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Least Popular Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
2 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
3 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
4 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
5 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
6 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
7 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 138
8 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 117
9 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
10 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 53
11 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 40
12 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 78
13 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
14 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
15 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
16 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
17 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 69
18 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
19 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 33
20 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 161
21 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
22 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 131
23 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 65
24 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
25 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
26 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
27 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
28 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 16
29 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
30 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
31 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
32 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 369
33 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
34 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 155
35 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 17
36 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
37 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
38 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 86
39 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 281
40 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 70
41 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 99
42 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 239
43 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 152
44 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 287
45 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
46 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
47 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
48 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
49 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
50 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 183
51 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 61
52 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 240
53 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
54 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 158
55 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 216
56 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 332
57 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 254
58 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 365
59 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 473
60 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
61 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
62 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 171
63 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 321
64 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 10
65 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 508
66 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
67 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 180
68 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
69 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 514
70 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
71 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
72 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 456
73 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 319
74 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
75 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
76 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 328
77 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
78 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 128
79 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
80 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
81 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 386
82 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
83 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 337
84 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
85 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 352
86 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
87 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 966
88 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
89 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 739
90 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 414
91 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 542
92 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 793
93 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
94 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 593
95 M 1931 Fritz Lang 84
96 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 434
97 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 243
98 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 433
99 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 806
100 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 799
101 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 485
102 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 801
103 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 752
104 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 587
105 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 939
106 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 715
107 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 531
108 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 833
109 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 571
110 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1097
111 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 368
112 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
113 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
114 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 898
115 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 1777
116 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 570
117 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 360
118 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 568
119 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1669
120 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1154
121 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 150
122 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 303
123 Ceddo 1977 Ousmane Sembene 2169
124 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1692
125 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
126 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1120
127 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
128 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 1258
129 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 823
130 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 922
131 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
132 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
133 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 835
134 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 492
135 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 861
136 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 651
137 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 845
138 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 621
139 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 554
140 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
141 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 449
142 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 477
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