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Least Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
2 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
3 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
4 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 128
5 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
6 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
7 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
8 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
9 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 191
10 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 298
11 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
12 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 276
13 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
14 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
15 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
16 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 227
17 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 386
18 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
19 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 181
20 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 166
21 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
22 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
23 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 180
24 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 456
25 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
26 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 466
27 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
28 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
29 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
30 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
31 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
32 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
33 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 312
34 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 394
35 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 237
36 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 193
37 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 331
38 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 267
39 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
40 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 260
41 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
42 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 451
43 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
44 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 397
45 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 140
46 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 382
47 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 492
48 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 287
49 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 303
50 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
51 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 281
52 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 230
53 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 205
54 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
55 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
56 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 361
57 Andrei Rublev 1969 Andrei Tarkovsky 200
58 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 495
59 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 526
60 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 417
61 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
62 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 521
63 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
64 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 246
65 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 284
66 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
67 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 406
68 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 233
69 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 138
70 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 235
71 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 473
72 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 277
73 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
74 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 589
75 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
76 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 370
77 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 585
78 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 513
79 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
80 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 588
81 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 373
82 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 524
83 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 447
84 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 250
85 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 440
86 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 470
87 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 288
88 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 538
89 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 353
90 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
91 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 414
92 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 402
93 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 643
94 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 687
95 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 765
96 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 369
97 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 367
98 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 316
99 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 579
100 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
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