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Top Highbrow Films (#601-800)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
601 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 204
602 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1409
603 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 Jean-Luc Godard 1340
604 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 589
605 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1706
606 Black Girl 1966 Ousmane Sembene 1181
607 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 403
608 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 507
609 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
610 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1943
611 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1845
612 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 648
613 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 367
614 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 555
615 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1731
616 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1961
617 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 341
618 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 932
619 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
620 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
621 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 420
622 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 909
623 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 130
624 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1476
625 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 476
626 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1300
627 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 136
628 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 939
629 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 526
630 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 701
631 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 270
632 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak 711
633 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 856
634 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 983
635 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 1427
636 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1773
637 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 2028
638 Roma 2018 Alfonso Cuarón 619
639 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 391
640 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1827
641 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 267
642 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 2283
643 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 285
644 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
645 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 407
646 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 687
647 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1989
648 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1538
649 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 Céline Sciamma 452
650 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 1078
651 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1400
652 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 1006
653 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 626
654 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1342
655 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 657
656 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 858
657 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 168
658 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1009
659 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1634
660 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248
661 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 331
662 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1128
663 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1948
664 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1077
665 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 1271
666 Strike 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 1795
667 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 232
668 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1589
669 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 546
670 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1753
671 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 339
672 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1884
673 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 1119
674 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 1545
675 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
676 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 808
677 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1247
678 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 734
679 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1010
680 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1293
681 The Best of Youth 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana 1024
682 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 682
683 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 603
684 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1700
685 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 184
686 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 599
687 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii 324
688 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 149
689 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 288
690 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1142
691 The Gleaners & I 2000 Agnès Varda 927
692 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 1256
693 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 187
694 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 910
695 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
696 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 667
697 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 2036
698 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
699 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 1663
700 Paris Is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 412
701 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 872
702 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1785
703 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1818
704 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 356
705 Claire's Knee 1970 Éric Rohmer 1756
706 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 2129
707 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1980
708 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 482
709 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 2120
710 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 2163
711 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri 1829
712 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 219
713 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1912
714 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 1043
715 The Dead 1987 John Huston 2066
716 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1352
717 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 379
718 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 2040
719 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 235
720 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 517
721 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 992
722 Cría Cuervos 1976 Carlos Saura 2037
723 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1603
724 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 440
725 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
726 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 1021
727 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1260
728 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 890
729 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 300
730 Summer 1986 Éric Rohmer 1988
731 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 2388
732 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
733 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 1535
734 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 673
735 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 690
736 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2091
737 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1097
738 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1121
739 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 1349
740 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 812
741 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 945
742 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1154
743 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1670
744 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 2105
745 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 1783
746 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 1088
747 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 1207
748 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich 1192
749 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 371
750 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 679
751 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 591
752 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 151
753 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 418
754 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 646
755 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
756 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 400
757 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 2059
758 Dog Star Man 1964 Stan Brakhage 2133
759 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1993
760 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 1571
761 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 213
762 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang 1944
763 Once upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Nuri Bilge Ceylan 1804
764 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1547
765 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 325
766 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 214
767 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 1237
768 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 911
769 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 655
770 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 1020
771 Giant 1956 George Stevens 829
772 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 743
773 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
774 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1584
775 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 296
776 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 1179
777 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1487
778 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1649
779 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
780 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1877
781 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 370
782 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 1205
783 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1329
784 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1250
785 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 429
786 And Life Goes on 1992 Abbas Kiarostami 2195
787 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 707
788 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 742
789 Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog 2393
790 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 728
791 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Jean Epstein 1424
792 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 1070
793 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes 1768
794 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
795 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel 902
796 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 278
797 Out 1 1971 Jacques Rivette 2279
798 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 1574
799 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 544
800 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
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