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Top Highbrow Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
102 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 453
103 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 365
104 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
105 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 446
106 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 303
107 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 204
108 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 544
109 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 396
110 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 551
111 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 355
112 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
113 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
114 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 232
115 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
116 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
117 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 444
118 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
119 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
120 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 477
121 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 297
122 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
123 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
124 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
125 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 148
126 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
127 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
128 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
129 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
130 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 279
131 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 274
132 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 391
133 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
134 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 278
135 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 321
136 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 511
137 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 378
138 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
139 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 311
140 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 552
141 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 364
142 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
143 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 271
144 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
145 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
146 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 266
147 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 415
148 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 170
149 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
150 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
151 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
152 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 440
153 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
154 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
155 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 561
156 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
157 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 363
158 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 751
159 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 604
160 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
161 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 509
162 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
163 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
164 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
165 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 265
166 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 543
167 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
168 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 230
169 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
170 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 660
171 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
172 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
173 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 591
174 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
175 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
176 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
177 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 480
178 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 146
179 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
180 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
181 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
182 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 631
183 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 443
184 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
185 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 593
186 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 839
187 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
188 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 428
189 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
190 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
191 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
192 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
193 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 572
194 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 407
195 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
196 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1028
197 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 887
198 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
199 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
200 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
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