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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 70
2 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu 110
3 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 71
4 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 67
5 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
6 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 80
7 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 81
8 M 1931 Fritz Lang 75
9 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 90
10 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 158
11 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 84
12 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 143
13 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 196
14 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 74
15 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 159
16 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 189
17 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 169
18 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
19 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 119
20 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 188
21 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 134
22 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
23 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 99
24 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 61
25 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 273
26 Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 205
27 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 168
28 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 308
29 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 45
30 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 11
31 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 53
32 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 54
33 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 28
34 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 208
35 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
36 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 303
37 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 2
38 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 215
39 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 316
40 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 27
41 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 309
42 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 185
43 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 329
44 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 296
45 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 243
46 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 232
47 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
48 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 400
49 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 179
50 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 312
51 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 209
52 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 107
53 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 442
54 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 439
55 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar Wai Wong 271
56 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 454
57 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
58 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 276
59 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 551
60 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 278
61 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 396
62 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 59
63 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
64 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 464
65 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 170
66 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 201
67 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 422
68 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
69 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 51
70 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1
71 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 453
72 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 311
73 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 227
74 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 331
75 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 97
76 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 355
77 The Blue Angel 1930 Josef von Sternberg 321
78 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 364
79 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 544
80 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 68
81 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 204
82 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 378
83 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 148
84 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
85 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 415
86 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 181
87 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 261
88 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 511
89 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 593
90 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
91 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 365
92 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 274
93 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 279
94 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
95 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 446
96 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 135
97 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 552
98 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 428
99 Orpheus 1950 Jean Cocteau 561
100 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 317
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