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
65
Tony Scott • Starring: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Kelly McGillis
Action • Buddy Film • Drama
66
Paul Verhoeven • Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy
Action Thriller • Action • Crime Thriller
67
Martin Brest • Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
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Charles Crichton • Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline
Caper • Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler
69
Amy Heckerling • Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold
Comedy Drama • Comedy • Coming-of-Age
70
Godfrey Reggio
Avant-garde / Experimental • Culture and Society • Documentary
71
Michael Mann • Starring: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Brian Cox
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
72
Robert Redford • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Drama • Family Drama • New Hollywood
73
Jim Jarmusch • Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
74
Ron Shelton • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Jenny Robertson, Kevin Costner
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
75
Jûzô Itami • Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe, Nobuko Miyamoto
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
76
Rob Reiner • Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
77
Wes Craven • Starring: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp
Horror • Slasher Film • Supernatural Horror
78
Edward Zwick • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
79
Roland Joffé • Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich
Based-on-a-True-Story • Drama • Newspaper Film
80
David Cronenberg • Starring: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Medical Drama
81
Phil Alden Robinson • Starring: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Burt Lancaster
Americana • Drama • Fantasy
82
Paul Schrader • Starring: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Yasosuke Bando
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
83
Peter Greenaway • Starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
84
Lawrence Kasdan • Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
85
David Zucker • Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Absurd Comedy • Based-on-Television • Comedy
86
Claude Lanzmann • Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
87
Barry Levinson • Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke
Buddy Film • Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age
88
Peter Weir • Starring: Mel Gibson, Ronny Graham, Stan Green
Anti-War Film • Australian New Wave • War
89
Jim Sheridan • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Kirsten Sheridan
90
Gabriel Axel • Starring: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
91
James L. Brooks • Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Comedy Drama • Drama • Family Drama
92
Bill Forsyth • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama
93
Gus Van Sant • Starring: Heather Graham, James Le Gros, Kelly Lynch
Addiction Drama • Crime • Crime Drama
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Sydney Pollack • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Errors • Comedy
95
Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
96
Oliver Stone • Starring: Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook
Drama • Urban Drama
97
Barry Levinson • Starring: Robin Williams, Tung Thanh Tran, Bruno Kirby
Comedy Drama • Drama • Military Comedy
98
Pedro Almodóvar • Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Ensemble Film
99
Warren Beatty • Starring: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
100
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Feminist Film
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