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Top Dramas (#801-1000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 La Vie en rose 2007 Olivier Dahan 1215
802 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1216
803 October 1927 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 1217
804 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
805 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1219
806 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1221
807 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1222
808 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve 1223
809 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1224
810 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
811 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1226
812 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1230
813 The NeverEnding Story 1984 Wolfgang Petersen 1231
814 The Sea Inside 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1232
815 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1233
816 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1235
817 Gates of Heaven 1978 Errol Morris 1236
818 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1237
819 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1238
820 Ray 2004 Taylor Hackford 1239
821 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 1240
822 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1241
823 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1242
824 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1243
825 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
826 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1245
827 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1247
828 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 1248
829 Friday Night Lights 2004 Peter Berg and Josh Pate 1249
830 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 1250
831 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1254
832 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1257
833 American Splendor 2003 Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini 1258
834 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1260
835 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 1261
836 Chasing Amy 1997 Kevin Smith 1263
837 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 1264
838 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1265
839 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 1271
840 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Martin McDonagh 1272
841 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buńuel 1273
842 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
843 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 1275
844 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 1276
845 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 1277
846 Carol 2015 Todd Haynes 1279
847 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1282
848 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1283
849 Duel in the Sun 1946 King Vidor 1285
850 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
851 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1288
852 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 1291
853 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1292
854 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1293
855 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
856 Dead Man's Shoes 2004 Shane Meadows 1295
857 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1297
858 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho 1298
859 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1299
860 Brighton Rock 1948 John Boulting 1301
861 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1303
862 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1304
863 Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989 Hayao Miyazaki 1305
864 Fish Tank 2009 Andrea Arnold 1306
865 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
866 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1308
867 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1313
868 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1316
869 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
870 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 Marlon Brando 1319
871 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 1320
872 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen 1321
873 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1325
874 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 1326
875 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 1333
876 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1334
877 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1335
878 Before Midnight 2013 Richard Linklater 1336
879 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1337
880 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer 1338
881 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1342
882 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1343
883 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1344
884 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 1345
885 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 1347
886 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1348
887 Metropolitan 1990 Whit Stillman 1349
888 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
889 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde 1353
890 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder 1355
891 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1357
892 Tin Cup 1996 Ron Shelton 1359
893 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1360
894 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
895 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Ang Lee 1362
896 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 1363
897 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1364
898 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
899 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1367
900 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1368
901 The War Game 1966 Peter Watkins 1369
902 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigoriy Chukhray 1371
903 Spotlight 2015 Tom McCarthy 1373
904 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1375
905 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1376
906 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1379
907 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1380
908 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
909 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1383
910 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1385
911 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller 1386
912 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1387
913 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1388
914 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1389
915 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1391
916 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1392
917 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1393
918 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1394
919 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1395
920 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 1397
921 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1398
922 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
923 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1401
924 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1402
925 Whale Rider 2002 Niki Caro 1404
926 The Butterfly Effect 2004 Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber 1405
927 The Dead 1987 John Huston 1406
928 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1407
929 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1409
930 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 1411
931 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1413
932 Lilja 4-ever 2002 Lukas Moodysson 1414
933 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
934 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1416
935 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1417
936 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert 1418
937 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow 1419
938 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Ińárritu 1420
939 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki 1422
940 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman 1423
941 Secretary 2002 Steven Shainberg 1424
942 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Ińárritu 1426
943 Vagabond 1985 Agnčs Varda 1427
944 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1428
945 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 1429
946 Ratcatcher 1999 Lynne Ramsay 1432
947 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1436
948 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 1439
949 Any Given Sunday 1999 Oliver Stone 1440
950 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 David O. Russell 1441
951 Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash 1442
952 Show Me Love 1998 Lukas Moodysson 1443
953 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1445
954 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1448
955 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1450
956 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1451
957 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1452
958 Avengers: Endgame 2019 Anthony and Joe Russo 1454
959 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1455
960 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1456
961 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 1457
962 Betty Blue 1986 Jean-Jacques Beineix 1458
963 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1459
964 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 1460
965 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1462
966 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
967 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1464
968 Buffalo '66 1998 Vincent Gallo 1465
969 Open Your Eyes 1997 Alejandro Amenábar 1466
970 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1467
971 Black Book 2006 Paul Verhoeven 1473
972 Seabiscuit 2003 Gary Ross 1474
973 Legends of the Fall 1994 Edward Zwick 1478
974 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 1482
975 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1485
976 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1486
977 Rush 2013 Ron Howard 1487
978 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 Lasse Hallström 1490
979 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1492
980 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1493
981 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1494
982 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1495
983 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1496
984 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 1498
985 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1499
986 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 1501
987 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1502
988 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 1503
989 Open Range 2003 Kevin Costner 1504
990 Logan 2017 James Mangold 1505
991 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1508
992 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1509
993 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson 1511
994 Rosetta 1999 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 1512
995 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1513
996 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1514
997 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 1515
998 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1517
999 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves 1519
1000 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1520
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