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Top Highbrow Films (#301-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
301 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 570
302 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 827
303 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
304 The Dead 1987 John Huston 856
305 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 909
306 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 935
307 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 506
308 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
309 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
310 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 952
311 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 596
312 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
313 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 473
314 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 770
315 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 540
316 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 439
317 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
318 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 794
319 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
320 Le Million 1931 René Clair 980
321 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 571
322 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
323 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
324 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
325 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 522
326 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
327 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1301
328 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 343
329 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Walter Ruttmann 1277
330 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 743
331 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 418
332 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
333 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
334 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 635
335 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 687
336 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 675
337 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 627
338 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 535
339 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
340 The King of Comedy 1983 Martin Scorsese 480
341 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 529
342 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 556
343 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 844
344 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 444
345 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
346 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 246
347 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 660
348 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
349 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1243
350 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 742
351 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1079
352 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 858
353 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 511
354 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
355 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
356 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 875
357 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 557
358 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
359 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 450
360 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 927
361 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 542
362 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 666
363 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 716
364 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
365 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 546
366 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
367 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 255
368 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 929
369 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 649
370 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
371 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
372 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne 866
373 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
374 La Roue 1923 Abel Gance 1326
375 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 548
376 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 561
377 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
378 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 619
379 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
380 Louisiana Story 1948 Robert J. Flaherty 1027
381 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 385
382 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1145
383 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 471
384 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 593
385 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 298
386 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 734
387 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
388 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 735
389 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
390 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 773
391 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 594
392 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 547
393 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
394 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 503
395 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
396 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 814
397 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 969
398 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 443
399 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 696
400 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1838
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