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Least Highbrow Films (#101-225)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
102 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 711
103 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1070
104 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
105 Animal House 1978 John Landis 299
106 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
107 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 481
108 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 372
109 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 804
110 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 666
111 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 362
112 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 691
113 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 999
114 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
115 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 621
116 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 608
117 Carousel 1956 Henry King 1162
118 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1156
119 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 360
120 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 467
121 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 344
122 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 530
123 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 753
124 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 624
125 Norma Rae 1979 Martin Ritt 980
126 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
127 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 562
128 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 411
129 South Pacific 1958 Joshua Logan 1391
130 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 231
131 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 343
132 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 401
133 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1240
134 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 832
135 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
136 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 863
137 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001 Chris Columbus 692
138 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 690
139 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1091
140 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 928
141 The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 Cecil B. DeMille 1583
142 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1728
143 Bambi 1942 David Hand 323
144 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 431
145 The Way We Were 1973 Sydney Pollack 842
146 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 1158
147 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 898
148 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1314
149 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
150 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 418
151 Easter Parade 1948 Charles Walters 1437
152 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 941
153 The Bad News Bears 1976 Michael Ritchie 807
154 Roxanne 1987 Fred Schepisi 993
155 The Great Ziegfeld 1936 Robert Z. Leonard 1562
156 Evita 1996 Alan Parker 1428
157 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 224
158 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
159 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
160 High Society 1956 Charles Walters 1263
161 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 413
162 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 268
163 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 387
164 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 301
165 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 438
166 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 445
167 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles Barton 857
168 White Christmas 1954 Michael Curtiz 1580
169 Porgy and Bess 1959 Otto Preminger 2060
170 Cool Runnings 1993 Jon Turteltaub 1309
171 Rudy 1993 David Anspaugh 1295
172 Old Yeller 1957 Robert Stevenson 1340
173 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 496
174 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 449
175 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund 852
176 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 911
177 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 346
178 Steel Magnolias 1989 Herbert Ross 1239
179 Calamity Jane 1953 David Butler 1686
180 Kiss Me Kate 1953 George Sidney 1620
181 Road to Morocco 1942 David Butler 1212
182 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 723
183 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 641
184 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1187
185 An Officer and a Gentleman 1982 Taylor Hackford 1134
186 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 784
187 Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 Chris Columbus 1388
188 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 1003
189 Fame 1980 Alan Parker 1486
190 Brian's Song 1971 Buzz Kulik 1006
191 The Robe 1953 Henry Koster 1645
192 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 1989 Joe Johnston 2053
193 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 607
194 The Howling 1981 Joe Dante 1698
195 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 399
196 Dark Victory 1939 Edmund Goulding 1113
197 Working Girl 1988 Mike Nichols 789
198 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 935
199 Stuart Little 1999 Rob Minkoff 1616
200 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
201 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 451
202 Annie 1982 John Huston 2110
203 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 1288
204 The Longest Yard 1974 Robert Aldrich 854
205 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 964
206 My Best Friend's Wedding 1997 P.J. Hogan 1270
207 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 614
208 Places in the Heart 1984 Robert Benton 1350
209 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 985
210 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 507
211 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 1356
212 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 783
213 Swiss Family Robinson 1960 Ken Annakin 2016
214 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427
215 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 876
216 The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 716
217 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg 1577
218 Jason and the Argonauts 1963 Don Chaffey 715
219 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
220 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 1027
221 Holiday Inn 1942 Mark Sandrich 1781
222 North Dallas Forty 1979 Ted Kotcheff 961
223 Quo Vadis 1951 Mervyn LeRoy 1871
224 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 1058
225 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 1038
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