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1
David Fincher • Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow
Crime Thriller • Crime • Police Detective Film
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Charles Laughton • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Thriller • Crime
3
Billy Wilder • Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
4
Carol Reed • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
British Noir • Film Noir • Mystery
5
Ridley Scott • Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot
6
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
7
Bryan Singer • Starring: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Crime Thriller • Crime • Ensemble Film
8
Orson Welles • Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Crime • Film Noir • Mystery
9
Christopher Nolan • Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Crime Thriller • Crime • Mindbender
10
Roman Polanski • Starring: Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Hillerman
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Mystery
11
Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Alain Delon, François Perier, Nathalie Delon
Crime Thriller • Crime • Foreign Language Film
12
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi
Americana • Black Comedy • Crime Comedy
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Billy Wilder • Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson
Drama • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
14
Billy Wilder • Starring: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
15
Nicholas Ray • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
16
Alexander Mackendrick • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Drama • Film Noir • Media Satire
17
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Femme Fatale
18
Howard Hawks • Starring: Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Humphrey Bogart
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Femme Fatale
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John Huston • Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
20
Stanley Kubrick • Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Caper • Crime Thriller
21
Otto Preminger • Starring: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
22
Robert Altman • Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson
23
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro
Crime Drama • Crime Thriller • Crime
24
Chan-wook Park • Starring: Dal-su Oh, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu
Based-on-Comics • Based-on-Manga • Drama
25
Raoul Walsh • Starring: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Crime Thriller • Crime • Film Noir
26
Curtis Hanson • Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime Drama • Crime
27
John Huston • Starring: Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
28
Nicolas Winding Refn • Starring: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Based-on-21st-Century-Literature • Chase Movie • Crime Thriller
29
Fritz Lang • Starring: Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford
30
Joel & Ethan Coen • Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Crime Thriller • Crime • Post-Noir
31
George Cukor • Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Based-on-Theatre • Film Noir • Period Film
32
Louis Malle • Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly
Crime • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
33
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
34
David Lynch • Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini
Americana • Crime Thriller • Crime
35
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Detective Film • Femme Fatale • Film Noir
36
John Huston • Starring: Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe
Caper • Crime Thriller • Crime
37
Orson Welles • Starring: Everett Sloane, Rita Hayworth, Ted de Corsia
38
Charles Vidor • Starring: Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Rita Hayworth
39
Rian Johnson • Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas
Crime Drama • Crime • Detective Film
40
Samuel Fuller • Starring: Thelma Ritter, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
Femme Fatale • Film Noir • Political Thriller
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey
42
Shane Black • Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan
Comedy • Crime Comedy • Crime
43
Michael Curtiz • Starring: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart
44
Alex Proyas • Starring: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Dystopian Film • Mindbender
45
Jules Dassin • Starring: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
Con Artist / Hustler • Crime Drama • Crime
46
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Mike Mazurki, Anne Shirley, Dick Powell
47
David Fincher • Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
48
David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
49
Tay Garnett • Starring: Leon Ames, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
50
Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
51
Arthur Penn • Starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
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Joseph H. Lewis • Starring: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
Crime Thriller • Crime • Femme Fatale
53
Edmund Goulding • Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker
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François Truffaut • Starring: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Comedy Drama • Crime Drama • Crime
55
Lawrence Kasdan • Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
56
Paul Thomas Anderson • Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow
57
Robert Wise • Starring: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Drama • Film Noir • Sports Drama
58
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
59
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren
60
Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Medical Drama
61
Jonathan Glazer • Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
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Jules Dassin • Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart
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Carol Reed • Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack
Chase Movie • Crime Drama • Crime
64
Sam Raimi • Starring: Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Bill Paxton
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Jean-Pierre Melville • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly
66
Fritz Lang • Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
67
Alan Parker • Starring: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Horror
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The Wachowskis • Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano
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Nicholas Ray • Starring: Howard Da Silva, Jay C. Flippen, Cathy O'Donnell
70
John Dahl • Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
Crime • Erotic Thriller • Femme Fatale
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Stephen Frears • Starring: John Cusack, Annette Bening, Anjelica Huston
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Abel Ferrara • Starring: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne
Crime Thriller • Crime • Gangster Film
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Rudolph Maté • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
Drama • Film Noir • Mystery
74
Henry Hathaway • Starring: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy
75
Anatole Litvak • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
Film Noir • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
76
Phil Joanou • Starring: Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright
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Robert Siodmak • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
Caper • Crime Drama • Crime Thriller
78
Otto Preminger • Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
79
Lewis Milestone • Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
80
Carl Franklin • Starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
81
Jules Dassin • Starring: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb
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Abraham Polonsky • Starring: Roy Roberts, Howland Chamberlain, Thomas Gomez
83
Ida Lupino • Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Crime Thriller • Crime • Drama
84
John Dahl • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper
85
Carl Franklin • Starring: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Detective Film • Mystery
86
George Marshall • Starring: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
87
Mike Hodges • Starring: Clive Owen, Nicholas Ball, Kate Hardie
88
Robert Montgomery • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
89
Anthony Mann • Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
90
Fritz Lang • Starring: Paul Douglas, Marilyn Monroe, William Norton Bailey
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama
91
Anthony Mann • Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford
92
Joseph Losey • Starring: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
Drama • Film Noir • Psychological Thriller
93
André De Toth • Starring: Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson
94
James Foley • Starring: Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
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Norman Foster • Starring: Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick
Film Noir • Psychological Thriller • Spy Film
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Don Siegel • Starring: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Crime • Detective Film • Drama
97
John Berry • Starring: William Conrad, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
98
Bob Rafelson • Starring: Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Dennis Hopper
Femme Fatale • Post-Noir • Psychological Thriller
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Cy Endfield • Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, Lloyd Bridges
100
Edward Dmytryk • Starring: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray
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