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Least Mainstream Films (#401-630)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 893
402 [Rec] 2007 Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza 1444
403 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 674
404 Open Your Eyes 1997 Alejandro Amenábar 1466
405 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 637
406 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac 1817
407 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1299
408 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1171
409 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
410 The Death of Mister Lazarescu 2005 Cristi Puiu 1509
411 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1297
412 The Sea Inside 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1232
413 Dumbo 1941 Ben Sharpsteen 616
414 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1783
415 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
416 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel 1166
417 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1522
418 3-Iron 2004 Ki-duk Kim 1969
419 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 881
420 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1514
421 Back to the Future Part III 1990 Robert Zemeckis 1697
422 Only Yesterday 1991 Isao Takahata 2051
423 American Pie 1999 Paul Weitz 1026
424 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 763
425 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1260
426 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 564
427 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon 2133
428 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
429 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
430 Control 2007 Anton Corbijn 1775
431 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Mamoru Hosoda 2053
432 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg 988
433 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 820
434 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1744
435 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
436 The Butterfly Effect 2004 Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber 1405
437 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick 1771
438 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 333
439 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 533
440 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 1161
441 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
442 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1107
443 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
444 Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali 2123
445 The Man with Two Brains 1983 Carl Reiner 1702
446 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola 1094
447 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
448 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 935
449 The Secret of Kells 2009 Tomm Moore 1999
450 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 James Gunn 648
451 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 883
452 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 928
453 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1021
454 Chicken Run 2000 Peter Lord and Nick Park 962
455 Saw 2004 James Wan 1158
456 The Face of Another 1966 Hiroshi Teshigahara 2397
457 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 576
458 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
459 Histoire(s) du cinéma Jean-Luc Godard 1184
460 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 917
461 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1092
462 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 373
463 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 890
464 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 327
465 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
466 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 998
467 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki 1422
468 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 973
469 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1188
470 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1582
471 True Romance 1993 Tony Scott 768
472 Tokyo Godfathers 2003 Satoshi Kon 1869
473 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1010
474 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 759
475 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
476 Broadway Danny Rose 1984 Woody Allen 1461
477 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1178
478 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1062
479 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1344
480 Slacker 1990 Richard Linklater 1207
481 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik 1000
482 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 1120
483 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
484 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 Jean-Marc Vallée 1662
485 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
486 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 281
487 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1141
488 Desperado 1995 Robert Rodriguez 1613
489 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky 1801
490 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax 2112
491 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1193
492 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1536
493 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1409
494 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
495 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 792
496 Anomalisa 2015 Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman 2061
497 Tampopo 1985 Juzo Itami 1579
498 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1484
499 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1267
500 eXistenZ 1999 David Cronenberg 2391
501 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 952
502 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 640
503 Equilibrium 2002 Kurt Wimmer 2091
504 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 454
505 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky 475
506 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 652
507 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer 1561
508 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang 1521
509 The Illusionist 2010 Sylvain Chomet 2356
510 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 630
511 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh 1883
512 Life of Pi 2012 Ang Lee 1111
513 Alice in the Cities 1974 Wim Wenders 1375
514 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
515 Incendies 2010 Denis Villeneuve 1829
516 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 546
517 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 598
518 Pride & Prejudice 2005 Joe Wright 1208
519 Dune 1984 David Lynch 2034
520 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton 873
521 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1416
522 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 1264
523 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter 989
524 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1187
525 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Bryan Singer 1575
526 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 1052
527 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1764
528 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 1165
529 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
530 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 Lasse Hallström 1490
531 Ip Man 2008 Wilson Yip 1594
532 Old School 2003 Todd Phillips 1408
533 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 508
534 Twin Peaks Pilot 1990 David Lynch 2301
535 The School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater 1256
536 Lady Vengeance 2005 Chan-wook Park 2227
537 Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest 999
538 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 854
539 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
540 Spaceballs 1987 Mel Brooks 1931
541 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 995
542 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1415
543 Eat Drink Man Woman 1994 Ang Lee 1362
544 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1325
545 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1149
546 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 680
547 3 Idiots 2009 Rajkumar Hirani 1750
548 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1650
549 Titicut Follies 1967 Frederick Wiseman 920
550 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1492
551 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon 540
552 Lucky Number Slevin 2006 Paul McGuigan 1992
553 How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014 Dean DeBlois 1988
554 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 W.D. Richter 1790
555 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 427
556 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1648
557 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Jee-woon Kim 1933
558 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 John Sayles 1548
559 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 2088
560 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 1626
561 Zombieland 2009 Ruben Fleischer 2217
562 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 2007 Andrew Dominik 681
563 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1507
564 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1096
565 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Jacques Audiard 1563
566 13 Assassins 2010 Takashi Miike 1683
567 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1265
568 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 1259
569 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 520
570 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002 Chan-wook Park 2349
571 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
572 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Rupert Wyatt 2334
573 The Machinist 2004 Brad Anderson 2332
574 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 906
575 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1138
576 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
577 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1071
578 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 866
579 The Skin I Live In 2011 Pedro Almodóvar 2244
580 Robin Hood 1973 Wolfgang Reitherman 2117
581 Happy Gilmore 1996 Dennis Dugan 968
582 Flash Gordon 1980 Mike Hodges 1302
583 The Handmaiden 2016 Chan-wook Park 1632
584 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1459
585 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 2178
586 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
587 Nobody Knows 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda 2073
588 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Mike Newell 827
589 Kanal 1957 Andrzej Wajda 1148
590 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1273
591 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 882
592 127 Hours 2010 Danny Boyle 1738
593 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 443
594 The Great Silence 1968 Sergio Corbucci 1479
595 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 618
596 The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park 1954
597 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1182
598 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 1469
599 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1518
600 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1714
601 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1268
602 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1531
603 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1402
604 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1426
605 Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990 Akira Kurosawa 2285
606 Baraka 1992 Ron Fricke 1720
607 Warrior 2011 Gavin O'Connor 1156
608 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1304
609 Two or Three Things I Know about Her 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1569
610 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 2003 Errol Morris 929
611 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1002
612 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1126
613 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher 1964
614 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 2032
615 Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine 1828
616 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 1159
617 Sunshine 2007 Danny Boyle 1438
618 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1395
619 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 807
620 Platform 2000 Zhangke Jia 1780
621 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 2134
622 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 938
623 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1189
624 Claire's Knee 1970 Eric Rohmer 1367
625 Big Trouble in Little China 1986 John Carpenter 1699
626 The Wind Rises 2013 Hayao Miyazaki 2422
627 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
628 A Short Film about Love 1988 Teresa Violetta Buhl, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and Pawel Rzepkowski 2046
629 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1060
630 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1225
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