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Top Dramas (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
3 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 8
4 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 10
5 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
6 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 12
7 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 13
8 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 14
9 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 17
10 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
11 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
12 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
13 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
14 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
15 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
16 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
17 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
18 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
19 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 35
20 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
21 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 39
22 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 40
23 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
24 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
25 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 43
26 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
27 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 45
28 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 46
29 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 48
30 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
31 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
32 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 52
33 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 53
34 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 56
35 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
36 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 58
37 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
38 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 60
39 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 61
40 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
41 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 65
42 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 66
43 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
44 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 69
45 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 70
46 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
47 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 72
48 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
49 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
50 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 76
51 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 77
52 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 78
53 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
54 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
55 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 82
56 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 86
57 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
58 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 88
59 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 89
60 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
61 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 91
62 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 92
63 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
64 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 94
65 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 96
66 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
67 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 98
68 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
69 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
70 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 103
71 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 108
72 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
73 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
74 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 111
75 Up 2009 Pete Docter 112
76 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 114
77 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
78 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 117
79 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 118
80 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 120
81 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
82 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
83 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 123
84 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
85 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 125
86 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 127
87 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 130
88 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 131
89 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 133
90 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
91 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
92 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 136
93 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
94 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 138
95 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
96 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 140
97 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 141
98 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
99 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 146
100 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 147
101 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
102 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 150
103 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 152
104 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
105 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
106 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 155
107 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
108 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 158
109 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 160
110 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 161
111 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
112 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
113 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 165
114 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 166
115 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
116 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 168
117 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 170
118 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 171
119 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
120 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 173
121 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 175
122 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 176
123 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 177
124 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 178
125 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 180
126 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 182
127 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 183
128 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 185
129 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 186
130 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 188
131 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 190
132 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 191
133 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
134 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
135 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 195
136 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 197
137 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
138 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 199
139 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
140 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 201
141 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
142 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
143 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 207
144 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 208
145 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
146 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 210
147 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 211
148 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 212
149 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 215
150 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 216
151 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
152 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 218
153 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 220
154 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
155 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 222
156 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 223
157 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 226
158 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
159 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
160 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 233
161 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 234
162 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 235
163 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 236
164 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
165 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
166 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 243
167 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 244
168 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 245
169 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 247
170 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 250
171 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 252
172 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
173 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 255
174 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
175 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 258
176 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
177 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
178 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
179 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
180 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
181 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 266
182 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 268
183 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 269
184 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 272
185 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
186 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 274
187 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
188 Inside Out 2015 Pete Docter 276
189 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 277
190 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 278
191 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
192 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
193 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 283
194 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
195 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
196 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 287
197 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 290
198 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 291
199 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 292
200 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 293
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