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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 2
2 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 8
3 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
4 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 17
6 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
7 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
8 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
9 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 16
10 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
11 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1
12 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
13 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 14
14 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 10
15 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 48
16 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
17 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 6
18 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
19 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 29
20 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 13
21 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
22 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
23 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 45
24 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 76
25 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 28
26 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
27 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
28 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 4
29 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 39
30 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 89
31 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
32 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 12
33 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 56
34 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
35 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 33
36 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
37 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
38 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
39 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 125
40 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
41 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 66
42 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 26
43 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
44 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 46
45 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 85
46 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
47 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
48 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
49 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
50 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 35
51 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 118
52 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
53 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 9
54 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 30
55 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 50
56 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 40
57 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
58 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 95
59 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 145
60 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 32
61 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
62 M 1931 Fritz Lang 84
63 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
64 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 62
65 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
66 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
67 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 65
68 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 243
69 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
70 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 190
71 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 54
72 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 70
73 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 218
74 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 103
75 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 120
76 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 78
77 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 94
78 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
79 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 80
80 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
81 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 69
82 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 114
83 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 52
84 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 82
85 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
86 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
87 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 60
88 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 43
89 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
90 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 53
91 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
92 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
93 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
94 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 63
95 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 105
96 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 133
97 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 223
98 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 152
99 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
100 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 74
101 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 127
102 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
103 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 207
104 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 72
105 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 38
106 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
107 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 141
108 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
109 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
110 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 86
111 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 117
112 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 58
113 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 138
114 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
115 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
116 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
117 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 245
118 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 182
119 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
120 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 91
121 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 150
122 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
123 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 293
124 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 773
125 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
126 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
127 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 61
128 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
129 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
130 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 178
131 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 322
132 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 186
133 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
134 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 191
135 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
136 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 98
137 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 353
138 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
139 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 372
140 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
141 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
142 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
143 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
144 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
145 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 47
146 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 144
147 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
148 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 451
149 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 180
150 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 77
151 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
152 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 290
153 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 55
154 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
155 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 205
156 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 380
157 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
158 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 161
159 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
160 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 277
161 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
162 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
163 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 208
164 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
165 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 301
166 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
167 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 194
168 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
169 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
170 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 195
171 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
172 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 314
173 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 143
174 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 272
175 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 236
176 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 108
177 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
178 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 132
179 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 595
180 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 170
181 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
182 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
183 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
184 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 964
185 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
186 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 197
187 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
188 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 196
189 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 210
190 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 1205
191 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
192 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 179
193 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
194 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 219
195 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
196 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
197 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 339
198 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 129
199 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 269
200 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
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