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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Action • Drama • Ensemble Film
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Elia Kazan • Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Thriller • Crime
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Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
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Federico Fellini • Starring: Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Al Silvani
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Italian Neorealism
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Billy Wilder • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Comedy Drama • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge
Drama • Feminist Film • Girls-with-Guns
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Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
10
Ishirô Honda • Starring: Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Horror
11
George Cukor • Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Drama • Marriage Drama • Musical Drama
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Jack Arnold • Starring: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
Adventure • Horror • Jungle Film
13
Richard Fleischer • Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Adventure • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Family
14
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
Comedy • Holiday Film • Musical
15
Franklin J. Schaffner • Starring: Robert Cummings, Franchot Tone, Edward Arnold
Courtroom Drama • Drama • Made-for-Television
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Gordon Douglas • Starring: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
Horror • Monster Film • Natural Horror
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Hiroshi Inagaki • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni, Kuroemon Onoe
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-a-True-Story
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Stanley Donen • Starring: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
Americana • Comedy • Musical Comedy
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Roberto Rossellini • Starring: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban
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David Lean • Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Derek Blomfield
Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Domestic Comedy
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Robert Aldrich • Starring: Gary Cooper, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero
Buddy Film • Outlaw • Western
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Douglas Sirk • Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush
Drama • Medical Drama • Melodrama
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Luchino Visconti • Starring: Christian Marquand, Alida Valli, Farley Granger
Biopic • Costume Romance • Drama
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Valentina Cortese, Marius Goring
Drama • Melodrama • Showbiz Drama
25
Anthony Mann • Starring: James Stewart, June Allyson, Charles Drake
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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Vincente Minnelli • Starring: Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Van Johnson
Based-on-Theatre • Fantasy • Musical Romance
27
Jacques Becker • Starring: Dora Doll, Jean Gabin, Rene Dary
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
28
Anthony Mann • Starring: Jay C. Flippen, Walter Brennan, John McIntire
Romance • Western
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Joy Batchelor, John Halas • Starring: Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham
Animal Picture • Animation • Comedy Drama
30
Lewis Allen • Starring: Frank Sinatra, James Gleason, Nancy Gates
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
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George Seaton • Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
Addiction Drama • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
32
Kenji Mizoguchi • Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Eitaro Shindo
Costume Romance • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
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Otto Preminger • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Period Film
35
Otto Preminger • Starring: Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Brock Peters
Based-on-Theatre • Musical Romance • Musical
36
Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, Maria Felix
Comedy • Comedy of Manners • Drama
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Robert Wise • Starring: William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck
Drama
38
André De Toth • Starring: Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson
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Don Siegel • Starring: Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen
Drama • Prison Film
40
Byron Haskin • Starring: Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
41
Mark Robson • Starring: William Holden, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney
Combat Films • Drama • War
42
George Cukor • Starring: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
43
Keisuke Kinoshita • Starring: Hideko Takamine, Shizue Natsukawa, Chishu Ryu
Anti-War Film • Drama • Foreign Language Film
44
William A. Wellman • Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Robert Stack
Action • Disaster Film • Drama
45
Kenneth Anger • Starring: Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Anaïs Nin
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
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Herbert J. Biberman • Starring: Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revuletas, Will Geer
Drama • Message Movie • Political Drama
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Henry Hathaway • Starring: Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Rita Moreno
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Jaime Fernandez, Felipe de Alba
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-18th-Century-Literature
49
Roy Rowland • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
50
Mario Camerini • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano
Adventure • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
51
Friz Freleng
Animation • Cartoon • Comedy
52
Guy Hamilton • Starring: Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham, Brian Worth
Based-on-Theatre • Crime Drama • Crime
53
Richard Quine • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak
54
Walter Lang • Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor
Comedy Drama • Drama • Musical
55
Delmer Daves • Starring: Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie
Adventure • Adventure Drama • Drama
56
Robert McKimson • Starring: Mel Blanc
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Gordon Douglas • Starring: Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young
Drama • Musical • Romance
58
Mikio Naruse • Starring: Setsuko Hara, So Yamamura, Ken Uehara
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Sigge Fuerst, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne Lombard
Comedy • Domestic Comedy • Drama
60
Rudolph Cartier • Starring: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Yvonne Mitchell
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Dystopian Film
61
Jean Negulesco • Starring: Clifton Webb, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi
Adventure • Drama • Romance
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Chuck Jones
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Allan Dwan • Starring: Dan Duryea, John Payne, Lizabeth Scott
Western
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Diana Lynn
67
Lotte Reiniger
Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends • Female-Directed Film
68
Robert McKimson
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Renato Castellani • Starring: Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Costume Romance
70
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters
Drama • Family Drama • Psychological Drama
71
John Brahm • Starring: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor
Horror • Thriller
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Mikio Naruse • Starring: Haruko Sugimura, Sadako Sawamura, Chikako Hosokawa
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
73
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen
Adventure • Combat Films • Drama
74
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters, John McIntire
Revisionist Western • Western
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Frank Launder • Starring: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
76
Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney
Detective Film • Film Noir • Mystery
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Norman Z. McLeod • Starring: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton
Comedy • Comedy of Errors • Musical
79
William H. Brown, Jr. • Starring: Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, Linda Christian
Glamorized Spy Film • Made-for-Television • Spy Film
80
Byron Haskin • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, Andre Morell
Action • Adventure Drama • Adventure
81
Henry Koster • Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Michael Rennie, Merle Oberon
Drama • Epic • Historical Epic
82
William Dieterle • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, Dana Andrews
Adventure • Drama • Marriage Drama
83
Richard Quine • Starring: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy
84
Byron Haskin • Starring: Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell
Action • Adventure • Adventure Drama
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Robert Hamer • Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch
Comedy • Crime Drama • Crime
87
W. Lee Wilder • Starring: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton
Alien Invasion Films • Science Fiction • Thriller
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Keisuke Kinoshita • Starring: Mieko Takamine, Hideko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Message Movie
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Howard W. Koch, Edmond O'Brien • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Marla English, John Agar
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
91
Robert Parrish • Starring: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Brenda de Banzie
92
Don Siegel • Starring: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff
93
Frank Tashlin • Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Dick Powell, Anne Francis
94
Mark Robson • Starring: Jack Lemmon, Judy Holliday, Jack Carson
95
Ronald Neame • Starring: Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
96
Nunnally Johnson • Starring: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk
97
Richard Brooks • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Melodrama
98
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama • Starring: Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher
Action • Action Comedy • Action Thriller
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Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland
Comedy
100
Gottfried Reinhardt • Starring: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, O.E. Hasse
Action • Drama • Spy Film
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