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Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
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Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense
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Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu (Orson Welles, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 651 ratings
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Orson Welles, Vol. 2: Hello Americans (Orson Welles, #2)
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Orson Welles, Vol. 3: One-Man Band (Orson Welles, #3)
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4.42 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane
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Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life
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4.41 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
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4.11 avg rating — 186 ratings
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John Ford: The Man and His Films
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Searching for John Ford
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Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford
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4.29 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
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4.22 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Truffaut: A Biography
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4.21 avg rating — 261 ratings
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If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah
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4.35 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Ida Lupino: A Biography
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3.50 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition
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3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director
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3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Nora Ephron: A Biography
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3.70 avg rating — 561 ratings
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George Cukor: A Double Life
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3.84 avg rating — 137 ratings
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George Cukor, Master of Elegance: Hollywood's Legendary Director and His Stars
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Robert Altman: The Oral Biography
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4.23 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
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3.39 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
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3.98 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Fritz Lang: Photographs and Documents. Vienna-Berlin-Paris-Hollywood
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4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood Director
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
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4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Douglas Fairbanks
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
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3.86 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Kubrick: An Odyssey
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4.22 avg rating — 679 ratings
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On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
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4.17 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge (Film and Culture Series)
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4.29 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Charlie Chaplin: A Life from Beginning to End
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4.20 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin
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3.53 avg rating — 197 ratings
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D.W. Griffith: An American Life
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3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Elia Kazan
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3.83 avg rating — 133 ratings
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
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4.03 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Éric Rohmer: A Biography
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4.11 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict
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3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard
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Godard
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Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema
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Ozu: His Life and Films
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4.21 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise
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Jean Renoir: A Biography
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Jean Renoir
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American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood
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3.56 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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Clint Eastwood: A Biography
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3.79 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Clint: The Life and Legend
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3.60 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only
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4.06 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Woody Allen: A Travesty of a Mockery of a Sham – A Comprehensive Portrait of the Influential Filmmaker's Life and Legacy
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3.93 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini: His Life and Film
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Luchino Visconti: A Biography
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Luchino Visconti
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Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death
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4.45 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios
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Max Ophüls: Eine Biographie mit zahlreichen Dokumenten, Texten und Bildern (Arte Edition)
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Federico Fellini: His Life and Work
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Federico Fellini, The Complete Films
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Carl Theodor Dreyer and 'Ordet'
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Murnau (A Shadows book)
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About Andrei Tarkovsky
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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Life on the Cross
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4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
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Terrence Malick and the Examined Life
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Steven Spielberg: A Biography
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3.92 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille
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4.26 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Cecil B. DeMille: The Art of the Hollywood Epic
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4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Lost World of DeMille (Hollywood Legends Series)
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Jacques Tati: His Life and Art
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4.18 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Alchemist of Light: A Biography of Georges Méliès
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Magnificent Méliès: The Authorized Biography
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Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise
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4.15 avg rating — 103 ratings
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How Did Lubitsch Do It?
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Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success
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FRANKLY: UNMASKING FRANK CAPRA
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Love Is Colder Than Death: The Life And Times Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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3.84 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Fassbinder: The Life And Work Of A Provocative Genius
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3.56 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors
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3.93 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
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3.99 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Woody: The Biography
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3.48 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Seesaw, a Dual Biography of Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Jim Henson: The Biography
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4.03 avg rating — 15,501 ratings
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Carol Reed: A Biography
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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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David Lean: A Biography
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4.42 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Woody Allen: A Biography
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3.75 avg rating — 729 ratings
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Stanley Kubrick: A Biography
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3.67 avg rating — 362 ratings
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On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
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4.17 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder
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3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
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3.30 avg rating — 313 ratings
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D.W. Griffith: An American Life
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3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life
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3.64 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
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3.83 avg rating — 714 ratings
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Alexander Korda: A Biography
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Korda Collection: Alexander Korda's Film Classics
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director – A Biography of Struggles, Triumphs, and Classic Cinema
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Robert Bresson
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Chabrol
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