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Top Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 109
102 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 160
103 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 147
104 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 180
105 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 126
106 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 77
107 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 130
108 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 78
109 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 103
110 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 104
111 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 141
112 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 194
113 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 140
114 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 150
115 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 87
116 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 204
117 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 111
118 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 88
119 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 154
120 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 71
121 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 146
122 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 167
123 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 96
124 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 120
125 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 226
126 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 117
127 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 176
128 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 68
129 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 181
130 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 261
131 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 79
132 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 84
133 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 157
134 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
135 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 60
136 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
137 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 267
138 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 371
139 M 1931 Fritz Lang 76
140 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 324
141 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 215
142 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 66
143 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 47
144 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 174
145 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 144
146 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 62
147 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 182
148 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 100
149 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 201
150 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 271
151 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
152 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 105
153 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 250
154 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 164
155 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 317
156 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 168
157 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 363
158 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 240
159 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 151
160 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 89
161 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 86
162 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 218
163 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 99
164 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 219
165 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 247
166 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 95
167 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 69
168 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 353
169 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 223
170 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 381
171 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 125
172 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 192
173 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 288
174 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 232
175 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 197
176 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 108
177 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 266
178 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 113
179 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 94
180 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 159
181 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 307
182 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 135
183 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 245
184 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 110
185 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 286
186 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 337
187 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 230
188 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 116
189 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 211
190 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 258
191 Seven 1995 David Fincher 118
192 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 456
193 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 202
194 Giant 1956 George Stevens 485
195 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 442
196 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 366
197 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 206
198 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 238
199 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 115
200 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 350
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