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Least Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 896
102 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 422
103 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 376
104 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 689
105 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 876
106 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 658
107 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 423
108 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 932
109 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 511
110 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 139
111 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 348
112 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 398
113 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
114 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 846
115 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 756
116 The Conqueror Worm 1968 Michael Reeves 812
117 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 888
118 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 848
119 Jeanne Dielman 1976 Chantal Akerman 661
120 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 723
121 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 484
122 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 465
123 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
124 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
125 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 612
126 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 293
127 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 697
128 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 840
129 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie 761
130 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 552
131 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 157
132 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 459
133 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 231
134 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 519
135 Braindead 1992 Peter Jackson 1103
136 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 468
137 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1212
138 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 562
139 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 314
140 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 496
141 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 593
142 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 W.D. Richter 855
143 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 194
144 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
145 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 731
146 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 321
147 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 786
148 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 502
149 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
150 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 816
151 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
152 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
153 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 607
154 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 351
155 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 776
156 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 821
157 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 336
158 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 477
159 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 479
160 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1157
161 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 345
162 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 679
163 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 565
164 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 278
165 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 292
166 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 1005
167 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 449
168 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 199
169 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 339
170 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 631
171 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 525
172 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1084
173 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 727
174 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 791
175 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 430
176 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 510
177 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 1097
178 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 174
179 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 768
180 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
181 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 873
182 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 634
183 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 574
184 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 478
185 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 1020
186 Predator 1987 John McTiernan 986
187 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 352
188 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 747
189 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 925
190 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 847
191 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 177
192 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 241
193 Delicatessen 1991 Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet 662
194 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 215
195 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 377
196 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 793
197 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 858
198 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 497
199 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 366
200 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 592
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