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Least Mainstream Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 748
202 The Lobster 2015 Yorgos Lanthimos 1534
203 Ant-Man 2015 Peyton Reed 1556
204 The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher 1059
205 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 627
206 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 697
207 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
208 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 1039
209 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1010
210 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 610
211 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 600
212 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 338
213 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder 1054
214 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 372
215 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 812
216 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1156
217 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 919
218 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 946
219 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
220 Kubo and the Two Strings 2016 Travis Knight 1058
221 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 950
222 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 694
223 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1222
224 The Conjuring 2013 James Wan 942
225 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 789
226 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 992
227 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 579
228 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 791
229 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 442
230 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning 870
231 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1428
232 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 1265
233 Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier 1548
234 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 262
235 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann 488
236 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 1063
237 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1353
238 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 141
239 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
240 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 960
241 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 440
242 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 971
243 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow 897
244 Raw 2016 Julia Ducournau 1323
245 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 674
246 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 692
247 The Batman 2022 Matt Reeves 1885
248 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 759
249 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi 1398
250 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1522
251 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1133
252 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
253 Frozen 2013 Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee 465
254 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1327
255 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola 677
256 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg 1015
257 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1590
258 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 737
259 Midsommar 2019 Ari Aster 943
260 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter 1748
261 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 790
262 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 1455
263 13 Assassins 2010 Takashi Miike 1685
264 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 843
265 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1247
266 The School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater 977
267 John Wick 2014 Chad Stahelski 1167
268 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 688
269 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon 1716
270 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 984
271 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1514
272 Incredibles 2 2018 Brad Bird 1582
273 Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi 2017 Rian Johnson 938
274 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton 1017
275 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax 1652
276 Despicable Me 2010 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud 1285
277 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik 709
278 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
279 Doctor Strange 2016 Scott Derrickson 1810
280 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 1168
281 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 438
282 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring 2003 Kim Ki-duk 1064
283 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse 1172
284 The Suicide Squad 2021 James Gunn 2093
285 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1142
286 Soul 2020 Pete Docter 1130
287 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1352
288 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1468
289 Sleeping Beauty 1959 Clyde Geronimi 847
290 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 1286
291 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 834
292 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1085
293 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 435
294 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 680
295 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 490
296 The Mist 2007 Frank Darabont 1480
297 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 962
298 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1358
299 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1686
300 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 885
301 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1127
302 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 713
303 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 948
304 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn 469
305 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 519
306 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 1070
307 Saw 2004 James Wan 828
308 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 605
309 Pulse 2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1664
310 Fish Tank 2009 Andrea Arnold 1158
311 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 707
312 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
313 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 Brad Bird 1615
314 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter 1057
315 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 247
316 Thor 2011 Kenneth Branagh 1732
317 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 James Gunn 1447
318 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 729
319 Kids 1995 Larry Clark 1080
320 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland 849
321 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 493
322 The Gleaners & I 2000 Agnès Varda 927
323 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1115
324 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
325 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 720
326 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1449
327 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 612
328 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel 1048
329 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 996
330 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 1011
331 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1032
332 The Mitchells vs. the Machines 2021 Michael Rianda 1794
333 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1772
334 Iron Man 3 2013 Shane Black 1934
335 Gremlins 1984 Joe Dante 840
336 Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 1093
337 3:10 to Yuma 2007 James Mangold 1195
338 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 363
339 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 869
340 We Need to Talk about Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay 1348
341 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1502
342 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 506
343 300 2006 Zack Snyder 726
344 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 650
345 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1262
346 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1511
347 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 817
348 Flash Gordon 1980 Mike Hodges 1508
349 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 Dean DeBlois 1386
350 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki 1401
351 Tampopo 1985 Jûzô Itami 1246
352 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1491
353 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1071
354 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2086
355 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 628
356 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
357 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 1090
358 Isle of Dogs 2018 Wes Anderson 1742
359 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 379
360 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 908
361 Toy Story 4 2019 Josh Cooley 1448
362 Antichrist 2009 Lars von Trier 1527
363 Elf 2003 Jon Favreau 975
364 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1441
365 Sunshine 2007 Danny Boyle 1360
366 Baby Driver 2017 Edgar Wright 1146
367 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 1019
368 La Femme Nikita 1990 Luc Besson 1760
369 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1210
370 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 961
371 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 685
372 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 616
373 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 1145
374 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 735
375 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 633
376 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 501
377 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno 1407
378 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1061
379 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark 1496
380 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 1774
381 Matilda 1996 Danny DeVito 1495
382 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 441
383 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure 1989 Stephen Herek 1155
384 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 398
385 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 708
386 War for the Planet of the Apes 2017 Matt Reeves 1968
387 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
388 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 666
389 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1301
390 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky 991
391 The Fifth Element 1997 Luc Besson 529
392 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1287
393 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker 721
394 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 821
395 Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali 2290
396 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester 1918
397 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
398 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1744
399 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 1691
400 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
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