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Top Dramas (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 603
402 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
403 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
404 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 606
405 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 607
406 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 610
407 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 612
408 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
409 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 616
410 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 618
411 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
412 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 620
413 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 622
414 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 625
415 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
416 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
417 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 630
418 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 631
419 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
420 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 634
421 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 635
422 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 636
423 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 638
424 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 639
425 Giant 1956 George Stevens 641
426 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 642
427 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 643
428 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 644
429 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 645
430 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 646
431 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
432 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 649
433 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 650
434 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 651
435 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
436 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn 659
437 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 660
438 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
439 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 665
440 300 2006 Zack Snyder 666
441 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
442 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
443 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
444 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 670
445 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 672
446 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 674
447 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
448 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 676
449 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 677
450 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 678
451 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 679
452 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 680
453 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 681
454 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
455 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak 685
456 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 686
457 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
458 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
459 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 692
460 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 693
461 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 694
462 The King's Speech 2010 Tom Hooper 696
463 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 697
464 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
465 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 701
466 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan 702
467 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 703
468 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 705
469 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 707
470 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
471 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 710
472 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
473 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 712
474 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
475 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 715
476 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
477 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick 717
478 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 718
479 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 719
480 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 722
481 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 725
482 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
483 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
484 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 729
485 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 Melvin Van Peebles 730
486 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 732
487 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
488 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 738
489 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 739
490 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 740
491 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 741
492 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 744
493 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 745
494 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 746
495 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 747
496 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 748
497 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 751
498 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
499 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
500 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
501 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 756
502 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 757
503 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 759
504 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev 760
505 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg 765
506 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
507 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 767
508 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 768
509 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 769
510 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 770
511 Atonement 2007 Joe Wright 771
512 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 774
513 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 776
514 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 778
515 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 779
516 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 780
517 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 781
518 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 782
519 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 784
520 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 785
521 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
522 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 788
523 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 789
524 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 791
525 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 792
526 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
527 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 796
528 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 797
529 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
530 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 800
531 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 801
532 The Intouchables 2011 Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano 802
533 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 804
534 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
535 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 808
536 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 811
537 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 812
538 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 816
539 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
540 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 819
541 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 820
542 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
543 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
544 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
545 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 825
546 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 828
547 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 829
548 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 831
549 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 832
550 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 833
551 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 835
552 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 837
553 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 838
554 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 840
555 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 841
556 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
557 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh 846
558 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 850
559 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 852
560 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 853
561 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 855
562 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 857
563 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 858
564 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce 859
565 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 860
566 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 862
567 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 863
568 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 864
569 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 865
570 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 868
571 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 869
572 Into the Wild 2007 Sean Penn 870
573 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
574 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 878
575 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 879
576 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 881
577 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 882
578 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 883
579 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 885
580 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant 886
581 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
582 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 890
583 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino 892
584 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 893
585 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 894
586 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel 895
587 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
588 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 901
589 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 903
590 Gregory's Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth 904
591 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 905
592 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 906
593 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 907
594 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 910
595 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
596 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 913
597 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 914
598 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 915
599 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
600 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 919
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