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Top Dramas (#801-1000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
802 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 1205
803 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 1207
804 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit 1208
805 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1210
806 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1211
807 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1212
808 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1213
809 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 1215
810 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
811 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1219
812 The Farewell 2019 Lulu Wang 1220
813 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1221
814 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1222
815 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson 1223
816 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows 1225
817 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1226
818 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1228
819 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 1230
820 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1231
821 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 1233
822 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1234
823 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Nicholas Stoller 1236
824 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 1237
825 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 1238
826 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 1239
827 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
828 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 Jim Jarmusch 1241
829 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack 1243
830 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
831 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1245
832 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1247
833 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248
834 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 1249
835 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1250
836 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 2009 Lee Daniels 1251
837 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1252
838 Friday 1995 F. Gary Gray 1253
839 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1255
840 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 1256
841 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1257
842 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
843 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 1259
844 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1260
845 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1261
846 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1262
847 Tangerine 2015 Sean Baker 1263
848 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 1265
849 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1266
850 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1267
851 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1269
852 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin 1270
853 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 1271
854 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1272
855 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
856 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 1274
857 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
858 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1276
859 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
860 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
861 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1280
862 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1282
863 Fruitvale Station 2013 Ryan Coogler 1283
864 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1287
865 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
866 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1293
867 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
868 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1295
869 The Watermelon Woman 1996 Cheryl Dunye 1296
870 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1297
871 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1299
872 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1300
873 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1301
874 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 Joel Zwick 1304
875 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1306
876 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
877 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1311
878 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 1312
879 If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 Barry Jenkins 1313
880 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1314
881 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 1315
882 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 1316
883 Moneyball 2011 Bennett Miller 1319
884 Son of Saul 2015 László Nemes 1320
885 Raw 2016 Julia Ducournau 1323
886 Things to Come 1936 William Cameron Menzies 1325
887 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326
888 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1327
889 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1328
890 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1329
891 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1330
892 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
893 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1334
894 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 1335
895 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 1336
896 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1337
897 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl 1338
898 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Joseph Kosinski 1339
899 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1341
900 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1342
901 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1343
902 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1345
903 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1346
904 We Need to Talk about Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay 1348
905 Friday Night Lights 2004 Peter Berg 1350
906 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1351
907 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1352
908 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1353
909 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 1354
910 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen 1355
911 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1357
912 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1358
913 Sicario 2015 Denis Villeneuve 1362
914 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 1363
915 A Star Is Born 2018 Bradley Cooper 1364
916 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1365
917 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1366
918 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 Lasse Hallström 1367
919 Show Me Love 1998 Lukas Moodysson 1373
920 The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 Gabriele Muccino 1374
921 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 1376
922 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1377
923 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1378
924 Monster 2003 Patty Jenkins 1379
925 United 93 2006 Paul Greengrass 1380
926 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 1382
927 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1387
928 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 1388
929 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher 1390
930 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1391
931 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1393
932 Blue Valentine 2010 Derek Cianfrance 1395
933 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1396
934 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
935 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1399
936 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1400
937 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki 1401
938 Stranger by the Lake 2013 Alain Guiraudie 1404
939 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1405
940 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller 1406
941 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno 1407
942 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1409
943 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1411
944 Easy A 2010 Will Gluck 1412
945 Fat City 1972 John Huston 1413
946 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1415
947 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1416
948 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1417
949 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1418
950 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1419
951 American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini 1420
952 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
953 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1423
954 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Jean Epstein 1424
955 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
956 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1427
957 Hairspray 2007 Adam Shankman 1429
958 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1430
959 Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi 1431
960 Hell or High Water 2016 David Mackenzie 1432
961 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 1433
962 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1434
963 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2014 Matt Reeves 1435
964 While You Were Sleeping 1995 Jon Turteltaub 1436
965 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1437
966 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1438
967 Ford v Ferrari 2019 James Mangold 1442
968 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1443
969 To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2018 Susan Johnson 1444
970 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1445
971 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan 1446
972 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1449
973 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1450
974 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1451
975 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1453
976 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
977 Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood 2019 Quentin Tarantino 1456
978 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1457
979 Girls Trip 2017 Malcolm D. Lee 1459
980 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves 1460
981 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1463
982 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
983 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1465
984 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1466
985 Mother 2009 Bong Joon Ho 1469
986 Something's Gotta Give 2003 Nancy Meyers 1470
987 Captain Phillips 2013 Paul Greengrass 1471
988 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 1472
989 Crash 2004 Paul Haggis 1474
990 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1476
991 Only Yesterday 1991 Isao Takahata 1477
992 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1478
993 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 Mark Herman 1481
994 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1482
995 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1483
996 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1486
997 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1487
998 The Sea Inside 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1488
999 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich 1490
1000 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1497
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