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Top Highbrow Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 456
202 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
203 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 249
204 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 239
205 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 394
206 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 592
207 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
208 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 190
209 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 115
210 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
211 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
212 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 345
213 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 838
214 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
215 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 799
216 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
217 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 712
218 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 389
219 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
220 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
221 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 554
222 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
223 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 337
224 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
225 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 346
226 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 659
227 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
228 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 752
229 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 805
230 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 621
231 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 896
232 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
233 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 26
234 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei Eisenstein 987
235 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 58
236 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
237 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 252
238 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 651
239 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 385
240 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 144
241 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 845
242 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 446
243 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 419
244 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
245 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 30
246 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 580
247 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 283
248 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
249 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 662
250 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 380
251 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
252 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
253 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 146
254 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 571
255 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
256 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 319
257 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 720
258 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 62
259 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
260 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
261 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 160
262 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 525
263 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
264 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
265 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 55
266 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen 229
267 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
268 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 303
269 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
270 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 424
271 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 274
272 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1007
273 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
274 My Night at Maud's 1969 Éric Rohmer 1034
275 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 226
276 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
277 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 835
278 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 434
279 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 568
280 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 480
281 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 782
282 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 922
283 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
284 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 567
285 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 793
286 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 442
287 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 295
288 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 548
289 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 234
290 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 865
291 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 600
292 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 739
293 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 594
294 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 874
295 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 652
296 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
297 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 753
298 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
299 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 891
300 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
301 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 764
302 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 63
303 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 60
304 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 512
305 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 188
306 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 833
307 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 143
308 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 265
309 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 111
310 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 50
311 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 788
312 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 501
313 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
314 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
315 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 823
316 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 377
317 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
318 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 822
319 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 462
320 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 85
321 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 165
322 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 54
323 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 182
324 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
325 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 415
326 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 928
327 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 396
328 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 450
329 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
330 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 700
331 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
332 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 145
333 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 386
334 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
335 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 464
336 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 490
337 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 447
338 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 105
339 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 205
340 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 797
341 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 937
342 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 477
343 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 210
344 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 166
345 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 228
346 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 510
347 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 964
348 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 197
349 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 714
350 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
351 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 247
352 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 729
353 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 778
354 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
355 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
356 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
357 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 612
358 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 220
359 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 306
360 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 194
361 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 179
362 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 381
363 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 1030
364 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 177
365 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 250
366 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 775
367 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 989
368 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 1018
369 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 406
370 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1306
371 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
372 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 981
373 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 218
374 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 587
375 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 869
376 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 641
377 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 175
378 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 904
379 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
380 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 1202
381 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
382 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
383 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 819
384 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 629
385 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 851
386 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1463
387 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 538
388 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 539
389 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 604
390 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 556
391 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
392 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
393 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 236
394 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 607
395 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1299
396 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 758
397 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 290
398 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 185
399 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 877
400 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 404
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