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Most Highbrow Films (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu 70
2 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir 99
3 M 1931 Fritz Lang 69
4 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 65
5 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut 60
6 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 105
7 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer 123
8 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini 86
9 The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica 57
10 8 1/2 1963 Federico Fellini 74
11 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 72
12 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 151
13 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 148
14 The Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir 122
15 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 160
16 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 195
17 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M. Eisenstein 90
18 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 22
19 Sunrise 1927 F.W. Murnau 81
20 In the Mood for Love 2000 Kar-Wai Wong 135
21 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 145
22 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 241
23 L'Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo 219
24 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 179
25 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 93
26 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 39
27 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 170
28 The Man with the Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 180
29 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 215
30 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 256
31 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 54
32 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 348
33 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 300
34 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut 201
35 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 229
36 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 84
37 Hiroshima mon amour 1959 Alain Resnais 326
38 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 366
39 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 46
40 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton 49
41 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 222
42 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 332
43 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 293
44 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 239
45 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 376
46 Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 371
47 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 197
48 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel 316
49 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 141
50 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 211
51 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 350
52 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 243
53 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 422
54 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini 276
55 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Víctor Erice 352
56 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 427
57 The Searchers 1956 John Ford 37
58 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 392
59 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 124
60 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 231
61 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 408
62 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 13
63 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 55
64 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 317
65 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 277
66 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 324
67 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 413
68 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 143
69 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 210
70 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 304
71 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 321
72 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky 498
73 Close-Up 1990 Abbas Kiarostami 469
74 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 53
75 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks 175
76 Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau 237
77 Los Olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel 387
78 The Earrings of Madame De… 1953 Max Ophüls 490
79 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin 116
80 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 282
81 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki 79
82 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 443
83 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 430
84 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 121
85 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica 445
86 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 227
87 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 58
88 Late Spring 1949 Yasujirô Ozu 586
89 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 174
90 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy 298
91 The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray 402
92 L'Eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 596
93 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 496
94 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 375
95 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 30
96 Ivan the Terrible 1944 Sergei M. Eisenstein 618
97 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 327
98 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 198
99 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 117
100 Night and Fog 1956 Alain Resnais 390
101 All about My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 257
102 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 545
103 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 610
104 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 339
105 Chungking Express 1994 Kar-Wai Wong 403
106 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 552
107 A Woman under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes 356
108 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 232
109 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 246
110 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini 367
111 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 103
112 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 461
113 Sans soleil 1983 Chris Marker 561
114 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 328
115 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 128
116 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 289
117 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch 220
118 The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 557
119 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 628
120 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 218
121 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 126
122 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 190
123 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman 550
124 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 280
125 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 547
126 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 692
127 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 221
128 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 42
129 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 381
130 Stairway to Heaven 1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 240
131 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 314
132 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford 178
133 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 235
134 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 335
135 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 410
136 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 114
137 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel 613
138 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles 405
139 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray 575
140 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 500
141 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 650
142 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 418
143 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder 62
144 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 729
145 The Last Laugh 1924 F.W. Murnau 597
146 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 667
147 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah 63
148 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 140
149 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 409
150 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 631
151 Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 419
152 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 4
153 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 177
154 Army in the Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 388
155 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 165
156 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 507
157 My Night at Maud's 1969 Eric Rohmer 752
158 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 420
159 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 411
160 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 115
161 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 173
162 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 406
163 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 228
164 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 162
165 Pandora's Box 1929 Georg Wilhelm Pabst 644
166 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 91
167 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 361
168 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 571
169 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 155
170 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 465
171 Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 727
172 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 305
173 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman 288
174 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 302
175 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 78
176 The Thin Red Line 1998 Terrence Malick 378
177 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 358
178 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 133
179 Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Yimou Zhang 454
180 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 207
181 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks 87
182 The Piano 1993 Jane Campion 306
183 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Hayao Miyazaki 230
184 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 252
185 Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953 Jacques Tati 453
186 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 89
187 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 665
188 The Celebration 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 525
189 Beau travail 1999 Claire Denis 646
190 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 216
191 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1015
192 Hate 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 485
193 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 25
194 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore 217
195 Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 682
196 Harakiri 1962 Masaki Kobayashi 754
197 Three Colors: White 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 635
198 The Elephant Man 1980 David Lynch 368
199 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 337
200 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 349
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