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Top Highbrow Films (#501-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
501 The Rise to Power of Louis XIV 1966 Roberto Rossellini 1379
502 Stolen Kisses 1968 François Truffaut 964
503 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1132
504 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 509
505 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 708
506 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 462
507 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
508 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
509 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 454
510 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 507
511 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 364
512 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 667
513 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
514 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 646
515 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
516 La Chienne 1931 Jean Renoir 1313
517 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 1350
518 A Touch of Zen 1969 King Hu 1282
519 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 829
520 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 393
521 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton 653
522 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 1120
523 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 901
524 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
525 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
526 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 1023
527 The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 1429
528 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 606
529 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
530 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
531 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 297
532 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 1017
533 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
534 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 434
535 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 721
536 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 658
537 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 835
538 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 206
539 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1215
540 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1885
541 Room at the Top 1959 Jack Clayton 819
542 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 422
543 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
544 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
545 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
546 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1227
547 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
548 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
549 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
550 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 706
551 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean 784
552 César 1936 Marcel Pagnol 1671
553 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
554 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
555 Ju Dou 1990 Fenglian Yang and Yimou Zhang 918
556 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2041
557 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
558 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
559 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 1158
560 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1249
561 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Robert Bresson 1335
562 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1403
563 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujiro Ozu 1525
564 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1191
565 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 638
566 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
567 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings 1480
568 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1686
569 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 490
570 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 614
571 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick 908
572 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 517
573 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1279
574 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
575 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
576 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1490
577 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1100
578 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1639
579 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 205
580 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 822
581 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1598
582 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1153
583 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 530
584 David Copperfield 1935 George Cukor 778
585 An Italian Straw Hat 1928 René Clair 1678
586 Richard III 1955 Laurence Olivier 1137
587 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1768
588 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1038
589 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 747
590 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 745
591 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1214
592 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 252
593 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
594 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 830
595 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1241
596 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1245
597 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 1070
598 Red Sorghum 1987 Yimou Zhang 1178
599 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 426
600 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 331
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