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David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, Tony To • Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston
Action • Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films
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George Cukor • Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Domestic Comedy
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Victor Heerman • Starring: Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Edward Sedgwick • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sidney Bracey, Dick Alexander
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Alain Resnais • Starring: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary • Essay Film • Foreign Language Film
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Stanley Kramer • Starring: Fredric March, Spencer Tracy, Dick York
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Courtroom Drama
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Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson • Starring: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac
Action • Adventure • Animation
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Chris Marker • Starring: Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, S.Z. Sakall
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Crime Comedy
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Victor McLaglen, Barry Fitzgerald
Comedy Drama • Drama • Romance
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Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
Adventure • Animation • Anime
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Mystery
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Howard Hawks • Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess
Adventure • Buddy Film • Romance
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
Drama • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
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Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Sanshi Katsura
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Kevin Smith • Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Apocalyptic Film
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Errol Morris • Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Dale Holt
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood • Sports Comedy
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Douglas Sirk • Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Fred Zinnemann • Starring: Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Hitman / Assassin Film • Political Thriller
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John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge
Adventure Comedy • Comedy • Romance
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Anthony Mann • Starring: Dan Duryea, James Stewart, Shelley Winters
Drama • Western
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Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Brontis Jodorowsky
Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film
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J. Lee Thompson • Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Adventure • War • War Adventure
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Howard Hawks • Starring: John Wayne, James Caan, Paul Fix
Action • Adventure • Buddy Film
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Michael Curtiz • Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Action • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
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Jim Jarmusch • Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Buddy Film • Comedy • Road Movie
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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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Jûzô Itami • Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe, Nobuko Miyamoto
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
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Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Yoshifumi Kondo • Starring: Youko Honna, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Maiko Kayama
Animation • Anime • Based-on-Comics
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Mamoru Oshii • Starring: Tamio Ôki, Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi
Action Thriller • Action • Animation
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Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki • Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
Action • Animation • Anime
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Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Yasuo Yamada, Eiko Masuyama, Kiyoshi Kobayashi
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
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King Vidor • Starring: James Murray, Bert Roach, Daniel G. Tomlinson
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Kihachi Okamoto • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
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Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Zeppo Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Farce
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Sergio Leone • Starring: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli
Adventure • Foreign Language Film • Spaghetti Western
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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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Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki • Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
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George Marshall • Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Comedy Western • Comedy • Western
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John Ford • Starring: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Ward Bond
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
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George Cukor • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
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Mervyn LeRoy • Starring: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
Drama • Message Movie • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm • Starring: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Marjorie Bennett, Isobel Elsom
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Con Artist / Hustler
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Henry Hathaway • Starring: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Revenge Film • Traditional Western
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Chantal Akerman • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Female-Directed Film
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Frank Lloyd • Starring: Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin, Eddie Quillan
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Cy Endfield • Starring: Michael Caine, James Booth, Stanley Baker
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
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Ken Loach • Starring: Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Coming-of-Age
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François Truffaut • Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Comedy Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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Mike Newell • Starring: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime • Crime Drama
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Don Siegel • Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
Action • Drama • Outlaw
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Yasujirô Ozu • Starring: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao
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Michelangelo Antonioni • Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Marriage Drama
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René Clément • Starring: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée
Childhood Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
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Erich von Stroheim • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger
Chase Movie • Spy Film • Thriller
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Drama • Erotic Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mindbender • Satire
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Sam Wood • Starring: Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Slapstick
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Stanley Kramer • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis
Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Drama
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Michael Mann • Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
Action • Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Robert Bresson • Starring: Nicole Maurey, Claude Laydu, Jean Riveyre
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Mystery
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Wong Kar-Wai • Starring: Karen Mok, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Leon Lai
Crime • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Frank Capra • Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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George Cukor • Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Musical Drama
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Kirsten Andreasen, Sigurd Berg, Albert Høeberg
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Travis Knight • Starring: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes
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Chuck Jones • Starring: Mel Blanc
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
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Brian G. Hutton • Starring: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Patrick Wymark
Action • Adventure • War Adventure
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Gus Van Sant • Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin
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Pedro Almodóvar • Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Drama
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Jean Cocteau • Starring: Jean Marais, François Perier, Maria Casarés
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Jacques Tati • Starring: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Louis Perrault
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George Cukor • Starring: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
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Satoshi Kon • Starring: Aya Okamoto, Masato Harada, Seizo Kato
Animation • Anime • Comedy Drama
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Comedy Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine
Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
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John Ford • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Family Drama
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Martin Ritt • Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner
Drama • Spy Film • Thriller
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
Courtroom Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru
Action • Western
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James Bridges • Starring: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas
Disaster Film • New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller
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William Wyler • Starring: Hugh Griffith, Eli Wallach, Peter O'Toole
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Comedy
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Peter Weir • Starring: Mel Gibson, Ronny Graham, Stan Green
Anti-War Film • Australian New Wave • War
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Roy Del Ruth • Starring: Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel, Dwight Frye
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
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Delmer Daves • Starring: Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Outlaw • Thriller
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Edward Zwick • Starring: Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, Koyuki
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
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Leo McCarey • Starring: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Charles Watts
Comedy Drama • Drama • Melodrama
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Ki-duk Kim • Starring: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness
Black Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Crime
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Cecil B. DeMille • Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
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Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Detective Film • Drama • Gothic Film
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Andrzej Wajda • Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Hitman / Assassin Film
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René Clair • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Ensemble Film • Mystery • Whodunit
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams
Biography • Documentary • Sports and Recreation
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Simon Wincer • Starring: Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Buddy Film
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John Frankenheimer • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March
Drama • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
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Richard Attenborough • Starring: Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Epic
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Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Fredereick Vroom
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall, Chris Williams • Starring: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Jemaine Clement
Adventure Comedy • Animated Musical • Animation
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Peter Glenville • Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
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Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan
Thriller • Western
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
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Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger • Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
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Sam Peckinpah • Starring: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley
Adventure • Drama • Revisionist Western
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James Gunn • Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Comics
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Shinichirô Watanabe • Starring: Koichi Yamadera, Unshô Ishizuka, Megumi Hayashibara
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Errol Morris • Starring: Robert S. McNamara
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Americana • Coming-of-Age • Drama
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Stephen Norrington • Starring: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Stephen Dorff
Action • Based-on-Comics • Fantasy
120
René Laloux • Starring: Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Valmont, Jennifer Drake
Animation • Dystopian Film • Foreign Language Film
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Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde • Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel
Black Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
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George Seaton • Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn
Comedy • Family • Family-Oriented Comedy
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Carol Reed • Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack
Chase Movie • Crime Drama • Crime
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Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer • Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
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Ron Howard • Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Docudrama
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Luc Besson • Starring: Marc Duret, Alain Lathière, Laura Chéron
Action Thriller • Action • Foreign Language Film
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John Ford • Starring: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
Action • Traditional Western • Western
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Lloyd Bacon • Starring: Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Comedy • Musical Comedy • Musical
129
King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
130
Ron Fricke
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
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Mel Gibson • Starring: Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer
Anti-War Film • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
132
Don Hertzfeldt • Starring: Don Hertzfeldt
Animation • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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John Cassavetes • Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Paul Stewart
Drama • Ensemble Film • New Hollywood
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Alan Parker • Starring: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Eleanor David
Drama • Mindbender • Musical
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Hamilton Luske • Starring: Christian Rub, Dick Jones, Cliff Edwards
Animated Musical • Animation • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature
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Preston Sturges • Starring: Linda Darnell, Rex Harrison, Kurt Kreuger
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Screwball Comedy
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Comedy • Short Film • Silent Film
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Robert Moore • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Mystery • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
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Henry Hathaway • Starring: John Wayne, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson, Jr.
Western • Traditional Western • Psychological Western
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Gaspar Noé • Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
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Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Hideaki Anno, Mirai Shida, Jun Kunimura
Animation • Anime • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Interlenghi, Franco Fabrizi
143
D.A. Pennebaker • Starring: Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Comedy Drama • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
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Jack Conway • Starring: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy
Comedy • Screwball Comedy
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Stanley Donen • Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
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John Cassavetes • Starring: Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin
Drama • Marriage Drama • New Hollywood
148
James Marsh • Starring: Philippe Petit
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Mike Mills • Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent
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Albert Lamorisse • Starring: Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Adventure • Family • Family-Oriented Adventure
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