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Top Mainstream Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
2 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 5
3 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
4 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2
5 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 3
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 8
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 7
8 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 6
9 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 9
10 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 14
11 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 17
12 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 18
13 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
14 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 10
15 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 21
16 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 19
17 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick 12
18 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 28
19 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 32
20 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
21 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming 15
22 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra 33
23 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 29
24 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 38
25 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 34
26 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg 26
27 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 23
28 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
29 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 11
30 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 20
31 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
32 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 40
33 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg 27
34 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 64
35 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 31
36 All about Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 56
37 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 52
38 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 16
39 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner 36
40 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
41 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
42 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 24
43 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 43
44 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 44
45 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 48
46 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 73
47 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 51
48 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols 59
49 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
50 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 68
51 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
52 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 41
53 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
54 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 100
55 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
56 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 47
57 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 45
58 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
59 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 75
60 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 50
61 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean 94
62 The Matrix 1999 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 35
63 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 77
64 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
65 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
66 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
67 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 67
68 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
69 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
70 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
71 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
72 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston 134
73 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
74 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 97
75 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
76 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 71
77 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
78 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra 92
79 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 107
80 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 83
81 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
82 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 110
83 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
84 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood 95
85 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
86 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
87 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 85
88 M 1931 Fritz Lang 69
89 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
90 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
91 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 163
92 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 112
93 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 125
94 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 136
95 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 127
96 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 159
97 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 142
98 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 76
99 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
100 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
101 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
102 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 80
103 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
104 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 88
105 Seven 1995 David Fincher 102
106 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 182
107 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand 104
108 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 130
109 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler 184
110 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford 209
111 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 66
112 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
113 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
114 The Sound of Music 1965 Robert Wise 144
115 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 61
116 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
117 West Side Story 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise 118
118 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor 131
119 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 147
120 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan 196
121 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 129
122 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 137
123 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
124 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
125 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
126 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 172
127 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 111
128 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 120
129 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
130 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
131 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra 303
132 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 139
133 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
134 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 212
135 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
136 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 84
137 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 194
138 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 171
139 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
140 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
141 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 98
142 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
143 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 109
144 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
145 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 101
146 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 285
147 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 132
148 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 214
149 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 200
150 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 208
151 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 138
152 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro 146
153 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
154 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
155 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 290
156 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
157 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
158 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 183
159 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 96
160 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 108
161 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 189
162 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
163 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 113
164 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 181
165 WALL•E 2008 Andrew Stanton 82
166 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
167 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 160
168 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 185
169 Amélie 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 119
170 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
171 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
172 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 294
173 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 157
174 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 Lewis Milestone 225
175 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
176 Lost in Translation 2003 Sofia Coppola 161
177 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
178 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 213
179 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
180 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 193
181 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
182 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 234
183 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 299
184 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
185 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 202
186 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
187 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 141
188 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
189 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 164
190 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
191 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 206
192 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 263
193 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 287
194 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 158
195 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 286
196 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 135
197 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 152
198 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 187
199 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 244
200 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 254
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