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Most Highbrow Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 58
2 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
3 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 63
4 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
5 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
6 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 78
7 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 65
8 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 82
9 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
10 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 89
11 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 108
12 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 130
13 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 139
14 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
15 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 98
16 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
17 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
18 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 157
19 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
20 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 193
21 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
22 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
23 The General 1927 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 42
24 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
25 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 154
26 Andrei Rublev 1969 Andrei Tarkovsky 200
27 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 181
28 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 95
29 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
30 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 23
31 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 250
32 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 194
33 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 182
34 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 210
35 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
36 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 209
37 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 244
38 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 70
39 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 162
40 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
41 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 237
42 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 60
43 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 174
44 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
45 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 281
46 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 133
47 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 266
48 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 288
49 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 284
50 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 303
51 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 177
52 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 293
53 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 304
54 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 382
55 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 301
56 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
57 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 247
58 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
59 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 406
60 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 402
61 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 116
62 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 136
63 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 76
64 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 316
65 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
66 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 363
67 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 34
68 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 142
69 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 291
70 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 339
71 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 112
72 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 373
73 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 106
74 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 367
75 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
76 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 261
77 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly 5
78 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 86
79 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 44
80 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 92
81 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
82 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 212
83 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 4
84 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
85 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 159
86 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 55
87 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 447
88 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 369
89 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 470
90 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 321
91 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
92 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 465
93 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 292
94 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
95 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 420
96 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 231
97 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 416
98 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 376
99 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 326
100 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 496
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