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Top American Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 570
402 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
403 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
404 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
405 Gran Torino4 2008 Clint Eastwood 577
406 Stranger than Paradise4 1984 Jim Jarmusch 578
407 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 579
408 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 581
409 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 582
410 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 583
411 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
412 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 587
413 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 588
414 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 591
415 Shakespeare in Love1 1998 John Madden 592
416 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence1 2001 Steven Spielberg 593
417 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 595
418 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 598
419 The Fifth Element1 5 1997 Luc Besson 599
420 The Triplets of Belleville1 5 9 20 31 2003 Sylvain Chomet 601
421 Sense and Sensibility1 1995 Ang Lee 602
422 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 603
423 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
424 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
425 Sideways32 2004 Alexander Payne 606
426 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 607
427 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 Judd Apatow 609
428 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 612
429 The Dark Knight Rises1 2012 Christopher Nolan 614
430 Paris Is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 615
431 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 616
432 Chicago4 9 2002 Rob Marshall 617
433 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
434 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 620
435 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 621
436 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 622
437 Star Trek4 2009 J.J. Abrams 623
438 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 624
439 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 625
440 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 627
441 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 629
442 Bowling for Columbine4 9 2002 Michael Moore 630
443 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 632
444 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
445 Love Actually1 5 2003 Richard Curtis 636
446 The Omen1 1976 Richard Donner 637
447 Interstellar1 9 2014 Christopher Nolan 638
448 Giant 1956 George Stevens 641
449 Gravity1 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 645
450 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
451 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 James Gunn 648
452 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 649
453 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 652
454 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 653
455 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 655
456 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 657
457 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 658
458 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn 659
459 Moon1 2009 Duncan Jones 660
460 Point Break10 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 661
461 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 663
462 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 664
463 3009 33 2006 Zack Snyder 666
464 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 668
465 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
466 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 670
467 Snatch.1 2000 Guy Ritchie 673
468 Dead Ringers9 1988 David Cronenberg 674
469 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
470 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 676
471 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 677
472 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 678
473 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 679
474 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford1 9 2007 Andrew Dominik 681
475 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 683
476 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
477 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 686
478 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
479 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 688
480 Man on Wire1 2008 James Marsh 689
481 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess 690
482 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
483 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 693
484 Fantastic Mr. Fox1 2009 Wes Anderson 694
485 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 Steven Spielberg 695
486 The King's Speech1 12 2010 Tom Hooper 696
487 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 697
488 Batman Returns1 1992 Tim Burton 698
489 Eyes Wide Shut1 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
490 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 700
491 Hoosiers1 1986 David Anspaugh 701
492 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan 702
493 Down by Law4 1986 Jim Jarmusch 703
494 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 704
495 V for Vendetta1 4 2005 James McTeigue 705
496 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 706
497 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 707
498 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
499 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 710
500 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
501 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid6 1973 Sam Peckinpah 712
502 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 713
503 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
504 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
505 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick 717
506 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 719
507 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 720
508 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 721
509 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 722
510 The Muppet Movie1 1979 James Frawley 723
511 Bridesmaids 2011 Paul Feig 724
512 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
513 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971 Melvin Van Peebles 730
514 Yellow Submarine1 1968 George Dunning 731
515 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 732
516 Barton Fink1 1991 Joel Coen 733
517 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 735
518 X29 2003 Bryan Singer 736
519 The Bourne Supremacy4 2004 Paul Greengrass 737
520 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 738
521 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 740
522 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 741
523 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 743
524 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 744
525 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 745
526 Malcolm X10 1992 Spike Lee 746
527 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 748
528 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
529 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind10 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 750
530 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 751
531 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
532 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 755
533 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 758
534 Mystic River12 2003 Clint Eastwood 759
535 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 761
536 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 762
537 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 763
538 The Man Who Would be King1 1975 John Huston 764
539 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
540 Serpico3 1973 Sidney Lumet 767
541 True Romance5 1993 Tony Scott 768
542 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 769
543 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 770
544 Atonement1 5 2007 Joe Wright 771
545 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 772
546 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 773
547 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 774
548 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 775
549 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 776
550 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 777
551 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 779
552 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 781
553 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 782
554 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 783
555 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
556 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 787
557 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 788
558 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 791
559 Lost Highway5 1997 David Lynch 793
560 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
561 Basic Instinct1 5 1992 Paul Verhoeven 796
562 Ghost World1 4 2001 Terry Zwigoff 797
563 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 798
564 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 800
565 Slap Shot 1977 George Roy Hill 801
566 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 803
567 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 804
568 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 805
569 O Brother, Where Art Thou?1 5 2000 Joel Coen 806
570 Coco 2017 Lee Unkrich 809
571 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 810
572 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 811
573 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 812
574 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 813
575 Dark City12 1998 Alex Proyas 814
576 Mean Girls9 2004 Mark Waters 815
577 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 817
578 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
579 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 822
580 Lolita1 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
581 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 826
582 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire1 2005 Mike Newell 827
583 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 828
584 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 829
585 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 830
586 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 832
587 Night and the City1 1950 Jules Dassin 834
588 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 836
589 Bound 1996 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 839
590 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 840
591 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 843
592 The Hangover4 2009 Todd Phillips 844
593 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 845
594 In Bruges1 2008 Martin McDonagh 846
595 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 847
596 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 848
597 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 849
598 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 850
599 The Bourne Identity4 11 2002 Doug Liman 854
600 American Psycho9 2000 Mary Harron 855

1 Joint production with the United Kingdom.
2 Joint production with New Zealand.
3 Joint production with Italy.
4 Joint production with (West) Germany.
5 Joint production with France.
6 Joint production with Mexico.
7 Joint production with Morocco.
8 Joint production with Malta.
9 Joint production with Canada.
10 Joint production with Japan.
11 Joint production with Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic.
12 Joint production with Australia.
13 Joint production with Hong Kong.
14 Joint production with Taiwan.
15 Joint production with the People's Republic of China.
16 Joint production with Switzerland.
17 Joint production with Austria.
18 Joint production with South Africa.
19 Joint production with Spain.
20 Joint production with Belgium.
21 Joint production with Finland.
22 Joint production with Israel.
23 Joint production with East Germany.
24 Joint production with the Bahamas.
25 Joint production with Denmark.
26 Joint production with the Netherlands.
27 Joint production with Argentina.
28 Joint production with Norway.
29 Joint production with Sweden.
30 Joint production with Iceland.
31 Joint production with Latvia.
32 Joint production with Hungary.
33 Joint production with Bulgaria.
34 Joint production with Yugoslavia.
35 Joint production with India.
36 Joint production with Indonesia.
37 Joint production with Greece.
38 Joint production with Poland.
39 Joint production with the United Arab Emirates.
40 Joint production with Cuba.
41 Joint production with Brazil.
42 Joint production with Chile and Peru.
43 Joint production with Kenya.
44 Joint production with Ireland.
45 Joint production with the Dominican Republic.
46 Joint production with Vietnam.

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