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Top Mainstream Films (#1201-1400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1201 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 2163
1202 The King and I 1956 Walter Lang 1315
1203 Sleeping Beauty 1959 Clyde Geronimi 847
1204 The Man with the Golden Arm 1955 Otto Preminger 1653
1205 Finding Neverland 2004 Marc Forster 1965
1206 The New World 2005 Terrence Malick 1630
1207 The Farewell 2019 Lulu Wang 1220
1208 Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion 1970 Elio Petri 1829
1209 Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire 2009 Lee Daniels 1251
1210 Head-On 2004 Fatih Akin 2106
1211 The Last Samurai 2003 Edward Zwick 1949
1212 Quiz Show 1994 Robert Redford 1956
1213 Gallipoli 1981 Peter Weir 1137
1214 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1266
1215 The Dead 1987 John Huston 2066
1216 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh 1996
1217 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 813
1218 Blue Valentine 2010 Derek Cianfrance 1395
1219 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
1220 Batman Returns 1992 Tim Burton 560
1221 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1077
1222 Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 1349
1223 Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005 George Clooney 2012
1224 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1514
1225 Lilja 4-ever 2002 Lukas Moodysson 1544
1226 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 2171
1227 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1143
1228 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 800
1229 Dumb & Dumber 1994 Peter Farrelly 1014
1230 The Defiant Ones 1958 Stanley Kramer 2179
1231 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1989
1232 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola 677
1233 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248
1234 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel 2738
1235 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003 Peter Weir 1129
1236 Uncut Gems 2019 Benny and Josh Safdie 1073
1237 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1522
1238 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1152
1239 Destry Rides Again 1939 George Marshall 1105
1240 Mulan 1998 Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook 917
1241 Apocalypto 2006 Mel Gibson 1712
1242 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1827
1243 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 1835
1244 Vagabond 1985 Agnès Varda 1545
1245 The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa 1812
1246 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara 2003 Errol Morris 959
1247 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1252
1248 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen 1355
1249 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1334
1250 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1463
1251 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 528
1252 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 1067
1253 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro 1297
1254 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 996
1255 Captain Phillips 2013 Paul Greengrass 1471
1256 Force of Evil 1948 Abraham Polonsky 1354
1257 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik 709
1258 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1010
1259 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson 1038
1260 One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 1865
1261 Selma 2014 Ava DuVernay 796
1262 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1127
1263 Pixote 1980 Hector Babenco 2329
1264 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1624
1265 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 428
1266 A City of Sadness 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1443
1267 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 839
1268 Children of Heaven 1997 Majid Majidi 1431
1269 The Big Red One 1980 Samuel Fuller 863
1270 Milk 2008 Gus Van Sant 811
1271 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 1633
1272 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1753
1273 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1618
1274 Sons of the Desert 1933 William A. Seiter 1645
1275 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin 1550
1276 The Raid: Redemption 2011 Gareth Evans 965
1277 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 978
1278 Tabu 1931 F.W. Murnau 1884
1279 The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Joseph Sargent 912
1280 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier 2146
1281 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1280
1282 Green Book 2018 Peter Farrelly 1920
1283 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 1949 John Ford 1013
1284 A Short Film about Love 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 2148
1285 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 1086
1286 Love Exposure 2008 Sion Sono 2109
1287 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 743
1288 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1487
1289 Up in the Air 2009 Jason Reitman 2049
1290 Nomadland 2020 Chloé Zhao 1654
1291 When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast 523
1292 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 970
1293 Nobody Knows 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda 1569
1294 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1586
1295 127 Hours 2010 Danny Boyle 1585
1296 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1276
1297 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Niels Arden Oplev 2317
1298 The Natural 1984 Barry Levinson 920
1299 The Lighthouse 2019 Robert Eggers 1022
1300 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang 1944
1301 Caddyshack 1980 Harold Ramis 563
1302 Le Jour se lève 1939 Marcel Carné 1576
1303 All the King's Men 1949 Robert Rossen 2001
1304 Midnight in Paris 2011 Woody Allen 1452
1305 Capote 2005 Bennett Miller 1406
1306 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg 1384
1307 Strike 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 1795
1308 Grey Gardens 1975 Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer 654
1309 She Done Him Wrong 1933 Lowell Sherman 2766
1310 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1465
1311 Holiday 1938 George Cukor 1702
1312 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 1418
1313 Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 2388
1314 Bull Durham 1988 Ron Shelton 518
1315 Cinderella Man 2005 Ron Howard 1423
1316 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1318
1317 Carmen Jones 1954 Otto Preminger 1438
1318 Zootopia 2016 Byron Howard and Rich Moore 855
1319 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Wes Anderson 1802
1320 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff 1164
1321 Les Misérables 2012 Tom Hooper 1695
1322 The Muppet Movie 1979 James Frawley 633
1323 Hamilton 2020 Thomas Kail 2199
1324 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 1999 George Lucas 2013
1325 A League of Their Own 1992 Penny Marshall 417
1326 Germany, Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 1912
1327 Captain America: Civil War 2016 Anthony and Joe Russo 867
1328 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1547
1329 Braindead 1992 Peter Jackson 1235
1330 Fort Apache 1948 John Ford 1118
1331 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 1650
1332 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese 935
1333 Camille 1936 George Cukor 2264
1334 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 834
1335 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 1047
1336 The Party 1968 Blake Edwards 1414
1337 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 1783
1338 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 Jim Jarmusch 1241
1339 The Music Man 1962 Morton DaCosta 1440
1340 Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Nora Ephron 586
1341 Ip Man 2008 Wilson Yip 2039
1342 Gigi 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1218
1343 The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park 2422
1344 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 980
1345 The Informer 1935 John Ford 2294
1346 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1697
1347 The Women 1939 George Cukor 1294
1348 Shoeshine 1946 Vittorio De Sica 2120
1349 Bigger than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 2028
1350 The Miracle Worker 1962 Arthur Penn 1597
1351 Planes, Trains & Automobiles 1987 John Hughes 979
1352 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 1573
1353 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Mu Fei 1952
1354 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1160
1355 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed 1029
1356 La Vie en rose 2007 Olivier Dahan 1566
1357 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 2444
1358 Toni Erdmann 2016 Maren Ade 1541
1359 Man on Fire 2004 Tony Scott 2062
1360 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 1183
1361 Captains Courageous 1937 Victor Fleming 1799
1362 The Favourite 2018 Yorgos Lanthimos 1946
1363 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 1826
1364 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair 1588
1365 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 2161
1366 Sergeant York 1941 Howard Hawks 1056
1367 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland 686
1368 Corpse Bride 2005 Tim Burton and Mike Johnson 1665
1369 Bad Education 2004 Pedro Almodóvar 1699
1370 Through the Olive Trees 1994 Abbas Kiarostami 1267
1371 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 2269
1372 Il Sorpasso 1962 Dino Risi 2228
1373 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1711
1374 À Nous la Liberté 1931 René Clair 2526
1375 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013 Peter Jackson 1850
1376 Miracle in Milan 1951 Vittorio De Sica 2790
1377 Salesman 1969 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 1250
1378 Mister Roberts 1955 John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy 1551
1379 Night on Earth 1991 Jim Jarmusch 2914
1380 The Martian 2015 Ridley Scott 918
1381 Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon 933
1382 Rumble Fish 1983 Francis Ford Coppola 1784
1383 Summer 1986 Éric Rohmer 1988
1384 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates 660
1385 Ponyo 2008 Hayao Miyazaki 1092
1386 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 1886
1387 Captain Blood 1935 Michael Curtiz 2016
1388 Mother 2009 Bong Joon Ho 1469
1389 Good Morning 1959 Yasujirô Ozu 2085
1390 Twentieth Century 1934 Howard Hawks 2011
1391 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 2209
1392 Awakenings 1990 Penny Marshall 2297
1393 The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Luis Buñuel 2571
1394 The Constant Gardner 2005 Fernando Meirelles 1605
1395 The Shape of Water 2017 Guillermo del Toro 1100
1396 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 1506
1397 Mon oncle d'Amérique 1980 Alain Resnais 2675
1398 The Florida Project 2017 Sean Baker 1892
1399 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann 1727
1400 The Descendants 2011 Alexander Payne 1713
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