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Least Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Brighton Rock 1947 John Boulting 925
202 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 896
203 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 462
204 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 593
205 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 1258
206 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1360
207 Team America: World Police 2004 Trey Parker 1236
208 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 968
209 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 497
210 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 1322
211 Gregory's Girl 1981 Bill Forsyth 626
212 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 431
213 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1311
214 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 611
215 The Goonies 1985 Richard Donner 1036
216 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 303
217 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1683
218 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 858
219 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1067
220 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 669
221 The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Atom Egoyan 512
222 Cruel Intentions 1999 Roger Kumble 1230
223 Spider-Man 2 2004 Sam Raimi 765
224 Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan 1982 Nicholas Meyer 507
225 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 189
226 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 658
227 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 561
228 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 1048
229 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 584
230 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 1379
231 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 1079
232 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 1143
233 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 355
234 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 1000
235 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 695
236 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 452
237 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1252
238 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 617
239 Quadrophenia 1979 Franc Roddam 1439
240 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 464
241 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 875
242 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 703
243 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1206
244 Best in Show 2000 Christopher Guest 822
245 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 1127
246 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 420
247 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 1182
248 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1238
249 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 544
250 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 1634
251 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak 1290
252 300 2006 Zack Snyder 1393
253 Buffalo '66 1998 Vincent Gallo 1291
254 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 687
255 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 439
256 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 776
257 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1720
258 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 907
259 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
260 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 629
261 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 899
262 Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson 1545
263 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1281
264 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 602
265 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 661
266 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 559
267 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 1165
268 Xala 1975 Ousmane Sembene 1234
269 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 505
270 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 859
271 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 386
272 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603
273 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1050
274 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 378
275 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Jirí Menzel 664
276 Gods and Monsters 1998 Bill Condon 1369
277 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 900
278 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 1376
279 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1072
280 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 887
281 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 613
282 Showgirls 1995 Paul Verhoeven 1293
283 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 650
284 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 856
285 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1566
286 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 215
287 24 Hour Party People 2002 Michael Winterbottom 1370
288 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 419
289 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 415
290 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 454
291 In the Company of Men 1997 Neil LaBute 1424
292 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1328
293 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1144
294 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 965
295 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1161
296 The School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater 1294
297 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1155
298 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 539
299 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 457
300 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1846
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