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Least Popular Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 114
2 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 80
3 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 74
4 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 85
5 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 58
6 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 145
7 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 136
8 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 173
9 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 92
10 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 36
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 46
12 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 97
13 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 54
14 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 65
15 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 39
16 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
17 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 160
18 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
19 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 181
20 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 75
21 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 53
22 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 167
23 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 44
24 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 131
25 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 137
26 Shane 1953 George Stevens 162
27 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 226
28 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 90
29 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 81
30 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 122
31 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 133
32 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 153
33 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 194
34 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
35 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 106
36 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 140
37 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 104
38 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
39 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 109
40 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 215
41 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 57
42 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 317
43 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 45
44 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 324
45 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 93
46 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 51
47 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
48 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 363
49 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 247
50 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 68
51 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 130
52 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 177
53 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 381
54 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 245
55 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 286
56 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 521
57 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 77
58 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 25
59 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
60 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 230
61 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 350
62 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 175
63 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 211
64 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 180
65 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 297
66 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 101
67 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 232
68 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 142
69 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 200
70 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
71 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 418
72 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 105
73 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 465
74 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 250
75 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 348
76 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 442
77 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 266
78 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 126
79 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 71
80 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 416
81 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 508
82 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 355
83 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 82
84 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 174
85 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 405
86 Giant 1956 George Stevens 485
87 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 154
88 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 163
89 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 296
90 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
91 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 271
92 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 179
93 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 150
94 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 643
95 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
96 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 347
97 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 437
98 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
99 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
100 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 498
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