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Top Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 70
202 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 142
203 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 269
204 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 465
205 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 124
206 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 318
207 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 208
208 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 203
209 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 426
210 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott 127
211 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 195
212 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 249
213 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 91
214 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 418
215 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 273
216 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 334
217 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 383
218 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 405
219 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 148
220 Bambi 1942 David Hand 284
221 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 276
222 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 348
223 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 464
224 When Harry Met Sally… 1989 Rob Reiner 178
225 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 119
226 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 255
227 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 143
228 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 212
229 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 170
230 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 297
231 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 134
232 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 355
233 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 169
234 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 229
235 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand 185
236 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 165
237 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 207
238 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 246
239 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 521
240 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 300
241 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 222
242 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 152
243 Grease 1978 Randal Kleiser 196
244 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 435
245 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 149
246 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
247 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 189
248 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 446
249 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
250 Field of Dreams 1989 Phil Alden Robinson 242
251 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 335
252 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 163
253 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 225
254 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 179
255 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 342
256 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 243
257 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 416
258 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 357
259 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 161
260 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle 132
261 Animal House 1978 John Landis 277
262 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 231
263 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 139
264 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 642
265 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 508
266 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 311
267 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 365
268 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 480
269 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 433
270 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 224
271 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 512
272 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 272
273 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 452
274 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
275 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 322
276 Life Is Beautiful 1997 Roberto Benigni 256
277 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 305
278 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 190
279 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 349
280 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 199
281 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 423
282 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 191
283 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 386
284 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 535
285 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 437
286 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 236
287 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
288 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 498
289 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 251
290 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 254
291 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 186
292 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 184
293 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 427
294 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 762
295 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones 166
296 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 319
297 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 259
298 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 376
299 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 364
300 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 524
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