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Top Highbrow Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
202 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
203 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
204 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 114
205 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 405
206 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 368
207 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 552
208 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 277
209 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
210 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
211 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
212 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
213 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
214 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 966
215 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 32
216 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 703
217 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
218 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 318
219 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 612
220 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
221 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 841
222 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
223 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
224 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 387
225 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
226 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
227 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
228 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 245
229 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
230 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 597
231 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
232 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 158
233 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
234 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
235 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
236 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 156
237 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 769
238 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
239 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
240 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 768
241 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 604
242 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 676
243 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
244 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 655
245 Jeanne Dielman 1976 Chantal Akerman 661
246 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
247 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 477
248 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
249 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
250 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 173
251 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 634
252 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
253 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 689
254 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 513
255 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 780
256 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 512
257 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 392
258 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 287
259 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 669
260 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
261 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 741
262 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
263 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 620
264 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 377
265 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 526
266 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 1041
267 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
268 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
269 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
270 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
271 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
272 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
273 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 414
274 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
275 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
276 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 973
277 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
278 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 502
279 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 431
280 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 786
281 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
282 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
283 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 931
284 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 989
285 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 488
286 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 399
287 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 400
288 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
289 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 372
290 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 697
291 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 320
292 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
293 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
294 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 472
295 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 350
296 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 834
297 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1208
298 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 869
299 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 460
300 If.… 1968 Lindsay Anderson 533
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