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Top Dramas (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 589
402 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
403 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 592
404 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 593
405 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 594
406 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 595
407 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 597
408 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 600
409 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 601
410 Love & Basketball 2000 Gina Prince-Bythewood 602
411 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 603
412 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 605
413 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 607
414 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer 608
415 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 609
416 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 612
417 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 613
418 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 615
419 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 617
420 Roma 2018 Alfonso Cuarón 619
421 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 621
422 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 623
423 The King's Speech 2010 Tom Hooper 625
424 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 626
425 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 629
426 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh 631
427 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 632
428 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
429 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 638
430 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 640
431 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 641
432 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
433 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 646
434 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 648
435 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 650
436 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 651
437 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 654
438 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 655
439 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 657
440 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 659
441 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 660
442 Little Women 2019 Greta Gerwig 661
443 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 662
444 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce 663
445 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 664
446 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 665
447 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 667
448 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 668
449 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 669
450 Your Name 2016 Makoto Shinkai 670
451 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 671
452 The NeverEnding Story 1984 Wolfgang Petersen 672
453 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 674
454 Bend It Like Beckham 2002 Gurinder Chadha 676
455 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola 677
456 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 679
457 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 680
458 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 683
459 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg 684
460 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 685
461 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland 686
462 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 688
463 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 689
464 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 690
465 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 692
466 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 693
467 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 694
468 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 695
469 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood 699
470 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 700
471 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 701
472 A Quiet Place 2018 John Krasinski 705
473 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 706
474 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 707
475 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 708
476 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik 709
477 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak 711
478 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 712
479 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 713
480 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 714
481 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 715
482 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 717
483 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 719
484 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 720
485 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 724
486 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
487 300 2006 Zack Snyder 726
488 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 727
489 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 728
490 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 729
491 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 732
492 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg 733
493 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 734
494 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 735
495 Bridget Jones's Diary 2001 Sharon Maguire 736
496 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 739
497 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 742
498 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
499 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho 747
500 Into the Wild 2007 Sean Penn 749
501 The Witch 2015 Robert Eggers 751
502 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 752
503 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 753
504 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 754
505 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson 757
506 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 758
507 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher 762
508 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 764
509 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 765
510 You've Got Mail 1998 Nora Ephron 768
511 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
512 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 770
513 Hidden Figures 2016 Theodore Melfi 771
514 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 772
515 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 773
516 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 775
517 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 776
518 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 778
519 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 779
520 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 780
521 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 782
522 Spotlight 2015 Tom McCarthy 783
523 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 786
524 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 787
525 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 788
526 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 791
527 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 792
528 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 793
529 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 794
530 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 795
531 Selma 2014 Ava DuVernay 796
532 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 797
533 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 798
534 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 799
535 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 800
536 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 801
537 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 802
538 The Orphanage 2007 J.A. Bayona 803
539 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 805
540 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 806
541 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 807
542 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 808
543 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 809
544 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 810
545 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant 811
546 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 812
547 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 813
548 Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash 814
549 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 816
550 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 819
551 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 820
552 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008 David Fincher 824
553 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 825
554 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 826
555 Giant 1956 George Stevens 829
556 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 830
557 The Big Sick 2017 Michael Showalter 832
558 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 833
559 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 834
560 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 835
561 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 837
562 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 838
563 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 841
564 (500) Days of Summer 2009 Marc Webb 842
565 Before Midnight 2013 Richard Linklater 844
566 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 845
567 Remember the Titans 2000 Boaz Yakin 846
568 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 848
569 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland 849
570 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
571 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 851
572 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
573 The Intouchables 2011 Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano 853
574 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 854
575 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 856
576 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 857
577 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 861
578 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 863
579 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 864
580 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 865
581 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 869
582 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 871
583 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 872
584 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro 873
585 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 874
586 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 875
587 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 876
588 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 879
589 The Fighter 2010 David O. Russell 881
590 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 883
591 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 884
592 Once 2006 John Carney 886
593 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 890
594 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 891
595 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 892
596 Joker 2019 Todd Phillips 893
597 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 894
598 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 895
599 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 896
600 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 900
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