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Top Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
4 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
5 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 6
6 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 12
7 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
8 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 11
9 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
10 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
11 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 29
12 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
13 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 35
14 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 8
15 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 13
16 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 14
17 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
18 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
19 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 7
20 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 38
21 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
22 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
23 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 24
24 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
25 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
26 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
27 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 37
28 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
29 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
30 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 17
31 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
32 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 21
33 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 69
34 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 71
35 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 52
36 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 41
37 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 53
38 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
39 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 68
40 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
41 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 99
42 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 96
43 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 32
44 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 57
45 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 120
46 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 20
47 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 109
48 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 81
49 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
50 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
51 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
52 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
53 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
54 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 84
55 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 31
56 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
57 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
58 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 100
59 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 87
60 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
61 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 85
62 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 72
63 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 62
64 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 101
65 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
66 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 119
67 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 117
68 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
69 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
70 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
71 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
72 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 152
73 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
74 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
75 Shane 1953 George Stevens 146
76 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
77 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
78 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 75
79 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
80 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 150
81 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
82 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 48
83 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
84 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 114
85 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 179
86 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 169
87 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 178
88 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 186
89 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 158
90 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
91 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 132
92 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 107
93 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 80
94 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
95 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 46
96 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 113
97 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
98 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
99 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
100 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 125
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