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Top Dramas (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
5 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
6 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
7 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
8 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
9 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
10 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
11 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
12 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
13 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
14 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
15 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
16 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
17 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
18 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
19 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
20 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
21 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
22 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
23 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
24 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
25 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
26 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
27 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
28 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
29 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
30 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
31 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
32 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
33 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
34 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
35 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
36 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 63
37 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
38 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
39 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
40 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
41 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
42 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
43 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
44 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
45 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
46 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
47 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
48 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
49 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
50 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
51 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
52 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
53 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
54 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
55 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
56 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
57 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
58 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
59 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
60 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
61 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
62 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
63 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
64 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
65 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
66 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
67 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 98
68 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
69 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
70 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
71 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
72 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
73 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
74 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
75 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
76 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
77 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
78 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
79 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
80 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 114
81 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
82 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
83 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
84 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 119
85 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
86 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
87 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
88 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
89 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
90 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
91 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
92 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
93 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
94 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
95 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
96 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 139
97 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
98 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
99 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
100 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
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