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Top Highbrow Films (#401-500)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 470
402 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 357
403 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1303
404 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 632
405 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 554
406 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 421
407 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 228
408 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
409 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 766
410 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 429
411 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
412 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 292
413 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
414 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 386
415 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
416 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
417 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
418 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 327
419 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1527
420 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1063
421 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1050
422 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 289
423 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 937
424 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
425 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
426 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 521
427 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 965
428 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
429 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 1404
430 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1101
431 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1432
432 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
433 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 622
434 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
435 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
436 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1206
437 The Killer 1989 John Woo 398
438 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 435
439 The Rise of Louis XIV 1970 Roberto Rossellini 1679
440 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
441 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 875
442 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 550
443 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 534
444 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1141
445 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 547
446 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 455
447 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
448 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 531
449 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 1019
450 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
451 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 478
452 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 689
453 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1033
454 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
455 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
456 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 382
457 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 599
458 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 668
459 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies 1250
460 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 721
461 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 695
462 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1161
463 Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti 1346
464 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1121
465 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
466 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1588
467 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 929
468 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
469 La Ronde 1950 Max Ophüls 1193
470 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 533
471 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 644
472 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 758
473 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 770
474 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 556
475 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 600
476 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 275
477 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 459
478 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 709
479 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 615
480 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 460
481 Le Million 1931 René Clair 1514
482 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 482
483 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 319
484 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory 526
485 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
486 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1300
487 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 1136
488 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 425
489 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 373
490 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 700
491 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 343
492 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1117
493 Man of Aran 1934 Robert J. Flaherty 1772
494 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 702
495 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
496 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 737
497 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1650
498 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu 1638
499 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 725
500 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 597
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