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Top Highbrow Films (#801-994)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 291
802 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1863
803 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1812
804 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 1089
805 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno 1407
806 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 863
807 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 163
808 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 871
809 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2292
810 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha 2420
811 Shoplifters 2018 Hirokazu Koreeda 1082
812 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 2526
813 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky 483
814 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 271
815 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 1359
816 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 2025
817 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1609
818 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 445
819 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 1689
820 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 2085
821 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 2139
822 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 1023
823 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 401
824 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh 644
825 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 900
826 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 1177
827 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 350
828 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 1141
829 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1608
830 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 810
831 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1624
832 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 960
833 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1411
834 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 2161
835 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 533
836 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 399
837 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 1265
838 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 708
839 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 1503
840 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 231
841 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 1952
842 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1457
843 The Hunt 2012 Thomas Vinterberg 1044
844 Loves of a Blonde 1965 Milos Forman 1966
845 Head-On 2004 Fatih Akin 2106
846 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 494
847 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 173
848 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood 699
849 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 963
850 Still Walking 2008 Hirokazu Koreeda 1862
851 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 966
852 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 2269
853 The King's Speech 2010 Tom Hooper 625
854 Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami 1246
855 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 1382
856 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1586
857 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Ang Lee 1637
858 Il Sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi 2228
859 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 683
860 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 1472
861 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 475
862 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 1249
863 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1203
864 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman 1066
865 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1847
866 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1351
867 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1396
868 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1686
869 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 1012
870 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1692
871 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1252
872 Rosetta 1999 Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 2245
873 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
874 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 Roy Andersson 1976
875 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas 2897
876 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 1593
877 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 820
878 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 1837
879 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 689
880 Fallen Angels 1995 Kar-Wai Wong 2185
881 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 614
882 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 388
883 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1630
884 The Red and the White 1967 Miklós Jancsó 2352
885 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 1616
886 The House Is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad 1921
887 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1331
888 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1033
889 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 2688
890 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1764
891 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn 469
892 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2251
893 Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff 2376
894 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1708
895 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 1239
896 Ida 2013 Pawel Pawlikowski 1730
897 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 2482
898 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 996
899 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1228
900 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1272
901 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 463
902 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1140
903 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse 520
904 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 431
905 Fat City 1972 John Huston 1413
906 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 1335
907 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 789
908 A Short Film about Love 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 2148
909 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 584
910 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 825
911 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 2300
912 The Turin Horse 2011 Béla Tarr 2356
913 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino 361
914 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 1557
915 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 1814
916 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
917 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 710
918 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1766
919 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1211
920 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 2310
921 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 266
922 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
923 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 2827
924 Mother and Son 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 2584
925 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 1376
926 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene 2169
927 Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 2666
928 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 616
929 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 884
930 War and Peace 1965 Sergey Bondarchuk 1787
931 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1959
932 Lady Bird 2017 Greta Gerwig 416
933 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 598
934 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 Ethan and Joel Coen 1184
935 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 2236
936 Il Posto 1961 Ermanno Olmi 2551
937 The Master 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson 1578
938 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 1504
939 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 Wang Bing 1927
940 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 1805
941 A Moment of Innocence 1996 Mohsen Makhmalbaf 2533
942 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1346
943 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 2123
944 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 654
945 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman 189
946 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 780
947 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 541
948 Floating Clouds 1955 Mikio Naruse 2330
949 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 411
950 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 2124
951 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 901
952 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1697
953 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 936
954 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 1843
955 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 579
956 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel 2508
957 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 422
958 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 628
959 The Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau 1831
960 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 765
961 Man of Marble 1977 Andrzej Wajda 2501
962 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé 930
963 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 647
964 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 656
965 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 924
966 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2480
967 Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash 814
968 The Dream of Light 1992 Víctor Erice 2502
969 Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang 1622
970 The Great Beauty 2013 Paolo Sorrentino 1521
971 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 668
972 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2086
973 After Life 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda 2211
974 Ruggles of Red Gap 1935 Leo McCarey 2057
975 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 1199
976 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 397
977 The Puppet Master 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 2291
978 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1107
979 Phantom Thread 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson 1612
980 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax 1652
981 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 1691
982 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 685
983 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1932
984 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1707
985 La Chienne 1931 Jean Renoir 2331
986 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1188
987 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1522
988 India song 1975 Marguerite Duras 2222
989 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 787
990 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 1651
991 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1673
992 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 384
993 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen 1355
994 Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden 2006
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