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Least Mainstream Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
2 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 374
3 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
4 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
5 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 230
6 The Iron Giant 1999 Brad Bird 296
7 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 223
8 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
9 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
10 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 260
11 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 308
12 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
13 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
14 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 487
15 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
16 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 516
17 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
18 Let the Right One in 2008 Tomas Alfredson 395
19 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
20 Fantastic Planet 1973 René Laloux 728
21 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 329
22 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
23 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 347
24 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 407
25 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 660
26 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 324
27 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 549
28 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp 518
29 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 297
30 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 277
31 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 570
32 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 485
33 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 483
34 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
35 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright 608
36 Howl's Moving Castle 2004 Hayao Miyazaki 573
37 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 472
38 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 457
39 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 750
40 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 837
41 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 782
42 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 814
43 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 349
44 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 694
45 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 601
46 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg 765
47 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 600
48 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick 717
49 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 567
50 The Killer 1989 John Woo 437
51 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 511
52 Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams 623
53 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 403
54 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 364
55 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
56 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak 685
57 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker 565
58 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 439
59 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 810
60 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 343
61 Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon 1168
62 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
63 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 469
64 How to Train Your Dragon 2010 Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders 502
65 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 553
66 The Intouchables 2011 Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano 802
67 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 255
68 Trading Places 1983 John Landis 632
69 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 849
70 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 Larry Charles 458
71 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 635
72 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 442
73 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 Steve Box and Nick Park 563
74 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 369
75 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 491
76 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
77 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 400
78 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 397
79 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 599
80 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 390
81 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 673
82 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
83 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
84 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 323
85 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
86 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 800
87 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 547
88 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
89 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 552
90 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 891
91 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 1058
92 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 594
93 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 406
94 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 417
95 Love and Death 1975 Woody Allen 1088
96 Aladdin 1992 Ron Clements and John Musker 535
97 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 704
98 The Hangover 2009 Todd Phillips 844
99 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 705
100 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
101 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
102 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 939
103 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
104 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 135
105 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie 556
106 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 624
107 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess 690
108 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 747
109 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 274
110 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 525
111 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 944
112 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 607
113 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 555
114 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1011
115 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
116 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 795
117 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 430
118 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
119 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 446
120 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
121 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker 936
122 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 654
123 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 418
124 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 580
125 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1080
126 They Live 1988 John Carpenter 1164
127 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 453
128 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 777
129 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 897
130 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
131 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 476
132 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 817
133 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 793
134 Amour 2012 Michael Haneke 725
135 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 398
136 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 946
137 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 326
138 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 656
139 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 909
140 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
141 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 676
142 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 561
143 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
144 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 970
145 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 843
146 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 498
147 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 316
148 Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989 Hayao Miyazaki 1305
149 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 313
150 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
151 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 898
152 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 461
153 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
154 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 393
155 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
156 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
157 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 579
158 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh 846
159 The Hunt 2012 Thomas Vinterberg 1077
160 In the Loop 2009 Armando Iannucci 1311
161 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1034
162 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 434
163 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 431
164 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1069
165 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
166 The Lego Movie 2014 Phil Lord and Christopher Miller 918
167 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 512
168 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 420
169 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 384
170 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 729
171 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1095
172 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 593
173 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 969
174 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 506
175 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
176 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 352
177 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
178 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 919
179 The City of Lost Children 1995 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 990
180 Braindead 1992 Peter Jackson 1358
181 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
182 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 650
183 Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon 1317
184 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 653
185 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1203
186 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 808
187 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 840
188 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Ki-duk Kim 1098
189 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 889
190 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1389
191 Swingers 1996 Doug Liman 1103
192 Kung Fu Panda 2008 Mark Osborne and John Stevenson 1327
193 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning 731
194 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 499
195 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland 1983
196 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
197 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1493
198 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
199 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 773
200 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 376
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