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Top American Films (#801-1000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
In colaboration with
801 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 1090 United Kingdom, France
802 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 1091
803 Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 1093
804 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1094
805 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 1095
806 Rudy 1993 David Anspaugh 1096
807 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1098
808 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1099
809 The Shape of Water 2017 Guillermo del Toro 1100 Mexico
810 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1101
811 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 1103
812 Happy Gilmore 1996 Dennis Dugan 1104
813 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 1105
814 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1107
815 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Martin McDonagh 1109 United Kingdom
816 1917 2019 Sam Mendes 1110 United Kingdom, India, Spain, Canada
817 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 1112
818 Where Eagles Dare 1968 Brian G. Hutton 1113 United Kingdom
819 Shrek 2 2004 Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, and Conrad Vernon 1114
820 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1115
821 Silent Running 1972 Douglas Trumbull 1117
822 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1118
823 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 1119
824 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1121
825 Lincoln 2012 Steven Spielberg 1122 India
826 The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum 1123
827 Room 2015 Lenny Abrahamson 1124 Ireland, Canada,
828 Rush 2013 Ron Howard 1125 United Kingdom
829 Warrior 2011 Gavin O'Connor 1126
830 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1127
831 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1128 Mexico
832 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1129
833 Soul 2020 Pete Docter 1130
834 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 1132
835 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1133
836 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 1134 Taiwan, Japan, United Kingdom
837 Knives Out 2019 Rian Johnson 1135
838 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Bryan Singer 1136 United Kingdom, Canada
839 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1138
840 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 1139
841 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1140
842 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 1141
843 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1143
844 Cool Runnings 1993 Jon Turteltaub 1144
845 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 1145
846 Baby Driver 2017 Edgar Wright 1146 United Kingdom
847 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer 1147 United Kingdom, Spain
848 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 1149
849 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 1150
850 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1152
851 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 1155 Italy, Canada
852 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1156
853 Kick-Ass 2010 Matthew Vaughn 1157 United Kingdom
854 Spider-Man: Homecoming 2017 Jon Watts 1159
855 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1160
856 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 1161
857 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1163
858 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1164
859 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1165 United Kingdom
860 John Wick 2014 Chad Stahelski 1167
861 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 1168
862 Manchester by the Sea 2016 Kenneth Lonergan 1171
863 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 1173
864 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1174
865 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 1175
866 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 1177
867 The Gunfighter 1950 Henry King 1178
868 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 1179
869 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 1180
870 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1182 United Kingdom
871 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 1183 Canada
872 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 Ethan and Joel Coen 1184 United Kingdom, France
873 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 1185
874 Purple Rain 1984 Albert Magnoli 1186
875 Erin Brockovich 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1187
876 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1188 Germany
877 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
878 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 1191
879 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich 1192
880 Miracle 2004 Gavin O'Connor 1193 Canada
881 Pariah 2011 Dee Rees 1194
882 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold 1195
883 American Pie 1999 Paul Weitz 1196
884 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero 1197
885 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1198
886 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 1199
887 Us 2019 Jordan Peele 1200 People's Republic of China, Japan
888 The Kids Are All Right 2010 Lisa Cholodenko 1201 France
889 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1203 United Kingdom, France
890 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 1205
891 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1206
892 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 1207
893 But I'm a Cheerleader 1999 Jamie Babbit 1208
894 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1210
895 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1211
896 Wall Street 1987 Oliver Stone 1212
897 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1213
898 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain 1214
899 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
900 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1217
901 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1218
902 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1219
903 The Farewell 2019 Lulu Wang 1220 People's Republic of China
904 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1222
905 The Shootist 1976 Don Siegel 1226
906 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1228 India
907 Mamma Mia! 2008 Phyllida Lloyd 1229 United Kingdom, Germany
908 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 1230
909 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1231
910 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 1233 United Kingdom
911 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1234
912 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Nicholas Stoller 1236
913 Three Kings 1999 David O. Russell 1238 Australia
914 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 1239 United Kingdom
915 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
916 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 Jim Jarmusch 1241 France, Germany, Japan
917 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 Rich Moore 1242
918 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Sydney Pollack 1243
919 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1245
920 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248 Japan
921 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 1249
922 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1250
923 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 2009 Lee Daniels 1251
924 Friday 1995 F. Gary Gray 1253
925 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black 1254
926 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1255 France
927 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
928 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 1259
929 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1260
930 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1261 France
931 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1262
932 Tangerine 2015 Sean Baker 1263
933 It 2017 Andy Muschietti 1264 Canada
934 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 1265
935 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1266 United Kingdom, Canada
936 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1268
937 The Color of Money 1986 Martin Scorsese 1269
938 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin 1270 West Germany
939 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 1271
940 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1272 France
941 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273 France, Poland
942 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
943 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1276
944 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
945 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
946 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1280
947 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Peter Jackson 1281 New Zealand
948 Fruitvale Station 2013 Ryan Coogler 1283
949 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 2016 Gareth Edwards 1284
950 Despicable Me 2010 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud 1285 France
951 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 1286
952 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker 1288 Germany
953 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 1289
954 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1290
955 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson 1292
956 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
957 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1295
958 The Watermelon Woman 1996 Cheryl Dunye 1296
959 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1297
960 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1301
961 O.J.: Made in America 2016 Ezra Edelman 1302
962 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1303
963 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2002 Joel Zwick 1304 Canada, Germany
964 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 1305 Germany, Australia
965 I Am Not Your Negro 2016 Raoul Peck 1308 France, Belgium, Switzerland
966 Ice Age 2002 Chris Wedge 1309
967 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
968 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1311
969 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 1312
970 If Beale Street Could Talk 2018 Barry Jenkins 1313
971 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 1315
972 Ali 2001 Michael Mann 1316
973 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1317
974 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1318
975 Moneyball 2011 Bennett Miller 1319
976 Kung Fu Panda 2008 Mark Osborne and John Stevenson 1321
977 Dredd 2012 Pete Travis 1322 United Kingdom, South Africa, India
978 The Rocketeer 1991 Joe Johnston 1324
979 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326 Japan
980 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1327
981 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1328
982 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1331
983 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
984 The Court Jester 1955 Melvin Frank and Norman Panama 1333
985 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1334
986 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 1335
987 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1337
988 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl 1338 United Kingdom
989 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Joseph Kosinski 1339
990 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1341
991 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1343
992 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1344
993 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1345
994 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1346
995 Tongues Untied 1989 Marlon Riggs 1347
996 We Need to Talk about Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay 1348 United Kingdom
997 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 1349
998 Friday Night Lights 2004 Peter Berg 1350 Germany
999 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1351
1000 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1353
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