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Top Dramas (#1801-2090)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1801 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2657
1802 Waiting to Exhale 1995 Forest Whitaker 2658
1803 Querelle 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2659
1804 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 2660
1805 Wild Style 1982 Charlie Ahearn 2661
1806 Gloria 1980 John Cassavetes 2662
1807 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Sydney Pollack 2663
1808 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 2664
1809 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart 2665
1810 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2666
1811 Short Term 12 2013 Destin Daniel Cretton 2667
1812 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 2668
1813 Yol 1982 Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney 2669
1814 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 2670
1815 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 2671
1816 The Naked Kiss 1964 Samuel Fuller 2673
1817 A Boy and His Dog 1975 L.Q. Jones 2674
1818 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 2675
1819 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 2676
1820 Big Night 1996 Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci 2677
1821 Vive L'Amour 1994 Tsai Ming-liang 2679
1822 The Chorus 2004 Christophe Barratier 2680
1823 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 2682
1824 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 2684
1825 To Sir, with Love 1967 James Clavell 2685
1826 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader 2686
1827 Divorce - Italian Style 1961 Pietro Germi 2687
1828 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 2688
1829 Little Fugitive 1953 Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, and Ruth Orkin 2691
1830 Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone 2692
1831 Tommy 1975 Ken Russell 2693
1832 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2694
1833 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese 2696
1834 The Company of Wolves 1984 Neil Jordan 2698
1835 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2699
1836 Mother India 1957 Mehboob Khan 2700
1837 Nocturnal Animals 2016 Tom Ford 2701
1838 The Wild One 1953 Laslo Benedek 2702
1839 The Damned 1969 Luchino Visconti 2704
1840 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 2707
1841 Climax 2018 Gaspar Noé 2711
1842 Ju Dou 1990 Yimou Zhang 2714
1843 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Peter Yates 2716
1844 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean 2717
1845 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2719
1846 Metropolis 2001 Rintarô 2721
1847 The Long Riders 1980 Walter Hill 2722
1848 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2727
1849 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2728
1850 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 2729
1851 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 2730
1852 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 2731
1853 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 2732
1854 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike 2735
1855 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger 2736
1856 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel 2738
1857 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 2740
1858 A Night to Remember 1958 Roy Ward Baker 2742
1859 L'Enfant 2005 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2744
1860 The Town 2010 Ben Affleck 2745
1861 The Headless Woman 2008 Lucrecia Martel 2746
1862 The Perfect Storm 2000 Wolfgang Petersen 2750
1863 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara 2751
1864 Scum 1979 Alan Clarke 2752
1865 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 2753
1866 Antonio das Mortes 1969 Glauber Rocha 2754
1867 Mamma Roma 1962 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2756
1868 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 2757
1869 The Crucified Lovers 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 2758
1870 Frankenweenie 2012 Tim Burton 2760
1871 Evita 1996 Alan Parker 2763
1872 Mustang 2015 Deniz Gamze Ergüven 2764
1873 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2766
1874 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 2767
1875 Murder by Contract 1958 Irving Lerner 2768
1876 Falling Down 1993 Joel Schumacher 2769
1877 The White Balloon 1995 Jafar Panahi 2770
1878 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2776
1879 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 2777
1880 A Christmas Tale 2008 Arnaud Desplechin 2778
1881 Sicko 2007 Michael Moore 2779
1882 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2780
1883 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 Tommy Lee Jones 2781
1884 Blood Feast 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis 2782
1885 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak 2784
1886 The Breadwinner 2017 Nora Twomey 2785
1887 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2787
1888 White Material 2009 Claire Denis 2788
1889 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Hector Babenco 2789
1890 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2790
1891 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2792
1892 Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005 Miranda July 2793
1893 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 2794
1894 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Robert Wise 2795
1895 Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock 2796
1896 Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder 2798
1897 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 2799
1898 In the Heights 2021 Jon M. Chu 2801
1899 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 2803
1900 Enemy 2013 Denis Villeneuve 2806
1901 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2807
1902 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 2808
1903 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2809
1904 Aftersun 2022 Charlotte Wells 2810
1905 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 2811
1906 Seven Pounds 2008 Gabriele Muccino 2812
1907 Anastasia 1997 Don Bluth and Gary Goldman 2814
1908 Shiva Baby 2020 Emma Seligman 2815
1909 The Man Who Laughs 1928 Paul Leni 2816
1910 The Theory of Everything 2014 James Marsh 2817
1911 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2818
1912 Layer Cake 2004 Matthew Vaughn 2819
1913 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2820
1914 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 2821
1915 D.O.A. 1949 Rudolph Maté 2822
1916 Session 9 2001 Brad Anderson 2823
1917 The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker 2824
1918 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2825
1919 First Reformed 2017 Paul Schrader 2826
1920 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 2827
1921 Eternity and a Day 1998 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2828
1922 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 2829
1923 Blue Jasmine 2013 Woody Allen 2831
1924 On the Beach 1959 Stanley Kramer 2833
1925 The Half of It 2020 Alice Wu 2835
1926 Second Breath 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville 2836
1927 The Docks of New York 1928 Josef von Sternberg 2837
1928 Ms. 45 1981 Abel Ferrara 2838
1929 Syndromes and a Century 2006 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2839
1930 One Cut of the Dead 2017 Shin'ichirô Ueda 2840
1931 Rocketman 2019 Dexter Fletcher 2842
1932 Away from Her 2006 Sarah Polley 2844
1933 When the Wind Blows 1986 Jimmy T. Murakami 2845
1934 Let Me in 2010 Matt Reeves 2846
1935 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 2847
1936 The Immigrant 1917 Charles Chaplin 2848
1937 The Round-up 1966 Miklós Jancsó 2849
1938 The Machinist 2004 Brad Anderson 2850
1939 Suspense 1913 Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber 2851
1940 About Schmidt 2002 Alexander Payne 2852
1941 The Imposter 2012 Bart Layton 2854
1942 Mystic Pizza 1988 Donald Petrie 2855
1943 Onward 2020 Dan Scanlon 2856
1944 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 2857
1945 The Man Who Wasn't There 2001 Joel Coen 2858
1946 Philomena 2013 Stephen Frears 2859
1947 The Damned 1962 Joseph Losey 2860
1948 Devils on the Doorstep 2000 Wen Jiang 2862
1949 Prizzi's Honor 1985 John Huston 2863
1950 The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman 2864
1951 Big Fan 2009 Robert Siegel 2865
1952 The Smiling Madame Beudet 1923 Germaine Dulac 2866
1953 The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Wes Anderson 2867
1954 Ma Vie en Rose 1997 Alain Berliner 2871
1955 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2872
1956 Silence 2016 Martin Scorsese 2874
1957 Love Affair 1939 Leo McCarey 2875
1958 Blow 2001 Ted Demme 2876
1959 Summertime 1955 David Lean 2878
1960 Picnic 1955 Joshua Logan 2879
1961 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 2880
1962 Johnny Got His Gun 1971 Dalton Trumbo 2881
1963 Outrage 1950 Ida Lupino 2882
1964 Poetry 2010 Lee Chang-dong 2883
1965 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 2886
1966 The Children's Hour 1961 William Wyler 2888
1967 Destination Moon 1950 Irving Pichel 2889
1968 Quai des Orfčvres 1947 Henri-Georges Clouzot 2890
1969 Mudbound 2017 Dee Rees 2891
1970 Cairo Station 1958 Youssef Chahine 2892
1971 We Are Marshall 2006 McG 2893
1972 Cloud Atlas 2012 Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski 2894
1973 Of Mice and Men 1939 Lewis Milestone 2895
1974 Bloody Sunday 2002 Paul Greengrass 2898
1975 The Ten Commandments 1923 Cecil B. DeMille 2900
1976 Thirst 2009 Park Chan-wook 2901
1977 My Summer of Love 2004 Pawel Pawlikowski 2904
1978 Ladyhawke 1985 Richard Donner 2906
1979 Jesus Christ Superstar 1973 Norman Jewison 2907
1980 The Souvenir 2019 Joanna Hogg 2908
1981 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 1991 Kevin Reynolds 2910
1982 The Illusionist 2006 Neil Burger 2911
1983 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos 2912
1984 Looking for Langston 1989 Isaac Julien 2913
1985 Night on Earth 1991 Jim Jarmusch 2914
1986 Battle of Britain 1969 Guy Hamilton 2918
1987 Chocolat 1988 Claire Denis 2919
1988 Raya and the Last Dragon 2021 Don Hall and Carlos López Estrada 2920
1989 Flee 2021 Jonas Poher Rasmussen 2921
1990 Chronicle 2012 Josh Trank 2922
1991 Land and Freedom 1995 Ken Loach 2924
1992 Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner 2926
1993 Laurence Anyways 2012 Xavier Dolan 2929
1994 French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir 2930
1995 That Thing You Do! 1996 Tom Hanks 2931
1996 Dope 2015 Rick Famuyiwa 2932
1997 The Americanization of Emily 1964 Arthur Hiller 2933
1998 Mud 2012 Jeff Nichols 2934
1999 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 2936
2000 How to Marry a Millionaire 1953 Jean Negulesco 2937
2001 Boomerang 1992 Reginald Hudlin 2938
2002 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 2939
2003 Vengeance Is Mine 1979 Shôhei Imamura 2940
2004 The Cheat 1915 Cecil B. DeMille 2941
2005 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 2942
2006 Now and Then 1995 Lesli Linka Glatter 2943
2007 Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby 2944
2008 The Fourth Man 1983 Paul Verhoeven 2946
2009 Smoke 1995 Wayne Wang 2947
2010 Mask 1985 Peter Bogdanovich 2949
2011 Two Women 1960 Vittorio De Sica 2950
2012 The Class 2008 Laurent Cantet 2951
2013 Not on Your Life 1963 Luis García Berlanga 2952
2014 American Honey 2016 Andrea Arnold 2954
2015 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 Zacharias Kunuk 2955
2016 Past Lives 2023 Celine Song 2956
2017 Paterson 2016 Jim Jarmusch 2962
2018 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Sam Peckinpah 2963
2019 Punishment Park 1971 Peter Watkins 2968
2020 Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 George Roy Hill 2971
2021 Waitress 2007 Adrienne Shelly 2972
2022 Rent 2005 Chris Columbus 2973
2023 Nil by Mouth 1997 Gary Oldman 2974
2024 I Am Sam 2001 Jessie Nelson 2975
2025 Before Night Falls 2000 Julian Schnabel 2976
2026 Saving Face 2004 Alice Wu 2977
2027 El Sur 1983 Víctor Erice 2980
2028 The Twilight Samurai 2002 Yôji Yamada 2981
2029 Sleepers 1996 Barry Levinson 2982
2030 Atlantics 2019 Mati Diop 2983
2031 Caught 1949 Max Ophüls 2984
2032 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 2985
2033 Mind Game 2004 Masaaki Yuasa 2987
2034 Stalingrad 1993 Joseph Vilsmaier 2988
2035 Minari 2020 Lee Isaac Chung 2989
2036 The Last Unicorn 1982 Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. 2990
2037 A Summer's Tale 1996 Éric Rohmer 2991
2038 The Good Earth 1937 Sidney Franklin 2992
2039 Big Wednesday 1978 John Milius 2993
2040 The Goodbye Girl 1977 Herbert Ross 2994
2041 Fist of Legend 1994 Gordon Chan 2995
2042 Cocoon 1985 Ron Howard 2996
2043 Kolya 1996 Jan Sverák 2999
2044 Never Been Kissed 1999 Raja Gosnell 3000
2045 Blue Chips 1994 William Friedkin 3002
2046 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet 3003
2047 The Westerner 1940 William Wyler 3005
2048 Story of G.I. Joe 1945 William A. Wellman 3006
2049 The Last Dragon 1985 Michael Schultz 3007
2050 A Taste of Honey 1961 Tony Richardson 3008
2051 Ganja & Hess 1973 Bill Gunn 3009
2052 Enough Said 2013 Nicole Holofcener 3010
2053 Widows 2018 Steve McQueen 3011
2054 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 3013
2055 Cold Mountain 2003 Anthony Minghella 3014
2056 The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933 Alexander Korda 3015
2057 You Only Live Once 1937 Fritz Lang 3016
2058 The Fall of the House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman 3017
2059 San Francisco 1936 W.S. Van Dyke 3018
2060 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 Bille August 3019
2061 The Man without a Past 2002 Aki Kaurismäki 3020
2062 Whip It 2009 Drew Barrymore 3021
2063 The Phantom of the Opera 2004 Joel Schumacher 3023
2064 Irma Vep 1996 Olivier Assayas 3024
2065 The Fox and the Hound 1981 Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens 3026
2066 Submarine 2010 Richard Ayoade 3028
2067 45 Years 2015 Andrew Haigh 3029
2068 Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan 3030
2069 Mr. Turner 2014 Mike Leigh 3031
2070 Poor Things 2023 Yorgos Lanthimos 3032
2071 Foxcatcher 2014 Bennett Miller 3033
2072 Blonde Venus 1932 Josef von Sternberg 3034
2073 P.S. I Love You 2007 Richard LaGravenese 3035
2074 In the Mouth of Madness 1994 John Carpenter 3036
2075 Ménilmontant 1926 Dimitri Kirsanoff 3037
2076 RRR 2022 S.S. Rajamouli 3039
2077 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Kevin Macdonald 3040
2078 Shaolin Master Killer 1978 Chia-Liang Liu 3041
2079 The Death of Stalin 2017 Armando Iannucci 3042
2080 On the Silver Globe 1988 Andrzej Zulawski 3047
2081 Monika 1953 Ingmar Bergman 3048
2082 All Is Lost 2013 J.C. Chandor 3052
2083 Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg 3053
2084 Threads 1984 Mick Jackson 3054
2085 Happy-Go-Lucky 2008 Mike Leigh 3055
2086 42 2013 Brian Helgeland 3056
2087 Under the Shadow 2016 Babak Anvari 3057
2088 Jarhead 2005 Sam Mendes 3058
2089 Man on the Moon 1999 Milos Forman 3060
2090 Wonder 2017 Stephen Chbosky 3061
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