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Least Popular Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
2 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
3 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
4 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
5 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
6 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
7 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
8 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
9 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
10 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
11 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
12 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
13 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
14 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
15 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
16 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
17 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
18 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
19 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
20 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
21 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
22 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
23 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
24 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
25 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
26 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
27 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
28 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
29 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
30 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
31 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
32 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
33 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
34 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
35 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
36 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
37 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
38 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
39 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
40 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
41 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
42 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
43 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
44 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
45 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
46 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
47 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
48 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 499
49 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 871
50 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 219
51 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 772
52 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
53 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
54 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
55 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
56 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 909
57 Things to Come 1936 William Cameron Menzies 1022
58 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
59 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 337
60 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
61 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 679
62 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
63 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
64 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 580
65 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
66 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
67 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
68 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 762
69 Dark Star 1974 John Carpenter 897
70 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
71 Silent Running 1972 Douglas Trumbull 1056
72 20,000 Leagues under the Sea 1954 Richard Fleischer 1159
73 The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976 Nicolas Roeg 765
74 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
75 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
76 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
77 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
78 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1650
79 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
80 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 309
81 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
82 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 427
83 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
84 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
85 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
86 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2254
87 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 743
88 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
89 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
90 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
91 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 944
92 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
93 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 212
94 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
95 Galaxy Quest 1999 Dean Parisot 810
96 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 734
97 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 483
98 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
99 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
100 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
101 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
102 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 664
103 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
104 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 817
105 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 505
106 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
107 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
108 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 411
109 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
110 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 180
111 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
112 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1040
113 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
114 It Came from Outer Space 1953 Jack Arnold 2313
115 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 2000
116 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
117 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
118 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1188
119 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 1500
120 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 884
121 The Brother from Another Planet 1984 John Sayles 1548
122 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Jack Arnold 783
123 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 790
124 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
125 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 874
126 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
127 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 370
128 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
129 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
130 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 545
131 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 713
132 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 1068
133 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
134 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
135 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise 2011
136 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
137 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 1028
138 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
139 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 490
140 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 413
141 Logan's Run 1976 Michael Anderson 1580
142 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
143 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 913
144 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
145 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
146 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
147 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
148 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 452
149 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 841
150 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
151 The Damned 1962 Joseph Losey 2430
152 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 595
153 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 549
154 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 597
155 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1178
156 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 899
157 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
158 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
159 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1268
160 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1212
161 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
162 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
163 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
164 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1024
165 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 362
166 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 542
167 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 688
168 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish 1857
169 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 665
170 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1281
171 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter 1066
172 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
173 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
174 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 1079
175 Destination Moon 1950 Irving Pichel 2359
176 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1001
177 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
178 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 644
179 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 937
180 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 803
181 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 707
182 This Island Earth 1955 Joseph M. Newman 2513
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