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Top Mainstream Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 3
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
4 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 6
5 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 5
6 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
7 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
8 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 37
9 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 20
10 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
11 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 40
12 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
13 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 33
14 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
15 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
16 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
17 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 18
18 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 44
19 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 16
20 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
21 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 41
22 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
23 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 25
24 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 39
25 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
26 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 19
27 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 8
28 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 31
29 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 13
30 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 35
31 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 92
32 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
33 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 23
34 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 24
35 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
36 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 58
37 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 48
38 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 57
39 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 15
40 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 126
41 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
42 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 69
43 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 120
44 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 102
45 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 52
46 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 29
47 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 62
48 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
49 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
50 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 156
51 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 56
52 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
53 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 26
54 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 115
55 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 142
56 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 109
57 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 89
58 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
59 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 124
60 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 145
61 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
62 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 108
63 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
64 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 30
65 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 49
66 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
67 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 106
68 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 88
69 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 114
70 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 146
71 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 36
72 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 128
73 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 79
74 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
75 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
76 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
77 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
78 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
79 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
80 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
81 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 21
82 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 125
83 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
84 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
85 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 104
86 Shane 1953 George Stevens 200
87 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 70
88 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
89 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 138
90 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 119
91 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 72
92 M 1931 Fritz Lang 75
93 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 152
94 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 73
95 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
96 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 172
97 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 43
98 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 198
99 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
100 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 154
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