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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
Steven Spielberg • Starring: River Phoenix, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
7
John McTiernan • Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
8
Ivan Reitman • Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Comedy • Fantasy Comedy • Fantasy
9
Rob Reiner • Starring: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
10
Ridley Scott • Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
11
James Cameron • Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Action • Body Horror • Cyborg / Android / Robot
12
Elem Klimov • Starring: Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age
13
John Hughes • Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Teen Movie
14
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio
Anti-War Film • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Combat Films
15
James Cameron • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn
Action Thriller • Action • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
16
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan
17
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
18
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter
Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror
19
Rob Reiner • Starring: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Richard Dreyfuss
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Buddy Film
20
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi
Adventure • Animation • Anime
21
John Hughes • Starring: Emilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
22
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Ewa Fröling, Gunn Wållgren, Jan Malmsjö
Childhood Drama • Drama • Family Drama
23
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
24
Wim Wenders • Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski
Drama • New German Cinema • Road Movie
25
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
26
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott
Black Comedy • New Hollywood • Showbiz Comedy
27
Steven Spielberg • Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Drama
28
Brian De Palma • Starring: Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michelle Pfeiffer
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
29
Isao Takahata • Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara
Animation • Anime • Drama
30
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Sumi Shimamoto, Ichirô Nagai, Mahito Tsujimura
31
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker • Starring: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Ensemble Film
32
Richard Donner • Starring: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
33
John McTiernan • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Horror
34
Brian De Palma • Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Crime Thriller • Crime • Gangster Film
35
Barry Levinson • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Drama • Family Drama • Melodrama
36
Tim Burton • Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Action • Based-on-Comics • Crime Thriller
37
John Landis • Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
Absurd Comedy • Action Comedy • Adventure Comedy
38
Brian De Palma • Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
39
Wim Wenders • Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Fantasy • Foreign Language Film • Magic Realism
40
Spike Lee • Starring: Spike Lee, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito
Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
41
Jonathan Demme • Starring: Alex Weir, Steve Scales, David Byrne
Concert Film • Documentary • Music
42
Terry Gilliam • Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Black Comedy • Dystopian Film • Mindbender
43
Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Jose Lewgoy
44
Rob Reiner • Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
Comedy • Mockumentary • Musical
45
Oliver Stone • Starring: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Action • Anti-War Film • Combat Films
46
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Kotoe Hatsui
47
Milos Forman • Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre • Biopic
48
Woody Allen • Starring: Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston
Comedy Drama • Drama • Ensemble Film
49
Sam Raimi • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Kassie Wesley, Lou Hancock
Black Comedy • Haunted House Film • Horror Comedy
50
Nicholas Meyer • Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
51
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Crime Thriller • Crime • Post-Noir
52
Tim Burton • Starring: Geena Davis, Catherine O'Hara, Alec Baldwin
Black Comedy • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
53
Peter Weir • Starring: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Ensemble Film
54
Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Comedy Drama • Ensemble Film • Hyperlink Film
55
John Landis • Starring: Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Griffin Dunne
Black Comedy • Body Horror • Horror Comedy
56
Robert Zemeckis • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer
Animation • Comedy • Detective Film
57
Michael Mann • Starring: Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Caan
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
58
David Lynch • Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini
Americana • Crime Thriller • Crime
59
George Miller • Starring: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston
Action Thriller • Action • Australian New Wave
60
Katsuhiro Ôtomo • Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tesshô Genda
Action • Animation • Anime
61
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
62
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi
63
David Cronenberg • Starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry
Body Horror • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Horror
64
Giuseppe Tornatore • Starring: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio
Coming-of-Age • Drama • Foreign Language Film
65
Andrzej Zulawski • Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
Avant-garde / Experimental • Body Horror • Drama
66
John Carpenter • Starring: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Action • Alien Invasion Films • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
67
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Linda Fiorentino
Black Comedy • Comedy • Urban Comedy
68
Woody Allen • Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello
69
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara
Based-on-a-True-Story • Combat Films • Epic
70
Penny Marshall • Starring: Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, Jared Rushton
Comedy • Coming-of-Age • Fantasy Comedy
71
Sam Raimi • Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker
Haunted House Film • Horror • Monster Film
72
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden
Courtroom Drama • Drama
73
Mel Brooks • Starring: Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Cyborg / Android / Robot
74
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, James Hong
Action • Action Comedy • Comedy
75
Krzysztof Kieslowski • Starring: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko
Anthology Film • Drama • Ensemble Film
76
Philip Kaufman • Starring: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature
77
Louis Malle • Starring: Gaspard Manesse, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
78
Richard Donner • Starring: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey
Action Thriller • Action • Buddy Film
79
John Woo • Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh
80
Sergio Leone • Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
81
Martin Brest • Starring: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
82
Jim Jarmusch • Starring: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
Buddy Film • Comedy • Road Movie
83
Harold Ramis • Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
Comedy • Gross-Out Comedy • Slapstick
84
John Hughes • Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Holiday Film
85
Bob Clark • Starring: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley
Americana • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy
86
Stuart Gordon • Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Body Horror
87
John Carpenter • Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Action Thriller • Action • Dystopian Film
88
David Cronenberg • Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Body Horror • Horror
89
Bruce Robinson • Starring: Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown
Black Comedy • Buddy Film • Comedy
90
Ted Kotcheff • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama
91
Joe Dante • Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Corey Feldman
Black Comedy • Holiday Film • Horror Comedy
92
Michael Lehmann • Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
93
Errol Morris • Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Dale Holt
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
94
George Sluizer • Starring: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • Mystery
95
John Landis • Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis
Comedy of Manners • Comedy • Satire
96
Cameron Crowe • Starring: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney
Comedy Drama • Coming-of-Age • Romance
97
Kathryn Bigelow • Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
Chase Movie • Female-Directed Film • Horror
98
James L. Brooks • Starring: William Hurt, Joan Cusack, Albert Brooks
Comedy Drama • Media Satire • Romance
99
John G. Avildsen • Starring: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue
Action • Coming-of-Age • Drama
100
John Mackenzie • Starring: Bob Hoskins, Dave King, Eddie Constantine
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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