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Least Popular Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
2 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
3 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
4 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
5 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
6 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
7 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
8 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
9 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
10 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
11 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
12 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
13 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
14 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
15 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
16 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
17 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
18 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
19 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
20 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
21 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
22 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
23 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
24 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
25 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
26 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
27 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
28 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
29 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 146
30 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 392
31 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
32 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
33 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
34 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 350
35 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
36 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
37 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
38 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
39 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
40 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
41 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 429
42 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
43 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
44 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
45 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 418
46 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 458
47 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
48 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
49 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
50 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
51 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
52 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
53 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
54 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 289
55 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
56 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
57 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
58 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 525
59 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
60 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 538
61 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
62 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 469
63 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
64 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 258
65 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 193
66 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
67 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
68 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 217
69 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
70 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
71 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
72 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
73 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 690
74 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
75 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
76 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
77 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 435
78 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 399
79 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
80 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 487
81 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 574
82 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
83 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
84 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
85 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 382
86 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
87 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 515
88 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
89 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 376
90 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
91 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 139
92 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
93 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
94 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 294
95 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 204
96 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 506
97 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 654
98 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 691
99 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 269
100 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 623
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