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Top Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 111
102 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet 156
103 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
104 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 144
105 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 183
106 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
107 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
108 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 165
109 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
110 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
111 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 300
112 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
113 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 254
114 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 63
115 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 147
116 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
117 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 202
118 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
119 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 148
120 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 236
121 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 155
122 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
123 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 313
124 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
125 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
126 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
127 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 167
128 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 190
129 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
130 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 67
131 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 161
132 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 257
133 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 299
134 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 98
135 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
136 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 94
137 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
138 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 239
139 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 163
140 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 221
141 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
142 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 232
143 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 342
144 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 216
145 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 173
146 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 170
147 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 171
148 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
149 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
150 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
151 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 224
152 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
153 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
154 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
155 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 341
156 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 79
157 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 211
158 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 83
159 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 123
160 Giant 1956 George Stevens 412
161 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
162 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 268
163 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
164 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 296
165 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 270
166 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
167 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 413
168 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
169 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 320
170 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 396
171 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 204
172 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 421
173 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
174 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 249
175 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 263
176 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 374
177 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 262
178 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
179 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 448
180 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 127
181 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
182 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 217
183 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
184 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
185 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 462
186 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 164
187 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
188 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 219
189 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 258
190 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 343
191 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
192 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
193 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
194 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
195 McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 251
196 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 197
197 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 564
198 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
199 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
200 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 290
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