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Least Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 676
202 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 1019
203 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 649
204 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 1072
205 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 576
206 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
207 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 817
208 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 773
209 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 758
210 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 663
211 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 1116
212 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 714
213 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 952
214 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
215 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 494
216 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
217 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 518
218 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg 1173
219 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 735
220 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
221 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 489
222 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 570
223 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 247
224 Close Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 736
225 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 716
226 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 390
227 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 1014
228 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 616
229 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 973
230 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 354
231 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 534
232 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 416
233 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1260
234 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 834
235 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 788
236 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1114
237 Slacker 1991 Richard Linklater 1151
238 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 605
239 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 514
240 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
241 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
242 The Howling 1981 Joe Dante 1815
243 The Eclipse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 794
244 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1112
245 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
246 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 1189
247 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 648
248 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 810
249 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 289
250 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1299
251 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1301
252 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 486
253 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 512
254 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 956
255 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 657
256 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 1041
257 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1113
258 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 1037
259 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson 1364
260 October 1928 Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 766
261 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
262 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 472
263 Snatch. 2000 Guy Ritchie 1176
264 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 261
265 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
266 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 613
267 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1077
268 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 911
269 If.… 1968 Lindsay Anderson 533
270 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 769
271 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 1171
272 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 931
273 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1107
274 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 982
275 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1222
276 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 877
277 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1154
278 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 1001
279 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 1047
280 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1034
281 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 210
282 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 543
283 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 926
284 Things to Come 1936 William Cameron Menzies 1232
285 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1214
286 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
287 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1110
288 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears 637
289 In the Company of Men 1997 Neil LaBute 1363
290 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 849
291 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 1061
292 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 997
293 Swingers 1996 Doug Liman 831
294 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 567
295 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 1906
296 The City of Lost Children 1995 Marc Caro and Jean-Marie Jeunet 1270
297 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1471
298 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 915
299 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
300 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 750
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