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Top Mainstream Films (#201-300)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 382
202 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 179
203 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 148
204 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 440
205 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 555
206 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 139
207 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 77
208 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 358
209 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
210 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 42
211 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 133
212 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 328
213 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 65
214 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
215 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 360
216 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
217 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson 116
218 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 247
219 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 515
220 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 94
221 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 285
222 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 95
223 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 435
224 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 185
225 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 186
226 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 297
227 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks 260
228 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 376
229 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 288
230 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 196
231 Bambi 1942 David Hand 323
232 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone 118
233 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 130
234 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
235 Beauty and the Beast 1991 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 246
236 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
237 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 375
238 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis 91
239 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 535
240 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 482
241 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 330
242 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 214
243 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 230
244 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 326
245 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 437
246 Animal House 1978 John Landis 299
247 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 540
248 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
249 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 276
250 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 249
251 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 188
252 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 290
253 Airplane! 1980 Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker 175
254 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 426
255 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler 300
256 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 274
257 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks 224
258 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 698
259 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 312
260 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 321
261 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 Blake Edwards 203
262 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 361
263 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 255
264 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 461
265 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 381
266 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 365
267 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 194
268 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols 476
269 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 481
270 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 189
271 The Great Dictator 1940 Charles Chaplin 369
272 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson 347
273 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 391
274 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 309
275 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 354
276 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg 336
277 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 342
278 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 166
279 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 573
280 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 529
281 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 538
282 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
283 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 558
284 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 532
285 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 580
286 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 273
287 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 483
288 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 Preston Sturges 487
289 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 316
290 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 205
291 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 469
292 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 873
293 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 170
294 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 756
295 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 331
296 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 388
297 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 98
298 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
299 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 654
300 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002 Peter Jackson 123
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