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Top Mainstream Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 141
202 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
203 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 280
204 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 174
205 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
206 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 130
207 Requiem for a Dream 2000 Darren Aronofsky 293
208 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 168
209 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 194
210 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 207
211 Rebel without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray 252
212 Finding Nemo 2003 Andrew Stanton 163
213 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 255
214 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 287
215 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 202
216 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 195
217 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 197
218 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 132
219 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 114
220 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
221 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 296
222 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich 169
223 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 196
224 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone 268
225 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
226 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 369
227 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 176
228 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 299
229 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner 143
230 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
231 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher 301
232 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 219
233 The African Queen 1951 John Huston 306
234 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 366
235 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 208
236 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 203
237 Avatar 2009 James Cameron 149
238 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata 210
239 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 277
240 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 294
241 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Steven Spielberg 370
242 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 230
243 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 458
244 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 353
245 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 224
246 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 181
247 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner 307
248 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 387
249 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 240
250 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 241
251 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 170
252 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 251
253 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges 239
254 Princess Mononoke 1997 Hayao Miyazaki 205
255 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 365
256 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 257
257 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 406
258 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 272
259 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman 151
260 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 177
261 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 283
262 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 300
263 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen 229
264 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes 418
265 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 144
266 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 262
267 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 309
268 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 385
269 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 340
270 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 136
271 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 336
272 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater 536
273 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson 318
274 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 303
275 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 352
276 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 404
277 Easy Rider 1969 Dennis Hopper 323
278 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 393
279 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 408
280 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 291
281 Interstellar 2014 Christopher Nolan 266
282 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 211
283 Mary Poppins 1964 Robert Stevenson 204
284 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 226
285 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
286 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 187
287 Before Sunrise 1995 Richard Linklater 263
288 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh 447
289 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 386
290 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
291 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 345
292 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 448
293 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas 395
294 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks 319
295 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 328
296 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 295
297 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 332
298 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 648
299 Million Dollar Baby 2004 Clint Eastwood 341
300 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 368
301 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 284
302 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 201
303 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 456
304 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 449
305 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
306 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 326
307 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 414
308 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen 426
309 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 360
310 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton 199
311 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 322
312 Patton 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner 302
313 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
314 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 160
315 The Shop around the Corner 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 260
316 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 390
317 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
318 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 433
319 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes 270
320 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 279
321 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
322 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 514
323 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 320
324 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter 256
325 The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Wes Anderson 467
326 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino 411
327 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 321
328 My Fair Lady 1964 George Cukor 348
329 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 473
330 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 232
331 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 464
332 Bambi 1942 David Hand 342
333 Batman Begins 2005 Christopher Nolan 384
334 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 316
335 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 559
336 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman 189
337 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 225
338 Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 359
339 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 314
340 Superman 1978 Richard Donner 238
341 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 491
342 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 212
343 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 380
344 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 254
345 M*A*S*H 1970 Robert Altman 344
346 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 159
347 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 597
348 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 350
349 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
350 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 247
351 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 356
352 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 592
353 Shane 1953 George Stevens 410
354 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 455
355 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 346
356 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 476
357 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 249
358 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon 313
359 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 548
360 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 285
361 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 292
362 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 363
363 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 378
364 Inside Out 2015 Pete Docter 276
365 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 371
366 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 617
367 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 485
368 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 693
369 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 298
370 Slumdog Millionaire 2008 Danny Boyle 403
371 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 508
372 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 415
373 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 442
374 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood 699
375 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 556
376 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 402
377 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 382
378 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood 500
379 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 389
380 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 695
381 The Nightmare before Christmas 1993 Henry Selick 231
382 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 175
383 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 372
384 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 214
385 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 593
386 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 337
387 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 589
388 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 424
389 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 179
390 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese 613
391 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 184
392 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 509
393 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 242
394 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 667
395 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze 451
396 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 492
397 An American in Paris 1951 Vincente Minnelli 405
398 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
399 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 228
400 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 315
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