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Least Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 83
2 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 212
3 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
4 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 173
5 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 117
6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
7 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 227
8 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 183
9 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 182
10 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 66
11 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 147
12 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
13 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
14 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 136
15 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 351
16 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 150
17 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
18 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 282
19 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
20 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 271
21 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 174
22 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 322
23 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
24 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 219
25 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 113
26 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 239
27 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 575
28 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 176
29 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 302
30 Seven 1995 David Fincher 112
31 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 254
32 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
33 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 286
34 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 132
35 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 165
36 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 394
37 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 310
38 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
39 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
40 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 592
41 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
42 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 178
43 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 339
44 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 278
45 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 267
46 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 216
47 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 433
48 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 295
49 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 341
50 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 284
51 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 232
52 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 293
53 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 441
54 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 379
55 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 353
56 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
57 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 480
58 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 701
59 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 684
60 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 430
61 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 315
62 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
63 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 373
64 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 434
65 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 188
66 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 632
67 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 280
68 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie 740
69 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 655
70 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 516
71 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 549
72 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
73 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 402
74 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 359
75 The Killer 1989 John Woo 398
76 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
77 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
78 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 774
79 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 450
80 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 474
81 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 560
82 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 377
83 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 563
84 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 495
85 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 748
86 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1039
87 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 550
88 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 287
89 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 291
90 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 917
91 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess 1015
92 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 317
93 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 314
94 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 210
95 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 499
96 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 814
97 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 745
98 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 693
99 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 501
100 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 851
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