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Essentially the director's equivalent of [[Typecasting]], where certain directors are linked to a certain genre they work in, or are best remembered for one or more certain films.
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* All [[True Lies|but]] [[Titanic|two]] of [[James Cameron]]'s films are science fiction.
* [[David Fincher]]: Expect it to be gritty, stylish, morally murky, and concerning criminal goings-on ([[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]] is the only outright exception so far, [[The Social Network]] fits the bill aside from the grittiness)
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* [[David Cronenberg]], despite [[Playing Against Type]] in recent years, will always be a pioneer of [[Body Horror]].
* How many non-Thriller films has [[Alfred Hitchcock]] done again?
** ''Mr. and Mrs. Smith''
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] doesn't have a genre sterotype, unless "throwback" is a genre. Also, expect characters in his movies to discuss other movies, also for the plot to occasionally stop for a while so people can trade witty banter.
* [[David Lynch]]: [[Mind Screw]]. Lots and lots of [[Mind Screw]]. ([[The Straight Story]] excepted)
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* [[Akira Kurosawa]] is mostly known for his samurai films in America but also made a number of films about contemporary post-war Japan.
* [[Michael Bay]]: Big, dumb, loud, action-heavy, vaguely misogynistic, even more vaguely racist, with thin characters, shakey plots and terrible dialogue, and things go BOOM a lot.
* [[The Wachowskis]]: Cyberpunk (or at least dystopia), in a flashy and stylized manner, with a strong anti-authoritarian streak, and a lot of philosophizing. When they tried to do something [[Lighter and Softer]] with ''[[Speed Racer (
* [[Terrence Malick]]: Slooooooow and pretty and introspective.
* [[Christopher Nolan]]: Neo-noir, non-linear, psychological thrillers with obsessed protagonists.
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