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Top Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 307
202 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 346
203 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 139
204 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 234
205 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 182
206 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 198
207 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 426
208 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 508
209 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 389
210 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
211 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 245
212 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 274
213 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 252
214 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 154
215 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
216 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 435
217 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 428
218 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 97
219 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 380
220 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 295
221 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
222 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 360
223 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
224 Dead Poet's Society 1989 Peter Weir 310
225 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
226 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 323
227 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
228 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
229 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
230 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 264
231 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 577
232 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 362
233 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 212
234 The Heiress 1949 William Wyler 650
235 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson 104
236 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 271
237 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 159
238 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
239 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 452
240 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 349
241 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 214
242 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 203
243 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 528
244 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
245 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 297
246 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
247 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 450
248 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
249 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
250 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 350
251 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
252 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 681
253 The Color Purple 1985 Steven Spielberg 481
254 An Affair to Remember 1957 Leo McCarey 455
255 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 255
256 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 137
257 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 328
258 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
259 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 294
260 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 375
261 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 330
262 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 531
263 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
264 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
265 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 213
266 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 177
267 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 566
268 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 587
269 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 433
270 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 229
271 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
272 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker 206
273 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 372
274 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 399
275 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 247
276 Animal House 1978 John Landis 282
277 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 335
278 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
279 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner 145
280 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 256
281 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
282 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 149
283 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 174
284 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 445
285 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 315
286 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 157
287 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 504
288 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 532
289 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 243
290 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 286
291 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 701
292 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 388
293 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff 259
294 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 652
295 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 215
296 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 192
297 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
298 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 578
299 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 677
300 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 187
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