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Top Highbrow Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
402 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1060
403 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 451
404 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 74
405 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
406 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1120
407 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
408 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1330
409 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 80
410 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1170
411 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 809
412 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 314
413 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 224
414 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 542
415 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1478
416 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
417 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 802
418 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 551
419 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
420 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
421 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1169
422 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 692
423 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
424 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
425 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 947
426 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
427 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 558
428 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 861
429 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
430 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 577
431 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 72
432 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1625
433 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1631
434 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 246
435 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1510
436 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 301
437 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 242
438 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 944
439 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 196
440 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1417
441 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 830
442 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 132
443 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 859
444 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 1275
445 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 159
446 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 895
447 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1084
448 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 395
449 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 212
450 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1482
451 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 827
452 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1815
453 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
454 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 779
455 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 1072
456 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
457 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 961
458 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1627
459 The Killer 1989 John Woo 569
460 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 848
461 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev 1116
462 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
463 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 454
464 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
465 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 982
466 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 574
467 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1763
468 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1658
469 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 601
470 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 951
471 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 453
472 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1434
473 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1583
474 The Tree of Life 2011 Terrence Malick 773
475 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1762
476 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 576
477 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 258
478 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1872
479 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1698
480 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 595
481 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
482 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 92
483 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 929
484 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
485 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 293
486 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 875
487 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1314
488 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
489 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
490 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 225
491 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1221
492 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 1599
493 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 735
494 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
495 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 421
496 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1499
497 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 665
498 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1025
499 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
500 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1684
501 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
502 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 1069
503 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 622
504 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 630
505 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 953
506 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 113
507 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
508 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 444
509 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 550
510 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 500
511 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
512 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1050
513 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 632
514 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
515 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 106
516 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 905
517 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 750
518 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 727
519 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei Eisenstein 1555
520 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 435
521 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
522 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1365
523 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 892
524 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 903
525 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 147
526 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 96
527 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
528 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 502
529 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1620
530 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1533
531 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 536
532 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
533 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
534 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 199
535 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 530
536 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 108
537 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 279
538 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 730
539 October 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein 1939
540 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1032
541 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 907
542 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 176
543 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 1151
544 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 302
545 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 268
546 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1576
547 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1257
548 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1307
549 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 334
550 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1267
551 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 47
552 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 402
553 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 669
554 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 359
555 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
556 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 169
557 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1443
558 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1393
559 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1437
560 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 704
561 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 674
562 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 609
563 Bambi 1942 David Hand 342
564 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 262
565 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
566 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
567 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1985
568 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1466
569 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 467
570 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 1068
571 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1111
572 Up 2009 Pete Docter 112
573 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Kim Ki-duk 1064
574 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1282
575 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 181
576 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 1000
577 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 984
578 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 307
579 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 791
580 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 1190
581 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 573
582 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 357
583 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326
584 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1723
585 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1848
586 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 706
587 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 940
588 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 649
589 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
590 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 1074
591 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1957
592 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 770
593 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 330
594 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 688
595 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
596 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 974
597 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 914
598 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 1650
599 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1483
600 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 256
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