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Top Dramas (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
3 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
4 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
5 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
7 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
8 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
9 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
10 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
11 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
12 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
13 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
14 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
15 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
16 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
17 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
18 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
19 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
20 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
21 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
22 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
23 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
24 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
25 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
26 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
27 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
28 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
29 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
30 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
31 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
32 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
33 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
34 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
35 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
36 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
37 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
38 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
39 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
40 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 70
41 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
42 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
43 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
44 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
45 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
46 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
47 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
48 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
49 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
50 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
51 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
52 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
53 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
54 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
55 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
56 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
57 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
58 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
59 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
60 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
61 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
62 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
63 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
64 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
65 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
66 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 110
67 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
68 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
69 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
70 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
71 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
72 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
73 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 119
74 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
75 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
76 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
77 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
78 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
79 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
80 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
81 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
82 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
83 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
84 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
85 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
86 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
87 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
88 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
89 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
90 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
91 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
92 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
93 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 146
94 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 148
95 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
96 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
97 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
98 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
99 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
100 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
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