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Top Films According to Regular Film Fans (P-Z)

Fans'
Rank		 Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
296 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
384 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 339
119 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
427 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1407
295 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
121 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
219 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
494 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
120 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
602 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 828
189 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
583 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 800
176 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
333 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 306
459 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 718
504 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
470 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 233
250 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 344
477 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
209 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
93 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
432 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
513 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
505 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1245
337 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 347
426 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 555
115 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
260 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
475 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 309
100 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
14 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
2 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
245 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 829
523 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
29 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
150 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 479
378 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 454
237 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 476
104 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
73 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
16 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
212 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 299
222 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
425 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
331 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
529 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 956
338 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
79 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
36 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
92 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
518 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 603
385 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
308 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1149
317 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
393 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 308
125 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
345 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
351 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
196 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
202 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 434
154 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
198 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 594
214 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 323
445 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
389 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 376
38 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
113 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
453 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1260
13 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
497 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 527
99 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
472 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 470
50 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
27 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
89 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
316 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
388 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 592
447 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
373 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 260
10 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
376 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
33 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
448 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
559 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
223 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 353
462 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 606
454 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 2007
22 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
243 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 515
47 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
103 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
607 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 499
342 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 1165
261 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 673
334 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 104
300 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
70 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
192 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
483 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 407
340 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
540 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 473
205 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 655
230 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 652
112 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
311 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
533 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 240
519 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
249 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
181 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
383 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 393
7 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
590 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 2263
416 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1139
160 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
247 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
465 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
153 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
498 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 915
167 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
467 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
140 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
45 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
336 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 275
469 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
377 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1025
364 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
568 Swingers 1996 Doug Liman 1103
405 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 634
4 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
537 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 493
60 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
69 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
254 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
515 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
264 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
566 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 455
476 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 568
218 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
122 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
51 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
145 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
251 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 324
203 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
572 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 635
478 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 967
272 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
109 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
578 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 280
75 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
130 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
486 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1023
360 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
556 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
437 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 487
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
98 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
199 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 310
276 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1452
132 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
129 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
512 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
220 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 768
147 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
148 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
346 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
457 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
499 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
536 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 304
329 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1735
57 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
217 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 471
41 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
549 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 705
23 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
471 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 349
328 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
599 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 868
567 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 82
200 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
263 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
577 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
313 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
291 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
382 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 255
124 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
158 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
297 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart 416
277 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
608 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
588 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 857
506 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 480
46 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
394 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
601 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 356
305 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 736
417 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 1167
456 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
541 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 552
175 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
188 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
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