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Top Highbrow Films (#401-500)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 955
402 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 905
403 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
404 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 1603
405 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 1066
406 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 243
407 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
408 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
409 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 954
410 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1136
411 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 659
412 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 359
413 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1168
414 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1077
415 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
416 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
417 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 560
418 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
419 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 684
420 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 672
421 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 435
422 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1238
423 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 785
424 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 525
425 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
426 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1113
427 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
428 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 397
429 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 487
430 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
431 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 553
432 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
433 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 534
434 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 584
435 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
436 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
437 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
438 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
439 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 1426
440 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
441 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 916
442 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 575
443 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1097
444 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 248
445 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 946
446 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 859
447 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 605
448 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 956
449 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1004
450 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 729
451 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
452 Kriemhild's Revenge 1924 Fritz Lang 1186
453 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
454 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1312
455 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 504
456 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
457 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
458 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 436
459 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
460 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 370
461 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
462 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
463 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1194
464 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
465 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
466 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 1323
467 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 671
468 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 482
469 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1532
470 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 217
471 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Parajanov 1242
472 Close Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 736
473 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
474 Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett 1022
475 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
476 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 891
477 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 340
478 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
479 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman 799
480 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1303
481 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 947
482 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 576
483 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 630
484 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
485 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
486 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1149
487 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 1226
488 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
489 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 457
490 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1494
491 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 213
492 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
493 The Red and the White 1967 Miklós Jancsó 1491
494 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1447
495 Barren Lives 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1380
496 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 623
497 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 528
498 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 1146
499 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
500 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
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