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Top Dramas (#1001-1200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1001 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1522
1002 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1525
1003 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1526
1004 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1528
1005 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1529
1006 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1531
1007 The Lodger 1927 Alfred Hitchcock 1532
1008 Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi 1534
1009 One False Move 1992 Carl Franklin 1535
1010 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1536
1011 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky 1541
1012 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher 1542
1013 Head-On 2004 Fatih Akin 1543
1014 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1545
1015 The Railway Children 1970 Lionel Jeffries 1546
1016 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1547
1017 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin 1549
1018 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1550
1019 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1553
1020 Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 John D. Hancock 1554
1021 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1555
1022 Fried Green Tomatoes 1991 Jon Avnet 1556
1023 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1558
1024 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1559
1025 Friday 1995 F. Gary Gray 1560
1026 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1562
1027 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Jacques Audiard 1563
1028 Love & Basketball 2000 Gina Prince-Bythewood 1564
1029 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1565
1030 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1567
1031 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 1568
1032 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
1033 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 1570
1034 Your Name 2016 Makoto Shinkai 1571
1035 Weekend 2011 Andrew Haigh 1572
1036 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann 1573
1037 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 Fritz Lang 1574
1038 Bad Education 2004 Pedro Almodóvar 1577
1039 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt 1578
1040 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1582
1041 Menace II Society 1993 Albert and Allen Hughes 1586
1042 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1587
1043 Selma 2014 Ava DuVernay 1589
1044 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1590
1045 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki 1591
1046 George Washington 2000 David Gordon Green 1592
1047 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 1593
1048 Ip Man 2008 Wilson Yip 1594
1049 The Wedding Banquet 1993 Ang Lee 1595
1050 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1596
1051 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1597
1052 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1598
1053 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
1054 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 1601
1055 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 1603
1056 D.O.A. 1949 Rudolph Maté 1604
1057 The Aviator 2004 Martin Scorsese 1605
1058 Cross of Iron 1977 Sam Peckinpah 1606
1059 À nos amours 1983 Maurice Pialat 1607
1060 October Sky 1999 Joe Johnston 1611
1061 White Men Can't Jump 1992 Ron Shelton 1612
1062 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 1614
1063 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 Michael Moore 1615
1064 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1616
1065 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 1618
1066 The Kids Are All Right 2010 Lisa Cholodenko 1619
1067 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1620
1068 Goodbye Mr. Chips 1939 Sam Wood 1621
1069 Blackboard Jungle 1955 Richard Brooks 1623
1070 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg 1624
1071 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 1627
1072 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson 1629
1073 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1630
1074 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1631
1075 The Handmaiden 2016 Chan-wook Park 1632
1076 9 1/2 Weeks 1986 Adrian Lyne 1633
1077 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1634
1078 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1635
1079 Hairspray 2007 Adam Shankman 1637
1080 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed 1639
1081 Muriel's Wedding 1994 P.J. Hogan 1640
1082 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1641
1083 Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg 1642
1084 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1643
1085 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1644
1086 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1645
1087 The Hurricane 1999 Norman Jewison 1646
1088 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 1647
1089 Mother and Son 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 1652
1090 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward and David Lean 1653
1091 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1654
1092 Where the Wild Things Are 2009 Spike Jonze 1655
1093 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1656
1094 Moneyball 2011 Bennett Miller 1657
1095 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1658
1096 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck 1660
1097 24 Hour Party People 2002 Michael Winterbottom 1661
1098 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 Jean-Marc Vallée 1662
1099 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 1663
1100 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1664
1101 The Puppet Master 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1665
1102 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1667
1103 The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum 1668
1104 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1669
1105 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shôhei Imamura 1670
1106 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1671
1107 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1672
1108 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
1109 He Got Game 1998 Spike Lee 1675
1110 Duck, You Sucker 1971 Sergio Leone 1676
1111 The Idiots 1998 Lars von Trier 1677
1112 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1678
1113 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 1680
1114 The Blind Side 2009 John Lee Hancock 1681
1115 The Babadook 2014 Jennifer Kent 1682
1116 13 Assassins 2010 Takashi Miike 1683
1117 Rocky II 1979 Sylvester Stallone 1686
1118 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 1687
1119 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1688
1120 American Gangster 2007 Ridley Scott 1692
1121 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik 1693
1122 Beautiful Thing 1996 Hettie MacDonald 1694
1123 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément 1695
1124 The Squid and the Whale 2005 Noah Baumbach 1696
1125 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1698
1126 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies 1701
1127 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 1703
1128 Lonely Are the Brave 1962 David Miller 1704
1129 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1706
1130 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1707
1131 Europa Europa 1990 Agnieszka Holland 1708
1132 Cría Cuervos 1976 Carlos Saura 1710
1133 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996 Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky 1712
1134 About a Boy 2002 Chris and Paul Weitz 1713
1135 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1715
1136 The Pursuit of Happyness 2006 Gabriele Muccino 1716
1137 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1717
1138 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1719
1139 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 1721
1140 Little Children 2006 Todd Field 1724
1141 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1725
1142 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 1726
1143 Hacksaw Ridge 2016 Mel Gibson 1727
1144 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 1729
1145 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1732
1146 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Walter Salles 1733
1147 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1735
1148 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson 1736
1149 127 Hours 2010 Danny Boyle 1738
1150 Manchester by the Sea 2016 Kenneth Lonergan 1740
1151 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1741
1152 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1743
1153 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1744
1154 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 Susan Seidelman 1745
1155 Hair 1979 Milos Forman 1746
1156 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin 1747
1157 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin 1749
1158 3 Idiots 2009 Rajkumar Hirani 1750
1159 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1752
1160 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 1753
1161 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1755
1162 Zentropa 1991 Lars von Trier 1757
1163 Law of Desire 1987 Pedro Almodóvar 1758
1164 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 Jean Renoir 1766
1165 La Bête Humaine 1938 Jean Renoir 1767
1166 Matewan 1987 John Sayles 1768
1167 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1769
1168 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
1169 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick 1771
1170 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1773
1171 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1774
1172 Control 2007 Anton Corbijn 1775
1173 War and Peace 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk 1776
1174 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin 1777
1175 Summer 1986 Eric Rohmer 1778
1176 Platform 2000 Zhangke Jia 1780
1177 Girl, Interrupted 1999 James Mangold 1781
1178 Fritz the Cat 1972 Ralph Bakshi 1782
1179 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1783
1180 Little Women 1994 Gillian Armstrong 1786
1181 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins 1787
1182 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 1789
1183 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Martin Scorsese 1792
1184 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1793
1185 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 1796
1186 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1800
1187 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky 1801
1188 Portrait of Jennie 1948 William Dieterle 1802
1189 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 1803
1190 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1805
1191 Victory 1981 John Huston 1809
1192 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Leos Carax 1810
1193 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1811
1194 Man on Fire 2004 Tony Scott 1813
1195 Lincoln 2012 Steven Spielberg 1814
1196 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1816
1197 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 1818
1198 The Steel Helmet 1951 Samuel Fuller 1819
1199 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 1820
1200 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh 1822
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