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Top Mainstream Films (#401-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 The Crowd 1928 King Vidor 572
402 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 278
403 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 447
404 The Last Emperor 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci 651
405 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 295
406 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 413
407 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 525
408 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 587
409 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse 481
410 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
411 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
412 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir 433
413 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 420
414 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
415 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 396
416 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 389
417 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 606
418 Killer of Sheep 1978 Charles Burnett 370
419 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder 691
420 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 424
421 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 204
422 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 457
423 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 530
424 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
425 Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard 776
426 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 440
427 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
428 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson 323
429 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson 450
430 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 485
431 Talk to Her 2002 Pedro Almodóvar 634
432 The Man Who Would be King 1975 John Huston 764
433 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 586
434 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann 838
435 Inside Out 2015 Pete Docter 494
436 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
437 The Ox-Bow Incident 1942 William A. Wellman 539
438 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
439 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson 313
440 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 531
441 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Bob Rafelson 581
442 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
443 Hoop Dreams 1994 Steve James 284
444 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 470
445 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 554
446 Swing Time 1936 George Stevens 772
447 A Fistful of Dollars 1964 Sergio Leone 383
448 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 403
449 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 500
450 Giant 1956 George Stevens 641
451 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ron Howard 524
452 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 418
453 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella 510
454 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 354
455 Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott 693
456 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Michael Curtiz 687
457 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
458 Now, Voyager 1942 Irving Rapper 612
459 Ratatouille 2007 Brad Bird 412
460 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
461 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 427
462 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 605
463 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 408
464 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 478
465 Miracle on 34th Street 1947 George Seaton 544
466 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Sergio Leone 468
467 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 Frank Lloyd 1074
468 Last Tango in Paris 1972 Bernardo Bertolucci 451
469 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 488
470 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 490
471 East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 766
472 Stalag 17 1953 Billy Wilder 633
473 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 669
474 Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 714
475 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 335
476 42nd Street 1933 Lloyd Bacon 664
477 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 627
478 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 382
479 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 679
480 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 260
481 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 597
482 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 281
483 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 410
484 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
485 Adam's Rib 1949 George Cukor 574
486 Gran Torino 2008 Clint Eastwood 577
487 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith 364
488 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 575
489 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 439
490 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 337
491 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 645
492 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 434
493 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 555
494 Sex, Lies, and Videotape 1989 Steven Soderbergh 582
495 The Last of the Mohicans 1992 Michael Mann 463
496 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 307
497 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 914
498 Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Charles Reisner 781
499 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 477
500 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 342
501 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 474
502 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
503 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
504 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 435
505 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey 758
506 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 353
507 Au Revoir, les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle 792
508 A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark 548
509 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 384
510 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 558
511 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 386
512 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 515
513 Monsters, Inc. 2001 Pete Docter 397
514 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 505
515 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 643
516 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 552
517 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 519
518 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 662
519 Y tu mamá también 2001 Alfonso Cuarón 426
520 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 959
521 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 718
522 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 343
523 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 429
524 Batman 1989 Tim Burton 462
525 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 826
526 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 592
527 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 551
528 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 369
529 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 675
530 The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman 753
531 Boyz N the Hood 1991 John Singleton 649
532 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 562
533 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
534 Little Miss Sunshine 2006 Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris 607
535 Wuthering Heights 1939 William Wyler 1136
536 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi 747
537 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 536
538 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 692
539 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 446
540 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 545
541 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 618
542 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 409
543 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 523
544 Pretty Woman 1990 Garry Marshall 521
545 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 255
546 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 602
547 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 430
548 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 884
549 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 759
550 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 604
551 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 644
552 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 411
553 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart 416
554 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 626
555 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie 556
556 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932 Mervyn LeRoy 1100
557 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 308
558 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
559 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 658
560 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011 David Yates 484
561 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 532
562 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 650
563 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 900
564 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 533
565 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 453
566 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1055
567 Say Anything… 1989 Cameron Crowe 526
568 Forbidden Planet 1956 Fred M. Wilcox 351
569 The Band Wagon 1953 Vincente Minnelli 585
570 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 492
571 Dodsworth 1936 William Wyler 1212
572 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 907
573 The Wrestler 2008 Darren Aronofsky 475
574 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 452
575 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 560
576 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 431
577 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 538
578 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 788
579 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 823
580 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 784
581 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 469
582 The Palm Beach Story 1942 Preston Sturges 803
583 The King's Speech 2010 Tom Hooper 696
584 Glory 1989 Edward Zwick 625
585 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1274
586 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 1150
587 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 789
588 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 742
589 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 223
590 Out of Africa 1985 Sydney Pollack 930
591 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 857
592 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
593 As Good as It Gets 1997 James L. Brooks 791
594 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007 Julian Schnabel 895
595 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 1105
596 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1191
597 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 733
598 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 614
599 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins 741
600 Scenes from a Marriage 1974 Ingmar Bergman 950
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