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Least Mainstream Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 408
202 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 798
203 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
204 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 409
205 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
206 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
207 Into the Wild 2007 Sean Penn 870
208 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 504
209 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1040
210 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 353
211 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 1647
212 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 966
213 The 40 Year Old Virgin 2005 Judd Apatow 609
214 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 721
215 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman 522
216 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 Alfonso Cuarón 449
217 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 646
218 Silent Running 1972 Douglas Trumbull 1056
219 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
220 Carlito's Way 1993 Brian De Palma 804
221 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 1603
222 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1580
223 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel 895
224 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 806
225 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 414
226 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1348
227 Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Doug Liman 1421
228 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 243
229 Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki 1608
230 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
231 Porco Rosso 1992 Hayao Miyazaki 1737
232 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer 1338
233 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
234 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
235 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
236 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 787
237 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 715
238 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro 945
239 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 532
240 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 436
241 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki 1591
242 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 700
243 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 657
244 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 887
245 Tangled 2010 Nathan Greno and Byron Howard 1129
246 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 614
247 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1078
248 Wreck-It Ralph 2012 Rich Moore 1576
249 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 756
250 The Cranes are Flying 1957 Mikheil Kalatozishvili 931
251 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
252 Iron Man 2008 Jon Favreau 537
253 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1312
254 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 852
255 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 428
256 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass 737
257 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
258 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 888
259 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 902
260 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1388
261 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 736
262 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1562
263 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 541
264 Zootopia 2016 Byron Howard and Rich Moore 1039
265 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 639
266 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1082
267 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 631
268 National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Harold Ramis 1516
269 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1719
270 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 455
271 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg 1132
272 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall 1228
273 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve 1223
274 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
275 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 588
276 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 1271
277 Bridesmaids 2011 Paul Feig 724
278 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 783
279 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 816
280 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1004
281 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
282 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 1190
283 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 703
284 Coming to America 1988 John Landis 1042
285 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
286 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1097
287 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood 577
288 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1202
289 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1224
290 Despicable Me 2010 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud 1324
291 Things to Come 1936 William Cameron Menzies 1022
292 The Raid: Redemption 2011 Gareth Evans 1331
293 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
294 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 1083
295 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1399
296 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 Frank Oz 1227
297 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish 1857
298 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 621
299 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 789
300 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1316
301 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1417
302 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
303 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 875
304 The Host 2006 Bong Joon Ho 1298
305 The Gleaners & I 2000 Agnès Varda 926
306 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 421
307 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 515
308 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 205
309 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 509
310 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero 1314
311 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1170
312 The Orphanage 2007 J.A. Bayona 1131
313 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 596
314 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher 1542
315 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 943
316 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
317 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 682
318 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 927
319 Your Name 2016 Makoto Shinkai 1571
320 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1173
321 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 663
322 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 722
323 World on a Wire 1973 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2240
324 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
325 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
326 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black 1101
327 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1598
328 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 438
329 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 878
330 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 497
331 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde 1353
332 X-Men: First Class 2011 Matthew Vaughn 1449
333 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 468
334 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 785
335 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson 963
336 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 348
337 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 775
338 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 864
339 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1350
340 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 528
341 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
342 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow 1070
343 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 638
344 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 871
345 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1281
346 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 Edgar Wright 1330
347 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
348 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Niels Arden Oplev 2292
349 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1112
350 Days of Being Wild 1990 Kar-Wai Wong 1597
351 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1672
352 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 1278
353 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy 1636
354 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1162
355 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1645
356 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1198
357 Lilja 4-ever 2002 Lukas Moodysson 1414
358 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1226
359 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 916
360 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1222
361 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 1086
362 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 671
363 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 830
364 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 1291
365 Four Lions 2010 Christopher Morris 1856
366 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 797
367 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 780
368 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 1072
369 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 David Yates 484
370 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 984
371 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1221
372 300 2006 Zack Snyder 666
373 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1390
374 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 Jim Jarmusch 1093
375 Friday 1995 F. Gary Gray 1560
376 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1596
377 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1393
378 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1119
379 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 1320
380 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 257
381 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
382 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 610
383 Whisper of the Heart 1995 Yoshifumi Kondo 2004
384 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1769
385 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 853
386 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 994
387 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 1005
388 Kick-Ass 2010 Matthew Vaughn 1341
389 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 1049
390 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 1332
391 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1455
392 Big Hero 6 2014 Don Hall and Chris Williams 1315
393 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1547
394 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 745
395 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky 1541
396 Wet Hot American Summer 2001 David Wain 1381
397 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 1333
398 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 389
399 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
400 Frozen 2013 Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee 940
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