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Top Mainstream Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
102 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
103 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz and William Keighley 153
104 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 127
105 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 177
106 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 100
107 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
108 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 220
109 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
110 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 53
111 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
112 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen 101
113 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg 50
114 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 151
115 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 221
116 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 234
117 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
118 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 197
119 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
120 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
121 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont 46
122 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
123 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
124 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 237
125 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 164
126 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis 93
127 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 447
128 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 356
129 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 229
130 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 163
131 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg 103
132 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
133 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 160
134 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
135 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 263
136 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 122
137 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 55
138 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
139 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
140 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 241
141 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 82
142 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 253
143 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 307
144 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
145 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 180
146 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
147 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 338
148 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 190
149 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
150 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 257
151 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
152 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 380
153 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 206
154 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
155 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 64
156 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 235
157 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 155
158 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 143
159 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 204
160 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 242
161 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 417
162 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 208
163 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes 111
164 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 110
165 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 266
166 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 168
167 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 78
168 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill 281
169 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 412
170 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 213
171 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 325
172 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 305
173 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 159
174 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 259
175 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 313
176 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 169
177 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
178 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 392
179 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman 525
180 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 393
181 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
182 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 226
183 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 243
184 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
185 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 352
186 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 429
187 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
188 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 222
189 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 527
190 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 337
191 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 217
192 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 248
193 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 252
194 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
195 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 277
196 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 409
197 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
198 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 60
199 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
200 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 343
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