Go to the home page Go to the master list sorted by rank Go to the master list sorted alphabetically Go to the top films as determined by each taste Go to the master list sorted by director Go to the master list sorted by actor Go to the master list sorted by year of release Go to the master list sorted by genre Go to the master list sorted by nation of origin Go to more lists of films Find alternate titles of master list films Go to lists of top films as determined by normal film fans Go to the FAQ and other essays Go to the links page Go to the site map

Top Mainstream Films (#801-1000)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
801 Mrs. Miniver 1942 William Wyler 1496
802 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
803 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1420
804 Her 2013 Spike Jonze 840
805 The Seven Year Itch 1955 Billy Wilder 1425
806 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 856
807 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 417
808 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 1084
809 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 850
810 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 865
811 Grizzly Man 2005 Werner Herzog 629
812 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1673
813 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 1048
814 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman 522
815 A Taste of Cherry 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 893
816 Love Actually 2003 Richard Curtis 636
817 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 1320
818 Bowling for Columbine 2002 Michael Moore 630
819 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 1123
820 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 836
821 Hud 1963 Martin Ritt 911
822 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 957
823 Home Alone 1990 Chris Columbus 822
824 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 1003
825 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman 400
826 The Circus 1928 Charles Chaplin 1412
827 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 631
828 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 975
829 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1337
830 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1121
831 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1273
832 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
833 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 709
834 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 499
835 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 621
836 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1773
837 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 589
838 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 763
839 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 564
840 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan 1145
841 Winter Light 1963 Ingmar Bergman 872
842 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
843 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1398
844 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mamoru Oshii 374
845 The Intouchables 2011 Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano 802
846 Once 2007 John Carney 942
847 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 588
848 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 601
849 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1385
850 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1162
851 The Hunt 2012 Thomas Vinterberg 1077
852 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh 689
853 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 497
854 Driving Miss Daisy 1989 Bruce Beresford 1945
855 Atonement 2007 Joe Wright 771
856 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 1035
857 Paper Moon 1973 Peter Bogdanovich 1200
858 Coco 2017 Lee Unkrich 809
859 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 770
860 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 1143
861 The Scarlet Empress 1934 Josef von Sternberg 913
862 Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 978
863 Big Fish 2003 Tim Burton 711
864 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 946
865 Sabrina 1954 Billy Wilder 1394
866 Funny Face 1957 Stanley Donen 899
867 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 825
868 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 590
869 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1876
870 The Notebook 2004 Nick Cassavetes 732
871 Ride the High Country 1962 Sam Peckinpah 684
872 Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Mike Figgis 1308
873 October 1927 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein 1217
874 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1462
875 Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 1224
876 Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 949
877 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 818
878 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Mike Newell 827
879 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
880 300 2006 Zack Snyder 666
881 Central Station 1998 Walter Salles 883
882 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 745
883 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 646
884 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 943
885 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 969
886 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1114
887 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 1397
888 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 1703
889 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1343
890 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Yasujirô Ozu 1187
891 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1455
892 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 Howard Hawks 595
893 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 1434
894 The Mission 1986 Roland Joffé 1451
895 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese 896
896 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 773
897 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 701
898 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1024
899 The Big Country 1958 William Wyler 1050
900 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 833
901 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 William Dieterle 1936
902 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 821
903 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1125
904 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 1083
905 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 567
906 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1644
907 Ivan the Terrible, Part II 1958 Sergei M. Eisenstein and M. Filimonova 1251
908 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1015
909 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 1238
910 In the Name of the Father 1993 Jim Sheridan 1333
911 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 847
912 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 738
913 Star Trek 2009 J.J. Abrams 623
914 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 2017 Martin McDonagh 1272
915 The Big Chill 1983 Lawrence Kasdan 1429
916 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 793
917 Voyage in Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 937
918 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 570
919 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1416
920 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce 859
921 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 Stanley Kramer 2113
922 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1485
923 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 755
924 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith 2005 George Lucas 1139
925 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 796
926 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 674
927 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 915
928 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 851
929 A Prophet 2009 Jacques Audiard 842
930 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki 750
931 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2069
932 La Notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1400
933 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 2010
934 Harlan County, U.S.A. 1976 Barbara Kopple 598
935 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright 608
936 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1426
937 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1219
938 Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1140
939 Inherit the Wind 1960 Stanley Kramer 1859
940 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1508
941 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1656
942 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 1065
943 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 720
944 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 1092
945 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 837
946 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 992
947 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester 971
948 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1380
949 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker 565
950 Shine 1996 Scott Hicks 1838
951 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 600
952 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1401
953 Band of Outsiders 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 985
954 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström 1299
955 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1242
956 How to Train Your Dragon 2010 Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders 502
957 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1409
958 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows 1205
959 Hero 2002 Yimou Zhang 898
960 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 542
961 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1567
962 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 1233
963 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1036
964 Manchester by the Sea 2016 Kenneth Lonergan 1740
965 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 504
966 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1149
967 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 878
968 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1067
969 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1254
970 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1318
971 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 799
972 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens 2015 J.J. Abrams 925
973 Shadows 1958 John Cassavetes 460
974 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 Steve Box and Nick Park 563
975 Gremlins 1984 Joe Dante 1146
976 Far from Heaven 2002 Todd Haynes 1099
977 Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 1630
978 Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott 947
979 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 716
980 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass 737
981 Catch Me If You Can 2002 Steven Spielberg 988
982 Clueless 1995 Amy Heckerling 333
983 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck 1660
984 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1886
985 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 787
986 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 735
987 Ray 2004 Taylor Hackford 1239
988 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 517
989 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 671
990 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 Vincente Minnelli 1292
991 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 743
992 The Passion of the Christ 2004 Mel Gibson 1407
993 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney 1854
994 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 1503
995 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 997
996 Gentleman's Agreement 1947 Elia Kazan 2150
997 Batman Returns 1992 Tim Burton 698
998 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 908
999 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 663
1000 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 761
Go to the previous 200 mainstream films Go to the next 200 mainstream films
This page was last modified on April 19, 2020