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1
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Drama • New Hollywood • Post-Noir
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John G. Avildsen • Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Drama • New Hollywood • Sports Drama
3
Sidney Lumet • Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
4
Alan J. Pakula • Starring: Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Jack Warden
Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama
5
Clint Eastwood • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Outlaw • Revenge Film
6
John Schlesinger • Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
New Hollywood • Paranoid Thriller • Political Thriller
7
John Carpenter • Starring: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Gil Rankin
Action Thriller • Action • Drama
8
Brian De Palma • Starring: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Coming-of-Age • Horror
9
Richard Donner • Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner
Horror • Religious Horror • Supernatural Horror
10
Roman Polanski • Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Black Comedy • Horror
11
Don Siegel • Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard
Action • Drama • Outlaw
12
John Cassavetes • Starring: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
13
Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
14
Nicolas Roeg • Starring: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Mindbender
15
Robert Moore • Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Mystery • Comedy • Parody/Spoof
16
Michael Anderson • Starring: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter
Action • Chase Movie • Dystopian Film
17
Michael Ritchie • Starring: Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Jackie Earle Haley
Comedy • Sports Drama • Americana
18
Martin Ritt • Starring: Woody Allen, Herschel Bernardi, Andrea Marcovicci
Comedy Drama • Drama • Message Movie
19
Elaine May • Starring: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, William Hickey
20
James Fargo • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Bradford Dillman, DeVeren Bookwalter
Action Thriller • Action • Police Detective Film
21
Arthur Hiller • Starring: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor
Action Comedy • Action Thriller • Action
22
Hal Ashby • Starring: Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, Randy Quaid
Americana • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
23
Nagisa Ôshima • Starring: Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
24
Mel Brooks • Starring: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters
Comedy • Parody/Spoof • Slapstick
25
Brian De Palma • Starring: Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow
New Hollywood • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
26
Jimmy Wang Yu • Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Kang Chin, Chung-erh Lung
Action • Exploitation Film • Foreign Language Film
27
Blake Edwards • Starring: Herbert Lom, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down
Comedy • Crime • Crime Comedy
28
Bernardo Bertolucci • Starring: Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland
Drama • Family Drama • Foreign Language Film
29
Carlos Saura • Starring: Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall
Childhood Drama • Coming-of-Age • Drama
30
John Sturges • Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall
Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film
31
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Cathleen Nesbitt
Comedy Thriller • Detective Film • Mystery
32
Nicolas Gessner • Starring: Martin Sheen, Scott Jacoby, Mort Shuman
Drama • Horror • Mystery
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Alan Parker • Starring: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster
34
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador • Starring: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Antonio Iranzo
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Psychological Horror
35
Dan Curtis • Starring: Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis
Ghost Film • Haunted House Film • Horror
36
Richard Lester • Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw
Adventure • Fairy Tales and Legends • Period Film
37
Alfred Sole • Starring: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard
Crime Thriller • Crime • Horror
38
Jack Smight • Starring: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Henry Fonda
Action • Combat Films • Drama
39
Werner Herzog • Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Drama
40
Herbert Wise • Starring: Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Sian Phillips
41
René Goscinny • Starring: Jean Martinelli, Pierre Tornade, Roger Carel
Action • Action Comedy • Adventure
42
Robert Altman • Starring: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Allan Nicholls
Comedy • Comedy Western • New Hollywood
43
Arthur Penn • Starring: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton
New Hollywood • Revisionist Western • Western
44
Peter Clifton • Starring: John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Concert Film • Documentary • Music
45
John Guillermin • Starring: Charles Grodin, John Randolph, René Auberjonois
Adventure • Fantasy • Horror
46
Wim Wenders • Starring: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Rudolf Schundler
Drama • Foreign Language Film • New German Cinema
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Herbert Ross • Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall
Addiction Drama • Adventure • Adventure Drama
48
Charles B. Pierce • Starring: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells
Based-on-a-True-Story • Crime Drama • Crime
49
François Truffaut • Starring: Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier, Jean-François Stévenin
Childhood Drama • Drama • Foreign Language Film
50
Enzo G. Castellari • Starring: Franco Nero, William Berger, Olga Karlatos
Action • Drama • Foreign Language Film
51
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Aino Taube
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
52
Richard T. Heffron • Starring: Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Yul Brynner
Action Thriller • Action • Cyborg / Android / Robot
53
Gene Kelly • Starring: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly
Biography • Dance Film • Documentary
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Larry Cohen • Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis
Crime Thriller • Crime • Detective Film
55
Daniel Petrie • Starring: Sally Field, Joanne Woodward, Brad Davis
Docudrama • Drama • Made-for-Television
56
Bruno Bozzetto • Starring: Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay, Maurizio Micheli
Animation • Comedy • Fantasy
57
Pupi Avati • Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina
Foreign Language Film • Giallo • Horror
58
Elia Kazan • Starring: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum
Costume Romance • Drama • New Hollywood
59
Tom Gries • Starring: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe
Based-on-a-True-Story • Courtroom Drama • Crime
60
Gary Nelson • Starring: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
61
Michael Schultz • Starring: Sully Boyar, George Carlin, Ivan Dixon
Blaxploitation • Comedy • Ensemble Film
62
Federico Fellini • Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Comedy Drama
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Tobe Hooper • Starring: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Marilyn Burns
Black Comedy • Exploitation Film • Horror
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Starring: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
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Tinto Brass • Starring: John Steiner, Helmut Berger, John Ireland
Drama • Erotic Drama • Exploitation Film
66
Charles Bail • Starring: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey
Chase Movie • Comedy • Ensemble Film
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John Badham • Starring: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor
Americana • Comedy Drama • Drama
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William Girdler • Starring: Christopher George, Richard Jaeckel, Kermit Echols
Exploitation Film • Horror • Natural Horror
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Russ Meyer • Starring: Edward Schaaf, Robert McLane, Kitten Natividad
Comedy • Exploitation Film • Mystery
70
Peter Yates • Starring: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel
Black Comedy • Workplace Comedy
71
Joseph Losey • Starring: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Berge
72
Bob Rafelson • Starring: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Americana • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama
73
Frank Pierson • Starring: Oliver Clark, Vanetta Fields, Barbra Streisand
Drama • Musical Drama • Musical
74
Frank D. Gilroy • Starring: Charles Bronson, Douglas Fowley, Stan Haze
Comedy Western • Comedy • Romance
75
Peter Bogdanovich • Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Brian Keith
Comedy Drama • New Hollywood • Period Film
76
Bert I. Gordon • Starring: Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
Horror • Monster Film • Natural Horror
77
Paul Mazursky • Starring: Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith
Comedy Drama • Drama • New Hollywood
78
Larry Peerce • Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam
Thriller • Action • Action Thriller
79
Jeff Lieberman • Starring: Don Scardino, Peter MacLean, Fran Higgins
Horror • Natural Horror
80
Enzo G. Castellari • Starring: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia, Renzo Palmer
Action Thriller • Action • Crime
81
Paul Bartel • Starring: Veronica Hamel, Bill McKinney, David Carradine
Action • Action Comedy • Carsploitation
82
Zoltán Fábri • Starring: Lajos Öze, László Márkus, Ferenc Bencze
Drama • Foreign Language Film • War
83
Cheh Chang • Starring: Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Ti Lung
Action • Foreign Language Film • Martial Arts
84
Michael Miller • Starring: Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Cliff Emmich
Action • Action Thriller • Crime
85
Joel M. Reed • Starring: Alan Dellay, Niles McMaster, Seamus O'Brien
Black Comedy • Exploitation Film • Horror Comedy
86
Irvin Kershner • Starring: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, William Lucking
Adventure Drama • Revisionist Western • Western
87
Lino Brocka • Starring: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Ruel Vernal
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Revenge Film
88
Peter Sykes • Starring: Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Horror • Supernatural Horror
89
Burt Reynolds • Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Jerry Reed
90
Arthur Marks • Starring: Joan Pringle, James Louis Watkins, Stephanie Faulkner
Blaxploitation • Drama • Horror
91
Claude Zidi • Starring: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar
Comedy • Foreign Language Film • Satire
92
Norman Tokar • Starring: Barbara Feldon, Don Knotts, David Niven
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Comedy
93
Marcello Fondato • Starring: Donald Pleasence, Terence Hill, John Sharp
Comedy • Slapstick
94
Philippe Mora • Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil
Action • Australian New Wave • Crime
95
Joy N. Houck Jr. • Starring: Jack Elam, John Carson, Catherine McClenny
Horror
96
Don Edmonds • Starring: Dyanne Thorne, Max Thayer, Jerry Delony
Adventure • Exploitation Film • Horror
97
Mike Leigh • Starring: Eric Allan, Stephen Bill, Richenda Carey
Comedy • Farce • Made-for-Television
98
Bruno Barreto • Starring: Sonia Braga, Jose Wilker, Mauro Mendonça
Comedy • Fantasy • Fantasy Comedy
99
Bryan Forbes • Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Hordern
Costume Romance • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
100
Matt Cimber • Starring: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown
Horror • Psychological Horror • Psychological Thriller
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