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Least Popular Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
3 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
4 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
5 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
6 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
7 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
8 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
9 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
10 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
11 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
12 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
13 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
14 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
15 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
16 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
17 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
18 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 119
19 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
20 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
21 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
22 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
23 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
24 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
25 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
26 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
27 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
28 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
29 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
30 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
31 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
32 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
33 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
34 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
35 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
36 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
37 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
38 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
39 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
40 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
41 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
42 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
43 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
44 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
45 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
46 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
47 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
48 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
49 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
50 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
51 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
52 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
53 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
54 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
55 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 258
56 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
57 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
58 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 462
59 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
60 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
61 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
62 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
63 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
64 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
65 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
66 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
67 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 426
68 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
69 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
70 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 344
71 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
72 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
73 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
74 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
75 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 541
76 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
77 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
78 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 515
79 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
80 Camille 1936 George Cukor 437
81 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 393
82 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
83 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
84 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
85 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
86 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 244
87 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 450
88 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
89 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
90 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 566
91 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
92 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 444
93 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 578
94 Dinner at Eight 1933 George Cukor 692
95 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
96 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
97 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
98 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
99 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 528
100 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 410
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