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Top Highbrow Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
3 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 63
4 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
5 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
6 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
8 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
9 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
10 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
11 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
12 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
13 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 139
14 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
15 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
16 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
17 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
18 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
19 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
20 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 98
21 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
22 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
23 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
24 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
25 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 157
26 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
27 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
28 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
29 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
30 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
31 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
32 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
33 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
34 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
35 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
36 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
37 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
38 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
39 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
40 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
42 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
43 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 194
44 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 193
45 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
46 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
47 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
48 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 250
49 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
50 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 182
51 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 154
52 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
53 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
54 Andrei Rublev 1969 Andrei Tarkovsky 200
55 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
56 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
57 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
58 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 181
59 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
60 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
61 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
62 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
63 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
64 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
65 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
66 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
67 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
68 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
69 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 288
70 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
71 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
72 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 244
73 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 210
74 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
75 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
76 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 382
77 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 237
78 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
79 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
80 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
81 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 177
82 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 402
83 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 303
84 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 406
85 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 281
86 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 247
87 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
88 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
89 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 293
90 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
91 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
92 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
93 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 316
94 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
95 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
96 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
97 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
98 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 174
99 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 212
100 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
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