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Top Dramas (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
202 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 295
203 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 296
204 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
205 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
206 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 301
207 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 302
208 Coco 2017 Lee Unkrich 304
209 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 306
210 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 307
211 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
212 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
213 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
214 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 314
215 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 316
216 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
217 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 319
218 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 320
219 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 321
220 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 322
221 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
222 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii 324
223 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
224 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 330
225 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 332
226 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 334
227 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
228 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 337
229 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 339
230 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
231 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 341
232 Bambi 1942 David Hand 342
233 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
234 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
235 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 346
236 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
237 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 350
238 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 352
239 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 353
240 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
241 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 356
242 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 357
243 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 359
244 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 360
245 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino 361
246 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
247 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 365
248 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 366
249 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 367
250 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 368
251 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 369
252 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 371
253 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 372
254 Avengers: Endgame 2019 Anthony and Joe Russo 373
255 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 378
256 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 380
257 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 381
258 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 383
259 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 384
260 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 385
261 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
262 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 388
263 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 389
264 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 390
265 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 391
266 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
267 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
268 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 394
269 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 395
270 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 396
271 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 402
272 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 403
273 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 404
274 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
275 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 406
276 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 407
277 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
278 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 409
279 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
280 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 411
281 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 414
282 Lady Bird 2017 Greta Gerwig 416
283 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 417
284 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 418
285 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 419
286 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 421
287 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 422
288 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 423
289 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 424
290 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
291 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
292 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 429
293 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 430
294 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 432
295 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 433
296 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 434
297 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
298 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 438
299 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 439
300 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 440
301 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 441
302 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 442
303 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 444
304 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 446
305 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 447
306 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
307 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 449
308 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 450
309 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 451
310 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma 452
311 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 453
312 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 454
313 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 455
314 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 456
315 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 457
316 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
317 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 460
318 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
319 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 462
320 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 463
321 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 464
322 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve 466
323 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman 468
324 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn 469
325 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 471
326 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 472
327 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 473
328 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 474
329 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 475
330 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 476
331 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 477
332 Logan 2017 James Mangold 478
333 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 482
334 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky 483
335 La La Land 2016 Damien Chazelle 484
336 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 485
337 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 487
338 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 491
339 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 492
340 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 493
341 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 494
342 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 495
343 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 496
344 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 497
345 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 498
346 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 501
347 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 502
348 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 503
349 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 504
350 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 507
351 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 508
352 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 509
353 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
354 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 512
355 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 514
356 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 515
357 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 517
358 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 519
359 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 521
360 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 524
361 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 526
362 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 530
363 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 531
364 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 533
365 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 536
366 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 538
367 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 539
368 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 541
369 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 544
370 Carol 2015 Todd Haynes 545
371 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 546
372 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 548
373 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow 549
374 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 551
375 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick 552
376 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
377 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 554
378 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 555
379 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 556
380 10 Things I Hate about You 1999 Gil Junger 557
381 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 558
382 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
383 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 562
384 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 564
385 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 567
386 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 568
387 The Killer 1989 John Woo 569
388 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 570
389 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 571
390 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 572
391 Hereditary 2018 Ari Aster 575
392 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 576
393 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 577
394 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 579
395 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 580
396 The Babadook 2014 Jennifer Kent 581
397 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 584
398 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 585
399 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 586
400 Atonement 2007 Joe Wright 588
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