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Top Mainstream Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
3 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 11
4 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1
5 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 8
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 10
7 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 14
8 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
9 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
10 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 21
11 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 17
12 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 4
13 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 23
14 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
15 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 25
16 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 16
17 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 13
18 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 41
19 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 9
20 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 39
21 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 19
22 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 45
23 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
24 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 24
25 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
26 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 31
27 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 28
28 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 6
29 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
30 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 46
31 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
32 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 12
33 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 44
34 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 66
35 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
36 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 29
37 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 35
38 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 22
39 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
40 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 64
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
42 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 48
43 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
44 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 52
45 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 40
46 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 30
47 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 33
48 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
49 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 60
50 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 26
51 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 69
52 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 53
53 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 38
54 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 61
55 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
56 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 43
57 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 72
58 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 58
59 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
60 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 65
61 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 73
62 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 81
63 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 109
64 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
65 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 32
66 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 59
67 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 85
68 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 100
69 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 68
70 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
71 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 78
72 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 76
73 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
74 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 125
75 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 91
76 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 118
77 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 70
78 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
79 M 1931 Fritz Lang 84
80 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 56
81 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 142
82 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 75
83 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 86
84 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 82
85 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 50
86 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 95
87 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 108
88 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 54
89 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 88
90 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 117
91 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
92 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
93 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 74
94 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 190
95 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 116
96 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 62
97 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 121
98 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
99 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 96
100 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 99
101 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
102 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 131
103 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 127
104 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 124
105 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 103
106 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
107 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 138
108 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
109 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 120
110 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 192
111 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 97
112 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 218
113 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 135
114 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
115 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 92
116 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 89
117 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 273
118 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 47
119 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 105
120 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 188
121 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 145
122 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 152
123 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 133
124 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 157
125 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 237
126 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 55
127 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 80
128 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 126
129 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 94
130 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 115
131 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 165
132 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 200
133 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 104
134 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 161
135 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 171
136 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
137 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 222
138 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 93
139 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 162
140 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 146
141 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 98
142 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 308
143 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 150
144 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 129
145 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
146 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 77
147 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 182
148 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 362
149 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 128
150 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 158
151 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
152 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 220
153 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 245
154 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 110
155 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 113
156 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 235
157 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 107
158 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 172
159 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 166
160 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 155
161 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 106
162 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 253
163 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 233
164 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 191
165 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 217
166 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 111
167 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 278
168 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 186
169 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
170 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
171 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 343
172 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
173 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 209
174 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 215
175 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 243
176 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
177 Up 2009 Pete Docter 112
178 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 180
179 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 178
180 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 275
181 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 198
182 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 269
183 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 183
184 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 236
185 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 391
186 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 265
187 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
188 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 258
189 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 63
190 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 281
191 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 264
192 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 223
193 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 339
194 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 246
195 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 140
196 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 234
197 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 123
198 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 244
199 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 216
200 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 164
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