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Top Mainstream Films (#1001-1200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1001 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1226
1002 The Sea Inside 2004 Alejandro Amenábar 1232
1003 American Psycho 2000 Mary Harron 855
1004 Broadcast News 1987 James L. Brooks 972
1005 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 829
1006 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 1052
1007 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 642
1008 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 984
1009 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1257
1010 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 762
1011 The Help 2011 Tate Taylor 1177
1012 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1770
1013 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 1439
1014 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson 1303
1015 Jezebel 1938 William Wyler 1824
1016 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 797
1017 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 712
1018 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 528
1019 Days of Wine and Roses 1962 Blake Edwards 1998
1020 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1270
1021 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 1627
1022 The Last Detail 1973 Hal Ashby 1553
1023 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 1833
1024 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2006
1025 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 726
1026 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1325
1027 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1288
1028 The Dead 1987 John Huston 1406
1029 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 591
1030 The Pride of the Yankees 1942 Sam Wood 1014
1031 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1520
1032 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1170
1033 Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 James Gunn 648
1034 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 736
1035 Siegfried 1924 Fritz Lang 1195
1036 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1021
1037 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 891
1038 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1596
1039 Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 1181
1040 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 981
1041 True Grit 2010 Ethan and Joel Coen 934
1042 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1130
1043 Labyrinth 1986 Jim Henson 876
1044 Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Michael Anderson 2078
1045 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 657
1046 Moon 2009 Duncan Jones 660
1047 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 777
1048 Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 511
1049 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1403
1050 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 848
1051 Casque d'Or 1952 Jacques Becker 1360
1052 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 910
1053 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh 846
1054 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002 Chris Columbus 1151
1055 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 1345
1056 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 832
1057 The Misfits 1961 John Huston 1286
1058 Twelve O'Clock High 1949 Henry King 1185
1059 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007 David Yates 1030
1060 Samurai Rebellion 1967 Masaki Kobayashi 1861
1061 Early Summer 1951 Yasujirô Ozu 1536
1062 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 882
1063 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 1005
1064 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai-keung Lau and Alan Mak 685
1065 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1987
1066 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 David Yates 1153
1067 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 516
1068 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 889
1069 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1600
1070 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 1165
1071 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1064
1072 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 775
1073 The Hours 2002 Stephen Daldry 1334
1074 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 845
1075 Ball of Fire 1941 Howard Hawks 1446
1076 Baraka 1992 Ron Fricke 1720
1077 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1669
1078 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010 David Yates 1087
1079 When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast 569
1080 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
1081 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1590
1082 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 830
1083 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 1058
1084 The Little Mermaid 1989 Ron Clements and John Musker 653
1085 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut 1999 Trey Parker 407
1086 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1006
1087 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 1753
1088 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman 1044
1089 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1378
1090 A Short Film about Killing 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1522
1091 The Firemen's Ball 1967 Milos Forman 1862
1092 La Terra Trema 1948 Luchino Visconti 1376
1093 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
1094 The Wind Will Carry Us 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1486
1095 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 1135
1096 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1313
1097 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 1818
1098 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 970
1099 A Special Day 1977 Ettore Scola 1835
1100 (500) Days of Summer 2009 Marc Webb 1106
1101 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 1663
1102 Dead Man Walking 1995 Tim Robbins 1363
1103 Erin Brockovich 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1046
1104 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1598
1105 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 661
1106 The Informer 1935 John Ford 1868
1107 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 866
1108 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1071
1109 Not on Your Life 1963 Luis García Berlanga 2210
1110 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 1161
1111 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1169
1112 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 798
1113 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel 2107
1114 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1448
1115 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1528
1116 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 824
1117 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 Rex Ingram 2222
1118 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1171
1119 Quiz Show 1994 Robert Redford 2265
1120 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 553
1121 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg 1624
1122 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1018
1123 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson 1629
1124 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 512
1125 Hugo 2011 Martin Scorsese 1120
1126 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 903
1127 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1009
1128 The Freshman 1925 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 1489
1129 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 1264
1130 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 961
1131 Way Out West 1937 James W. Horne 1109
1132 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 670
1133 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 820
1134 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1173
1135 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 1133
1136 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 Oliver Stone 1467
1137 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1002
1138 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1459
1139 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1069
1140 Pixote 1981 Hector Babenco 1793
1141 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller 1386
1142 Woman of the Year 1942 George Stevens 1858
1143 Coraline 2009 Henry Selick 717
1144 Zorba the Greek 1964 Michael Cacoyannis 2569
1145 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel 1799
1146 Summer 1986 Eric Rohmer 1778
1147 Seven Beauties 1975 Lina Wertmüller 1721
1148 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
1149 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse 921
1150 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 951
1151 Notting Hill 1999 Roger Michell 996
1152 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur 1240
1153 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
1154 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1368
1155 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1307
1156 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1620
1157 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1017
1158 The Damned 1969 Luchino Visconti 1976
1159 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 Bille August 2363
1160 The Age of Innocence 1993 Martin Scorsese 1235
1161 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1464
1162 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 723
1163 Sleeping Beauty 1959 Clyde Geronimi 974
1164 Saw 2004 James Wan 1158
1165 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 2335
1166 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, and George Hickenlooper 1062
1167 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 1259
1168 We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Ettore Scola 1985
1169 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 880
1170 Midnight 1939 Mitchell Leisen 1832
1171 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2189
1172 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 637
1173 Strike 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 1176
1174 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
1175 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 782
1176 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1616
1177 Before the Rain 1994 Milcho Manchevski 2442
1178 Warrior 2011 Gavin O'Connor 1156
1179 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 973
1180 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 1090
1181 Incendies 2010 Denis Villeneuve 1829
1182 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 672
1183 Tombstone 1993 George P. Cosmatos 1023
1184 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 Jean-Paul Rappeneau 1641
1185 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1202
1186 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Richard Brooks 1926
1187 Brighton Rock 1948 John Boulting 1301
1188 Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi 1534
1189 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1366
1190 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder 1355
1191 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 831
1192 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1732
1193 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 624
1194 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven 487
1195 Coming Home 1978 Hal Ashby 2194
1196 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1197
1197 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1383
1198 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 749
1199 L'Argent 1983 Robert Bresson 1495
1200 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1476
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