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Top Highbrow Films (#801-994)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
802 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1007
803 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 804
804 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 992
805 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 1250
806 Fat City 1972 John Huston 964
807 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 593
808 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 857
809 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 881
810 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1596
811 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1202
812 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
813 Platform 2000 Zhangke Jia 1780
814 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1122
815 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 864
816 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 297
817 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 1960 Mikio Naruse 2127
818 Head-On 2004 Fatih Akin 1543
819 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky 475
820 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1743
821 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shôhei Imamura 1670
822 The House Is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad 1870
823 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 1862
824 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 573
825 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 1872
826 The Idiots 1998 Lars von Trier 1677
827 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 2136
828 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 511
829 Prelude: Dog Star Man 1962 Stan Brakhage 2241
830 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1304
831 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 884
832 Le Plaisir 1952 Max Ophüls 1851
833 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 583
834 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 1065
835 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 1123
836 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 357
837 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 580
838 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2032
839 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 889
840 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1509
841 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1233
842 Baraka 1992 Ron Fricke 1720
843 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 746
844 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 983
845 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 433
846 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 168
847 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 795
848 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
849 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 308
850 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1043
851 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1525
852 Out 1 1971 Jacques Rivette 2336
853 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
854 Nazarín 1959 Luis Buñuel 2169
855 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
856 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1420
857 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 2159
858 Twin Peaks Pilot 1990 David Lynch 2301
859 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 994
860 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1616
861 The Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau 1659
862 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1752
863 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
864 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 1985
865 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 587
866 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 364
867 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1513
868 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 676
869 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 2041
870 Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog 2138
871 The Artist 2011 Michel Hazanavicius 885
872 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1861
873 Yol 1982 Serif Gören and Yilmaz Güney 2405
874 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 2354
875 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 377
876 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1493
877 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 Walter Ruttmann 1491
878 The Last Metro 1980 François Truffaut 1896
879 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 915
880 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1430
881 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
882 Mephisto 1981 István Szabó 1800
883 In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2043
884 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 601
885 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 558
886 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1292
887 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1235
888 The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1725
889 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
890 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 446
891 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 412
892 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
893 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
894 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 607
895 They Live by Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 991
896 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 671
897 Orlando 1992 Sally Potter 955
898 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri 2048
899 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 1835
900 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 334
901 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1182
902 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 296
903 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 959
904 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1062
905 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1055
906 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1445
907 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson 977
908 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 966
909 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed 1639
910 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 1028
911 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 380
912 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 546
913 The Red and the White 1967 Miklós Jancsó 1939
914 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
915 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1067
916 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 917
917 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 1897
918 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
919 Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Clint Eastwood 748
920 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 910
921 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1688
922 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
923 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 882
924 Red Sorghum 1988 Yimou Zhang 2323
925 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 932
926 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2355
927 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 981
928 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 826
929 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 2023
930 Dog Star Man: Part II 1963 Stan Brakhage 2482
931 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1886
932 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896 Auguste and Louis Lumière 1229
933 Barren Lives 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos 2386
934 Yellow Earth 1984 Kaige Chen 2079
935 Dog Star Man: Part I 1962 Stan Brakhage 2499
936 Terra em Transe 1967 Glauber Rocha 2647
937 The Naked Spur 1953 Anthony Mann 867
938 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 1680
939 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark 548
940 Dog Star Man: Part III 1964 Stan Brakhage 2506
941 The Fire within 1963 Louis Malle 1915
942 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins 1787
943 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 1291
944 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1436
945 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 2109
946 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 600
947 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 602
948 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 606
949 A Short Film about Love 1988 Teresa Violetta Buhl, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Pawel Rzepkowski 2046
950 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1529
951 The Wild Child 1970 François Truffaut 2141
952 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 956
953 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 389
954 Fist in His Pocket 1965 Marco Bellocchio 2081
955 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 1345
956 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin 834
957 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 914
958 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
959 Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1836
960 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 450
961 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 1979
962 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1706
963 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 1860
964 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 794
965 Moolaadé 2004 Ousmane Sembene 1845
966 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 774
967 La Chienne 1931 Jean Renoir 2082
968 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 495
969 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese 896
970 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1717
971 Tampopo 1985 Juzo Itami 1579
972 The Lovers on the Bridge 1991 Leos Carax 1810
973 The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 2001 Zacharias Kunuk 1951
974 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 2509
975 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Ang Lee 1362
976 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 1501
977 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1620
978 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 492
979 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1510
980 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 958
981 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 806
982 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1426
983 War and Peace 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk 1776
984 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1641
985 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
986 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1769
987 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 649
988 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 769
989 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1452
990 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 417
991 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez 1762
992 The King's Speech 2010 Tom Hooper 696
993 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 421
994 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
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