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Top Mainstream Films (#801-1000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1764
802 Alexander Nevsky 1938 Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev 1116
803 Spider-Man 2002 Sam Raimi 516
804 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck 1002
805 Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg 876
806 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1221
807 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1464
808 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling 640
809 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson 850
810 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 764
811 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow 549
812 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1099
813 Atonement 2007 Joe Wright 588
814 The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar 1974 Werner Herzog 1763
815 Witness 1985 Peter Weir 1335
816 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 692
817 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 1239
818 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 1132
819 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava 1216
820 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 766
821 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1785
822 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Martin McDonagh 1109
823 Philadelphia 1993 Jonathan Demme 792
824 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles 951
825 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 777
826 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1307
827 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 481
828 Shoplifters 2018 Hirokazu Koreeda 1082
829 Ordinary People 1980 Robert Redford 1249
830 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 400
831 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004 Adam McKay 479
832 Oppenheimer 2023 Christopher Nolan 1446
833 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 1279
834 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann 1161
835 Volver 2006 Pedro Almodóvar 1282
836 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve 466
837 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 1037
838 Paddington 2 2017 Paul King 785
839 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1240
840 The Cameraman 1928 Edward Sedgwick 1409
841 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 470
842 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1344
843 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 706
844 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 397
845 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak 1207
846 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1278
847 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 1075
848 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1848
849 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 879
850 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 710
851 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1328
852 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1540
853 Big 1988 Penny Marshall 515
854 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
855 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 837
856 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 Larry Charles 606
857 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence 2001 Steven Spielberg 655
858 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1425
859 Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1097
860 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 682
861 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche 708
862 Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 1154
863 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1032
864 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson 1292
865 Jean de Florette 1986 Claude Berri 1504
866 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
867 Life of Pi 2012 Ang Lee 934
868 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
869 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 1676
870 It's a Gift 1934 Norman Z. McLeod 1777
871 Silver Linings Playbook 2012 David O. Russell 915
872 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 1535
873 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 924
874 Back to the Future Part II 1989 Robert Zemeckis 1133
875 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 999
876 Jerry Maguire 1996 Cameron Crowe 487
877 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 1291
878 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1326
879 The Life of Oharu 1952 Kenji Mizoguchi 1299
880 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 919
881 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 Stephen Frears 1376
882 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1845
883 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1257
884 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1454
885 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 683
886 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 1517
887 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno 1407
888 Once 2006 John Carney 886
889 Bridesmaids 2011 Paul Feig 513
890 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak 711
891 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 1599
892 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
893 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 791
894 Chicago 2002 Rob Marshall 763
895 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1747
896 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1478
897 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1317
898 Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson 611
899 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 1021
900 Daughters of the Dust 1991 Julie Dash 814
901 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 765
902 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 795
903 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows 1225
904 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 872
905 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1957
906 My Night at Maud's 1969 Éric Rohmer 1034
907 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 786
908 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel 1048
909 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1060
910 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 1672
911 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 1003
912 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 1265
913 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
914 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 409
915 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky 991
916 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 664
917 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1430
918 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1411
919 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden 1026
920 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1658
921 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1684
922 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1025
923 Little Big Man 1970 Arthur Penn 810
924 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 666
925 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson 1531
926 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1204
927 The Master 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson 1578
928 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Joseph Kosinski 1339
929 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 744
930 A Day in the Country 1946 Jean Renoir 1625
931 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier 1503
932 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 689
933 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 717
934 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 1000
935 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 1151
936 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1649
937 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 413
938 Atlantic City 1980 Louis Malle 1574
939 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 1256
940 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich 1192
941 Cast Away 2000 Robert Zemeckis 1387
942 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann 488
943 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 673
944 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 962
945 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1708
946 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 628
947 Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang 1622
948 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 511
949 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1189
950 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 1088
951 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 1814
952 Where is the Friend's Home? 1987 Abbas Kiarostami 1170
953 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010 Edgar Wright 691
954 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 1837
955 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1206
956 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1353
957 On the Town 1949 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 1023
958 The River 1951 Jean Renoir 1589
959 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 527
960 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 1663
961 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1434
962 Little Caesar 1931 Mervyn LeRoy 1177
963 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1486
964 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1723
965 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 1039
966 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 755
967 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1943 Preston Sturges 1843
968 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 2060
969 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
970 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1310
971 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick 1657
972 Gun Crazy 1950 Joseph H. Lewis 1141
973 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 1215
974 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 367
975 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1337
976 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1483
977 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé 930
978 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 Jacques Demy 1111
979 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1352
980 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 1112
981 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 1332
982 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 463
983 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1330
984 Paris Is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 412
985 The Big Parade 1925 King Vidor 1382
986 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei Eisenstein 1555
987 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1300
988 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 728
989 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1815
990 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 1069
991 There's Something about Mary 1998 Bobby and Peter Farrelly 583
992 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 646
993 The Sea Inside 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1488
994 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
995 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1720
996 Saw 2004 James Wan 828
997 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 1175
998 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 669
999 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1107
1000 Kick-Ass 2010 Matthew Vaughn 1157
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