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Top Mainstream Films (#501-600)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
501 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 910
502 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 582
503 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 412
504 In Cold Blood 1967 Richard Brooks 874
505 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1545
506 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1208
507 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 447
508 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 712
509 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 1244
510 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton 344
511 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 379
512 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 343
513 Winchester '73 1950 Anthony Mann 900
514 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1058
515 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 Ingmar Bergman 875
516 You Can't Take It with You 1938 Frank Capra 1288
517 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 792
518 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 210
519 The Tin Drum 1979 Volker Schlöndorff 631
520 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 777
521 Little Women 1933 George Cukor 1022
522 Elmer Gantry 1960 Richard Brooks 1581
523 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 532
524 Love Story 1970 Arthur Hiller 703
525 Medium Cool 1969 Haskell Wexler 1224
526 Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément 704
527 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse 544
528 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 384
529 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 388
530 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 552
531 The Broadway Melody 1929 Harry Beaumont 1751
532 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 701
533 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 304
534 The Kid 1921 Charles Chaplin 514
535 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 Pedro Almodóvar 601
536 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee 420
537 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 775
538 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 434
539 Stranger than Paradise 1984 Jim Jarmusch 534
540 Sophie's Choice 1982 Alan J. Pakula 782
541 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 630
542 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 877
543 Moulin Rouge! 2001 Baz Luhrmann 237
544 Late Spring 1949 Yasujiro Ozu 889
545 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 696
546 Scrooge 1951 Brian Desmond Hurst 818
547 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 738
548 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 722
549 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood 636
550 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma 248
551 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 411
552 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 501
553 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1189
554 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 663
555 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 585
556 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman 323
557 Cabin in the Sky 1943 Vincente Minnelli 2045
558 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 529
559 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003 Gore Verbinski 368
560 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 264
561 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 393
562 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 573
563 The Pink Panther 1963 Blake Edwards 751
564 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 565
565 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 649
566 A Face in the Crowd 1957 Elia Kazan 966
567 From Russia with Love 1963 Terence Young 766
568 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 597
569 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 549
570 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 504
571 Shrek 2001 Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson 281
572 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 641
573 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 813
574 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 628
575 Oklahoma! 1955 Fred Zinnemann 748
576 Harvey 1950 Henry Koster 611
577 Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 457
578 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1092
579 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 632
580 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 455
581 Born Yesterday 1950 George Cukor 654
582 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 436
583 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 496
584 Dirty Dancing 1987 Emile Ardolino 374
585 The Jungle Book 1967 Wolfgang Reitherman 429
586 Cavalcade 1933 Frank Lloyd 2119
587 The Incredibles 2004 Brad Bird 428
588 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 707
589 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 406
590 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 995
591 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 888
592 True Grit 1969 Henry Hathaway 1149
593 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 382
594 Young Mr. Lincoln 1939 John Ford 668
595 Sleeper 1973 Woody Allen 578
596 Ed Wood 1994 Tim Burton 515
597 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 864
598 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 803
599 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory 594
600 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 438
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