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Top Highbrow Films (#501-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
501 The Big Carnival 1951 Billy Wilder 728
502 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1025
503 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1248
504 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 763
505 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
506 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1637
507 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1233
508 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
509 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1434
510 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 254
511 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 216
512 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
513 Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Robert Bresson 1607
514 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1304
515 Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1640
516 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 171
517 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 836
518 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 933
519 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 186
520 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
521 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1234
522 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 426
523 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
524 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1559
525 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 589
526 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 748
527 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 729
528 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 175
529 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 434
530 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 752
531 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 1020
532 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 675
533 El 1953 Luis Buñuel 1409
534 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 1414
535 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1298
536 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 487
537 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings 1456
538 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 976
539 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1837
540 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1461
541 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
542 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 886
543 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1357
544 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 522
545 Fellini Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1885
546 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 469
547 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1336
548 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 529
549 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 694
550 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 231
551 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
552 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 646
553 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 732
554 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
555 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 570
556 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 596
557 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 166
558 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 371
559 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 286
560 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 710
561 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
562 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1220
563 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 436
564 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 1546
565 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1761
566 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 577
567 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel 2145
568 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 741
569 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
570 Lacombe Lucien 1974 Louis Malle 1151
571 Bambi 1942 David Hand 323
572 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
573 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 996
574 Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1882
575 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 760
576 Red Sorghum 1988 Yimou Zhang 1362
577 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 462
578 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 291
579 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 899
580 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
581 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 360
582 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 1507
583 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 458
584 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 1211
585 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
586 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 806
587 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1074
588 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 743
589 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1656
590 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971 Dusan Makavejev 1458
591 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1207
592 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
593 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 510
594 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 497
595 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1594
596 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1108
597 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 515
598 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
599 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
600 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1140
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