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1
Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Film Noir • Gothic Film
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James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
3
Dario Argento • Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Fantasy • Gothic Film • Horror
4
Jack Clayton • Starring: Deborah Kerr, Megs Jenkins, Martin Stephens
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • British New Wave • Ghost Film
5
James Whale • Starring: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles
6
Georges Franju • Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
Body Horror • Drama • Foreign Language Film
7
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
8
Robert Wiene • Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Costume Horror • German Expressionist Film • Gothic Film
9
Robert Aldrich • Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Drama • Gothic Film • Horror
10
Tod Browning • Starring: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Theatre • Gothic Film
11
Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film • Gothic Film
12
Robert Wise • Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Ensemble Film • Ghost Film
13
Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
14
Neil Jordan • Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Christian Slater
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Costume Romance
15
Werner Herzog • Starring: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
16
Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
17
Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
18
Robert Eggers • Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie
Costume Horror • Folk Horror • Gothic Film
19
Jacques Tourneur • Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Folk Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
20
Rupert Julian • Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
21
J.A. Bayona • Starring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Princep
Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
22
Mario Bava • Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
23
Jean-Jacques Annaud • Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Detective Film • Drama • Gothic Film
24
James Whale • Starring: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Gothic Film
25
Rouben Mamoulian • Starring: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
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Herk Harvey • Starring: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger
Gothic Film • Horror • Psychological Horror
27
Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Detective Film
28
Robert Fuest • Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North
Black Comedy • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
29
Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Harry Ellerbe
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Drama
30
Mario Bava • Starring: Boris Karloff, Michèle Mercier, Mark Damon
Anthology Film • Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film
31
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
32
William Wyler • Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Romance • Drama
33
George Melford • Starring: Barry Norton, Lupita Tovar, Eduardo Arozamena
34
Lewis Allen • Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Ghost Film
35
Rowland V. Lee • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
Costume Horror • Drama • Gothic Film
36
Edgar G. Ulmer • Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners
Adventure • Crime Thriller • Crime
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E. Elias Merhige • Starring: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier
38
Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher
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Terence Fisher • Starring: Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Peter Cushing
40
Roman Polanski • Starring: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass
Comedy • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook
Body Horror • Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film
42
Alejandro Amenábar • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Ghost Film • Gothic Film • Haunted House Film
43
Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Based-on-Theatre • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
44
Robert Wise • Starring: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade
45
Albert Lewin • Starring: Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury
46
Robert Siodmak • Starring: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Film Noir
47
Tony Scott • Starring: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon
Drama • Erotic Drama • Gothic Film
48
Jaromil Jires • Starring: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva
Adventure • Coming-of-Age • Czechoslovak New Wave
49
Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
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Jack Hill • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
Black Comedy • Gothic Film • Horror Comedy
51
Michael Reeves • Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Vincent Price, Robert Russell
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Don Siegel • Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
Drama • Gothic Film • Melodrama
53
Neil Jordan • Starring: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
Costume Horror • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Yoshiaki Kawajiri • Starring: Hideyuki Tanaka, Ichirô Nagai, Koichi Yamadera
Action • Adventure • Animation
55
Terence Fisher • Starring: David Oxley, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Crime • Detective Film
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Terence Fisher • Starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir
Costume Horror • Gothic Film • Horror
57
Mark Robson • Starring: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Gothic Film • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
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Cary Joji Fukunaga • Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell
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Toyoo Ashida • Starring: Barbara Goodson, Michael McConnohie, Lara Cody
Animation • Anime • Dystopian Film
60
Mario Bava • Starring: Erica Blanc, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Fabienne Dali
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • Ghost Film
61
Robert Stevenson • Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien
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Len Wiseman • Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen
Action • Action Thriller • Fantasy
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Tim Burton • Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
Animated Musical • Animation • Comedy
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Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson
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Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy • Costume Horror
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Harry Kümel • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet
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Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, David Peel, Yvonne Monlaur
Action • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
68
Roy Ward Baker • Starring: Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Pippa Steel
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Terence Fisher • Starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Folk Horror
70
Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Debra Paget
Anthology Film • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Comedy
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Lew Landers • Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
Gothic Film • Horror
72
Jean Epstein • Starring: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
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Guillermo del Toro • Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain
Costume Horror • Costume Romance • Ghost Film
74
Paul Morrissey • Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica
Black Comedy • Costume Horror • Exploitation Film
75
John Badham • Starring: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
76
Terence Fisher • Starring: Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans, Yvonne Romain
77
Victor Fleming • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
78
Lambert Hillyer • Starring: Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film • Horror
79
Freddie Francis • Starring: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson
80
Arthur Lubin • Starring: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains
81
William Peter Blatty • Starring: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Comedy Drama • Comedy Thriller
82
Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes • Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Comics • Costume Horror
83
John S. Robertson • Starring: John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst
84
John Llewellyn Moxey • Starring: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessell
Gothic Film • Horror • Supernatural Horror
85
Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters
86
John Hough • Starring: Peter Cushing, Madeleine Collinson, Mary Collinson
87
Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce
88
Michael Curtiz • Starring: Lionel Atwill, Glenda Farrell, Fay Wray
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama • Gothic Film
89
Erle C. Kenton • Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy
90
Terence Fisher • Starring: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones
91
Steven Soderbergh • Starring: Jeremy Irons, Josef Abrhám, Toon Agterberg
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
92
Amando de Ossorio • Starring: César Burner, José Thelman, Maria Silva
Foreign Language Film • Gothic Film • Horror
93
Robert Young • Starring: Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Anthony Higgins
Costume Horror • Fantasy • Gothic Film
94
Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov • Starring: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksei Glazyrin
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J. Searle Dawley • Starring: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips
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Brad Silberling • Starring: Jim Carrey, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Black Comedy
97
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber • Starring: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film
98
Robert Florey • Starring: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Ames
Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Crime
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Roger Corman • Starring: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook
100
Joel Schumacher • Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson
Based-on-Theatre • Costume Romance • Drama
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