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Top Highbrow Films (#301-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
301 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 855
302 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603
303 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 988
304 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
305 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 258
306 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 1008
307 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 541
308 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
309 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 427
310 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 233
311 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
312 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 502
313 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 262
314 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 350
315 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
316 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 285
317 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 967
318 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
319 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 930
320 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
321 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 294
322 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 805
323 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 914
324 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 744
325 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 567
326 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 772
327 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 489
328 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
329 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 601
330 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
331 Close Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 762
332 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
333 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 505
334 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 670
335 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
336 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
337 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 238
338 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 492
339 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
340 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
341 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 517
342 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 310
343 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
344 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 475
345 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 193
346 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 326
347 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 699
348 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
349 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
350 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 488
351 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
352 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1179
353 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1044
354 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
355 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 797
356 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
357 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 376
358 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1299
359 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
360 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 397
361 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 539
362 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1042
363 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 1191
364 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 850
365 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
366 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
367 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1001
368 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
369 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
370 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1030
371 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 684
372 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1301
373 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
374 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 512
375 Killer of Sheep 1981 Charles Burnett 667
376 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 389
377 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
378 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 280
379 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 1087
380 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 131
381 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
382 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 611
383 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 352
384 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
385 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 457
386 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
387 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1310
388 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
389 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1415
390 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1086
391 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
392 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
393 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 486
394 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
395 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1347
396 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
397 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 736
398 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 476
399 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 771
400 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 336
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