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Top Mainstream Films (#1001-1200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1001 Inside Llewyn Davis 2013 Ethan and Joel Coen 1184
1002 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 2059
1003 (500) Days of Summer 2009 Marc Webb 842
1004 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder 1054
1005 The Ascent 1977 Larisa Shepitko 1466
1006 Lola Montčs 1955 Max Ophüls 1169
1007 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy 1941
1008 Mouchette 1967 Robert Bresson 1393
1009 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 623
1010 American Gangster 2007 Ridley Scott 1523
1011 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 1620
1012 Frozen 2013 Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee 465
1013 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1416
1014 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 639
1015 Ben-Hur 1925 Fred Niblo 1798
1016 Time Bandits 1981 Terry Gilliam 821
1017 The Return 2003 Andrey Zvyagintsev 2124
1018 The Butterfly Effect 2004 Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber 1643
1019 Election 1999 Alexander Payne 543
1020 The Bank Dick 1940 Edward F. Cline 1383
1021 The Music Room 1958 Satyajit Ray 1417
1022 Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Wes Anderson 564
1023 Pépé Le Moko 1937 Julien Duvivier 1033
1024 'I Know Where I'm Going!' 1945 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 903
1025 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick 616
1026 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges 883
1027 Moonstruck 1987 Norman Jewison 498
1028 Dune: Part Two 2024 Denis Villeneuve 1629
1029 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1510
1030 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1762
1031 Scent of a Woman 1992 Martin Brest 1572
1032 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936 Frank Capra 1673
1033 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1499
1034 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan 957
1035 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Ińárritu 2003
1036 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1872
1037 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 1608
1038 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 789
1039 First Blood 1982 Ted Kotcheff 1011
1040 Rush 2013 Ron Howard 1125
1041 Happy Together 1997 Kar-Wai Wong 735
1042 Once upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Nuri Bilge Ceylan 1804
1043 Gunga Din 1939 George Stevens 1598
1044 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
1045 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 2180
1046 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 1271
1047 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1457
1048 3 Idiots 2009 Rajkumar Hirani 1725
1049 Babel 2006 Alejandro G. Ińárritu 2077
1050 The Shop on Main Street 1965 Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos 1980
1051 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! 1988 David Zucker 721
1052 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1245
1053 Babe 1995 Chris Noonan 650
1054 Phantom Thread 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson 1612
1055 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 1027
1056 The Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1583
1057 Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989 Hayao Miyazaki 740
1058 Gilda 1946 Charles Vidor 1139
1059 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 Monte Hellman 984
1060 Pickup on South Street 1953 Samuel Fuller 939
1061 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 772
1062 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 1179
1063 Kung Fu Hustle 2004 Stephen Chow 897
1064 United 93 2006 Paul Greengrass 1380
1065 The Verdict 1982 Sidney Lumet 1346
1066 Triumph of the Will 1935 Leni Riefenstahl 877
1067 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 859
1068 Crumb 1994 Terry Zwigoff 932
1069 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 1500
1070 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 866
1071 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 2099
1072 The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939 Kenji Mizoguchi 1631
1073 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 1877
1074 The Thief of Bagdad 1940 Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan 1359
1075 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson 1677
1076 The City of Lost Children 1995 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1041
1077 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1627
1078 Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1731
1079 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1293
1080 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
1081 Match Point 2005 Woody Allen 1849
1082 To Live 1994 Yimou Zhang 1584
1083 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1985
1084 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield 1036
1085 The Thief of Bagdad 1924 Raoul Walsh 1199
1086 Scrooge 1951 Brian Desmond Hurst 2178
1087 Superbad 2007 Greg Mottola 610
1088 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 998
1089 In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Ôshima 758
1090 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
1091 Hachiko: A Dog's Story 2009 Lasse Hallström 1367
1092 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 992
1093 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 1055
1094 A Raisin in the Sun 1961 Daniel Petrie 1579
1095 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
1096 The Fighter 2010 David O. Russell 881
1097 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 1616
1098 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1948
1099 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1314
1100 Ice Age 2002 Chris Wedge 1309
1101 3-Iron 2004 Kim Ki-duk 2020
1102 Out of Sight 1998 Steven Soderbergh 1001
1103 The Caine Mutiny 1954 Edward Dmytryk 1451
1104 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1773
1105 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 914
1106 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 948
1107 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce 663
1108 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg 1883
1109 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell 441
1110 Gangs of New York 2002 Martin Scorsese 1532
1111 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1203
1112 The Longest Day 1962 Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki 864
1113 2046 2004 Kar-Wai Wong 1142
1114 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1128
1115 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1698
1116 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 2105
1117 Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon 1162
1118 The Tale of Princess Kaguya 2013 Isao Takahata 1148
1119 Tampopo 1985 Jűzô Itami 1246
1120 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 Steve Box and Nick Park 634
1121 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 1591
1122 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 1035
1123 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1165
1124 Changeling 2008 Clint Eastwood 2089
1125 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 647
1126 On Golden Pond 1981 Mark Rydell 1497
1127 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 506
1128 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 596
1129 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 852
1130 I Vitelloni 1953 Federico Fellini 1863
1131 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter 1057
1132 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 Clint Eastwood 1103
1133 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 627
1134 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1609
1135 The Phantom Chariot 1921 Victor Sjöström 1476
1136 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1634
1137 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1791
1138 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 910
1139 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008 Mark Herman 1481
1140 Grand Hotel 1932 Edmund Goulding 1662
1141 Romeo + Juliet 1996 Baz Luhrmann 826
1142 Donnie Brasco 1997 Mike Newell 1173
1143 The Turin Horse 2011 Béla Tarr 2356
1144 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 963
1145 Office Space 1999 Mike Judge 620
1146 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld 637
1147 Cría Cuervos 1976 Carlos Saura 2037
1148 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 1005
1149 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1900
1150 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933 Mervyn LeRoy 1351
1151 Stroszek 1977 Werner Herzog 2393
1152 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne 1312
1153 Romeo and Juliet 1968 Franco Zeffirelli 1861
1154 October 1928 Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein 1939
1155 Beetlejuice 1988 Tim Burton 748
1156 The Hangover 2009 Todd Phillips 774
1157 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 784
1158 Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood 2019 Quentin Tarantino 1456
1159 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle 1846
1160 Cinderella 1950 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 817
1161 Knives Out 2019 Rian Johnson 1135
1162 Wild Tales 2014 Damián Szifron 2320
1163 Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian 1701
1164 Baraka 1992 Ron Fricke 2158
1165 The Father 2020 Florian Zeller 2378
1166 Terms of Endearment 1983 James L. Brooks 894
1167 Wings 1927 William A. Wellman 1419
1168 The Queen 2006 Stephen Frears 2485
1169 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 Masaki Kobayashi 1689
1170 Midnight Run 1988 Martin Brest 908
1171 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 1190
1172 Drunken Master II 1994 Chia-Liang Liu 1402
1173 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen 521
1174 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher 1390
1175 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman 885
1176 The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer 1961 Masaki Kobayashi 1766
1177 Tristana 1970 Luis Buńuel 2040
1178 The Bourne Supremacy 2004 Paul Greengrass 878
1179 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 1651
1180 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester 723
1181 Good Morning, Vietnam 1987 Barry Levinson 1594
1182 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 1070
1183 The Odd Couple 1968 Gene Saks 1091
1184 Manon of the Spring 1986 Claude Berri 1874
1185 Knife in the Water 1962 Roman Polanski 983
1186 Paisan 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1120
1187 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 2475
1188 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 787
1189 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Stanley Donen 1392
1190 Deadpool 2016 Tim Miller 888
1191 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 675
1192 Dallas Buyers Club 2013 Jean-Marc Vallée 954
1193 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1590
1194 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1828
1195 House of Flying Daggers 2004 Yimou Zhang 1358
1196 I Was Born, But... 1932 Yasujirô Ozu 1538
1197 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1511
1198 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 2081
1199 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 Jean-Luc Godard 1340
1200 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Peter Jackson 1281
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