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Top Highbrow Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
202 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
203 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 327
204 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
205 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
206 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
207 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
208 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 163
209 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
210 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 454
211 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 650
212 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
213 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 287
214 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
215 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
216 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 461
217 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
218 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
219 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 597
220 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
221 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
222 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
223 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 104
224 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
225 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
226 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 561
227 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 692
228 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
229 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 306
230 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
231 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
232 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
233 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 207
234 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 390
235 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
236 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 411
237 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
238 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 337
239 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
240 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
241 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
242 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
243 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
244 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 335
245 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 418
246 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 453
247 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 465
248 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 361
249 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
250 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
251 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 644
252 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
253 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 729
254 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
255 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 410
256 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 420
257 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
258 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 299
259 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
260 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
261 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
262 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
263 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
264 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
265 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
266 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
267 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
268 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
269 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 230
270 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
271 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
272 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
273 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
274 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 643
275 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
276 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
277 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 525
278 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
279 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 338
280 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
281 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
282 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
283 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
284 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
285 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 305
286 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
287 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
288 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 665
289 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
290 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 819
291 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 841
292 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
293 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
294 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
295 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
296 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 467
297 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 519
298 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 631
299 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
300 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
301 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
302 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
303 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
304 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
305 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
306 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
307 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
308 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1015
309 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
310 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 429
311 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 682
312 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 858
313 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 713
314 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
315 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
316 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
317 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 590
318 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
319 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 986
320 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
321 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 457
322 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 290
323 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 485
324 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 635
325 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 303
326 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 355
327 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 943
328 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
329 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
330 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
331 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
332 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 409
333 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 785
334 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 718
335 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 329
336 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
337 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 890
338 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 415
339 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 370
340 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1001
341 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1162
342 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 893
343 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 589
344 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
345 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1002
346 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
347 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
348 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
349 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 744
350 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
351 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 82
352 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
353 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
354 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
355 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilyev 760
356 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
357 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 459
358 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
359 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
360 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 715
361 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
362 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
363 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
364 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 937
365 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 792
366 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1004
367 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 451
368 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 611
369 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
370 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 470
371 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 833
372 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 680
373 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1024
374 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 913
375 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 562
376 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 938
377 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
378 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 284
379 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 438
380 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 398
381 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 212
382 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 778
383 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 349
384 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1125
385 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 406
386 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1018
387 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 946
388 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
389 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1092
390 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 286
391 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
392 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 931
393 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
394 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 508
395 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 965
396 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
397 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 634
398 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 153
399 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
400 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1288
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