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Top Highbrow Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
2 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
3 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
4 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
5 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
6 M 1931 Fritz Lang 69
7 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
8 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
9 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
10 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
11 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
12 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
13 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
14 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
15 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
16 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
17 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
18 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
19 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
20 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
21 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
22 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
23 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
24 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
25 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
26 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
27 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
28 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
29 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
30 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 160
31 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
32 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
33 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
34 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
35 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
36 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
37 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
38 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
39 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
40 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
42 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
43 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
44 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
45 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
46 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
47 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
48 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
49 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 135
50 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
51 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
52 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
53 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
54 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
55 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 219
56 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
57 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
58 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
59 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 84
60 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
61 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
62 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 180
63 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
64 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
65 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
66 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
67 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
68 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
69 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
70 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
71 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
72 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
73 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 366
74 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 348
75 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 332
76 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
77 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
78 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 376
79 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
80 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 141
81 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
82 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
83 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 316
84 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
85 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
86 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
87 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
88 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
89 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 326
90 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
91 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
92 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
93 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
94 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
95 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
96 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
97 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
98 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
99 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
100 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
101 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
102 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
103 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
104 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
105 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
106 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
107 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 243
108 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
109 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
110 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
111 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
112 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
113 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
114 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
115 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 427
116 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 277
117 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
118 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 352
119 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
120 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
121 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
122 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
123 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 413
124 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
125 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 443
126 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
127 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
128 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 387
129 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
130 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 408
131 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 402
132 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
133 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 304
134 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
135 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 324
136 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
137 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
138 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
139 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 237
140 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
141 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
142 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 280
143 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
144 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
145 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 498
146 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
147 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 356
148 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
149 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
150 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 469
151 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
152 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
153 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 174
154 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 586
155 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
156 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 496
157 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 618
158 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
159 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
160 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
161 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 218
162 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 490
163 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 339
164 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
165 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 430
166 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
167 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
168 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 257
169 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
170 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
171 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 545
172 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
173 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
174 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
175 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 596
176 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
177 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
178 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
179 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
180 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 552
181 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 610
182 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
183 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 547
184 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
185 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
186 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
187 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
188 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
189 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 550
190 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
191 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
192 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
193 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
194 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 575
195 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
196 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
197 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 403
198 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 240
199 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 500
200 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
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