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Top Highbrow Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
402 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
403 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 950
404 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 646
405 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1187
406 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
407 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
408 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1141
409 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 747
410 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 640
411 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 739
412 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
413 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 460
414 The Sacrifice 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 987
415 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
416 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 404
417 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
418 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 250
419 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 233
420 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 1251
421 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 835
422 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
423 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
424 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 578
425 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 808
426 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
427 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
428 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
429 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 534
430 October 1927 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 1217
431 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
432 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1174
433 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1071
434 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 978
435 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
436 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 709
437 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 853
438 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 903
439 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
440 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
441 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
442 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 1089
443 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 532
444 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
445 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1254
446 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
447 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 883
448 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 949
449 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 594
450 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 581
451 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 452
452 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
453 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
454 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
455 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 734
456 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
457 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1181
458 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 480
459 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1297
460 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 505
461 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
462 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1096
463 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
464 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 362
465 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1124
466 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1388
467 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 538
468 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1010
469 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 707
470 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1041
471 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
472 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 674
473 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
474 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
475 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
476 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
477 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1036
478 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
479 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 651
480 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
481 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
482 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 703
483 The Killer 1989 John Woo 437
484 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 639
485 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1376
486 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1140
487 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
488 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
489 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1197
490 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
491 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 315
492 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
493 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
494 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
495 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1216
496 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
497 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272
498 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
499 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 478
500 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
501 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 447
502 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
503 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1224
504 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 568
505 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
506 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 442
507 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
508 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 541
509 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
510 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 466
511 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 621
512 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
513 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 372
514 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 399
515 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 957
516 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 542
517 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
518 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 554
519 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 790
520 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
521 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1364
522 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
523 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
524 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
525 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 331
526 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 845
527 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
528 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 373
529 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 488
530 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 683
531 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
532 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 158
533 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
534 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
535 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
536 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
537 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 975
538 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
539 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
540 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
541 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 509
542 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
543 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
544 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
545 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 781
546 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
547 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1392
548 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1100
549 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1485
550 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 395
551 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
552 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 700
553 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
554 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 928
555 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1671
556 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1021
557 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
558 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1025
559 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 598
560 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 244
561 The Dead 1987 John Huston 1406
562 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 758
563 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1138
564 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 582
565 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1342
566 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1630
567 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 322
568 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
569 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1744
570 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1379
571 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1375
572 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 489
573 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1176
574 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
575 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 394
576 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
577 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1142
578 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 576
579 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 816
580 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
581 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 506
582 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
583 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 658
584 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 686
585 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1069
586 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 482
587 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
588 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
589 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 523
590 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
591 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1486
592 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 699
593 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
594 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
595 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
596 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
597 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1517
598 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1344
599 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
600 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 830
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