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Top Mainstream Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
202 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 154
203 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
204 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 150
205 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
206 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 224
207 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
208 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
209 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
210 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 149
211 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
212 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 166
213 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 247
214 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
215 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
216 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 218
217 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 238
218 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 291
219 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
220 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 266
221 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 167
222 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 168
223 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 279
224 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 292
225 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
226 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 312
227 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 362
228 The Truman Show 1998 Peter Weir 242
229 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 280
230 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 271
231 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 186
232 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 250
233 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 156
234 Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 153
235 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 106
236 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
237 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 261
238 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 249
239 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 233
240 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 253
241 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
242 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 226
243 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 207
244 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
245 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
246 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 330
247 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 180
248 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 191
249 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 259
250 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 338
251 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 301
252 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
253 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 192
254 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 174
255 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
256 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 336
257 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 236
258 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
259 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 270
260 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
261 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
262 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 322
263 The Pianist 2002 Roman Polanski 269
264 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 339
265 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 425
266 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 248
267 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
268 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 404
269 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 219
270 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 356
271 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 325
272 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
273 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 277
274 Up 2009 Pete Docter 188
275 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
276 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
277 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 448
278 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 169
279 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 251
280 Shane 1953 George Stevens 341
281 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 237
282 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
283 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 318
284 From Here to Eternity 1953 Fred Zinnemann 372
285 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 464
286 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 176
287 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 432
288 Bambi 1942 David Hand 311
289 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 340
290 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 268
291 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 240
292 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 380
293 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 283
294 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 306
295 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 332
296 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
297 Whiplash 2014 Damien Chazelle 583
298 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 480
299 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 262
300 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 479
301 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 352
302 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 320
303 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges 273
304 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 365
305 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 366
306 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 257
307 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
308 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
309 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 275
310 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 274
311 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 456
312 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 319
313 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 245
314 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 267
315 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 305
316 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 402
317 12 Years a Slave 2013 Steve McQueen 543
318 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 316
319 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 513
320 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 428
321 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant 495
322 Inglourious Basterds 2009 Quentin Tarantino 272
323 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 376
324 My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 363
325 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
326 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 205
327 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 348
328 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 398
329 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 258
330 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 377
331 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 315
332 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 199
333 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 514
334 Ninotchka 1939 Ernst Lubitsch 401
335 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 421
336 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 493
337 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 310
338 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 264
339 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 329
340 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 361
341 The Producers 1967 Mel Brooks 309
342 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 331
343 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
344 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 243
345 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 355
346 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 265
347 The Quiet Man 1952 John Ford 619
348 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 603
349 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
350 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 359
351 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 203
352 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 471
353 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 387
354 A Place in the Sun 1951 George Stevens 786
355 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
356 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 344
357 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder 423
358 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 394
359 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 230
360 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 415
361 Animal House 1978 John Landis 360
362 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
363 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 534
364 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 391
365 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 496
366 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 550
367 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 482
368 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 324
369 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 466
370 Day for Night 1973 François Truffaut 467
371 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 751
372 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 529
373 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 357
374 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 443
375 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 373
376 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 327
377 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 334
378 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 326
379 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 683
380 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 459
381 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 465
382 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 385
383 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 498
384 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
385 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 345
386 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 486
387 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 346
388 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
389 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 304
390 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
391 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 379
392 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 414
393 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 568
394 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 647
395 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 454
396 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 584
397 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
398 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 399
399 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 708
400 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
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