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Top Highbrow Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
202 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 871
203 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 735
204 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
205 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 335
206 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
207 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
208 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 595
209 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
210 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 217
211 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
212 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev 523
213 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
214 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 317
215 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 227
216 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
217 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 613
218 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 377
219 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 992
220 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 390
221 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 410
222 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 325
223 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 616
224 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 174
225 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 484
226 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
227 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
228 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 353
229 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
230 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
231 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
232 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
233 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
234 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
235 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
236 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 942
237 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
238 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 696
239 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
240 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 473
241 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 1016
242 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 456
243 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 402
244 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
245 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
246 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
247 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 414
248 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 375
249 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 557
250 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
251 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
252 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 678
253 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
254 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 182
255 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 249
256 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 493
257 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
258 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
259 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 503
260 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 153
261 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 368
262 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 504
263 The Dead 1987 John Huston 841
264 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 139
265 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
266 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
267 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 432
268 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
269 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
270 Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 821
271 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
272 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 664
273 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 712
274 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
275 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1035
276 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
277 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 579
278 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 727
279 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
280 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 290
281 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
282 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 165
283 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 590
284 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 637
285 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 194
286 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
287 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
288 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 730
289 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
290 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 465
291 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 755
292 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
293 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
294 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 856
295 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 180
296 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
297 The Music Room 1959 Satyajit Ray 1317
298 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
299 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
300 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 585
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