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Top American Films (#1801-2000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
In colaboration with
1801 Losing Ground 1982 Kathleen Collins 2541
1802 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin 2542
1803 The Letter 1940 William Wyler 2543
1804 Patriot Games 1992 Phillip Noyce 2544
1805 Pocahontas 1995 Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg 2545 Japan
1806 America, America 1963 Elia Kazan 2546
1807 Shazam! 2019 David F. Sandberg 2548 Canada
1808 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 2550
1809 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room 2005 Alex Gibney 2553
1810 Rush Hour 1998 Brett Ratner 2554
1811 Willow 1988 Ron Howard 2555
1812 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin 2557
1813 Dogma 1999 Kevin Smith 2558
1814 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill 2559
1815 The Learning Tree 1969 Gordon Parks 2560
1816 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 2561
1817 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 2562
1818 Stromboli 1950 Roberto Rossellini 2563 Italy
1819 Over the Edge 1979 Jonathan Kaplan 2565
1820 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 2566
1821 Grindhouse 2007 Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino 2567 Canada
1822 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 Joe Johnston 2568 Mexico
1823 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019 Dean DeBlois 2570 Japan
1824 Reality Bites 1994 Ben Stiller 2572
1825 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 2575
1826 Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine 2578
1827 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 2580
1828 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 2581
1829 Margaret 2011 Kenneth Lonergan 2582
1830 Reversal of Fortune 1990 Barbet Schroeder 2583 Japan, United Kingdom
1831 A Simple Plan 1998 Sam Raimi 2587 France, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
1832 Nebraska 2013 Alexander Payne 2589
1833 The Year of Living Dangerously 1982 Peter Weir 2591 Australia
1834 Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist 2008 Peter Sollett 2594
1835 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 2595
1836 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 Don Coscarelli 2599
1837 Despicable Me 2 2013 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud 2600 France
1838 A Letter to Three Wives 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2602
1839 Serial Mom 1994 John Waters 2603
1840 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 2605
1841 Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains 1982 Lou Adler 2606
1842 Mommie Dearest 1981 Frank Perry 2608
1843 Hombre 1967 Martin Ritt 2609
1844 To Die For 1995 Gus Van Sant 2610 United Kingdom, Canada
1845 Rocky III 1982 Sylvester Stallone 2611
1846 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey 1993 Duwayne Dunham 2612
1847 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2613
1848 Stripes 1981 Ivan Reitman 2614
1849 Minding the Gap 2018 Bing Liu 2615
1850 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 2616
1851 Singles 1992 Cameron Crowe 2618
1852 Reefer Madness 1936 Louis J. Gasnier 2619
1853 Thirteen 2003 Catherine Hardwicke 2622 United Kingdom
1854 The Great Mouse Detective 1986 Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, David Michener, and John Musker 2626
1855 The Rescuers 1977 John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens 2627
1856 The Tale 2018 Jennifer Fox 2628 Germany
1857 Mother! 2017 Darren Aronofsky 2629
1858 Beginners 2010 Mike Mills 2630
1859 The Addams Family 1991 Barry Sonnenfeld 2631
1860 Black Dynamite 2009 Scott Sanders 2632
1861 Bad Santa 2003 Terry Zwigoff 2633 Germany
1862 The Sword in the Stone 1963 Wolfgang Reitherman 2634
1863 The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal 2635
1864 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 2636
1865 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 2637
1866 The Fisher King 1991 Terry Gilliam 2638
1867 Juice 1992 Ernest R. Dickerson 2639 Canada, United Kingdom
1868 Serendipity 2001 Peter Chelsom 2641
1869 El Dorado 1966 Howard Hawks 2643
1870 Longtime Companion 1989 Norman René 2644
1871 It's Always Fair Weather 1955 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 2645
1872 The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 Walter Salles 2646 France, United Kingdom, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
1873 Heavy Metal 1981 Gerald Potterton 2647 United Kingdom, Canada
1874 Licorice Pizza 2021 Paul Thomas Anderson 2648 Canada
1875 Anchors Aweigh 1945 George Sidney 2651
1876 Downhill Racer 1969 Michael Ritchie 2653
1877 Seventh Heaven 1927 Frank Borzage 2654
1878 Way Down East 1920 D.W. Griffith 2655
1879 Rocky IV 1985 Sylvester Stallone 2657
1880 Waiting to Exhale 1995 Forest Whitaker 2658
1881 Body and Soul 1947 Robert Rossen 2660
1882 Wild Style 1982 Charlie Ahearn 2661
1883 Gloria 1980 John Cassavetes 2662
1884 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1969 Sydney Pollack 2663
1885 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 2664
1886 Torch Song Trilogy 1988 Paul Bogart 2665
1887 Short Term 12 2013 Destin Daniel Cretton 2667
1888 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 2668
1889 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 2670 United Kingdom
1890 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 2671
1891 Robin Hood 1973 Wolfgang Reitherman 2672
1892 The Naked Kiss 1964 Samuel Fuller 2673
1893 A Boy and His Dog 1975 L.Q. Jones 2674
1894 Shampoo 1975 Hal Ashby 2676
1895 Big Night 1996 Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci 2677
1896 Upgrade 2018 Leigh Whannell 2681 Australia
1897 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 2682
1898 Creepshow 1982 George A. Romero 2683
1899 Blue Collar 1978 Paul Schrader 2686
1900 Crank 2006 Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor 2689
1901 New Nightmare 1994 Wes Craven 2690
1902 Little Fugitive 1953 Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, and Ruth Orkin 2691
1903 The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 Joel Coen 2694 United Kingdom, Germany
1904 Clash of the Titans 1981 Desmond Davis 2695 United Kingdom
1905 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese 2696
1906 Welfare 1975 Frederick Wiseman 2697
1907 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2699
1908 Nocturnal Animals 2016 Tom Ford 2701 People's Republic of China
1909 The Wild One 1953 Laslo Benedek 2702
1910 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 2703
1911 Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Robert Wise 2706
1912 The Wrong Man 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 2707
1913 Hook 1991 Steven Spielberg 2708
1914 Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli 2709
1915 The Mask of Zorro 1998 Martin Campbell 2710 Mexico, Germany
1916 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 2712
1917 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray 2715 Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France
1918 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 Peter Yates 2716
1919 A Passage to India 1984 David Lean 2717 United Kingdom
1920 Jazz on a Summer's Day 1959 Bert Stern 2718
1921 Wild River 1960 Elia Kazan 2719
1922 Cry-Baby 1990 John Waters 2720
1923 The Long Riders 1980 Walter Hill 2722
1924 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 William Greaves 2724
1925 Liquid Sky 1982 Slava Tsukerman 2725
1926 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023 James Gunn 2726 New Zealand, France, Canada
1927 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2728
1928 The American President 1995 Rob Reiner 2729
1929 Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 Steven Zaillian 2731
1930 The People vs. Larry Flynt 1996 Milos Forman 2732
1931 Billy Madison 1995 Tamra Davis 2733
1932 A Bucket of Blood 1959 Roger Corman 2734
1933 Hell in the Pacific 1968 John Boorman 2737
1934 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel 2738
1935 Scream 2 1997 Wes Craven 2739
1936 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 2740
1937 Iron Man 2 2010 Jon Favreau 2741
1938 Pina 2011 Wim Wenders 2743 Germany, France, United Kingdom
1939 The Town 2010 Ben Affleck 2745 United Kingdom
1940 Happy Feet 2006 George Miller 2747 Australia
1941 Apollo 11 2019 Todd Douglas Miller 2748
1942 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 2749
1943 The Perfect Storm 2000 Wolfgang Petersen 2750
1944 The Last Boy Scout 1991 Tony Scott 2755
1945 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 2757
1946 Frankenweenie 2012 Tim Burton 2760 United Kingdom
1947 Dodge City 1939 Michael Curtiz 2761
1948 Evita 1996 Alan Parker 2763
1949 Jennifer's Body 2009 Karyn Kusama 2765 Canada
1950 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2766
1951 My Favorite Year 1982 Richard Benjamin 2767
1952 Murder by Contract 1958 Irving Lerner 2768
1953 Falling Down 1993 Joel Schumacher 2769 France
1954 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Nicholas Meyer 2771
1955 Barefoot in the Park 1967 Gene Saks 2772
1956 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2774
1957 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2009 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller 2775
1958 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2776
1959 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 2777
1960 Sicko 2007 Michael Moore 2779
1961 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2780
1962 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 2005 Tommy Lee Jones 2781 France, Mexico
1963 Blood Feast 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis 2782
1964 The Last Starfighter 1984 Nick Castle 2783
1965 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak 2784
1966 The Breadwinner 2017 Nora Twomey 2785 Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, France
1967 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 Elia Kazan 2787
1968 Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Hector Babenco 2789 Brazil
1969 The Aristocats 1970 Wolfgang Reitherman 2791
1970 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 2792 United Kingdom
1971 Me and You and Everyone We Know 2005 Miranda July 2793 United Kingdom
1972 Stepmom 1998 Chris Columbus 2794
1973 The Sand Pebbles 1966 Robert Wise 2795
1974 The Amityville Horror 1979 Stuart Rosenberg 2797
1975 Love in the Afternoon 1957 Billy Wilder 2798
1976 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 2799
1977 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Joe Dante 2800
1978 In the Heights 2021 Jon M. Chu 2801
1979 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 2802
1980 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 2803
1981 Winnie the Pooh 2011 Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall 2804 Canada
1982 Broken Arrow 1950 Delmer Daves 2807
1983 The Lusty Men 1952 Nicholas Ray 2809
1984 Aftersun 2022 Charlotte Wells 2810 United Kingdom, Turkey, Philippines, Netherlands
1985 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 2811
1986 Seven Pounds 2008 Gabriele Muccino 2812
1987 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Wes Craven 2813
1988 Anastasia 1997 Don Bluth and Gary Goldman 2814
1989 Shiva Baby 2020 Emma Seligman 2815
1990 The Man Who Laughs 1928 Paul Leni 2816
1991 The Theory of Everything 2014 James Marsh 2817 United Kingdom, Japan
1992 Lust for Life 1956 Vincente Minnelli 2818
1993 Layer Cake 2004 Matthew Vaughn 2819 United Kingdom
1994 Becket 1964 Peter Glenville 2820 United Kingdom
1995 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 2821
1996 D.O.A. 1949 Rudolph Maté 2822
1997 Session 9 2001 Brad Anderson 2823
1998 The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker 2824 Ireland, United Kingdom
1999 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2825
2000 First Reformed 2017 Paul Schrader 2826 United Kingdom, Australia
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