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Least Highbrow Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
2 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
3 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
4 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
5 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
6 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
7 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
8 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
9 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 32
10 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
11 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
12 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
13 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
14 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
15 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
16 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
17 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
18 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
19 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
20 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 201
21 Dead Poet's Society 1989 Peter Weir 310
22 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
23 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
24 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
25 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
26 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 272
27 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
28 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 296
29 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
30 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
31 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
32 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 263
33 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
34 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
35 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
36 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
37 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
38 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 539
39 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
40 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 172
41 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 481
42 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 455
43 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
44 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 395
45 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
46 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
47 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 587
48 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 259
49 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 308
50 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
51 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 409
52 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 445
53 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
54 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
55 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
56 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
57 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
58 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 652
59 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
60 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
61 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
62 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 516
63 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 349
64 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 381
65 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
66 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
67 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 647
68 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
69 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
70 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
71 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 475
72 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 461
73 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 712
74 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
75 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 783
76 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
77 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
78 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
79 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
80 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
81 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
82 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
83 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 645
84 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
85 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 469
86 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 651
87 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
88 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
89 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
90 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 446
91 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 345
92 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1081
93 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1221
94 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 943
95 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 912
96 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
97 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
98 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1105
99 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 532
100 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 958
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