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Top Films According to Regular Film Fans (#1-200)

Fans'
Rank		 Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
3 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
4 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
5 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
6 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
7 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
8 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
9 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
10 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
11 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
12 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
13 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
14 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
15 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
16 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
18 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
19 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
20 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
21 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
22 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
23 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
24 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
25 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
26 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
27 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
28 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
29 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
30 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
31 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
32 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
33 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
34 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
35 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
36 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
37 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
38 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
39 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
41 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
42 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
43 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
44 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
45 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
46 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
47 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
48 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
49 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
50 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
51 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
52 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
53 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
54 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
55 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
56 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
57 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
58 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
59 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
60 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
61 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
62 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
63 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
64 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
65 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
66 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
67 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 163
68 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
69 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
70 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
71 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
72 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
73 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
74 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
75 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
76 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
77 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
78 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
79 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
80 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 274
81 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
82 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
83 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
84 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
85 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
86 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
87 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
88 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
89 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
90 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
91 M 1931 Fritz Lang 69
92 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
93 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
94 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
95 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
96 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 439
97 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
98 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
99 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
100 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
101 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
102 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
103 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
104 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
105 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
106 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
107 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
108 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
109 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
110 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
111 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
112 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
113 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
114 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
115 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
116 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
117 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
118 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
119 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
120 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
121 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
122 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
123 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 428
124 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
125 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
126 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
127 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
128 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
129 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
130 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
131 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
132 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
133 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
134 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
135 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
136 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 531
137 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
138 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
139 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
140 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
141 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
142 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 380
143 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
144 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
145 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
146 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
147 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
148 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
149 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
150 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 479
151 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
152 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
153 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
154 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
155 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
156 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 495
157 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
158 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
159 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
160 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
161 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
162 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
163 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 421
164 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
165 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
166 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
167 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
168 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
169 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
170 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
171 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
172 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
173 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
174 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
175 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
176 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
177 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
178 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
179 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 357
180 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 250
181 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
182 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 303
183 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
184 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 466
185 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
186 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
187 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
188 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
189 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
190 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
191 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
192 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
193 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
194 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
195 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
196 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
197 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 364
198 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 594
199 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 310
200 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
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