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Top Highbrow Films (#601-744)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
601 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
602 Salesman 1968 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 914
603 Two English Girls 1971 François Truffaut 1438
604 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 591
605 Pygmalion 1938 Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard 1101
606 Burnt by the Sun 1994 Nikita Mikhalkov 1063
607 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
608 Oh, Mr. Porter! 1937 Marcel Varnel 1446
609 Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi 1567
610 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 691
611 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet 837
612 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1131
613 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
614 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 849
615 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
616 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
617 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1616
618 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez 1685
619 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
620 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 Fred Schepisi 1935
621 Marius 1931 Alexander Korda and Marcel Pagnol 1454
622 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujiro Ozu 1809
623 The Spider's Stratagem 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 1628
624 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 572
625 Accattone 1961 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1687
626 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
627 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 500
628 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1349
629 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
630 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 1381
631 The Official Story 1985 Luis Puenzo 974
632 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 601
633 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1293
634 Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shohei Imamura 1127
635 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 832
636 Ballad of a Soldier 1959 Grigori Chukhraj 1235
637 Mother 1926 Vsevolod Pudovkin 1927
638 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
639 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 911
640 City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1702
641 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970 Vittorio De Sica 942
642 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 906
643 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
644 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 259
645 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 523
646 The Little Foxes 1941 William Wyler 1308
647 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 987
648 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 686
649 The Go-Between 1970 Joseph Losey 1517
650 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 656
651 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1468
652 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 759
653 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
654 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 776
655 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 950
656 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 578
657 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 456
658 Applause 1929 Rouben Mamoulian 2058
659 Salaam Bombay! 1988 Mira Nair 1371
660 Tight Little Island 1949 Alexander Mackendrick 1148
661 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 510
662 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 389
663 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 894
664 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 537
665 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
666 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 1049
667 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 230
668 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé 544
669 The Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 1554
670 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 491
671 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
672 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1114
673 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 358
674 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 366
675 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1360
676 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 1002
677 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1268
678 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 404
679 Cria! 1976 Carlos Saura 1972
680 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
681 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 732
682 The Blood of a Poet 1930 Jean Cocteau 1504
683 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
684 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 532
685 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
686 Varieté 1925 Ewald André Dupont 2119
687 The Blue Kite 1993 Zhuangzhuang Tian 1528
688 The Golden Coach 1953 Jean Renoir 1574
689 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1444
690 Night Mail 1936 Harry Watt and Basil Wright 2378
691 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 760
692 Cabiria 1914 Giovanni Pastrone 1807
693 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 739
694 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 699
695 El Norte 1983 Gregory Nava 1050
696 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1423
697 The Crime of Mr. Lange 1936 Jean Renoir 1184
698 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 900
699 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 873
700 28 Up 1985 Michael Apted 1507
701 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
702 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 346
703 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 984
704 Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1669
705 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch 1769
706 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 882
707 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 599
708 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
709 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 887
710 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
711 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 1675
712 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1133
713 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 757
714 The Magician 1958 Ingmar Bergman 1772
715 Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 1435
716 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 804
717 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 753
718 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 713
719 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
720 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 788
721 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 789
722 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 573
723 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1703
724 Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock 1535
725 Murmur of the Heart 1971 Louis Malle 1688
726 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 515
727 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 356
728 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 1466
729 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
730 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 Bille August 879
731 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 692
732 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark 625
733 Fanny 1932 Marc Allégret 1999
734 Genevieve 1953 Henry Cornelius 1302
735 An Actor's Revenge 1963 Kon Ichikawa 1648
736 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 861
737 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman 994
738 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 1088
739 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
740 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 441
741 Stage Door 1937 Gregory La Cava 839
742 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1383
743 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1204
744 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
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