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Top Dramas (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
3 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
4 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
5 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
6 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
7 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
8 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
9 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
10 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
11 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
12 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
13 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
14 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
15 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
16 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
17 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
18 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
19 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
20 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
21 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
22 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
23 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
24 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
25 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
26 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
27 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
28 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
29 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
30 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
31 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
32 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
33 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
34 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
35 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
36 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
37 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
38 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
39 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
40 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
41 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
42 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
43 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
44 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
45 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
46 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
47 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
48 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
49 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
50 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
51 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
52 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
53 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
54 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
55 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
56 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
57 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
58 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
59 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
60 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
61 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
62 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
63 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
64 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
65 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
66 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
67 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
68 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
69 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
70 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
71 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
72 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
73 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
74 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
75 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
76 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
77 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
78 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
79 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
80 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
81 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
82 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
83 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
84 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
85 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
86 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 135
87 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
88 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
89 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
90 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
91 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
92 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
93 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
94 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
95 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
96 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
97 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
98 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
99 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
100 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
101 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 153
102 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
103 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
104 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
105 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 160
106 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
107 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
108 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 163
109 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
110 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
111 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
112 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
113 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
114 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
115 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 174
116 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
117 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
118 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
119 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
120 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
121 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
122 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
123 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
124 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
125 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
126 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
127 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
128 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
129 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
130 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
131 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
132 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
133 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
134 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
135 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
136 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
137 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
138 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
139 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
140 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
141 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
142 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
143 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
144 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
145 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
146 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 218
147 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 219
148 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
149 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
150 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 223
151 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
152 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
153 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
154 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
155 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
156 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
157 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
158 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
159 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
160 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
161 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 237
162 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
163 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
164 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 240
165 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
166 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
167 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
168 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
169 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
170 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
171 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
172 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 250
173 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
174 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
175 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
176 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
177 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
178 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 257
179 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
180 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
181 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
182 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272
183 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 275
184 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
185 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 277
186 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
187 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
188 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
189 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 284
190 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
191 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 286
192 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 287
193 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
194 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
195 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 290
196 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
197 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
198 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
199 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
200 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 296
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