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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 70
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
3 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
4 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
5 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 110
6 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
7 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
8 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
9 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
10 M 1931 Fritz Lang 75
11 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
12 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
13 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
14 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
15 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
16 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 196
17 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 143
18 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
19 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
20 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 159
21 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 119
22 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
23 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
24 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
25 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
26 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
27 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
28 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
29 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
30 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
31 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
32 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
33 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
34 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 189
35 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 169
36 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
37 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
38 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
39 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
40 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
41 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 273
42 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 53
43 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
44 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
45 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 188
46 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
47 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
48 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
49 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
50 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
51 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
52 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
53 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 208
54 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
55 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 168
56 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
57 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
58 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
59 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
60 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
61 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
62 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
63 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
64 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 316
65 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 205
66 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 309
67 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
68 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
69 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
70 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
71 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
72 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
73 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
74 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 276
75 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 442
76 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
77 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
78 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
79 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
80 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
81 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
82 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 243
83 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 185
84 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 215
85 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 331
86 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 308
87 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 296
88 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
89 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
90 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 454
91 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
92 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 329
93 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 439
94 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
95 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
96 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 422
97 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 400
98 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 312
99 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 464
100 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 179
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