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Least Highbrow Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
2 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
3 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
4 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
5 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
6 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
7 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
8 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
9 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
10 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
11 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
12 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
13 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 252
14 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 187
15 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 213
16 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
17 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
18 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
19 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
20 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 149
21 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
22 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
23 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
24 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
25 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
26 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
27 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 519
28 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
29 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
30 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
31 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
32 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
33 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
34 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 324
35 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
36 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
37 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
38 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 345
39 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
40 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 652
41 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 298
42 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
43 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 416
44 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
45 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
46 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
47 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 778
48 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart 348
49 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
50 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
51 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
52 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 485
53 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 272
54 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
55 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
56 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
57 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 167
58 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 270
59 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 246
60 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 347
61 Funny Girl 1968 William Wyler 628
62 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
63 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 384
64 National Velvet 1944 Clarence Brown 657
65 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 245
66 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
67 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 244
68 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
69 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 269
70 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 801
71 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
72 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 651
73 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 881
74 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
75 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 498
76 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
77 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
78 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 304
79 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
80 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
81 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
82 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
83 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
84 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 739
85 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
86 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 1064
87 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 733
88 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 671
89 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 630
90 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
91 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 955
92 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes 1112
93 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 171
94 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 514
95 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
96 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
97 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 777
98 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 471
99 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 627
100 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
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